Ready for Hyperspace!

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One of the most dangerously useful things in the Galaxy’s Edge Universe is the ability to travel through hyperspace. While the hyperdrive had been in use long before Victory Company set foot on Kublar, there is still an inherent risk in using it.

Modern nav-computers reduce the risk for many travelers, from tramp freighters to military super destroyers, crossing the gap. The interstellar navigation systems move ships through hyperspace by crunching tremendous data blocks received from beacons throughout sectors of space. Planetary location and drift, solar storms, space traffic prediction, and a host of other equations have to be analyzed, crunched, and spit into a set of jump coordinates. Once set, the ship catapults through a pocket dimension in space to exit close to a target destination.

Since traveling through hyperspace depends on the most up-to-date information about the galaxy, it takes time to get a jump calc from the computer before rocketing off at lights speed. More than once, Captain Aeson Keel had pushed his ship, the Indelible VI, to fly through enemy fighters or dodge descending Black Fleet while the computer tracked along the correct route. Even though Ravi was informative, Keel often told his co-pilot to take a space walk without a suit, despite the hologram's warning of the dangers they faced.

Naval battles made extensive use of the hyperdrive as well, using its utility as part of their battle tracking. Repub ships flew in danger close to an enemy fleet, soak the ships with damage, and then execute a micro-jump outside of effective weapon’s range. Those same officers could calculate when a ship was plotting a course through hyperspace by its flight patterns, then execute broad spectrum jamming so the ships had no connection to the latest jump calculations from nav-beacons across the sectors.

To see how hyperdrives get the characters in Galaxy’s Edge across dangerous distance, start with Season 1 of Galaxy’s Edge!