Why didn't the EMPIRE destroy the MON CAL SHIPYARDS? | Star Wars Legends Lore
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Today, we look at why the Empire didn't destroy the Mon Calamari shipyards during the Galactic Civil War. Mon Cal cruisers represented the bulk of the Rebel Fleet, and were incredibly deadly. With a fleet of Star Destroyers and maybe a Super Star Destroyer - the Empire could have easily wiped the shipyard of the face of the Galaxy. We cover this and more on today's Star Wars Lore video!
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Do the Forerunners vs The Imperium of Man (Halo vs Warhammer 40k) please.
Do you think we will see the Chiss Ascendancy in epidode 9 and if we do, what would you like to see done with them? Slaves or allies of First Order, hints of Vong, etc. #AskEck
Death Star Selected - Choose a Valid Target:
- Mon Calamari, the Rebel's top fleet producing world
*>* Alderraan, the peaceful pacifist planet
At that point though, Mon Calamari wasn't the rebels primary ship producing planet. Before Yavin, the Rebels were nothing but a handful of dissidents and fighter pilots (I refuse to accept Rogue One as canon, because it contradicts A New Hope entirely).
@@-CrimsoN- 0BBY wasn't that early, at that point many rebel cells gathered together and more planets were revolting against THE SENATE.
@@randomstormtrooper3345 In the DU the Rebels were a much larger force for some unexplained reason. In the EU, before Yavin, the Rebel Alliance were just a handful of dissidents and fighter pilots. Several planets rebelled, but were not formerly part of the Rebel Alliance (i.e. Naboo, Kashyyyk, New Plympto, etc.), they only rebelled to rid their respective planets of Imperial oppression (and failed to do so), not rid the entire galaxy of the Empire and restore the Republic. After Yavin, many planets (including Mon Calamari) pledged to support the Alliance because it had become an actual threat to the Empire. A war against the Empire became winnable at that point.
@@-CrimsoN- the TV show rebels really helps with that point. Although the did have mon calamari ships they were not a common sight most were second hand or stolen ships.
Alderan also had been able to sneak a lot of supplies and even ships to the rebel aliance through creative means. It was done in a way that the empire couldn't prove it. Which made it an even bigger liability.
They actually have an episode where leia sets it up for 3 hammer head corvets full of supplies to be stolen by the rebels right under the imperials noses.
@@-CrimsoN- How does it contradict A New Hope? I'm genuinely curious, I saw the movie once or twice and read the book once.
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Guess the Empire didn't have the stomach for fried mon calamari.
Most of them are just bleached Gamorreans, anyways.
But krayts with empire had no problem poisoning their oceans and both almost wiping out the mon cal and quarren
They feel battered by it and get very heated on the subject, and will grill their opponents.
Also they've been known to get very salty, and pepper their foes as they run rings around them.
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They did not have calamari pizza because mon calamari are people, and I did not know that
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I'd love to see the "Did the Separatists join the Rebel Alliance after the Clone Wars" video that was in the poll sometime! Great video as always, Eck.
Bump this
In a certain way, yes, because the rebels use some CIS ships like the Rebel One (retrofided Providence destroyer) and also some CIS planets like Sullust join the Rebellion after the end of the Clone Wars and the destruction of the Death Star
The Mon Calamari are the most badass race in Star Wars. I'd love to see a fusion of their tech, with Umbaran tech.
You're actually quite correct in this analysis. The entirety of Scourge Squadron(24 Imperial Star Destroyers) and the Executor Class Super Star Destroyer Reaper were slotted to blockade the sector along with large amounts of support ships just prior to Endor. The idea was to bottle up the Mon Cal until the Second Death Star was finished and could deal with Mon Calamari.
I remember i had to take moncalamari in a modded save of EaW with a 4th of all my ships with an Executor and Vengence. Piett almost freaking died :(
Piett you fool!
@@thepokeystormtrooper3585 its not his fault two Mc 90s came out of hyperspace sitting on his 6 :p
I know that feel.. I merged multiple task forces (used to take the outer rim) then hit the planet.
When we *finally* took it... after an annoying, costly war of attrition, and watching TOO many Stormtroopers and walker crews be killed in combat (thanks to those damned rebel Artillery truck THINGS), I simply withdrew my invasion fleet from the planet. My Star Destroyer/SSD swarm waited in orbit for the 'Imperial Aggressive Negotiation Station' to arrive. Once it did, I let it obliterate the planet faster than Ben Shapiro does the 76 genders úwù
No more problems coming out of those damned "redundant shield blisters on former hotel" building jerks.
