Hyperspace Change of Course

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

Now, we know that it is possible to change a ship's destination after entering hyperspace.

Should the normal rules be used to do this. Calculating coordinates is no different from doing it in normal space?

Or, should it be more difficult? Maybe the base difficulty is 20 or 25 instead of 15?

Thoughts?

[Whill]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

I must have missed that one.

[garhkal]

[Whill]

[garhkal]

Hence my statement of 'relatively straight'
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[Naaman]

I get where garhkal is coming from. The footage of hyperspace travel shows changes of direction through the view port of the millenium falcon.


Nevertheless, the arc of the curve must necessarily be very gentle relative to the total distance traveled ina given amount of time. Freeways were mentioned above, which provides an excellent support for garhkal's assertion. You don't see immediate 90 -degree turns on a freeway like you do at a street intersection. It would defeat the purpose of a freeway, since cars must slow down to male the turn. Only curves that can be negotiated at freeway speeds are allowed inthe freeway construction, with slight reductions allowed on occasion.

Having said that, I don't see a problem with changing destinations if the new destination requires a minimal change in heading. If the new destination is back the other way or 90-degrees from the current vector, then rerouting would either require an unorthodox route to be calculated so as not to have to drop out of hyperspace while having turns gentle enough that the ship can male them safely (which may significantly extend the length of the trip and cost significantly more fuel/resources), or else drop out of hyper space, change heading and plot the most efficient route.

[CRMcNeill]

g, the problem with your theory is that the star maps shown in the WEG books show few, if any, straight lines.

I find it far more likely that a hyperspace course is made up of an immensely long string of numbers, representing heading and duration, course changes, and so on and so forth. The numbers have to be extremely precise, both because of the speeds and distances involved and because of the potential consequences of a miscalculation.

Altering course in hyperspace requires making a major change in that string of numbers in mid-stream, which invites disaster if not executed properly. As such, most crews will drop into realspace to recalculate.

It's also likely that the course is loaded into a heavily shielded, tamper-proof data processor to protect the course from data corruption, or EMP or radiation effects. And tamper-proof includes the ship's own crew.

The only way around it would be a special add-on system like the N-CRAB (see Galladinium's Fantastic Technology) that allows the ship's crew to essentially hack their own hyperdrive mid-flight.

Just because a course change occurred in hyperspace aboard an Intel courier platform on a high-priority mission answering directly to the head of Alliance Intel does not constitute conclusive proof that this is a common occurrence. A more believable scenario would be that N-CRAB system is available sooner, and in greater numbers than is assumed in the WEG material. That way, it can be assumed that a dedicated Intel courier could be equipped with one of a limited number of them to assist in rapid course changes, as well as a Hyper-Comm burst transceiver, so as to both send and receive orders from high command and react to them expeditiously.

Making such a system be the exception instead of the rule explains what we see in Rogue One without requiring a major change to hyperspace travel in general.
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[RyanDarkstar]

I've often wondered how ships don't crash into each other while in hyperspace or when entering/exiting hyperspace? Do sensors automatically detect other ships and course-correct while in hyperspace?
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[garhkal]

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[CRMcNeill]

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