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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:10 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
“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...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:06 am
by drew
Good point.
That's just me showing my age!
Cheers,
Drew.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:14 am
by TGHC
In which case I'd be using rods perches and chains!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:06 am
by Selezen
Personally, I use cubits.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:03 pm
by drew
"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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:16 am
by drew
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:06 am
by Arexack_Heretic
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.
