@@tmseh Agreed. And would be contextually valid since there would litterally be thousands of them in the hands of warlords, mercenaries any Imperial Remnant forces.
Imperial admiral: you can create one, ONE, ship type that's less than a kilometer long or a disposable fighter. Designer: thank you, sir! I promise this will make all the difference in the war. Admiral: but it needs to be cool, like super cool Designer: how about this? *shows raider blueprint* Admiral: ... Start immediate production, arrange it from your new corner office
i can imagine the pitch meeting for the design. designer: alright get this. take a star destroyer, admirals: yeah! designer: make it smaller, admirals: aw designer: but also make even pointier admirals: *losing their goddamn minds with excitement*
Grand Admiral Thrawn: "Hmm...I like it. Very much so. It has an artistic elegance that many of these other Imperial bombardment and invasion platforms lack." Admiral Ozzel: "Wait a minute, how much do these things cost? Can we afford to construct a dozen or so of these with our Super Star Destroyer projects underway?" Captain Piett: *Just under his breath and not facing Ozzel* "Oh, go f--k yourself you incompetent fossil..." Grand Admiral Thrawn: *Clears his throat to stifle a sudden laugh, places his thumb print on the data pad* "I approve the Raider Corvette project. I anticipate other senior officers will follow suit, but we will need to wait for their input. Meeting adjourned, please return to your postings." Admiral Ozzel: *Glares at Piett again, as if that ever helps*
I wonder if they remove most of the turrets and fit in proton torpedo tubes instead to make it focus on destroying ships rather than anti fighter role, I mean, proton torpedoes can also be used to target fighters, right?
@@GlidingZephyr *Sees it destroy some rebel ships as a test* Captain Ozzel: *jaw drops* Captain Piett: *taking holo pics* now I want one. Grand Admiral Thrawn: hmm now my death troopers has their own ship Death troopers that are with Thrawn: *happy death trooper noises*
I love the raider class corvette, I still think it's cool this EU ship made years ago explicitly for the x-wing miniatures tabletop game got a starring role in EABF2's story campaign. people think it was made for this game, but it's older than that.
"After the father of this special forces unit's leader decided to *start glassing a staunchly Imperial world for no reason whatsoever* the special forces unit defected about two missions in."
@Connor Kubischta Operation Stupid. The whole thing made no sense if you know the plot of EP9. Heck: The whole plot of BF2 made no sense if you know the plot of EP9.
@@SkywalkerWroc Plus this character actually shouldn't have been surprised by operation center she actually with one of the main people on the death star that was laughing as they destroyed Alderaan She was laughing at billions of innocent people died men women In said this was the power of the Empire and she stayed with the Empire even though it literally destroyed an entire planet full of innocent people so yeah battlefront 2 story is completely garbage
Imagine if this thing had TIE Defenders instead of LNs, or a First Order SF version that had their elite TIEs. Absolutely horrifying hunter-killer ship.
Oh dang, TIE Defenders on a Raider? Brutal. Totally stealing this idea for a future Star Wars RPG campaign as my recurring baddies. I'll start them with some TIE Interceptors or maybe TIE Avengers though. Throwing Trips at a party right off the bat might be too much.
@@Dyundu What RPG system do you run? And, yeah, even a pair of Defenders(legends or canon) would be a brutal force multiplier. Canon Defenders are on par or greater than an T-65 X-wing and probably could take on a capital ship with only a squadron of them. No wonder the First Order used some of the tech when building the SF Tie and the Silencer(which is also known as the TIE/vn Vendetta, which is an awesome name). Imagine a Raider and Defenders just tracking down and eliminating rebel cells and warships. That would be such a cool hook for a plot.
@@BoisegangGaming I run the original WEG Star Wars d6 system that was the basis for the pre-Prequels EU (yes, there should be a distinction--there were tons of resets and retcons in the old canon after 1999, mostly for the better, I think). Specifically 2e. Totally agreed. The TIE Defender is a beast of a fighter, irrespective of which canon is being discussed. I'm already drawing up plans/characters/etc for Artemis Squadron. Thank you very much for the inspiration! And yeah, I love the TIE Silencer. I like to think (though I know it's probably wrong) that the /vn is a nod to the old TIE Avenger (though in its game series, same series that brought us the original TIE/D in fact, it was originally just called the TIE Advanced, and was supposed to be the mass-production run after Vader's prototype). The TIE Avenger is still my favorite TIE to this day.
I am getting to the end of my current campaign (FFG EotE) and one of the campaigns I am considering next is an Inferno Squad inspired Imperial campaign (with an explicit your characters have to be ride or die Imperial, no defecting) where they would eventually be able to get a Raider. I was going to offer them a choice of refit for a shuttle bay, hanger for two small fighters (Tie/LNs), or a light vehicle bay. The problem with Defenders is they do take up slightly more room then a Tie, and most sources are explicit that the hanger refit is only good for two small craft.
What I love most about this ship is that its shape reminds me of a bayonet, and the fact that it has retractable weapons. Retractable weapons, in my opinion, are sorely underused.
Retractable weapon systems only make sense in a very specific weight/seize relation in regards to the ship and weapon in use. Is the ship to small it´s a waste of mass for all the motors and recesses instead of just putting it in or on the hull. Is the weapon to big, once again it´s a waste of mass/volume to have it retractable at all.
@@andreasmuller4666 Depending on the sensitivity and fragility of the weapon systems, retracting them into the hull may provide a maintenance benefit by not leaving them exposed to external elements/debris/etc. Particularly for a ship that is intended to operate with limited crew and far from support facilities. Granted, as with all things, there are trade offs.
