How did the Falcon get to Bespin in ESB?

In the Empire Strikes Back after the Falcon evades the Star Destroyer Avenger, Han decides to travel to Bespin to make repairs on the hyperdrive.

In a short amount of time (I'm not sure exactly how long, maybe a week or so, maybe longer, depending on how long Luke's training took) the Falcon lands at Cloud City to make repairs.

One Question: how did it get there with only sublight? Star systems are lightyears apart!

 

Han used the backup hyperdrive to get to Bespin.

 

[blonde moment] Duh, they used the sails to get the ship to Bespin! [/blonde moment]

 

How did the Falcon get to Bespin in ESB?

It flew all the way to Bespin from the asteroid field, and boy are its arms tired.

 

Ahh, the ancient question resurfaces....

 

jedi_john_33 thinks this:

he averted all power the sublight engines, where there is a backup hyperdrive junction system

because he doesn't know the real answer

 

Most ships are equiped with a backup hyperdrive that is CONSIDERABLY slower then the normal Hyperdrive. The Millenium Falcon is equiped with such a backup system. As Lucas has said, he just writes the mythology, he lets the EU writers to come up with the technical stuff.

May the force be with you.

 

I always assumed that Bespin was in the Anoat system. Not all that far of a trek for a freighter type space craft. If they used sublight engines they could make the journey in a matter of months.

This would give Luke an acceptable amount of time to achieve a rudimentry amount of Jedi skills and give the Empire time to intercept Han and Leia and set up the trap.

 

No, the Anoat system is a seperate system. Bespin is in the Bespin system. They're close though.

If you have the map from the Star Wars Insider last year (I don't remember the issue #, but it was the one that had the four SW Galaxies covers) shows tht Anoat is just Galactic South of Bespin on the Correlian Run.

 

I've seen this debated before and one of the explanations is that they used a back-up hyperdrive system which is slower and thus it stil took them weeks to get there. But it takes a while to get the back-up online and Fett is able to determine where they are headed.

If they flew there in normal space it would be a bit ridiculous to expect Fett to follow them for all that time. And at sublight speeds it would take years wouldn't it?

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Leia actually got out and pushed.

 

I don't know if Fett followed them the entire way. He may have tracked them for a while and surmised their most probable destination (I got the impression Bespin is pretty isolated) and then zoomed back to tell Vader.

 

My thoery: Han diverted power from the short range scanners to make a short hyperspace jump to Bespin. That's why he couldn't detect Slave I traveling 12 feet behind them the whole way.

Too bad the Falcon didn't have rearview mirrors.

 

They realigned the main deflector creating a tachyon pulse aimed at the temperol nexus while rerouting the plasma conduite field to stimulate the vans difrence.


Oh wait, wrong franchise. Sorry.



Seems to be the answer is that the Falcon had a backup hyper drive.

 

lol. Tachyon particles... it's always tachyon particles.

 

posted by DarthToeJam
Too bad the Falcon didn't have rearview mirrors.

I was just thinking that yesterday.

 

That also raises a few questions about Star Destroyer design **coughAvengercough**

 

I don't know. Even if Bespin was in a different system we really don't have any idea just how fast the Falcon can travel at sublight speeds. Simply because our nearest neighboring system is 4.2 light years away doesn't mean that's the norm. They could have been (and were I belive) on the outer reaches of the Anoat system and the Bespin could have been on the outer reaches of the Bespin system and it could have still been a 6-10 month journey for the Falcon.

 

And of course, that's not true.

 

The trip from Hoth to Bespin took 3 months. That was how long Luke was on Dagobah for, give or take a week or so.

 

> And of course, that's not true.

Correct. Star Wars is fiction.

 

The trip from Hoth to Bespin took 3 months. That was how long Luke was on Dagobah for, give or take a week or so.

So can you document this?


And of course, that's not true.

Why? Care to explain or just tossing out little trolls?
I'm going strictly by what I saw in the films. I don't buy EU garbage or silly little maps made by fanboys and take them as loyal to Hoyle fact. What's in the movies and novels is pretty much all you can take as fact in a situation like this. Everything else is speculation and one person's speculation isn't anymore correct than anothers.
So what makes my speculation wrong?

 

EU is more official than your speculation, though. It doesn't matter whether you accept it or not.

What's in the movies and novels is pretty much all you can take as fact in a situation like this.

Exactly. Everything in the movies and novels counts. Glad you agree with me.

 

All right, that's enough. Bib, you know full well that LFL's stance isn't what's in question here - I consider a purist's speculation to be on equal footing with a completist's "speculation" that EU is true.

Edit: For clarification, what I'm saying is I'm giving you a strike.

 

How is that a strike? I was just responding to his erroneous post with the correct facts. If anyone should get a strike, it's him.