How fast can hyperdrive-equipped Star Wars vessels travel?

tux_tina

Throughout Star Wars , references are made to "hyperdrives", "hyperspace", and "lightspeed". It seems nearly all spacecraft are equipped with hyperdrives, and are, as such, capable of making the jump. But how fast is that? Assuming the Galaxy far, far away is roughly the size of the Milky Way, traveling between two planets on opposite sides would mean crossing roughly 100,000 light years, which takes light 100,000 years. That seems a bit long...

Originally asked by TheEnvironmentalist on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There is a severe lack of technical data on Hyperspace travel in the Canon Star Wars universe. Even the expanded old canon isn't that detailed on it. Too busy focusing on space sword fights I guess. As noted on Wiki though : In any case, hyperspace is an extremely fast method of travel, as Obi-Wan and Luke Skywalker's journey from Tatooine to Alderaan is theorized to have only taken two days maximum, whereas these two planets are separated by half a galaxy or more. Darth Maul took approximately seven hours to travel from Coruscant to Tatooine. As seen on this map ( click to enlarge ), Coruscant is 9/10,K/L, and Tatooine is 16,R. A quarter of the galaxy in hours. The U.S.S. Voyager (Star...

Full answer by cde: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/65884 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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