Dragaera

Geography: Version .2 Nearing Completion

Mon Mar 29 09:31:58 PST 2004

> At 22:21 03/28/2004 -0600, Bryan Newell wrote:
> >
> >1. "Dragon"
> >
> >During those 7 days, he marched in the vicinity of 800 miles, which works
> >out to about 7 miles per hour... still an awfully fast march but... well, I
> >don't know enough to call that impossible.
> 
> I think it is extremely improbable.  While an army of Dragaerans might make 
> it, historic forced marches by humans end up at maybe 45 miles in a day, 
> and never extend over the period of a week.  The Marine Corps figures on 4 
> kph (2.5 mph) for marching speed, and anything over 32 km (20 mi) in a day 
> is considered a forced march.  The distance is extended by extending the 
> time on the march, meaning that 24 hours would make 96 miles.  That might 
> be done one time, but not for over a week!

Hokay, lets start with the 45 miles-per-day figure.  That counts as 
forced-march for humans, lets presume that a Cool Dragaeran Army can
count that as "standard".  Add 25% for the longer day, bringing us a
touch over 56 miles per day.  This is still somewhat stretching plausibility,
but this *is* High Fantasy, after all.  This gives us a travel time of a bit
over 14 days.  Maybe we should round up to 15, giving us three Dragaeran
weeks.

Next time I have the time, I'll see if I can fit that much time into the
march in question.

Alexx


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