Quote Originally Posted by Chen View Post
Actually isn't ST sub-light speed better than SW? For sure hyperspace is way faster than warp, but full impulse for ST is somewhere around a quarter light speed. There's no way any human targetting is hitting something moving around even close to that speed.
They don't generally fight at full impulse, though, and there's no on-screen definition of SW sublight drives' maximum speed, other than that they're sufficient to travel from atmosphere to outside the gravity well in mere moments. The Death Star's 30 minute orbit around Yavin is pretty obviously on the slower end of max sublight speeds (it's a moon-sized battlestation!).