Standard Cargo Unit
What to know
Standard Cargo Unit (SCU) is a unit used to describe the volume of cargo in game. It is commonly used to describe cargo capacity of vehicles in the Verse. It is based on the size of 1 m 3 stored inside a container with a standard thickness of 0.125 m, making the total size of 1 SCU 1.25 m 3.
Standard Cargo Unit (SCU) is a unit used to describe the volume of cargo in game. It is commonly used to describe cargo capacity of vehicles in the Verse. It is based on the size of 1 m 3 stored inside a container with a standard thickness of 0.125 m, making the total size of 1 SCU 1.25 m 3.
Currently there are a variety of containers that range from 1 to 32 SCU in volume.
Conversion
SCU adopts metric prefixes in game to indicate a multiple or fraction of the unit. One Storage Point (SP) is the equivalent of one microSCU.
- SCU: centiSCU (cSCU) milliSCU (mSCU) microSCU (μSCU)
- 1: 100 1000 1,000,000
- 0.01: 1 10 10,000
- 0.001: 0.1 1 1000
- 0.000001: 0.0001 0.001 1
Trivia
- One twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU) used in standardized shipping containers occupies a space of 38.26 m 3. Their in-game equivalent is the 16-SCU container, which occupies a volume of 31.25 m 3.
- Although the litre is the most common unit of volume used in many countries, the real SI unit of volume is indeed the cubic meter. Litre is accepted for use with the SI because it is defined as a cubic decimeter.
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