[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
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.

So they sweep stars and planets out of the way?

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No, but they get rid of all those micro-asteroids and other small stuff that would harm any of our current spacecraft. You still need to navigate around star and planets and other space objects, like black holes, but it seems to take quicker for a ST ship to plot a course than it would a SW ship, who has to wait for the computer to plot the hyperspace coordinates before a ship can go through.