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How does Finn or anyone else in resistance...

posted 7 years ago by Rorikon (18127)
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suddenly know the layout of Snoke's ship, the Dreadnaught and everything else. It's like they know all those big ass ships weaknesses from the start once they showed up. Also, if all it takes to destroy a mass fleet of ships was just to jump into hyperspace in their general direction, the resistance could've just used many droids (or just 1 in the captains seat) to pilot large empty cruisers or other large ships and just hyperspace them all on the First Order ships from the start without a single loss of human life.

[–] Keith4832 (110) 7 years ago

Looking at it from the in-narrative perspective, it might be prohibitively costly to do that whilst being effective in the short term. Where would they get new ships to travel between systems and engage in the remaining conventional fighting?

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

It's pretty clear that the REBELLION doesn't have unlimited funds or equipment. Or fuel. Or popularity, or allies.

At this point, if you gave them ships of the quality you'd expect to see in a demolition derby contest, and suggested they use them for remote light-speed kamikaze, they'd probably make them into warships instead!

[–] Keith4832 (110) 7 years ago

Right, it would seem more likely they would preserve any ships they had in their possession or acquired every so often.

[–] Rorikon (18127) 7 years ago

Before the events of TLJ, didn't they have a decently sized resistance fleet in TFA? Pretty sure they did before the First Order started wiping them out to what we saw was left in TLJ. The resistance was strong in the beginning from what I could remember so they could've easily pulled it off and gain more assistance/funds when others saw the results of such success in the so-called Japan like kamakazi attacks with little to no loss of life on the Resistance end.

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

I presume that they've both been losing battles, and have been unable to replace anything they've list, as the worlds of the Republic were taken iver and the people who were funding or supplying them were dealt with. And if the F.O. are smart, they'd make sure that nobody in a position to sell them a lot of ships, weapons, or fuel would be willing to do so.

In fact, I suspect this godawful slow bombers we saw in the opening battle were meant to be godawful, substandard ships being all they could get.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Yeah it was funny because at one moment they didn't even know that the tracking systems existed, and in the next moment they have detailed blueprints showing where the tracking systems are.

That entire subplot had some weird conveniences, and yet it was all thrown away because it was irrelevant.

[–] Torniojaws (116) 7 years ago

In ANH, we see R2-D2 hack into the Empire's system to get their archives. It's not inconceivable that they simply used those maps off-screen when planning the attacks.