K, probably not work a whole cast but when you guys have a technology, or Bits-And-Pieces one how does Hyperspace travel work. Sounds like it's something where the knowledge get's lost alot. Wouldn't want to pop up in a asteroid field or anything. For that matter why wouldn't you asteroid seed an area in times of war and then clear it later?

Seems like when they want it they can put hyperspace engines on just about anything that moves, if so why worry about carriers and just throw them into fighters and jump a ton of them in at once guns blazing. Cost prohibitive probably but seems like those extra seconds/mins for getting everything this out of the big command ships would come in nice.

Any reason the Sith/Empire always seem to have the gigantic juggernauts of ships while the Republic seems to keep to smaller (yet still large) ships? I guess a ship the size of a small moon is pretty cool though...boom goes the Alderran.

Ships seem to be pretty stable in terms of advancement through out the time lines. Are there and "OMG" moments when a ship design just blows everything away?

The easiest explanation is Hyperdrive accelerates the vehicle to speeds up to and beyond the speed of light. They use well coordinated charts via a computer to plot the course. Now hyperdrive vs say warp drive, warp drive somehow stretches the space around it and the ship then doesn't have to fly as far to the reach the same point. So in the battle of hyper vs warp, hyper is way faster but warp is more efficient.


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Tons of info here if you're into reading about it.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tec ... sion2.html


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Hyperdrives actually send ships into another dimension called hyperspace. Beyond that, scientists don't really understand very well how the drives work since the original hyperdrives were reverse engineered from Rakatan technology.

or what he said. Hyperdrives use Gamma radiation (If memory serves) to propel the ship into "Hyperspace" (the dimension Leo mentioned via essentially a man made Wormhole caused by the rippling of Space-Time) where it's able to travel at FTL (faster than light) speeds until you reach your destination in Realspace.
Warp drive (used in ST now SW mostly) works on the property that the drive "Warps" space-time, essentially co reacting the space in front of the ship and expanding it behind it, but the ship doesn't truly move, space does. Think of it like this, draw a circle on the top of a piece of paper, then scrunch the paper so there's a hump in the middle until the circle reaches you, now hold down on the circle and let the paper flatten again. Kind of like that (if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me)


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Yeah, that sounds right.

The way I always thought of warp drive was like this. If you look at New York and San Fransisco on a map, it would be a long drive to get there. But, with warp drive, you could fold the map down and get NYC and San Fran right next to each other, and then drive that very short distance, and then unfold the map back out.

You know what? I hate typing on my phone and our next episode is going to be about starships anyways. I'll make sure to devote some time to your questions, Wurgy.

I think he's saying I'm wrong lol I don't think I am, but I could have been miseducated about FTL travel.


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You're not wrong. There's just a lot more stuff that could be discussed that I didn't feel like tying out. Plus Wurgy asked like two other questions as well.

Sweet, I'm psyched now. I love the tech side of the SW lore. That would def be my area of expertise (if I truly have any lol). I've always been drawn to how stuff works, and I've seemed to retain that knowledge above all else. So I'm def looking forward to those episodes!


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