Star Wars' First Holdo Maneuver Reveals the Bleak Truth Last Jedi Didn't
In The Last Jedi's epic sacrifice, Vice Admiral Holdo rammed the First Order’s flagship as her vessel entered hyperspace in a move that stunned movie-goers, but another Star Wars property actually depicted this scenario first. More accurate to established Star Wars lore, the first “Holdo Maneuver” in the franchise had much grimmer consequences for the vessels that rammed an Imperial dreadnaught.
Holdo’s hyperspace ramming maneuver in The Last Jedi was one of the film’s most controversial moments. Holdo aimed the Raddus towards the Supremacy and jumped to hyperspace, hitting the gargantuan dreadnaught right before it would have entered the hyperspace tunnel. While Holdo’s demise was inevitable with this maneuver, it also bisected the Supremacy and shredded two-thirds of the First Order’s fleet of Resurgent-class Star Destroyers. While some praised the sequence’s visual grandeur, others criticized its potentially callous rewriting of the Star Wars franchise’s space battles. For those familiar with the Legends continuity, however, this moment was strangely familiar.
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In 1983’s Race for Survival by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, three “Holdo Maneuvers” occurred simultaneously with drastically different results than what was shown in The Last Jedi. During the Rebel Alliance’s evacuation from their fortress on Yavin IV, the Rebel fleet was being pursued by both Darth Vader aboard the Galactic Empire’s flagship, the Executor, and Admiral Amise Griff, who led a trio of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. In the confusion of the battle, Griff’s trio of vessels exited hyperspace, ramming Vader’s flagship in the process just as they exited the tunnel,
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