Kilometer distances?!

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    So... Apparently Manhattan is 12,753 km in diameter. But you're shown, at the edge of the system, to be around 100 km away from it.
    What. The. Hell.
    Those "k" and "m" symbols in distance must be something like space-versions of planetary kilometers and meters, because if Planet Manhattan is 12,753 km in diameter, but the total perimeter of New York is around 150 km or so, then obviously Manhattan would be the size of MANY New Yorks. It's not like any of this matters, I mean real nebulae and asteroid fields are nowhere near as thick as they are in fiction, and the planets are nowhere near as small or close to each other as they are in-game, but it's still very, very weird. Not like Freelancer needs to be realistic or anything, I mean it'd be BORING if it were at all realistic.
    Just a little food for thought.

    Yep, those M and K you see in space distances are not our "surface" meters and kilometers.


    "Across the savage skies and through the fissures in the fields,
    The rumble of the engines and the trundle of the wheels,
    Through hell and horror trudge and yet their spirits never yield.
    Will they sing of these forsaken pawns of war?"
    -Miracle Of Sound, "Pawns of War".

    "K" is not km from Kilometers, neither is "M" as meter.


    They are spacial longitude units, secondary (K) and tertiary (M) fractions of 1 AU (Astronomical Unit), where one AU = 149 597 871 kilometers.


    So, yup, no misjudging the symbols ^^ K is K, not Km :D

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