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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
I read somewhere that staring out a window during hyperspace can drive you mad, but yea the supposed effect on eggs is weird. waiting for Cap's EU-based hypothesis on it.
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I can only recall one book where they touched on that, which was Death Star where Vader liked looking out the window during hyper space jumps, because Hyperspace was complex to look at and to an extent multi dimensional and it represented his state of mind. But I don't recall anyone going nuts or even closing windows during the jump.
There are excellent stories from other writers and franchises.
Stephen King wrote an awesome short story, I think it was called the Jaunt. where future travel was through portal. People were put to sleep before they went through, but one kid didn't take the drugs and went through the jaunt awake and came out ancient and insane screaming that it was an eternity in there even though the jaunt took less then a second.
In Wing Commander people got physically disoriented and sick going through their jump points because even though the jump took less then a second there was a sense of eternity and a fear of what would happen if you never exited the other jump point.
Maybe in Star Wars there's a radiation in hyperspace that effects the eggs.
I don't think there's a payoff of the baby eating the eggs except that he's a big of a jerk driven by hunger. Maybe the mother has an expectation of not all eggs surviving and its why her species pumps out so many as a survival instinct.
No big explanation here.