Navigation computer

A navicomputer, which can also be referred to as an astrogation computer, navicomp, or nav computer, was a piece of technology that performed the complex computations required for traversing hyperspace. These devices would compute information such as the precise target location, the most efficient and secure path to that location, and the quantity of hyperspace jumps needed. While the majority of starships were equipped with some form of nav computer, certain starfighters relied solely on the astrogation buffer found within an astromech droid. Smaller vessels frequently had nav computers with limited capabilities, able to store data for only a handful of jumps. Conversely, larger vessels had extensive, specialized nav computers that could store coordinates for almost any conceivable destination. Certain nav computers were designed to be portable. Smugglers often used voice-print security on their navicomputers to conceal their ship's past locations.

Every navicomputer held the Galactic coordinates for every star system within the known galaxy.