What does "65" mean?

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K-2SO beats up the troopers easily. Up in the sky, the bombers are preparing to attack. Just as they
start the attack run, TIE fighters come in from the shield and swarm the rebel fleet.

JON VANDER (GOLD LEADER): Red Leader, this is Gold Leader, we’re
starting our attack run on the  shield gate. Keep it tight and watch
out for those towers.
GOLD PILOT: More fighters. Form up, at 65.

Withad · Accepted Answer

You can hear the pilot in question here at about 1:59 in this video, saying "form up, at[?] six five". As she's speaking, the scene cuts to three X-wings flying in loose formation.

                
            
It's not entirely clear what "six" and "five" refer to but the visual implies that she's in the lead X-wing and was instructing her two wingmen to form up in some specific way. I think the most likely explanation is she wanted them at the five and six o'clock positions behind her, which is roughly consistent with how we see them flying.

Snow · Answer

I don't have any canon answer here, but I believe that the actual words in the script are "six five", not "sixty five".
Obviously, this implies a grid reference, so we can reasonably assume that the battlefield is split up into a grid for ease of reference.  We don't know how many squares there are in this grid, but it's a location reference of strategic importance.

What does "65" mean?

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