

Corellian engineers independently from their Duros counterparts developed the hyperdrive technology. Before its invention, the earliest spacers utilized sleeper ships, using cryogenic freezing processes to preserve their original hosts in carbonite. Sightings of purrgil, a spacefaring species capable of traveling at lightspeed, were said to have inspired the early development of the hyperdrive. Imperial technologists developed the widely used Interdictor vessels and their various sub-models, some of the most effective interdiction technologies. For instance, interdiction fields created gravitational shadows, simulating mass, in the path of an oncoming vessel, yanking the vessel out of hyperspace.


Later technologies could pull vessels out of hyperspace. Large objects in normal space cast " mass shadows" in hyperspace, thus hyperspace jumps required accurate plotting to avoid collisions, which were often fatal. Upon entering hyperspace, a ship emitted cronau radiation, which was possible to detect with specialized sensor suites. However, the X-wing and A-wing starfighters used by the Rebel Alliance were fitted with hyperdrives, allowing them to make long-range jumps. This was notably the case with the Galactic Empire's TIE fighters, which had to be ferried to combat zones aboard larger ships. īeing short-range craft, most starfighters lacked a hyperdrive. Ī hyperdrive only functioned to keep a vessel in hyperspace, and should a hyperdrive be forcibly deactivated or destroyed during transit, the ship was violently and instantly pulled back into realspace. The vessel then traveled along a programmed course until it dropped back into normal space- realspace-at its destination. The hyperdrive functioned by sending hypermatter particles to hurl a ship into hyperspace while preserving the vessel's mass/energy profile, and required a functional hyperdrive motivator to do so. As a consequence, the hyperdrive was a key instrument in shaping galactic society, trade, politics, and war. The hyperdrive was a propulsion system that allowed a starship to reach lightspeed and traverse the void between stars in the alternate dimension of hyperspace.
CHEWIE MAKE THE JUMP TO HYPERSPACE QUOTE GENERATOR
Obi-Wan Kenobi attempts to mend a T-14 hyperdrive generator
