Speed Ability VS. Map Movement Speed

What is the difference between
< SpeedAbility > located in the Tech tree under Impulse Drive and Warp Drive

and

< Speed > located on the Ship Components?

I know the < Speed > relates to how far you can move, and I think that the < SpeedAbility > tag is for combat speed, but does it make any difference? Any at all? Or is it one of those tags that originally had a purpose but is no longer used because of a problem with how AI used it?

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< Speed > raises the speed of any ship which has that module.
< SpeedAbility > raises the base speed of all your ships. For instance, once you get Impulse Drive, a ship without engines will now move 2 spaces in a turn instead of just 1.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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Speed on engines gives X amount of speed to the ship you place the engine on. SpeedAbility on a tech gives a speed bonus to ALL ships once you've researched that tech, without needing to add any parts to them.

Speed has absolutely no effect in combat, and never has.

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Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding guys

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