Star Wars ships but they get increasingly more ridiculous
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- As the title says, we'll look at Star Wars ships which get increasingly more silly.
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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.
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.
Sun crusher: the final form of plot armor.
Literally! It's "Quantum Crystaline Armor" was the given reason for its indestructibility.
@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.
Yamato 2199 referenced big W Ecks
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.
Me: Biblically Accurate Star Wars ship isn't real. It can't hurt me
*Sith Meditation Chamber:*
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?
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.
Always wanted more vids of Eck dunking on crazy-looking ships. The literal copying of creatures and sailing ships are pretty egregious.
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. 😂
Ooh ridiculous Star Wars ships. I'll go: Anisoka....Oh wait--you mean ACTUAL ships. Nevermind.
The battle platform looks like DaVincis designs for a tank
I was thinking the same thing!
The Sun Crusher is the Rey of ships. It has no flaws, as much personality as her, and just kill everything without training or trying.
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
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.
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!
1:00 sorry Eck, that's actually just an image of a birthday cake
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
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.
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.
You should start a cooking channel and call it Eckhart's Larder
The space sailing ships feel like Treasure Planet
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.
K-Wing is the Star Wars version of A-10 Warthog
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.
#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?
Republic Class be like:
3:47 GHALE GARMILLON🗣️🔊‼️‼️
Drinking Game Level: Impossible;
Take a shot every time he says ship.
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.
Shoutout to the editor for knowing Hondos sweet ass saucer is dope and hilarious for Star wars
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
Janky or outrageous vehicle design is a staple of Star Wars extended media. We really need to see some Uglies in one of these shows set post-Endor.
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 suncrusher is very interesting considering it’s weapons and shape
Small nitpick but the hondo pirate ufo is has “armed” somewhere in the name because there is another frigate by the name corona.
Does it carry a weaponized biological payload?
that is so not how I imagined the Sun Crusher in my head😂
Warhammer 40k ships:
That list starts at 15 out of 10 and goes up from there. XD
What about ET's ship? it would be a Star Wars ship...
You mean the giant turnip that abandoned the little guy?
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.
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.
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.
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.
5:09 that’s no ship, that’s a giant sized Millennium Rod
When you talked about ships based on animals I immediately thought of the turtle tanker from TCW. Also a very weird ship
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.
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.
The tumbnail is pure 'hell yeah"
1:13 top tier battle droid design
Everything I see these videos I want to pull out the old essential guide to vehicles an vessels books
The second image for the crona class is straight up a dalek ship.
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.
LOVE THIS ECK 🤙🏻
Hondo’s Flying Saucer implies that alien abductions and “probing” are less about “science” and more about “pirate.”
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.
Instead of "CIS Battle Platform," I believe you mean "giant killer hover roomba"
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 know it’s not canon but I wish you mentioned the Freudian nightmare
Maiden Flight, SDSD Freudian Nightmare
Imperial Weapons Development Center, Coruscant
To Whom it May Concern:
Gentlemen, let me start by saying that I am greatly honored to be chosen for command of such a magnificent vessel. That said, our insystem shakedown cruise has turned up a few minor issues that I would like to see remedied as soon as possible.
1. We understand your desire to continue the classical stylized lines of the first star destroyer class vessels, and we appreciate your asthetic sense in that regard. However, strictly speaking, was it absolutely necessary to scale up the bridge tower directly? I must confess the foreward bridge window is a great distraction. Militarily, we feel that as is, the three kilometer tall window pane may provide too tempting a target for enemy forces we may engage. We've lost four helmsmen so far to vertigo as well, and we don't think this is in the best interests of the vessel's well-being.
2. The sheer size of our vessel, while a glorious symbol of the mighty Emperor, which we all appreciate completely, has become apparent to us all. My initial briefing tour of the vessel took six days to complete, and the travel tubes were based on the design in use aboard the slightly smaller Executor-class vessels. Travel time being prohibitive, we were forced to camp out in the corridors of the major sectors when we stopped for the night. Furthermore, since our crew quarters sections are located entirely within the aft dorsal sectors, both our Engineering crew and ground forces complements have built tent cities within their own sections, and are living there. Fire hazard has become nearly intolerable and the hydroponics department has sent me six hundred messages insisting that the smoke from the camp-fires is ruining their crop, and that we have enough food left aboard for only another three weeks.
