Oolite 2: scales, Frontier and flames

[Cmdr James]

To me LM is clearly a marketing term thought up by Faulcon deLacy et al. to give nice sounding performance numbers for modern ships. Most likely 1LM was thought to be some kind of theoretical maximum speed, perhaps the peak speed of an early generation torus drive? but the detail is clearly lost in the mists of time.

0.2LM is "slow", 0.4LM is "fast". Not much more to it than that, and trying to correlate it back to an actual speed in meaningful earth units is doomed as it depends on meaningful time and distance measures, and since distance is known to be self-inconsistent in the ooniverse...

[ADCK]

Ahah! A little late, but I found the cross-section I was thinking of, but as I thought, it's fan-made.

http://ffeartpage.com/ships.htm

So I guess there are a lot of different theories as to scale on ship, can't please everyone.