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Pseudomotion
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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
Pseudomotion, the term referred to the seeming dramatic acceleration of a starship upon entering hyperspace. The equivalent phenomenon was observed upon re-entering realspace in the form of massive apparent deceleration. It is not understood if this is an illusion, as relativistic travel faster than the speed of light is impossible, or an effect of the dimensional transition from hyperspace to realspace.
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