10 Highest Casualty Battles | Galactic Empire Military
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- We take a look at some of the worst moments in Imperial military history. From the Battle of Yavin 4 to the Battle of Jakku the Galactic Empire sustained massive losses during these battles.
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Hawkeye Pierce: "war is war and hell is hell, and of the two, war is worse."
Father Mulcahy: "why do you say that Hawkeye?"
H.P: "who goes to hell father?"
F.M: "sinners I believe"
H.P: "right. There are no innocent bystanders in hell."
I mean considering how stupid some “sins” are there definitely would be a lot of innocent people there if it was a real place (but I get the meaning of the quote anyways)
One of my favorite lines from my favorite piece of fiction of all time
You just summed up the reason why I love M*A*S*H. A masterpiece of a series.
Wouldn’t the quote make more sense if it said „[t]here are no innocent bystanders in war“. Either way, great quote!
@@hekkrjs2698 that omits the rest of the quote
H.P: “Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”
Listening to Imperial ship names always makes me wonder if any Imps in the navy had an "Are we the baddies?" moment. "Persecutor", "Devastator", "Ravager", etc...
"Tyranny" was another blatant one.
Should’ve named one bureaucracy
@@GenerationTech ah yes the star destroyer Unrelenting Bureaucracy.
@@theblueneko677 I mean it would be the scariest.
Isn't very different from historical Royal Navy names. Very common names up until after wwii.
We hear shots being fired on DS2 when Luke was pulling Vader as it was about to blow. As far as we know, there were no rebels on the station, aside from Lando who was blowing it up. That can only mean that in all the panic, the imperials were killing each other to get the chance to get of the station before it is destroyed.
If we take battlefront 2 maps as canon we see a crashed cr90 in a hanger but I think that’s the only indication that they were on the Death Star
@@cornblaster7003 It could be also that the corvette suffered a similar fate to the executor super battle cruiser. With debris from the battle raging on pelting the gravitational dominant Death Star with so.
It could also be imperials killing themselved so that they wouldnt have to live during the explosion.
@@acid4465 either way death would be instantaneous
@acid most likely not if they kill the self they would likely feel more pain but if the Death Star blows they wouldn’t know it was coming and be instantly disintegrated
Very impressive. Now do one for the Republic during Clone Wars. The Battle of Hypori was probably the Republic’s greatest defeat in either the canon or legends timelines. 99% casualties!
What is that SSTs?
I'd say the Great Hyperspace War was worse than 99% cassulties.
And the battle of sarrish
Anyone else find it ironic that the end of the 501st would come in a battle where their opponents were in part being commanded by Captain Rex, the original commander of the 501st?
Wish we had a Star Wars movie that just shows how terrible war is like from the view of a Rebel or Stormtrooper
And pls make the stormtroopers actually aim
Sounds like a "Band of Brothers" flavored mini series. For one or BOTH sides... An probably will never happen unless a bunch of fans get together and make one
Theres a couple of youtube channels made that are like that
If anything an adaptation of Battlefront Twilight Company would be the best bet (no it has no relations to any of the Battlefront games).
B2 can aim better then human storm troopers
I'm honestly getting a lot of WWI or WWII vibes in The Mimban Campaign. The battle looks so cinematic in the Solo movie, probably one of the best moments of the movie. I also really love the realistic appearance of the armor the Imperials were wearing in that battle.
The Mimban Campaign had walkers based on the artillery of WWII at-dt. And had similar vibes to older warfare
@@alextimm5445 That's another thing. I didn't mention it because it I honestly didn't know what it was called. But thanks for giving me the name.
As an imperial fan (not a die hard one, just like them) this deeply saddens me because just because they were shown as evil doesn't mean there weren't innocent ones among them...
I feel they had a lot of good people but had a rotten core, same as the Republic. I’m a huge clone fan.
@@kodybanks9375 I agree. Plus alot of people think of the entire empire as Evil yet they aren't all Evil, only the higher ups are truly evil.
