Mutabilis Chapter One - Status Quo Sequel

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:10 pm

“Visibility is less than fifty yards!”

Oolite uses the metric system, so I think it doesnt make sense that a professional crew would say something like that.
In fact, I believed imperial units to be used only as a archaism(?) by mudcrawlers in some backwater systems such as Phekda (eh? Dylan?) and possibly by the Duvalians, but that's beyond the point...

drew · Post by **drew** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:06 am

Good point.

That's just me showing my age!

Cheers,

Drew.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:14 am

In which case I'd be using rods perches and chains!

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:06 am

Personally, I use cubits.

drew · Post by **drew** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:03 pm

"Fifteen leagues off the starboard bow!"

"A further four fathoms down and the hull..."

"Range closing at three thousand furlongs per fortnight."

"The station was six stadia across."

"Twelve bushels of Quirium."

Cheers,

Drew.

drew · Post by **drew** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:16 am

Fixed typos, changed to metric units and altered the heatshield description.

Chapter two over lunchtime with a bit of luck, assuming I get the tedious paid work out of the way

Cheers,

Drew.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:06 am

I feel archaic Units of Measure are perfectly fine...to give characters some character... I fully expect feudal and especially alien planets to have their own SI-systems.
However Galcoop would most assuredly enforce a uniform standard for anything related to ship-building or navigation.
(such as a base 10 numeric system and a distance unit based on Lightspeed or more likely the size of the hydrogen atom or somesuch universally fixed value. (as lightspeed is dependent on measurement of time AND space.)

A good way to have a character feel stubborn or set in his ways (or a mudpuppy) is to have him/her insist on using his/her native UoM.