Force Heretic III Question

[PainRack]

Okay, in Reunion, Luke and Hegerty were talking about the Unknown Regions and mentioned the theory that Dark matter was responsible for the obscure hyperspace lanes.

So, how likely is it? Can a cluster of dark matter passing through only affect hyperspace travel in a portion of the SW galaxy, not affecting life on the various planets?

[Illuminatus Primus]

Okay, in Reunion, Luke and Hegerty were talking about the Unknown Regions and mentioned the theory that Dark matter was responsible for the obscure hyperspace lanes.

So, how likely is it? Can a cluster of dark matter passing through only affect hyperspace travel in a portion of the SW galaxy, not affecting life on the various planets?

Its a bunch of bullshit.

Dark matter, if dense enough to create concentrated gravitational hazards on par with stars and planets, and enough of them to highly restrict travel to huge areas, would also cause tidal forces which would distort the galactic disk. Attack of the Clones is canonical proof that no such tidal distortions are present; ergo, no such dense gravitational anomalies exist. The explanation has to be a shitty pseudoscientist or something.

Its already been explained countless times that galactic exploration increases at a geometric rate, has been for a hundred thousand years, and will do so uniformly, because no great barriers exist in spiral galaxies. Therefore, a uniform spread of development and mapping and colonization should exist through the disk with a few colonies and outposts in the satellies (Rishi as depicted in Dark Force Rising exists in the satellite galaxy Rishi Maze, and is an example of this).

The Unknown Regions as depicted in the Essential Chronology and in the New Jedi Order novels cannot be realistically interpreted as being within the galactic disk; rather, it can be understood to mean fringes of the disk and the globular clusters and satellite clusters/galaxies above and below that particular part of the galactic disk; really, that's also irrelevent. Galaxy Guide specifies that the Unknown Regions are NOT a specific area, but a general term for any sector or swathe of space which may or may not be mapped, but are generally under- or undeveloped and ignored. By that definition, most of the globular clusters, most of the ejected stars in the galactic halo, fringes of the primary galaxy, and swathes of her satellites are all probably classified as unknown Regions.

Keep in mind that due to sheer enormity of a galaxy, growth and development go on nearly indefinitely on a human time scale without needing to leave for another galaxy. Realisitically, the Republic should've been galactic-spanning since the beginning, and the backwaters and the unknown Regions still sheltered the Sith Empire for twenty millenia. There's that much void out there.