# Space Travel Velocity in ROTS Spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528 "2005-05-26T00:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/1 "2005-05-26T00:01:39Z")
Characters A and B are fighting on planet X. On planet Y, character C says “I sense that A is in trouble.” C takes a spacecraft to X in less time that I use to go to the 7-11 for a six pack. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/2 "2005-05-26T00:04:36Z")
It’s not real? Hyperspace? The movie would suck if we had to watch them in their ship for 3 weeks? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/3 "2005-05-26T00:09:06Z")
Star Wars ships travel at the speed of plot. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/4 "2005-05-26T01:47:19Z")
Unlike Star Trek, there are no hyperspace “factors” in the Star Wars, so it would seem that you can travel as fast from point A to point B as fast as your navacomputer can plot a safe course. It isn’t instantaneous, and you apparently have to avoid objects in “real space” while in hyperspace. It is possible that the Lava World is close by Coruscant (sic), unlike, for example, the outer rim world Tatooine & more centrally located Alderaan, which were just far enough apart that the Millennium Falcon wasn’t there when the Death Star zapped it. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/5 "2005-05-26T01:55:57Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > It is possible that the Lava World is close by Coruscant (sic), unlike, for example, the outer rim world Tatooine & more centrally located Alderaan, which were just far enough apart that the Millennium Falcon wasn’t there when the Death Star zapped it. It is specifically stated, as I recall, that “Lava World” is in the outer rim. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/6 "2005-05-26T02:30:59Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > Star Wars ships travel at the speed of plot. Love it, love it, really love it, someday will steal it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/7 "2005-05-26T11:54:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Characters A and B are fighting on planet X. > On planet Y, character C says “I sense that A is in trouble.” > C takes a spacecraft to X in less time that I use to go to the 7-11 for a six pack. > What gives? I was led to believe that A’s suffering went on for quite a while. I would not be surprised to discover that George thought he had implied (through the device of the journey) that the suffering did last for days. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/8 "2005-05-26T12:10:21Z")
> [@Jurph](#): > > I was led to believe that A’s suffering went on for quite a while. That would explain why A had such a bad attitude later on. 🙂 However B and D arrive equally quickly with D hiding in the pantry. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-travel-velocity-in-rots-spoilers/305528/9 "2005-05-26T14:27:24Z")
It’s called “poor writing.”