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A '''standard HyperSpace distance unit''' (or SDU) is the unit of distance in [[HyperSpace]].

The only [[canon]]ical reference to this unit of measurement comes from the [[Syreen]] [[Starbase]] Commander [[Talana]] when describing the fate of the [[Space Patrol]] [[Penetrator]] fleet. She tells [[The Captain]] that, based on trip-time calculations, the location where the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za|Kzer-Za]] led and cached the fleet is within 200 standard HyperSpace distance units of [[Betelgeuse]]. [[Epsilon Camelopardalis]], the star system where the [[Syreen Ship Vault]] is located, is about 182 HyperSpace distance units from Betelgeuse. In terms of HyperSpace travel, [[The Flagship]] consumes 0.1 units of fuel per HyperSpace distance unit. The [[Star map|starmap]], which represents the extent of in-game explorable HyperSpace, is a square with a side length of 1000 distance units.

The abbreviation SDU (Standard Distance Unit) is ''non-canonical'' but useful.

The correspondence between HyperSpace distance units and light-years, meters or any other common unit of measurement is unknown, though some sources hint that a HyperSpace distance unit is at least 0.61 light-years. [[Fwiffo]] gives the distance between [[Sol]] and [[Spathiwa]] as 143 light-years. In HyperSpace, the two stars are 233 SDU apart. Assuming that the two distances are equivalent and that the distance given by Fwiffo is accurate (which may be problematic, due to Fwiffo's panicked state at the moment), the length of a HyperSpace distance unit is 0.61 light-years. By comparison, the [[Melnorme]] state that the [[Sentient Milieu]] spanned 500 light-years, which would equate to 814 HyperSpace distance units with this conversion factor.

''See Also:'' [[Star map|Starmap]]

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