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The
Rebel fleet launches from Sullust, "hundreds of light years"
from Endor, a scene split between scenes in the early morning Endor
time. They arrive during an afternoon.
If this afternoon is the same afternoon and scenes from the movie are
all sequential, and Endor's day is of similar length to Earth's, then
the
Rebel fleet took roughly 6-12 hours to arrive. The distance to Sullust
should be between 200 and 1,000 light years, meaning that the total
speed is 400-4,000 light years per day, or 150,000-1,500,000c.
If the Rebel fleet's launch from Sullust was shown out of sequence,
then we know nothing of the Rebel fleet's speed.
If additional days passed while the fleet is in hyperspace, the speed
is substantially less.
The novel also tells us this: That "in hyperspace, all time was a moment." We may speculate that
hyperspace involves time dilation effects, making the passage of time
on board starships unreliable for measuring speed. |
SDN:
Endor-Sullust is 3.5 million c.
ST-v-SW:
4-6 additional days passed, for a speed of 11,000 to 80,000c.
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