I tend to ramble on about hyperspace and it seems from the responses that I get that there are as many views on how hyperspace works as their are posters on the forums. Here I've setup a list of questions to try and figure out which views are the most common. I'm not concerned about canon but how people treat hyperspace in-game, as it's often the case that what works in the movies doesn't work so good in an RPG setting (one example is how fast characters in movies learn new things compared to RPG characters).
1) Is travel in hyperspace in straight lines only?
2) Can you change course while inside hyperspace?
3) Can ships inside hyperspace detect each other or see each other if sufficiently close?
4) Can ships inside hyperspace communicate with each other? With people in real space?
5) Can a ship in real space detect a ship in hyperspace that flies by it?
6) If ships in hyperspace are very close, can they shoot at each other? Use tractor beams? Splice?
7) How long does it take to go from one edge of the galaxy to the opposite edge? Hours/Days/Weeks/Months/Years?
8) Can droids crawl around on the outside of a ship in hyperspace ala Phantom Menace? How about people?
9) Does gravity itself cause a ship to revert to real-space? Or can a ship actually crash into a planet?