Haven't been able to do the same once I downloaded EAW Remake.. I gotta see where to find the Death Star on it.
@@keysontrains538 Those things are the plague, i always had to turtle with 2 interdictors in each planet if i wanted a swift and clean defense.
@@tk-756brony6 in Star wars remake I believe you have to go to endor
So the Empire was based on the threat of overwhelming force
and it was unwilling to attack Mon Cala
because it would require overwhelming force
WUT?
They had 2 choices 1. attack now with a huge force and risk massive losses and opening up other targets for hit and run attacks and considering how bottlenecked they'd be a win isn't a given, at least not quickly. 2. Keep them pinned down you know of the Endor plans, and even if they don't fall for the trap, just finish the DS2 go to Dac and blast it in one hit risking minimal casualties. 2 was the smarter choice until everything went wrong.
'better to rule through fear of force than through force itself.' Essentially the empire needed everyone to see them as invincible, and couldn't risk giving anyone the chance to dispell that illusion
Empire is built on the threat of omnipresent overwhelming force - the ability to attack and win against anyone, anywhere. This threat is a lie - no civilization, not even the Empire, has the resources and technology to pull that off. The galaxy is just too big. (Maybe Celestials or the like, but no modern civilization.) Before Yavin, the Empire was planning to use the Death Star for that. After Yavin, they had a thousand little revolts to stamp out and ten thousand little revolts to keep from happening with garrison fleets. Sending a huge number of ships into a hard-to-reach part of the Outer Rim whose hyperlanes are covered in mines risks disaster, especially as the Alliance is likely to strike elsewhere in the meantime.
Put another way, there's a reason why the Romans only conquered the lower half of Britain.
I get it, but a system in open revolt allowed to continue represents a pretty staggering blow to your perception of strength as well. I think the best answer would be performing constant small attrition attacks and raids. Use battlegroups of various sizes and composition to launch attacks on areas scouted out by probe droids to whittle down the Mon Cala defenses. The key is the Empire can replace losses in such skirmishes much faster than the rebels and Mon Cala will be able to.
It's like controlling Asia in Risk, you have tremendous potential but you have to hoover up all the surrounding low score territories before striking against the bottleneck to Australia or risk getting eaten from another 3 directions.
Oooooooh that's why they used world devastators on that planet. gotcha gotcha.
Hey another attempt. During the clone wars in Canon there were at least two attempts to make peace between the republic and the CIS. What do you think the galaxy would look like had these somehow gone through? (Either by removing palpatine somehow or just it succeeding in spite of his machinations.) #askeck
Removing him could even be done by accident, he's collateral damage above Coruscant or similar and dies a hero without order 66 ever being know of.
Say after Grievous flees the shutters don't come down and they asphyxiate, so Dooku is done as well, or some other random chance like a bit of wreckage collides with the bridge (or it's blown away before Obi and Annie even get there).
@@casbot71 gotta remember that hes still extremely powerful in the force so we cant just have a regular death for him. Being thrown into the Death Star II reactor was pretty fitting. And dying in the crash landing seems too pitiful of a death for Palpatine. Maybe have Dooku call him out just before hes executed by Anakin and then Anakin and Obi-Wan duel and defeat Palpatine. With Dooku handless and in Prison and Palpatine dead, the Confederacy would have virtually no military leadership outside of Grievous. On the flip side, Palpatine being dead would mean he couldnt give out Grievous location to the Jedi and thus result in a long and brutal campaign to find and end Grievous. Peace would likely be found but Grievous would likely lead that timelines version of the Separatist Holdouts that the Empire fought.
I would love to see a duel between Anakin, Obi-wan and Sidious.
Also, Palpatine thought it simply didn't matter. Palpatine had foreseen what he thought was a winning endgame, and Mon Cal's resistance was irrelevant.
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You covered it pretty well, but I was going to say that Mon Calamari was in the outer rim. Even during the days of the republic they often had trouble defending/taking planets in the outer rim.
It's because of that one mission in Empire at War where you attack Mon cala with acclamators and tartans and get ambushed by a couple of mc80s
That mission was a pain.
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That's why you take Victory Class Star destroyers, in packs they are actually quite effective at taking down ISDs and MC80s
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I would also add that they did it becouse Mon Calamari fleet was useless when protecting Dac. It is obvious that Rebelion would be aware of any major attack on the Mon Cala sector and thus would likely scatter the fleet.
