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  • @Hypersapien
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    81 year ago

    I assume it means 150% of the speed of light.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    In RPG terms, travel time is subject to a “hyperdrive factor”, which is multiplied into the overall travel time between two systems on a jump.

    In this context, the .5 meant that the Falcon’s hyperdrive halved travel time vs the best standard military grade hyperdrives of the day, which were x1 units.

  • @loklan
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    41 year ago

    Probably it means “really fast”

  • @_finger_M
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    11 year ago

    Another question is what’s a parsec? George could never figure it out either

    • themagiccitymakerOP
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      21 year ago

      That’s funny too, because a parsec is a real life unit of measure, it’s about 3 light years

  • @999avatar999
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    11 year ago

    Doesn’t mean anything, just something George wrote to sound cool. Same thing with the Kessel and parsecs, which only were only retroactively made to make sense later.