Questions tagged [hyperspace]
Hyperspace refers to a parallel realm, outside our own, commonly used to travel through space at great speed from one point of space to another point of space. Hyperspace may also refer to a region of space where other lifeforms exist.
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Short story about humans inventing hyperspace travel
I'm trying to find a story I remember about humans inventing hyperspace travel. I think it was written by Isaac Asimov, but it's not Escape!.
It follows a government(?) project over years as it tries ...
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Sci-fi novel about guard that watches over hyperspace that is a "tube" in another dimension
I'm sorry, but I have no idea when I read it. It could be 10-20 years ago. I also have no idea where I read it, thought it was probably an e-book collection called "Polaris Sci-fi CD library"...
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Mando's Mandatory Meandering?
In the Star Wars universe, ships freely enter and depart hyperspace in the vicinity of planets.
But in The Mandalorian season 3 opener, Chapter 17: The Apostate
Mando decides to
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Is this is the only instance in Star Wars of two craft docking while in hyperspace?
In the season 1 finale of Rebels, Fire Across the Galaxy, the Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser stolen by the Spectres is seen docked with the Ghost in hyperspace, while in formation with the Rebel ...
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What is the earliest usage of the “Lightspeed” animation and why is it used so heavily?
I’ve seen many, many SciFi TV shows and movies over the years, and one of the most enduring motifs is the usage of “lightspeed” or “warp speed” in spacecraft.
The standard animation technique used ...
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What is hyperspace in Star Wars?
Is it teleportation, making a wormhole, or something else? Does it always exist and people just go into it, or does someone create it for themselves when they jump? Does it manipulate time?
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What explanation did Kitz and company have for the detached chair after Ellie came back to the ground?
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During her spaceflight, Ellie's chair detached while flying through the third Einstein-Rosen Bridge. Michael Kitz and company assumed Ellie to be a liar and that she ...
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Is the hyper drive a plot hole? [duplicate]
In The Last Jedi, Vice-Admiral Holdo kamakazis' her cruiser by jumping it to hyperspace through the enemy fleet, destroying it in the process.
This seems like an enormous plot hole. Why don't the ...
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Would the Millennium Falcon have been carried along on the hyperspace jump if it stayed attached to the Star Destroyer?
In The Empire Strikes Back, the Millennium Falcon hides on the back of a Star Destroyer. It then escapes by hiding in a garbage dump before the Star Destroyer jumps to hyperspace.
If the Millennium ...
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Why would travelling hyperspace kill Frog Lady's eggs?
In S02E02 the Mandalorian gives a ride to a Frog Lady. However they have to travel at sub-light speed, because apparently, travelling at hyperspeed would kill her eggs. It is not explained further and ...
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In-universe, is there consistent science behind hyperspace travel?
It feels like the properties of hyperspace and hyperspace travel change depending on what's required to generate the most tension in the plot, but I'm wondering if there's any in-universe explanation ...
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Where do the Hyperspace Routes in Star Wars Come From
Where did the Hyperspace Routes in the Star Wars universe originate from in the first place, Also is there only one route on and off a planet? Or can a world have multiple Hyperspace routes?
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Seeking magazine short story c. 1950-1965 about man entering region of artificially distorted space on spaceship and deforming whilst in it
I'd like to find a short story from one of the SF magazines — possibly Astounding/Analog— probably before 1965. I saw it a few years ago while flicking through second-hand magazines in a ...
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Why does 4D navigation work like this?
At one point in Cixin Liu's novel "Death's End", humans enter a bubble of four-dimensional space.
The author explains that, as their equipment is only designed for three dimensions, they are ...
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Science Fiction book where an experimental ship with a 2 navigator hyperspace system leaves the crew dead
Trying to find the title of a book I believe I read in the '70s. The plot involves around a hyperspace navigator that interfaces directly with the ship from a jump chair. Normal navigation was done ...
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Does ship shape affect Hyperdrive class?
Most fast ships in the Star Wars universe have very aerodynamic shapes.