@@thefuzzyvulpine5945 honestly rule of cool can kiss my ass. I like science fiction that makes sense, in particular were weapons, ships and general military stuff is related. To me cool is the most powerull, most effective and most sensible warship one can come up with and put that on a screen. Which rules out about every warship and fighter ever put on screen in Star Wars. Really good warship design is done in the Honor Harrington book series, most other stuff falls dreadfully short of that standart.
I loved this thing in Battlefront 2 and looking into the Legends version quickly made this one of my favorite Imperial ships, alongside the Vindicator and Gladiator classes.
@techticianLars Productions I kinda find it weird for the Gladiator class to be a light Carrier, when you look at it both the size of it's hangers, it's firepower and just how big the ship is, to me it's a medium Carrier. Tell me I'm not wrong right?
@@loganwhitney8471 It really does seem like it should be classified like that, I mean they call it a Star Destroyer so it has a good bit of tonnage. It was supposed to replace the Venator so yeah, medium to assault carrier.
Largely on the recommendations of this channel, I've decided to get into the Stargate franchise. I started watching SG-1 a couple days ago. It's pretty good so far.
@@Dyundu So far, Season 1 of SG-1 reminds me of Star Trek Enterprise. I think it's a combination of the time when the shows were made. Enterprise first aired in 2001 and SG-1 started in 1997. They also both have that setting of Humanity first unlocking the ability to explore the universe, and starting to do so by basically just blundering around randomly from place to place.
hope you enjoy, first few seasons you can tell they were trying to find their feet as to how to tell their story, but great after that. dont forget the two spin off series, SGA runs parallel with season 8 of sg1 and sgu is tacked onto the end of both
@@nomar5spaulding Season 1 is very much like TNG, an unbound exploration and curiosity. Then it slides more to a typical sci-fi with a persistent overarching plot, but they still venture into episodes of just exploring, or a short one/two episode self-contained plots. That said though "blundering around randomly from place to place" continues throughout franchise, and even in Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe you still have a significant plots of doing just that, heck: both series end with that sort of action.
this one of my all time fav. ship designs. pirated this design for the Shadowrun/Star Wars pen and paper i play to have my charakter get a proper "hero ship" after an experimental yt-1300
@@t4rv0r60 designer: “how do we make sure everyone knows this is a ship of the Galactic Empire? Hmm, maybe if I put some TIE interceptor inspired wings on it....yeah, that’ll appeal to the lowest common denominator!”
A length of 150m? Christ, there are yachts currently sailing Earth’s oceans which are longer. Admittedly this raider class ship design is sleek. Cover it in a vantablack/cloaking composite and reclassify it as a needle ship and we’re on board.
It's so small because of the scale it was meant to be in when first designed for x-wing miniatures as a large ship for that game where it's about a foot long.
Love this ship! Thank you for doing a vid on it. The Empire never really had any comparable to the "Blockade Runner" and this ship fills that role perfectly.
My favorite imperial ship, Fantasy Flight Games knocked the design out of the park. Also space dock, I’m telling you, you have to credit the real designers when you can.
My overall favorite SW design, Corvettes are awfully underrated, and underused in most EU, wich is a shame. Still, Night Caller best CR90, and Raider class is the best corvette!
*AKA Another ship that could have saved the Empire* if mass produced and assigned as escorts, as well as patrol ships and recon Hunter/Killer teams. Switch over production to this and have at least 2 - 4 assigned to escort every ISD, as well as a few more to patrol neighbouring systems to extend the reach of the ISD. Also have them to keep an eye on lesser importance planets, as well as scouts for ISD's, able to call in one if it got to hot. And they are the perfect ship to hunt for Rebel outpost. Maybe just switch the hangar to carrying probe droids. Another good option is to carry Tie Strikers. They are good at in atmosphere work so they can do closer inspection of possible activity. Yes they could carry Tie Defenders, but if those are now standard the Empires already winning.
I wish the BATTLEFRONT II story mode was more like a MASS EFFECT rpg with a decently long story, choices that matter, and the Raider Class Corvette acting as your 'Normandy'.
Designed for a crew of 90, but is heavily automated effectively commanded by as few as 3-4 individuals should the situation demand it, or if the ship is acquired by the rebels and needed for a run into hostile territory...
The optimal defense force for a small convoy was a single Raider matched with a pair of Gozanti-class fighter transports. The tactic was simple-at the beginning of the battle the Raider would position itself on the same side of the column of transports as the enemy fighters. The Gozanti would move to the rear, and deploy their fighters on the side of the column opposite the attacking fighters (ie with the column between the TIEs and the enemy ships). The strength of the Rebel X and Y wings was in the high speed pass. A low speed attack left the fighters vulnerable so even lightly armed transports could badly damage them. The Rebel fighters were thus forced to run the gauntlet of the Raider's substantial defenses, try to reorganize for an attack, and then after making their pass would immediately be swarmed by the TIEs, which would usually be able to get into optimal attack position and do considerable damage. If the Rebels tried to attack the column head on the Raider was fast enough to reposition, and if they went to the rear they would have to brave the defenses of the two Gozanti transports, which themselves were not inconsiderable. Tactics like these forced the Rebels to innovate, employing various types of mines and weapons with longer reach. Another counter was to use right-left attacks. Essentially the attackers break into two forces and made the Raider commit to stopping one, while the second group would carry through with their attack. The first group would then disengage and the Raider would either have to leave it's post in pursuit, or watch them reorganize. In general the Rebels were able to keep the initiative, but attrition levels were always alarming when Raiders became involved.
