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Originally Posted by edslunch
The other stupid part of the chase is that in space you don’t need continuous thrust, just a little burst then coast in the frictionless environment. Every burst is an acceleration, so the only way the rebel ships could stay in front is by continuously accelerating, so the slow speed chase would become high speed pretty quickly.
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If you're worried about physics, then that's what happened. Speed is extremely relative in space after all, and the distances so ridiculous that in the timeframe of that part of the story it doesn't really make a difference that technically the ships went faster all the time, while keeping the same distance from each other.
The First Order kept accelerating as fast as they could, and the rebels spent just enough fuel to stay ahead of the First order to optimize how long they could go on.
That said, I agree that it didn't really feel like a Star Wars plot. In that universe fuel is generally irrelevant.
Also, near light speed ramming is either a thing in the universe or it isn't, because it's a huge gamechanger. It hasn't been a thing before in Star Wars, so I somewhat disapprove of doing it now.