Again, that’s not even remotely similar to a detonation like the one Zen posted. The hyperdrive being destroyed by a lightsaber and then detonating (which AP conveniently left out of her transcript) is no different to a ship exploding, causing the hyperdrive to detonate. Either way the same amount of fuel is being burned, and the same amount of energy released.
The difference with a prototype engine on a ship actively attempting to go into hyperspace is huge. If destruction of a non functioning hyperdrive yielded those results we’d see them more frequently, but we don’t. It’s likely like launching a grenade at a nuclear warhead, or lighting C4 on fire. Sure, the nuke still explodes, but not in the carefully controlled manner which is required to result in a nuclear explosion. The same energy sources and fuel are there, the same explosion is not.
'Conveniently left out' perhaps you should complain to Legend.
But I would love to know which head gymnastic techniques you must've utilised, to come to the conclusion that an energy source utilising hypermatter is remotely the same to explosives or splitting atoms.
Hyperdrives are encased in protective armor for the purpose of not exploding due to damage sustained on other parts of the vessel, if my memory serves me correctly.
Selenial is right. Looking at the passage in Death Star again:
How this "null-point energy" had become unstable he didn't know.
The instability isn't just the result of a generic explosion. If that were the case, *every* hypermatter equipped ship would immediately vaporize on puncture of its reactor, and that clearly doesn't happen. There's no reason to think that the puncturing of the reactor results in the releasing of all or even a large part of its potential energy - that certainly doesn't happen with most real life reactors.
Vader tanking Starkiller's blue-glowing, externally amped rage lightning for like 30 seconds and then, if you pick the dark side ending, standing up like a minute later with no apparent issues is pretty impressive too, given that Starkiller's lightning charged an ISD busting cannon.
If we're using "barrier" liberally then the absolute best one is probably Luke in DN, and/or Sidious shielding objects from his Force storms if that's how he safely teleports them. On the tier right below would be Sidious tanking Galen's suicide blast.