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I'm sorry darkknight... but that's BS. Here's the problem. If this technology exists there's literally NO reason to even consider making things like capitol ships in the first place. To quote a certain person 'Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest sunnovabitch in space'.

Assuming you took a baseball and threw it at MERELY 90% the speed of light you'd end up with what would basically be an atomic bomb going off. There would be no need for things like proton torpedos when you could just get super-powered pitching machines strapped onto fighters and end up shooting nukes. The military has even considered weaponizing this sort of thing on a lower scale (see 'Rods from God').

So this begs the question. Why not just slap a hyperdrive on an asteroid, put it on auto-pilot, and shoot it towards Yavin or wherever the Rebels want to hide? You're literally hitting it with the force of a meteor strike if you *just* let gravity do the rest. Nevermind if you hit it at light speed or however fast hyperdrive has them going. Episode IV would have ended not with a trench run but with them loading 3P0 and R2 into a pair of X-wings and setting them to hyperdrive into the Death Star. V would have had the Empire just launching a Star Destroyer into the Hoth base (why they didn't do this in the first place is baffling). VI would have just had Ackbar accelerating his ship to hyperdrive right into the Death Star which would have almost certainly destroyed it or at least crippled it; nevermind that the Empire could have just done the same. Remember, they're the mother****ing empire. They've got Star Destroyers out the wazoo. Losing one or two to completely destroy the rebellion is an EXTREMELY worth-while trade. And this is assuming that they didn't just make a ship designed to be droid/remote/auto-piloted that was super-dense and had as big a hyperdrive on it as they could slap. There would be no need for a Death Star. They could easily mass-produce far cheaper ships that would basically obliterate the entire planet with no chance to resist or even warning that it was coming.

So yea. Holdo's maneuver really DOES throw things off. It would be like watching The Two Towers and reaching Helms Deep only for Gandalf to ride to the rescue with the riders of Rohan... driving tanks. And then going 'Oh these. We've always had these. Never had a reason to use them until now and have you seen the damage they cause to the roads? Yup. And now we're going to just put them back into storage and ride to Gondor on horse-back because there couldn't possibly be another reason to use these things.'
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