Hyperspace is like traveling in the nether, it is easier to go through paths that are cleared but there is nothing stopping you from just going off and wandering around except for the fact that you’ll almost definitely fall into lava and die.

As Han Solo once told Luke, Hyperspace is delicate. If you make a decimal sized mistake, you end up in a supernova

I always thought that hyperspace lanes where faster because the calculations where done and optimized many times and also where up to date, so ships could have the confidence to go fast without having to worry about crashing into something

the talk about the deep core makes me think about how we've never really gotten an accurate visual depiction of what it actually looks like, which is disappointing because it could be visually stunning. Imagine an area of space so densely packed with stars, black holes, and dust clouds that you can barely even see the blackness of space, conveying an extreme sense of claustrophobia on a cosmic scale.

This also explains Han Solo's famous line "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs", which is often made out to be a writing error. Regardless of whether it's a writing error, in the canon it's understood to mean Han Solo plotted a shorter course through hyperspace. A highly dangerous, but highly lucrative skill for a smuggler, and therefore something to brag about.

A much needed answer to this question

would have been cool to see Mando have trouble reaching Tython in season 2, could have been “filler” that would also culminate with the overarching storyline

I would imagine poorer regions and planets of the galaxy would rely on a “crowdsourcing” method of creating a safe hyperspace lane. They couldn’t afford so many probe droids so they would find a path with maned ships that worked and then share it, when spacers land on the planet they would have to share their route. Oh these guys made it and didn’t die, Hyperspace lane must still be good! Or Haven’t had a shipment for months, I guess the hyperspace lane has shifted.

Hyperspace, I read somewhere (could not tell you where, though), is shadow dimension. That's what the hyperdrive's for. Kicking you in and out of a dimension where you aren't limited by the speed of light. And in the early-Empire Thrawn books, the Chiss don't use navicomputers at all. They use force sensitives to direct the ship through hyperspace.

I think hyperspace is implied to be not-entirely euclidean when compared to normal space so that over longer scales distances and directions don't map directly and there's more danger. Hence multiple stories of navigation via the Force or latent Force sensitivity.

I feel like the way Timothy Zahn described hyperspace travel in the latest Thrawn novels would be useful in this video.

"What is an S thread?" Considering that it is a new imperial technology, might it be an inverse of the tech used in creating the interdictors? Rather than making a mass shadow that pulls things out, it reverses that to negate the gravity in an area.

Hyperspace? Well before we talk about that first we have to talk about the plot and see how it wants it to work for this episode/movie

I've always loved the X-wing series precisely because of all the worldbuilding it does

Each of the moves of the Disney Trilogy destroyed hyperspace as we understood it. Firstly, you can go through force fields with hyperspace (why wasn't it used when attacking the second Death Star ?). Secondly, the "Holdo Maneuver". Just... The thing on itself. Thirdly, no calculation needed anymore (rapid jumps to escape hyperspace tracking), but a space red nebula-like shitstorm surrounding Exegol makes it necessary to have preciseful navigation (Sith Pathfinder).

I have been running the Star Wars Saga Edition RPG for some friends. The Speed of Hyperspace and Hyperlanes have been the bane of my existence. Since my research had told me the speed of Hyperspace is the Speed of Plot I have made my own interoperations of galaxy maps

The speed of hyperspace travel was one of the things I asked Timothy Zahn about at Kansas City Comicon. It's a balance writers have to strike for the purpose of their story, and may not be important enough for the plot of some books to go deep into the details. Makes sense for Rogue Squadron and other space combat-focused writers to explain travel distance, fuel stops, and other gritty details.

Hyperspace works as the plot demands.

Pretty much as I already understood it, but clarification of hyperspace lanes was nice.

7:52 I think you slightly misread what needed to be done in those books. They didn't just need to get clear of the planet's gravity well. They needed to a couple AU out to make a legal jump, since authorities did not like everyone just jumping to the edge of the gravity well, since it increased accident risks and also left less time to plot a customs inspection rendezvous if needed.

