You can’t really do random jumps in Star Wars. You must stick to existing hyperspace routes and can’t deviate from them. Almost all routes lead to inhabited planets, so stopping anywhere along the way instead of just going directly to Yavin would have risked that planet being blown up by the Death Star. The hyperspace lane system is like a highway network, where everywhere they haven’t built a road is full of landmines and the road only exists because someone very carefully mapped out a path through the mines.
Not random as in “choose any point and hit the gas” but “not pointed at the final destination”
Yes there are hyperspace lanes, but you don’t have to go from point a to point b via a specific route. Much like road highways, there are multiple highway lanes that go to some systems.
If Luke were a little further along in training, he could actually help with blind navigation, like the outbound flight attempted to do. With someone force sensitive and trying to see ahead a bit, you could theoretically just jump, drop out before you hit anything, and keep trying until you have to turn around or you make it to a better hyperspace lane.
Plus mid-jump hyperspace tracking wasn’t a thing until after the Emperor kicked it the first time. You had to wait until they drop put and pick up their signal before you know where they are. So even if they were stuck in a major lane with no additional lanes to choose from, simply go one way, then at some point you drop out and turn around to go back the other way. With luck, the pursuing fleet would be mid-jump themselves and unable to track you since you’ll be going the opposite way and can go unnoticed to Somehere closer to your destination.
Of course if the rebels stashed getaway ships in uninhabited systems, you could jump to one of those, swap vessels, and be gone before the imerials know what happened, and they wouldn’t have to worry so much about giving them the slip in hyperspace.
huh, i always interpreted hyperspace lanes as in a popular route with lots of people, one that’s been cleared out and is safe from space worms and pirates, not like space monorail.
Well, they can always TRY to blind jump, but the lanes had been figured out over 25,000 years and had little to no chance of running into a mass shadow or other things.
Without those lanes, you could get ripped out of hyperspace inside a planet, or be trapped by black holes. Or worse, run into one of the many horrific monsters that lurk in the deep(space)
You can’t really do random jumps in Star Wars. You must stick to existing hyperspace routes and can’t deviate from them. Almost all routes lead to inhabited planets, so stopping anywhere along the way instead of just going directly to Yavin would have risked that planet being blown up by the Death Star. The hyperspace lane system is like a highway network, where everywhere they haven’t built a road is full of landmines and the road only exists because someone very carefully mapped out a path through the mines.
Not random as in “choose any point and hit the gas” but “not pointed at the final destination”
Yes there are hyperspace lanes, but you don’t have to go from point a to point b via a specific route. Much like road highways, there are multiple highway lanes that go to some systems.
If Luke were a little further along in training, he could actually help with blind navigation, like the outbound flight attempted to do. With someone force sensitive and trying to see ahead a bit, you could theoretically just jump, drop out before you hit anything, and keep trying until you have to turn around or you make it to a better hyperspace lane.
Plus mid-jump hyperspace tracking wasn’t a thing until after the Emperor kicked it the first time. You had to wait until they drop put and pick up their signal before you know where they are. So even if they were stuck in a major lane with no additional lanes to choose from, simply go one way, then at some point you drop out and turn around to go back the other way. With luck, the pursuing fleet would be mid-jump themselves and unable to track you since you’ll be going the opposite way and can go unnoticed to Somehere closer to your destination.
Of course if the rebels stashed getaway ships in uninhabited systems, you could jump to one of those, swap vessels, and be gone before the imerials know what happened, and they wouldn’t have to worry so much about giving them the slip in hyperspace.
huh, i always interpreted hyperspace lanes as in a popular route with lots of people, one that’s been cleared out and is safe from space worms and pirates, not like space monorail.
Well, they can always TRY to blind jump, but the lanes had been figured out over 25,000 years and had little to no chance of running into a mass shadow or other things.
Without those lanes, you could get ripped out of hyperspace inside a planet, or be trapped by black holes. Or worse, run into one of the many horrific monsters that lurk in the deep(space)
Isn’t blind jumping why they don’t follow ahdoka through the whale in her tv show? That makes sense to me