Oh, I have a feeling this one'll be an all out war. I'm shaking in my boots with pure excitement.

Looey:

Haulover is way, way out there, on the fringe of Human Space, light years from Earth.  We generally don't get into precise calculations of distances because that is not really germane to the stories.  All we need to do to get the effect we want is say it takes a while to get places even at faster-that-light travel.  Neither do we go into detail on the FTL drives since nobody really knows how that would work, or even if it's possible.  Just think of England and America separated by the Atlantic Ocean in the 1700s.  That's the comparison we're aiming for.