Travel time between planets (specifically Coruscant and Mustafar)

Something that bothered me when I was watching the movie:
Mustafar is supposedly in the Outer Rim. How in the world did Padme get there so fast? She left after Anakin slaughtered the Separatists. He is still standing around when she arrives. Taking a vacation?And how did Palpatine get there so fast? Lightspeed isn't that fast!

I must be missing something.


Wonderful movie!

 

I just mentioned the same thing in a different post. Quite odd.

 

It's like Mustafar is just around the corner..

 

Fine minds think alike.

I really hate that saying, but I just had to say it.

 

Time is relative, you know.

 

None of the Lightspeed travel has been consistant. Han says that they'll be at Alderaan in two hours, then less than five minutes later, they're there.

 

It bothered me until I just watched TESB and Luke gets to Dagobah before the Falcon has even reached the asteroid field in the Hoth System.

Unrealistic space travel times are a hallmark of Star Wars, just takes some getting used to.

 

and yet Yoda got to Geonosis right after Mace, even though Yoda had to go all the way to Kamino and pick up 10,000 people. Who cares, it looked cool on film.

 

Don't forget about the Death Star...how the hell did that monstrosity travel across the galaxy?

 

Unrealistic space travel times are a hallmark of Star Wars, just takes some getting used to.

Not all of it is unrealistic. The movies don't always reveal how much time has passed between scenes. I mean, the movies don't take place in real time, if they did they would have a lot of scenes of the characters just sitting around in the spaceships while traveling.

 

Good points!
I did notice in in ROTJ when Luke went to Dagobah but made it back to the Rebel fleet in time. I haven't seen the other movies in a while so that's why I didn't think of them.

 

yeah this pissed me off. when obiwan asked padme when he last saw anakin, she said last day. even in standard days, going from core worlds to the outer rim takes way longer.

and how the hell did the emperor get to anakin so fast? it took literaly minutes for him to reach mustafar.

 

even in standard days, going from core worlds to the outer rim takes way longer.

Where in the movies does it say that?

 

That is one of the main issues I have with Revenge. It ruins the continuity, but then again how does the Milennium Falcon get to Cloud City without the ability to jump into hyperspace.

Lucas isnt exactly known for having a good grasp of spacial knowledge.

All in all though I did enjoy this movie. Dare I say it? Yes, it was better than Return of the Jedi. So it now occupies the coveted third spot behind Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.

 

I'm relieved to see I'm not the only one.

 

Lucas isnt exactly known for having a good grasp of spacial knowledge.

It is his universe and his story...

 

well u begin to get the feeling from reading the EU books.

 

well, for thew dagobah/hoth thing, its just that they show Luke there first so they can switch from Han and Leia and not have ot watch Luke in space for a half hour.

I dont knwo exactly about mustafar. the whole movie is kind of surreal to me. after all this waiting. I am still in shock. (good way, not bad way) I guess its a really fast ship? Or maybe it took a while for him to mess with the buttons on mustafar, or do something. bathroom break?

geonosis- Yoda probably called Kamino, told them to get the clones all ready to go, then all he had to do was pick them up. kamino is close to geonosis, I think.

alderaan- of course, they arent gonna show them in hyperspace for the whole movie. so the yjust showed the extent of basically what they did to kill time.

 

hoth and dagobah is extremely close to each other, so is bespin. that made sense in the trilogies. like the rebel alliance abandoned dantooine and went to yavin. which was a relatively close system. but their just moving like jackrabbits in this film.

 

HAHAHAHA-- "bathroom break"!

 

well u begin to get the feeling from reading the EU books.

The EU is not canon. Therefore GL can contradict it and he is right.

 

I like to pretend that they travel at extra-super-duper light speed. I mean, travelling from the center of a standard spiral galaxy to the arms takes hundreds of years even at light speed. The closest star to the sun is 4 light years away or something like that. Star Wars would be pretty boring if he used actual times. "You will go to the Dagobah system, where you will die an old man by the time you arrive."

Carnage

 

I mean, travelling from the center of a standard spiral galaxy to the arms takes hundreds of years even at light speed.

OK, get a hold of yourself. This is why it is important to be able to distinguish between space travel in real life vs. space travel in the movies.

 

i havnt seen the upgraded map of the galaxy with all the planets in episode 3, but i can say that for instance in NJO when the crew were searching for zenoma sekot it seemed like it took some time to actualy travel through the systems and find the planet. every prior traveling done in the movies was justifiable to some sense. not the super dooper warp hole stuff u see in episode 3.

 

The MF flew to Bespin. If you look at a map, the only thing between hoth and bespin is pretty much he asteroid field. they're neighbors.