I just saw the later comments on one of my earlier posts, and yes, I would actually like to see the reasons Star Wars IV has to take place in eleven days.
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I was beginning to think you'd never ask.
According to the Star Wars Roleplaying game (Which is verifiable C-canon (see wikipedia link attached to my name) ) the total time that the Millenium Falcon spent in hyperspace would have to be 72 hours, or three (3) days.
The first jump in the Falcon is from Tatooine (in the outer rim) to Alderaan (one of the core worlds). Such a jump takes 96 hours normally, but the Millennium Falcon has a x.5 hyperdrive, according to the stats in the RPG (admittedly, stats are considered N-canon, but are useful for this sort of guesswork). Thus the time is halved, to 48.
For the second jump, from the former location of Alderaan to the Yavin system (which, like Tatooine, is in the outer rim), but the two systems are in the same quadrant, and the time is thus halved to 48, bringing the jump to 24 hours when the Falcon’s hyperdrive is applied. Thus, the equation becomes:
(96 + 96/2) x.5 = 72
3 days; Added to the previous 2, this would bring the total up to 5.
But then, we must consider the fact that the Death Star is much slower than the Falcon, which would consequently leave a space in time after they escaped to the Rebel base. According to the RPG, the Death Star has a hyperdrive of x3, thus making the jump that Han and friends made in 24 hours, take the Death Star around 144 hours—5 days longer. It’s natural to assume that the rebels spent the intervening time reviewing the plans from Princess Leia, planning the assault, and training and debriefing the pilots and new recruits (as well as paying Han Solo his money).
So that would seem to bring the grand total up to 10 days. But, there’s more observation to be made from the films end sequence. This is pure conjecture, but judging from the condition that R2-D2 is in after the battle, and his subsequent shiny metal finish at the ending award ceremony, one can only surmise that at least one day must have passed in between. Since this scene could be considered an epilogue, and not actually a part of the main story, we should—in fairness—simply say that the total rests at 10.5.
…Or should we? To be entirely technical, the Tatooine “day” is only 23 hours long, rather than the 24 hour day that we have been using to calculate time. 10.5 earth days = 252 hours, or about 11 Tatooine days.
So there you go. It's essentially days, although you could guess that they fixed R2 up really really quickly, and use our 24 hour day system to arrive at 10 days, rather than 11.
But more than 2. Oh so much more than 2.
Woot! Woot! Woot!
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Thanks. I needed a big dose of sci-fi geekiness.
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