[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Regorium

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.

If that's the case then the rebels aren't that smart. It's been a few weeks and it hasn't occurred to Leia to make a backup of the plans for the Deathstar?

It kind of has to be right away otherwise it makes no sense that there would still be 1 copy of the plans and it's on that ship.