Bah. I'm a formatting noob.

I'm lucky enough that at my new workplace, we build windows ourselves, installing only what we want, for the most part. Chrome Now just to convince the management to let us use Linux..

"Point five past light" is not so open to interpretation as you might think. Given, we don't know the units: it is certainly possible that he means "0.5 [million parsecs per hour] past light", though this is extremely unlikely.

A logarithmic scale seems like a good idea, but NO distribution would be so skewed that a very fast ship would have a score of +0.5 from the base (light.) This would mean we are constantly measuring speeds in numbers like 0.3932831. A civilization with technology like this would surely know how to normalize a numeric distribution.

If I am not correct on the assumption of extremely small galaxy size (and modified physics to allow for such small interstellar distances without galactic collapse), then it follows necessarily that an even more irrational system - the implied speed scale - is present.

This is not only poorly-written, but the concept is awful. Going after lightsabers because they lack handguards? These are Jedi weapons, guy. The Jedi are surgeons with these weapons, blocking blaster fire on mere intuition. Come on. My ire for this article stems mainly from the fact that the author ignored some of the real problems with the Star Wars universe, touching only on the superficial. What about the time/distance inconsistency? (The Millennium Falcon, as you may recall, travels "0.5 past light", and yet travels from star to star in hours? Just how small and dense IS this far-away galaxy?)