Although it was possible to turn those protocols off, such a move was highly dangerous, and any ship doing so had a high chance of blowing up, becoming severely damaged or falling apart in hyperspace. In fact, starships had safety protocols that prevented hyperdrive engines from firing within the gravitational pull of a planet. Despite this, Han Solo accomplished both with the Millennium Falcon after being drawn into the First Order–Resistance conflict. Safely entering hyperspace from a standing start while docked or exiting hyperspace directly into the atmosphere of a planet were both feats that were generally considered impossible, even for an experienced pilot. Ī T-70 X-wing starfighter traveling through hyperspace The Unknown Regions hosted unstable hyperspace pathways which required its residents to rely on navigators and jump-by-jump navigation rather than navicomputers. Hyperspace could be traversed via methods including navigation computers, Force-sensitive navigators, or jump-by-jump journeys. Upon entering hyperspace, a ship appeared to accelerate dramatically-a phenomenon known as pseudomotion -and emitted Cronau radiation, which made their jump detectable by specialized sensors. The discovery of a new, safe hyperspace route could play a pivotal role in war, as it would allow naval forces to move faster unbeknownst to their adversaries. Because of the danger, there existed predetermined hyperspace routes which interstellar travelers could take. Without those, a vessel could fly right through a star or another celestial body. Large objects in realspace cast "mass shadows" in hyperspace, so hyperspace jumps necessitated very precise calculations. Quick jumps into hyperspace could be unsettling to even experienced pilots, but those with the proper stamina and training could overcome this. The Galactic Empire employed Interdictor vessels to disable hyperspace capabilities in other vessels, both to pull them from hyperspace and to prevent them from making the jump to it. Cutting power to a functional hyperdrive would also have this effect. A vessel's ability to travel through hyperspace depended on it being equipped with a hyperdrive engine thus, vessels that suffered a hyperdrive failure while in hyperspace, or lacked a hyperdrive and had separated from a vessel with one, would immediately fall out of hyperspace. This shortened travel distance significantly, allowing the vessel to "jump" from a specific point to another without having to travel directly between them, therefore reducing journey time by an extraordinarily large margin. Hyperdrives manipulated hypermatter particles in order to thrust a starship into hyperspace whilst preserving the ship's mass/energy profile. The Phantom detaches from the Ghost and falls out of hyperspace. " Traveling through hyperspace ain'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?" ― Han Solo, to Luke Skywalker Aside from those well-established facts acknowledged by all competent astrophysicists and astrogation experts, other aspects of hyperspace admittedly remained a mystery. Additionally, every object in realspace-such as stars, planets, and asteroids-had its " shadow" counterpart in hyperspace. It was coterminous with realspace, meaning that each point in realspace was associated with a unique point in hyperspace, and all adjacent points in realspace were adjacent in hyperspace as well. It could only be accessed through molecular displacement, which was achieved by breaking the speed of light. In hyperspace, the normal laws of space and time did not apply, and beings traveling through hyperspace somtimes used stasis fields to slow the passage of time onboard a hyperspace-going vessel in order to have the pilot only age as fast as the rest of the galaxy. It was at any rate a dimension of space-time alternative to that of realspace. It was still regarded as a mystery during the Imperial Era. " We live on a ship powered by energies that sunder cause and effect, beginning and end… hyperspace is a mystery more profound than gods and demons." ― Micha Evon ĭuring the High Republic Era, hyperspace was not truly understood by anyone in the galaxy.
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