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Post #1570003

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Jar Jar Bricks
Parent topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
18-Dec-2023, 3:40 PM

Where to even begin with lightspeed skipping? Lol.

Well, the reason why it was removed from this edit - Han’s line from ANH about imprecise calculations - isn’t even really the strongest argument for it’s removal. Rather there are several other critical issues:

  1. It’s made clear that Poe knows how to do this from his days of running spice. But why would he ever need to do this when lightspeed tracking was only invented a year before this? The only reason would be if you had a physical tracker on your ship that you were trying to remove while skipping around, but that’s such a niche scenario.
  2. Lightspeed tracking required the largest ship the galaxy has ever known in order to work. You’re telling me that the tech has been miniaturized to fit on a single TIE fighter in less than a year’s time? Nah fam.
  3. Okay, let’s say that the TIEs are broadcasting their feed live back to a larger Star Destroyer with a tracker in it. I think this is the canon explanation. Even then, that information would have to be transmitted in real time from (quite possibly) across the galaxy in order to be useful. I just don’t buy that this is possible.