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I know that AU/h means the speed of a ship, but what are they initials for? And u is for fuel, shields, and charge... but what does it stand for?
Just curious.
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Astronomical Units an hour. One AU is equal to 93 million miles, the average distance between the earth and the sun. And u probably just means unit.
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Originally posted by The Space Between: **I know that AU/h means the speed of a ship, but what are they initials for? And u is for fuel, shields, and charge... but what does it stand for?
Just curious. **
AU/h would stand for "Astronomical Units per Hour" where an astronomical unit is the mean orbital separation between the earth and the sun.
This is a non-canonical term (it doesn't appear anywhere in the game itself) and is also flawed. An AU is approximatly eight light-minutes, which means that anything in excess of 7.5 AU/h is faster than the speed of light. Whatever units speed is measured in in EV/O, it's not AU/h. It's probably stupid to try and find an absolute measurement anyway, since the in-game speed is expressed as a multiple of pixels/second, and a pixel in EV/O has no particular length (it corresponds to less than a meter on a capitol warship, but over a hundred kilometers on a stellar object).
"u" stands for "unit", as in "unit of fuel" (where 100 units = 1 jump).
-reg
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(This message has been edited by Regulus (edited 11-11-2001).)
Might I also add
** IT'S JUST A GAME!**
Auxillary Undertake/Usage Per hour? Usage of the feul units, that is. It's a long shot, though. maybe we should ask Matt Burch, he'll know. Or maybe we'll never know! Why is it the little things that get people curious?
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Originally posted by spl_cadet: Might I also add, "It's just a game"
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Originally posted by Regulus: This is a non-canonical term (it doesn't appear anywhere in the game itself) and is also flawed. An AU is approximatly eight light-minutes, which means that anything in excess of 7.5 AU/h is faster than the speed of light. Whatever units speed is measured in in EV/O, it's not AU/h. It's probably stupid to try and find an absolute measurement anyway, since the in-game speed is expressed as a multiple of pixels/second, and a pixel in EV/O has no particular length (it corresponds to less than a meter on a capitol warship, but over a hundred kilometers on a stellar object). (/B)
Well, it does only take a few seconds to traverse the distance between Earth and Mars...and as far as scale goes, it's not too fun trying to get millions of pixels wide planet sprites into EV.
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Originally posted by Mr. Moose: **No. EV is not "Just a Game," it's a matter of life and death! **
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