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a star wars ship to travel across the known universe in hyperspace?

Several thousand years. The universe is billions of light years across, Star Wars ship travel at millions of times the speed of light. Order of magnitude difference.

Doctor Doom wrote:Several thousand years. The universe is billions of light years across, Star Wars ship travel at millions of times the speed of light. Order of magnitude difference.

Yes, though one might be able to reach higher hyperdrive speeds in the empty space between galaxies. Ship supplies and crew endurance should be more of a problem. Then again, all this is entirely hypotethetical.

Well, if they're going to the other side of the known universe, they're probably not planning on going back, so they could probably tune those "stasis fields" so that they wouldn't experience that much time.

And wasn't the highest hyperdrive speeds closer to hundreds of millions times c? That means that they could traverse the known universe in a century or even decades. Fuel is surely going to be an issue, though.

At 2,000,000c, covering a 15 billion lightyear distance would take roughly 7500 years.

So between Galaxies is practical? I'm surprised the Empire wasn't out invading other Galaxies too.. though I believe there's some bubble around the Galaxy that makes it hazardous or something?

Patrick Degan wrote:At 2,000,000c, covering a 15 billion lightyear distance would take roughly 7500 years.

is 2,000,000c the fasted a hyperdrive can go?

b00tleg wrote:

Patrick Degan wrote:At 2,000,000c, covering a 15 billion lightyear distance would take roughly 7500 years.

is 2,000,000c the fasted a hyperdrive can go?

As Dooey Jo already posted hyperdrive can go as fast as 100,000,000s of c I'm inclined to say no.
Especially as the movies alone put hyperdrive in the 30-50,000,000 c range.

Where has hyperdrive gone as fast as 100 million c? The fastest example I know of is half that.

Doctor Doom wrote:Where has hyperdrive gone as fast as 100 million c? The fastest example I know of is half that.

My guess is the Galaxy Gun, which is described as being able to hit the galactic core from the outer rim in as little time as a few hours, from the Dark Empire comics.

EDIT: The missiles it fires, that is, not the weapon/launcher/whatever itself.

Well in NJO do they mention how long it takes the Vong to go from there galaxy to the SW galaxy?

Doctor Doom wrote:Where has hyperdrive gone as fast as 100 million c? The fastest example I know of is half that.

It was the Coruscant to Mustafar trip that Palpatine made, IIRC. More than 50 000 LY in what can't have been much more than an hour. That works out to about 400 million c.

PayBack wrote:So between Galaxies is practical? I'm surprised the Empire wasn't out invading other Galaxies too.. though I believe there's some bubble around the Galaxy that makes it hazardous or something?

According to the DarkEmpire-Sourcebook Palpatine planned exactly that.

Is there actually some sort of bubble around the galaxy? I seem to remember there being one in Vector Prime, which is why the Vong could only come in from this paricular direction.