Navigation computer/Legends

"Travelin' through hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"

- Han Solo to Luke Skywalker

A navigation computer, also known as an astrogation computer, navicomputer, or nav computer, was a device that made the careful calculations necessary to navigate through hyperspace. Navicomputers would calculate data like the exact destination, the quickest and safest route to it, and the number of hyperspace jumps necessary. Most starships carried a nav computer of some sort, though some starfighters made do with only an astromech droid. Smaller ships often possessed limited nav computers, capable of containing data for only a small number of jumps; larger ships had large dedicated nav computers capable of storing coordinates for nearly any foreseeable destination. Some nav computers were handheld. Smugglers tended to voice-print their navicomputers to hide where their ship had been.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment
 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
 * Outbound Flight
 * Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (novel)
 * The Clone Wars: The Pengalan Tradeoff
 * The Cestus Deception
 * MedStar II: Jedi Healer
 * Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
 * Echoes of the Jedi
 * Deader than a Triton Moon
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Deadly Reunion
 * Allegiance
 * Star Wars Rebellion 11: Small Victories, Part 1
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars: Yoda Stories
 * Queen of the Empire
 * The Courtship of Princess Leia
 * Dark Empire
 * Star by Star
 * Destiny's Way
 * The Unifying Force
 * Tempest
 * Tempest