At the current speed, even a relatively famous blue supergiant looked a bit reddish to Tom, like a red dwarf.
At the same time, the flow of time also changed.
Previously, when the fleet was at 8% the speed of light, time within the fleet only slowed down by about 0.32%, meaning that for every 365 days outside, approximately 364 days passed within the fleet, one day slower than the outside.
But now, at 50% the speed of light, time slowed down by a full 13.4%!
As a result, when 365 days passed outside, only about 316 days passed within the fleet!
It slowed down by a full 49 days!
Changes in time would cause many problems. For example, when Tom communicated with the clones remaining in the Pegasus V342 star system, the time difference would lead to many confusions.
For instance, if a clone described detecting an XX event a year ago, Tom's backward calculation based on his own time would lead to errors.