I know this doesn't apply to the Republic or what you were talking about but it's still a point that has to be made
It's guilt by association, yes many of them are not evil but Palpatine and the likes of tarkin are the ones pulling the levers. They are going to follow orders mostly to a fault unless something severe happens, like alderan, yavin, endor, and cinder. In an ideal galaxy, only the real baddies would be annihilated and the innocent spared, but that's not how evil works, or scum if you don't believe in good or evil. Evil doesn't care at, in fact is even delighted from others suffering in their name and is more than happy to drag everyone within reach to their endgame. It's cruelly elegant in design to force their opponents to stoop as near to their level as possible, to have as much or arguably more blood in their hands in some cases to beat them.
Bro spelled battle WRONG
@@snowleopardbro2956 who here used the word battle?
I would honestly love to see how Lothal turned out, in the aftermath of the battle. I wonder if it became like a base of operations for the rebels, or did they keep Lothal neutral after the fact, so that the Empire wouldn't be encouraged to strike there again?
IIRC the Empire wasn't able to reclaim Lothal.
I would just wan to see that city and its people destroyd in front of the "heroes"
Chances are, due to mass destruction and indiscriminate bombing they would become just another back water world mostly ignored by the galaxy at large. I really doubt if the new republic would push for legislation to reconstruct outer rim worlds and their is mostly a power vacuum there as both the imperials and rebel leaders are basically gone. It's ripe to become another criminal lair.
At the end of rebels Sabine says than the empire didn't strike back and as far as I know the planet was going great it seems like if it prospered
If your entire garrison on a planet was destroyed along with an entire fleet of ISD's commanded by the best tactician in the entire Empire, would you send another attack?
"Expended." That word perfectly encapsulates the real tragedy of war. Not lost. Not killed. Expended. A person who was born, who grew, who lived, and whose death is treated like a spent round of ammunition or an empty battery.
When I first watched Star Wars, I thought the Empire had been around for hundreds of years up until Yavin. I was surprised when it was just 19 years old up till then.
Before the prequels came to be I think it was intended for the Empire to have been around a long time.
@@Burning-Twilight interesting
@@Burning-Twilight In a galaxy far, far away.
Same. I also thought the Emperor was just inhumanly old (like 200+ years old) and not, like, what? in this 60s (?) based on the prequels
In the earliest Legends Expanded Universe novels, the authors mistakenly placed the Clone Wars around 40 to 50 years before the Galactic Civil War.
The Battle of Jakkut should be the focus of SW Squadrons 2.
Edit: we were gonna have a few CW episodes focused in Mimbaan
Han solo wasn't "pressed into service" he volunteered for military service and subsequently was derelect from duty and went awol for cowardice. Leaving his brothers and sisters on the battlefield when they needed him most.
See Solo:A Star Wars Story.
He was originally in the flight academy to be a pilot. He was forced into the infantry.
@@Eric-ch6gq because he disobeyed orders, plus he technically willingly went into the infantry when the officer reassigned him
@@Dire_Pack that's the reason he was pressed into the infantry. I meant that it was a forced transfer.
Yeah what these smart guys said…
"AWOL for cowardice". Correction, he was falsely accused of treason. And he didn't want to leave out of cowardice, he was trying to get back to his home planet for stupid plot reasons.
(Yeah, I really hated the whole romance sub plot.)
Mah boy Alan always turning up with the quality content ✌🏻✌🏻
Sadly though if the first DS hadn't been destroyed, there is nothing that would lead me to believe that trillions wouldn't have died in the hands of Tarkin.
This is true
Especially since they were already planning to use it on other worlds like Mon Cala after they would use it on Yavin 4.
Some planets would be destroyed, but after that no one else would rebel, at least in an organized group the size of the rebellion. The Empire would have won, and the Emperor would be right "we shall have peace".
