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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by gregebowman:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
Now, nothing I've read or seen says anything about hypderdrive being faster than a Warp 9 vessel.

The republic at it's height, and the empire after it spanned the galaxy. The federation is a little collection of planets in a small fraction of the Alpha quadrant. Assuming the SW galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which we don't really know of course, hyperdrive would have to be orders of magnitude faster then warp drive. Travel between Corsucant and the remotest parts of the galaxy takes weeks. While Voyager was looking at several decades to make it home running flat out at top warp speed.

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Looking at it from that angle, I can see your point. But remember, the SW ships have to follow pre-programmed routes, which must have taken hundreds of years to accumulate as the Old Republic was expanding and discovering new systems. On the other hand, the ST ship can go in almost any direction at almost a drop of the hat.

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That isn't quite true. Nothing says you can't use a hyperdrive route that is not pre-programmed. It is just dangerous flying through stars and such, so you use a galaxy map to avoid them. ST handles this by saying that ships moving at warp speed just go through everything that is not going at warp speed or some such technobabble.

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ST has those giant deflector dishes to sweep junk out of the way when travelling real fast. Torpedoes can even be fired at FTL speeds, though energy weapons can't.