

Upon arrival at Jakku, a group of TIES ambushes the team almost immediately. He also announces the Blue Squadron will provide support for the mission.Īfter boarding the reconnaissance vehicle (played by Space Mountain's rocket vehicles rather than a completely new vehicle design), the recon team make a jump through hyperspace.
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More practically, however, ships' interaction with hyperspace offers a unique facet of the universe through which the films' particular style and flavor can be expressed. In much the same spirit that informed the grungier, worn-in aesthetic of George Lucas's original Star Wars, the introduction of hyperspace rings deepens the science fiction worldbuilding of the series by imposing limitations, an approach that is especially impactful when applied to topics as entrenched in the genre as spaceships and lightspeed.The attraction queue is mostly left in its standard form, though graphics and a brief pre-show and safety film set up the simple story.Īdmiral Ackbar sends out a brief transmission to a group of reconnaissance pilots to investigate an Imperial Star Destroyer in orbit around Jakku. The science of hyperspace is one of Star Wars' more esoteric details, often being used to facilitate after-the-fact explanations of scientifically questionable phenomena even beyond faster-than-light travel, such as the simultaneous viewing of Starkiller Base's attacks. In this way, the simple addition of an aesthetically interesting sci-fi idea to the prequels also served as a way of showing the progression of the universe's technology over time. Inevitably somewhat dangerous, especially if attempted outside of a designated hyperspace route, because "mass shadows" of large objects in realspace could influence the layout of hyperspace, this process was nonetheless essential to any substantial travel, and dangerous maneuvers involving close proximity to a strong source of gravity were nonetheless achieved by some of the most skilled pilots, including Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Lightspeed travel was generally accomplished by way of a hyperdrive, but this crucial piece of technology proved to be overly restrictive in certain cases.īy the time of the Galactic Empire, the technology had advanced sufficiently to allow for unassisted hyperspace travel by smaller ships, such as the Rebels' X-wings, although some, like the Empire's TIE Fighters, still lacked this capability and needed to be transported over long distances by larger ships.


By observing the natural abilities of spacefaring whale-like creatures known as purrgil, ancient engineers discovered that, by exceeding the speed of light, a body could be pushed into hyperspace - an alternate dimension separate from "realspace" - in which great distances could be covered in a comparatively small amount of time. In the Star Wars universe, this is explained in some detail (outside of the movies, naturally) through the concept of hyperspace.

Faster-than-light travel has been a puzzle for many works of science fiction.
