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Battle of the Bands (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

47 years later and I'm still not quite sure what "She can make point 5, past light speed." means.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It's dumb but it's been retroactively taken to mean that it has a Class 0.5 hyperdrive, whereas a Star Destroyer has a Class 2. (Smaller class numbers are faster.) Light speed in Star Wars can be much faster than the speed of light.

    But then, pretty much everything to do with specifications and numbers of Star Wars tech is a clusterfuck of technobabble that makes Voyager's look coherent.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I always thought of it as 1.5 light speed

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which isn't a practical speed for interstellar travel. It's literally just over warp 1.

    More practical would be to assume that there's a k missing 1.5k (thousand) light speed is warp 9.975.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The cope for awhile was that it was 1.5x lightspeed while in hyperspace, which also distorted distances, so you got much, much faster travel speeds without messing with relativity.

    Then they decided it was a multiplier applied to how long it took to travel a certain route, so lower was better.

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