I'd say that all objects in space cast a mass shadow into hyperspace. Pirates even use asteroids which they haul into hyperlanes in order to trigger the failsafes (poor man's interdictor).

As I understand it, the art of astrogation is plotting a course that doesn't hit any of them. While a nav computer operates like a GSP device does in ours, anyone who has relied on GPS devices too much has also learned that they're not infallible. The skill of astrogation lies in knowing how not to trust the nav computer - what corners you can cut and which you can't.

Either Han and/or Chewie (and my money's on Chewie) are excellent astrogators and the Falcon has a great nav computer, which is how they made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs (or so Han alleges).

Star Wars never went through a detailed explanation of how all their technology works, I'd be surprised if they started now.

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Jedi magic

Jedi magic doesn't work that way!

I feel there is "slight" evidence that the danger is to the ship. Han's comment to Luke in ANH about flying too close to a star "...and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?" seems to indicate it would risk the ship, not the object.

Theory , the grav wells of planets squeeze the "channel" a ship travels is hyper. If you don't drop out before it closes too much, you get torn apart. That's why you have safeties to drop out before you hit. Very risky to try jumping too close. You drop out too close to stop or wait a second too long and get crushed. That's how Interdictors work, they kick in the safeties to drop you out and cause the "channel" to narrow and make it harder to jump away.

Yeah but note that Han doesn't mention planets in that discussion.

"bounce too close to a star or fly right through a supernova"

No mention of planets at all

True, but they are still stellar objects. And a sun would have a greater mass shadow. The theory still stands though as going "though a supernova" is a bad thing, it means you can't just fly though a something at hyper.

I never claimed you could fly through a planet at hyperspace. You hit a planet while at hyperspace and the ship is destroyed. The thing is we don't know how much damage the planet will take in the process..And we won't know for certain until it happens in canon.

I feel there is "slight" evidence that the danger is to the ship. Han's comment to Luke in ANH about flying too close to a star "...and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?" seems to indicate it would risk the ship, not the object.

Theory , the grav wells of planets squeeze the "channel" a ship travels is hyper. If you don't drop out before it closes too much, you get torn apart. That's why you have safeties to drop out before you hit. Very risky to try jumping too close. You drop out too close to stop or wait a second too long and get crushed. That's how Interdictors work, they kick in the safeties to drop you out and cause the "channel" to narrow and make it harder to jump away.

Yeah but note that Han doesn't mention planets in that discussion.

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No mention of planets at all

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I never claimed you could fly through a planet at hyperspace. You hit a planet while at hyperspace and the ship is destroyed. The thing is we don't know how much damage the planet will take in the process..And we won't know for certain until it happens in canon.

Why go through the process of building a Death Star in order to destroy a planet if you could just buy a used ship and have a cheap droid (or the ship's computer) hyperspace it through the planet?

And regarding the whole "if a ship hyperspacing into a planet is massively destructive the Empire would do it." claim the Empire wants superweapons it can control. It does not want everyone with access to a hyperspace capable ship knowing those ships can serve as superweapons because it can never control every hyperdrive equipped ship in the setting.

According to the EU hyperspace travel has been around for 25 millennia, and the Empire for just about two decades. I presume that if a numbskull pilot with a rustbucket ship could destroy a whole world, or create an environmental catastrophe, people would know about it.

I think we're on pretty safe grounds to just assume that the ship would go splat and the planet would be just fine. I wonder why you're being argumentative on this point. Did OrangeCat 's use of that all-caps 'NOPE' just not sit well with you?

The person who invented "hyperspacing ship collision cracks planet all the way down to the core" was Curtis Saxton, in the Legends book Incredible Cross Sections: ROTS.

His work has tended to be somewhat divisive.

The person who invented "hyperspacing ship collision cracks planet all the way down to the core" was Curtis Saxton, in the Legends book Incredible Cross Sections: ROTS.

His work has tended to be somewhat divisive.

As I understand it, he's also an astrophysicist with some good stuff on interpreting what stuff is on ships. However, I imagine that his bona fides in that regard make him somewhat strident with regards to what is 'real' in a fictional setting.

However, I imagine that his bona fides in that regard make him somewhat strident with regards to what is 'real' in a fictional setting.

One thing's for sure - the newcanon isn't following with some of his ideas. His Death Star sizes have already been retconned away.

However, I imagine that his bona fides in that regard make him somewhat strident with regards to what is 'real' in a fictional setting.

One thing's for sure - the newcanon isn't following with some of his ideas. His Death Star sizes have already been retconned away.

Ah... well, that's not too surprising. I guess we can just hope that J.J. and everyone else doesn't romp through the newcanon with too many inconsistent things.

Since you seem to be following it, do you have a sense of how well the Lucasfilm Story Group is doing keeping things straight?

OK so far - there's been inconsistencies - but minor ones. And there's plenty of cross-media connectivity - characters and ships appearing in both comics and TV.

And lots of EU stuff has been recanonized, a bit at a time (mostly ships and characters).

They just over rode the safety for the hyperdrive. Not really recommended, because it's dicey where you'll end up by doing that. The falcon could've just as easily ended up INSIDE the planet when they dropped out of hyperspace.

OK so far - there's been inconsistencies - but minor ones. And there's plenty of cross-media connectivity - characters and ships appearing in both comics and TV.

And lots of EU stuff has been recanonized, a bit at a time (mostly ships and characters).

I read Tarkin by James Luceno. While the book was not that great (IMO, YMMV), I did really like how he brought a lot of the basic layout of the galaxy back into canon. It was quite obvious to me (as an fanboy) that he drew very heavily on the Essential Atlas .