3. Our vessel's own gravity is not being handled as well as could be done, with some minor problematical consequences. Our plumbers called my attention to the fact that the sewage from our 6 million-man crew backwashed through the air vents in Sections 42 to 78, decks 258 through 532. Malaria and dysentary broke out in those sections, and we were forced to cordon it off to prevent an epidemic. Our first Chief Medical Officer unfortunately was killed when he requested the paperwork on those affected, and upon receiving e-mailed reports from all 739 of his senior doctors, the computer screen in his quarters self-destructed, propelling shrapnel throughout his quarters. All droids who enter the area have failed to return, and a remote camera probe sent in, recorded images of the survivors in the affected area where they were flinging their own feces at each other, warring with sharpened pieces of metal, and attempting to eat the dismembered limbs of the aforementioned droids.
4. On a similar note, regarding the unfortunate loss of our last CMO, we have finally decided that the staff requirements of this vessel are creating further problems. For instance, our Chief Engineer has begun the habit of signing his reports, "Chief Marshal, Sovereign Nation of Ree'Ak'tor." He has since sealed off those decks, and started a war. The war in question is against his apparent rival, the commander of our ground forces near the main flightdeck, who has taken to calling himself "Bringer of the Apocalypse." Surveillance records indicate that they have since stopped wearing their armor, and have begun smearing their bodies with industrial cleaning fluid and lubricants before launching raids upon the Engineering department. We believe that they have begun ritualistically sacrificing one of our TIE-fighter pilots before each attack to bring them luck. Aside from a minor note that some of our turbolaser turret gunners may have starved to death when their food shipments were cut off by the warzone, there is little else to remark on, save that in our first tactical drill, during the course of a two-hour right turn, we failed to halt our rotation with the result of the subsequent and very unfortunate destruction of the entire Coruscant 4th Defensive Fleet. I've made a note to send out letters of regret the moment we reacquire contact with our communications room at the bow of the vessel. That of course is the reason why this message had to be sent to your offices via pen, paper, and one of our probe droids. I beg forgivness for the clerical difficulties that may cause.
Signed,
Grand Admiral
SDSD Freudian Nightmare
Everyone: this is the Vindicator
Some chaotic Sith: no, it is Johnny
You picked the only correct answer for Number 1.
Perfect proof that legends had some STUPID stuff too! 😂
3:38 looks like Frieza's ship
When your suggested video is the video that came out 0 seconds ago from a video about the fall of Reach
5:00 Also there's the Pillar of Autumn in the background for some reason.
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.
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
2:24 this man said "butthole door" lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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!
The amount of sass by the editor 😂 “It’s ok to be wrong” like 🤌
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.
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...
Loved this
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.
The MT-AT. The spider tank. The literal SPIDER tank. eight legs.
Wraith squadron audio book just dropped woot woot.
3:41 they also remind me of dalek ships 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.
The whaleship reminds me of Starship UK from that one Doctor Who episode
We are so close to 1 million let's get it boys
Was that f***ing Bucky O'Hare in that opening still with Han and Chewie??? 😂😂😂
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.
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.
In real life, sailing space ships are probably the most realistic thing from this list XD
This was a very fun video
Sith sphere makes me think of a Final Fantasy 7 creature. It's literally called one-eye
Yeah, the ships are ridiculous! Palpatine/Valkorion/Jabba the Hutt/Yoda polycule is just the tip of the iceberg!
Oh, you meant *spaceships* ? Okay.
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 clingons would have definitely put copie right clames on the hapens for the Nova star class for looking like one of there ship
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.
#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
Why is "ship" on here? Thats one of the coolest ships in all of Star wars
Don’t forget about the wacky (and ludicrous) pirate ships from Star Wars Resistance.
Next one should be the coolest/iconic ships.
1. Venator
2. Venator
3. Venator
1:10 i unironically drew this in elementery school straight for 3 months like every day
Corona-class is odd but I definitely think it still fits in the universe and I like it
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.
The Sun Crusher is my favorite ridiculous Star Wars ship.