Why did the Republic or the Empire not make any attempt to explore other nearby spiral galaxies? The fastest ships are able to cross the galaxy in a couple of days so a trip to another galaxy can't take more than a couple of weeks. Food and water rationing wouldn't be that hard.
According to the old cannon, the home galaxy had several dwarf elliptical satellite galaxies that were close enough that ships traveled to them regularly, but no attempt was made to travel to another major galaxy, even though several extragalactic species are known to have taken up residence in (ortried to conquer) the home galaxy.
Will we see this concept come to fruition in episode 8, 9?
>>72016707
>Couple of weeks
From here to Andromeda at average Sci Fi FTL speeds you're looking at over 500 years.
>>72016707
Google the Empire of the Hand
The Empire had thrawn colonize the unknown regions
Nobody gives a shit about "exploration" in the Star Wars universe when every day is a fight to survive for most people.
>>72016773
The ships in Star Wars were much faster than the ones in Star Trek.
>>72016773
Star Wars travel is much faster though. at the end of Empire they are OUTSIDE the fucking galaxy.
Traveling from the Outer Rim to the core takes a few hours.
>>72016899
I think they need hyper space lanes to travel quickly. The hyper drives didn't work outside the galaxy thanks to some mythical beings(not canon now)
>>72016707
I'm not an astronomer but I played Space Engine and galaxies are incredibly far apart. It is actually pretty horrifying just how much empty space is out there without even a single star to be seen.
>>72016812
The unknown regions are just an unexplored part of the home galaxy.
The distance between galaxies is fucking huge. Like, HUGE huge.
You need a map to use hyperspace. That means someone needs to do the route at normal speed first. Or do a reckless Solo-stunt and try to do it without crashing/getting pulled into something. Easier to do with short distance than long distance.
>mfw there could be an expansive galactic civilization inside two galaxiesin the process of colliding
>mfw since the collision process itself lasts millions of years that civilization would be mostly unaffected
>>72017040
Even then, something like a rogue meteor can mean your death. Remember when Han almost crashed into the remains of Alderan because it was on his hyperspace route?
>>72016707
>The fastest ships are able to cross the galaxy in a couple of days so a trip to another galaxy can't take more than a couple of weeks.
Besides the not cannon outbound flight project where they did exactly that, i think you are severely underestimating astronomical distances between galaxies. If you thought interstellar space is empty how desolate do you think intergalactic space is?
Not to mention that hyperspace engines require fuel.
Or that making the jump to hyperspace takes a ton of calculations in well mapped space to not get lost or wind up inside a celestial body.
>>72017219
>Besides the not cannon outbound flight project where they did exactly that
sauce
>Extra-galactic travel was difficult due to a hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy that prevented hyperspace routes very far outside the disk, and beyond this, the barren vastness of the Intergalactic Void.
The Yuuzhan Vong were an extra-galactic species that travelled over a millennia to reach the Star Wars galaxy only because their own one was dying
>>72016707
>The fastest ships are able to cross the galaxy in a couple of days
That was because they could employ hyperspace travel through already-scouted routes. You can't employ that when going through unknown territory, because you could just as likely end up flying straight into a planet, asteroid belt or black hole.
Nobody's wanted to do the sacrificial scouting.
>>72017219
I do believe he is tremendously underestimating the distance, but as to the last point about not winding up in a celestial body I'd have to disagree. Intergalactic space would be the absolute safest place to avoid running into fucking anything.
In reality it would even be pretty unlikely to hit anything while passing through a galaxy, but there just isn't anything between galaxies to hit.
>>72017340
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_disturbance_beyond_the_edge_of_the_galaxy
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Intergalactic_Void
Several millennia actually, and they had to travel at sublight speed and essentially aiming blind
Considering the ease with which massive fleets of huge ships are made in SW, couldn't the just build thousands of tiny ships, nothing more than a hyperdrive, a communication system and a navigation system and send them out on a methodical grid like pattern to try and find route to the nearest galaxies?
It might take months or even years of small, incremental jumps and then relaying and compiling the navigation data to some base in the home galaxy, but eventually you'd find a safe, mapped route to another galaxy. Wouldn't that be worth it? A potentially entirely untapped galaxy of resources available. Wouldn't someone like the trade federation cum in their pants at the possibility? And they seem like one group who might have the resources to enact such a mission, let alone the entire republic working together. They could probably produce fucking millions of tiny ships and scout for multiple galaxy hyperspace routes.
>>72017479
>>72017340
So, what, an entire galaxy worth of ships basically made a jump that lasted thousands of years? There were no more reinforcements, they all came in at once? How many ships were destroyed during the trip?
>>72017701
I think they were hive/city ships so they put their entire civilisation on the ships and set off to find a new galaxy to settle.
>>72017701
It was a mass emigration because they had destroyed their own galaxy through war. It says in the article they lost many ships on the journey. When they arrived, they were able to zerg rush large swathes of a fatigued Republic and Imperial remnant until they joined forces and eventually defeated them
>>72017617
Because hack scifi writers consciously prevent status quo upsetting things from happening in their precious settings.
