Can you hyper through shields?

Can you hyperspace from outside a shield to inside?

wait... a planetary shield?

you have to stop tens of thousands of miles outside of the planet to get out of hyperspace... otherwise you'd blow yourself (and probably a big part of the planet) up.

planet is near impossible, even if you get the shileds down most of the time the planets gravity will bring you out of hyperspace before you even get past the shields. so yeah probably not.

I think, in theory at least, it would be possible. However the effects of coming out of hyperspace inside the gravitational pull would probably be disastrous. In theory the only reason you exit hyperspace if you get too close to a gravity well is because of a kill switch on the hyperdrive that prevents you from exiting hyperspace inside a solid object. What would need to be taken into consideration is the sudden and serious stress put on the ship from the sudden snap into gravity and that those gravitational forces probably couldn't be calculated for ahead of time.

Not true. Skywalker piloted a Venator into Boz Pity's gravitational field before said battle.

There's also one of the books, can't remember which now, as its been ages, that describes landing on Coruscant at one point. They describe the multi-layered shield with a few openings in it for ships to pass through.

It'd make a lot of sense to have planetary shields to keep out physical objects. Sure you don't want that Star Destroyer making your cities into slag with turbolasers. But if you can't block physical objects, what is stopping them from tractoring a few asteroids over and dropping them on you?

Dante wrote:Not true. Skywalker piloted a Venator into Boz Pity's gravitational field before said battle.

He may have piloted the ship into the system, but was it in hyperspace? As far as I know, ships in hyperspace cannot be manually controlled, as they are on a straight path. You can manually program jumps, or make micro-jumps within a system, but as far as grabbing the controls and making maneuvers, erm...no.

I'd be confused as to how a shield can stop 'energy', which technically has no mass when fired as a weapon, but be unable to stop a ship. Being able to stop something which cannot be physically grabbed is impressive enough, but I would of assumed the same technology would also grab something with matter as a side effect.

Link's into Jeg's point, the rebel fleet were basically saying they would be unable to attack the death star until they were under the shields. if they were forced to back away because the shields were still up, you could assume that said shield would also block them.

Thanks for all the replies. I've looked in a few different places and found nothing on this particular subject.

Now for my take:
I don't see any reason it can't be done.
As I see it the only reason it's not done is because it isn't feasible. As some of you pointed out you can't hyper past a planetary shield for the obvious, the gravity well. And as for ships in deep space, your ship would wind up inside of the other (unless the ship was standing still and your calculations were flawless, and this is also assuming the ship wasn't using form fitting Conformal Absorption Mould or a Conformal Absorption Strip type of shield).

Real space and hyperspace are two distinctly different realms. It would seem to me that to have a shield blocking both would not only give it what I would consider unheard of properties, but would take an enormous amount of energy. More energy than even the most powerful capital ship could produce, because it would have to be connected to hyperspace while in real space.

And Riqimo they do make particle shields for deflecting matter and from what I understand all ships are equipped with them even if they don't have ray shields.

Thanks again for the response and any other comments or theoretical ideas are most welcome.

As I said before I've looked in a few different places and found no mention on this.
And if I know the universe well it is so I can write better stories.

A planetary shield(or defense grid) was a large scale deflector shield designed to protect an entire planet from bombardment, falling debris, or other hazards. The term planetary shield may also have been used for a large scale shield protecting a moon such as Nar Shaddaa.

from the Wookieepedia page on Planetary Shields.

I rest my case.

Have any of you guys even read my posts? Or maybe I just wasn't clear.

I never said it had to be a planetary shield, and in the post with my take on all this; I said hypering past a planetary shield couldn't be done. You can't hyper in a gravity well.

Ya, with the gravity well generator up there is no way you can go any were because it causes everything to go all messed up and causes the navi computer to detect the gravity, and not let you go to lightspeed.

Not possible. As long as the gravity well rator is up and running, I belive it creates artificial gravity which jams the computers which allow it to go to lightspeed.