.5 past lightspeed (So 1.5c?)...

It's obviously not 1.5c. That's easily determined by comparing 'known distances' and the fact that people *not* making hyperspace trips don't die of old age waiting for the people who do. Even ignoring relativistic effects, the time taken to travel from Coruscant to Kamino would take *decades* at 1.5c (and the Falcon is obviously supposed to be an exceptionally fast ship).

So the question becomes 'point 5 *WHAT* past light speed'? Obviously people in-universe are familiar with whatever scale/metric/measurement is being discussed, but we don't actually have the slightest clue. (RPGs have traditionally considered it a speed factor, that modifies a 'standard' hyperdrive's transit time, such that .5 means it's twice as fast/takes half as long, but it really could be *anything*.)

Strangely enough Edge of the Empire explains hyperspace as an alternate dimension of sorts. I never knew the exact details but found it to be pretty neato.

Han wasn't exactly as scientist or engineer (and they probably didn't have a science advisor for the films), so I always assumed he was talking out his butt trying to impress the others.

Then somwhere through the years some fanboi's took every word he spoke as gospel and wrote in stuff to the expanded universe to try and justify it.

Han wasn't exactly as scientist or engineer (and they probably didn't have a science advisor for the films), so I always assumed he was talking out his butt trying to impress the others.

Then somwhere through the years some fanboi's took every word he spoke as gospel and wrote in stuff to the expanded universe to try and justify it.

I believe that Han talking out of his butt is actually in one of the scripts.