NINJAS: Snail, please review changes and let me know if you want to change your last action. NOt sure it affects you, but want to make sure. I'm not seeing much in the way of suggestions, so I'll probably give you guys another day.
GM note: Error was made, retcon requiredSo, checked some things, and yes...need to make a change to the last update.
Ordinarily, communication with a ship in hyperspace would not be possible. There happens to be an exception, and the exception sort of applies here...but the conditions for that exception just aren't good enough to work. You shouldn't have been able to talk to them:
Hyperspace "In addition to navigational hazards, there was also the difficulty inherent in communicating with a starship while traveling at hyperspeed. Since ships in hyperspace did not exist, in a conventional sense, they were largely cut off from conventional radio or subspace communication, since wavelengths of any signal would be massively distorted even if they reached the vessel. Hypercomm signals could reach a vessel in hyperspace, however it was very difficult to communicate in even this fashion unless the signal was sent from one end or the other of the traveling ship's course, or between ships on the same course."As a military warship, it's reasonable that you might have a
hyperwave communicator. A bit unusual for a ship of your size, but you do have one, as evidenced by the communication between your ship and Darth Vader in the background story in the opening post.
Even so, it would be "very difficult" to communicate except with someone on "one end or the other" of your course or with a ship on parallel course. The outpost
was sort of at your starting point, but now that I think about it, re-checking the sensor data I gave you guys in a previous update, that outpost would have had to have been at least 15 light years away from where you were, and probably much further. That's just too far for you to have been able to talk to them.
Which brings us to the second issue: the outpost should not be able to track your location, because again, you're in hyperspace.
The thing here is that the tracking of ships in hyperspace is a thing that happens very often in Star Wars canon, but it has some specific rules. You can't see where a ship
is while in hyperspace, but...1) if you're near the spot where a ship is about to
exit hyperspace, it's possible to detect the imminent arrival in advance (this is actually a major plot point in the battle at Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back, and why the Rebels were able to raise the shields before Vader's fleet arrives), and 2) if you're watching a ship when it
enters hyperspace, you can determine its course. Hyperspace travel is straight-line only, no turns. So if you see where it's pointed, that's where it's going.
It's reasonable to suggest that the outpost was monitoring you, since not only were you downright suspicious, you'd just been in contact with it. But, after checking canon, apparently the range to able to do that sort of prediction is "a couple light seconds." And you were at least 15 light years away.
That outpost really shouldn't have any idea where you are or where you're headed.
I feel it's a little late to "undo" the conversation Snail555 had with the outpost. Some crucial information was revealed, and I'm not going to ask you to pretend it didn't happen. I'm just going to acknowledge the mistake on my part, and we'll play through it.
However, in regards to the outpost knowing your general heading (I got it right that he didn't know you were headed to Ryloth at least, but he shouldn't have known your direction at all) and your current location well enough to tell you how how long it would take for an escort to arrive...since I don't see any suggestions relating to that, I'm going to retcon that. I've edited the conversation accordingly.
To be fair the change probably benefits you, since it means if you want to escape you probably can, and you're not really losing anything since if you want to turn around and head back to the outpost, you don't really need the escort.
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