This breakdown makes me appreciate the ship more than I already did. Small and agile fighter-style compared to larger Imperial-class, but also not as weak as the TIE-series starfighters, though the small size almost makes it seem likely to challenge other Corvettes like the CR-90 or YT-1300
That is a cool ship, I have ships similar in my story called Marauder class corvettes, they have adaptive camouflage and carry strike teams of cammandos, and are used as escorts and recon missions.
The Corvus is a raider 2 class corvette and that's why it has a hangar bay. Also the hangar bay can store 8 tie fighters surprisingly. I found a model of the Corvus's hangar bay in the battlefront 2 game files and it clearly has racks for 8 normal tie fighters.
Reminds me of the Legends modified Corellian Corvette "Night Caller" from the X-Wing books. A basic Corellian Corvette but with an attached bow-oriented hangar bay capable of docking 9 X-Wings in a 3x3 pattern (after the racks were installed, of course) and the escape pod ports were replaced with Gozanti-style TIE docking rings to dock an additional pair of TIEs. Used to great effect by Wraith Squadron in the book of the same name.
@@toastedzen Actually, P-38 came really early on the war, but it has many problems in European Theator due to weather cause it to didn't have much action in Europe until late war. But in Pacific, P-38 found many success mission even in early stage of war with Japanese force.
I always hoped Disney would make it canon that Thrawn had a hand in the Raider's design. Its design and tactical uses would be strait out of his playbook.
@Metal Sonic Imperial Gladiator wasn't so bad either. It was more expensive but it made a decently versitile brawler that could be used in a lot of situations.
While we only see two TIE's deployed from the Raider in game, I would image it could have a max capacity of three, maybe four fighters considering the Empire's policy of overwhelming numbers and force in most situations. To back this up, at it's height, Inferno Squad had 4 members, each could (in theory and if we take the X-Wing Miniatures Game into account) pilot a TIE. Considering the Corvus has a bridge crew that we see in game, it would seem silly to give a ship with a compliment of only two fighters to a team of four. I'd image they'd give them a ship that could, if needed, support them all flying TIEs into a battle or into deployments. Just my own thoughts though. Great video as always EDIT: Just realized that the opening of Battlefront II depicts Inferno squad leaving Endor in TIE Fighters, so unless they jettisoned one into space, the Raider should be able to maintain at least 3 fighters of TIE/LN size (in my opinion at least)
I love this ship. The desing is awesome and it fits the Empire so well Especially compared to the ship of the same role the Empire had in Empire at War. The Tantalus (I think that was it's name) didn't really match the look of the Empire that well
While I dislike one size fits all ships (looking at you battleship/carrier/colony ship monstrosities), I di really enjoy the idea of a small ship that has versatility through modular design. Having hard points that could be swapped out for additional anti-fighter, anti-ship weaponry, scanning arrays, cloaking and so on is really smart to me and I think so much better.
The original design was for the Fantasy Flight Games X-Wing Miniatures Game as the opposite of the Blockade runner on the Rebel side. It didn't have the fighter bays. Other games expanded on the design as-needed for their stories/gameplay.
I'd throw the Victory-class Star Destroyer in there as well. A Victory/Venator pair would be devastatingly effective. Have the Victory focus on the heavy firepower to take on enemy capital ships while the Venator provides support with the air wing. Victories aren't as massive as the later Imperial-classes are, being roughly the same size as a Venator, but where the Venator is a carrier first with some anti-ship weapons added on, the Victory is a cruiser first that happens to have fighters. Combined with support from Arquitens frigates and Raider corvettes and you have a lethal task force without the massive waste of resources that the Imperial-class represented.
@@VegetaLF7 if you mean the victory one I fully agree with you, having hundreds of missiles pile out during a fire fight is an incredibly demoralising yet deadly sight for the enemy!
@@alexpahl6443 I mean even if I agreed with you which I don't that would still mean that Canon is already more of a contradictory mess in less than 10 years then legends became in over 40 years
@@sammywhite5127 Star Wars is a mess but we like in legends there was OP s*th that somewhat made sense,current cannon doesnt rly have OP thing but it also doesnt make sense, I just enjoy each design and dont try to think to hard about it
*Sees Spacedock upload* I wonder what it could be. *Sees Raider class Corvette* Oooooh... *puts lotion on desk as an audible zipping noise comes from below the desk* Joking aside, the Raider-class Corvette is a sexy ship!
Fun fact about this ship for anyone who isn't aware, it was designed in the real world by Fantasy Flight Games as part of the X-Wing Miniatures table top game. In X-Wing, you initially had two sizes of ships: small and large. Examples would be X-Wings and TIE Fighters for small and the Millennium Falcon and Lambda-class shuttle for large. An update to the game included a new scale: epic. Epic scale ships would include the Corellian Corvette, Rebel Transport, and Gozanti transports. But the Empire needed a counter to the Rebel Corvette and there was some consideration as to what ship it should be, like the Lancer-class. Instead it was decided to create a brand new design that *looked* Imperial (something the Lancer lacked) by having the iconic wedge-shape in the design. Thus the Raider was born. It features quite nicely in X-Wing's Epic matches as well as the fleet-based sister game Star Wars Armada.
@@sammywhite5127 yep. at 250 meters long the Lancer Class is only a bit smaller than the Nebulon-B. they needed a crovette sized ship but the empire didn't have any (the imperial Gozanti didn't exist yet, and the old EU didn't have anything that fit the size) so they had to get creative.
I played this one in the X-Wing tabletop game. I made the fatal error of underestimating the fully loaded B-Wings that came at it, but still, it's a helluva ship.
The design of that corvette is still today my top favorite in the space genre. If I had to exist as a character in the SW universe, I would immediately insist on the “Corvus” as my personal chariot😁.
