February speculation (MERGE)

"RevanComingSoon;c-1433318" wrote:
Yeah if hyperspace travel worked like that every ship would blow up because space didn't exactly empty. You'd crash through plenty of space debris and asteroids and planets and ships of you went in straight lines across the galaxy

Yeah.... no one would survive a hyperspace jump. Let‘s have a look at the Kessler Syndrome. In fact, a real Problem we face today and in the future. Debris and broken parts of satellites are in orbit around earth. For the sake of the argument I won’t go into detail but:
A piece of aluminum the size of your fingernail has enough kinetic energy to rip a hole into pretty much anything we can send into space, if it can maintain LEO (low earth orbit)...

Now imagine going hyperspace and there is some space dust.... the faster you travel, the more kinetic energy... (The Holdo maneuver simply makes no sense in Star Wars universe. Not in lore, not in physics, not in combination with all other movies of SW. Everything get bigger, Stardestroyers, Death Stars.... all easy targets if that worked.... you even get around shields in hyperspace : Han Solo proved it on the Starkiller Base, and theoretically slamming the falcon at hyperspace into the weakspot of any superweapon would have destroyed it. The heck, one autopiloted x-wing trades for a Stardestroyer. That‘s a 2000:1 value, if you buy used x-wings. With new ones like 1000:1... still financially and militarily seen quite a bargain you can refuse)