There seems to be a direct correlation between how sleek a ship looks, and its Hyperdrive class.
Some examples:
First Death ...
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Can the Empire track their own ships?
The Galactic Empire (Star Wars) has tracked the rebels some times using the exit vector of their ships jumping into hyperspace.
But was the Empire able to track their own ships location for example ...
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Energy globes flatten everything, turn out be be warp bubbles of starships from another dimension
I read this in the early '70s - I'm not sure if it was in a proper anthology, or just an extra story added in to pad out a short novel to proper paperback size.
Set in England (so probably a British ...
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Looking for 80's scifi comic about astronaut looking for Earth in ancient alien spaceship
I have been looking for a long while for the name of an 80's comic/graphic novel of which I once read a short section as a child. What I can remember is this:
The story is about an astronaut who tries ...
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How strong is too strong for gravity wells and hyperspace?
Maybe I'm just too critical as an astrophysicist, but I'm wondering if there's any official canon regarding how strong is too strong of a "gravity well" for safely jumping to hyperspace in Star Wars?
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Star Wars universally accepted "up"
One thing I've noticed in Star Wars is that all spaceships always seem to acknowledge a universal "up," in that when two ships come out of hyperspace they are both the "right" way up, even if they are ...
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Why didn't the bombers drop out of hyperspace closer to the Dreadnought?
Why didn't the bombers use hyperspace to get closer to the Dreadnought before starting their attack run? The slow approach caused the majority of the fleet to be destroyed.
As we saw later in the ...
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A novel involving philosophy and hyperspace, ca. pre-1990
I am trying to remember the title of a novel with the following plot points:
A spacecraft is sent via supposedly instantaneous travel to a distant system, but they return 1,000 or 2,000 years later (...
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Is hyperspace flight actually difficult?
This question and its answers all take as truth a statement by Han Solo, that hyperspace "ain't like dusting crops".
Other scenes in A New Hope show that Solo is a bit of a blowhard, inventing ...
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Hyperspace and Interdictors
I have a question about how Interdictors work. We have seen ships jump relatively close to a planet which means in order for Interdictors to affect other ships especially at a distance, then they have ...
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Short story about pilot escaping aggressive aliens
I remember this short(maybe like 10 pages) story from perspective of a pilot, that made first encounter with alien spaceship and got attacked without warning.
Pilot was making emergency hyperspace ...
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Searching for sci-fi short story relating to space pilots and autism
I remember reading an amazing short story/novella (at least 15+ years ago) that focused on a universe where it has been discovered that the vastness of space drives the pilots of spaceships insane ...
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Why the assumption of a tracking device [duplicate]
In the Last Jedi, the Resistance, correctly assumes that
But why did they came to that conclusion, knowing that there is a technology that can signal your position across the entire galaxy?
So why ...
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How were Finn and Rose able to easily return to the fleet?
A thought struck me while reading this question.
Spoilers:
Given all of that, shouldn't it be simple for a few star destroyers to make a short but safe jump away and then jump back ahead of the ...
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Why didn't the Resistance's support ships jump to hyperspace?
It was implied that only one of the First Order ships has the capability to follow through hyperspace, so the First Order would obviously follow the large Mon Calamari Cruiser.
Why then didn't the ...
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Were these fleets accelerating? [closed]
The following contains spoilers for The Last Jedi
Prior to the film's climax,
Newton's First Law of Motion is usually stated that as "an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion ...
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In the Last Jedi why didn't the First Order fleet just jump in front of the Resistance fleet? [duplicate]
In the Last Jedi, the First Order fleet, commanded by General Hux is...
Why didn't Hux just order one or more of the Star Destroyers jump slightly ahead of the Raddus and attack them from multiple ...
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Can capital ships make accurate micro-jumps through Hyperspace without aiming for a gravity well?
For a large portion of The Last Jedi,
I've seen a number of suggestions for how the First Order might have better handled this situation, including the idea that they perform a micro-jump through ...
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Is Light-speed a super weapon? [duplicate]
In the Last Jedi,
Why has no-one thought of this before?
