ST Holdo's Hyperspace Ram - is there an explanation yet for why it's not used more?

Holdo's Hyperspace Ram - is there an explanation yet for why it's not used more?

Think of how easily factions could have just put truly-unthking droids to pilot hunks of metal (don't even necessarily need to take the time to craft a spaceship, just find a few iron-rich asteroids and attach a hyperdrive booster to them) to destroy fleets or planets.

TROS mentions how it was a "one in a million" shot... why? How?

 

You know we already have a huge thread about this, right?

 

You mean, besides the fact that the Resistance only has a limited number of ships at their disposal, lost a bunch in TLJ and they’re simply not expendable? What Holdo did in TLJ was a literal one in a million last ditch resort to save the transports from the First Order.


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Sufficiently powerful deflector shields shields probably mitigate damage from light speed missiles. The Supremacy wasn’t prepared to block the attack because they thought the ship was fleeing.

 

Hux's reaction when he sees the ship about to come at them is to fire on the cruiser, not to turn on shields.

 

Since the attack method is usually never employed, it stands to reason that it's extremely unreliable. You'd think the Empire, with their unlimited resources, would have lightspeed rammed their enemies left and right if they'd been able to control it.

 

My headcanon is that it is only possible, if a special kind of natural occuring hyperspace fluctuations occur.

Something that can't really be calculated.

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No?

Even a small ship could do great damage. And I’m not talking just about the Resistance, but throughout all time periods.

 

I don't think the movie knows that.

 

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Thanks. But has there been a straight answer? It’s 17 pages.

 

You gotta imagine in Star Wars that Hyperspace jumping has destroyed so many ships. And im not just talking going into, i mean coming out of too. As shown in Rogue One.

 

A straight answer? Are you kidding? Or are you new to SW?

 

eh, sometimes
We got definitive answers like how TROS Palpatine is a clone body, what went down with Sifo-Dyas, etc in other places eventually.

 

Hyperspace in the movies was always described as just going really fast and we knew it cause massive collisions when a lightspeed object hit something. So how does it clash with the reasoning for everything else?

 

Why isn’t it used more? I’m going with the fact that no one would look as bad ass and fabulous as Holdo/Laura Dern doing it.

 

My head canon is that the “hyperspace tracker” on the Supremacy creates a kind of target Holdo could hit with a jump, without that “target” a hyperspace ramming isn’t possible.

But the real reason it isn’t used more, is that they didn’t consider the massive canon implications it would have because they only thought of how cool it would look, so they forgot to make a canon explanation in the film, and they’re too worried about messing it up again so they haven’t come up with anything.

 

Just going to leave this

 

I don't feel like this is a good argument. Trading a cheap freighter for a Star Destroyer is a VERY good trade. Just like how trading an anti-tank missile to kill a tank is a good trade, and trading a kamikaze pilot to kill an aircraft carrier is a good trade.

 

Honestly, the "one in a million" comment was IMO a way of explaining to fans why it hadn't been done already in the GFFA a bunch of times....

BUT

Then literally 2 hours later, seeing it done just over Endor in the victory montage COMPLETELY flushes any shreds of belief in that concept down the toilet! I was willing to accept it initially, just "okay I guess it's some kind of astrophysics thing, and achieving the right timing and positioning for a jump to achieve that much damage is indeed almost impossible to plan for." I could've lived with that JUST fine.

Then we see it done AGAIN, like they're all "hey now we can just ram our ships in to Star Destroyers if we're desperate!" Including that at the end completely ruined that for me. If they can just do it again in the next episode, then indeed: WHY NOT during the Clone Wars or the war against the Empire!????

SMH - as I have had to do for SO many moments in TROS.

 

This is so defeatist I'm surprised it wasn't in the real movie.