Silhouette

abstract number, used to describe a vehicle’s size and mass relative to other vehicles. Silhouette factors heavily into scale and is used to calculate the difficulty of attacking targets of different sizes. Generally, large vehicles are easy to hit, and small vehicles are hard to hit.


Silhouettes range from 0 to 10 (or even higher). Silhouette 0 is smaller than a human, silhouette 1 is about the size of an adult human, and silhouette 2 is the size of most cars and large animals. Fighter jets, cargo planes, and tractor-trailer trucks range from silhouette 3 to 4. Navy battleships and starships range from silhouette 5 to 10.