Probably my favourite ship in all of Star Wars, if we were to ever get an expansive MMO set during the Civil War I would 100% choose this as my main ship, and probably a B-Wing or Tie-Defender as my fighter
Since the Empire has different special forces units, two of them have specific design starships for them, the Raider-Class Corvette for Inferno Squad and the Imperial Escort Carrier for the Strom Commandos. Imagine the Corvus (Raider-Class Corvette) being the flagship of dozens of Imperial Escort Carries, that will be the most deadly fleet of special forces ever seen, tbh.
Storm Commandos and their escort carrier are legends only. Imperial Commandos and the Raider II are canon only. the empire only has one special ops force, the form they take varies between the old and new continuities.
Can you do a piece on the U.S.S. Ares from the Star Trek fan film, Prelude to Axanar? It's also a ship that deviated from the usual design doctrine, in that it's a dedicated warship instead of the well rounded designs of most Star Fleet ships. The only other example I can think of is the U.S.S. Defiant, which you already did a video on.
I like this one, it's what you get when you take a quintessential hero ship design but build it to look like it was made by the empire. It's the offspring of Darth Vader's TIE fighter, a star destroyer and the ghost.
@@morganb6717 It's more efficient to put your weapons on one side. That way, when you point that side at your enemy, all your weapons can target your enemy. Splitting this results in an inability to effectively concentrate firepower. That being said, the wedge design of the star destroyer is particularly effective as it allows the vast majority of it's firepower to be concentrated against any individual target.
Now THIS is a nice Star Wars ship. It's neither one of those stupid, impractical mini-crafts (#BeingATieFighterPilotSucks), nor a do-everything all-powerful battleship/carrier hybrid, but a robust, realistic design! I'd love to see more such designs in Star Wars!
It's amazing what happens when you design a ship for a specific tactical role rather than cramming as many guns as possible onto the biggest wedge of cheese you can manage and just filling the sky with them.
One of the coolest ships ever.
It is very cool. Ya beat me to it!
It would be awesome to see one in the Mandalorian.
@@tmseh Agreed. And would be contextually valid since there would litterally be thousands of them in the hands of warlords, mercenaries any Imperial Remnant forces.
Still not as good as the Arquitens.
Jaydee 8652 debatable
Agreed.
Ships like this make me want an Empire at War 2 even more
Amen, dude. Amen.
Look up the EaW: Remake mod
Yes please
Exactly
But it would have to come from EA, thats a red flag if ive ever seen one. Would probably try to sell you SSD´s extra. You know "as a feature"
Imperial admiral: you can create one, ONE, ship type that's less than a kilometer long or a disposable fighter.
Designer: thank you, sir! I promise this will make all the difference in the war.
Admiral: but it needs to be cool, like super cool
Designer: how about this? *shows raider blueprint*
Admiral: ... Start immediate production, arrange it from your new corner office
i can imagine the pitch meeting for the design.
designer: alright get this. take a star destroyer,
admirals: yeah!
designer: make it smaller,
admirals: aw
designer: but also make even pointier
admirals: *losing their goddamn minds with excitement*
Grand Admiral Thrawn: "Hmm...I like it. Very much so. It has an artistic elegance that many of these other Imperial bombardment and invasion platforms lack."
Admiral Ozzel: "Wait a minute, how much do these things cost? Can we afford to construct a dozen or so of these with our Super Star Destroyer projects underway?"
Captain Piett: *Just under his breath and not facing Ozzel* "Oh, go f--k yourself you incompetent fossil..."
Grand Admiral Thrawn: *Clears his throat to stifle a sudden laugh, places his thumb print on the data pad* "I approve the Raider Corvette project. I anticipate other senior officers will follow suit, but we will need to wait for their input. Meeting adjourned, please return to your postings."
Admiral Ozzel: *Glares at Piett again, as if that ever helps*
@@GlidingZephyr then Ozzel gets choked by Vader.
Saving us one big headache
I wonder if they remove most of the turrets and fit in proton torpedo tubes instead to make it focus on destroying ships rather than anti fighter role, I mean, proton torpedoes can also be used to target fighters, right?
@@GlidingZephyr *Sees it destroy some rebel ships as a test*
Captain Ozzel: *jaw drops*
Captain Piett: *taking holo pics* now I want one.
Grand Admiral Thrawn: hmm now my death troopers has their own ship
Death troopers that are with Thrawn: *happy death trooper noises*
I love the raider class corvette, I still think it's cool this EU ship made years ago explicitly for the x-wing miniatures tabletop game got a starring role in EABF2's story campaign. people think it was made for this game, but it's older than that.
Correct, it was created for X-Wing, got adapted into Armada, and made a later appearance in Battlefront II.
not by much, this was the last thing made for $tar War$ before the Di$ney take over.
@@Marinealver I sense much butthurt in you.
Makuta Of Salt I have it in the x wing miniatures game it’s so cool
@@Letheris Ditto. It's a beast. Lives up to its rep as an anti-fighter platform when kitted out.
"After the father of this special forces unit's leader decided to *start glassing a staunchly Imperial world for no reason whatsoever* the special forces unit defected about two missions in."
LOL yes! Perfect.
@Connor Kubischta Operation Stupid. The whole thing made no sense if you know the plot of EP9. Heck: The whole plot of BF2 made no sense if you know the plot of EP9.
@Drunk Pharaoh I agree
@@SkywalkerWroc Plus this character actually shouldn't have been surprised by operation center she actually with one of the main people on the death star that was laughing as they destroyed Alderaan She was laughing at billions of innocent people died men women In said this was the power of the Empire and she stayed with the Empire even though it literally destroyed an entire planet full of innocent people so yeah battlefront 2 story is completely garbage
@Cory Dorton I know it won’t make much of a difference, but it was around a few million, not a few billion.
