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The Space Hotel Is One of the Earliest Commercial Interstellar Transit Systems

Image: Lucasfilm
Image: Lucasfilm

Hyperspace travel is one of the most fundamental aspects of the Star Wars galaxy—its scope and its storytelling would be impossible without FTL travel. In recent years the saga has tackled this by exploring what a version of the galaxy can look like where it is still largely limited in some ways, like in the current second phase of the High Republic era, where the interstellar governance and travel of the galaxy is still difficult and uncharted.

And yet, apparently cruises like the ones taken by Chandrila Star Liners, the company behind the Halcyon, were some of the first widely accessible forms of hyperspace travel in the ages of expansion and exploration that shaped the spread of the Old Republic. Too bad accessible, price-wise, wasn’t something that was true of our world’s version.