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Re: Cribing Notes From Star Wars
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Some superiority fighters like the X-wing and TIE fighter are faster than a cruiser but they are a specialized design. Even though Star Wars looks like an aircraft carrier with a bunch of planes, conceptually it's more like a cruiser with a bunch of patrol boats. Quote:
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08-05-2020, 06:29 PM | #12 |
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Re: Cribing Notes From Star Wars
Star Wars is high superscience. I would suggest using cosmic power systems, cosmic weapons and force screens, etc. As for STL speed, use boost drives, giving you a maximum velocity and insane maneuverability. As for FTL speed, it is fast along charted hyperspace routes (something like 1,000,000c for military ships and 100,000c for civilian ships), but difficult to suicidal for uncharted hyperspace routes.
A good rule of thumb is that 10% of the systems in the Galactic Arms are connected through the same system of routes and that 10% of them have been charted. This gives you over a billion systems to work withm Of those, 10% may have been human dominated and 10% may have been part of the Old Republic. |
08-05-2020, 06:36 PM | #13 | |
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It doesn't actually matter. The farther apart the habitable planets are the faster you make your drive. It's just that if you make them too close together somebody like me will know that's not possible.
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08-05-2020, 06:48 PM | #14 |
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Re: Cribing Notes From Star Wars
Going by the lore, once you get into well-mapped, mostly empty space, FTL travel in Star Wars is very close to teleportation. The trick is avoiding large gravity shadows.
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08-05-2020, 07:25 PM | #15 |
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I think even the movies implied it took more than a moment to travel through hyperspace (I can't find a clip online, but I'm pretty certain after the Millennium Falcon jumped to hyperspace Han wasn't like "Alright, we jumped to lightspeed and... we're here"), and outside of the movies there's usually a big deal made about hyperspace speed (heck, that's even what made the Falcon special, it's just that George Lucas apparently thought "parsec" was a measurement of time when he wrote Han's dialogue), so I don't think treating the time to travel as negligible is appropriate. Certainly, Star Wars travel is very much "speed of plot," but that doesn't lend itself well to making an RPG setting.
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08-05-2020, 08:52 PM | #17 | |
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Personally, my assumption would be Lucas wrote it thinking "parsec" was a unit of time (much as "lightyear" is often used inaccurately), then when he got called out on it his ego wouldn't let him be wrong, so he knee-jerk changed it to be that he really did mean it as a distance, and even made what he initially scripted as a lie be true.
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08-05-2020, 09:58 PM | #18 | |
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Basically jump routes are mapped and measured in distance but he took a dangerous shortcut so traveled the distance in less than what the mapped routes were.
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08-05-2020, 10:08 PM | #19 |
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Re: Cribing Notes From Star Wars
A previously uncharted hyperspace route, if I remember correctly, which meant that Solo possessed knowledge that he could have likely traded to the Empire for his own planet if he had not been a criminal. It also explains why he was a successful smuggler.
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08-05-2020, 10:43 PM | #20 | |
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Star Destroyers are an anomaly on ship speeds, or at least those we have data on. |
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