[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

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.

I don't know.
If it's that simple, why was it such a big deal in TLJ that they could now track them through lightspeed?

If it's such a simple thing (as it appears to be in ANH) then why was it
a) such a surprise the First Order found them so quickly
b) such a bid deal to shut down the tracker

The whole premise of the movie is that the Resistance can't get away because they can be tracked.

If Vader could find Leia so easily in ANH without a tracker, then why do they suddenly need a tracker to follow the Resistance now, and why would it make a difference when Fin and Rose shut it down?