The thing is that bioweapons are very hard to control. And the colateral damage would mostly hurt the Empire. If civilians were to be infected, that would create a lot of civil unrest. Add the fact that they would now carry the pathogen around the galaxy. Now you have to have quarantines, create new protocols, people would get sick and die... The risk for great economic damage is significant.
If the empire lasted longer, I’d imagine chemical and biological weapons would be more and more utilized. For the same reason as the Death Star. If you can destroy your enemy completely, in a way that prevents any serious resistance from being mounted, it doesn’t matter how many planets rebel. Turn a few of those planets to cracked rocks or chemically blasted wastelands, and resistance boils away rapidly.
It's not only that, but think about your other videos. The Star Wars galaxy needs the backing of its people in order for the Republic, the CIS, the Rebellion, or the Empire to do things. If the people of the galaxy found out the Empire was using bio-weapons on a massive scale, the people will end up turning their back to them.
@@duescaymania2940 Death to the Empire that blew up a peaceful planet and froced millions from countless worlds across the galaxy to give it the planet's resources for an expensive super weapon
@@thorpeaaron1110 you really want to begin this argument again? Alderaan was anything but peaceful, they simply wanted to act like they were. Few if any worlds were evacuated so the empire could mine their resources, and even then there was always a cause to it. Yes the super weapon was expensive but the galaxy was still prospering under the empires banner. If you’re gonna insist on playing out this fight again at least try harder than last time
@@duescaymania2940 Alderaan was peaceful and was the intellectual center of the galaxy and it had nothing to do with the Rebellion the galaxy didn't prosper if anything poverty increased during the Empire's 20 year reign also I like how you neglect that fact about desertions in the Imperial military to the Rebel Alliance
@@LoreGuy New Rethink Videos Please Lore Guy: What if the empire mass produced Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite Star Fighter program? What if the Rebellion stole and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighters against the empire? What if the Republic had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite throughout the clone wars? What if the Separatists had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite during the clone wars? What if the First + Final Orders used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighter? What if the Resistance used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite against the first + final orders? What if Order 66 was a complete success? = What if all the Jedi were completely purged during order 66, without any survivors? What if the death star never destroyed Alderaan? What if the empire used Thrawn’s strategy? What if the clone army of the grand army of the republic was much larger? = in the hundreds of millions or billions? What if the Mandalorians joined the war on the republic’s side against the CIS? What if clone wars went on much longer than it did? = 6 to 10 years or so? What if the clone army was far more advance? = had better armour + equipment, technology and weapons? What if Thrawn won at Lothal? What if Anakin Skywalker redeemed in return of the Jedi lived/survived? What if the First Order used a Clone army too? What if the First Order used Tie Defender Elites? What if the First Order used Dark Troopers? What if the First Order was more sensible in its strategies? What operation Cinder never happened? = the empire decides not to do this stupid plan of Sidious? What if the Zillo beast survived? What if the 332nd division sided with Ahsoka and Rex, and survived? = And fought off the inhibitor chip? What if the clone army turned on Sidious after order 66? = during the reorganization of the first galactic empire? What if the empire never decided to build the death stars? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the era of the empire? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the post empire period? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the sequel trilogy? What if the Rebel Alliance had Starhawks during the whole galactic civil war period? What if the empire won at Jakku? What if the empire decided to make peace with the rebellion? What if the rebellion decided to surrender and make peace with the empire? What if the empire decided to build its ships’ bridges deep inside the hull instead of the outside for practicality? What if the empire had resurgent class star destroyers during its era? What if the republic had and used imperial class star destroyers during the clone wars era? What if the republic had and used resurgent class star destroyers during the clone wars era? What if the new republic never disbanded right after the galactic civil war and kept its forces active for possible future threats? What if Boba Fett joined the rebel alliance? What if the outer rim sieges during the clone wars failed for the republic? What if Sidious never reorganized the republic in the galactic empire? = kept the republic intact after the clone wars as a democracy? What if the Unknown regions were much easier to access for the rest of the galaxy to explore and settle? What if the Tie Hunter was mass produced by the empire? What if the Empire mass produced the Tie Phantom?
A bit late but one thing to think about is that bio-weapons don't respect boundaries like wealth, class, education, or political affiliation. Thus the use of such weapons risks undermining or destroying one's own allies as much as one's enemies. Palpatine was not a fan of such randomness; he was a control freak. He wanted control over everything.
