Actually its interesting to note that the fastest speeds in the movies are actually tied to the Falcon and to Jedi vehicles (at least the most *blatant* examples are, like Anakin in ROTS.) We never really see what we might call 'typical' hyperdrive speeds for your run of the mill civilian or other vehicles, nor are we explicitly given what tradeoffs and factors go into really fast travel (meaning we can invent all sorts of 'reasons')Formless wrote:Hyperdrive speeds depend massively on who is writing at the time. Sometimes it takes a day to get from the outer rim to Coruscant, sometimes it takes weeks to do so. The movies don't help this, because on the one hand the prequels seem to give really fast times, on the other you have the Millenium Falcon's trip to Bespin which needed to have taken months to accommodate Luke's training under Yoda.
I mean with the Falcon example Han boasts of how ludicriously fast compared to everyone else his ship is, but its also a notoriously unreliable piece of junk as well, so it could be he deliberately opted for raw speed over reliability. 'practical' hyperdrives in military or even civilian models could be much slower by comparison.
Edit: It also must be borne out that hyperdrive 'speeds' in Star Wars also depend on using the EU maps. Without those we don't really have much to go on that I recall (except for vague ideas of where places are.)
as an aside I would think that on the scale of things we could complain about as 'unrealistic' as far as Star Wars warfare goes, hyperdrive is not particularily high on my lists.
