Thursday 19 February 2015

Frequency of Starship Arrivals

A decade ago I worked with a trade formula. We could estimate the distribution of ships, but the overall number was problematic. I missed one obvious fact, the number of starships entering or leaving the French arm every day was a dozen. Thus we can determine the overall number of ships making passage.

The following table is the result.

System Number of starships arriving per week
Core
Sol 464
Alpha Centauri (Tirane) 338
French Arm
Eta Bootis (Aurore) 6
Hochbaden 9
Dunkelheim 9
Beta Comae Bernices (Nous Voila) 16
Vogelheim 4
Beta Canum Venticorum 36
Kimanjano 56
Kie-Yuma 0
61 Ursae Majoris (Joi) 6
Henry's Star (Crater) 7
Queen Alice's Star (Beowulf) 80
Neubayern 84
American Arm
Ellis 2
Hermes 3
Kingsland 2
Botany Bay 1
King 7
Chinese Arm
Procyon (Paulo) 1
DM-3 1123 (Austin's World) 2
Omicron II Eridani 3
Epsilon Eridani  3
Epsilon Indi 7
Rho Eridani 1
Zeta Tucanae 15
Beta Hydri  23
Delta Pavonis (Han Shan) 35