"Sailing ship in space" is absolutely stupid in the Star Wars galaxy, but if the entire setting is based around the idea, you get something rather cool. Namely Treasure Planet.
I mean... You know what else is a sailing ship in space? The Geonosian Solar Sailer Dooku had. It's only stupid when you don't put any effort in, when done right, it can work pretty well.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Absolutely. As I said, what matters more is the effort put in. You can make interesting parallels to sailing ships in several ways while still having a design feel like it can fit into the existing styles. But it takes more work than just drawing a literal sailing ship with a couple boosters and laser cannons strapped on.
I mean in the Star Wars universe you need to keep your engines going or you come to a stop and fighters behave like they are in atmosphere, so whatever floats yer boat :p
My cousin and I had an idea to make ships based off rowed battleships of Ancient Greece and Rome. It was for an RPG, kinda cool but we could never draw them out
I was hoping the Sun Crusher would be on this, its like something a 7 year old would come up with "So my ship is super fast and it's also everything proof and also can blow up a solar system!"
Sounds like it'd fit into Warhammer 40K. After all, Games Workshop started out as a bunch of people who were "that kid". If you can have Hulk Hogan wearing 50 trucks worth of metal, fighting the Devil inside a cathedral-spaceship the size of Rhode Island (yes I'm paraphrasing MandaloreGaming again), the Sun Crusher wouldn't exactly stand out. Hell, the entire galaxy got riven in two by a chain of warp storms at one point: there's no real limit to how OTT 40K can get. They even have their own ongoing Yuuzhan Vong invasion in the form of the Tyranids.
I actually love all of the crazy TIE variants because I imagine Sienar executives just taking their big hit design and trying to make it into anything even if it doesn't really fit.
@darthrevan1281 exactly. A lot of people crap on it for that, but I think in a weird way it provides an interesting twist. The reader always says "OK this person has plot armor, so I'm not worried about em" (unless it's martin). What do you do with this big honking rock in the middle of the plot river? They could have made it such a pivot for strife if they'd kept it a bit longer.
Actually, it would be an excellent design for a starship in a different science fiction setting as it seems like a fairly realistic design, but doesn’t seem to fit the usual design ethos for Star Wars ships.
@@26th_Primarch In Crosscurrent (Legends), a time traveling Jedi from the era of Naga Sadow arrives aboard a Sith cruiser with a fighter complement. He describes the Sith fighters as basically "cannons with wings" because they have a lot of firepower and no shielding. A "modern" character responds by comparing it to the TIE Fighter and remarking that "Sith designs are the same no matter the era." So...story checks out.
Whenever I see the T.I.E. Bizzaro, my mind IMMEDIATELY pictures it firing. But instead of it firing straight like a normal ship, the recoil is just too much for the T.I.E to handle so it just spins out of control each shot. 😂
Surprised that you didn't include the Robida Colossus, literally a steam powered ironclad in space, complete with propellers and a smokestack. Its the ship that appears in the background in that shot of the vindicator in dark empire. The fairwind at least makes some sense being so absurd given Farfalla's vain and somewhat eccentric tendancies
The fairwind is indeed described in the second darth bane book (might also be in the first) as a large mainly transport ship fashioned on the outside to look like a classic sailing ship and the colors are likely chosen because Farfalla was well known for opulence and over exaggerated "Beauty", he had a breastplate that looked like it was made of solid gold and he polished it constantly.
@@nicholasyost8400 It was yes, but there weren't as many plotted out, I'm pretty sure the reasoning is just Farfalla liked it that way so he had it made that way
#AskEck I've had the idea for a little while now that Lucasfilm should pursue adapting George Lucas's sequel treatments in comic form and getting Lucas himself to consult on it. This may sound like an out-there idea but Lucas was clearly unhappy that the story of his sequels was never told, he's had a life long love of comic books as a medium and even though he's retired, he's always been happy to consult on projects whenever Lucasfilm have asked him to (Solo, The Mandalorian, Dial of Destiny, etc). For Lucasfilm's part, they're fine with producing non canonical content like Visions and the rumored 'What if?' series. Marvel Comics has also just announced they'll be publishing 'What if?' Alien comics and Dark Horse recently published a comic adaption of one of James Cameron's old drafts for an Avatar sequel, so I don't see why Lucasfilm can't get either company to give Star Wars the same treatment. It could even be nice way to celebrate the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the sequel trilogy, taking a look at what it could have been. So, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think it's an idea Lucasfilm should pursue?
