Isn´t hypermatter coming from black holes (or mined in areas close to black holes)? If yes than it should be abundant in the MW also, even though the extraction infrastructure is lacking. But building it up should not be a problem after the Empire have come.TheHammer wrote:
No one knows exactly where hypermatter comes from, but extraction from hyperspace is one possibility.
And it really doesn't make sense for Tibanna gas to be rare and mined on only a few worlds considering you've got a galaxy worth of ships and people whose weapons for the most part are based on Tibanna gas. Thinking logically, if Bespin were one of the few places that Tibanna gas could be mined you'd have to consider that a very important strategic resource, and thus expect the presence of a signficant imperial fleet to protect it. Instead its considered a nothing special mining operation flying under the Empire's radar, at least until the MF shows up.
Or it is retconned and hypermatter is something else in the actual canon?