Many small battlegroups targetting mperial assets all over the galaxy was likely deemed to be worse then allowing the Rebels to replenish their losses to their strike fleets.
Warwolf 300 yes likely a hard issue. I think if they had clone wars ships like venators might of helped em. But not enough to cover everything.
I always wondered myself why the Empire allowed Mon Calamari to continue in open revolt, and I think Eck hits on the three basic reasons here. 1: Imperial navy doctrine kept their fleet spread too thin across the galaxy to afford a real siege against an entrenched and well-armed planet. 2: The destruction of the DS1 fanned the flames of rebellion on virtually every world that received word of the Empire’s vulnerability. 3: The Emperor used Force visions to guide the Empire and it’s navy, and per RotJ, we know that these visions do not turn out exactly how he expects. If he had relied on competent advisors, he could have crushed the Rebellion long before Endor.
Mon Calamari is a tough nut to crack in Empire at War. You have to make sure you’ve got your shit together before going after it.
It’s almost like.... it’s a trap.
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Many of you forget that Mon Cala is inhabited by two races: the Mon Calamari and the Quarren and they had many conflicts and a tense relationship with each other. The Empire could use this and simply stir up the Quarren into an open civil war against the Mon Calamari, just like the Separatists did during the Clone Wars, or at least to sabotage ship building in order to destabilize Mon Cala. There were many Quarren agents, motivated by their hatred and long-standing prejudice towards the Mon Calamari, who sabotaged the planetary shields shortly before the Imperial invasion of Mon Cala, facilitating a swift Imperial victory. Seggor Tels, a Quarren leader, later admitted to being one of these saboteurs.
but the thing is by the time of the liberation of Dac, both races liked each other and saw the empire as a common enemy since both of them were enslaved by the empire
@@tallerstond8105 there were still quarrens that hated mon cals.
@@dimenzed your half right both groups are ruled by a king but before the empire rose they agreed to follow the Mon Cal crowned prince as king this being agreed to by the Quarren leaders ment that more than 90% of them would put aside their hate for their planets good as for at least a time they could see they were stronger when united
@@maxrander0101 and yet all it took was just a few Quarren to help the Empire occupy the planet.
@@dimenzed yes but most did not help the empire and in the end the empire lost the planet that tells you that despite everything those two races are more united than our planet
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What about the Wookie Attack on the Droids?
Do not send out the air tank why?
It is a system we can't afford to lose.
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What about in Canon? I'm not completely familiar with the comics the stories take place in, but hasn't the Empire completely taken over Mon Cala, while a fleet of Mon Cala ships fled the system? #AskEck
I always thought it was taken over
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Mon Calamari ships are ugly.
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Actually, there are some claims that Mon Calamari was a priority target for the First Death Star once station will be deemed fully operational, however Tarkin more or less blew it entire plan by first idiotically ordered to destroy Alderaan (decision which of course become a PR nightmare for the Empire to deal) and later put the completely UNDEFENDED by Imperial fleet station in to chase after Millenium Falcon which as we known ended for him in spectacular explosion above Yavin IV...
That's why, having to deal with two PR disasters Empire could not afford another one by openly attacking Mon Calamari and in fact risk galaxy wide and possibly uncontainable rebelion which could put at end Empire's existence long before Endor.
That makes sense, because attacking Mon Cal(heavily armed and fortified force concentrated around a single planet) is just about the ONLY scenario where a superweapon like the death star is more efficient than putting the same resources into smaller ships. You could throw thousands of star destroyers at Mon Cal but still sustain heavy losses before you won through numbers. On the other hand the death star can hyperspace in, fire on the planet and gtfo probably only suffering minimal damage.
4:22 there is a system called lego between the centrality and Cronese mandate XD
It's pronounced i-ego. Anakin mentions it in Episode 1 during his whole "angels" thingy with Padme lol
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Also, The Mon Cala we're the real MVPs of the Galactic Civil War.
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I thought I remember reading somewhere that the Mon Cal actually just suddenly launched their previously unknown massive fleet all at once (more or less). The fleet having been previously disguised as buildings in their underwater cities. So while there was possible retribution but no real strategic targets on Mon Cal. Anyone else remember reading something like this? Did I make it up, did it get retconed?
