I don’t think there’s any question that the Death Star has hyperspace capabilities.
I do. And it plays into my version of the events better if it doesn’t have the same hyperspace capabilities as the other ships we see.
I don’t think it’s important to the films either way though.So but it does have some hyperspace capabilities then?
Honesty time- I don’t know how space travel works at all and don’t have much interest in it. I don’t know how far away the DS was from Yavin and have no interest in SW galaxy maps.
But, in my headcanon, the Rebellion had enough time to study the plans and find the flaw, plan an attack strategy, Luke had some time in an X-Wing simulator and the DS was unable to pop up on the side of Yavin to shoot the moon and instead had to slowly maneuver into place. I say there was a few days to a week between Leia & Co. arriving and the DS showing up. So it doesn’t seem to work the way other ships do.
But, again, I don’t know much about space travel and maybe traveling through hyperspace isn’t a fast as it seems in other instances.