Saga A Hyperdrive would be the Best Weapon

Are there any instances of a person firing up their hyperdrive, and escaping in the escape pod before the ship went into hyperspace, and ramming their ship right into the enemy one? It would be going so fast that it would probably sheer the ship right in half.

Or maybe using their hyperdrive capabilities to escape a tractor beam?

 

I see your point, but if it were that easy, why doesn't everybody do that? Or better yet, build missiles with hyperdrives?

 

The tractor beam issue is explained in the EU (basically the ship will jump away a few lightyears and then be shot, if it can make the jump at all)


But I've always wondered why they didn't make suicide bomber ships that just jumped to hyperspace towards a larger enemy vessel- it makes sense. They couldn't gun it down, and the shields probably wouldn't deflect matter moving that quickly.

 

Wasn't it established that Capitol ships could devastate planets moving in hyperspace? And were basically indefensible? Very weird to me.

 

The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy had the Imperials researching sending bombs through hyperspace.

Also I foresee this being moved to Lit at some point.

 

That was, I think, introduced in Incredible Cross Sections.

Yup. They discovered that you need something to open the way back from hyperspace to realspace - the hyperdrive engine. Just dropping the bomb doesn't work so well.

However - in Rebels, we see a hyperdriveless ship docked to a bigger one, undock while in hyperspace. While this is "incredibly dangerous" - the little ship does revert to realspace.

 

Here's a related question: do the FTL drives on starships in the SW universe allow for the Picard Maneuver?

 

Well, you don't even necessarily need a hyperdrive. An A-Wing pilot took the executor down no problem by ramming into it without his hyperdrive.

 

The Executor's bridge deflector shield did have to be brought down first.

There's a comic book scene where three Imperial Star Destroyers all crash together into a fully shielded Executor due to coming out of hyperspace in the wrong place - and cause minimal damage.

 

Please, if you don't mind, can you tell me what comic book this came from?

 

The strip was Race For Survival - part of the Classic Star Wars series.



The comic compilation with it in, is Classic Star Wars 3: Escape to Hoth.

 

Excellent, you delivered! Thank you!

 

Has Iron Lord ever not delivered?

 

I assume if your hyperdrive was operational, you wouldn't need to use escape pods. You could just escape.

 

It is weird how deflector shields can apparently deflect the sheer velocity of lightspeed, and yet it can be overcome by spaceship weaponry.

 

Something something matter vs energy weapons...

 

i think you could make a ship with a hyperdrive a weapon but that's all i'll say.

 

If the Executor shrugged off 3 ISDs, shouldn't a planet be able to shrug off a lot more?

 

This might defy all physics, but hey-it IS SW, so:

I would love to see some sort of chase, or battle of ships while in hyperspace. That could be visually stunning.

 

You mean like in Star Trek: Into Darkness?

 

LOL yes I suppose-I actually was just thinking of that as you posted this.

Although IMO it'd look much better in SW's version of hyperspace...plus I didn't like the whole idea of the Enterprise being ripped OUT of warp (I also really didn't like that buzzing noise Admiral Marcus' ship made-but that's for another conversation). Not to mention (if we're actually gonna try to apply ANY physics to this), I'd imagine if that happened, the other ship would emerge light years away from where that ship was ripped/pushed out. Even a split second difference can presumably mean a huge difference in location in the galaxy...

Any scientists/astrophysicist types want to chime in on this? (Or is the whole logic of this idea-like others in the SW universe-impossible to analyze, due to its very "sci-fi nature?")

 

We do have a "saucer-sep while in warp" type of scene in Rebels - the Phantom separates from the Ghost and returns to realspace. It's portrayed as somewhat risky though.

 

Oh yeah-that's right. I enjoyed seeing that...

 

It's been 12 years since I actually learned any astrophysics "for real" at university - these days, everything new I know about it comes from news reports, Wikipedia, etc.

I'm not sure if there's been any "battles in hyperspace" in the EU - but I can't remember reading anything specifically forbidding it from happening, either.

 

That would be one heck of a weapon! Imagine the capabilities...