Absolutely- while the Tarkin doctrine seems straightforward, how does one really determine whether the rebellion has been truly crushed? Given the guerilla tactics, that itself seems difficult, and this would probably lead Tarkin to blow up even more planets. And honestly, at some point, if he blows up too many planets, there's a tipping point where it's safer to join the rebellion and hopefully stop the genocidal maniac and his planet destroying battle station.
@@psilver8057 who says it would stop at just a few planets, its a foolish thing in the first place. It's like tarkin does not even comprehend how psychology works. And it's utterly wasteful too, destroying a planet for 1 rebel cell, it's diminishing returns at best and scorched earth at worst, its utterly desperate. And it's clearly breaks an old addage:
"If they fear you to little, they will attack. If they fear you too much, then they will attack with everything they got."
I think it's prophetic and clearly defines the death star.
What's kinda insane to me, is think about how many planets have been just wiped out in the ~7000 years of history that the Jedi and Sith have been at war. Between the Death Star, , Malachor V, Darth Nihilus, Vitiate's Rituals, Bane's thought bomb, and just all the other stuff. There's 104 articles on destroyed planets in both legends and canon on wookiepedia. There's gonna be like 5 habitable planets in the whole galaxy given another 7000 years.
And to think, it all could have been avoided if the Jedi weren't self-righteous dickheads.
Or just execute the dark jedi instead of exiling them to Koriban.
@@taycarroll1124 there would be no dark Jedi if the Jedi weren't self-righteous dickheads
The Infinite Empire controlled 500 planets and that was considered small
Not to mention Telos IV was just fine after a couple of years
Also it seems Malachor as a whole is just kinda fucked, there has not been one malachor that was normal, the 3 we know are all fucked
probably the most casualty laden event was when the Vong showed up
Operation Cinder was ostensibly to punish the Imperials for not protecting Palpatine. But I can't help but wonder if it's REAL purpose was to extinguish enough lifeforce to allow Palpatine to pull a Vitiate/Valkorian/Tenebrae and resurrect himself in another body.
Unlikely. That whole process is an entire ritual and would require a fair bit of setup. Plus, Palpatine had other, more efficient, and easier ways of cheating death on standby.
@@andrewvisser8210*cough* Clones in the deep core *cough*
Damn, that was deeper than I expected.
Love how you use the same music for the first segment that Star Wars Theory uses for his outros. Makes everything interconnect. Someday, I hope for you guys to do a collab. Stay safe.
I honestly want a star wars strategy game that gives a proper scale of the battles and lenght of the the empire era and stuff like it. Mods for star wars empire at war forces of corruption do a decent job of it but they can only do so much with it sadly...
Ultimate epic battle simulator 2 will have a good engine for that
That intro about war was actually incredibly insightful
That speech was deep and amazing
I would like some content from Disney showing what a galaxy that just went through 40 years of war would be like. Post empire would be a hard scrabble existence for everyone except for the most well off.
Even golden age empire would be rough as the everyday person, especially if your not human. You are either in the military, the military industrial complex, a wage slave, or a criminal 9 out of 10. And theirs probably more reasons that it's just as bad or worse.
Frankly, even the well off would be dying in droves. With the complete chaos of societal breakdown, there would no longer be a "well off." On the other hand, it would be a chance for those with nothing to lose to possibly rise up the ranks.
@@lolmeme69_ alderan was the definition of well off.......
....was.....
After listening to veterans describe their experiences with being involved in mass casualty events such as the fire bombing of Tokyo, how Luke Skywalker came to terms with the destruction of the Death Star would make a great story line particularly since he was in tune with the Force by that time. He seemed far more broken losing Kylo Ren to the Dark Side, which in itself could maybe be tied to those experiences. The way you describe it here not everyone on that Death Star was a ruthless Imperial killing machine; although the elites among those on board would have been in the upper ranks of the most ruthless and devout in the Imperial military I cannot help but think someone on board would have been questioning their faith in the Emperor by the destruction of Alderaan. It's a shame how so many of our celebrated heroes need to have psychopathic traits.
Luke Skywalker was at most apathetic. He could barely contain himself from not killing stormtroopers on sight on undercover missions. I think he grows as a person later on, but by then, he is so desentised to death that it is hard to tell.