Imagine if this thing had TIE Defenders instead of LNs, or a First Order SF version that had their elite TIEs. Absolutely horrifying hunter-killer ship.
Oh dang, TIE Defenders on a Raider? Brutal.
Totally stealing this idea for a future Star Wars RPG campaign as my recurring baddies. I'll start them with some TIE Interceptors or maybe TIE Avengers though. Throwing Trips at a party right off the bat might be too much.
@@Dyundu What RPG system do you run?
And, yeah, even a pair of Defenders(legends or canon) would be a brutal force multiplier. Canon Defenders are on par or greater than an T-65 X-wing and probably could take on a capital ship with only a squadron of them. No wonder the First Order used some of the tech when building the SF Tie and the Silencer(which is also known as the TIE/vn Vendetta, which is an awesome name).
Imagine a Raider and Defenders just tracking down and eliminating rebel cells and warships. That would be such a cool hook for a plot.
@@BoisegangGaming I run the original WEG Star Wars d6 system that was the basis for the pre-Prequels EU (yes, there should be a distinction--there were tons of resets and retcons in the old canon after 1999, mostly for the better, I think). Specifically 2e.
Totally agreed. The TIE Defender is a beast of a fighter, irrespective of which canon is being discussed. I'm already drawing up plans/characters/etc for Artemis Squadron. Thank you very much for the inspiration!
And yeah, I love the TIE Silencer. I like to think (though I know it's probably wrong) that the /vn is a nod to the old TIE Avenger (though in its game series, same series that brought us the original TIE/D in fact, it was originally just called the TIE Advanced, and was supposed to be the mass-production run after Vader's prototype). The TIE Avenger is still my favorite TIE to this day.
I am getting to the end of my current campaign (FFG EotE) and one of the campaigns I am considering next is an Inferno Squad inspired Imperial campaign (with an explicit your characters have to be ride or die Imperial, no defecting) where they would eventually be able to get a Raider. I was going to offer them a choice of refit for a shuttle bay, hanger for two small fighters (Tie/LNs), or a light vehicle bay. The problem with Defenders is they do take up slightly more room then a Tie, and most sources are explicit that the hanger refit is only good for two small craft.
I don’t supposed you rub those games online…..
Raider Class: "If a Star Deatroyer was a scalpel and not a hammer."
Man that's a sexy ship.
What I love most about this ship is that its shape reminds me of a bayonet, and the fact that it has retractable weapons. Retractable weapons, in my opinion, are sorely underused.
Retractable weapon systems only make sense in a very specific weight/seize relation in regards to the ship and weapon in use. Is the ship to small it´s a waste of mass for all the motors and recesses instead of just putting it in or on the hull. Is the weapon to big, once again it´s a waste of mass/volume to have it retractable at all.
Ah, true, but since this is Star Wars, shouldn't the Rule of Cool take priority?
@@andreasmuller4666 Well yes, but it looks cool.
@@andreasmuller4666 Depending on the sensitivity and fragility of the weapon systems, retracting them into the hull may provide a maintenance benefit by not leaving them exposed to external elements/debris/etc. Particularly for a ship that is intended to operate with limited crew and far from support facilities. Granted, as with all things, there are trade offs.
@@thefuzzyvulpine5945 honestly rule of cool can kiss my ass. I like science fiction that makes sense, in particular were weapons, ships and general military stuff is related. To me cool is the most powerull, most effective and most sensible warship one can come up with and put that on a screen. Which rules out about every warship and fighter ever put on screen in Star Wars. Really good warship design is done in the Honor Harrington book series, most other stuff falls dreadfully short of that standart.
I loved this thing in Battlefront 2 and looking into the Legends version quickly made this one of my favorite Imperial ships, alongside the Vindicator and Gladiator classes.
@techticianLars Productions I kinda find it weird for the Gladiator class to be a light Carrier, when you look at it both the size of it's hangers, it's firepower and just how big the ship is, to me it's a medium Carrier. Tell me I'm not wrong right?
@@loganwhitney8471 It really does seem like it should be classified like that, I mean they call it a Star Destroyer so it has a good bit of tonnage. It was supposed to replace the Venator so yeah, medium to assault carrier.
Yes, my favourite Imperial ship. Thank you for covering this.
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Largely on the recommendations of this channel, I've decided to get into the Stargate franchise. I started watching SG-1 a couple days ago. It's pretty good so far.
I can tell, you are in for a wilde ride ^^
It's really good, especially season 3 onward. Enjoy!
@@Dyundu So far, Season 1 of SG-1 reminds me of Star Trek Enterprise. I think it's a combination of the time when the shows were made. Enterprise first aired in 2001 and SG-1 started in 1997. They also both have that setting of Humanity first unlocking the ability to explore the universe, and starting to do so by basically just blundering around randomly from place to place.
hope you enjoy, first few seasons you can tell they were trying to find their feet as to how to tell their story, but great after that. dont forget the two spin off series, SGA runs parallel with season 8 of sg1 and sgu is tacked onto the end of both
@@nomar5spaulding Season 1 is very much like TNG, an unbound exploration and curiosity. Then it slides more to a typical sci-fi with a persistent overarching plot, but they still venture into episodes of just exploring, or a short one/two episode self-contained plots. That said though "blundering around randomly from place to place" continues throughout franchise, and even in Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe you still have a significant plots of doing just that, heck: both series end with that sort of action.
this one of my all time fav. ship designs.
pirated this design for the Shadowrun/Star Wars pen and paper i play to have my charakter get a proper "hero ship" after an experimental yt-1300
I was just thinking I need a ship for my Starfinder crew and just found one.
