StarCitizen:Standard Cargo Unit

Standard Cargo Unit (SCU) is a unit used to describe the volume of StarCitizen:cargo in game. It is commonly used to describe cargo capacity of StarCitizen:vehicles in the Verse. It is based on the size of 1 m³ (1,000 L) stored inside a container with a standard thickness of 0.125 m, making the total size of 1 SCU 1.25 m³.<ref name="Cargo interaction">Template:Cite RSI</ref><ref name="Cargo capacity">Template:Cite RSI</ref>

Currently there are a variety of containers that range from [[StarCitizen::Category:Containers|1 to 32 SCU]] in volume.

Conversion

SCU adopts metric prefixes in game to indicate a multiple or fraction of the unit. One StarCitizen:Storage Point (SP) is the equivalent of one microSCU.

SCU	centiSCU (cSCU)	microSCU (μSCU)
1	100	1,000,000
0.01	1	10,000
0.000001	0.0001	1

Trivia

• One twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU) used in standardized shipping containers occupies a space of 38.26 m³.<ref name="Container size">LIS: Logistics & Transport Lexicon - ISO-Container</ref> Their in-game equivalent is the StarCitizen:16-SCU container, which occupies a volume of 31.25 m³.<ref name="16_SCU volume">Template:Cite RSI on YouTube</ref>
• 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.<ref>Bureau International des Poids et Mesures - The International System of Units (SI)</ref><ref>Resolution 6 of the 12th CGPM (1964)</ref>

See also

• StarCitizen:Cargo
• StarCitizen:Stor-All
• [[StarCitizen::Category:Containers|Containers]]

References

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