Mass shadow collision in SW, and interactions with realspace

[Mr. Oragahn]

Aside from a ship in hyperspace hitting a mass shadow and somehow blowing up, do we know what are the effects on the object which cast the gravity field? Does the explosion translate into realspace?

[Mike DiCenso]

The most obvious and immediate known effect of a mass shadow is pulling a ship out of hyperspace. This is what the Interdictor class SDs do, after a fashion, they create an artifical gravity well which creates a kind of mass shadow that pulls the target vessel from hyperspace. In the case of natural MS, they can increase the odds of a collison in real-space once the ship falls out of hyperspace. As for explosions, I cannot recall any such instance relating to a ship exploding in hyperspace and then manifesting the explosion in real-space.
-Mike