Sorry about this - I sent the wrong version of my notes - changes occur on the table after the Standard by Nine row, and below.
Here's the corrected version (with mathematics altered as well). It's more feasible, somehow.
TD1 = 1000 spacials per round - 1 round = 5 seconds (the 1000 SP per round figure was quoted from the rulebook, as far as I remember).
Standard by 2 = TD4 = 4000 spacials per round.
The Spacial Asteroid PK118 has a diameter of 0.102 spacials. Assume diameter of 150km (this figure was a fairly frequent diameter for objects in the Asteroid Belt, so it seemed a reasonable figure to use.)
1 Spacial x 0.102 = 150km 1 Spacial = 150 / 0.102 1 Spacial = 1470.588 km
for simplification, 1 spacial = 1500 km.
TD1 = 1000 spacials per round. 1 round = 5 seconds. 1 spacial = 1500 km.
TD1 = 1500 x 1000 = 1,500,000 km per round
1 round = 5 seconds therefore 12 rounds per minute, 720 rounds per hour
TD1 = 1500000 x 720 = 1,080,000,000 km per hour
At Time Distort 1, one Space Hour = 1,080,000,000 km
Earth to sun = 150 million km Light speed = 1,125,000,000 km per hour Time Distort One = 0.96 x speed of light.
Simplified for gaming matters, TD1 = 1c (speed of light), TD9 = 9c, TD10 = 10c. But TD11 = 20c - I'm using a logarithmic scale here.
Time Distort Standard by x light speed 1 0.5 1 2 1 2 3 1.5 3 4 2 4 5 2.5 5 6 3 6 7 3.5 7 8 4 8 9 4.5 9 10 5 10 11 5.5 20 12 6 30 13 6.5 40 14 7 50 15 7.5 60 16 8 80 17 8.5 90 18 9 100 19 9.5 200 20 10 300 21 10.5 400 22 11 500 23 11.5 600 24 12 700
So to get to Earth’s nearest star (4.3 light years away) at Time Distort One would take 4.3 years.
Far better to go at Standard by Ten (TD20) which would, as Zen would say take "approximately five days, five hours 33 minutes and 36 seconds"
At Standard by twelve, the journey would take two days, five hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds.
That's better, and allows for further distances and less boredom than my previous version.
Of course, these figures take no account of speeds while in orbit - in Redemption, Liberator was stated as orbiting a planet at Standard by 8 (at a much closer orbit than the computers sugegsted). Even with an advanced ship like the Liberator, orbiting a planet at 80 times the speed of light would cause bits to fall off! I'd assume they used a "Standard by..." scale of a much lower order of magnitude when discussing planetary orbits.
Now, that will probably have annoyed all those people who weren't at all interested in my calculations in the first place. If so, I'm sorry.
Wildean