Tidy Roger

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@Scow21 @andyvanboom @Elvish_Harper TROS said that the Holdo Maneuver was one in a million and could therefore not work

Lightspeed skipping implies that hyperspace missiles should be common and therefore would make space combat obsolete

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@Scow21 @andyvanboom @Elvish_Harper No? TROS realized that the Holdo maneuver would break the setting and nixed it for this reason

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper ISDs are rather more than a dozen meters across. Regardless, there were two Death Stars they could have used this on but didn't. The DS II wasn't able to delete an unlimited amount of ships as seen in its battle against the Rebel fleet, just bring a few hyperspace missiles

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@andyvanboom @Scow21 @Elvish_Harper Obviously Star Wars is fiction but its rules were deliberately specified such that you could reasonably have travel between stars but could then have WW2-style ship battles when you arrive.

The Sequels ignored this for the coolness factor and rendered the world incoherent

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@andyvanboom @Scow21 @Elvish_Harper IRL if you can propel a ship at speeds that allow you to travel between stars, its engine alone would be a planet-ending weapon, let alone its energy when crashing into things. But Star Wars doesn't work according to those rules because hyperspace isn't "real" speed. Or wasn't.

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper If that were the case they'd constantly be microjumping to reposition during fleet combat, but they don't

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@KennethKit45151 @thechosenberg I choose to believe that this is accurate

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper If you can force them to flee it's still a weapon

Nowhere is it shown that destroying a ship-sized asteroid inside of a minute would be trivial

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper Jump it into that range, it has a hyperdrive. If the enemy can't destroy the ship-sized asteroid inside of a minute, they have to flee or die. Nothing prevents this

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@Flokenz @Elvish_Harper @PizzaMagicCool https://t.co/eEs0nn1f7c

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper Missiles are useless in principle because they might miss? Someone should inform every military force in history

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@adamcanthony @Elvish_Harper The lore was that when you enter hyperspace, you're not interacting with other ships. The only thing you would interact with are large gravity wells, like stars. Crashing into those will kill you but the celestial object won't care

Interdictor-class ISDs worked on this basis.

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@Flokenz @Elvish_Harper @PizzaMagicCool You can strap a hyperdrive to an asteroid, you don't need the rest of the ship if all you need it for is its kinetic energy

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@Sir_radington @Elvish_Harper Kamikaze piloting is incredibly common in modern warfare, except the pilot is a computer. This is what's known as a guided missile. They have computers in Star Wars, so...

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@Scow21 @Elvish_Harper Strap a hyperdrive to a big asteroid and aim it at the nearest fleet of bad 'uns you want gone. Easy as. Large capital ships are non-viable if this is an option. It's as though cruise missiles were unstoppable, could wipe out a fleet, and cost less than a small ship.

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@spqr_sulla 50?!

Look man there's no need to throw GenX under the bus like this

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@wwarrior_1 Ship, nothing. Strap a hyperdrive to an asteroid. Doesn't even need a droid pilot, basic navigation will do ya

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@jondelarroz OK, let's not have pronouns then. The dude is now called "-Man."