EuroKnight Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 The Millenium Falcon is suppossedly one of the fastest ships around. It can reach a velocity of 0.5 above the speed of light ( 300K kilometers per second) Is something wrong with this picture???!!! One of the closest star constellations to earth is approx. 120 light years away, which means even Chewie would be a skeleton before he reached it with the "amazing" 0.5 above lightspeed cappability. I know, its just sci-fi, but sci-fi with brains tends to be alot more aluring and exciting. The Republic wouldn't be able to exist because the first intrepid expplorers wouldn't have returned to Coruscant to report their findings by the time The Emperor seized power. So if a ship was to travel from the Core Systems to the Outer Rim planets like Tatooine it would take like..... forever or rather 400 years to travel 600 lightyears. I love the SW universe, but this really knepper min r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPaladin V1.0 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Star Wars isnt Sci Fi , its space fantasy. I have to agree with Volourn. Bioware is pretty much dead now. Deals like this kills development studios. 478327[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter_of_Chaos Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 The Millenium Falcon is suppossedly one of the fastest ships around. It can reach a velocity of 0.5 above the speed of light ( 300K kilometers per second) Is something wrong with this picture???!!! One of the closest star constellations to earth is approx. 120 light years away, which means even Chewie would be a skeleton before he reached it with the "amazing" 0.5 above lightspeed cappability. I know, its just sci-fi, but sci-fi with brains tends to be alot more aluring and exciting. The Republic wouldn't be able to exist because the first intrepid expplorers wouldn't have returned to Coruscant to report their findings by the time The Emperor seized power. So if a ship was to travel from the Core Systems to the Outer Rim planets like Tatooine it would take like..... forever or rather 400 years to travel 600 lightyears. I love the SW universe, but this really knepper min r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroKnight Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 The Millenium Falcon is suppossedly one of the fastest ships around. It can reach a velocity of 0.5 above the speed of light ( 300K kilometers per second) Is something wrong with this picture???!!! One of the closest star constellations to earth is approx. 120 light years away, which means even Chewie would be a skeleton before he reached it with the "amazing" 0.5 above lightspeed cappability. I know, its just sci-fi, but sci-fi with brains tends to be alot more aluring and exciting. The Republic wouldn't be able to exist because the first intrepid expplorers wouldn't have returned to Coruscant to report their findings by the time The Emperor seized power. So if a ship was to travel from the Core Systems to the Outer Rim planets like Tatooine it would take like..... forever or rather 400 years to travel 600 lightyears. I love the SW universe, but this really knepper min r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroKnight Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Star Wars isnt Sci Fi , its space fantasy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> quit the nitty gritty stuff and write a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jad'en Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Sub-Light drives get to that speed. However making the Jump to lightspeed can go considerably faster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 well, I think "hyperspace" in physical sense refer to space-like entity in 4D. So in short one could consider these hyperspace routes as extradimensional shortcuts of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSLuke Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 well, I think "hyperspace" in physical sense refer to space-like entity in 4D. So in short one could consider these hyperspace routes as extradimensional shortcuts of some sort. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think they are shortcuts. I think they are routes, thus you need to get your calculations right first in order to avoid hitting a planet or something. Wasn't there a mention of parsecs in the movies? And by the light of the moon He prays for their beauty not doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jad'en Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Yes there was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 knepper min r Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroKnight Posted March 11, 2005 Author Share Posted March 11, 2005 knepper min r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulgaroctonus Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 FTL travel is impossible in the conventional sense. The only way it can work is by theoretically folding time-space, at which point you could go as "fast" as you can possibly imagine, perhaps hundreds of times the speed of light, without ever going more than a few inches per minute...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambutaan Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Which is why what Shadow Paladin said was right. Star Wars is basically a mix of sci-fi and fantasy - I mean you could have a field day explaining how all the Jedi's Force Powers work in real life... As Bulgaroctonus mentioned, it's becoming increasingly apparent in modern physics that FTL travel is actually impossible, which means science fiction is slowly becoming not-so-scientific fiction. In we're talking about the real universe, it's more than likely that humans will be trapped on Earth (or at least in our Solar System) for a loooong time, basically because it's impossible to get anywhere in a decent time frame. Even if you could get close to the speed of light, it'd still take well over 4 years to reach the nearest star system Alpha Centauri... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSLuke Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Yes but in practise we haven't even been close to the spped of light. So everything is theoritical up to now. In future when we will be able to travel with speeds closer to LS then we may discover a great deal more. Don't forget than in the previous century people thought than if we travel faster than 80km/h that we couldn't breathe. And by the light of the moon He prays for their beauty not doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 and besides the idea of us being stuck on Earth is depressing .. and since FTL speed will never be completly disproven or proven in our lifetime we may as well live in the happy illusion of geeky sci-fi hope .. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPaladin V1.0 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 quit the nitty gritty stuff and write a response. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No need really. SW being fantasy covers it nicely. I have to agree with Volourn. Bioware is pretty much dead now. Deals like this kills development studios. 478327[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth nutter Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 [0.5 lightspeed is half lightspeed so u wudnt use the hyperdrive the person who said about us neva being avle to travel faster than light they said that about travelling faster than sound of course well hav wiped ourselves out by the time we had the right technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahf Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 [0.5 lightspeed is half lightspeed so u wudnt use the hyperdrive the person who said about us neva being avle to travel faster than light they said that about travelling faster than sound of course well hav wiped ourselves out by the time we had the right technology <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes but breaking the sound barrier was an engineering problem whereas the light barrier is a theoretical one. People thought we couldn't break the sound barrier because an engine that powerful seemed unreasonable. It'd be like us telling someone 10 years ago that you would have a hard drive with 120 GB of storage. It would have sounded ludarcis, but there was no theoretical reason why it couldn't be done. The light barrier on the other hand, is a different story. We do accelerate particles incredibly close to the speed of light, but experiment consistently proves theory: the faster a body is moving relative to another inertial reference frame, the more energy it takes to accelerate it further. This happens in such a way that c, the speed of light, is the receding horizon that we can never quite accelerate an object to. Point is, even though the sound barrier seemed crazy based on current engineering standards at the time, there was no theoretical reason why it couldn't be done. In the case of the speed of light, not only are our engineering abilities incredibly far off from that speed, there is a physical limitation that we observe in nature that as far as we can tell, cannot be broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kissamies Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Star Wars isnt Sci Fi , its space fantasy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That is the best answer. If you want something more definite, you'd better not cling to that "point five past light speed" line in ANH too literally because 1.5c is still an awfully slow speed to travel interstellar distances in times they apparently do in the movies. "Jump to lightspeed" might just be an expression. Here's the EU's take on it: Hyperspace is some sort of parallel dimension with coordinates corresponding to realspace. A distance in hyperspace corresponds a much larger distance in realspace, so you can pop into hyperspace, fly for some relative short distance and drop back to realspace to notice that you are lightyears away from your starting position. Massive objects like stars and planets in realspace leave "mass shadows" in hyperspace. If a ship in hyperspace flies into a shadow like this, it will be forced back into realspace, sometimes violently. That's why you need a navcomputer to calculate the routes for you. That's also why they need to fly away from a planet before they jump into hyperspace. Hyperspace as described above is quite common in science fiction. SODOFF Steam group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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