Oddball Fett
Jr Hunter
Okay, ya gotta throw real physics out the window with Star Wars. I thought I heard somewhere that the Star Wars galaxy was about the same size as the Andromeda galaxy, which is about twice as big as ours. Even if it ain't, ours alone is approx 100,000 light-years across. In the movies, getting from one side to the other takes days, or weeks.
Now, according to the Roleplaying game by WEG they had a hyperspace route chart which showed how many days it would take getting from certain systems to another, and starship hyperdrives were classed with a "multiplier number". So for example, if it took 2 days to get from Tatooine to Alderaan with a (pretty fast) "x1" hyperdirve, a "x4" hyperdrive would take 8 days. The Falcon had a "x1/2" hyperdrive (half) so that would only take one day. As we all know, a half equals 0.5 (point five). So if we go by what the game says, "point 5 past lightspeed" is not just a smidge faster than lightspeed, it is a DARN sight faster!
Either way, lightspeed is not any kind of realistic travelling speed, it is merely the thresh-hold speed that pushes a ship into hyperspace, at which point, the normal rules of physics (like they count in Star Wars) do not apply. Therefore, trips to other systems may take only hours or days.
And for those who aren't aware, yes, a "parsec" is a measurement of distance (not time) , but the whole point of the Kessel Run is to shave as much distance off the trip as poss, thereby (presumably) shortening the time. Kessel is inside an area known as The Maw, a group of black holes (about 11 I think) that all continuously orbit each other. The trick is to calculate the best possible route through The Maw in the shortest route possible, getting as close to the black holes as possible without getting caught in one. Or getting caught by the patrols. 8) The less parsecs you do it in, the shorter the route, the quicker the time. And Han doesn't hold the record - that belongs to BoShek if I recall.
For I am Oddball, king of all geeks; may all lesser geeks bow down to me!
:wacko
Now, according to the Roleplaying game by WEG they had a hyperspace route chart which showed how many days it would take getting from certain systems to another, and starship hyperdrives were classed with a "multiplier number". So for example, if it took 2 days to get from Tatooine to Alderaan with a (pretty fast) "x1" hyperdirve, a "x4" hyperdrive would take 8 days. The Falcon had a "x1/2" hyperdrive (half) so that would only take one day. As we all know, a half equals 0.5 (point five). So if we go by what the game says, "point 5 past lightspeed" is not just a smidge faster than lightspeed, it is a DARN sight faster!
Either way, lightspeed is not any kind of realistic travelling speed, it is merely the thresh-hold speed that pushes a ship into hyperspace, at which point, the normal rules of physics (like they count in Star Wars) do not apply. Therefore, trips to other systems may take only hours or days.
And for those who aren't aware, yes, a "parsec" is a measurement of distance (not time) , but the whole point of the Kessel Run is to shave as much distance off the trip as poss, thereby (presumably) shortening the time. Kessel is inside an area known as The Maw, a group of black holes (about 11 I think) that all continuously orbit each other. The trick is to calculate the best possible route through The Maw in the shortest route possible, getting as close to the black holes as possible without getting caught in one. Or getting caught by the patrols. 8) The less parsecs you do it in, the shorter the route, the quicker the time. And Han doesn't hold the record - that belongs to BoShek if I recall.
For I am Oddball, king of all geeks; may all lesser geeks bow down to me!
:wacko