6:20 Variants like that are more common than you'd think. It is common for a nation's main battle tank to also serve as the basis for their armored recovery/engineering vehicle and as a bridge layer. The T-72 has, among other things, been modified into a rocket artillery system (TOS-1), a multi-purpose "tank support vehicle" (BMPT) and a heavy APC for infantry carrying sensitive incendiary munitions (BMO-T). The Russians even modified the T-80 into the "Ladoga" a sort of mobile armored fallout shelter for evacuating VIP‘s in the event of a nuclear war.
The TIE shuttle makes sense, you can stow them aboard and launch them from any Imperial ship with a TIE rack, without the need of a dedicated hangar. TIEs seem to be the space warfare equivalent to an Intermodal Container.
I *think* the Fairwind was introduced in the comics first. The author of the Darth Bane Trilogy seems to also have not liked the design, and I think I recall people familiar with both saying that the novels toned down the 'high fantasy' aspects of those comics in general.
Comic book writers are like "here's a super duper battle destroyer, that can blow up the universe 500 times ". And next week he has to top it with the super duper fluper mega blast cannon, which can blow up 10 universes a billion times each. Around then, it gets silly.
After “I’m getting sick of this dumbass theory” or whatever the title was, eckharts is slowly becoming more unhinged as Star Wars betrays him time, and time again.
Nebullon-B, that thisng looks absurd with giant beard and engine on a stick. And it must have center of mass so low that it will do a backflips in space if it ever fires it's engines. While most of SW ships have belivable shapes form propulsion standpoint nebullon just looks absurd.
Eck, thank you for so many amazing videos for all these years, and providing hundreds of hours of entertainment. I don't think it gets said enough, wanted to make sure it was at least here.
The old 80's and 90's content, which featured mainly in comics and books, was weird AF. Weird, but certainly cool and interesting compared to the trash pumped out by Disney after they essentially nuked all previous content and filed it under "Legends", so they could replace it with their own "Canon" that's devolved into a massive dumpster fire with Kathleen "Put A Chick In It And Make Her Lame And Gay" Kennedy still at the helm.
Oh man, I completely forgot about the wasp ship...I grew up in the nineties with the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels practically glued to my side
First off thanks for the video it was great! Here are a few things to note: First off both sailing ships you showed seem to be based off Bullwarks (big military ship) but there were other designs which made appearances in star wars, like that CIS atmosphere one you showed is similar to the design of Korean Turtle ships just without a roof. Another good example is that of the K-wing which is based off the design mentality of The USCS (The proto-coast guard for the US) cutters, who took a joke ship primarily used for policing coasts, put so many cannons on them they nearly sunk in still water, and then went to kick around pirates in the Mediterranean which is how the 2nd war the US ever won was when it's coast guard went rouge and fought Pirate and slaver controlled Triremes in the Mediterranean. Long yet cool story. Next one of odd ships that were missed are Sarlacc pits. This is only technically count, but we know Sarlacc pits send their young into space to reach other worlds and that they often take some of their parents meals with them which become part of their hive mind. Thus it is possible to move from planet to planet inside a Sarlacc and then escape, making them a single use, near suicidal ship (is this how stray Jawas get on seemingly random planets?). I'd count Asoka's space whale as a similar fool-hearty ship. I also thought when this started that it would be more on power creep which I'd like a video on as well. This is why I was shocked by the exclusion of The Eclipse star destroyer (somehow palatine returned) Also on that note, does the planet where the Jibitha is created (Zamona Sekot) count as a ship, since it has a Hyperdrive? If so do space stations with Hyperdrives count as ships (Death Stars, Golans, etc.)? Do loth Wolves count since you can ride them and they can travel using the World between worlds? They could theoretically drop you off on another planet. Lastly did you know there is a midevil symbol called an "Eckhart"? I want to 3-d print a tiny ladder with it and send it to you, lol.
My all-time favourite is Ship, the sentient, living organism spaceship from another galaxy, that merged with its pilot eons ago. Such a weird design but very cool idea.
Fun video! I like this more than the last few very clickbaity titles you have had. This is the quality and specificity that I come to Eckhat's Ladder for.
Eckhart - TIE M1 could be a nod towards HMS M1 - a British Submarine that had a 12inch Battleship Gun from the 1920s 😮 A starfighter with a Turbolaser matches this very well.
