Light-week

The Light-week or lightweek (symbol: lw) is a unit of measurement of length, specifically the distance light travels in vacuum in one standard week.

• It is an astrographic scale measurement.
• It is a standard Imperial metric.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Speed of Travel

• NAFAL (STL) - (Not As Fast As Light) / (Slower Than Light)
• Light Speed (c)
• FTL - (Faster Than Light) - "Superluminal"

• Astronomical Unit (AU)

» Imperial Standard Astronomical Unit

• Light-second (ls)
• Light-minute (lm)
• Light-hour (lh)
• Light-day (ld)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• Parsec (pc)

» Solomani Parsec

» Vilani Parsec ("Deshi")

» Imperial Standard Parsec

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Description (Specifications)

One (Solomani) light-week is equal to:

1. About 181,300,000,000,000 meters
2. About 1,202 astronomical units
3. About 0.005876 parsecs

History & Background (Dossier)

The exact length of the light-week depends on the length of the reference week used in the calculation.

• Within the Imperium, an Imperial standard week of 168 Imperial standard hours is used.
• The light-week is often used to measure distances between worlds within systems, especially in reference to distance relative to communication and/or sensor lag.
• The preferred unit of general measurement for such distances is the astronomical unit (AU).

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Light-second#Use_in_astronomy. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), TBD.
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), 5.
• David Golden, Guy Garnett. Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games, 1997), 7.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 615.
• Wikipedia Table - Lightweek
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science