Lit How fast are certain hyperdrives in light years

Star Wars 13 gave a rare treat in the form of travel time. Apparently the trip from Coruscant to Bothuwai takes 16 hours. Since its Vader, the hyperdrive is probably suped up. Does any canon source tell how fast certain hyperdrives are in lightyears per hour.

 

Roughly speaking SW ships travel millions of times the speed of light, this would be hundreds of light years per hour.

 

At the beginning of Cestus Deception, it quotes Obiwan and Anakin returning to Coruscant from a planet at the outer edge of the Mid Rim in 36h.

That's about the same distance as Bothuwai.

So apparently they aren't keeping consistent travel times here.

Oh wait! Its Star Wood. Of course they aren't consistent.

 

Truth be told, given a straight line, any distance could likely be covered in less than a week for even a slow hyperdive.

What is important in Star Wars is that straight lines are pretty rare. Ships have to stop often and travel sublight through obstacles before jumping at a new heading, and different routes require that ships do this a different number of times. So it is possible, depending on the shape of hyperspace in an area, for the same ship to be able to reach a planet on the other side of the galaxy in a few days, but take months to travel to a planet in the next star cluster over.

 

Hyperspace travel is very fast, millions of times the speed of light. Some other forms of FTL also existed before the use of regular hyperspace travel.

Also here is a little neat animation of how fast the Millennium Falcon is compared to other sci-fi spacecraft and one real life one

 

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In The Thrawn Trilogy, "Point Five" was 127 light years per hour, and "Point Four" was around 3 light years per hour.

(with Point Five being the speed of the Falcon or a Victory-class star destroyer pushing its engines to the limit) and Point Four being Dreadnoughts, and other warships going at a more leisurely pace).

Then it was switched from "speeds" to "hyperdrive classes" with a Class 0.5 hyperdrive being twice as fast as a Class 1, and so forth.

I'm guessing that, on hyperspace lanes, it's also much faster, with the above quoted speeds only applying when not on a major lane.

 

As others have mentioned Hyerdrive travel speed is actually not as much distance related as travel „conditions“, remote systems might take weeks to reach, whilst you can cross the galaxy in a few hours if you are able to use one of the major hyerlanes.

 

Hyperdrive and lightspeed in science fiction is always a little humorous. Basically it boils down to they travel fast enough to be able to cover the entire galaxy quickly enough so a good story can still be told.

In reality traveling across galaxies probably isn't nearly as simple as they make it sound in science fiction and that may very well be the biggest reason that while the universe could still be teaming with intelligent lifeforms but they simply are not able to get to each other in timely fashions to make the trip worthwhile and interact with one another.

 

Every author seems to have a different take on the time it takes to do some things. I think I made a topic about this a year or so ago, comparing the travel times used by various authors between well-known points in the Star Wars universe. I'll try to dig up some of the posts.

 

The Essential Atlas is, well, essential for understanding galactic travel. In one of the early parts of that guide, it shows that hyperdrive speed isn't quite as important as which hyperlane you take. A major hyperlane like the Hydian or Perlemian will get you to your destination rather quickly, while cutting through the "back woods" will take quite a long time.

 

True, but all other things equal (i.e. same lane), the lower-number hyperdrive wins. I think that's what the OP is asking about. Sure, there are many factors overall, but for simplicity sake, just call it the same exact lane (though that can be a stretch, as I recall that one of the explanations for the dreaded "12 parsecs" comment is that faster hyperdrives == being able to skirt closer to gravitational masses, thus being able to plot a more direct (physically shorter) route.