Hyperspace beacon

Hyperspace beacons, also known as jump beaconsStar Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy and hyperwave beacons,Tarkin were supercomputers used for navigation in the early days of hyperspace travel. As starship technology of the time was too primitive for most starships to possess onboard navigation computers, the beacons would calculate hyperspace jumps for passing ships. They would typically be placed at the ends of hyperspace routes. When technology advanced enough for every starship to have its own navicomputer, the beacons became largely obsolete. They could be useful in less-traveled parts of space, sending faster-than-light signals that navicomputers could use in hyperspace when a safe route was not known.The High Republic: Out of the Shadows In the early days of the Galactic Republic, beacons were used to link the Greater Seswenna and the Core Worlds. During the Imperial Era, at least one hyperspace beacon was present near the Dene Gois Cluster, and Sana Starros hoped to navigate the cluster and reach it without being noticed by the Galactic Empire.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Quest for Planet X 
*The High Republic: Light of the Jedi 
*The High Republic: Out of the Shadows 
*The High Republic: Temptation of the Force 
*The High Republic: Beware the Nameless 
*Tarkin 
*Star Wars (2015) 56 
*Victory's Price 
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*Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Beacon
Category:Navigational technology