"The rings." Two soft words, acting as reminder and question both.
The planet has a double-set of rings, from some collision of two moons, one on a skewed orbit, hundreds of millions of years ago. They make a rough X when viewed from the side; one is further in towards the atmosphere, one mostly further out. Because of the constant impacts where the rings intersect, the debris is thicker and smaller than usual. Harder to avoid, harder to track in.
This is why Poe Dameron is at the controls, and not Kay.
Cassian's hands go to the hyperspace calculations, doing what he can to shift it along faster.
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The planet has a double-set of rings, from some collision of two moons, one on a skewed orbit, hundreds of millions of years ago. They make a rough X when viewed from the side; one is further in towards the atmosphere, one mostly further out. Because of the constant impacts where the rings intersect, the debris is thicker and smaller than usual. Harder to avoid, harder to track in.
This is why Poe Dameron is at the controls, and not Kay.
Cassian's hands go to the hyperspace calculations, doing what he can to shift it along faster.