Great Hyperspace Rush

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"Either way, when the Republic was expanding, there was a sort of rush to map and claim the existing, yet unknown, routes. It was a little bit of math, navigation, and a whole lot of good luck. My family, of course, mapped out several routes, some of which were private until your mother and people like her campaigned to have the Republic make them accessible to all."
―Xylan Graf, to Sylvestri Yarrow[4]

The Great Hyperspace Rush was an onrush to map and claim the existing yet unknown hyperspace routes as the Galactic Republic expanded into the outer regions of the galaxy during the High Republic Era, which had yet to be well mapped.[4]

History

The rush

On the order of Supreme Chancellors Orlen Mollo and Kyong Greylark, dozens of Galactic Republic Pathfinder teams were sent deep into the Outer Rim Territories as part of an effort to bring the galaxy together.[5] In particular, these Republic Pathfinders hunted for new hyperspace routes[6] and worked on establishing a reliable communications network for the Rim.[7] The Jedi Order helped Republic Pathfinders in their efforts.[5] However, many private parties also worked to uncover new hyperlanes due to the large amount of money to be made.[4] As such, the Hyperspace Rush was underway in[1] and around the year 383 BBY. The work of independent explorers was considered to be that of the rush,[8] whereas the direct Republic-sponsored work could be dated back to 392 BBY.[1] The search for hyperlanes continued[3] into 382 BBY.[9]

One of the Republic's Pathfinder teams charted lanes nearby[5] the Outer Rim planet[10] Sullust, leading to the discovery of the planet Tunguray. As the last of the Tungurary people were threatened by great deals of volcanic activity, the Pathfinders helped them evacuate to the Republic capital of Coruscant. Jedi Knight Gella Nattai led a Pathfinder team to Orvax, but their mission ended in disaster.[5] The Graf family of hyperspace prospectors, who were responsible for both great works and great horrors, mapped out several routes and played a role in the rush that was still whispered about by the people of the Outer Rim and frontier many years later. The San Tekka clan, rivals of the Grafs, also spent lives while prospecting during the rush.[4] According to Piralli, who was speaking around the time of the Battle of Jedha, the San Tekkas were the galaxy's most successful hyperspace prospectors at that time.[11] The San Tekkas and Grafs would also sponsor the Hyperspace Chase.[12]

Toward the end of the rush, the San Tekkas turned a tide of loss and pain into one of profit using the abilities of the hyperspace savant Mari San Tekka, whose abilities helped them map valuable new routes through areas like the Relgim Run and the Bitmus Cloud after the rush. During the rush, a hologram was taken of Mari writing out the locational code for a navigational beacon in the Berenge sector using numbered blocks. The Grafs eventually hired a information broker to find out the clan's secret and so learned about San Tekka, who then went missing[4] after being captured by the Ro family[13] between circa 350 BBY and 330 BBY.[8]

Legacy

The Grafs kept some of the routes mapped during the rush private until the scientist Chancey Yarrow and others like her campaigned to have all routes made accessible by the Republic. However, over one hundred years later, the Graf family still kept some private routes using a number of their beacons that were still left over from the Great Hyperspace Rush. The beacons were encrypted and appeared only in the navigation computers of the Grafs. Yarrow mentioned the Great Hyperspace Rush when explaining San Tekka's abilities to Nan, a member of the Nihil,[4] in 231 BBY.[14]

In 232 BBY,[15] Jedi Master Douglas Sunvale referenced the Great Hyperspace Rush while reassuring Dalnan Ambassador Janex that their planned journey through hyperspace aboard the Steady Wing would be safe despite the recent Great Hyperspace Disaster and ongoing Emergences.[16]

Behind the scenes

The Hyperspace Rush was first mentioned in the 2021 middle grade novel The High Republic: A Test of Courage, written by Justina Ireland.[16] The 2023 reference book Star Wars: Timelines dated the entirety of the Hyperspace Rush to around 383 BBY[8] while the reference book Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia, released later that same year, firmly dated the entire rush to 383 BBY.[1] However, the novel The High Republic: Out of the Shadows, despite at one point suggesting these events occur "after" the Hyperspace Rush, establishes that Mari San Tekka was active "toward the end of the rush" before her kidnapping.[4] Timelines dates her kidnapping to between c. 350 BBY and 330 BBY,[8] meaning the rush must have continued past 383 BBY after all. Indeed, the search for hyperspace routes appears throughout Phase II: Quest of the Jedi,[3] which occurs in 382 BBY.[8] As such, this article assumes 383 BBY was the beginning of the rush, not its sole year.

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ The High Republic: Out of the Shadows establishes that Mari San Tekka was active towards the end of the Great Hyperspace Rush. Star Wars: Timelines dates her kidnapping to between c. 350 BBY to 330 BBY, so the rush must have ended around that same time.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The High Republic: Path of Deceit
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 The High Republic: Out of the Shadows
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The High Republic: Convergence
  6. ↑ SWInsider "Galactic Tales: Inheritance" — Star Wars Insider 211
  7. ↑ The High Republic — The Blade 1
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Star Wars: Timelines
  9. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Star Wars: The High Republic Phase Two to 232 BBY.
  10. ↑ StarWars.com Much to Learn You Still Have: 7 Things You Might Not Know About Sullustans on StarWars.com (backup link)
  11. ↑ SWInsider "Tales of Enlightenment: The Unusual Suspect" — Star Wars Insider 216
  12. ↑ The High Republic: Quest for Planet X
  13. ↑ The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
  14. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: Out of the Shadows to 231 BBY.
  15. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: A Test of Courage to 232 BBY.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 The High Republic: A Test of Courage
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