The K-Wing is the futuristic Star Wars version on an A-26 Invader a light bomber/ground attack aircraft with a smaller crew than an older light bomber like the B-26 Marauder. It would absolutely work as long as proper air defence fighters escorted it. Like how F-105's were escorted by F-4's in Vietnam.
I think the model of the Republic-class in Thrawn's Revenge did a good job at redeeming the design, it's vaguely triangle-shaped and at the very least looks good there.
I love this series idea! A suggestion, I can't for the life of me remember the name, but there was a pirate ship themed ship in Star Wars the Old Republic from an end-game raid. Shadow of Revan expansion I think.
There was a very old Star Trek comic (don't remember the title) where the Enterprise hunted space pirates. The space pirates flew a pirate ship (with masts and sails) with one warp engine on each side.
#AskEck I've seen some of your other videos regarding armor in the Star Wars universe but I never saw anything about how effective the armor actually is when being shot at with a blaster or slugthrower and the difference in effectiveness between canon and legends armor and would love to see your thoughts about it since it all seems to vary widely depending on what source material you are looking at
TIE M1 was supposed to fill a gap between the fast but weak interceptor and the powerful but sluggish bomber, intended to counter the increasing strength and agility of small-to-medium sized ships like newer assault transports over corvettes to small, nimble frigates which took ages to whittle down by starfighter cannons but were too agile and well defended to be easily attacked by sluggish bombers. From that perspective, an agile ship packing one powerful turbo laser makes sense. It allows you to deliver a punch without having to expose your valuable capital ships. There is a ton of intercept missions in the games where I would have killed to fly that one...
Honestly, the late Marvel comics ship designs are pretty out there- not just the Tofs, but the Nagai and the Hiromi have some... interesting... takes on ship designs.
theses are a lot of fun! it's videos like this that show star wars is supposed to be a fun thing and not the ultra serious state everyone seems to have moved it into(if that makes sense). I would love to see more videos on ridiculoud star wars things!
I'm guessing when the Republic class was described as a "star destroyer" they were thinking of "star destroyer" as meaning "destroyer (as in, the class of naval ships) that operates in the stars".
Something to note about how many TIE variants there are, it's actually very accurate for an authoritarian regime to use excessive modularity for their vehicles. The Soviet Union and now Russian Federation have this idea that their tanks can take on any roll. And all they have to do is switch out the turret and make some other minor adjustments. Aside from ease of manufacturing, it doesn't actually help that much. As if you need, say, anti-air artillery, and your anti-air is on a heavy tank chassis that's slow and easily sinks in the mud, and you're defending an area in mud, you're kinda screwed. The Empire seems to have done a better job with the TIE line than the Soviets did with their tanks, but there are a few ridiculous and quite useless variants. Like the Bizarro. At least they were smart enough never put the experimental crap into full production.
I love the idea of this series, but I wish there was some kind of scale or meter that went along with the video, and/or a basic comparison that the "ridiculousness" is based on.
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"Sailing ship in space" is absolutely stupid in the Star Wars galaxy, but if the entire setting is based around the idea, you get something rather cool. Namely Treasure Planet.
I mean... You know what else is a sailing ship in space? The Geonosian Solar Sailer Dooku had.
It's only stupid when you don't put any effort in, when done right, it can work pretty well.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Absolutely. As I said, what matters more is the effort put in. You can make interesting parallels to sailing ships in several ways while still having a design feel like it can fit into the existing styles. But it takes more work than just drawing a literal sailing ship with a couple boosters and laser cannons strapped on.
Or spelljammer.
I mean in the Star Wars universe you need to keep your engines going or you come to a stop and fighters behave like they are in atmosphere, so whatever floats yer boat :p
My cousin and I had an idea to make ships based off rowed battleships of Ancient Greece and Rome. It was for an RPG, kinda cool but we could never draw them out
I was hoping the Sun Crusher would be on this, its like something a 7 year old would come up with "So my ship is super fast and it's also everything proof and also can blow up a solar system!"
It is 7:14
I wish he would have mentioned that it was destroyed
@@billforson3143technically it was thrown into a black hole maybe it didn't destroy it 🤔🤓
Sounds like it'd fit into Warhammer 40K. After all, Games Workshop started out as a bunch of people who were "that kid".