Putting aside the moral implications for a moment, there's a practical problem inherent with using chemical weapons in a setting like Star Wars, and it's the fact that environment suits are absolutely everywhere. Stormtroopers, Clone troopers, Mandalorians, and innumerable spacers wear sealed suits with limited oxygen supply on a daily basis, at bare minimum they'd have oxygen close at hand for emergencies which saves them from anything that kills purely through respiration. Starships can just vent affected areas if something is released onboard without spacing the crew after a little preparation. And it if it becomes a concern on the battlefield, the stormtroopers are already equipped for that, I doubt even poorly funded rebels would find it difficult to source stolen or even legally purchased protection.
Alpha Red also caused some distress with the New Jedi Order, both from an ethics standpoint and the fear that this weapon could potentially mutate and jump to different species, despite it being designed to only target Vong and Vong tech.
@@Petarbulog199 yeah, the canon mobile game Star Wars commander has a whole mission series around it. Plus its canon that the Empire specifically named the elite Death Troopers after the monsters of Project Blackwing in order to scare the rebels.
All I can say is up until the first Death Star this could be correct, after the loss of the first Death Star I highly doubt the Empire would give two S about using anything to crush the rebels that just pulled something similar 9/11.
Star Wars Rethink: the galaxy learns of the clones' brain control chip during the Clone Wars (maybe early on, maybe a year into the war, or maybe due to Fives).
2:37 well I mean In legends the Empire created a virus on Corascant when the New Republic took it and while reading those parts of the books I was under the impression it really didn't take more then a few months Edit: yes it only killed alians but that would be even harder to creat then anything
The end of Star Wars legeends darth cadius when the boba fett genes was used on mandalor which then made his home planet leather to him and his future genetic variants
You also got to remember that the rebels wouldn't even need to be able to make these sorts of weapons themselves. All they would have to do is break into a lab or chemical plant or something and find a radical who would make them use the highjacked equipment and be gone before the authorities showed up. A plan like this could be done in as little as a few hours id imagine in the star wars universe given how far there science has gone. So in truth if the rebels stole a weapon like this making more would be as easy as breaking into one of the millions of labs or plans in the galaxy and using the equipment. And all a plan like this would require is a team willing to do it and at least one person to make it. So no wonder the imperials feared this stuff so much case it would be a hundred times more dangerous there then on earth with how spread out everything is and easy the tech would be to mass produce something that already exists.
New Rethink Videos Please Lore Guy: What if the empire mass produced Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite Star Fighter program? What if the Rebellion stole and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighters against the empire? What if the Republic had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite throughout the clone wars? What if the Separatists had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite during the clone wars? What if the First + Final Orders used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighter? What if the Resistance used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite against the first + final orders? What if Order 66 was a complete success? = What if all the Jedi were completely purged during order 66, without any survivors? What if the death star never destroyed Alderaan? What if the empire used Thrawn’s strategy? What if the clone army of the grand army of the republic was much larger? = in the hundreds of millions or billions? What if the Mandalorians joined the war on the republic’s side against the CIS? What if clone wars went on much longer than it did? = 6 to 10 years or so? What if the clone army was far more advance? = had better armour + equipment, technology and weapons? What if Thrawn won at Lothal? What if Anakin Skywalker redeemed in return of the Jedi lived/survived? What if the First Order used a Clone army too? What if the First Order used Tie Defender Elites? What if the First Order used Dark Troopers? What if the First Order was more sensible in its strategies? What operation Cinder never happened? = the empire decides not to do this stupid plan of Sidious? What if the Zillo beast survived? What if the 332nd division sided with Ahsoka and Rex, and survived? = And fought off the inhibitor chip? What if the clone army turned on Sidious after order 66? = during the reorganization of the first galactic empire? What if the empire never decided to build the death stars? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the era of the empire? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the post empire period? What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the sequel trilogy? What if the Rebel Alliance had Starhawks during the whole galactic civil war period? What if the empire won at Jakku? What if the empire decided to make peace with the rebellion? What if the rebellion decided to surrender and make peace with the empire? What if the empire decided to build its ships’ bridges deep inside the hull instead of the outside for practicality? What if the empire had resurgent class star destroyers during its era? What if the republic had and used imperial class star destroyers during the clone wars era? What if the republic had and used resurgent class star destroyers during the clone wars era? What if the new republic never disbanded right after the galactic civil war and kept its forces active for possible future threats? What if Boba Fett joined the rebel alliance? What if the outer rim sieges during the clone wars failed for the republic? What if Sidious never reorganized the republic in the galactic empire? = kept the republic intact after the clone wars as a democracy? What if the Unknown regions were much easier to access for the rest of the galaxy to explore and settle? What if the Tie Hunter was mass produced by the empire? What if the Empire mass produced the Tie Phantom?
