In addition, the Resistance was fleeing! If they are fleeing, they are not going to be able to focus on attacking small fighters. Why can't a fleet of First Order fighters (And Kylo Ren, who is undoubtedly a good pilot), do the same to the Resistance ships. As we saw at the beginning of the movie, Poe was able to take out all the cannons off the dreadnought by himself. There is absolutely no reason for the first order to call their star fighters back.

This is all largely irrelevant however, simply because it is ludicrous that the First Order did not bring smaller ships to the battle. On top of that, the First Order would have far more advanced technology than the Resistance, so there is no reason to believe that older Resistance ships should have superior speed, despite size. Moreover, the reasons they give us for why the supremacy cannot keep, is because the ships are smaller and faster however, in a New Hope, we see a star destroyer keeping up with the Tantiv-IV with no problem. It simply does not make sense for the first order to create a massive fleet, but only make large slow star destroyers which can easily be outrun. The fact that the first order does not have any medium sized assault ships which can keep up with the smaller resistance ones is simply appalling. All the other first order ships disappear.Īrgument 1: Why doesn't the first order have smaller ships?

Once the chase begins, only the Supremacy follows the resistence ships.

We see a single X-Wing take out all the guns on the dreadnought with little problem, but when the First Order sends an entire fleet of fighters to attack the Raddus, they fall back because they do not have cover.

The first order has marshalled it's entire fleet to destroy the last remnants of the Resistance, so why do they happen to lack smaller ships.

I will attempt to show you that this is ridiculous, and makes the movie unwatchable. The biggest plot point of the movie is that the rebel ships are smaller and faster than the Supremacy, and as a result, cannot catch them or get in firing range. I accept the debate, and will set out to prove that it was a terrible movie.

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