re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***

I was thinking the same thing. Just warp transports into warships.

Y'all are insufferable.

Yeah why has the empire bothered with all these Death Stars when they could have just built really big ships and warped them into any planet they wanted to?

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Pretty much the coolest visual the entire movie was Snoke’s destroyed ship.


Then why didn't they just plan to do that in the first place if it was an option?

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In watching, I thought back to the first semi-big ship that ran out of gas (medical frigate?) and thought the same thing. I mean, the captain stayed on board and died anyway, might as well go out a hero instead of being shot down as you fall into range.

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I didn't know you could kamikazi at warp speed into an object, to me I thought the fabric of space was bent to allow for such travel.

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Han told Luke that the calculations had to be precise, or they could run into a star or something. So while there are times it seems to be wormhole tech, it was established in the first movie, before the first jump, that you stayed in the physical universe.

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if it were possible to just warp speed into something and destroy it wouldn't that be a tactic seen more often with the weaponry in the Star Wars universe?

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You would think so. Given the devastation, you would think a ship the size of the Falcon could pretty significantly damage a Star Destroyer. Hell, they fit X-Wings with the hyperdrive engines... and you certainly would have the tech available from the prequels at hand. A ship carrying a squadron of unmanned missiles (in other words, droid fighters with hyperdrive engines, programmed to kamikaze like that) would be a fleet-buster. If shields would work... well, then maybe the First Order should have raised them.

Did it take out just Snoke's ship? From the image we got, it looked like it took most of the First Order's fleet.

My godson (age 6) loves it. I had to fake enthusiasm when talking to him about it.

I hope one day when he's older we can have a real discussion about why it is in fact...terrible.

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I would imagine building one weapon to destroy planets is much cheaper than building 100's of projectiles that can fly at light speed into planets.

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The millenium falcon was a piece of shite and it could warp at light speed.

Hopefully J.J. continues his fan service and has Lando be one of the allies that comes to the Resistance's rescue. I read the Last Jedi Crossroads book and apparently Snoke's ship is so big that it has 10 docking stations for regular Star Destroyers. I don't feel the film properly displayed that size to the audience.

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Shut your fricking mouth! You just shut it. Right now the only sacred thing left in the Star Wars universe is that majestic vessel.

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I can't even spell the fricking thing right

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Exactly. Star destroyers are 12 miles long. A 12 mike projectile hurtling faster than the speed of light into a planet would destroy the planet.

No need for Death Stars

So stupid. So so so stupid
I would imagine building one weapon to destroy planets is much cheaper than building 100's of projectiles that can fly at light speed into planets.

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Did you think this through? The Death Star is way more than 100 Star Destroyers in mass, so the resources involved are IMMENSE. And you don't have to build entire ships, just gather up asteroids and mount the correct size hyperdrive and a single droid to control it. A big rock at lightspeed would do the trick.

added- the concept of fuel is introduced in this movie... any guess what the Death Star's MPG was? Probably not that good, as in "clean out an entire planet's resources to make one trip" type of guzzling.