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Planet destroying superlaser: Palpatine "I like!"
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The thing is that bioweapons are very hard to control. And the colateral damage would mostly hurt the Empire. If civilians were to be infected, that would create a lot of civil unrest. Add the fact that they would now carry the pathogen around the galaxy. Now you have to have quarantines, create new protocols, people would get sick and die... The risk for great economic damage is significant.
If so, dozens of systems would join the Rebellion in response
Especially during the period when the galaxy was transitioning from the Republic to the Empire
If the empire lasted longer, I’d imagine chemical and biological weapons would be more and more utilized. For the same reason as the Death Star. If you can destroy your enemy completely, in a way that prevents any serious resistance from being mounted, it doesn’t matter how many planets rebel. Turn a few of those planets to cracked rocks or chemically blasted wastelands, and resistance boils away rapidly.
After what happened to Palpatine with that poison gas attack. He would want to avoid it lol
Great video
It's not only that, but think about your other videos. The Star Wars galaxy needs the backing of its people in order for the Republic, the CIS, the Rebellion, or the Empire to do things. If the people of the galaxy found out the Empire was using bio-weapons on a massive scale, the people will end up turning their back to them.
Especially if it was during the early days of the Empire's reign
I mean they did kinda blow up a planet and the whole empire didnt revolt
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion Pretty much not doing it out of fear due to the Empire can easily turn its planet-destroying laser on them.
@@nightshroud9671Wouldn’t the same hold true if they used bio weapons on a planetary scale?
Honestly my day brightens when I see a new video from you good job my guy. And long live the glorious Empire
Death to the tyrannical Empire
@@thorpeaaron1110 death to the terrorists who subsequently destroyed the galaxy
@@duescaymania2940 Death to the Empire that blew up a peaceful planet and froced millions from countless worlds across the galaxy to give it the planet's resources for an expensive super weapon
@@thorpeaaron1110 you really want to begin this argument again? Alderaan was anything but peaceful, they simply wanted to act like they were. Few if any worlds were evacuated so the empire could mine their resources, and even then there was always a cause to it. Yes the super weapon was expensive but the galaxy was still prospering under the empires banner. If you’re gonna insist on playing out this fight again at least try harder than last time
@@duescaymania2940 Alderaan was peaceful and was the intellectual center of the galaxy and it had nothing to do with the Rebellion the galaxy didn't prosper if anything poverty increased during the Empire's 20 year reign also I like how you neglect that fact about desertions in the Imperial military to the Rebel Alliance
Star Wars Rethink: Death Star construction accident/Death Star blows up during initial testing due to a malfunction. What happens to the timeline?
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@@LoreGuy New Rethink Videos Please Lore Guy:
What if the empire mass produced Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite Star Fighter program?
What if the Rebellion stole and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighters against the empire?
What if the Republic had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite throughout the clone wars?
What if the Separatists had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite during the clone wars?
What if the First + Final Orders used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighter?
What if the Resistance used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite against the first + final orders?
What if Order 66 was a complete success? = What if all the Jedi were completely purged during order 66, without any survivors?
What if the death star never destroyed Alderaan?
What if the empire used Thrawn’s strategy?
What if the clone army of the grand army of the republic was much larger? = in the hundreds of millions or billions?
What if the Mandalorians joined the war on the republic’s side against the CIS?
What if clone wars went on much longer than it did? = 6 to 10 years or so?
What if the clone army was far more advance? = had better armour + equipment, technology and weapons?
What if Thrawn won at Lothal?
What if Anakin Skywalker redeemed in return of the Jedi lived/survived?
What if the First Order used a Clone army too?
What if the First Order used Tie Defender Elites?
What if the First Order used Dark Troopers?
What if the First Order was more sensible in its strategies?
What operation Cinder never happened? = the empire decides not to do this stupid plan of Sidious?
What if the Zillo beast survived?
What if the 332nd division sided with Ahsoka and Rex, and survived? = And fought off the inhibitor chip?
What if the clone army turned on Sidious after order 66? = during the reorganization of the first galactic empire?
What if the empire never decided to build the death stars?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the era of the empire?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the post empire period?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the sequel trilogy?
