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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 8081764" data-attributes="member: 4601">"Worst of these examples is the sudden discovery (after thousands of years of space travel) in Last of the Jedi that a spaceship could be used as a hyperspace missile and destroy the most powerful ship in the galaxy (the “<a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Holdo_maneuver" target="_blank">Holdo Maneuver</a>”). The consequences of this should have been that warships are relatively small and carry lots of hyperspace missiles guided by artificial intelligence. Star Destroyers would never exist. And this would have been discovered thousands of years before, of course, whether accidentally or through deliberate experimentation. "Maybe. Or it could be that this wasn't done because such a maneuver only had a tiny chance of actually working (and this was the rare instance in which it did). It could also be that it requires something with a comparable mass, so tiny hyperspace missiles (or, say, hyperspace-ramming X-wings at the Death Star) wouldn't work because the gravity shadow of a ship with a much larger mass would harmlessly shred the missile or the fighter, etc.......there are plenty of explanations that don't require breaking the setup. Not that much of anything about Star Wars is very logical to begin with.</blockquote>