I’m actually early! Yay! Love the content Eck. I run a Star Wars club at school and am planning on using some of your content in the meetings!

I already knew the mechanics you went over, but didn't know the lore tidbits. Oh, I got Vite ramen and had it for lunch today, it was good! Thanks for turning me onto them!

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Force Sensitive Chiss, I thought it was quite cool how they navigated the unknown systems :) Awesome video, you've been on fire lately

So basically.. hyperspace is literally just the space Nether? Nether highways = hyperspace lanes, you travel faster than the real dimension, etc. Pretty neat

Dude just thinking about how hyperspace works is like trying to do my math homework 😰

Maybe why gravity wells are so deadly in Hyperspace is because space is also compressed in this dimension, where things that are far apart are actually close together. Since hyperspace compression isn't linear, some far distances are hyperspace closer than some close distances. Hyperspace lanes are difficult to navigate is that there's possibly clusters of gravity wells if approaching from one direction, while the same destination can be approached at a different bearing that has less gravity wells. This also explains how hysperspace blockades can be effective as you increase the risk entering or exiting hypserspace from these different pockets.

Excellent video! Could you go into more depth on how fleets with different class hyperdrives coordinated their jumps to arrive at the same time i.e. Endor? Also, could you explain how The Force is used to navigate hyperspace? Keep up the good work, and get well soon!

This video was fantastic! now can we get an all-inclusive Style video for the yuuzhan vong? Doesn't even have to be short-and-sweet, make it an hour long if you have to 😁

Sorry to hear that you're sick hope you get better soon. Great lore dive, keep it up!

Such a great video! Keep it up Eck!

I've sometimes wondered about the size of hyperspaces lanes. I guess it varies based on the mass shadows in the vicinity, from huge safe corridors to eye of the needle runs like Kessel and Exogol. It just clicked when you mentioned Darth Bane (I feel like his trilogy underserved in general SW media). Maybe mass shadows are like gravitational waves, so that black holes and supernovae and colliding stars each have their own distinct qualities of mass shadow. Does a Pulsar sweep through space with some kind of mass shadow? Could you jump through it with the right timing, just like jumping through the frequency of the Starkiller Base shield? Would be cool to read a story about some physicist trying to map mass shadows onto normal space stellar phenomena in order to study hyperspace phenomena better.

I wouldn't say you missed anything, though what threw me off in Revenge of the Sith was how they made the trip from Coruscant to Mustafar seem like it was close by given the editing in the film. With Coruscant in the Core and Mustafar near Subterrel and Polis Massa in the Outer Rim, that should take days or so to traverse, so the perspective is problematic to establish.

It wasn't clear from the sequel trilogy if hyperspace lanes remained canon at first, but I'd say that the map that everyone is looking for to find Luke in TFA demonstrates that there are particular lanes that need to be traveled in order to reach certain planets that might be "lost" to common knowledge.

This is the single biggest unanswered question I've had since I first started playing Star Wars RPGs! Thank you!

Really wish this video was longer n talked more about the complications and dangers as well as why people don’t use sublight travel except when they’re at their specific destination

I already knew about 95% of what was talked about, and it is still a good video. Not too long, not too short.

I hope you feel better soon. Thank you for your hard work.

There was also the way the Chiss Ascendancy explored the chaos or unknown region with Skywalkers who basically used the Force to steer their ships away from dangers. In the book Thrawn: Alliance’s there’s a time where Darth Vader uses this tactic too get the Chimaera to a location much quicker then normal. Great book if you haven’t read or listened too it on Audible!!

it’s basically the nether

Really enjoyed the video this week :)

Slightly off topic, but I wonder how time dilation works in Star Wars. Personally I like to think that hyperspace tech kinda solves that space travel problem that we're going to have to face in any real world manned exploration of space. That being said, is there an example of time dilation in either Legends or Canon that anyone can think of? Edit: I like how he casually explained the hyperspace ram lol. It actually makes sense and was kinda what I thought was happening in the movie. The ship hit BEFORE it entered hyperspace and the sheer velocity of something being propelled at the LITERAL SPEED OF KRIFFING LIGHT tore the Supremacy a new one lol.

