Relativistic shield

Relativistic shielding is the term for a specific type of shielding installed on hyperspace-capable ships. They protect the ship from time-dilation effect.

Details
Little information is available about the physics of this type of shielding. It is known that although it classified in the same subject as ray shielding and particle shielding, it is not a shield in a traditional sense, at it does not protect the ship from any type of attacks or energies, except perhaps some types of energy generated from hyperspace travel.

There are some curious effects of travelling without relativistic shields, mainly in that time would pass by slower to an observer outside of the ship than to an observer in the ship. This would mean that, due the E=mc2 equation, the ship travelling in hyperspace would travel forward in time as compared to an outside observer. Relativistic shielding affects the process somehow, forcing the transit of time in the ship to pass normally compared to outside observers.

One famed example is that of Bosbit Matarcher, who gained brief attention on Holonet News when his relativistic shielding failed and he ended up traveling 190 years forward in time, from 212 BBY to 22 BBY.