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There’s a lot of things that I hate about TLJ, but oddly enough, this isn’t one of them. In addition, it’s noted that it’s very difficult to plot “micro-jumps,” even more so when the target is a specific ship in the Thrawn trilogy, micro-jumps with that sort of precision were only possible because of Thrawn’s innovative use of gravity well projectors. There’s also anecdotal evidence in the EU to suggest than anything with a sufficiently large mass shadow can affect the trajectory of objects in hyperspace that travel through it (note that, even at such close range, the Raddus still hit the Supremacy off-center). Something like an X-Wing crashing into a planet might do little more than make an impromptu fireworks show in the upper atmosphere. A lot of this stuff is purely theoretical, so we have no idea how hyperspace works or how the effects of a collision would carry across the dimensional barrier. Heavily traveled worlds like Coruscant likely have designated traffic patterns, jump points, etc, to offset the increased likelihood of it happening in much more crowded space.Īdd to that the likelihood that a mass shadow collision may only impart a fraction of the energy of a physical collision. It’s not that collisions don’t occur, it’s just that there’s so much available space out there that it’s vanishingly rare. What if it just blew a hole straight through it, yet didn’t damage enough critical systems to render the Death Star inoperable?Īs to why it doesn’t happen more often? I think we lose track of exactly how big space is. There’s no guarantee that, even if a ship the size of the Raddus was used to ram the Death Star at hyper-c velocities, it would’ve done enough damage to even mission kill the Death Star.
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And even then, note that quite a lot of the Supremacy actually survived the impact, even though the ship itself was effectively destroyed. For one thing, there’s a much greater mass disparity between an X-Wing and the Death Star than there is between the Raddus and the Supremacy.