If you can have Hulk Hogan wearing 50 trucks worth of metal, fighting the Devil inside a cathedral-spaceship the size of Rhode Island (yes I'm paraphrasing MandaloreGaming again), the Sun Crusher wouldn't exactly stand out. Hell, the entire galaxy got riven in two by a chain of warp storms at one point: there's no real limit to how OTT 40K can get. They even have their own ongoing Yuuzhan Vong invasion in the form of the Tyranids.
He made a whole video about it
“Editor’s Note: Reminder, it’s okay to be wrong.”
Rock on, my dude.
I actually love all of the crazy TIE variants because I imagine Sienar executives just taking their big hit design and trying to make it into anything even if it doesn't really fit.
That is something a real corporation would do.
Yup, including a tank (two actually) 👀
They are the Hollywood executives of the sw universe.
Oreo
Top Sienar engineers just get piss drunk every Friday and design the most outlandish TIEs imaginable.
Sun crusher: the final form of plot armor.
@darthrevan1281 exactly. A lot of people crap on it for that, but I think in a weird way it provides an interesting twist. The reader always says "OK this person has plot armor, so I'm not worried about em" (unless it's martin).
What do you do with this big honking rock in the middle of the plot river? They could have made it such a pivot for strife if they'd kept it a bit longer.
The republic class looks like the design for a spaceship-type pokemon.
Would a 900 meter sphere-shaped heavy cruiser be ridiculous?
Heh
yes
In some ways it might be considered a rational design, but I feel that makes it ridiculous in the other direction.
Actually, it would be an excellent design for a starship in a different science fiction setting as it seems like a fairly realistic design, but doesn’t seem to fit the usual design ethos for Star Wars ships.
Borg sphere spotted.
That Sith meditation sphere looks like a giant D&D Beholder!
It also kinda looks like Unicron from Transformers as well
It also looks like a standard TIE fighter.
@@26th_Primarch In Crosscurrent (Legends), a time traveling Jedi from the era of Naga Sadow arrives aboard a Sith cruiser with a fighter complement. He describes the Sith fighters as basically "cannons with wings" because they have a lot of firepower and no shielding. A "modern" character responds by comparing it to the TIE Fighter and remarking that "Sith designs are the same no matter the era." So...story checks out.
Yamato 2199 referenced big W Ecks
ACKCHUALLY thats Yamato 2205
Republic class looks like an imperial star destroyer had its back portion partly melted while its front wore a Mon cal cruiser as a sock lol.
A combo of the New Republic and Empire working together to create a ship. The two factions did work together from time to time.
That's what i also thought
The battle platform looks like DaVincis designs for a tank
Always wanted more vids of Eck dunking on crazy-looking ships. The literal copying of creatures and sailing ships are pretty egregious.
Me: Biblically Accurate Star Wars ship isn't real. It can't hurt me
*Sith Meditation Chamber:*
Whenever I see the T.I.E. Bizzaro, my mind IMMEDIATELY pictures it firing. But instead of it firing straight like a normal ship, the recoil is just too much for the T.I.E to handle so it just spins out of control each shot. 😂
I swear to god, I have a memory of two star destroyers stuck together and its so stupid to me it burns
Haha! That sounds like a silly ship.
Gemini class 😮
Star wars visions??
The double decker star destroyer?
The one where one is flipped over and they’re connected by the bridge?
1:00 sorry Eck, that's actually just an image of a birthday cake
I never knew that there was a space aircraft carrier in Star Wars. And I never knew I needed one until now.
Also check out in canon there
Imperial aerial landing platform & the First Order's landing platform.
Wookipedia list them as spaceships.
I want to see some of those Toth Pirate Ships or I’m rebelling against the Eck Empire
😂
unfortunately that's the only one we have seen, as an editor under the eck empire I really like them
Ooh ridiculous Star Wars ships. I'll go: Anisoka....Oh wait--you mean ACTUAL ships. Nevermind.
Surprised that you didn't include the Robida Colossus, literally a steam powered ironclad in space, complete with propellers and a smokestack. Its the ship that appears in the background in that shot of the vindicator in dark empire. The fairwind at least makes some sense being so absurd given Farfalla's vain and somewhat eccentric tendancies
The fairwind is indeed described in the second darth bane book (might also be in the first) as a large mainly transport ship fashioned on the outside to look like a classic sailing ship and the colors are likely chosen because Farfalla was well known for opulence and over exaggerated "Beauty", he had a breastplate that looked like it was made of solid gold and he polished it constantly.
