'Crashing into a sun' really is no topic at all at 2000 times the speed of light. The time it takes to go through any ball of gas is somewhere in the thousandth of a second range. Even the naked human body would survive it without losing a hair.
Same goes for the swingby effect btw. Not relevant at relativistic speeds *does 25th loop of shame tonight*
2000 times is maximum supercruise speed not hyperspace, I said 20,000 times or greater.
Also, stars are not balls of gas
they are balls of plasma with dense cores that are mostly made up of elements as heavy as iron or heavier.
at 20,000 times the speed of light your ship could survive grazing the corona or the layer under it, but any deeper will cause a problem.
hitting a star at that speed would be like a bullet hitting ballistic jelly with variable density. with the corona and the layer under it being more like jello than ballisitc jelly
Gravity and quantum friction is not necessarily a problem for the FSD while its in the hyperspace state but hitting a large amount of mass while in transit very well could be, for it and your ship.
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