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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
So something struck me last night. This movie just created a bit of a plot hole in Episode 4
They make it pretty clear in this movie that up until now tracking a ship through light speed is impossible.
At the end of Rogue One, Leia's ship jumps to lightspeed.
At the beginning of ANH (like 10 minutes later) she's being chased by Darth Vader's star destroyer.
How the hell did the Empire follow/track her to Tatooine?
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I don't think that this is a big deal since this movie takes place a decades in the future.
Remember that the Empire has been able to pull ships out of hyper-space when they made gravity well projectors canon in Rebels.
The one thing that they did say in Empire Strikes back when the Falcon hid in the garbage was to calculate all hyperspace routes since hyperspace routes in the GFFA are fixed routes like highways.
How ships would lose them is make a bunch of jumps. Kind of like taking side streets.
For example these are called the Perlemian trade routes
Basically the "Navcomputers" in Star Wars had all of these routes in their memory and when you wanted to go from one spot to the other it would calculate the safest and fastest routes.