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

Fire all the things!

Introducing:
Universal Missile Launcher,
Universal Torpedo Launcher.

the real new stuff.....

Universal Bomb Launcher
and
Universal Anti-Armor Mine Layer

They may not seem like much at the moment.. Ordinance is Forthcoming.

Check them out in all their unsupported Glory in the depot or HERE.

a couple of my basic guidelines

In case anyone out there might be wondering how I decide on some of my Silhouette and Speed choices I have provided a chart below.
I started by taking the known sizes of all of the published ships, finding the published minimum and maximum length for each Silhouette. Then I played with the numbers until all the ships fit into a nice progression going up to the largest SHIP (i figured i would throw out the statistical outliers like the death star and other ridiculously insanely huge things). the result was the Silhouette  to approximate size (length) chart below.
Obviously this is just a guideline to which there are exceptions. However this guideline helps to keep my decisions as well as the relative representation of ships size, consistent.

Blah blah blah, similar process and result for speed.

Silhouette	Approximate size
0	smaller than person
1	person sized (2 meters)
2	2-4 meters
3	5-20 meters
4	21- 50 meters
5	51-200 meters
6	201-400 meters
7	401-900 meters
8	901-2,000 meters
9	2,001-4,000 meters
10	> 5,001 meters
Speed Rating	Atmospheric Speed
1	1-160 kph
2	161-300 kph
3	301-600 kph
4	601-1000 kph
5	1001-1500 kph
6	1501-2000 kph
7	2001-3600 kph
8	3601-4400 kph
9	4401-5500 kph
10	5501+ kph

New Vehicle Attachments

I have redesigned the Speeder bike rack.
In order to keep things relatively simple i broke it in to two separate attachments.
a Speeder Bike RACK (for carrying a fixed number of bikes externally) and a Speeder Bike Deployment System (a modifiable system designed for internal bike storage and deployment).

Updated the Compact Retrofitted Hanger Bay for better balance. (mostly just takes up more of your ships space).

Added an attachment version of the ANQ 3.6 tracking system present in Enter the Unknown but only available on the A-36 Pathfinder. Not exactly an original idea, i know, but sometimes it just helps to have it listed, or you forget that it could be an option.

Sensor Array Amplifier (extends sensor range) added so you can see whats out there before it sees you.

Cargo Pods and Twin Cargo Pods added. Add a little more storage when you need to, or add a lot just because.

Probably the most interesting and most difficult piece I've been working on.
Hard Point Refit.
not strictly an "attachment" but I didn't really know where else to put it at the moment.
Basically this is just a mechanic and system for converting some of that extra Encumbrance capacity your ship has, into a more useful Hard Point. Be careful though, or you'll spread your ship thin and find yourself in trouble.

Check out all of these in more detail here, Vehicle Attachments (normally found in the Depot).

Keeping Track

Here are some additional vehicles that really have some traction. 

Multi-Environment Tracked Transpot
read a bit more about it, check it out on Wookieepedia HERE

PX-10 CAV Compact Assault Vehicle
read a bit more about it, check it out on Wookieepedia HERE

SRV-1 Scout and Retrieval Vehicle
read a bit more about it, check it out on Wookieepedia HERE

T3-B Heavy Attack Tank
read a bit more about it, check it out on Wookieepedia HERE

T4-B Heavy Tank
read a bit more about it, check it out on Wookieepedia HERE

Tanks are cool no matter what universe your in :)