Isn't hyperspace a different dimension? So how did she hit the other ships?

Shields wouldn't even need to be down. They could just pass through the shields at light speed, and then switch to normal speed as they hit the Death Star.

>going lightyears without hitting ANYTHING
No, hyperspace is a different dimension

Couldn't large ships just destroy planets as well? What's even the point of a death star?

Has Eric Butts publicly commented on the holdo maneuver?
I would really like to get his take on it.

Rian is not a virgin

To enter hyperspace you need a run-up like the delorean. For a short strecth ~1000km you are approaching lightspeed in the regular universe before you dip out into the hyperspace dimension.
That's why the stars blur toward you when you accelerate.
The lightspeed ram can only happen if you are physically very close to the target as you are jumping.

There is a tertiary period where you are in both dimensions at once. It is a very tiny window where you can't hit anything because for a fraction of a second, in normal space, you are traveling several times the speed of light. It's not usually a problem because you don't jump to hyperspace near other ships or on planetary surfaces.

Nigga even a golf ball, or a pebble would obliterate a planet at even just near-FTL speed. Just turn your brain off.

This is totally wrong, btw

utter nonsense.

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Just because hyperspace puts the driver into a different dimension doesn't mean she loses any causal link to other matter. "Dimension" is the word we use to describe matter as perceived from other metaphysical points of view.

Why doesn't hyperspace ram make sense?
>Force = Mass x Acceleration (F = MA)
>hyperspace = the speed of light

The amount of force generated by the ram in the movie depends on the mass of Holdo's ship, which is multiplied by the speed of light in hyperspace. I haven't done the calculation or theorized what the mass of the ship might be, but I suppose it's theoretically possible to "ram" something else existing in space while you are traveling via hyperspace. How much damage caused depends on variables like the mass of the hyperspace user as well as the mass and speed of any object it's "ramming" into.

Tell me I'm wrong, tho.

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So sorry you never watched the originals, user.

You can not accelerate to the speed of light. The speed of light would be an unobtainable hard cap on Force. In practice it just means that your force can infinitely approach what it would be at light speed but you would never intersect.

like say, in a trench on the surface of that object?

Fuck star wars and fuck you for posting it OP, go wank off elsewhere

Reminder that every space battle from here on should exclusively consist of droid ships hyperspacing into each other.

>going lightyears without hitting ANYTHING
Entirely plausible.

i like how hyperspace ramming makes the death star entirely pointless, as a hyperspace ram into a planet would do the same thing.

Because in the old days of sci fi, the RKKV was a tried and true concept they just had to add to the series for the sake of ILM having a cool shot.

Yeah, I "liked" that too, so much so that I regret buying a movie ticket to see it.

incel

Why isn't this explained in the movies? Is it at least implied.

then why wouldn't they just travel at near lightspeed and do it all the time? people have thought of that shit before lightspeed travel was even invented (hence the movies), so it should be common knowledge in the SW universe

The original context was due to limitations in FX back in '75-'76 when the first movie came out. George knew it was a staple of science fiction stories, but said he did not want it happening in Star Wars.

It was for the visuals user. No more, no less.

>then why wouldn't they just travel at near lightspeed and do it all the time? people have thought of that shit before lightspeed travel was even invented (hence the movies), so it should be common knowledge in the SW universe

Men never thought it up because of their lack of emotional intelligence.

not an answer, retard. he's right

Why even have ships and not missiles with hyperspace ram capabilities? Why is the empire building trillion dollar star destroyers with 10,000+ people when a shitty missile can do the same job

>Isn't hyperspace a different dimension?
Since when? God you retards are willing to make shit up if it means to you get to complain more

>microdust and debris doesnt exist in space

the only way to make sense of hyperspace travel is as an einstein-rosen bridge, because lightspeed would cause collisions and we know gravity wells can pull you out of hyperspace. Whether you think calling an einstein-rosen bridge "a different dimension" is stupid doesnt make it made up shit.

>the entire point of deflector shields

>he literally doesn't know how far apart objects in outer space actually are

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and no one said he was

since achieving the speed of light is not possible in this physical reality, nor is it useful due to time dilation, FTL either needs to be pushing an object out of these four dimensions of spacetime into another set, without the same limits, or manipulating spacetime in a manner where an object is not actually approaching a relativistic velocity, despite traveling at one (warp space around an object).

>lightspeed would cause collisions
Collisions with what? Han specifically says that hyperspace jumps need to be calculated beforehand, to AVOID collisions.

space is not empty. hitting anything, even an atom, at the speed of light, would cause a chain reaction launching off billions of other atoms at the speed of light in every direction. a chain reaction that would end up destroying everything in the universe.

It's just a stupid scene. It's easy to have stupid scenes when you don't give a fuck. Maybe one day people will stop giving them money for vapid trash. I will hope.

>hitting anything, even an atom, at the speed of light, would cause a chain reaction
Nigger photons have mass and they bounce into shit all the time. Also in SW they move at faster than light, which is a whole other level of theoretical physics.

then why does he act like one?

I'm sorry you don't know that lightspeed is only a slang term, and not a technical description.
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightspeed

a photon is infinitesimally smaller than even an electron

When death star's shield is on why don't they just hyperspace ram the star thru the rebel fleet

The image of the Death Star jumping into hyperspace is really comical. It's like a giant grey beach ball rocketing through space. Thank god that was never shown in the movies.

You saying the admiral calculated and used that window and no one can use it again?

Isn't it ST tech

it was only a slang term, right up to the point where they decided it should be literal.

It should look like a ball suddenly deflated

Hyperspace being a different dimension is EU autism. It's never been treated as such in the movies. There's even a scene in Episode IV where Han mentions needing precise calculations before making a hyperspace jump or else they risk running through a star.

>hypespace is just normal space, but you are going really fast

>deflector shields block light speed collisions

they didn't have a super intelligent WOKE woman to come up with that

>actually thinks space is literally nothing despite microgravity existing and therefore necessitating mass

Because the star would pull them out of hyperspace. Whether you think that is retconning or not its the only way for hyperspace to be logically consistent

Idiot. Those lines stretching? Light. Speed. Nigger.