Fit a light-speed drive to a cheap ship, and make your own super missile.
You could even fill it with a warhead for added damage.
Why is it ...
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Star Wars Tangibility of Trans-hyperspace [closed]
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So after seeing TLJ a question started to plague me about the tangibility of trans hyperspace. In other words how tangible an object is when transitioning to ...
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Looking for a short SF story about two ultra-fast ships flying around the entire universe
I'm trying to find a story I read maybe fifteen or twenty years ago. The story itself might be much older, of course: it had a 1950's - 60's 'golden age of hard SF' feel to it.
As I remember it, ...
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How fast can ships go in Hyperspace?
In something like Star Trek, you can say 'this ship can achieve Warp 6', which sets a specific limit on how fast that ship can go (depending on which warp scale you're using, which is a different ...
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Can you stop and hang out in hyperspace?
Looking back at Rogue One and Return of the Jedi, where Rebel fleets coordinate jumping into hyperspace to arrive at the same time, I started wondering whether it's possible to stop moving in ...
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Can ships be tracked and chased through hyperspace?
In Rogue One,
At the beginning of A New Hope, we see Vader's ship chasing the Tantive IV, eventually overpowering it. How was Vader able to find the Tantive IV? Presumably through some method of ...
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Does Rogue One create a plot hole in Return of the Jedi re Hyperspace Radio?
In the Star Wars movie Rogue One, we see the Rebels communicating over the radio whilst at Light-speed. I don't recall seeing this in other Star Wars movies. (They pop out of Hyperdrive - and the ...
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Looking for the title of about time/space and astrophysics
Looking for the title of a book for young kids (8-13). The premise of the books is: a "supreme" race that generates planets and is in charge of organizing the cosmos. The leader has several offsprings ...
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Would the Death Star split in half if an hyperspace jump failed?
In Legends, it was theorized that the Death Star had:
One hundred twenty-three individual hyperspace generators, tied into a single navigational matrix (...)
And these:
were necessary to carry ...
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Are there any Star Wars Canon usage of 'Hyperdrive Radio' prior to Rogue One?
In the Star Wars movie Rogue One, we see the Rebels communicating over the radio whilst at Light-speed. I don't recall seeing this in other Star Wars movies. (They pop out of Hyperdrive - and the ...
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How does the Death Star travel in hyperspace? [duplicate]
Is there any reference in Canon or Legends on how the hyperspace travel of the Death Star is performed?
Is it in anyway similar to the hyperspace travels performed by other starships in the Star Wars ...
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Which science fiction universe holds the title of furthest distance travelled in one voyage?
I'm curious as to which work of science fiction can lay claim to furthest distance travelled in one trip by non-Wormhole, non-space shortening, non-teleportation means. So stuff like Q or the ...
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What happens if the Death Star comes out of hyperspace in the middle of an asteroid field? [duplicate]
As a counter-question to this question, I wonder what happens if the Death Star comes out of hyperspace in the middle of an asteroid field... Or in the middle of a space fleet? Would it be destroyed?
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Star Wars Battle Tactics and Hyperspace
In most Star Wars battles, the ships shoot lasers at each other.
In Rogue One and RotJ, however, ships physically colliding with other ships won battles. In Rogue One, a capital ship collided with ...
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Why didn't the Death Star jump to hyperspace to escape attack?
In Rogue One,
Additionally, the Empire knew (or at least might have reasonably suspected) at this time that
That being the case, during the assault on the Death Star in A New Hope, why was the ...
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Is it known if there are non-Interdictor tactics to stop ships in hyperspace?
As pirates can't always wait in specific systems I'm wondering if there is a tactic (or more than one) to get ships to drop out of hyperspace where the pirates want them (even if the pirates are ...
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In hyperspace, what exactly is "jumping directly between points"?
The Wookieepedia article on hyperspace states (emphasis mine):
By entering hyperspace, a starship could take advantage of the
wrinkles in the fabric of realspace to reduce journey time
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