The Bothan Way - by Vae Ardexa
Vae studied the swirling kaleidoscopic vortex of the hyperspace tunnel, his senses extended, feeling the ship accelerate to incomprehensible speeds in a dimension that defied description. Hyperspace had always fascinated him, so different as it was from realspace. An important legacy from a bygone era and a piece of cultural significance to the heritage of the Force, the hyperdrive had first entered mainstream use during the reign of a long-vanished species known as the Rakata. Harnessing the power of the Force - namely the Dark Side - and combining it with esoteric technology, they had achieved true interstellar travel, enabling the rapid and overwhelming expansion of their Infinite Empire. So alien and arcane was their technology, it was not until centuries after their fall that the inhabitants of Corellia succeeded in reverse engineering the technology and, most importantly, improved it: their new hyperdrive was purely a technological beast, requiring no use of the Force.