Well actually was an ocasion where the empire attack a MC shipyard and succesfully destroy it, but it seems that was a empty victory, because didn't affect in nothing to the Mon Calamari in general, and as you say Eck, attack a shipyard is not just very costly, but also very dangerous, not only because of the defending fleet and their reiforcements, but also because of the armament of the shipyard itself, I mean by that time it wouldn't be nothing like the defenses of Kuat, but it would be enough to take down at least 2 of 3 ISD by its own, considering that it have multiple turbolaser batteries and also point-defense systems to kill the very vulnerable TIE bombers
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Question: if the Lukerihulk has such powerful guns and weapons and also had many of them, whiles having really thick hull, why where they as easy to destroy as they where during the clone wars ( they where not easy but easier than it should have been
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Empire: Builds massive navy and army tailored for a non-existent near-peer adversary mostly for psychological and military industrial purposes that are largely in effectively against the Rebel's irregular asymmetrical form of combat.
Mon Cal: Literally one of like 3 actual traditional state based enemies.
Empire: Naw actually, were gonna have this long 20 scheme to try to kill of you guys instead
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Him: the mon calamari were an absolutely incredible fighting force
The mon calamari on screen: gets stabbed
statecraft 101: having a major planet in open revolt and completely disregarding imperial authority would be far, far worse then the negative effects of some minor defeats elsewhere had they needed to divert resources. Dac would have been a symbol of the struggle, and proof that it was possible to defeat the empire and drive them out. Revolts and rebellions tend to spread, and if Dac was not retaken quickly, then other planets would try the same thing.
Also, it undermines the empire as a threat because they apparently do not have the resources to retake one single planet, however well defended that planet might be. the Whole deal with the empire is that they are built for conventional warfare and will use any means necessary to win, and yet when given this perfect opportunity to show their power and to use their military to its fullest potential they don't.
Really what you said. For all the talk about how the Empire at it's peak with all those 25000 star destroyers is too OP to face directly, forcing the small rag tag alliance to only fight guerrila hit and run tactics, choosing only to fight at the weak spots and improperly defended systems. Then, for once the Empire is given the opportunity to actually bring the fight to the alliance, and doesn't "because a direct approuch would be too consuming".
Oh hell no, I'm not buying that. Excuse you, every single moff had more than enough ISDs parked on his space garage than required to take out Mon Cala as a whole. Some Imperial warlords even managing to somehow stash away whole dreadnaughts and keep them hidden in Legends (like the ones Gilad Pellaeon simply stumbles upon, the Megador and the Dominion). The idea that the Empire would be "stretched too thin" to mount a fleet to destroy a single rebel planet is ludicrous, even if that planet was as well defended as Mon Cala. They had literal dozens of thousands of battle ready assets lying around doing absolutely nothing while the rebels routinely bypassed them and got away with it. Instead, they could have easily destroyed basically the only key component in supplying rebel fleets with their only alternative to ISDs. Actually watching the excuses in the video made me just the more sure striking Mon Cala was the right move.
Is there an in-lore reason for how starfighter pilots travel through hyperspace without going insane? #AskEck
I'm pretty sure that hyperspace sickness takes a long time. Probably months. Alot longer than it takes to cross the galaxy. But that's just my guess.
Hyperspace lanes are like the eridar's warp tunnels. They are some of the few safe places inside of the alternate dimension(In this case hyper space) to travel through.
Its also why you can't just hyperspace through anywhere is because it can have negative effects unless your using a proper hyperspace lane.
Tell that to Han Solo.
@@Warcrafter4 That's not how hyperspace works. Really, you could hyperspace anywhere, hyperspace lanes were just confirmed to be completely safe; i.e. there are no objects in the way.
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That's funny - last week I had a discussion with my colleagues about that exact topic. Thanks for the detailed explanation!
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Great video Ecks! I always wondered why the empire left the Mon Calamari alone. Gollans III’s and space mines....is leave that alone too!
Once again, the mon Calamari never eases to amazed me. I hope we see the Mon Calamari Shipyard in episode 9 though. Plus I would find it interesting if we say what Thrawn thought of the race and their ships, I mean, Thrawn does have a thing for art.
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Can you talk about the advancements that were made to the regular Imperial Class Star Destroyers in later years of the New Republic Era, like the Mon Mothma variant or the Anakin Solo and how they differed from what had come before? #AskEck
In Empire Strikes Back, we see a small base with one shield generator and one ion cannon and one generator can hold back a fleet containing a Super Star Destroyer.