@@tk-6967 Most of our heroes have psychopathic tendencies.
With everything going on in the world and how you have done personally about documenting said pain from war. I am surprised how well you handle these videos on the dark parts of a good distraction. Keep up the good work.
Such a story driven vibe with these vids lately. Keeps me coming back.
The delicious pancakes comment, followed by the picture of the corn cob was golden!
I wrote this battle in my fan fic as the " Battle of Hells " and I did research and I feel the name fitted Mimban and many other battles were rough, I wrote the Mimban battle as a " Victory" in the Clone Wars era where they decided to leave the area for other trooper units to take over then Communications were jammed for 10 years so the victory withdrawl orders never reached the troopers still on mimban and they kept on fighting with Jedi padawans
Imagine being at those battles
Battle of miban: "up and over, lads!"
Can we have a moment of silence for our brothers
Please cover the Exosquad
Can you do a rebel alliance timeline type of thing where you go through the ups and many downs of the organization and how it evovled over time?
Twilight Company was such a good book
Yea seriously an amazing addition to the lore
Great vid GenTech! Please do more on this topic.
I love generation tech, you're content is amazing.
This was an amazing vid! Thanks!
I find it interesting that before the Ukrainian invasion, GT generally had a jokingly positive view on the Empire, often describing them as somewhat heroic peacekeepers who fought against rebel terrorists. But since the invasion, GT has been harshly critical of what the Empire was: a facist authoritarian state that ruled through force and often exploited certain groups to benefit their urban elites. Don't think GT has it in them to joke about that anymore when they've seen first hand the effects of what the Empire would have caused if they were real.
Before I saw what happened in Ukraine and Russia, I just thought, Galactic Empire was cool and civil, than I saw Russia, which look at it's size, it's affectively an Empire. Is now committing warcrimes, albeit the Donbass war had 8 years of Russians and Ukrainians both committing warcrimes. I didn't think or researched it until the aftermath.
War is hell. I used to glorify it. Think it had honor.
But war is for fools. And the brainwashed who thinks war has honor.
The Galactic Empire is like the Russian Empire. A despotic mess.
I don't hate the people. Just the political regime. And the Warhawk supporters.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 War is hell, and I think with the widespread coverage and ease to find frontline footage of the 2022 invasion has opened the eyes of many people. Numbers on a page and written accounts are nothing compared to footage of kids crying, aftermath of massacres, and brutal combat videos.
@@halrold7369 you'd think we'd have open eyes from the war in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan. To my shock we're still surprised. Ever saw the movie injustice? Superman goes becomes a war stopping tyrant. But still stops war. Why can't we ever stop the wars?
Hell why are we so racist as humans to judge people by government actions instead of individual character?
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 A lot of high quality footage from those conflicts come from ISIS, who obviously make the content favor them, and won't really be shown my mainstream media nor would it be shared by many people. Additionally, we've become extremely desensitized to the Middle East, and the fact is that those conflicts are very localized, and wouldn't have the potential to turn into a global war. Ukraine however...
@@halrold7369 i just wish wars would end
Alan I absolutely love your narratives. Great job always!
we hear about the bad things the empire did, but we never hear about the trillions of people living good lives because of the empire.
That’s because the only ones who lived good lives were the few thousand nobles
@@Historyandlegends789 actually it was trillions, maybe even quadrillions of people living in the core worlds having amazing quality of life.
@@alphawolfgang173 yeah, "thousands of nobles" is just too small for a *galaxy wide* government/country, if star wars took place in one planet maybe that number make sense. This is one of Star Wars's weakness the sense of scale in numbers has always been too off and very reserve, a story that took place in a galaxy should've played the millions game more often because 1 million for them is basically the equivalent of 100 for us
Yet we see celebrations in the streets of Coruscant of all places when the Emperor dies. Prosperity doesn't equal peace if its accomplished by fear, and that prosperity was accomplished through the exploitation of alien majority worlds and outer rim systems, so those trillions of good lives were only even accomplished on the backs of countless others
@@jeffreypeters2803 not my problem, lol
Thanks for including the profound intro, there is more humanity and understanding in the intro to this Star Wars video than most world leaders these days
Seriously Alan, you are like the Ken Burns of Star Wars.
Nice content, and what about best moments for being a stormtrooper? Or best imperial battles?
Seeing those scenes from Solo makes me want a 100% on the ground dirty war movie set in Star Wars. Like just make the Battle of Jabiim a canon Star Wars movie.
There are some neat new elements in NuStar Wars. But only a few. Otherwise I'd rather just imagine that the EU stopped after the Thrawn Trilogy and affiliates. And that Disney Canon never existed.
Geeze that intro was deep, well said though and completely true
Loving the new intros Generation Tech
I just recently learned what "going over the top" originally meant. It is still unbelievable
8:00 “When the Death Star was destroyed, about half of the 501st were still in the hanger getting to their ships. Of those that made it out, another third got caught in the explosion. I’ve fought with some of those men for over twenty years.”~Journal of the 501st
"My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels."
There were also families, including children of those workers and other civilian personnel on board both the first and second Death Star. Some of those families may have been related to many imperial officers and security personnel, not including stormtroopers, and something tells me that after the fall of the Empire the New Republic covered up that information to avoid making the public think that such extreme measures would label many Rebel leaders as more cruel than the Empire was said to be.
Right? It's like if the Manhattan project were on an aircraft carrier or something. While there may have been in innocent families on board (which is sad), it was pretty clearly a superweapon. It literally just blew up a whole planet of innocent people, and was under the command of a genocidal maniac.
@@advena996 1. Tarkin wasn't a genocidal maniac, he was correct about what alderaan was up to.
2. It wasn't 'clearly a super weapon', how many windows on the death star have you actually seen? Do you honestly think that people in a freaking moon sized spaceship would have noticed it if they can't see or hear it?
@@droneant7602 Well if most people didn't know it was a super weapon, and also why didn't they just send some person and strap them with an explosive so that when they go to the bridge then they commit suicide? It would have saved lives on both sides considering the number of pilots the rebels lose. OR in the battle they simply could have blown up the bridge, or perhaps while rescuing the princess obi wan could have disabled the actual laser by... i dunno, cutting stuff up with his lightsaber? That would have set the empire back by years!
I love these types of videos keep it up! And am I the only one who noticed when he said delicious pancakes it showed corn on the cob?
Video Idea:All the galactic governments explained,their strength and weaknesses,greatest victories and losses,scale,overall strength and then which is the best
The opening words were true spoken..I KINDA STARTED GETTING TEARY EYED...FUCK .
Did you just absolutely destroy a dolphin with one slice damn nice swordsman skills
That quote at the beginning was powerful
that intro was deep man almost got me tearing up
First! Thanks so much for posting this!
Great opening!!!
Thank you.
Dang the empire has massive amounts of troops for fodder. The way he tells the story it's almost like it's really a part of history. Love this TH-cam channel 👍🏾👍🏾
I loved that Allen says "delicious pancakes" but shows corn. Must be a dolphin thing.
that intro was awesome
Please do a video like this on the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars!
Wonder what's with the anti-war and anti-empire themes as of late? What happened to glory and conquest
@Peters6221 And Mark Hamill recently made a major donation towards Ukraine. There was a post saying, “May the force be with you,” in Ukrainian too.
I rarely comment. But beautiful video my friend
Man, that intro hit me.
Jesus dude, I didn't need to cry today...
The start of this video really hit me especially with the way the world is right now.
This was the reason I became imperial fan to the core.
Great video, which lightsaber is that you have behind you?
cool video
Many people see the Imperials as the bad guys, and they are, but few people see that it was only a select group that were truly bad. It’s wonderful that you took the time to research and teach about these battles, and explain how many lives were lost.
