Timeline for Why is the outer-rim still considered remote, given the immense speed of hyper-drive?
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 13:14 | vote | accept | Ummdustry | ||
| Nov 26, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | Mike Scott | If a trip to the Outer Rim takes a few days, as you suggest, then it’s not at all like the distance from the UK to Greece or from Washington to San Francisco, because we don’t do those journeys by train, we do them by plane, and they take a few hours. It’s like the distance from the east coast of the US to the west in the nineteenth century, when the west was in fact much like the Outer Rim economically. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 12:48 | answer | added | flaszlok | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 12:11 | history | edited | Skooba - Stands Against AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 8:25 | comment | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | It may simply be a matter of economics. If it takes days to travel to or from an outer-rim world, compared to hours for central worlds, the profits from trade and transportation would have to be comparably higher to make it worthwhile - and if the worlds don't have anything special to offer, such high profits may be unattainable. The main shipping and passenger lines in the center of the galaxy are probably monopolized by a few major companies, so the Outer Rim is likely mainly served by smaller 'tramp' ships like the Millennium Falcon. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 5:53 | answer | added | LevenTrek | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | Z. Cochrane | I suspect some of the scum & villainy parts are a result of government. They have a loose federation. Crime syndicates have more firepower than the Republic in some sectors. Special interests insure their backwater isn't over regulated. Theoretically the Empire was supposed to fix that. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:45 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Even in this world there are plenty of places that are "impoverished backwaters complete with scum and villainy" and are much less than a day's travel from their rich administrative centres. It's not about distance, it's about will. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Valorum | It's quite a long one to answer and there's no clear and obvious single answer other than that it's far away, poorly traveled and lawless. We actually see the results when the Empire creates a new (and well-mapped) hyperspace route to Lothal and it extends its influence. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:22 | comment | added | Ummdustry | Thank you! i'll see if i can find it online. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:18 | comment | added | Valorum | The short answer is that you should probably read the pre-amble for the 'Star Wars: Essential Atlas'. It contains lots of information (some canon, some less so) about the composition of the Rim territories and why they're less civilised and less traveled than those closer to the Core. It boils down to a mixture of geopolitical composition, distance from the Core, lack of accessible hyperspace routes, dangerous pirates, gangster clans controlling routes, etc etc | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | Giter | There are plenty of tiny, backwater towns in the world that are on major highways and even have their own airport. Just because the trip is easy doesn't mean it's worth it. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 17:46 | comment | added | Valorum | Yeah, but circuitously. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 17:43 | comment | added | Ummdustry | yet we know there is a hyperspace route to at least every outer-rim system currently seen in star-wars since, you know, people went there. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 17:42 | comment | added | Valorum | It's not the distance that's the killer, it's the lack of hyperspace routes. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 17:40 | history | asked | Ummdustry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |