Quote Originally Posted by The Cool Thatguy View Post
Ya know, it was a cool scene, but my immediate thought right after was 'Why has no one attached missiles to light drives before' or done this exact same thing before. At this rate, you'd think it would be a common tactic.
Doing the exact same thing with the ship is dangerous for sure. One will loose the ship along with the crew. Holdo did not survive.

Missiles can be good. But it has issues. FTL travel in Star Wars involves precise calculations as seen in New Hope. Han mentioned to Luke that without that the ship can pass through a star or supernova for example. It might crash against a planet. Missiles are meant to target an enemy ship/fighter. Not a planet with inhabitants. Such missiles could be really dangerous hitting far away places where it was not meant to be. Not that the First Order or Empire before it cared for innocent people one bit. Maybe its just as simple as technology. The technology for combining the things which give a ship a faster then light speed might not be compatible with a missile.