This hook hit different
I wonder if you can make a list of 10 worst Rebel casualty battles?
So many good loyal imperial died for the Empire.
Galactic conflict in the Star Wars galaxy is destructive on an unimaginably horrific level.
Like the Horus heresy
Damn my guy this was some poetic shit right here
@generationtech ... what is that opening speech from? Did you write it? It's very eloquent and beautifully put.
In some early battles that were more grandiose, Darth Vader was actually at the forefront of some campaigns to extinguish all planetary insurgencies. However, these were more often core planets rather than outer planets like Minbon that were untamed and far away.
As a child I begin to love Star wars because it felt like a "lived-in universe" , the bolts on the ships were Rusty things were dirty, not the sterile clean world of many science fiction movies, this video is a testament to just how lived in it was, in reality war is hell and neither side completely innocent, brilliant video brother 🤘
The fact that it’s now specifically canon that Ewoks ate stormtroopers brings me great joy
needless to say I did what I could for research and these battles were brutal, only thing otherwise is I feel awful the Ukraine crisis hasn't ended peacefully yet I hope it will
Good speech man 😢
Star wars a lot of epic battles
Alan, have you ever wonder why there is no such thing as the Galactic Commonwealth in Star Wars? All I see are Republic, Empire and Confederacy. The Republic existed like three times already and the only reason the Republic survived for so long appeared to be because the Sith threaten the Republic time and time again, only to be defeated later by the Jedi and their Republic allies, which is what exactly strengthen the unity within the Republic and between the Republic itself and the Jedi Order as well.
I've thought of a Galactic Union, a communist state done right that has traits of the Republic & Empire & has a legion of grey Jedi or Jed'ii called Red Knights.
@@SlashinatorZ A communist state done right? Now that would be a true work of fiction.
Confederacy at its conception was just that. The CIS at conception are basically Tau in 40k because of how pure good they are.
This intro hithard
I’ve seen other Star Wars channels report that there was only 500,000 people on the original Death Star at the time it was destroyed and 2 million was the total capacity
My grandpa used to say about mourning the lose of fictional characters:
"We mourn the people who aren't real, so we don't lose the people who are. Sometimes it's the hero who never was, that inspires the hero yet to be."
What's really sad is that the Rebels didn't even think of the possibly that there were innocents on the Death Star
Well yea rebellions lead to terrorism. And terrorists tend to not think about the consequences of their actions.
Is Palpatine actually responsible for 3 galactic conflicts now since they made him the leader of the First Order as well?
Wow & first 🥇, wish for new Earth🌎🌍 in Star Wars in the future. Or other largest casualties compare to real wars on Earth?
I'd like to actually see a star *wars* movie, with very little if any involvement from force users. They're meant to be a rare thing, even at the start of the clone wars there's only 10,000 Jedi which really isn't a lot of people whilst the sith have the rule of two. Ofcourse you have inquisitors, but there's only like 15 of them. A gritty, brutal movie or series about an Infantryman fighting for the empire in a large scale campaign or even one about trying to fight insurgents in a backwater world would be really cool. Unlikely, but cool.
This was your best pronunciation ever, plus also maybe your most depressing video yet, If you replace the death of each person in this video with the joy of a mother giving birth it becomes more depressing, I was present when all my kids were born .... so yeah depressing.
never thought i was about to cry because the death star blew up.
“War never changes”
yo. THAT INTRO. WHY THE FFFF>>> YOU GOTTA DO ME DIRTY
I’d love to see one of these videos for separatists during the clone wars
Maybe a "Worst battles for the Rebel Alliance"?
I've said it for years I'll say it again, battles are so much more compelling from the eyes of the little man.
Honestly, taking out a 2-3 million souls with a few torpedoes is better than letting those 2-3 million souls obliterate planets worth billions of souls
@Denise Bond True however the enemy side is being ruled by psychopaths and propaganda
What's that scene from in the beginning of the video, with an imperial TIE interceptor pilot just giving up and crashing into the water?
Its a game trailer called star wars squadrons .