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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4857723" data-attributes="member: 14159">What if the Empire never discovered Interdiction technology and it was a Rebel invention?Interdiction technology was discovered/invented in the middle of the Galactic Civil War after the Battle of Yavin, as the result of analyzing the bizarre alien growth known as the "Golden Sun", from the old d6 adventure "Battle for the Golden Sun".  What if the Rebellion got the technology but not the Empire?   Interdiction technology would make for a powerful force equalizer, being able to set up interdiction fields at distance to make it harder to move fleets, or Death Stars to protected planets and give them more time to flee, or provide unparalleled commerce-raiding ability.  The first time they drop a massive cargo convoy out of hyperspace, keep them from jumping back, jam the subspace radios, capture the convoy and jump it out to an Alliance relay point they just scored a major coup in not just supplies but ships (albeit unarmed, but they are intact hyperspace-capable spaceframes).  Even if they only get away with it a few times before major escorts start showing up, the presence of rebel interdictors means they control when the battle is over and who is chasing whom.The Yuuzhan Vong captured Coruscant with en-masse suicide runs on the planetary shields, showing that if you smash enough heavy physical things at a planetary shield (designed to protect from capitol ship turbolaser fire, not rapid-fire physical collisions focused on one small area) it will collapse.  Take a few super-large convoys with dozens of ships (like as depicted as major commerce raids in the X-Wing game series), slave-rig them together, and you've got the ability to bring down a planet's shields.  Take the Rebellion itself into Coruscant space for a battle that the Death Star can't equalize (can't fire on the capitol world), and with planetary shields down go right for attacking high-priority targets like the Imperial Palace with similar suicide-run attacks.  You don't need a fleet of capitol ships to strike a Core World, just a couple of huge merchant convoys you captured.Just trying to get creative with asymmetrical warfare in the Star Wars galaxy.</blockquote>

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