The entire formation is effectively limited by the speed of its slowest member, the 5-Speed Everest. The faster ships can move away from it to expand the sensor globe, but without straying out of detection range of the cruiser, that's at most another 20VU extension of the bubble dimension.<br/><br/>Conservatively, with triple the scanning envelope and less than half the speed (x3*0.5)=1.5x speed, so the remaining three quadrants in 2 weeks instead of 3.