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If only they had Technical Support men like Nick Burns on every Destroyer...

" I don't understand...I clearly dumped the garbage before going into hyperspace"

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Maybe he meant it's standard procedure in that if your trash is full, that's the time to do it? The rest of the SDs are just still stomping it down so they still have room.

Hmm, that would mean Solo was taking a desperate risk, in that he would have to know or assume that the Avenger had no more room to store garbage.

No, I'm in the camp that they always drop garbage, just we never see it. And it would also make sense that they don't drop garbage while in orbit or near a gravity well, either. Which eliminates many ISD jumps we've seen. The Avenger was in deeper space when it dumped.
 
No, I'm in the camp that they always drop garbage, just we never see it. And it would also make sense that they don't drop garbage while in orbit or near a gravity well, either. Which eliminates many ISD jumps we've seen. The Avenger was in deeper space when it dumped.
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.
 
Hmm, that would mean Solo was taking a desperate risk, in that he would have to know or assume that the Avenger had no more room to store garbage.

No, I'm in the camp that they always drop garbage, just we never see it. And it would also make sense that they don't drop garbage while in orbit or near a gravity well, either. Which eliminates many ISD jumps we've seen. The Avenger was in deeper space when it dumped.
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.
 
Am I just imagining this? I thought there were some sub stories about whole groups of space travelers that purposely pick up the dumped garbage? Salvagers? Or am I mixing-in non SW stories? Wasn't there some Star Wars Rebels episodes that exposed this aspect of imperial life?
 
And another thing, why did the Imperials jump off to hyperspace right then anyway? They make no mention that maybe the Falcon also jumped. They just give up the hunt right then and there?
 
And another thing, why did the Imperials jump off to hyperspace right then anyway? They make no mention that maybe the Falcon also jumped. They just give up the hunt right then and there?

They do, actually:

Piett after Needa's death: "If the Millennium Falcon went into lightspeed, it would be on the other side of the galaxy by now."

Then Vader says to track them along their last known trajectory.
 
They do, actually:

Piett after Needa's death: "If the Millennium Falcon went into lightspeed, it would be on the other side of the galaxy by now."

Then Vader says to track them along their last known trajectory.
Well... who says Han wouldn't know to stop halfway there and turn the friggin' ship 45 degrees for another hyperspace jump?
 
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.
 
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.

Unless Disney changed things, I don't think they can actually track a ship in Hyperspace. The tracking device just broadcasts once they jump back into normal space.
 
Unless Disney changed things, I don't think they can actually track a ship in Hyperspace. The tracking device just broadcasts once they jump back into normal space.
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.
 
Typically, and again if Disney hasn't mucked it up, Interdictor Cruisers work by creating an artificial gravity well that triggers the safeties in ships to pull them out of Hyperspace. It makes the computer think they are going to fly into a planet. So in the EU they would usually be setup along known Hyperspace lanes to pull ships out. So if you knew what Hyperspace route your target is using, you could position Interdictors at the most likely exit points, or along those points, to capture them. Thrawn used them to pull his fleets out exactly where he wanted them to be positioned.
 
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.

The interdictor's gravity well is a device that simulates a celestial body's gravity signat--

Typically, and again if Disney hasn't mucked it up, Interdictor Cruisers work by creating an artificial gravity well that triggers the safeties in ships to pull them out of Hyperspace. It makes the computer think they are going to fly into a planet. So in the EU they would usually be setup along known Hyperspace lanes to pull ships out. So if you knew what Hyperspace route your target is using, you could position Interdictors at the most likely exit points, or along those points, to capture them. Thrawn used them to pull his fleets out exactly where he wanted them to be positioned.

Um, yeah. That. Sorry, didn't see your explanation! o_O
 
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