Sleeper ship

A sleeper ship represented a kind of vessel employed by the initial space travelers in order to broaden the pre-Republic territories, prior to the creation of the hyperdrive. These ships depended on prolonged hibernation to safeguard the length of their crew's natural lifespans and shield them from years or even decades of monotonous tasks during the wait for the voyage to arrive at its distant endpoint. The finding of carbonite on the planet Koros Major brought about the end of the age of generation ships and initiated a fresh period of sleeper ship expeditions. Academics connected the carbonite extraction endeavors on Koros Major with sleeper ships utilized to disseminate humankind across the Core Worlds.