I agree. I don't really see the point in them showing every garbage dump. For the same reasons they don't bother showing characters brushing their teeth, eating 3 meals a day, etc. Doesn't mean it's not happening it's just not necessary to be depicted on screen.
Like in New York. City garbage loads given to the lowest bidder who owns a large barge. Barge disappears overnight and no one on Earth seems to know where it magically emptied its cargo when it shows up the next afternoon empty. Definitely a scene that is not getting filmed or given any screen time.
Well... who says Han wouldn't know to stop halfway there and turn the friggin' ship 45 degrees for another hyperspace jump?
This brings in the question of when the hyperspace tracking technology came about because Vader's statement does seem to balance between the two: 1) having some kind of tracking and thinking they can pick up the scent using that tracking by starting off in a known direction 2) not having tracking because they can't tell he's right there. But honestly, I thought the one thing they COULD tell, before they developed hyperspace tracking, was that a hyperspace jump had been made by something in that area. So to not notice that it did not happen at all seems odd. It all goes in stages as the tech progresses during the 3 movies ultimately ending in interdictors.
You're right. I forgot about that.
They can but its a future tense thing only available after ROTJ. But maybe the explanation for why an interdictor can yank a ship out of hyperspace is not based on tracking.
Interdictors work by emitting a gravity well that forces any ship at hyperspace back into realspace due to the safety interlocks built into navicomputers. When a gravity well (planet or star) is encountered, hyperdrive is cut off so the craft, ship doesn't run smack into a celestial body.
