Mike DiCenso wrote:
In the ANH novelization Han tells Jabba he'll be back with the money in three weeks:
Again the sardonic smile. "As you say, I'am too valuable to fry. But I've got a charter now and I can pay you back, plus a little extra. I just need some more time. I can give you a thousand on account, the rest in three weeks."
- ANH novelization, page 108 of the paperback edition
Just a few pages before that Han tells Luke and Ben to be at Docking bay 94 "first thing in the morning" as well, so when they left was even on a different day.
That was what I was thinking of. It certainly seems to cap hyperdrive speeds, or art least makes them variable depending on various factors.
Mike DiCenso wrote:
Those are still numbers on the large side of it considering that first one is basically enough to literally go from one end of GAFFA (the 120,000 light year EU version) to the other and back without refueling, and other one is halfway across it. Given how Brian Young and Saxtonites in general view SW hyperdrive, that means that a SW ship could zip around the 100 k ly Milky Way Galaxy with near impunity in a matter of hours or days, or months at most. Traveling around the 8,000 ly Federation would then be by extension trival since a class 0.6 drive would allow them to loop it over 31 times before refueling. Of course the whole issue with hyperlanes that was brought up in the TCW movie killed that. But at the time the ROTS ICS was written, it wasn't that clear, and any mention of hyperlanes and their importance to hyperspace travel in the EU was often overlooked.
-Mike
No, they are rather small numbers of hyper jumps as there are a limited number of places a ship like a Stardestroyer can refuel, and fuel in Star Wars seems odd rare.
I was thinking about SW:TCW: Supply lines and SW:TCW: The Zilo Best.
In "Supply Lines", Republic warships run out of fuel during combat, run out of supplies on the ground, but Ryloth seems to be a strategically and tactically important world. important. There doesn't appear to be anywhere to refuel a a large ship let a lone a Stardestroyer at Ryloth, and to make things worse, Toydaria was needed by the Republic as a stop over to deliver supplies to Ryltoh.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Supply_Lines
In "The Zilo Best", the Republic needs to mine fuel from Malastare, or the Republic will run out of fuel for its army. One planet being so critical would imply that what ever is being used as fuel in Star Wars is rare.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Zillo_Beast
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I was under the impression that Hyperlanes had been in the Star Wars mythos for a while
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperlane
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Something being over looked does not make it any less relevant. Even in the first release of Episode 4, there were notable limitation for a hyperdrive as Han Solo was honestly more worried about crashing into things while using the hyperdrive then he was about the Stardestroyers chasing him.