Vong faster-than-light-travel???

Can anybody explain to me, how the Yuuzhan Vong manage to travel faster than lightspeed?

Because if they are unable to do so, they would need years to travel from one starsystem to another one.

 

They deffinatly are able to travel in hyperspace, but I don't think it is explained how.


!snap

 

Gravity. Everything about the Vong's ships are linked to gravity. Probably even the 'freshers.

I think they call hyperspace "darkspace" though . . .

Maybe they have a different understanding of faster-than-light travel?

 

Aren't all "freshers" gravity dependent when you think about it?

 

Dovin Basals manipulate gravity. To propel the ships, the NR engines provide thrust. What Dovin Basals do is lock onto a gravity source and "pull" on it. The bigger the source the easier it is to lock on and the harder they can pull. To get to GFFA they pretty much locked on and pulled.

 

Yes, yes, yes.

But i want to know how they move faster than lightspeed.

The ships of the SW-Galaxy use hyperspacemotivators, that allow them to travel faster than light, but how do the VOng do it.

Since gravitywaves can only move with lightspeed, the dovin basals should be useless.

 

It's too complicated. You wouldn't understand. Neither would the authors...or our heroes for that matter. Therefore...we have to take it on faith...

 

I think in one of the books (Hero's Trial at a guess) the NR committee wonder whether the YV travel through Hyperspace the way they do. They decide they don't know.

On the OTHER hand, 'Edge of Victory: Rebirth' answers those questions. The Stalking Moon scoutship nicked by Anakin, Corran, and Tahiri uses Hyperspace - it has a slow reversion to realspace, possibly to dampen the hyperspace shockwaves. In the same book, there's mention that the YV worldship they were creating (the one Kyp blowed up) would have been capable of FTL travel.

The Baanu Miir WOULDN'T, on the other hand, because it's too old and fragile.

So, what are we left with?

The YV have a creature that does it for them somehow or other...

Not a lot of help!

 

it's a good point... the vong ships are basically living creatues... how on earth does a creature manage to enter hyperspace?

 

Ask the Oswaft

 

All Vong technology is to complicated...

 

yeah there ships are comparable to the oswaft... but the vong's darkspace travel is more complex than the oswaft. all the oswaft do is look and move...

 

yeah,i was thinking of the oswaft too....

Once it mentioned on of the higher ups' ships moving so fast from one location to another nearby really really fast. It could have been the Sunulok, but i know it was the ship of a higher vong offical.

Also, in DJ, Lowbacca mentioned that the YV ship actually moved in "dark space" to avoid the dovin basal hyperspace mines. Now, as i recall, the conventioal hypersapce engines can olny go in one direction stright and get pulled out of hyperspace if they encounter a gravity well, so in this way, the Vong may not be in "hypersapce."

Also this brings up the use of interdictor cruisars. If Vong ships can move to go around a gravity well, then the cruisars are useless. That would mean the centerpoint plot to get the Vong stuck in the correlian systen would have been a bust.......

 

there ships are not immune to gravity wells, there ships simply navigate around gravity wells. Im sure the vong navigators can force the ship to go through a gravity well in darkspace...

 

Gravity wells work. The Interdictor Corusca Rainbow kept the Vong fleet from leaving Ithor.

I know it's the dovin basals that take them through hyperspace. Perhaps they create a hole in space-time, and travel through hyperspace, but at a different 'frequency', that has no real affect. It's also said in one of the Agent's of Chaos books that they travel and maneuver the same as NR vessels, just through different means. The thing is, both Vong and GFFA ships never reach lightspeed in realspace, but jump into a kind of wormhole that takes them to a dimension that takes you faster than light. None of it is done in realspace.

I hope that makes sense.

 

Let me give it a try (cause I've been thinking about this):

I think what they're doing is creating a concentration of gravity so great they're creating "wormholes" in a sense. They call it darkspace, you can call it Campbell's Chicken Soup if you really want to. So yes, they're taking aim on where they want to go, and essentially they are reeling themselves in by bending space with the massive amount of gravity they're producing.

But if we put the word "wormhole" in the GFFA we'd have Trekkies all over the world crying "ripoff".

 

There was a wormhole in the EU, Glove of darth vader mentioned it, as the reason why a chunk of the DS2 was found on mon calimari. The word wormhole predates star trek by many years, it was just a standard science fiction idea.

 

Good point. However, I don't think they want to get that in depth with the whole Vong/hyperspace thing or we'd already know the answer.

 

Eh.... does it really matter though?

 

LanceJade:

It matters.