Speed in hyperspace

vong · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: Speed in hyperspace

So, I was thinking... how fast does one travel in hyperspace. im thinking we try to find a light years per hour measurement. We have a few hyperpsace charts and maps and we can go from there.

for example based on the courscant -> alderaan

8 hours, and based on the map i used about 6000 lightyears gives me 750 light years per second. I have yet to do other comparisons, and will tomorrow, but thought id get the ball rolling, and perhaps others have already found this information.

ps, the map im using is here http://databank.yvong.com/d6starwars/galaxymap.pdf
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jmanski · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject:

Hhhmmmm, of Star Trek this reeks. Of the Force, it is not. Laughing

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vong · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:21 am Post subject:

hisham · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

Speed in hyperspace is much faster than anything WEG published. A class 1.5 hyperdrive allowed the Sith Infiltrator to travel from Coruscant to Tatooine over the course of a single Tatooine night and arriving just before first sunrise.
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vong · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

shnar · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject:

I personally like Joss Whedon's explanation: Hyperspace travels at the speed of plot. Make it take as long as you *need* it to take to move the story along. Especially in a game like Star Wars, where plot is much more important than realism. Use silly explanations like "found a faster current in hyperspace" if you get their faster than usual.

Which begs the question, why are you asking this? Is there a specific reason to know how long it takes to get from point A to point B?

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vong · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

mostly just curiousity, and if we can determine this, Im thinking of adding a project under by belt... Google Star Wars Maps Wink

gets you distances and routes to different places in the galaxy. could be fun Smile

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DarthMortis · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

masque · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject:

Actually, you can find that. New York to Mos Eisley:
http://tinyurl.com/6yy768
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jmanski · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:

Well, it's closer than I thought.... but it doesn't look the same to me, somehow.
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Space Coyote · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

This project would work, but might come out more like a list of common travel times, rather than a formula.

I remember the 2nd Ed rulebook (Vader cover) bringing this up briefly. There was even a chart in the back for travel time between a few common planets. I didn't care for the chart, though, because there were such vast differences, like Tatooine to Alderaan=a couple hours, Alderaan to Coruscant=a couple days, Coruscant to Tatooine=several weeks. ?!?!?!!

The book explained it as the hyperspace routes having vastly different paths to avoid obstacles, some going well out-of-the-way, and experienced navigators knew how to break it up for shortcuts. I still never much liked that, and prefer the "speed of plot" argument, as long as it sounds reasonable. (Long trips to Outer Rim, short for Core World to Core World, etc.)

On the other hand, it makes sense that common routes have existed for thousands of years and newer, better ones could have been found. If you complete it, vong, I'll be interested to see it. I've got one player I can tell is going to be a details guy (probably my punishment for having played that way in the past), and if he wants exact travel times, I can give him that along with consumables limitations and replenishment costs and whatever else I can think of to make him lighten up. Razz

FightingCorsair · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

One of the Kevin J. Anderson novels commented that a ship with a (it's been a while so I might be wrong) point four hyperdrive moved at 27 light years per hour.

I did some math way back then too based on some other numbers from the Jedi Academy series and the Falcon's speed in hyperspace was 1,112,520 times the speed of light. I was very anti Star Trek at the time so I quite enjoyed that none of the speeds in the ST technical stuff even came close to this number.

I'm a big fan of speed of plot.

Ankhanu · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject:

We saw a fantastic example of speed of plot in the latest Episode of Clone Wars... I think the Republic fleet arrived about 15 seconds after they realized they were needed.
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vong · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

ifurin · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 208

question: what are you basing your travel time on? (just for reference.)

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