What if the Rebel Alliance had Starhawks during the whole galactic civil war period?
What if the empire won at Jakku?
What if the empire decided to make peace with the rebellion?
What if the rebellion decided to surrender and make peace with the empire?
What if the empire decided to build its ships’ bridges deep inside the hull instead of the outside for practicality?
What if the empire had resurgent class star destroyers during its era?
What if the republic had and used imperial class star destroyers during the clone wars era?
What if the republic had and used resurgent class star destroyers during the clone wars era?
What if the new republic never disbanded right after the galactic civil war and kept its forces active for possible future threats?
What if Boba Fett joined the rebel alliance?
What if the outer rim sieges during the clone wars failed for the republic?
What if Sidious never reorganized the republic in the galactic empire? = kept the republic intact after the clone wars as a democracy?
What if the Unknown regions were much easier to access for the rest of the galaxy to explore and settle?
What if the Tie Hunter was mass produced by the empire?
What if the Empire mass produced the Tie Phantom?
A bit late but one thing to think about is that bio-weapons don't respect boundaries like wealth, class, education, or political affiliation. Thus the use of such weapons risks undermining or destroying one's own allies as much as one's enemies. Palpatine was not a fan of such randomness; he was a control freak. He wanted control over everything.
Putting aside the moral implications for a moment, there's a practical problem inherent with using chemical weapons in a setting like Star Wars, and it's the fact that environment suits are absolutely everywhere. Stormtroopers, Clone troopers, Mandalorians, and innumerable spacers wear sealed suits with limited oxygen supply on a daily basis, at bare minimum they'd have oxygen close at hand for emergencies which saves them from anything that kills purely through respiration. Starships can just vent affected areas if something is released onboard without spacing the crew after a little preparation. And it if it becomes a concern on the battlefield, the stormtroopers are already equipped for that, I doubt even poorly funded rebels would find it difficult to source stolen or even legally purchased protection.
Why use chemicals when you can just land a star destroyer on a group of rioters?
Are you referencing the Ghorman Massacre?
Alpha Red also caused some distress with the New Jedi Order, both from an ethics standpoint and the fear that this weapon could potentially mutate and jump to different species, despite it being designed to only target Vong and Vong tech.
I'm guessing the Clone Wars also had a hand in this as the separatists used them e.g. the defoliator as they're a lot more useful with a machine army
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Actually the Blackwing virus is now Canon! Cool!
Wait really?
@@Petarbulog199 yeah, the canon mobile game Star Wars commander has a whole mission series around it. Plus its canon that the Empire specifically named the elite Death Troopers after the monsters of Project Blackwing in order to scare the rebels.
@@TheSpiderWarden awesome
Surprised you didn't mention the chemical weapons in the Canon novel twilight company
Lol I just did before I read ur comment. Maybe this channel is small.
All I can say is up until the first Death Star this could be correct, after the loss of the first Death Star I highly doubt the Empire would give two S about using anything to crush the rebels that just pulled something similar 9/11.
Star Wars Rethink: the galaxy learns of the clones' brain control chip during the Clone Wars (maybe early on, maybe a year into the war, or maybe due to Fives).
I believe the Empire know the problems and the weapons that could be turn against them. One for Empire
"You don't want to accidentally create a plague that sweeps across..."
The Chinese Government would like to know your location.
Too late it has already sweep across the globe.
I have read Death Troopers. I know why😄
Sounds fun.
2:37 well I mean In legends the Empire created a virus on Corascant when the New Republic took it and while reading those parts of the books I was under the impression it really didn't take more then a few months
Edit: yes it only killed alians but that would be even harder to creat then anything
Did you do this topic already? I can swear you've talked about this before.
Honestly, it would have clashed with one of the overall themes of Star Wars, that being machine versus nature.
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The end of Star Wars legeends darth cadius when the boba fett genes was used on mandalor which then made his home planet leather to him and his future genetic variants
very interesting.
Bio weapons and chemical weapons are two different fields did you mean why the empire didn't use bio weapons more???
Very cool
Short version:
Chemical warfare is fucked and even Sheev can understand why that would be morally reprehensible.
