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As a mission planner, I would like to know how long the acceleration periods are for a given acceleration so that I can plan for effects of acceleration on crews and equipment.

Starship acceleration should take a parameter for the acceleration (e.g. 1 * g) and compute the time and distance required for the acceleration.

As a mission planner, I have proper accounting of gravitational corrections resulting from escaping the solar system and arriving at a destination star.

As a mission planner, I can straightforwardly compute accelerations involving multiple stages. Currently, multi-stage accelerations can be computed by manually changing the payload mass between acceleration phases.

As a mission planner, I can plan missions involving relativistic speeds so that I am not limited to low-speed missions.

It should be straightforward to report relevant metrics in either the solar reference frame, or the ship's reference frame (e.g. proper time). Proper accounting should be made for accelerating phases of the mission and not just cruise phases.