Do you know if hyperspace was yet a thing in the canon? That might explain the sails.
@@nicholasyost8400 It was yes, but there weren't as many plotted out, I'm pretty sure the reasoning is just Farfalla liked it that way so he had it made that way
@@Darthoblivion24 Cool! Thanks for the info!
You should start a cooking channel and call it Eckhart's Larder
Storage may also be a “reason” to make everything “like” a TIE.
Ease of pilot training was what I always thought. Make the cockpit uniform to increase efficiency.
4:17 reminds me of some of the battletech/mechwarrior images if ships i saw in their novels
Yeah, now that you say it...
The MW illustrations always bugged me. Way too half assed and unrealistic looking.
#AskEck I've had the idea for a little while now that Lucasfilm should pursue adapting George Lucas's sequel treatments in comic form and getting Lucas himself to consult on it. This may sound like an out-there idea but Lucas was clearly unhappy that the story of his sequels was never told, he's had a life long love of comic books as a medium and even though he's retired, he's always been happy to consult on projects whenever Lucasfilm have asked him to (Solo, The Mandalorian, Dial of Destiny, etc). For Lucasfilm's part, they're fine with producing non canonical content like Visions and the rumored 'What if?' series. Marvel Comics has also just announced they'll be publishing 'What if?' Alien comics and Dark Horse recently published a comic adaption of one of James Cameron's old drafts for an Avatar sequel, so I don't see why Lucasfilm can't get either company to give Star Wars the same treatment. It could even be nice way to celebrate the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the sequel trilogy, taking a look at what it could have been. So, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think it's an idea Lucasfilm should pursue?
Shoutout to the editor for knowing Hondos sweet ass saucer is dope and hilarious for Star wars
Small nitpick but the hondo pirate ufo is has “armed” somewhere in the name because there is another frigate by the name corona.
6:20 Variants like that are more common than you'd think. It is common for a nation's main battle tank to also serve as the basis for their armored recovery/engineering vehicle and as a bridge layer. The T-72 has, among other things, been modified into a rocket artillery system (TOS-1), a multi-purpose "tank support vehicle" (BMPT) and a heavy APC for infantry carrying sensitive incendiary munitions (BMO-T).
The Russians even modified the T-80 into the "Ladoga" a sort of mobile armored fallout shelter for evacuating VIP‘s in the event of a nuclear war.
The TIE shuttle makes sense, you can stow them aboard and launch them from any Imperial ship with a TIE rack, without the need of a dedicated hangar. TIEs seem to be the space warfare equivalent to an Intermodal Container.
I *think* the Fairwind was introduced in the comics first. The author of the Darth Bane Trilogy seems to also have not liked the design, and I think I recall people familiar with both saying that the novels toned down the 'high fantasy' aspects of those comics in general.
The MT-AT. The spider tank. The literal SPIDER tank. eight legs.
that is so not how I imagined the Sun Crusher in my head😂
I'd love to see more of this series
Okay that Space Battleship Yamato shot at 0:58 surprised me for some reason lol
same
did not expect to see ecks to show a picture of garmillas ships
The space sailing ships feel like Treasure Planet
Republic Class be like:
3:47 GHALE GARMILLON🗣️🔊‼️‼️
The suncrusher is very interesting considering it’s weapons and shape
Comic book writers are like "here's a super duper battle destroyer, that can blow up the universe 500 times ". And next week he has to top it with the super duper fluper mega blast cannon, which can blow up 10 universes a billion times each. Around then, it gets silly.
Hondo's ship is just a plain saucer because it travels not into space... but the space between spaces...
Also love the Dalek saucers at 3:33 lol
Yeah I thought that's image looks similar to Daleks and when I googled I found out it was lol.
Instead of "CIS Battle Platform," I believe you mean "giant killer hover roomba"
I know it’s not canon but I wish you mentioned the Freudian nightmare
After “I’m getting sick of this dumbass theory” or whatever the title was, eckharts is slowly becoming more unhinged as Star Wars betrays him time, and time again.
It's 3 a.m. for me, I was just about to go to sleep and thanks to you I've been suppressing the urge to finally go to bed for another 10 minutes.
3:33 Those are Dalek Saucers
Yeah I thought they look like then Googled to check if they look similar & the picture is from Doctor Who.
Nebullon-B, that thisng looks absurd with giant beard and engine on a stick.
