Warp Factor

Warp factor was the primary means of measuring speeds attained using warp drive. An alternative term time-warp factor was also used. The term was often shortened to warp when followed by its value, so that saying "warp six" is the same as saying "warp factor six." Faster-than-light travel began after warp one, whereas lower fractional values were sometimes used to measure sublight speeds. Spacecraft ordinarily traveled at a higher integer warp factor.

By the 24th century, infinite velocity was designated as warp factor ten. It was considered to be unattainable by conventional means. Because of this, extremely high warp factors were indicated with decimal values between nine and ten, such as warp 9.975.

Speed	Km/h	X Lightspeed	To Near Star	Across Sector
Full Impulse	270 million	0.25	20 years	80 years
Warp 1	1078 million	1	5 years	20 years
Warp 2	11 billion	10	6 months	3 years
Warp 3	42 billion	39	2 months	1 year
Warp 4	109 billion	102	18 days	2 months
Warp 5	230 billion	214	9 days	1 month
Warp 6	423 billion	392	5 days	19 days
Warp 7	700 billion	656	3 days	11 days
Warp 8	1103 billion	1,024	2 days	7 days
Warp 9	1.63 trillion	1,516	1 day	5 days
Warp 9.2	1.78 trillion	1,649	1 day	4 days
Warp 9.6	2.06 trillion	1,909	23 hours	4 days
Warp 9.9	3.29 trillion	3,053	14 hours	2 days
Warp 9.99	8.53 trillion	7,912	6 hours	22 hours
Warp 9.999	215 trillion	199,516	13 minutes	53 minutes
Warp 10	Infinite	Infinite	0	0