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Originally Posted by MSD
The iron takes 30 seconds to warm up to max anyway and the toaster has a separate frozen setting. Warp drive creates a "warp bubble" that prevents time dilation and allows faster-than-light travel, the ship certainly moves through space.
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That explains Star Trek, but Star Wars uses Hyperspace rather than Warp drive to explain it's faster than light travel. In the Star Wars canon it's more a case of navigating a number of known safe paths through an alternate dimension or something similar. Apparently that's how they can justify the 'doing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs' line when a parsec is a measurement of distance, not time - the Millenium Falcon can use routes that other ships can't, and as such could navigate the Kessel run (which might be half a galaxy in real terms) in less than 12 parsecs of Hyperspace. I'm not convinced it wasn't a genuine goof, but hell it works, even if they did add that retrospectively.
That's a pretty common way of achieving faster than light speed in Science Fiction - very similar to the Immaterium (or Warp, not to be confused with Star Trek's Warp speed) in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.