…for a given value of “plausible” when we’re talking about a 35-meter-long “hunk of junk” evading pursuit by an Imperial customs ship by flying faster (and thus cutting closer corners) around and through a cluster of black holes over a distance vast enough that light itself would need thirty-seven and a half years to make the trip.
Of course, the slower light would need to take a longer route. So there’s that.
