Your_friendly_Imperial said:
-Hyperspace was a separate dimension which did not directly interact with Real Space“Traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?”
I’m nitpicking of course, and how hyperspace works has changed a bit since the 70’s (though I doubt Lucas had any specifics in mind), but the general idea is that while in hyperspace if a ship gets close to a large gravitational mass, e.g. a planet, star, supernova, etc., then the ship would be knocked out of hyperspace and back into realspace (usually so close that the ship would have a slim chance of moving out of the way before it’s destroyed).
Not that SW really needs a scientific explanation, but most sci-fi or sci-fantasy tend to come up with explanations like this, otherwise travelling beyond light-speed would be very impractical as any small, random piece of junk in space would tear the ships apart.