It's a trap!

I never gave it much thought, but where are the hyperdrives on the X-wings (when the fleet jumps @ 0:53)? They've always been depicted as these giant engines on all the bigger ships, so there shouldn't be enough space on the tiny space fighters. And even if they had puny hyperdrives, they should allow for slower/less distant travel. I know we have many Star Wars nerds, please someone enlighten me.

Wow, I hadn't realized how much life the Ewoks sucked out of that movie until now.

the genocide of millions...god DAMN you, rebel scum

>> ^Rugil:
It's a trap!


Please oh please tag it with that!

"The superluminal speed of a hyperdrive was rated on a decreasing scale; the faster the hyperdrive, the lower the rating. These ratings were generally referred to as "Classes" and provided a quick, although often inconsistent or inaccurate, idea of a ship's hyperdrive speed. In 30 BBY, Class 3 drives were experimental, and by the end of the Clone Wars most military starships were using Class 3 or Class 2. During the Galactic Civil War, military capital ships and starfighters were generally equipped with Class 1 or Class 2, industrial freighters and haulers with Class 3 or Class 4, and civilian starships with Class 5 or above."

The X-wing had a class of 1, which is pretty good. The hyperspace drive is fed from the normal horizontal thruster, though some ships used anti-matter units if the power wasn't up to snuff. The power was channeled and converted, then hyperspace was accomplished. The size of the engine and ship, and distance plotted would all play a factor of the spool up time required. Also, all ships had a built in mechanism to disable hyperspace when to close to a gravity well, as hyperspace through massive objects was deadly. Some would use this to disable ships drives and prey on them.

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