I mean, it's Luke whining and not wanting to live on the farm any more. I would not take it at face value, anymore than I take a teenager at face value when they say "This is the worst day ever!" No, it really isn't.
Star Wars and faster than light travel
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Mando seemingly travels between three different systems without being able to go to hyperspace. They keep screwing this up, and the problem with a slower FTL explanation is that when we see the ship in flight it's clearly not going FTL!
Han got to Bespin without a hyperdrive. So, just following the OT's trends.
At least in that case the RPG ( and hence the pre-Disney EU ) eventually resorted to the "backup hyperdrive" explanation. Similar transgressions against rationality committed by TLJ and Mandalorian have by this time received no official attempt at explanation whatsoever.
Nor do they need one. A retroactive excuse in an RPG doesn't absolve ESB, nor does it make TLJ or Mandalorian more egregious.
I like to think that Hoth and Bespin are around the two components of a wide binary star system, maybe a few hundred AU apart. Then they could make the trip in a few days at a high enough sublight velocity. I can't account for Mando's travels, though.
Wonder if you get from Tatooine to Geonosis like that. It seemed like it was just a system over.
Maybe there is some sort of other kind of hyperspace that one can push into at the edge of star systems. (or ancient gates between systems that allows for short hops for ships with no hyperdrives) Stuff that's tens of thousands of years old that hardly anyone uses anymore, but are left as a backup for anyone stranded without a hyperdrive.
Maybe there is some sort of other kind of hyperspace that one can push into at the edge of star systems. (or ancient gates between systems that allows for short hops for ships with no hyperdrives) Stuff that's tens of thousands of years old that hardly anyone uses anymore, but are left as a backup for anyone stranded without a hyperdrive.
Probably solar wind.
In the absence of wormholes, you can always travel through plot holes.
That's a cool idea, but it raises the question of why it never came up, or why they even need hyperdrive if they have a standing gate system they can use without it. I mean, based on the High Republic books I recently read, normal hyperspace travel is already a sort of "gate" system relying mainly on standard, known lanes and entry and exit points, which isn't much different from what you're describing. So it seems there'd have to be some limitation or problem with the alternate system you propose, something that would make it preferable to use normal hyperdrive. Like, maybe it's significantly slower, or more hazardous.
The HR books proposed that the ancient Jedi used the Force to enter and navigate hyperspace without a drive, but that wouldn't help explaining how Han or Din can do it.
That's a cool idea, but it raises the question of why it never came up, or why they even need hyperdrive if they have a standing gate system they can use without it. I mean, based on the High Republic books I recently read, normal hyperspace travel is already a sort of "gate" system relying mainly on standard, known lanes and entry and exit points, which isn't much different from what you're describing. So it seems there'd have to be some limitation or problem with the alternate system you propose, something that would make it preferable to use normal hyperdrive. Like, maybe it's significantly slower, or more hazardous.
The HR books proposed that the ancient Jedi used the Force to enter and navigate hyperspace without a drive, but that wouldn't help explaining how Han or Din can do it.
Han described Bespin as being pretty far but they could make it. Perhaps whatever the other system is takes a lot more time (like needing to cross solar systems to make a jump to the next system, than crossing that system to make the next, and so on). And it would be system to system, not long jumps that can cross sectors of space. Meaning for Han and the Falcon, they might run out of fuel or food, or air even if Bespin was much farther.
Also allows Boba Fett to low key follow the Falcon, than when it is obvious they are going to Bespin, jump to Vader, and jump to Bespin, long before the Falcon can finish crossing they system to reach Cloud City.
Also allows Boba Fett to low key follow the Falcon, than when it is obvious they are going to Bespin, jump to Vader, and jump to Bespin, long before the Falcon can finish crossing they system to reach Cloud City.
After the hyperdrive failed. So he could've meant that it was far by sublight standards, which the other star in a wide binary could be.
Less than a parsec apart, supposedly.
And it wouldn't have helped Din who couldn't expose the eggs to hyperspace no matter the method.Christopher said:
It's worth noting here that the Falcon departed for Bespin from the ANOAT system, not the Hoth system ( and as far as I know they were only in Anoat because the Star Destroyer took them there ). So when they're trying to determine a destination, you'd think Bespin actually having been part of the same binary system as their last planetfall would have come up at that point.
I just retcon it as the Falcon got a big head start on its journey to Bespin when the Star Destroyer they latched onto went to hyperspace (offscreen, but implied) as part of its search pattern among nearby systems looking for the missing ship. And then Solo just detached as the fleet broke up and they limped their way into Bespin from the edge of the system, taking some time.
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And I figured there are workarounds. I do like seeing what people think.
Mos Eisley, Mos Espa? Sure. Anchorhead on the other hand is basically a truck stop.
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