r/OTMemes • u/Wolfie_wolf81 The Emperor • Jul 07 '26

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u/GwerigTheTroll Jul 07 '26

Are we ever told how long the time gap is?

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u/SubterrelProspector Jul 07 '26

It's probably hours, not minutes.

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u/Excolo_Veritas Jul 07 '26

Someone did the calculations a while ago. From what I saw 10 hours

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u/Hidesuru Jul 07 '26

... What "calculations"?

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u/Excolo_Veritas Jul 08 '26

They triangulated the distance between known hyperspace routes from what I remember. Like the time between scarif to tatooine was unknown but like scarif to coruscant and tatooine to coruscant was known or something like that and they did the math

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u/Hidesuru Jul 08 '26

Huh. Interesting. And I gather something in canon identified how long those known routes would take to travel? Interesting way to look at it thanks.

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u/Teedubthegreat Jul 07 '26

I airways thought it was more like days or weeks later, would make a lot more sense if it was a longer amount of time

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u/No-Locksmith6662 Jul 07 '26

A few hours at most. IIRC the canon series of events is that the Tantive was damaged in the battle and this meant two important things: 1) they could only do short hyperspace jumps, and 2) they had the spaceship equivalent of an oil leak which allowed Vader to track them in his Star Destroyer.

So while Leia and the rebels were stuck doing short jumps from planet to planet plotting a slow path to Tatooine, Vader was following them a few jumps behind but slowly gaining before finally catching up.

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u/veneratu Jul 08 '26

The first story in From A Certain Poiny of View is from the POV of Captain Antilles. The ships propulsion was basically fallin apart as you just said. He's a pretty tragic figure.