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I actually am a bit stickler about consistency in books. It drives me nuts when stuff isn't consistent, and there's no explainable reason why. Now if there were something like, "In situation A and B, this is true, but in C the rules change and this is true" and the reasons are logical, I'll accept the change. But in most cases there is no acceptable reason. That's why I sit down and crunch the math on everything I do when it comes to FTL travel, or write rulesets for each given object to know what the rules are and the exceptions.
Case in point. When I originally wrote Destiny's Mission, I officially, for the first time in the series, specified the top speeds of given space craft and the total flight times to a couple of key locations. Well, I went back later on and was playing with the numbers again (something just didn't sit right with me), and found out that I had actually miscalculated the math. So I went back, gutted, and rewrote several key sections in the story in order to fit with the corrected numbers rather than just let it be and "fix it later" in another book. ^_^
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