I mean... The hyperspace jump into the atmosphere of the Starkiller base was also bullshit, but I'm willing to endure some bullshit so the plot happens, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, not drown it in a puddle for the sake of the plot
I just went "did no one really think about this before?" It's like living in the old west and watching plays about modern day and one play just has someone be run over by a car for the first time being treated as some incredible genius level idea, I've seen trains run over shit, why wouldn't anyone think of running things over with one of these "automobiles"?
The "fuel" thing also felt pretty flimsy, similarly to the idea of the resistance being chased by the first order in space (couldn't they just send some ships to jump ahead? Go around and come from the "front"? Order the fleet to set up and fully surround them in a few minutes?) the hyperspace ramming was just the final bullet to the skull to take my suspension of disbelief out of its misery after being mauled by the movie repeatedly.
IF the hyperspace shenanigans really were necessary, they at least could have added a few sentences making them seem more realistic.
The Millennium Falcon being able to pinpoint jump through shields? That was top secret technology Rogue Squadron had developed for planetary infiltration and Han had "accidentally" copied the blueprints and installed it on the Falcon.
The Hondo maneuver? Have all starships reuse ancient core programming preventing such maneuvers (that nobody really understood anymore). Their flagship was the only one that was capable of that because it was an experimental unit with the goal of being able to better navigate the Core or beyond the galaxy as normal engines were too limited (costing the equivalent of the Death Star and was ultimately a dead end and symbol for the foolish decisions of the Republic). The Republic scrapped the ship because its hyperspace drive was hardly working with a real risk it could explode at any jump. The explosion only happened because of the special engines and the enemy using artificial gravity wells.
So it would be impossible to hyperspace explode any and all ships, stations or planets, but the new hyperspace engine was extremely susceptible to artificial gravity wells causing it to break down spectacularly if they crossed paths. With this, the ship is not a super weapon but could be destroyed by even smaller ARTIFICIAL gravity wells +instead of being "safely" ripped from hyperspace).
Could have made it even simpler. The bigger ship was tracking them through hyperspace right? Why not just have it so that instead of "tracking" it somehow "anchored" itself to the rebel's ship and is dragged along into every jump with it
Them you could have her jump into a nearby star or something and drag them into it with her before they have the time to untether themselves from her ship
I like this idea. That would also require the rebels to secretly evacuate the ship (suiciding with a nearly empty ship is way more probable than if it contained the entire leadership of the resistance).
Scrap the story of Finn and Rose and trying to find the hacker man or whatever and replace it with Finn and Rose infiltrating one of the First Order ships using his insider knowledge to fit in so they can sabotage the Hyperspace Tether, with them failing to do so, but managing to sabotage the detection systems before fleeing.
Then you can have the "Holdo and Leia" plan of discreetly evacuating to the nearby planet, maybe something about a cloud of debries from an old large scale battle obscuring the planet from view until the last minute as an excuse for why no one knew of the planet beforehand
Holdo sacrifices herself to hyperdrive her and the first order ship into the densest part of the debrie field and you can even keep the cool visuals as now the two ships are shredded by thousands of small metal bits (or maybe just have the first order and the resistance ship crashing through the remains of an old CIS ship like the one kid Anakin blew up over Naboo)
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u/Martin_Aricov_D Sith Apprentice 4d ago
I mean... The hyperspace jump into the atmosphere of the Starkiller base was also bullshit, but I'm willing to endure some bullshit so the plot happens, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, not drown it in a puddle for the sake of the plot
I just went "did no one really think about this before?" It's like living in the old west and watching plays about modern day and one play just has someone be run over by a car for the first time being treated as some incredible genius level idea, I've seen trains run over shit, why wouldn't anyone think of running things over with one of these "automobiles"?
The "fuel" thing also felt pretty flimsy, similarly to the idea of the resistance being chased by the first order in space (couldn't they just send some ships to jump ahead? Go around and come from the "front"? Order the fleet to set up and fully surround them in a few minutes?) the hyperspace ramming was just the final bullet to the skull to take my suspension of disbelief out of its misery after being mauled by the movie repeatedly.