Why Hyperspace in Star Wars MAKES NO SENSE (...and never has)

Hyperspace in Star Wars is inconsistent and makes no sense. It never has, but I still love it. I'll cover hyperspace in Star Wars Legends and Canon on today's video!

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[wyattmcmanus]

In the Clone Wars episode “Voyage of Temptation” they’re traveling in hyperspace from Mandalore to Coruscant for the entire episode. Same with the episode Brain Invaders

[pieguy]

Here's how the producers could fix this problem:
1. Create a definitive map of the Star Wars galaxy, with the locations of every important location and how far away they are from each other
2. Create a definitive seed for each ship that's used
3. Every time a Hyperspace jump is executed, run the numbers to figure out how long it takes

[Ultoriel]

Eckhart: Maintain social distancing like Yoda on Dagoba.


Yoda, piggybacking on the first person he sees: Hmm?

[mattador]

At this point, it's safe to realize that things only make sense in Star Wars if the plot says so, in regards to both Legends and Canon.

[ilo]

Video idea:::

*Darth Vader’s views upon learning of Sidious manipulated the Clone Wars*

I’m guessing Vader saw it as a necessary evil, but what was his first reaction? You could go over sources etc...

[DarkExcalibur]

Rules matter. When our heroes operate without regard for any rules we've suspended our disbelief to accept.... it undermines the credibility of the danger they're in, and devalues their successes.

Good video!

[arbington]

It’s just space, but hyper. What’s not to get?

[MapleLamia]

I think the hyperspace skipping should've been the single hardest thing a pilot can do, like Anakin and Syndulla would be pilots capable of doing it, and people specifically trained to do it could, at the sacrifice of other skills

[ScottMacSweenis]

There’s always going to be some amount of flaws and inconsistencies in the world building of any fictional world but the blatant disregard for any consistency with hyperspace that has been shown in many recent works really disappoints me, especially when there are certainly many ways for writers to tell the same stories without gutting the world building to do so.

[canisblack]

In Legends it's heavily implied if not outright stated that the reason why you can't do those things has to do with safety features. The existence of Interdictors did make that a major plot hole, but it was noted in Legends that hyperdrive failures were usually the sort of thing that had you flying face first into a gravity well which implies that Interdictors work by activating safety features that are built into every hyperdrive.


Which could also explain why nobody actually overrides the safeties - if they're that ubiquitous then they're probably an integral part of the hyperdrive unit and not something to be messed with lightly and likely require direct physical access and specialized knowledge and tools to override.

[DewitNow]

Pretty much everything in Star Wars doesn’t make any sense in the real world, so that’s why I see it as fantasy rather than Sci-Fi.

[calebcroy]

Never put too much thought about how much sense hyperspace made, I always figured it would never make sense if I put too much thought into it so I never bothered.

[j_s_g]

I feel like Eck is becoming increasingly jaded with Star Wars as time goes on

Cut to a year later where he disowned the franchise and dedicates the channel exclusively to Star Trek content 😄

[yussefjeber]

"Generally hyperspace has never been really well thought", true, and this new trilogy had me really looking at how almost nothing in SW has ever been well thought. All of it was simply put there "'cause it would look cool" and for my younger self, that was more than enough to love it. But now... man, I hate being so aware of all of its flaws.

[amishshark]

Hyperspace: exists
Eckhart: so you have chosen death....

[void-creature]

This makes me realize how clever 40k's "unpredictability" when it comes to warp travel.
Since travelling can take anywhere between centuries or negative time, it let's the writers get away with pretty much anything.

[ajgriffith]

Lightspeed skipping was just illogical. Even visually, it made zero sense.

[mandalorkayla]

A possible way to sort of retcon the whole gravity well preventing hyperspace is that rather than outright denying hyperspace jumps it greatly diminishes the speed/effectiveness of a hyperdrive, resulting in certain ships with powerful hyperdrives being able to make jumps in atmosphere but the speed is greatly reduced whilst near the body and gets exponentially faster as they escape the gravity well.

[abca]

I over look a lot of things in Star Wars and it’s my favorite IP. Come on explosions in space really. But it’s got great characters cool non human species and a great plot

[michaelramon]

At least regarding Han hyperspacing into Starkiller Base, I always thought of it as "the planet did pull them out of hyperspace, but they still had tons of momentum". Any lesser pilot in any lesser ship would have slammed right into the ground, which is why that trick is so unused. (This also explains why you can't use hyperspaced projectiles as WMDs against planets - the planet will drag you out of hyperspace before you hit it, and you'll just slam into the planet at high speed like if you'd flown there normally.)


I can see jumps out of the upper atmosphere of a planet (like in Rogue One) being feasible, if quite dangerous. That's been around for a while (TCW Season 1 - Jedi Crash).