you're trying to escape before your ship is reduced to space trash but you have to wait for the coordinates to be calculated so that you can safely enter hyperspace. you're trying to leave a system, then BAM! a Star Destroyer rolls in and starts fucking you up. Legends used hyperspace as a point of plot tension frequently. why has no one done this prior to now? what reason does anyone have to fight in any other way than launching shit through hyperspace at each other? why didn't the Jedi and Queen Amidala in TPM just launch into hyperspace from atmosphere through the blockade? what's the point of interdictor ships or tractor beams if you can just yeet yourself into hyperspace with no repercussions? Regardless of that, even if it's technically allowed, it still breaks a lot of the lore and IMO makes the universe less interesting. Legends made it so that it was inherent to hyperspace travel, but Canon, it seems, has established that it's a safety feature that can be turned off. The problem with the Holdo maneuver is that it opens up this logical loophole that upsets the entire reason for space battles, fighter craft, Star Destroyers, Death Stars, etc.īoth Legends and Canon had since established rules of hyperspace which made clear that hyperdrives will pull you out of hyperspace if there's a chance of colliding with a mass shadow. Rogue One did a good job with the Hammerhead ramming, but that was at slow speed against a disabled Star Destroyer. The few instances of kinetic energy "weapons" (the A-Wing crashing into a Star Destroyer in ROTJ, the giant Star Destroyer crashing into the Death Star) were basically shown to have trivial impact.
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2C and wipe it out without anyone getting close. Starkiller base (aka, a giant unmovable super target?): Accelerate a few ships to. Rebel base on Hoth? Drop asteroids on it. Rebels could accelerate a transport ship extremely fast and crash it into the Death Star. I think there is a broader problem with high-speed ramming and Star Wars, which is that kinetic energy weapons of any sort would be over-powered (and thus boring to viewers).įor instance, the Empire doesn't need a Death Star: They could just attach engines to asteroids and crash them into rebel planets at a trillionth of the effort.