And it must have center of mass so low that it will do a backflips in space if it ever fires it's engines.
While most of SW ships have belivable shapes form propulsion standpoint nebullon just looks absurd.
Eck, thank you for so many amazing videos for all these years, and providing hundreds of hours of entertainment. I don't think it gets said enough, wanted to make sure it was at least here.
K-Wing is the Star Wars version of A-10 Warthog
Drinking Game Level: Impossible;
Take a shot every time he says ship.
The amount of sass by the editor 😂 “It’s ok to be wrong” like 🤌
5:09 that’s no ship, that’s a giant sized Millennium Rod
The old 80's and 90's content, which featured mainly in comics and books, was weird AF. Weird, but certainly cool and interesting compared to the trash pumped out by Disney after they essentially nuked all previous content and filed it under "Legends", so they could replace it with their own "Canon" that's devolved into a massive dumpster fire with Kathleen "Put A Chick In It And Make Her Lame And Gay" Kennedy still at the helm.
"That one butthole door jn halo 3" lmao
Honestly, you deserve a million subs dude. One of the only star wars channels that doesn't try to push *any* bias onto me. You just deliver the lore.
Oh man, I completely forgot about the wasp ship...I grew up in the nineties with the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels practically glued to my side
First off thanks for the video it was great! Here are a few things to note:
First off both sailing ships you showed seem to be based off Bullwarks (big military ship) but there were other designs which made appearances in star wars, like that CIS atmosphere one you showed is similar to the design of Korean Turtle ships just without a roof.
Another good example is that of the K-wing which is based off the design mentality of The USCS (The proto-coast guard for the US) cutters, who took a joke ship primarily used for policing coasts, put so many cannons on them they nearly sunk in still water, and then went to kick around pirates in the Mediterranean which is how the 2nd war the US ever won was when it's coast guard went rouge and fought Pirate and slaver controlled Triremes in the Mediterranean. Long yet cool story.
Next one of odd ships that were missed are Sarlacc pits. This is only technically count, but we know Sarlacc pits send their young into space to reach other worlds and that they often take some of their parents meals with them which become part of their hive mind. Thus it is possible to move from planet to planet inside a Sarlacc and then escape, making them a single use, near suicidal ship (is this how stray Jawas get on seemingly random planets?). I'd count Asoka's space whale as a similar fool-hearty ship.
I also thought when this started that it would be more on power creep which I'd like a video on as well. This is why I was shocked by the exclusion of The Eclipse star destroyer (somehow palatine returned)
Also on that note, does the planet where the Jibitha is created (Zamona Sekot) count as a ship, since it has a Hyperdrive? If so do space stations with Hyperdrives count as ships (Death Stars, Golans, etc.)?
Do loth Wolves count since you can ride them and they can travel using the World between worlds? They could theoretically drop you off on another planet.
Lastly did you know there is a midevil symbol called an "Eckhart"? I want to 3-d print a tiny ladder with it and send it to you, lol.
My all-time favourite is Ship, the sentient, living organism spaceship from another galaxy, that merged with its pilot eons ago.
Such a weird design but very cool idea.
The tumbnail is pure 'hell yeah"
This is some of the best content on Star Wars in a while, mostly because it's about the IP being silly. And that's OK.
When you talked about ships based on animals I immediately thought of the turtle tanker from TCW. Also a very weird ship
Fun video! I like this more than the last few very clickbaity titles you have had. This is the quality and specificity that I come to Eckhat's Ladder for.
Everything I see these videos I want to pull out the old essential guide to vehicles an vessels books
Eckhart - TIE M1 could be a nod towards HMS M1 - a British Submarine that had a 12inch Battleship Gun from the 1920s 😮 A starfighter with a Turbolaser matches this very well.
We are so close to 1 million let's get it boys
The K-Wing is the futuristic Star Wars version on an A-26 Invader a light bomber/ground attack aircraft with a smaller crew than an older light bomber like the B-26 Marauder.
It would absolutely work as long as proper air defence fighters escorted it.
Like how F-105's were escorted by F-4's in Vietnam.
I think the model of the Republic-class in Thrawn's Revenge did a good job at redeeming the design, it's vaguely triangle-shaped and at the very least looks good there.
I love this series idea!
A suggestion, I can't for the life of me remember the name, but there was a pirate ship themed ship in Star Wars the Old Republic from an end-game raid. Shadow of Revan expansion I think.
