Well, going by the Rebels trailer, it pulls the corvette out of hyperspace and dwarfs that ship, so I doubt we'll see one for X-wing.

I am the most excited to see a glimpse of this:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Havoc_(starfighter)

Well, going by the Rebels trailer, it pulls the corvette out of hyperspace and dwarfs that ship, so I doubt we'll see one for X-wing.

Interdictor has been listed at 600 meters in length since the early 90s, way too big for our game.

Well, going by the Rebels trailer, it pulls the corvette out of hyperspace and dwarfs that ship, so I doubt we'll see one for X-wing.

And, judging by a commercial I just saw on Disney XD, the Rebels do something to sabotage its Gravity Well generators and cause a massive implosion, collapsing the ship in on itself while the CR-90 escapes in the nick of time.

It's at 00:18 of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2DWHR_TcOI

Should be fun to watch how they accomplish it.

Very cool :-)

I love this show. I know a lot of people don't, but I do.

Very cool :-)

I love this show. I know a lot of people don't, but I do.

There are dozens of us!

Well, going by the Rebels trailer, it pulls the corvette out of hyperspace and dwarfs that ship, so I doubt we'll see one for X-wing.

And, judging by a commercial I just saw on Disney XD, the Rebels do something to sabotage its Gravity Well generators and cause a massive implosion, collapsing the ship in on itself while the CR-90 escapes in the nick of time.

It's at 00:18 of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2DWHR_TcOI

Should be fun to watch how they accomplish it.

Ah ha! As I was saying, if you are creating a mass shadow with gravity well generators you should be able to crank up the juice on them and create some hard core gravity in localized space, either towards or against the ship. At least Rebels is thinking the same way I am =P

Still, if the INterdictor only screws with the hyperdrive failsave mechanism, a creative techie shouldn't have a problem to deactivate the failsafe and jump away.

Outlaw tech anyone

True but doing so is incredibly risky. Hit something which has a real mass shadow and you are lucky if the ship is just wrecked.

Edit: It will probably take several rounds worth of time as well and might need to be done or at lest set up in a maintenance facility

That's definitely not a Havoc. Engines where there should be lasers, and the hull on this thing is saucer shaped.

Still, if the INterdictor only screws with the hyperdrive failsave mechanism, a creative techie shouldn't have a problem to deactivate the failsafe and jump away.

Outlaw tech anyone

And don't forget the time needed for calculations, which need to be redone if you are suddenly yanked off course by an interdictor.

I figure it's one of those things, like disabling the proximity switch on a submarine torpedo that prevents it from detonating too close to the ship because an enemy sub is too close for it to arm itself otherwise.

Yes, it's a dangerous thing to do, but NOT being able to due it when the situation demands it is just as fatal.

Obviously, if you're a rebel or a pirate, and the only way to escape the Empire is through hyperspace, and they have ships that pull you out of hyperspace based on a built-in safety feature, it behooves you to add a way to disable that feature.

Yeah, smashing into a planet sucks. So does getting blown up by the Empire because you can't get away. You're dead either way.

The Interdictor works by triggering a mechanism in the Astrogation computer that registers gravitational anomalies, kinda like the auto-break feature in many cars.

It sets up a grav-well and the computer registers the anomaly as a planet or star.

Without letting the computer sense stars and planets, it's impossible to get anywhere (useful) with the hyperdrive: and if the computer is on, it can be tricked.

There's not much way around it.

Take the car example: you know the cops could roll a beach ball in front of your car to stop it, but in order to prevent the ball from triggering your auto-brake you'd have to turn off your windshield.

Trust me; you're going nowhere with your windshield/astrocomp off/altered. I don't care how good a pilot you are.

Take the car example: you know the cops could roll a beach ball in front of your car to stop it, but in order to prevent the ball from triggering your auto-brake you'd have to turn off your windshield.

Trust me; you're going nowhere with your windshield/astrocomp off/altered. I don't care how good a pilot you are.

Except that in that metaphor, you don't have to escape the cops without your windshield, you just have to get past the beach ball, which you could do just by driving straight.

The starship doesn't have to fly all the way to it's destination with it's hyperdrive safeties disabled, it just has to jump far enough from the Interdictor that it's out of range of it's projectors. At which point, you could reactivate the safeties and hyperjump normally.

@DEX Which is exactly how Luke escapes the Chimaera right? He's dead in the water because Thrawn snags him with tractor beams so he microjumps, blowing his hyperdrive in the process.

Take the car example: you know the cops could roll a beach ball in front of your car to stop it, but in order to prevent the ball from triggering your auto-brake you'd have to turn off your windshield.

Trust me; you're going nowhere with your windshield/astrocomp off/altered. I don't care how good a pilot you are.

Except that in that metaphor, you don't have to escape the cops without your windshield, you just have to get past the beach ball, which you could do just by driving straight.

The starship doesn't have to fly all the way to it's destination with it's hyperdrive safeties disabled, it just has to jump far enough from the Interdictor that it's out of range of it's projectors. At which point, you could reactivate the safeties and hyperjump normally.

Sorry, the car metaphor does kinda fall short in 3-d space. (And I'm used to Pennsylvanian roads; I forgot roads came in "straight".)

Look, there is no hyper scanner, you can't "see" what is in front of you until you are at it. The computer lets you jump from any point in a system, rather than just the "jump location" it is familiar with.

Remember, space is not analogous to land, there are no roads, only best routes. Even with the best maps available you will still need to chart your own course and be able to deal with anomalies.

The reason you have the computer is to detect the location of gravitationally significant objects and avoid them on-the-fly. Without that ability, you might as well use jump points and hyperspace beacons like the did before the navicomp was invented.

The part of the navicomp being tricked is integral to it's function, so you either know where you are going and risk interdiction, or you make endless blind jumps.

Remember again, in space there is no close enough. Without the computer detecting your location you could jump forever (if you had the fuel) and never come close enough to a habitable planet to get there before your food ran out.

Remember Katana Fleet, no one will find you in a thousand years.

Remember again, in space there is no close enough. Without the computer detecting your location you could jump forever (if you had the fuel) and never come close enough to a habitable planet to get there before your food ran out.

And I don't understand why you couldn't just, point to empty space, turn off the computer, and tell the hyperdrive to hyperjump you straight ahead for 2 seconds, then, when you come out of hyperspace a few hundred thousand miles away, far outside the reach of the Interdictor, then turn the computer back on and make a real jump before they could catch up to you.

They could do the same exact thing, you know.

Has anyone ID'd the blue ships seen at 1:19? Look like Mon Calamari-ish freighters with side laser cannons, fighting along with the Ghost?

I like the look of em.