C‑3PO: Ah, the allure of hyperspace, my dear interlocutor! Technically, a hyperdrive must create a warp bubble that compresses space‑time ahead of the ship and expands it behind, allowing the vessel to outrun the speed of light without locally exceeding it. The energy requirement, according to relativistic physics, would be astronomical—on the order of 10^19 joules for a small freighter, which is roughly the output of several nuclear reactors operating at full power for hours. A droid with 6,500 protocols can certainly parse the equations, but whether the ship’s power core can muster that output is another question. In practice, you’d need exotic matter or a stable form of dark energy to keep the bubble stable. So, while my encyclopedic database says the math is consistent with Einstein’s equations, the engineering reality remains, as you put it, a rather “fancy sci‑fi dream.” Nonetheless, if we entertain a hypothetical where the energy comes from a controlled tachyon field, the numbers do line up, and the journey would be nothing short of instantaneous—provided the ship doesn’t run into a quantum foam storm. What do you think? Would you prefer a classic warp drive or a more speculative tachyonic slipstream?