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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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Maybe I need to re-watch it, but how do we know that the start of ANH is 10 minutes after Rogue One?
My interpretation is that Leia's ship jumps to light speed randomly (basically just to GTFO), then they kind of drift and figure out how to reconnect with the rest of the rebels, then Leia figures to try to get help from Obi-wan.
Vader has to get back to his own ship from the Rebel cruiser. They probably had to send scouts in every direction, trying to get intel on the outer worlds. With this interpretation, it seems like the ANH chase scene starts days/weeks after the events of Rogue One, when Vader finally gets some intel from a patrol/interrogation/scout as to where that ship was going and catches up with them.