60 million kilometers is 60 million thousand meters. I honestly don't know much about distances in space other than light years. Would "60 gigameters" be appropriate? Is that a thing? Entertaining story so far.
Greetings,
I use short scale in writing numbers. Sixty million is 60,000,000... Sixty Million Thousand would be would be 60,000,000,000 (at least from my research here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparison) Strange how language can dictate numbers so differently.
In this case we're using a measure of roughly three times the speed of light (which we are decelerating to from a higher speed).
Hope that helps, sorry for the confusion.
Also thank you for the trip down memory lane, it's been a long time since I had someone comment on Episode 1 stuff.
~DrMadDoc47
But in kph, the speed of light (commonly denoted as C) is roughly 1.07 Billion, so 60 million kph is approximately 1/18 of C. The speed of light is more often converted to kilometers per second, where it clocks in just a little slower than 300k. If I had to guess, the intent was to describe a speed of roughly 1/10 C, but in miles, since C=~670 million mph?
Maybe it would be better to refer to your interstellar speeds as fractions or multiples of C (or even just say lightspeed), rather than using units intended for very different situations? That would both be easier for most readers to understand intuitively, and be less prone to accidental conversion errors.
Sorry to necro an old comment, but I couldn't help myself.
More to the point, I really enjoyed what you've created so far. Thinking seriously about becoming a patron now.