You also got to remember that the rebels wouldn't even need to be able to make these sorts of weapons themselves. All they would have to do is break into a lab or chemical plant or something and find a radical who would make them use the highjacked equipment and be gone before the authorities showed up. A plan like this could be done in as little as a few hours id imagine in the star wars universe given how far there science has gone. So in truth if the rebels stole a weapon like this making more would be as easy as breaking into one of the millions of labs or plans in the galaxy and using the equipment. And all a plan like this would require is a team willing to do it and at least one person to make it. So no wonder the imperials feared this stuff so much case it would be a hundred times more dangerous there then on earth with how spread out everything is and easy the tech would be to mass produce something that already exists.
The one time the Empire need Earth
We could have had Resident Evil in Space!
New Rethink Videos Please Lore Guy:
What if the empire mass produced Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite Star Fighter program?
What if the Rebellion stole and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighters against the empire?
What if the Republic had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite throughout the clone wars?
What if the Separatists had and used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite during the clone wars?
What if the First + Final Orders used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite star fighter?
What if the Resistance used Thrawn's Tie Defender Elite against the first + final orders?
What if Order 66 was a complete success? = What if all the Jedi were completely purged during order 66, without any survivors?
What if the death star never destroyed Alderaan?
What if the empire used Thrawn’s strategy?
What if the clone army of the grand army of the republic was much larger? = in the hundreds of millions or billions?
What if the Mandalorians joined the war on the republic’s side against the CIS?
What if clone wars went on much longer than it did? = 6 to 10 years or so?
What if the clone army was far more advance? = had better armour + equipment, technology and weapons?
What if Thrawn won at Lothal?
What if Anakin Skywalker redeemed in return of the Jedi lived/survived?
What if the First Order used a Clone army too?
What if the First Order used Tie Defender Elites?
What if the First Order used Dark Troopers?
What if the First Order was more sensible in its strategies?
What operation Cinder never happened? = the empire decides not to do this stupid plan of Sidious?
What if the Zillo beast survived?
What if the 332nd division sided with Ahsoka and Rex, and survived? = And fought off the inhibitor chip?
What if the clone army turned on Sidious after order 66? = during the reorganization of the first galactic empire?
What if the empire never decided to build the death stars?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the era of the empire?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the post empire period?
What if the Yuuzhan Vong invaded during the sequel trilogy?
What if the Rebel Alliance had Starhawks during the whole galactic civil war period?
What if the empire won at Jakku?
What if the empire decided to make peace with the rebellion?
What if the rebellion decided to surrender and make peace with the empire?
What if the empire decided to build its ships’ bridges deep inside the hull instead of the outside for practicality?
What if the empire had resurgent class star destroyers during its era?
What if the republic had and used imperial class star destroyers during the clone wars era?
What if the republic had and used resurgent class star destroyers during the clone wars era?
What if the new republic never disbanded right after the galactic civil war and kept its forces active for possible future threats?
What if Boba Fett joined the rebel alliance?
What if the outer rim sieges during the clone wars failed for the republic?
What if Sidious never reorganized the republic in the galactic empire? = kept the republic intact after the clone wars as a democracy?
What if the Unknown regions were much easier to access for the rest of the galaxy to explore and settle?
What if the Tie Hunter was mass produced by the empire?
What if the Empire mass produced the Tie Phantom?
Damn! Start a channel, friend! Those are good questions! Love the Defender, btw. And really love the Phantom.
@@ronjon7942 I'm not as good with talking about it all here as with Lore Guy, nor editing & computer work.
However = If you would love to get started yourself with questions & answers like this? = Try ChatGPT 4/4.0 and the next one coming up, which is even more advanced in A.I calculations... it is so helpful & useful with searching your questions and answering them using the internet.
I've done it all already and it gave the same answers as I would have in knowing about it all... and its all so amazing.
If Lore Guy ever came back... this would help him & us really well!
Or I can just answer it all for you if you wish to to try a few & reply afterwards?
They used it actually. Read Battlefront Twilight Company. They used a planet that could feed trillions to develop bioweapons.
It'll mean the Empire will lose lots of support real fast.
Wasn’t Alderon making chemical weapons during the empires rain
Yeah, chemical weapons, far too dangerous!
Yes I remember ysanne isard used a biological weapon as well
Bioweapons would be vastlycheaper than the super weapons
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the Empire was modeled after the US, but it doesn't seem like they're as cruel as the US
Nice that you love your country. No one’s keeping you here.
You mix up chemical and biological weapons
In legends the rebels were literally making chemical weapons on alderaan #tarkindidnothingwrong
Yeah, I seem to recall a few top secret Rebellion and Republic weapons labs that created bio weapons.
Rip to a dead channel lol
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