So I finally got myself to watch Solo, and it's pretty obvious most of this board never seen the whole of it as it answers the question why the hyper ramming seen in TLJ is not used as a common strategy by the rebels.
Basically the fuel needed to launch a ship into hyperspace is too expensive so unless you control the mine planet where it comes from it is rare and can only be obtained from smugglers. The rebellion would not survive if it started wasting that fuel on projectiles.
>The rebellion would not survive if it started wasting that fuel on projectiles.
instead it wastes its fuel on hyperspace capable ships like the commonly used x wing and orders them to fly to their deaths without hyperspeed ramming, wasting all the fuel they were carrying in a fiery explosion
Hundreds of rebel ships are destroyed in every space battle, using ONE of them would make them win every time
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Hyper space ramming was stupid and you know it. They just needed to add one line. There shield is down because we do not fire back we need to ram that ship
nah, ships have hyper space detection systems
have fun wasting that fuel
>Poe: Why don't we attack them now. Their shields are down!
>Purple: And risk more casualties? You're earlier stunt wiped out too many of us already.
Literally all that was needed.
>the fuel needed to launch a ship into hyperspace is too expensive
This has never, ever been a problem in Star Wars before, people would just jump into hyperspace whenever they pleased. Fact is, FTL travel in Star Wars has always been depicted as being commonplace and available to everybody, so suddendly making it scarce is a fucking retarded retcon.
This is what happens when you have Gilmore Girls writers try to do science fiction.
It actually makes more sense that the empire would have developed a hyperspace cannon rather than a death star base for dealing with rebels but who cares thats not cool enough.
The Starkiller Base actually was a hyperspace cannon, that's how they could hit those planets without moving the planet. Unfortunately, they don't mention that in the movie, which is stupid.
Again, you didn't watch solo did you?
It was commonplace because the rebels got a hold of a massive fuel contraband thanks to Han Solo. That's what made the entire rebel fleet viable.
>Basically the fuel needed to launch a ship into hyperspace is too expensive
God damn you're stupid
It is clear that your brains are too big for Star Wars. Come to 40k my friend.
What's 40k?
Warhammer 40K
>Basically the fuel needed to launch a ship into hyperspace is too expensive
Solo only exists to justify the nonsense from The Last Jedi (the "iconic" dice and the fuel).
Before TLJ no one cared about the super special fuel.
MAD; The Empire would then just start ramming star destroyers into known rebel worlds. The point of war is to conquer, not destroy.
So why they use trains to transport this super expensive fuel and not spaceships?
>old EU: Kessel is a prison planet where the convicts are forced to mine spice, which is a narcotic that's secretly sold by the Empire
>DisneyWars: Kessel is a prison planet where the convicts are forced to mine spacegas, which is like gasoline but for spaceships
>old EU
That's an interesting way of saying irrelevant fanfic
>fuel is too expensive bro
>episode of the Clone Wars TV show has the CIS fill an entire Venator Class Star Destroyer with fuel so they can kamikaze a space station
no
CIS has their own mines.
The Empire defeated the CIS and took all of their shit
any mines that belonged to the CIS now belong to the Empire
Nice try OP. In TLJ even Finn's tiny shitty ship has a hyperspace drive that they use to get to and from the casino planet. If you're trying to tell me that just launching one of those tiny shitty ships straight into the face of a star destroyer is more expensive than building a whole fleet of ships and fighters then you've clearly lost your mind to the DisneyShill disease.
You didn't watch the prequels, did you? Because in those movies there was no such nonsense as the fuel being scarce and expensive.
The worst part is that nonse could be easily explained by saying in the movie that the scarcity was artificial and limited to that period of time, that the Empire had been eliminating all productions of fuel except the ones they use. But alas, nu-quel writers don't give a fuck.
>mass increases with speed
>attach a hyperspace engine to something found lyring around. or just use a bare engine
>point and shoot.
you dont need to use expensive as fuck capital ships to hyperspace ram. Physics will take care of the damage for you.
>hyperdrives have been around for 25 thousand years
>in all that time, nobody has ever thought of using them to destroy stuff, Admiral Holdo was literally the first
It's more likely that's a retcon because JJ doesn't understand interstellar distance.
How long until we get a 40k movie?
Event Horizon doesn't count.
JJ prefers the form over the substance. Each of the planets destroyed by the Starkiller base were in different systems but that didn't stop JJ from showing them like if they were in the same location.
> The hyperdrive reaction chamber of a starship was coated in coaxium, which, when energized, allowed the ship to travel through hyperspace.
It's not fuel it's motor oil
Fuck you for making me look at wookiepedia
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