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[Star Wars] Spoiler question in post re: fleet chase

Not sure how best to do the spoiler but desperately want to know the answer.

The Supremacy can take out the Raddus easily by itself, assuming no fancy suicide hyperspace attacks. The rest of the First Order's fleet can damage or outright destroy the Raddus without the Supremacy. 

THE ENTIRE FLEET CHASES THE RADDUS IN SUBLIGHT FOR HOURS - WHY DID THE FLEET NOT JUST JUMP TO HYPERSPACE AHEAD OF THE RADDUS!?!?!? IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN LITERALLY SECONDS!

Phew. Sorry. Thank you kindly.
gpt
Because you should never fight a battle when you can win just by waiting.

The First Order fleet had all the time in the world: the Resistance fleet was burning through its fuel and if they tried to jump again, they could just follow them (and the Resistance would have wasted even more fuel in the process). Any alternative to just waiting until the Resistance ships are out of fuel and dead in space is the poorer one.