Sim.
TL; DR
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Sim, a resistência basicamente não tem mais nada. 3 X-Wings, um barco a remo e um baterista descalço.
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Não, a New Republic não seria capaz de ajudá-los (mesmo que quisessem, o que eles explicitamente não sabiam) - a maior parte da N.R. a frota foi eliminada junto com o sistema de Hosnian. Porque é isso que acontece quando você se preocupa com a taxação das rotas comerciais mais do que com remanescentes imperiais uivando na porta.
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Sim, a Starkiller Base é muito levemente defendida. Segurança através da obscuridade. Eles são basicamente Microsoft.
As citações de novelização serão lançadas em breve.
Detalhes:
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Nova República não estava interessada em confronto militar com a Primeira Ordem.
Isso é coberto em detalhes no Visual Dictionary. Não vou elaborar aqui porque não é muito pertinente a esta resposta, e merece a sua própria resposta separada, se alguém estiver interessado em detalhes.
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Mesmo se eles fossem, sua frota era toda Starkillered no sistema de Hosnian:
Expanding outward from the explosion, a tremendous burst of heat tore through the Hosnian system’s other worlds, searing their surfaces clean of life and incidentally obliterating all settlements, installations, and outposts, as well as the hundreds of ships belonging to the Republic fleet. In its wake, the detonation left behind a blazing, spherical mass. The home of the Republic had become a new binary system: one utterly devoid of life.
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Posso confirmar, a partir da novelização, que SOMENTE X-Wings foram enviados. Nenhuma menção a Y-wings ou qualquer outra coisa.
Além disso, havia apenas 2 ou 3 esquadrões:
“Roger, base.” Hitting the controls necessary to alter course within a lightspeed run, Poe addressed the rest of his flight. “Red squad, blue squad—follow my lead.” At his touch, their revised vector entered the flight computer of every ship in every squadron, and the X-wings promptly adjusted as a single unit.
“Copy, Black Leader,” Wexley replied, as his own craft changed directionDependendo da existência do esquadrão negro (ou simplesmente Poe), temos 2 ou 3 esquadrões.
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Para completar, é praticamente tudo o que a Resistência tem.
“All teams, nice job!” Poe said to his fellow pilots. “General, the target’s been destroyed!”
Leia’s warm voice filled his ears, but the message she delivered was an unexpected one. “Good—now retreat immediately! The planet could be unstable. Get out of there now.”
Even with the relay in place, it took a moment for the message to be received. Poe didn’t hesitate to reply. “If we retreat, we leave our friends behind!”
Having anticipated Poe’s response, Leia was ready with her own. “Poe, outside of those of us here, your group is all that remains of the Resistance that’s capable of putting up a fight. If you stay to find them, we lose you all.” -
A razão pela qual a Resistência é tão levemente armada é (Hat / tip ) está em Artigo do Star Wars Databank para Resistance X -Wing:
The Incom T-70 X-wing is the latest incarnation of a classic design, and the signature combat craft of the Resistance’s Starfighter Corps. Faster than the Alliance-era T-65s, Resistance X-wings are maneuverable enough to engage TIE fighters in dogfights, but powerful enough to take down capital ships. The credit-strapped Resistance relies on X-wings donated or lent by sympathetic New Republic senators and local security forces.
Esse mesmo artigo dá uma dica de por que eles realmente não precisam de um bombardeiro, o novo X-wing basicamente serviu como bombardeiro.
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A arma foi levemente defendida, pelo menos na medida em que Resistência poderia dizer, porque a Primeira Ordem assumiu que ninguém sabia sobre isso, porque eles tinham um escudo, e porque eles tinham uma maneira de detectar se a Resistência se mobilizava:
“We’d likely get only one shot at it,” Poe put in. “What Admiral Ackbar said about keeping it secret would only work as long as its location remains unknown. Once the First Order realizes that we know where it is, they’d throw everything they’ve got into defending it with ships, mobile stations, and long-range detectors. We might never get close to it again.”
“None of this is possible,” a downcast Ackbar postulated. “While the planet in question may at present be deliberately underdefended, the instant we move forces out of hiding and in its direction, the First Order will realize that we know the location of the weapon. They will mobilize everything in the vicinity to protect it. Their fleet is too large for us to fight our way through. Additionally, despite what Poe theorizes, I would wager they must already have at least a minimal planetary shield in place. Plainly, they can access the energy to support such a defense.” He looked at Finn, whose reply was not encouraging.
“Yes, such a shield does exist.”