Why didn't the New Republic use an HyperDrive Eagle against the starkiller to destroy it in one shot?

Why didn't the New Republic use an HyperDrive Eagle against the starkiller to destroy it in one shot?

Why didn't the Rebel Alliance do the same with Death Star 1?
>"Oh you can just ram it at light speed? Don't bother building two more of those."

Better yet, why the fuck doesn't the Rebel Alliance just build a fleet of hyperdrive suicide ships?

Why didn't they just throw all the Porgs into mount doom?

>Why didn't the Rebel Alliance do the same with Death Star 1?
because at the time, canonically when you jumped into hyperspace you were moving to another dimension, which is why you didn't have to worry about hitting anything

now they retconned it just for that one scene

They could've just said that hyperdrive technology had evolved and was more precise and capable, etc.
That's totally fine and acceptable, all technologies get better with time... BUT NO, WOMEN WOULD HAVE TO THINK TOO HARD.

But it’s in the same universe/timeline.

This is a message I can get behind.

Didn't Han Solo say in the original movie that you could hit a planet if you weren't careful or some shit?

Or was that only that you might accidentally turn off hyperspace and land INSIDE a planet?

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Ostensibly, sure, but this is a movie with different writers who don't really give a shit and will write and rewrite their lore around the setpieces, toys, and video games they're told to facilitate.

Yeah that makes a lot sense. Welp that sucks

Why didn't Yoda force ghost zap Palpatine with lightning while Luke fought with Vader?

>because at the time, canonically when you jumped into hyperspace you were moving to another dimension, which is why you didn't have to worry about hitting anything
During the jump to hyperspace there is a surge of acceleration in realspace. A "lightspeed" attack would actually have very short range before you leave the dimension.

In EU this has been used before, usually dropping ships out of hyperspace right onto targets. During the clone wars a battlecruise hyperspace rammed a planet and caused enormous damage, killing millions, and irradiated the planet.

All these fucking plot holes the more you stew the more retarded the film

>Why didn't Yoda force ghost zap Palpatine with lightning while Luke fought with Vader?
The entire point of that battle was Luke sacrificing himself to turn vader back to the light.

>headcanon
>using fucking EU as a reference

Lad....

Because you need a ship about the same size to do this manoeuver? Dont think the rebels had a deathstar sized ship to blast into it.

I don't know why you guys are so anal about this anyway. Because they used lightspeed? You can also just crash into an enemy ship at normal speed, that's nothing new. Nobody does it, because its retarded and only works as a surprise move.

Just saying it is not unprecedented. A lot of the close wars stuff is still canon. Its post endor EU that got tossed.

Yeah they would need a fleet of ships to suicide Ram the deathstar, and they have to do it within acceleration range, the imperials could have physically blocked the larger ships.

Obi-posting never gets old

>Nobody does it, because its retarded and only works as a surprise move

Except they literally used the same move in the previous movie to shunt a ship into a planet

After this event, the wookie scientists have studied this and came with a new weapon for the resistance.
The space sling. This glorious breakthrough is composed of an bullshitium net filled with big rocks tied to 2 starship. These accelerate to lightspeed in a micro jump to the target and release the net in its direction, pounding it with multiple relativistic boulders.

Wow thanks Rian for making R1 and most of ANH utterly pointless!
They could have just sent K2SO in the y-wing and ended the story in about 10 minutes

>Because you need a ship about the same size to do this manoeuver?
This. The damage from from a hyperpace collision is more of a dimensional tear based on the mass of the object. It isn't actually a collision at relativistic speed (infinite mass at speed of light) so the size of the "battering ram" does matter.

Once at full speed they shift to hyperspace and actually pass through all otehr matter. Only gravity shadows fro mthe normal universe exist in hyperspace. The normal fear of hyperspace is to re-materialize inside a star or other large object if you hit their gravity shadow.

That example you are using actually shows why the maneuver doesn't work like the people complaining do think. The ships come out of hyperspace at normal cruise speeds, it's only at the moment of doing the jump that they go FTL.