If she had a battery of these missiles, she could simply have launched them from standoff range. At the range where Holdo launched her assault, the laser batteries (and calling them lasers does hurt me a little bit) on Snoke's flagship weren't powerful enough to penetrate her cruiser's shields. (In fact, if Holdo's ship was moving at light speed, the incredible part is that Snoke's entire ship wasn't obliterated ( relevant xkcd). If it was moving at the speed of light, it would obliterate pretty much anything it came in contact with. Or (and this is a question that's always bothered me about Star Wars) you could build a missile, maybe about half the size of an A-wing fighter with a hyperdrive in it (I think A-wings have hyperdrives in one of the movies) and just program them to seek and destroy enemy ships. Like, you said, you could strap hyperdrives onto rocks and suddenly you've got massive ship killers. Second issue: Admiral Holdo may have just invented the greatest anti-capital ship weapon of all time. Except now, it look like hyperspace might be achieved by actually accelerating the ship to light speed. Even in the 70's, we knew that accelerating an object to the speed of light isn't actually possible (I think). This question opens up a giant can of worms and potentially changes the entire paradigm of ship-to-ship combat in the Star Wars universe.įirst issue: hyperspace is supposed to be an alternate dimension. If he had been less cocky, he might have heeded his minion's warning and destroyed it (or at least disabled it) before the disaster. As soon as General Hux realizes what's happening, they start firing on the ship - it's just too late. In his hubris, he ignores the warning, saying "It's empty. General Hux is warned well before the collision that The Raddus is "preparing to go to hyperspace".
#The last jedi hyperspace how to#
It's been done before, and the Empire already knows how to thwart it. The First Order probably has enough resources to waste ships, but the Rebels definitely don't.ģ. The ship being "suicided" would need some serious size and shields to get close enough before being destroyed - and then it's gone forever. There's a serious cost/benefit analysis, and only in a "last resort" situation (like we saw in this movie) does it actually make sense to sacrifice such a big ship in a suicide attack. If an X-Wing tried to hyperspace through the Death Star, nothing would happen except the X-Wing blowing up.Ģ. Now, speculation on why we haven't seen it before:ġ. Admiral Akbar, General Organa, and Vice-Admiral Hondo fully understand what a "Hyperspace Kamikaze" attack would accomplish, and they've simply chosen not to do it until now. The rebel military leaders aren't stupid. In general, people know the consequences, and they know it's very messy. Hyperspace collisions have happened in the past.
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