Ships colliding in hyperspace?

Question-if there is a danger of colliding with a planet along hyperspace routes or whatever, why don't other ships propose a problem?

 

I'd imagine because they're gravity shadows are so small. Also, there's hyperlanes that are like highways, so I'd imagine there's some way to prevent collisions...

 

interesting question....


Well, first of all, you don't collide with the planet, but collide with its gravity well, its so called "Mass Shadow" which bendsand warps Hyperspace.


About ships colliding...


I guess it would be possible, but HIGHLY unlikely. Ships are much smaller than planets, other than that I dont know...sorry.

 

Maybe they'll collide into Nil Sparr.

 

Most ships would be small enough that their mass would not bend space enough to create a gravity well of sufficient strength to pull a ship out of hyperspace. If that was all that was required for an accident to happen, then every bit of junk and debris out there would cause an accident.

As for getting that close within hyperspace, aside from the extreme odds of being in the same place at the same exact time at that speed on an interstellar scale; if you make the assumption that everything in 'hyperspace' coexists within the same extradimensional space (that it is an actual 'parallel dimension' independent of what a hyperspace drive does) and hyperspace is not just a blanket term for all the different spatial warps for all the different ships out there.... The hyperspace 'bubble', dimensional or gravitic field, or whatever, that holds a ship in hyperspace might make them glance off each other or get pulled in a different direction before impact could occur. This could account for some of the stranger hyperspace accidents and seemingly random, accidental course changes that occur in the GFFA.

It's space fantasy, though, so the science and technology isn't supposed to be all that important as long as the plot keeps moving.

 

I've always wondered that as well, actually had planned on posting a thread but forgot. Anyways, I remember reading that Captain (Admiral?) Brandei was "discharged" after he miscalculated a jump and his Star Destroyer pretty much landed on the Executor..so I guess mistakes are made. But if you think about it, there would have been ships coming in and out of places like coruscant so frequently, I imagine some lazy pilot messed up at somepoint.

 

I ahve wondered this too

 

This is a big question I have too.

 

well In the book before episode 2 forgot the name it says that corruscant is so busy that you have to come out of hyperspace far earlier than other planets. obi even has an argument with anakin because anakin didn't follow those rules.

 

I think the question is slightly different to the latest answers here...it's quite possible to exit hyperspace in exactly the same position as a ship is in, basically ripping right through it at FTL speed. The question as I interpret it, however, is can ships collide while travelling through hyperspace. I think, if hyperspace is not so much a parallel universe as a sort of tunnel, then it is not possible. It all depends on how you interpret hyperspace, really.

 

I always interpreted hyperspace as such : no collision possible, but the masses's hyperspace shadows drag you out of hyperspace if you're too close, and then you collide in real space.

So you could hit a ship, but it would depend on its actual mass, which is probably in most cases too small compared to a planet, and insufficient to drag you out. And even if it dragged you out, by the time you'd reverted from hyperspace, you'd be past it, thus avoiding the collision.

Actually, this is partly demonstrated by Saesee Tiin in Acts of War, where he gets through a planet in hyperspace.

 

If the ship would going to collide then it could just slow down of turn,couldn't it?
In BFC the stasis probes Drayson used could wait in hyperspace untilthey were ready to be used.
I suppose that definition hyperspace could be compared to the hyperspace in babylon 5.

 

"Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy!
Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or
bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick,
wouldn't it?"

 

Valentio is correct.

 

Perhaps it would happen, but very rarely.
I mean it would have to be a coincidence that in such a HUGE amount of space that two ships would be on the same course, headed directly at each other.

Like aiming a gun, if the shooter barely drops the gun a milimeter, his shot will miss the intended target.
Now if two ships were on the same course (in respect to a planet), but one was angled just 2 degrees 'up' and another just 2 degrees 'down' they would pass each other with miles in between.

 

Well, never when someone is missing, for example Han and Chewie in Jedi Search, nobody considers the possibilty of a hyperspace-crash. We've never heard about that in the GFFA, so I don't think it's possible.