What can be improved on navicomputers for Hyperspace?

[Maximum7]

I’m writing a story about a scientist who is called to investigate the sudden expansion of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy. In the meantime, he is working on a project. I asked John Jackson Miller himself what he could be working on and he said something to do with improving navicomputers. That meshes well on what I’m looking for as I want him to do something related to Hyperspace and navicomputers are used to make Hyperspace jumps. What could the scientist be working on in order to make navicomputers better or more efficient?

[Kax]

Originally Posted by Maximum7

I’m writing a story about a scientist who is called to investigate the sudden expansion of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy. In the meantime, he is working on a project. I asked John Jackson Miller himself what he could be working on and he said something to do with improving navicomputers. That meshes well on what I’m looking for as I want him to do something related to Hyperspace and navicomputers are used to make Hyperspace jumps. What could the scientist be working on in order to make navicomputers better or more efficient?

Depends. Where are they now inefficient?

Speed? Accurracy? Useful range, both maximum and minimum? Error detection? Spatial Anomaly detection? Power? Size? Ease of Use? Display accuracy? Display user-friendliness? Control user-friendliness? Colour pattern? Scent?

Lots of possibilities.

Find the hole and fill it.

[Irish Wolf]

One of the noted difficulties with hyperdrive is its tendency to stop working when close to a gravitic point-source - a planet or star, for instance.

Refinements to the functioning of a navicomputer might enable one to plot a course that can approach a gravitic source more closely without disengaging hyperdrive, thus making navigation through stellar clusters less difficult. This would, of course, have obvious implications when one needs to investigate anomalies regarding the galactic core...