Understanding hyperspace is key to understanding why The Last Jedi's hyperspace ram _isn't_ remotely lorebreaking nor is it something you can just decide to do on a whim either. Hyperspace routes require beacons. You know, actively transmitting devices which give you a signal to lock onto. Jumping into hyperspace happens _before_ hyperspace travel is reached and it requires a massive acceleration in a relatively short space. This translates into a metric butt-tonne of energy and mass being delivered to a very small area in an even smaller amount of time. In other words, if you hit something before you reach transition into hyperspace, kaboom to you and everything in your path!

I suspected most of this after hearing Han Solo say "we could bounce into a star and that'd end your day real quick" but actually getting confirmation is good or to know.

literally something i never thought to even ask, see this why i subbed

The tears you shed for Anakin...it moved me

Just yesterday I was trying to explain to my wife what the causal reconciliation debt was and why the Forerunners needed to consider this for long distance travel. Please do one on Slipspace!

Let’s goooo I’ve been waiting for a video like this

You can’t watch Rise of Skywalker and say you can’t jump anywhere IMO. It has to be considered a dramatization of what’s possible or it completely breaks all hyperspace lore

It uh. Varies. Early either script, radioplay, or novelization was the first mention of Gravity Wells harming hyperspace jumps, Han mentioned something about jumping too close to Tattooine "Shaking the navicomputer apart" though by the time it went to film it was changed into the far more vivid image of crashing into a star or other obstruction. West End Games I believe were the first to actually think "Wait if you can crash into something at lightspeed wouldn't you destroy it?" and then looked back to the mention of Tatooine's Gravity and came up with the idea of the Mass Shadow, where you could hit something and get destroyed, without harming the thing that you hit. Interdiction rules came up from that idea. Those rules were not understood the same way by every author. SOme interpretations were that you could jump from the shallow edges of a gravity well if an expert mechanic/programmer disabled the safeties, but if you did disable them you'd be doomed if you jumped into a true mass shadow without the early warning.

The possibility of a force user using their force abilities to map hyperspace lanes is an interesting idea that new cannon books have been hinting at and/or exploring.

I missed the dog altro. Thanks for bringing it back.

I like videos like this about the finer details of hyperspace. Would be interesting to see more videos about the intricacies of space travel in other sci fi titles as well as star wars

You know, most Galaxies are relatively flat. Like, not totally flat, but the "up/down" distance is a lot shorter than the distance between a few star systems. It seems to me like if it's dangerous to pass through cluttered space, then the fastest route between two systems that are relatively far from each other, say 1/4 of the galaxy's diameter or more, would be to just fire yourself up or down out of the galaxy at a fairly steep angle, and then shoot across laterally, and then dive back in. Much less risky than a straight shot, although I suppose there could be "dark systems" out in the void, dead stars and rogue planets that are impossible to map.

I always wondered how the whole ‘no tracking’ made sense considering that there would only be a a few systems in range with an anticipated amount of fuel and all that. Like you could only expect your rebels to jump to Alderaan or other similar systems where they could refuel. Thus using a tactical droid or a larger more advanced droid/computer to guess the most likely exit point. Like the airforce wouldn’t assume that a plane crashed just because it went missing. They would do a few thorough scans, guess it’s most likely disappearance, guess the closest landing point and the nearest allied territory, and use that to figure out the risk of chasing and searching the possible areas

Hyperspace theory: there are different “sub dimensions “ farther away from real space that take exponentially more energy and resources to access. In an emergency, a capable ship like the rebel fleet at scariff could ramp up to even smaller distances between mass shadows and escape smaller gravity wells like interdictors or Jedha. It would be life-or-death use only and allow only capital ships to perform the maneuver. You’d jump carrying all the smaller starfighters to one system over, and then all jump together to surprise attack.

