Stop whining!), but does need some calculations to make it safely. Han is probably playing it cool (it's just a pesky star destroyer, Luke. HAN: Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?

Which lines up with Han's line to Luke ( transcript) Large objects in normal space cast “mass shadows” in hyperspace, so hyperspace jumps must be precisely calculated to avoid collisions. REY: You can't lightspeed skip the Falcon! POE: Yeah, well, it got us back here, didn't it? Nobody seems keen on it in Rise of Skywalker and considering the Millennium Falcon barely survives, it wasn't a good idea. Poe was reckless and what he did was dangerous Neither are considered easy to do (or safe), or we'd see them in use a lot more often. There's both microjumps and Hyperspace skipping. Let's take the parts separately and discussĬurrent canon is that hyperspace is imprecise

Was Han bluffing or being unusually conservative when he informed Obi-Wan and Luke about how long the hyperspace calculations would take?Īs badly mangled as canon is on hyperspace is anyways, it's more or less applied phlebotenum anyways.

Is lightspeed travel as dangerous as it ever has been, and Poe is just enormously reckless and extremely lucky?.

Did navigational computer technology improve so much between A New Hope and The Rise of Skywalker that Poe's skipping was actually much safer than if Han had done it in ANH?.

35 years later (in-universe), Poe Dameron, using the very same ship, engages in so-called 'lightspeed skipping', dropping in and out of hyperspace at the flick of a wrist, apparently unfazed by the idea that he might 'fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova'.ĭoes this change in flying habits represent an improvement in navigational computer technology over the past 35 years, or is it better explained by a difference in flying style or attitude?

In the original Star Wars film, Han Solo pointed out the significant lag between requesting hyperspace jump data from the computer and actually receiving it.

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