There was a very old Star Trek comic (don't remember the title) where the Enterprise hunted space pirates. The space pirates flew a pirate ship (with masts and sails) with one warp engine on each side.
1:13 top tier battle droid design
When your suggested video is the video that came out 0 seconds ago from a video about the fall of Reach
You picked the only correct answer for Number 1.
Perfect proof that legends had some STUPID stuff too! 😂
#AskEck I've seen some of your other videos regarding armor in the Star Wars universe but I never saw anything about how effective the armor actually is when being shot at with a blaster or slugthrower and the difference in effectiveness between canon and legends armor and would love to see your thoughts about it since it all seems to vary widely depending on what source material you are looking at
5:00 Also there's the Pillar of Autumn in the background for some reason.
Was that f***ing Bucky O'Hare in that opening still with Han and Chewie??? 😂😂😂
The second image for the crona class is straight up a dalek ship.
The Starhome makes me think of "Terra Venture" from that one Power Rangers series "Lost Galaxy". How they lost an entre galaxy, I'll never know.
TIE M1 was supposed to fill a gap between the fast but weak interceptor and the powerful but sluggish bomber, intended to counter the increasing strength and agility of small-to-medium sized ships like newer assault transports over corvettes to small, nimble frigates which took ages to whittle down by starfighter cannons but were too agile and well defended to be easily attacked by sluggish bombers. From that perspective, an agile ship packing one powerful turbo laser makes sense. It allows you to deliver a punch without having to expose your valuable capital ships. There is a ton of intercept missions in the games where I would have killed to fly that one...
Sith sphere makes me think of a Final Fantasy 7 creature. It's literally called one-eye
A sailing ship sounds super cool in atmosphere it’s the vacuum part I think we all hate
What about ET's ship? it would be a Star Wars ship...
You mean the giant turnip that abandoned the little guy?
3:38 looks like Frieza's ship
Yeah, the ships are ridiculous! Palpatine/Valkorion/Jabba the Hutt/Yoda polycule is just the tip of the iceberg!
Oh, you meant *spaceships* ? Okay.
Don’t forget about the wacky (and ludicrous) pirate ships from Star Wars Resistance.
Honestly, the late Marvel comics ship designs are pretty out there- not just the Tofs, but the Nagai and the Hiromi have some... interesting... takes on ship designs.
theses are a lot of fun! it's videos like this that show star wars is supposed to be a fun thing and not the ultra serious state everyone seems to have moved it into(if that makes sense). I would love to see more videos on ridiculoud star wars things!
Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, arachnids, Zerg, rachni,
The whaleship reminds me of Starship UK from that one Doctor Who episode
I'm guessing when the Republic class was described as a "star destroyer" they were thinking of "star destroyer" as meaning "destroyer (as in, the class of naval ships) that operates in the stars".
Next one should be the coolest/iconic ships.
1. Venator
2. Venator
3. Venator
Everyone: this is the Vindicator
Some chaotic Sith: no, it is Johnny
The clingons would have definitely put copie right clames on the hapens for the Nova star class for looking like one of there ship
2:24 this man said "butthole door" lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Warhammer 40k ships:
That list starts at 15 out of 10 and goes up from there. XD
even with how out of place it is, i kinda love the fairwind because of how silly it is
Wraith squadron audio book just dropped woot woot.
1:10 i unironically drew this in elementery school straight for 3 months like every day
Something to note about how many TIE variants there are, it's actually very accurate for an authoritarian regime to use excessive modularity for their vehicles. The Soviet Union and now Russian Federation have this idea that their tanks can take on any roll. And all they have to do is switch out the turret and make some other minor adjustments. Aside from ease of manufacturing, it doesn't actually help that much. As if you need, say, anti-air artillery, and your anti-air is on a heavy tank chassis that's slow and easily sinks in the mud, and you're defending an area in mud, you're kinda screwed.
The Empire seems to have done a better job with the TIE line than the Soviets did with their tanks, but there are a few ridiculous and quite useless variants. Like the Bizarro.
At least they were smart enough never put the experimental crap into full production.
I miss the versus series
When you are so VIP, they can only afford a TIE.... 😅
Republic class star destroyer looks like a gamilon destroyer vessel
I love the idea of this series, but I wish there was some kind of scale or meter that went along with the video, and/or a basic comparison that the "ridiculousness" is based on.