The Navcomp, and its related data are basically like a Jeppesen case for real world pilots. Flight corridors, navigation aids, frequencies for area control, and airfields, call signs for marker beacons, etc.

Quite an interesting video. Hope you feel better soon.

Light of the Jedi brings interesting light to hyperspace with Path engine and how freely you can travel through it when you know how. And how bad can one catastrophy in hyperspace be.

The plot of the High Republic books is heavily fashioned by how hyerspace works. Even goes into how it's possible to jump from within a planet's gravity well.

Star Wars: Hyperspace navigation is delicate and requires precise calculation or else you could die! Poe in Episode 9: Ayy, let's play roulette! **Cranks the Falcon's Nav Computer like a slot machine**

dude isnt the unabridged rogue squadron audio book amazing! I would love for them to do every legends book this way.

Nice video Eck.

It would be really cool to expand upon the existing star wars map to include 3d visuals lore and how long it would take to get from planet to planet, this could be done by looking at a ships hyperdrive and how long it takes to get from point A to B in scene.

"I'm sick, sorry for my voice" "Sorry for my voice", fixed it for you.

Very good discussion. I think it would be good to bring up coaxium and hyper fuel as well as hyperspace jumping in atmosphere

There always the possibility of hitting something like a black hole or getting noticed by a higher entity or some other shit

1:10 awesome visual map I love it!

That's why there are coordinates on the galactic map to calculate the best route. Btw 7-9 and it's planets don't exist on the map. Tell me a planet from 1-6 and I got its coordinates.

Powering through while you're suffering show you're a true KZfaqr

I’m sick too bro hope you feel better

basically its like a desert, with known safe routes between settlements. you could go off piste but could fall down a sarlacc pit if you are not careful

George's movies were very consistent on these requirements. It's why ships in his movies never jump into our out from atmosphere, instead having to get away from the plent, why Hyperspace couldn't be a weapon, and that it took time to reach a place. No idea what the Disney rules are as they regularly break all of them.

very good video , in the future when go out stars explore and colonies we have same prob in our galaxy like starwars ones

Always thought alot about how hyperspace works. X-Wing has been by far one of my favorite sources of info on it. Btw I could of sworn they made a distinction in the first book about the difference between lightspeed and hyperspace. It's been a while but I believe they were talking about fuel consumption differences? Like how lightspeed would gulp fuel and hyperspace would just sip it. I can't really think of any other book off the top of my head that does that. Does anyone have more info on that?

Basically sounds similar to how in Halo slip space is just a shadow of our space but 11 dimensional making the effects of gravity on the shape of the universe more extreme resulting in it basically being crumpled like paper. Still you wouldn't want to pass a space where a black hole is in our space in slip space though passing through planets and general stars seems to be okay. I was under the impression hyper space in star wars was more a literal parallel space where leaving in the wrong place you kill you.

Homeworlds Hyperspace is very similar...they also use Gravity Well Generators to inhibit jumps. the only real difference is that Homeworld has a finite jump range (600ish LY for Normal Jumps and 2500 LY jumps with Far Jumping drives which use 1 of the 3 cores of Sajuuk)

I saw the map you showed while talking and the planet in the very center called wellspring caught my attention, have you already done a vid on the center of the star wars galaxy?

Can you make a video about how stun technology works? How does it go through armour? What's in it? Etc...

Well actually you could pretty savely jump without ever touching any object. On the contrary it would be wierder if you did. This is oc not as exiting as the idea presented in Star Wars but yeah realisticly speaking the greatest risk would not be landing in a Super Nova or Black Hole but rather ending up in empty space not knowing where to go

Makes sense to me. Higher dimension of accelerated time/space of which the ship enters a quasi-phased state, of which the intense gravity wells effect hyperspace. Only sense that doesn't make sense, is if hyperspace "lanes" operate like Star treks subspace corridors or if "lanes" means just well traveled routes, mapped out, of which forging your own path threw hyperspace would require seperate calculations.

Actually what I need because I know a lot about Slipspace but not enough on hyperdrive so thank you

Get better soon eck!!!!

