Space Units???

[Grimace]

When I sat down with another fellow and tried to hash out the numbers, and keep them semi-accurate to what we've seen in the shows, we came to the conclusion that a space unit was 10 Km.

Now, at that distance, we also came to the conclusion that "Full throttle" in combat conditions was equivalent to the speed listed for the vehicles in the books. Therefore if a craft moved 8, that's what its "full throttle" setting would be in combat, rather than 4 times that amount for "all out" movement (which could be used in regular, high speed flight to get away from an engagement or get to an engagement). The reason being was the amount of distance covered at that speed.

Consider that a round is 6 seconds, and that a vehicle with a speed of 8 can cover 80 kilometers in 6 seconds, or a total of 800 kilometers in 1 minute, it makes it possible for an X-Wing to make attack runs on the Death Star (120 kilometers) without blowing by it in a fraction of a second.


If that's too slow, consider what an all-out move would accomplish. For a move of 8, all-out would be 32. That's 320 Km per round, or 3200 kilometers a minute. At that speed, a fighter could get from Earth to the Moon in a little over two hours. That's quite a bit faster than what it would take our shuttle or rockets to reach the moon.

[Scrawprin]

I too (a long time ago) had sat down to try and figure out what a space unit was as well. I always remember thinking that a vehicle could move four times their unit speed in a round (5 seconds), even for combat. I really wish I could remember the number I had come up with.

Grimace:
I was curious to know how you came to the 10 Km equals one space unit, and where is the 6-second round coming from?

I guess this means I need to sit down and figure this out again. I could even use the "X-Wing Alliance" game as the basis for numbers and timing...
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Team ORJ

[Grimace]

Well, the 6 seconds a round was what the two of us were thinking the time elapse was for a normal round. If it's 5 seconds, it's not overly destabilizing...it just makes the craft a bit faster.

It all came down to one day when I was curious how fast the real, honest-to-god space shuttle travelled while in space. With that craft, which I would consider rather put-put compared to Star Wars, it's speed is 7860 meters a second. So, working from that number, and based on the size of the Death Star, and some other factors (which I can't remember right now) we settled on 10 Km.

[hisham]