# Star Wars tech--Can you fly an X-Wing without an R2 unit?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-tech-can-you-fly-an-x-wing-without-an-r2-unit/228207>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 9, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-tech-can-you-fly-an-x-wing-without-an-r2-unit/228207 "2004-02-09T01:29:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-tech-can-you-fly-an-x-wing-without-an-r2-unit/228207/21 "2004-02-10T19:37:50Z")

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Maybe he could call Bespin 411 and Information, get the coordinates and zip on out of there. Bound to be someone around with an astrodroid plugged into a receiver and router.

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-tech-can-you-fly-an-x-wing-without-an-r2-unit/228207/22 "2004-02-10T23:02:02Z")

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> [@Cerowyn](#):
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> “A long time ago, in a galaxy far away…”

…from the point of view of the storyteller. I still maintain it’s the future as far as we are concerned. That’s why they say “Hello.”

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-tech-can-you-fly-an-x-wing-without-an-r2-unit/228207/23 "2004-02-11T02:53:49Z")

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> [@Jean Grey](#):
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> And there are alien species in Star Wars who don’t need nav-computers or astromechs; they can make the hyperspace calculations themselves. Jedi can also use the Force to guide them.

Do they have to inhale Melange spice-gas to do it? 😉

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