Isto parece ser um simples efeito de encurtamento, fazendo com que os múltiplos feixes emitidos da Star Killer Base pareçam ser um feixe único até entrar no sistema Hosniano de planetas quando, na realidade, era < em> sempre um conjunto de meia dúzia de feixes separados viajando pelo mesmo caminho .
Isto é apoiado pela novelização oficial do filme que não faz menção ao raio que se divide ao longo de seu caminho, sem falar no comando de Kylo Ren.
Penetrating to within a predetermined distance of the containment field, an immense hollow cylinder permitted a way out while ensuring that when the weapon was unleashed, gigantic groundquakes would not roil the world’s fragile surface.
When the weapons engineers fired the device, a breach was induced in the containment field. At incredible velocity and accelerating exponentially, the concentrated volume of quintessence escaped, transforming as it did so into a state known as phantom energy and following the artificial line of egress that had been provided. Assuming that the rotation and inclination of the planet had been taken into account, the released blast of concentrated phantom energy would travel along a perfectly linear path, punching a small Big Rip through hyperspace itself until it left the galaxy