Nice review of hyperspace.

In reality, there is essentially a 0% chance of hitting anything when traveling through space, even going through galaxies at random

So is it possible that they are travelling at the speed of light through Hyperspace??? This video definitely answered a work debate from this week..so kudos!!

Feel better Eck

For a vs video you should do the Slave 1 vs the the Gunstar 1 prototype from the Last Starfighter.

This cleared up some misunderstandings I had. After I read the first High Republic book, they said something about how hyperspace was a different dimension and nothing like an asteroid could interfere with a ship in hyperspace and I was confused because there obviously is something that can interfere with a ship in hyperspace because why would you need hyperspace lanes, and then there is the line Han Solo had in ANH

6:02 speaking of Prakith have you gotten to the Prakith parts of Lando's story in the Black Fleet Crisis? It's basically Space North Korea, I love it.

More information about protecting the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft from explosive decompression by using a repulsive laser deflector shield: A repulsive laser deflector shield is used to protect the electromagnetic shockwave synthetic Dyon propelled spacecraft from “Explosive decompression” that is caused by oncoming particle collisions that are both visible and invisible to the naked eye, including molecules of air in the wind of the atmosphere of a planet and out in space there is no atmosphere but there are random debris and swarms of gas of gas and dust particles that can reduce the speed of a unshielded space craft and destroy a spacecraft that is not protected by a repulsive energy shield upon impact, causing “Explosive decompression” for the unshielded spacecraft. In the future metal alloys will be discovered that can be made into metamaterials that can causes the metallic structure of an electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft to self-repair and self-heal through polymorphism to a limited extent. The repulsive laser deflector shield MUST be emitted directly from the surface of the artificial Dyon propelled spacecraft in all directions. The repulsive laser deflector shield is made from an equal combination of rapid pulsating ionizing lasers such as: Gamma ray lasers and X-ray free electron lasers and Exciton-Polariton lasers, Plus rapid oscillating conditioned SU(3) symmetry electromagnetic radiation fields and Squeezed states of light. Space is full of hydrogen atoms and the gas and dust particles that are deflected away from the Artificial Dyon propelled spacecraft also supply the Artificial Dyon propelled spacecraft with infinite amounts of Zero-point energy and Negative energy. 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A spacecraft can become massless and achieve repulsive gravity when a spacecraft is equipped with a repulsive laser deflector shield that is made from rapid oscillating conditioned SU(3) symmetry electromagnetic radiation fields and is emitted directly from the surface of the spacecraft in all directions and is propelled and jolted through space by an electromagnetic field that is made from an equal combination of rapid repulsive electric charges that are emitted directly from the surface of the spacecraft in all directions while an attractive artificial magnetic charge that is only emitted from the front of the spacecraft towards the desired direction of travel. The attractive artificial magnetic charge has been created from artificial magnetic monopoles that were created from wires that are made from magnetic Spin ice materials such as Dysprosium titanate or Holmium titanate or Holmium stannate or Terbium titanate or an equal combination of all 4 of the mentioned Spin ice materials that are also connected to the spacecraft’s frozen high voltage solenoid vibrating electromagnetic engine. It is so easy to reach the speed of light by using the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft’s repulsive laser deflector shields to deflect oncoming particle collisions that are both visible and invisible to the naked eye away from the electromagnetic propelled repulsive laser deflector shield equipped spacecraft, including molecules of air in the wind of the atmosphere of a planet and out in space there is no atmosphere but there are random debris and swarms of gas and dust particles that can reduce the speed and destroy a spacecraft that is not protected by a repulsive energy shield upon impact, causing “Explosive decompression” for the unshielded spacecraft. Immediately upon approaching the speed of light the artificial intelligence that is used to control the computers aboard the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft automatically disables the repulsive laser deflector shields of the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft while the continued use of the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft’s inertial mass reduction device is combined with the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft’s synthetic Dyonic toroid for the purpose of allowing the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft to regain its mass that was previously eliminated by the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft’s repulsive laser deflector shields. 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The sudden regain in mass for the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft as it approaches the speed of light with its repulsive laser deflector shields suddenly disabled automatically by the artificial intelligence that controls the computers aboard the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft contributes to the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft safely being able to dematerialize by safely performing “Electron-positron annihilation “, resulting in the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft being converted into pure electromagnetic radiation energy of fine matter particles. 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If an electromagnetically propelled spacecraft breaks through the light speed barrier while attempting to jump into Hyperspace without dematerializing so that the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft and its occupants or occupant can pass through physical objects in space then the risk is taken of accidently crashing into other physical objects in space and if an electromagnetically propelled spacecraft breaks through the light speed barrier and is able to successfully dematerialize for the purpose of passing through physical objects in space and avoid crashing into physical objects in space but the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft and its occupants or occupant fail to rematerialize at the desired destination then the electromagnetic propulsion spacecraft and its occupants or occupant would get trapped and lost in space and time forever. 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dont forget how force usurers can navigate uncharted space through, Instinctive astrogation, Which was a Sense-based Force ability that permitted the user to find a route through hyperspace that was fast and safe without the help of a navigation computer or astromech droid.

