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SPOILERS - Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion and Overanalysis
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:11 ---That might be intentional to make the coincidences more palatable. Also I think it all takes place in a single galaxy.
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Galaxies are 10s, if not 100s, of thousands of light years across.
Method of Madness:
Well, yeah, I know, but that's nothing compared to the distance between galaxies.
@Benergy - Does hyperdrive go FTL or just take a shortcut? I thought it was the latter.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:44 ---Well, yeah, I know, but that's nothing compared to the distance between galaxies.
@Benergy - Does hyperdrive go FTL or just take a shortcut? I thought it was the latter.
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Han Solo refers to making the jump to light speed.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:44 ---Well, yeah, I know, but that's nothing compared to the distance between galaxies.
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Some Warsie physicists have suggested that an intergalactic flight at observed hyperdrive speeds would take no more than several months, including several stop-offs to take navigational references and correct their course. That's why the Outbound Project (a crewed intergalactic probe ship in the dying days of the Old Republic) was possible.
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:44 ---@Benergy - Does hyperdrive go FTL or just take a shortcut? I thought it was the latter.
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There is some question about the nature of hyperspace as it has never been explained in a canon source. What we do know is that it is travel through a realm close enough to the 'real' universe that objects like the gravity wells of stars and planets as well as stellar eruptions like supernovae are navigational hazards.
I wonder if it is something like the Mass Effect FTL drive where the drive creates a 'bubble' around the ship where it is not affected by the wider space-time continuum. Whilst travelling in normal space, it is thus isolated from inertia and relativistic effects and allowing it to 'snap' to its destination at a speed determined by the energy of the bubble. Gravity wells, being space-time topographical distortions, disrupt the structure of the bubble and make it unstable, potentially causing the ship to become affected by relativity again and forcing it sub-light.
The best assumption that I've seen about speeds is that the 'point five past lightspeed' that Han specifies as the Falcon's FTL cruising speed is a logarithmic scale where zero is lightspeed and one is infinite velocity (like the revised Warp 10 in Star Trek).
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 05 Jan 2016, 03:47 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:44 ---Well, yeah, I know, but that's nothing compared to the distance between galaxies.
@Benergy - Does hyperdrive go FTL or just take a shortcut? I thought it was the latter.
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Han Solo refers to making the jump to light speed.
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They might be able to reach light speed, but not surpass it.
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