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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I was thinking about the whole starship chase, we're running out of fuel story line, which to me was kind of silly, since fuel has never been a concern in the Star Wars Galaxy. I mean all of the capital ships from the PT to the OT to the Death Star have all run on reactors. Hence why these things seem to be so easy to destroy.

They even had the technology that's in Canon because of Rebels and even in TCWs and that Interdictor technology which is a ship mounted system that creates a gravity well that prevents ships from jumping to light speed.

Its still something that they can blow up, the mechanics of the plot would have remained the same except it could be made clear that the First Order was herding them towards a trap of some kind like another fleet.

You could still have the whole tense countdown with the trap being sprung in 6 hours things. You could make it so the ships can't go to light speed as long as the Interdictor cruiser is still alive. And you can still have it that after the cruiser is destroyed that The Rebel Cruiser still takes out Snokes flag ship because he's shooting on the shuttles. heck you could even put the Interdictor tech on Snoke's ship, I mean the thing was big enough, and I noticed that Snoke's ship was just outright bigger then the Executor from Empire.

I mean Luke flew half way across the galaxy in a X-Wing and never stopped for Gas. Han's problem in Empire wasn't fuel, he could fly through entire solar systems but his hyper drive was shot.

Just out of interest, I looked up a couple of things

FO Resurgent Star Destroyer's length is 2900 meters The Imperial Star Destroyer was 1600 meters, and the Resurgent carries twice as many fighters and crew and Storm Troopers.

Here's where it gets funny, Snokes Star Destroyer, the Supremecy was 13000 meters long and 16000 meters wide. Compared to the Super Star Destroyer the Executor, was 16000 meters long and about half of that wide.

Now what is funny because I didn't even think about this until just now when I looked it up. The First Order doesn't have a home planet or a seat of government at all. There's no capital world, the Supremecy was not only a super ship, but it was the seat of power for the entire First Order. So all of its leaders, probably all of its technology and money and everything were on that ship.

So when someone said that there were only 40 Rebels left and 5 First Order Walkers and Snoke and Hux, he is right. Not only is the Rebellion crippled, but the First order is completely crippled. So the weird question becomes one of lost opportunity. Once the Supremecy was destroyed, wouldn't the message to Leia's buddies be basically "We just destroyed the first order's seat of government, and most of their fleet, they have 5 walkers on the planet and one gun that has to be dragged in to place. This is our opportunity to finish off the First Order". And as a rebel, wouldn't you jump at that.

I seriously doubt Johnson put that much thought into it, or chose to look at the universe deeply enough to create that level of consistency. The First Order will be back at full strength next movie. The new star destroyer was nothing but a bigger and badder cgi monster.