@@fatcoyote2 yeah, the raider is just badass looking. especially the Tie Fighter-esk structures
@@t4rv0r60 designer: “how do we make sure everyone knows this is a ship of the Galactic Empire? Hmm, maybe if I put some TIE interceptor inspired wings on it....yeah, that’ll appeal to the lowest common denominator!”
@@Daedric16 yes indeed, this screams galactic empire and i love it
A length of 150m? Christ, there are yachts currently sailing Earth’s oceans which are longer. Admittedly this raider class ship design is sleek. Cover it in a vantablack/cloaking composite and reclassify it as a needle ship and we’re on board.
This ship is still a lot larger due to it's beam and height which on marine ships are constrained.
It's a corvette, it's simply not going to be a large ship by any means.
its exact same lenght as the CR-90 Corellian Corvette.. and actually bigger than the Consular or Sphirna classes
It's so small because of the scale it was meant to be in when first designed for x-wing miniatures as a large ship for that game where it's about a foot long.
*looks at a ship that's purposely small*
"OMG SMALL!!!"
Love this ship! Thank you for doing a vid on it. The Empire never really had any comparable to the "Blockade Runner" and this ship fills that role perfectly.
Um...Carrack, Lancer, DP20 gunship...
My favorite imperial ship, Fantasy Flight Games knocked the design out of the park. Also space dock, I’m telling you, you have to credit the real designers when you can.
I love it when in the story, Iden shoots herself out of the airlock and flies into the Corvus’ hangar (2:29) 👌🏻
Absolutely my most favorite imperial warship to date, and definitely among my top three favorite vessels in the Star Wars franchise.
Disappointed that it took a full 40 seconds to say "space frame"
My overall favorite SW design, Corvettes are awfully underrated, and underused in most EU, wich is a shame.
Still, Night Caller best CR90, and Raider class is the best corvette!
*AKA Another ship that could have saved the Empire* if mass produced and assigned as escorts, as well as patrol ships and recon Hunter/Killer teams.
Switch over production to this and have at least 2 - 4 assigned to escort every ISD, as well as a few more to patrol neighbouring systems to extend the reach of the ISD.
Also have them to keep an eye on lesser importance planets, as well as scouts for ISD's, able to call in one if it got to hot.
And they are the perfect ship to hunt for Rebel outpost. Maybe just switch the hangar to carrying probe droids.
Another good option is to carry Tie Strikers. They are good at in atmosphere work so they can do closer inspection of possible activity.
Yes they could carry Tie Defenders, but if those are now standard the Empires already winning.
I wish the BATTLEFRONT II story mode was more like a MASS EFFECT rpg with a decently long story, choices that matter, and the Raider Class Corvette acting as your 'Normandy'.
The Raider Co is one of my fave sci-fi ships, so happy to have seen her covered here :)
Designed for a crew of 90, but is heavily automated effectively commanded by as few as 3-4 individuals should the situation demand it, or if the ship is acquired by the rebels and needed for a run into hostile territory...
That is not too unique. The CR90 could be piloted by a single person, if you don’t need to use the guns that is
This is probably my only favorite star wars imperial ship. Thanks.
The optimal defense force for a small convoy was a single Raider matched with a pair of Gozanti-class fighter transports. The tactic was simple-at the beginning of the battle the Raider would position itself on the same side of the column of transports as the enemy fighters. The Gozanti would move to the rear, and deploy their fighters on the side of the column opposite the attacking fighters (ie with the column between the TIEs and the enemy ships). The strength of the Rebel X and Y wings was in the high speed pass. A low speed attack left the fighters vulnerable so even lightly armed transports could badly damage them. The Rebel fighters were thus forced to run the gauntlet of the Raider's substantial defenses, try to reorganize for an attack, and then after making their pass would immediately be swarmed by the TIEs, which would usually be able to get into optimal attack position and do considerable damage. If the Rebels tried to attack the column head on the Raider was fast enough to reposition, and if they went to the rear they would have to brave the defenses of the two Gozanti transports, which themselves were not inconsiderable.
Tactics like these forced the Rebels to innovate, employing various types of mines and weapons with longer reach. Another counter was to use right-left attacks. Essentially the attackers break into two forces and made the Raider commit to stopping one, while the second group would carry through with their attack. The first group would then disengage and the Raider would either have to leave it's post in pursuit, or watch them reorganize. In general the Rebels were able to keep the initiative, but attrition levels were always alarming when Raiders became involved.
This breakdown makes me appreciate the ship more than I already did. Small and agile fighter-style compared to larger Imperial-class, but also not as weak as the TIE-series starfighters, though the small size almost makes it seem likely to challenge other Corvettes like the CR-90 or YT-1300
As always, Great Video!
That is a cool ship, I have ships similar in my story called Marauder class corvettes, they have adaptive camouflage and carry strike teams of cammandos, and are used as escorts and recon missions.
The Corvus is a raider 2 class corvette and that's why it has a hangar bay. Also the hangar bay can store 8 tie fighters surprisingly. I found a model of the Corvus's hangar bay in the battlefront 2 game files and it clearly has racks for 8 normal tie fighters.
Reminds me of the Legends modified Corellian Corvette "Night Caller" from the X-Wing books. A basic Corellian Corvette but with an attached bow-oriented hangar bay capable of docking 9 X-Wings in a 3x3 pattern (after the racks were installed, of course) and the escape pod ports were replaced with Gozanti-style TIE docking rings to dock an additional pair of TIEs. Used to great effect by Wraith Squadron in the book of the same name.
