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Instead of going with normal measurement unit names, fiction will make up their own. Expect [[Its All There in the Manual|a guide]] to have conversions between them and real units unless the entire point is to avert [[Technology Marches On]] and [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] by simply never giving a unit comparable to real world objects in the first place.
In some cases, especially [[Science Fiction]] or [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]], units will have to be invented where they do not exist in normal speech. Magical energy is likely to have some unit. Particularly well developed settings may even specify what the unit is, for example, one Merlin might be defined as the magical energy required to push a specific object a specific distance.
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