If it detected such, the cut-out would automatically engage and drop the ship back into real space before it collided with said object. Short version, all hyperdrives are equipped with emergency cut-outs that automatically scan for large gravity wells in the ship’s path, such as would naturally be generated by a planet or star. Later rules added a little more granularity, but also clarified that a gravity well could be projected out to double the range of cap-ship turbolasers. In the original rules, a successful hit with a gravity well inflicted no damage, but prevented a ship from jumping to hyperspace. It was also always a ranged weapon, even before WEG had instituted weapon ranges. The basis for the gravity well started out from the WEG rules, and it was always intended as a method of tricking a ship into dropping itself out of hyperspace, not a field effect that forced it out. Rebels butchered the canon of gravity wells, and I don’t consider it a credible source. So no, I certainly don’t think a ship this size could ever mount a full-up projector (ala the Interdictor), but a /generator/ could conceivably be carried, IF said generator had a much lower power budget than the more tactically useful projector. Obviously, such a ship would be operating as part of a group, as the gravity well generator would render it immobile while active. That’s what I’m primarily seeing this used for: a portable, economical way to interdict a hyperspace route for commercial inspections and law enforcement purposes.
You can’t always tell when they’ll be open, and very rarely, state police will set up mobile scales on back roads to catch drivers who are dodging the scales on the main highways. I drive trucks for a living, and we get pulled into scales and inspection stations all the time. I’m seeing it primarily as a tool for Imperial Customs or similar law enforcement agencies. It just needs to generate enough of a gravity well to force ships to drop into realspace. This would be something similar it doesn’t need to project the largest possible gravity well, and it doesn’t need to do so at a distance. There is mention in one of the other WEG sources of a pirate tactic called the Barricade, where a ship would use tractor beams to tow a large asteroid into a hyperspace route so that its gravity well would knock ships out of hyperspace.
I’m making the distinction that a Generator creates a gravity well centered on itself, whereas a Projector can project that gravity well out to a distance (per the original WEG sources, a gravity well projector had twice the range of a cap-ship turbolaser).
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