![]() In Hyperspace, a ship was effectively cut-off from all normal methods of scanning and detection. At hyperspeed, the entire visible universe was seen as a blue-shaded corridor of mottled high-speed blur, indicative of the other-dimensional nature of Hyperspace. When hyperspace was entered, the starship has left the conventional universe, or realspace. This phenomenon was referred to as pseudomotion. This apparent acceleration was also observable from outside the vessel, where a ship jumping to Hyperspace would appear to undergo a sudden, massive burst of speed and disappear from the physical universe. The ship then seemed to accelerate so rapidly that passengers within the vessel saw the stars stretched into parallel lines during the "jump" to Hyperspace. ![]() After the course was plotted in the navigation computer, the ship moved to the bearing matching that course and activated the hyperdrive. Hyperdrive usage Ī starship utilizing a hyperdrive had to go through a fixed, routine process. ![]() Around the time of the Mandalorian Wars, navicomps replaced the beacons, making hyperspace navigation much more autonomous. įor the first 21,000 years or so of the Galactic Republic, hyperspace coordinates were plotted with the aid of hyperspace beacons, space stations placed in open space, distant from gravity wells, where ships would download data provided by the Republic Spacelane Bureau. Whatever the case, many complex scientific principles were known to modern hyperdrive engineers which allowed for myriad different uses of this faster-than-light phenomenon. Popular theories say that hyperspace utilizes another dimension to "sidestep", as it were, the light "speed limit." Others theorized that it phased matter directly into another universe, similar to otherspace or subspace, and thus gain superlight speeds. Consequently, despite common usage, relatively little was known about the true nature of hyperspace. Corellians and Duros were the earliest able to create technological versions of the Force-enhanced Rakatan devices through reverse engineering, allowing them to build the first true hyperdrives. Some of the earliest hyperspace-utilizing artifacts (such as strange arches, matter transmitters found on ruined worlds, or the Gree hypergates), could not be replicated by modern hyperdrive technology. The Rakatan Force-enabled drives allowed them to create a galaxy-spanning empire. The principles of Hyperspace travel were first discovered by the ancient Rakata. Every object in realspace, like stars or planets, also had a "shadow" in hyperspace at the same location it occupied in realspace. Essentially, a ship traveling galactic north in realspace as it jumped to hyperspace would travel north in hyperspace too. Hyperspace was an alternate dimension of space-time, similar to subspace or otherspace, that was coterminous with realspace: each point in realspace was associated with a unique point in hyperspace. A hyperdrive-equipped ship would propel off these ripples to "jump" into hyperspace, allowing it to traverse the galaxy at speeds of hundreds or even thousands of times the speed of light. Hyperdrive technology allowed sentients to bypass this barrier, making use of a trans-physical effect to create ripples in space-time. Tachyonic matter, on the other hand, existed at values solely above the speed of light, and could not decrease lower than the light-speed barrier. Normally, baryonic matter in realspace would obey physical principles of relativity: it would increase asymptotically in mass as it accelerated towards the speed of light, requiring more and more energy to approach it, but even at infinite values never surpassing the speed of light threshold. When we drop out of hyperspace, they will look more like stars." ― Garr and Boba Fett ![]() Consequently, hyperspace travel was the backbone of the galactic community, commerce and trade, politics and warfare. While a number of aspects of hyperspace remained mysterious to astrophysicists and astrogation experts, it was clear that hyperspace shortened travel times, allowing starships equipped with hyperdrives to cross light-years in a matter of minutes. An alternate dimension of the space-time continuum that could only be entered at faster-than-light speeds using a hyperdrive, hyperspace was coterminous with realspace, with a unique point in realspace being associated with a unique point in hyperspace. Hyperspace (called darkspace by the Yuuzhan Vong) was the alternate state of existence used by starships to achieve faster-than-light travel. " Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?" ―Han Solo, to Luke Skywalker
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