How fast is hyperspace?

How long does it take them to travel through hypersace? Like from one planet to another or something. Any clues? Earth hours, or what?

 

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Depends on how far apart the planets are.

"Anyway, we'll be reaching Alderaan at about 0200."

Tatooine is in the outer rim, and Alderaan is near the core, close to Coruscant. It took less than a day.

 

.5 past lightspeed.

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I think there's a whole lot of EU answers.

 

Based on facts, light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second. If we compare the Star Wars Galaxy to our own we would roughly be where Tatooine is. If we were traveling to Coruscant from Tatooine, (in our Galaxy, Earth to the Core) it would take 50,000 years because from Earth to the center of our Galaxy is roughly 50,000 lightyears. So either the Star Wars Galaxy is very small, OR I don't know what the heck I'm talking about?

But this site might help you out a little, it did for me!

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Is it possible that when Han said ".5 past lightspeed" he's referring to the top speed in realspace?

 

I really don't know what he ment by that.

 

He was refering to... I'll just stop there before i get banned.

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hyperspace is not in known space..it's out of space..it would be like going into a black hole and traveling long distances that way..when you enter..hyperspace..its like going into another dimension..almost like folding space and poking a hole in it..therefore it has no specific fast..classification..but only a matter of time..for example..it would take you 2 light years to get from here to there..but the problem is that hyperspace is not lightspeed..it is faster..it's a hyper space..meaning its faster than normal space..so those two years could be longer..or shorter depending on what part of the space that is "hyper" you might enter.. because a hyperspace is a certain location of the universe. like a bubble that you know it is always there and you use it knowingly that it will react in that manner.

in conclusion ..hyper space is a part of..not space. its not normal space..it is a part of space that moves faster..

hope you understand that..

 

Judging from what we see on screen, hyperspace technology allows extremely fast velocities. Star Wars ships also seem to achieve FTL travel in normal space, which is even more remarkable.

 

I read somewhere (in some weird magazine that had a Star Wars special so I looked at it) that if a ship were going faster than the speed of light, it could go around the earth's atmosphere like 24 times in a second. Pretty fast.

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The .5 past lightspeed thing was turned around in the RPG to mean a time factor, not a speed factor.
It would say something like a standard travel time from one place to another was 1 day, so the Falcon could make the same trip in half that time. So the lower this time factor the less time it took you to get somewhere.

Other folks have estimated your typical SW ship can go millions of times lightspeed. The Falcon has had guestimates from 10 million to 50 million times lightspeed(I tend to go with the lower figure).

At 1 million times lightspeed you could cross the GFFA in about 5 weeks. But that is a straight line shot which you really can't do with all the stars in the way so it would probably take longer. In the same time the Falcon could do it in about half a week.

 

So saying four hours wouldn't be too much of a stretch, for planets that aren't on opposite sids of the GFFA?

 

Before I answer that let me say that at the time Lucas made ANH he must have had some knowledge of distances in space, but not that much, and probably lacked any real concern over said distances for the sake of the story.

Ok, ANH, from Tatooine to Alderan. Alderan is near the core, Tatooine is out closer to the edge of the galaxy. The distance involved here is soemwhere between 30 and 50 thousand lightyears(I could be more accurate but its late and my maps are buried away).

The Falcon leaves Tatooine, Luke gets a little training, R2 beats Chewbacca at chess, Solo says "We are coming up on Alderan."

We have no real idea how long this is supposed to take, at most just a few hours. So getting from one side of the galaxy to the other in a single day is not out of the question for the Falcon if the route taken is clear, and we take the above events as a benchmark.

I think somewhere else on the boards I came up with a more conservative estimate of 3.5 days for the Falcon to cross the galaxy. Some of the faster ships can probabaly do it in a week or two, some of the slower ones might take a month.

 

Say...Slave I? It's pretty fast.

 

When I get home I will look up the referances and try to make you a list of fastest ships from fastest to slowest.

Unless, someone wants to be me to it....

 

Ok here we go, this is cobbled together from the Incredibel Cross Sections books and RPG supplements. These are all hyperdrive multipliers and the lower the number the better.

The Falcon - 0.5
Acclamators - 0.6 range 250,000 lightyears.
Naboo Cruiser that got blowed up on Coruscant - 0.7 range 80,000 ly
Padme's ship for the rest of AOTC - 0.9 range 20,000 ly
Jedi Starfighter - 1.0 150,000 ly
Slave 1 - 1.0
X-Wing - 1.0
Y-Wing - 1.0
Mon Calamari captial ships - 1.0
Star Destroyer II(ESB) - 1.0
Dooku's Solar Sailer - 1.5
Amidala's Royal ship in TPM - 1.8
Trade Federation Droid Control ships - 2.0
Star Destroyer I (ANH) - 2.0
The Executor - 2.0
Sith Infiltrator - 3.0 (I think it was faster than this since it seemed to get from Coruscant to tatooine in a single day..it may have a 0.5 like the Falcon).
The second Death Star would have had a 3.0
The first Death Star - 4.0

If a range was included I posted it.

 

Thanks! Now how do I apply that? So if Slave I is traveling, it travels twice as slowly as the Falcon? *winces*

I find that chart a little hard to believe, but I'm a big Boba fan, and a very small Han fan.

 

The only reason everything reads that way is because of the "point five past lightspeed" quote. I don't think GL really had the scales and speeds in mind, he just made it up and we are to assume the Falcon is "The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy."

So what the RPG designsers did was to make a chart of standard travel times for a given route, it has changed since the new RPG.

So here is an example. The travel time listed to go from the Outer Rim(Like Tatooine) to get to the Core Worlds(Like Alderan) is 96 hours.

So the Falcon can do it in 48 hours. Anything with a "1.0" can do it in 96 hours, a "2.0" rating gets you 192 hours etc.

There is another apsect in the game that says a good dice roll for your navigation skill will result in faster trip times so its not absolute.

But lets go with it for an estimation, the distance from Tatooine to Alderan is roughly 40,000 lightyears, if the Falcon did it in 48 hours that means it can go 7,300,000 times lightspeed. It looks to me in the film the Falcon takes less than two days so it was probably going much faster.

Still, if you go with the 7.3 millionXlightspeed figure, the Falcon can cross the galaxy in less than a week.

 

Hey guys,
Remember when Anakin and Padme were on Tattoine, and they said that Geonosis was one Parsec away, well a parsec is about 19,2 TRILLION miles, so they must have gone pretty dang fast...

 

So Padme's ships were faster than Han's Falcon no way ?? Well Han does have the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

 

In AOTC, Padme and Anikin was going from Tatooine to Genosiss. I think she said it was half a parsec away (if it was 1 parsec, multiply my speed figure by 2). If they were to take just twelve to get there they will have to travel at about 798 billion miles per hour. For us humans, it will be impossible because we will have to accelerate at such a speed that it will crush us with its G force.

 

So Padme's ships were faster than Han's Falcon no way ?? Well Han does have the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

OF COURSE IT WAS!!!
Her ship was provided by the Republic, they give the senators good stuff... The Millenium Falcon was a custom ship, and remember; the republic became the empire, so they have the same ships, just newer models.

 

The Falcon's hyperdrive is rated as 0.5. Padme's ship is rated at 0.9. The lower the number the better. See my chart I cobbled together above.