Yeah, the rings are probably a bit oversized (we see sublight on them too). OTOH, the hyperdrive seen in TPM might be a subcomponent rather than the whole system.Lord Revan wrote: ↑2020-06-15 02:11pm
Well I wouldn't directly compare the hyperdrive rings into the size of a hyperdrive, I mean we saw a hyperdrive unit in Episode one and it wasn't that big compared to the ship it was installed in, Amidala's ship was around 90 m long IIRC and the hyperdrive looked like it was at most 2 meters wide, 2 meters tall and half a meter deep compared to Obi-wan who was working on the unit.
I'd guess that they don't scale down well. A V-wing is three meters wide and eight meters long, and an Eta is five meters long, with barely any room outside a person-sized cockpit. Also, the TIE x1's hyperdrive is still pretty big, compared to a TIE cockpit.