I love this ship as a top favorite. Truly an inspiration.
This is probably my favorite ship in all of Star Wars! Wish we could see more of it.
Probably my favorite corvette sized warship in Star Wars. Well designed, effective and it lools so damn cool
Wait...
The empire actually made a fast and elegant tactical attack ship
What sort of dark Sith magic is dis ?!
I always think of this like the P-38 from WW2. Built at the end of the war, just introduced too late to be of much use.
@@toastedzen Actually, P-38 came really early on the war, but it has many problems in European Theator due to weather cause it to didn't have much action in Europe until late war. But in Pacific, P-38 found many success mission even in early stage of war with Japanese force.
Best thing to come out of the X Wing tabletop game. I am glad they used it in battlefront
Yes! One of the slickest and decently practical ship in the Imperial armada!!
I always hoped Disney would make it canon that Thrawn had a hand in the Raider's design. Its design and tactical uses would be strait out of his playbook.
@Metal Sonic Imperial Gladiator wasn't so bad either. It was more expensive but it made a decently versitile brawler that could be used in a lot of situations.
@@billgates6689 pfp sauce pls
@@m_schauk A Raider with 2 TIE Defenders on board sounds like Thrawn's dream.
this has always been my favourite style of ship
I love it, A rare gem of Star Wars.
I love this ship, both the role and the looks. May it be a sin but I admit the rebel/new republic refit even managed to improve on it. :)
I always get excited when I see a new Spacedock video. :)
This and the Venator are my favorite KDY ships
This is my favorite Imperial ship in Star Wars! It's much more practical that a Destroyer, and looks 100x better!
Absolutely great ship. Love your content as always, Spacedock. :D
Solid ships, especially in the Star Wars Armada tabletop game.
While we only see two TIE's deployed from the Raider in game, I would image it could have a max capacity of three, maybe four fighters considering the Empire's policy of overwhelming numbers and force in most situations.
To back this up, at it's height, Inferno Squad had 4 members, each could (in theory and if we take the X-Wing Miniatures Game into account) pilot a TIE. Considering the Corvus has a bridge crew that we see in game, it would seem silly to give a ship with a compliment of only two fighters to a team of four. I'd image they'd give them a ship that could, if needed, support them all flying TIEs into a battle or into deployments. Just my own thoughts though.
Great video as always
EDIT: Just realized that the opening of Battlefront II depicts Inferno squad leaving Endor in TIE Fighters, so unless they jettisoned one into space, the Raider should be able to maintain at least 3 fighters of TIE/LN size (in my opinion at least)
the bay shown in the campaign ought to be able to fit at least 4 fighters.possibly six if you really packed them in tight.
Been waiting on this video for a while. Thanks for the breakdown.
Another AWESOME vid I've really liked and enjoyed watching.
One of my MOST favorite ships in Star Wars Canon.
Minor note: rpg books also depict the ship as having a spine-mounted ion gun in the style of space battleship yamoto
My favorite ship in the Star Wars Universe!!!
Always a fan of the clean, crisp lines of imperial starships. The Raider is by far may favorite ship design from Disney canon.
In the post Imperial age one of these would make a great hero ship for a small group.
This might be my favorite ship in this class
I love this ship.
The desing is awesome and it fits the Empire so well
Especially compared to the ship of the same role the Empire had in Empire at War. The Tantalus (I think that was it's name) didn't really match the look of the Empire that well
Awesome ship. I’d love to see the Raider in live action.
While I dislike one size fits all ships (looking at you battleship/carrier/colony ship monstrosities), I di really enjoy the idea of a small ship that has versatility through modular design. Having hard points that could be swapped out for additional anti-fighter, anti-ship weaponry, scanning arrays, cloaking and so on is really smart to me and I think so much better.
The original design was for the Fantasy Flight Games X-Wing Miniatures Game as the opposite of the Blockade runner on the Rebel side. It didn't have the fighter bays. Other games expanded on the design as-needed for their stories/gameplay.
Venator-Arquitens-Raider
The trio of sensible KDY designs
I'd throw the Victory-class Star Destroyer in there as well. A Victory/Venator pair would be devastatingly effective. Have the Victory focus on the heavy firepower to take on enemy capital ships while the Venator provides support with the air wing. Victories aren't as massive as the later Imperial-classes are, being roughly the same size as a Venator, but where the Venator is a carrier first with some anti-ship weapons added on, the Victory is a cruiser first that happens to have fighters. Combined with support from Arquitens frigates and Raider corvettes and you have a lethal task force without the massive waste of resources that the Imperial-class represented.
@@VegetaLF7 if you mean the victory one I fully agree with you, having hundreds of missiles pile out during a fire fight is an incredibly demoralising yet deadly sight for the enemy!
My second favorite new ship from the Disney canon
It was before cannon it was a legends ship
Legends was a mess and we all know it there was a lot of things that were amazing but it was still a mess
@@alexpahl6443 I mean even if I agreed with you which I don't that would still mean that Canon is already more of a contradictory mess in less than 10 years then legends became in over 40 years
@@sammywhite5127 Star Wars is a mess but we like in legends there was OP s*th that somewhat made sense,current cannon doesnt rly have OP thing but it also doesnt make sense, I just enjoy each design and dont try to think to hard about it
I'd be proud to Captain such a ship.
I have come to the conclusion that I like watching this channel because of his voice.
*Sees Spacedock upload*
I wonder what it could be.
*Sees Raider class Corvette*
Oooooh...
*puts lotion on desk as an audible zipping noise comes from below the desk*
Joking aside, the Raider-class Corvette is a sexy ship!
