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Originally Posted by GGG
That was already clarified in the movie. The whole point of the second ship couldn't just track them and they had 6 minutes to escape. It's pretty clear from that you need to track the exit vector to follow them
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Well the second ship could track them, that was explicitly stated.
However they mentioned that during the 6 minute refresh cycle they could get away without the empire ships noticing that their tracking was gone. This suggests that the empire ships must be within close range of the jump to hyperspace in order for the tracking to work but they didn't explain the exact nature of the tracking with any specifics. Which is exactly why I said they might include that in my response to the post I quoted.
Just to elaborate a bit here. They said that if they blew up the tracking ship then another ship would just start tracking them. But if they flew away while the tracking was disabled then presumably that means the warp signature would be lost and that means the link couldn't be re-established by the main ship or any other ship. So it probably is pretty much confirmed that proximity is necessary for the tracking to work.