One of the major differences between the Knights of the Old Republic setting and campaigns set in the classic era is the way hyperspace travel functions. During wartime, the Republic goes to great pains to ensure that knowledge of secret hyperspace corridors remains concealed, and the guildhouse on Empress Teta becomes nearly as important as the Senate on Coruscant. While a route is still under investigation, the guild is responsible for maintaining the hyperspace beacons marking the route and organizing the scouts using the routes. Once a lane has been verified, the Hyperspace Navigators Guild passes the data on the route on to the Space Ministry, from which point the coordinates are distributed throughout the galaxy. Once a scout reports the existence of a new route the guild begins the lengthy process of verifying the safety and integrity of the route, investing large amounts of resources and time to make sure that the route is safe and will remain in existence for the long-term. Scouts across the galaxy are constantly attempting to discover new hyperspace routes, and the Navigators Guild pays handsomely for information regarding the creation of new hyperlanes. The Hyperspace Navigators Guild is responsible for the discovery and establishment of new hyperspace routes throughout the galaxy. This does not stop the guild from continuing to function as a primary repository for navigational data, especially in the Unknown Regions and Deep Core. During the Knights of the Old Republic period, most ships throughout the galaxy begin to carry their own navicomputers, and the hyperspace beacons maintained by the Navigators Guild rapidly diminish in importance. Though far from a politically influential organization, the Hyperspace Navigators Guild impacts the lives of sentient beings across the galaxy. Though such mapping expeditions are risky, they are exactly what many scouts live for. In fact, corporations and military organizations hire scout ships to map specific paths before moving a large fleet into unknown space. In remote areas of the galaxy, this information can be difficult to come by.
Whether vast battle fleets or single colonization ships, every starship requires the best data available. Because scout ships are often the most recent to travel certain routes, especially in remote areas of the galaxy, they might find that their astrogation data is worth a high price. Scouts might be commissioned specifically to discover new worlds for a specific patron.Ī scout's intimate knowledge of specific regions of space gives him a valuable commodity: astrogation information. Many species are seeking suitable planets for new colonies, and corporations are willing to pay for information regarding natural resources. Despite widespread warfare, this is also an era of rapid colonization. Their calculations also show that crew would need to store extra amounts of energy on a ship to overcome this pressure in order to continue on their journeys.The second major service is that of the scout's traditional role: exploration of space and new worlds. The team found after further investigation that the intense X-rays from stars would push the ship back, causing it to slow down. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is radiation left behind from the Big Bang, and is spread across the universe fairly uniformly.
They would simply see a central disc of bright light as Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is shifted into the visible spectrum. The effect means that the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation will be shortened.įrom spaceship crew’s point of view, the wavelength of the light from stars will decrease and ‘shift’ out of the visible spectrum into the X-ray range. There would be no sign of stars because of the Doppler effect – the same effect which causes the siren of an ambulance to become higher in pitch as it comes towards you.ĭoppler blue shift is a phenomenon caused by a source of electromagnetic radiation – including visible light – moving towards an observer. They have shown that the crew would actually see a central disc of bright light. The findings appear in two papers published in the University of Leicester’s Journal of Physics Special Topics ( paper1 & paper2). However, a team of University of Leicester students has shown that this would not be the case. As the hyperdrive is engaged, every star in the sky is seen to stretch before the characters’ eyes as the ship speeds through the galaxy. In films, spacecraft are equipped with hyperdrives which allow them to approach the speed of light. What University of Leicester physics students suggest hyperspace travel would really look like (University of Leicester)
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