Maybe there is an Astrogator Guild, like there are Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, Scrapper Guilds, etc, and they maintain these things.

I always imgagined hyperspace as a higher dimentional space into which the 3d realspace is weirdly folded. The microstructure of this folding would mostly be determined by mass distribution, but the macrostructure would largely be indeterminable and affected by stuff outside peoples attention. Know the tricky part would be that there is no type of sensor or anything that can measure it. You have to pick a random x-dimensional direction, open a hyperspace corridor and see where it leads you. Thanks to local structur be somewhat measurable from local mass distribution, short range jumps can easily be achieved whereas longer range travel needs to occur alongside known vectors between defined points in realspace. Ofc the longer a jump the higher the chance of bumping into the mass shadow of something dangerous, which is probably much higher than hitting something when doing a connecting line in realspace. That would probably be down to the compact fold of the SW galaxy having a much higher density than in 3d. Just take a paper and mark a bunch of spots. Now crumble it. This should reduce the average distance between the spots in 3d whilst the 2d one on the paper remains the same. If I only know the way on the sheet I have now idea in which 3d direction I have to go to hit a specific spot frpm another one.

I love hearing A.L.I.S.O.N in the background

Hm...as far as I know: The Hyperspace-Lanes existed first and people set up shop on planets along those routes afterwards, not the planets were settled and the routes established!

If hyperspace is a dimension you enter, you should not be accellerated in the normal sense. You travel Hyperspace at regular ship speed. My theory would be that Hyperspace is a gravitational anomaly where you basically bend spacetime basically riding on a wave like with a surfboard (it's a simplified version easier to understand). Looking at waves in more detail you realise that every particle of the wave stays in place, it doesn't move from it's place. So by riding on that wave you can get problems if you hit something that is affecting the wave, like massive objects that bend spacetime (without a wave). Basically like a big floating object on water (like a ship). Small objects don't affect the wave much at all and get moved with the wave (not by it). So when you are in hyperspace or enter it, you don't get faster, everything just gets pushed away from you that is small enough. Making collisions like the one in the Sequels between two ships impossible. It's similar to how you can see light behind a black hole, it get's bend around it. Spacetime gets bend around you when you are in hyperspace (kind of). This is actual physics (I may get some stuff wrong tho) and with actual physics you bend time and space making you age differently in hyperspace that out of it, which is not in the movies, since it would be just a terrible idea that is extremly complicated to tell stories with. The same reason why they add sound in space. StarWars has many near realistic features to it, so taking real physics to explain StarWars stuff is not stupid if it works.

Where did you get that galaxy map that's full of planets not seen in "The Essential Atlas?" I'm talking about the map at 3:23

Someone at Licasfilm needs to standardize the rules for hyperspace travel, as even those mentioned in your video are ignored whenever the writer feels like it.

You see kids, maths is important

"It just works"- George Lucas