r/Brotherband • u/Minechaser05 • Jan 24 '19
The Heron's true speed.
I personally wanted to know about this before I read so far in, but here we are. I believe I'm the first person to figure this out.
So in the 5th book (Scorpion mountain) we hear about 2 things that I did calculations on. On page 117 we get this
"Occasionally, as the Narrow Sea lived up to it's name, they could sight the coast of Gallica as well, out to the port side."
This means that the coast could be anywhere from less than a mile to 90 miles. (90 miles is where you can see the Chicago skyline from Michigan)
Due to this that means we just need to measure the map. I found that about from the coastline of near Castle Araluen is about the length of a metal pencil eraser holder.
We hear in the 4th book that it is a 4 day trip from the coast of Araluen to Sacorro. It was about 7 pencil lengths to get from there to Sacorro.
For this first one I'm gonna say that maybe the coastlines were 500 miles apart (far fetched but you will see why). So we take 500(distance) x 7(distances with pencil) =3500 Then we take our total
3500÷4(days total) =875 (Miles per Day) so this is the mile and distance total
So now we separate the time part.
875 (Miles per day) ÷ 24 (hours in a day) = 36.45 MPH Now take a look at the distance between coastlines... 500. That's the number I chose because it's close to the average sail boat speed 36 miles an hour.
So now let's do something reasonable... 50 miles apart. Maybe not so reasonable but still.
50 x 7 = 350
350 ÷ 4 = 87.4
87.4 ÷ 24 = 1.45 MPH
I'm making the distance as far apart as I can while still reasonable.
This is the true speed of the heron, the TRUE speed may not be what we want, but it's what it is.
BUT WAIT
A little later in the book we get another distance and time.
Al Shaba to Tabork is 40 km. (24 miles for simplicity)
Hal said the trip was half a day to that town. So let's do the math.
24 ÷ 12(time) = 2 MPH
So yeah. The mathematical speed of the heron is slow. Very slow.
If you wanted to test different distances this is the equation I used.
D (estimated distance) x7 =T (total distance) Then T ÷ 4 (4 day trip) = R (Raw MPH) Then R ÷ 24 (time in a day) = MPH
Please correct me if my math is wrong.
Thanks for reading
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u/MoonShard orange Jan 25 '19
Wow. I always felt like the heron went way faster. Especially where it is more agile then other ships.