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They specifically had a line about the pursuers rushing to catch up and dumping all power into that effort. Diverting from shielding and anything that would pro

They specifically had a line about the pursuers rushing to catch up and dumping all power into that effort. Diverting from shielding and anything that would protect them. After all they had a much larger more powerful force, hubrus lead them to believe that they were safe enough to do so. As for the "why not just build a hyperdrive shell that you can use to javelin a planet into dust" this is a problem that is ignored in MUCH more serious science fiction than star wars. Because it's a pain I nthe ass to explain away.

regularfry 3y ago
They could have bought themselves some points by saying "...and that's how the Death Star works, you need a massive space station as a power source if you want to do it more than once." But no, lasers.
btach 3y ago
Gravity well. You would exit hyperspace before hitting the planet. Same concept as how the Interdictor class Star Destroyers prevent hyperspace/pull ships out of hyperspace.
LorenPechtel 3y ago
We never see Star Wars ships moving at relativistic speeds. Jumping to lightspeed takes you into hyper, it doesn't let you engage in a ramming attack. Besides, we don't know that shields won't stop a ramming attack. The only time it was done it appears the shields weren't being used.
- cgriswald 3y ago
  We see a few collisions major in the original trilogy. I don't think it necessarily clears anything up. I haven't watched in some years so the details are a little hazy and might be wrong: In ESB: - An asteroid collides with a Star Destroyer. Communications with the Star Destroyer are lost, but nothing past the hit is shown on screen. (Presumably shields are active since they're putting these ships in the asteroid field.) [Just to speculate, the asteroid itself might have been pulverized and its materials interfering with communications, or some other shield/asteroid interaction causing loss of communications.] In ROTJ: - The Executor loses its shields and the A-wing crashes into the bridge. (No shields.) - The Executor subsequently loses control and crashes into the Death Star. (No shields.) And in Rogue One: - The corvette pushes the two Star Destroyers together and they take major damage. (Unknown shield status.)

regularfry 3y ago

They could have bought themselves some points by saying "...and that's how the Death Star works, you need a massive space station as a power source if you want to do it more than once." But no, lasers.

btach 3y ago

Gravity well. You would exit hyperspace before hitting the planet. Same concept as how the Interdictor class Star Destroyers prevent hyperspace/pull ships out of hyperspace.

LorenPechtel 3y ago

We never see Star Wars ships moving at relativistic speeds. Jumping to lightspeed takes you into hyper, it doesn't let you engage in a ramming attack. Besides, we don't know that shields won't stop a ramming attack. The only time it was done it appears the shields weren't being used.

cgriswald 3y ago
We see a few collisions major in the original trilogy. I don't think it necessarily clears anything up. I haven't watched in some years so the details are a little hazy and might be wrong: In ESB: - An asteroid collides with a Star Destroyer. Communications with the Star Destroyer are lost, but nothing past the hit is shown on screen. (Presumably shields are active since they're putting these ships in the asteroid field.) [Just to speculate, the asteroid itself might have been pulverized and its materials interfering with communications, or some other shield/asteroid interaction causing loss of communications.] In ROTJ: - The Executor loses its shields and the A-wing crashes into the bridge. (No shields.) - The Executor subsequently loses control and crashes into the Death Star. (No shields.) And in Rogue One: - The corvette pushes the two Star Destroyers together and they take major damage. (Unknown shield status.)