Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
Did you know the Millennium Falcon is supposedly flying at nearly 50 000 times the speed of light in normal space, on its sub-light engines? True story. That's why it could go to Bespin so quickly without a hyperdrive. Actually, it's not clear at all that hyperspace is needed at all with this kind of speed.

Note that the X-Wings and TIE fighters are even faster. And people wonder why the empire didn't bother putting hyperspace drives in the TIEs.
What happened to the Falcon just having a backup hyper drive?