trimboNZ said:
Do you think we’re likely to see more weaponized hyperdrives in canon now?A great concept . . . that unfortunately seems out of place in the SW universe. If such a thing can be done, why don’t warships have hyperdrive missiles?
I think the idea is that the size of the Raddus is what allowed it to do such damage.
The problem with that scene from a scientific perspective is that it’s strongly implied that a Hyperdrive is literally able to accelerate objects up to and past the speed of light, instead of opening a tunnel into another dimension.
Even a paperclip accelerated to 99% the speed of light would do catastrophic damage to the Supremacy.
A ship the size of the Raddus going the speed of light would be a more deadly weapon than the Death Star.
Where do ships get the energy to go so fast, and if they have this vast energy, why don’t they have more effective weapons? Furthermore, if Hyperspace travel turns any ship into a planet-decimating missile, every space-faring planet would long have been turned into Swiss cheese from ships coming out of hyperspace slightly too late.
This was all a lot more simple when Hyperdrives were just used for travel, and everyone could concoct their own reasons for why they weren’t used as weapons.