Love this ship. I actually think this would fit right in if it was updated with the NR’s New Class Modernization Program.
It does sorta look like a smaller version of the New Republic Nebula Class Star Destroyer.
The raider class was .... the best part about Battlefront 2's campaign
The Raider is such a cool ship.
The Raider Class Corvette is the ship I would have. It's cool, smart, and versatile.
I love your Star Wars and Star Trek videos I just wish that they were longer and more detailed.
Fun fact about this ship for anyone who isn't aware, it was designed in the real world by Fantasy Flight Games as part of the X-Wing Miniatures table top game. In X-Wing, you initially had two sizes of ships: small and large. Examples would be X-Wings and TIE Fighters for small and the Millennium Falcon and Lambda-class shuttle for large. An update to the game included a new scale: epic. Epic scale ships would include the Corellian Corvette, Rebel Transport, and Gozanti transports. But the Empire needed a counter to the Rebel Corvette and there was some consideration as to what ship it should be, like the Lancer-class. Instead it was decided to create a brand new design that *looked* Imperial (something the Lancer lacked) by having the iconic wedge-shape in the design. Thus the Raider was born. It features quite nicely in X-Wing's Epic matches as well as the fleet-based sister game Star Wars Armada.
VegetaLF7 I play it and it is so much fun
Actually I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't use the lancer was because it was too big
@@sammywhite5127 yep. at 250 meters long the Lancer Class is only a bit smaller than the Nebulon-B.
they needed a crovette sized ship but the empire didn't have any (the imperial Gozanti didn't exist yet, and the old EU didn't have anything that fit the size) so they had to get creative.
Probably my favourite ship from the Star Wars franchise.
We need a detailed schematic and walk through for this ship ASAP
One of my favorites in Star wars, would love to see it in live action
I played this one in the X-Wing tabletop game. I made the fatal error of underestimating the fully loaded B-Wings that came at it, but still, it's a helluva ship.
Coolest ship in Star Wars imo
150 m= 492 ft.
60.4 m 198 ft.
That is a nice use of the wedge shape.
one of my fav star wars ships. such a good hub for an adventure, i hope they take advantage of one day more than just the bf2 game
The design is badass
The design of that corvette is still today my top favorite in the space genre. If I had to exist as a character in the SW universe, I would immediately insist on the “Corvus” as my personal chariot😁.
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The Raider class is a cool name for a spaceship
Awesome ship. With the solar panels, I'd have thought that it was a TIE cruiser or something.
I love this design
At 01:08 you made a smallish mistake: Its not Turbolaser turrets, as those are mostly reserved for anti capital actions. Its even on your blueprint.
Probably my favourite ship in all of Star Wars, if we were to ever get an expansive MMO set during the Civil War I would 100% choose this as my main ship, and probably a B-Wing or Tie-Defender as my fighter
Since the Empire has different special forces units, two of them have specific design starships for them, the Raider-Class Corvette for Inferno Squad and the Imperial Escort Carrier for the Strom Commandos. Imagine the Corvus (Raider-Class Corvette) being the flagship of dozens of Imperial Escort Carries, that will be the most deadly fleet of special forces ever seen, tbh.
Storm Commandos and their escort carrier are legends only. Imperial Commandos and the Raider II are canon only. the empire only has one special ops force, the form they take varies between the old and new continuities.
@@glitterboy2098 actually the raider class exists in both continuities
Seyn was a member of the Inferno Squad top ;)
I am captaining one of these in my WEG D6 Tabletop game
A really cool looking ship!
I wonder what would have happend if more of these were used
One of 3 effective imperial spacecraft
Very cool ship, might just have to get one.
this thing can do so much in such a ridiculously small ship
Honestly I have a liking for this ship its sleek design and power armament makes it cool to look at and a ship I personally would love to fly
Can you do a piece on the U.S.S. Ares from the Star Trek fan film, Prelude to Axanar? It's also a ship that deviated from the usual design doctrine, in that it's a dedicated warship instead of the well rounded designs of most Star Fleet ships. The only other example I can think of is the U.S.S. Defiant, which you already did a video on.
I like this one, it's what you get when you take a quintessential hero ship design but build it to look like it was made by the empire. It's the offspring of Darth Vader's TIE fighter, a star destroyer and the ghost.
Wait the imperium can actually come up with intelligent ship designs? Color me suprised.
Well, FFG can, at least.
The ISD is an intelligent ship design
@Andreas Müller I'm betting Grand Admiral Thrawn himself approves of this kind ship
no ventral defense screening, so they still haven't. you can remain in whatever hue is standard to you.
@@morganb6717 It's more efficient to put your weapons on one side. That way, when you point that side at your enemy, all your weapons can target your enemy. Splitting this results in an inability to effectively concentrate firepower. That being said, the wedge design of the star destroyer is particularly effective as it allows the vast majority of it's firepower to be concentrated against any individual target.
That was a cool ship great video
I loved the original space frame right up until the rebel refit. After that it looks like the love child of the raider and a CR90
what a design !
Now THIS is a nice Star Wars ship. It's neither one of those stupid, impractical mini-crafts (#BeingATieFighterPilotSucks), nor a do-everything all-powerful battleship/carrier hybrid, but a robust, realistic design! I'd love to see more such designs in Star Wars!
Raider class corvette!! Ooohuhu!
Baby you’re much too fast! Oooh
It's amazing what happens when you design a ship for a specific tactical role rather than cramming as many guns as possible onto the biggest wedge of cheese you can manage and just filling the sky with them.
@2:10 - Wait a minute, that's just Spartan Palmer!