10 Things Star Wars Games ALWAYS Get Wrong

8. Space Travel And Galactic Distances

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A bit of a nitpick, but this is something which was brought home again very recently in Jedi: Fallen Order.

One of the most famous and most heavily utilised plot points in Star Wars is the dramatic jump to hyperspace and the subsequent jaunt across the galaxy at light speed.

However, this is a galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars, each presumably light years from the next.

With this in mind, travelling from the Galactic Core to the Outer Rim should take our heroes decades to accomplish, and even the youngest Padawan would have a full-on Qui-Gon Jinn beard and dodgy knees by the time they arrive.

In Fallen Order, Cal and co. were able to travel from Dathomir to Ilum - all the way out in the Unknown Regions - in less time than it took Greez to crack a joke.

The off-camera explanation of this is that hyperspace is in fact an alternate dimension, not a physical route between two points. But since Han Solo himself comments that the possibility of flying right through a star without precise calculations is an all too real danger, this argument is effectively nullified.

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