Could the Death Star travel faster than light?
Almost every ship (excluding speeders and small fighters) in the Star Wars universe can travel at light speed. As far as I'm aware most space stations can't (Bespin certainly doesn't seem to).
The Death Star is shown to move very slowly (at least it gives them plenty of time while orbiting Yavin). However it also appears to move between star systems.
Can the Death Star travel faster than light? If so is this common in the Star Wars universe?
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Yes, of course! If it could not travel faster than light, interstellar travel would be impossible and battle station restricted to a single star-system would be pretty useless.
In Star Wars Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the Death Star travels from Alderaan to Yavin IV, which are not in the same stellar system. Without faster than light capacity, that journey would have taken years.
Here is what the first Death Star Wookiepedia article says about it:
The battle station also included two massive sublight engines in the midsection, as well as a formidable hyperdrive system. Driven by 123 individual generators tied to one navigational matrix, the class 4 hyperdrive was fast enough to allow the Death Star to travel thousands of light years from Alderaan to Yavin IV in only a few hours.
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Can the Death Star travel in hyperspace?
Using linked banks of 123 hyperdrive field generators tied into a single navigational matrix, the Death Star could travel across the galaxy at superluminal velocities.How long would it take to cross the Death Star?
Most people on the Death Star aren't TIE fighter pilots, so the dignitaries would most likely be taking a TIE command shuttle, which has a lower velocity. In that situation, it would take just under 14 minutes for Death Star I and 18 minutes for Death Star II.Do they travel faster than light in Star Wars?
Hyperdrives allow starships to travel faster than the speed of light, crossing space through the alternate dimension of hyperspace. Large objects in normal space cast \u201cmass shadows\u201d in hyperspace, so hyperspace jumps must be precisely calculated to avoid collisions.Would building a Death Star be possible?
Although generating enough metal to build a Death Star would be "bonkers," technically speaking, it would be possible, Peck said. But there would need to be a huge space industry infrastructure to support it, including the ability to launch many more rockets than we can today, and asteroid mining.Did Superweapons Have Hyperdrives - Star Wars Explained
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