Range Bands

I thought "a lot of people must have a hard time estimating distances, i know it happens at my table a lot."  I should get a better feel for the reality of the Range categories in this game. If for no other reason than just to have as a helpful reference.

I cracked open my book and a spreadsheet. I figured i would start by outlining the most clearly defined real measurements. I didn't get far before i realized i was going to have to make a couple of assumptions to get more than just a few 'clearly defined' measurements.
My relevant assumptions were as follows.
A few = 3 (a pretty standard assumption i think)
Several = 6 (smack dab in the middle of a few and a dozen)
I went back to my task of seeing what i could gleam from the book.
numbers with an "a" in front like "a6000" means i used one of my assumptions. Where no clear number was indicated and no assumption was really possible i left a question mark.

LITERAL (sort of) INTERPRETATION
	range band	Description	~ distance
Personal Scale	Engaged	Close enough to interact person to person. Close enough to reach out and touch it.	0	?	m
Personal Scale	Short Range	up to several meters between targets. Can talk comfortably without raising voices.	?	a6	m
Personal Scale	Medium Range	up to several dozen meters away. Need to talk loudly to hear each other.	?	a72	m
Personal Scale	Long Range	further than a few dozen meters. Must yell loudly to hear each other.	>36	?	m
Personal Scale	Extreme range	cant hear each other even shouting.	?	?	m
Planetary scale	Close range	slightly further than extreme range in personal. Up to several km.	?	a6	km
Planetary scale	Short Range	up to roughly several dozen km	6	a72	km
Planetary scale	Medium Range	something is within medium range if it is within roughly fifty km. long enough that only the most powerful artillery can reach it	?	<51	km
Planetary scale	Long Range	anywhere from a hundred to two hundred km away. Engagements never happen at this distance.	51	<201	km
Planetary scale	Extreme range	athe far edge of a vehicles scanners. Weapons can not hope to reach.	?	?	km
Space Scale	Close range	uncomfortably close for capital ships. Dogfight range.	?	?	km
Space Scale	Short Range	just out of dogfighting range. Uncomfortably close for capital ships.	?	?	km
Space Scale	Medium Range	Up to a few hundred Km.	?	300	km
Space Scale	Long Range	up to several thousand km	301	a6000	km
Space Scale	Extreme range	beyond most weapon ranges.	a60001	?	km

as you can see... the book was not very helpful in regards to real numbers (it's ok.. it's supposed to be narrative!)

so, this didn't seem like it would be much help in giving people a better way to estimate range bands.
I did some looking into real life distances for; line of sight, voice travel, 'modern' dogfights, artillery weapons and some other things. I used some of this information to help estimate some more distances. After i had filled in some more numbers i did some comparing of ranges across the different scales. I tried to leave all the 'hard' numbers from the book as they were. Then i filled them out in a way that made as much sense as i could manage.

So for those who have a hard time Estimating distances or really don't understand the range bands.
I present to you, my best effort at giving you some hard numbers to use as a guide when determining range.

approximate Range band distances
	range band	Description	from	to
Personal Scale	Engaged	Close enough to interact person to person. Close enough to reach out and touch it.	0	1	m
Personal Scale	Short Range	up to several meters between targets. Can talk comfortably without raising voices.	2	6	m
Personal Scale	Medium Range	up to several dozen meters away. Need to talk loudly to hear each other.	7	60	m
Personal Scale	Long Range	further than a few dozen meters. Must yell loudly to hear each other.	61	300	m
Personal Scale	Extreme range	cant hear each other even shouting.	301	780	m
Planetary scale	Close range	slightly further than extreme range in personal. Up to several km.	0	5	km
Planetary scale	Short Range	up to roughly several dozen km	6	24	km
Planetary scale	Medium Range	something is within medium range if it is within roughly fifty km. long enough that only the most powerful artillery can reach it	25	50	km
Planetary scale	Long Range	anywhere from a hundred to two hundred km away. Engagements never happen at this distance.	51	200	km
Planetary scale	Extreme range	athe far edge of a vehicles scanners. Weapons can not hope to reach.	201	350	km
Space Scale	Close range	uncomfortably close for capital ships. Dogfight range.	0	30	km
Space Scale	Short Range	just out of dogfighting range. Uncomfortably close for capital ships.	31	100	km
Space Scale	Medium Range	Up to a few hundred Km.	101	300	km
Space Scale	Long Range	up to several thousand km	301	6000	km
Space Scale	Extreme range	beyond most weapon ranges.	6001	12000	km