With the power grid of an industrial planet at your disposal, the enemy would need a Death Star to get through.
One of my best moment in EAW modded. These creatures called for reinforcement all the time... but with Executor, Chimarea and a lot of tie bombers I win. Why I don't think about interdictors...
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The Empire has the same hyperspace mobility as the Alliance, though, and galaxy-wide real time communication. A strike force could be assembled from their duty stations and travel to Mon Cala, wreck the shipyards in a day, and go right back to whence they came. For the Alliance to take advantage of that, they'd have to learn of the withdrawal and precise timetable in advance, in which case the whole operation is busted anyway, or learn that certain ships are attacking Mon Cala, and thus not where they would normally be, after the attack is underway, and then they have to assemble and prepare a strike and then travel to the normal garrison station themselves, risking the Imperial warships' return.
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Too bad since a battle at Mon Cala would have been much more fitting for an officer to say, "Good. Our first catch of the day."
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Great vid thanks Eckhart. Eckhart I hope you can get a new gaming computer(since your last one died)soon I think I speak for a lot of people that we miss your Star Wars Empire At War episodes and your live chats here in TH-cam when you do them. Have a great brother, much luck and peace to you and your family.
Great job Eck!
Mon cal was a space fortress with the ship yard having tons of defensive structures and probably a planetary defense shield with a fleet of ships in space and some other fleets in near by systems that the imperials don’t know about, which in turn could jump into a strategic position and then the fact that some of the ships were on the planet it self and the fact that the Mon Cals and quarens were aquatic creature with most of the planet covered in water would deem the invasion of the planet near impossible. And then with the help of the rebellion, who could respond to the empires attack making the imperials surrounded from multiple angles and there for will have to retreat (Which is embarrassing) or the’ll be destroyed by the amassed armada.That I understood but I didn’t know all about what was going on in the imperial government at the time, Thanks Eck for help clarifying this for me your amazing man.
“ the mon calamari were an absolutely incredible fighting force”
shows them getting totally wrecked by the quarren
In canon, the Empire did attack and occupy Mon Cala in the Vader comic. The fleet was able to fleet before they were destroyed
Aaahhhhhhh! I love how you using clips from Jedi knight. Love it
You know, a video on the Mon Cala revolt would be quite interesting/appreciated...
If they did, it would be a morale boost for the Empire AND they would have no enemy to fight really.
Could we have a breakdown or a vs matchup with the defense fleet around Mon Cala ?
But if it revolted before the battle of Yavin why didn't the Empire use the first Death Star against Mon Cala instead of Alderaan? Or use it in both planets if Alderaan was a worse menace than Mon Cala?
Maybe they didn't want to risk their most powerful asset against such a heavily defended target for its first combat mission. If something went wrong then the Mon Cal defense fleet would be the one enemy force in existence that might stand a chance of crippling or destroying the Death Star.
William Magoffin I don't buy that
@@williammagoffin9324 I don't know if the Mon Calamari pseudo terrorists would know of the Death Star's weakness. Also their main area of pride is their Capital Ships.. Exactly what the DS was designed to destroy úwù
Unless Galen did something else to it too...
It's far too remote for an effective demonstration
Alderaan is in the Core Systems while Mon Cala is further in the Outer Rim than Yavin and Hoth. Jedha is more or less on the opposite side of the galaxy from Mon Cala. Alderaan would be on the way to Mon Cala so why not use the super laser on a planet that is actively funding a rebellion.
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The ending is always a classic! :D
Watching these vids has got me back into playing KOTOR. I made a new char and my motto is, "WWVD."
What would Vader do?
#AskEck What are your thoughts on the starships from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare? Do you think they are good designs? In my opinion, they are the kind of ships that I imagine the very early UNSC Navy having.
the mon cala were so powerful, they could influence the psychological mindset of the imperials to create rebellion.
You know your almighty death star was a bad idea when acclamators would have been a better idea to build just for the base delta zero and huge troop load. Plus a good balance weapons
- The rebel alliance was all about hit and run skirmishes, because they lacked the resources and/or firepower for a large set-piece battle. An assault on Mon Cal would have been a smart move by the Empire. It would force the rebels into doing exactly what they were trying to avoid.
PS - I'd conduct what appeared to be a SMALL scale assault on Mon-Cal to lure the rebels in, and have a large-scale force hiding in reserve, and ready to jump in from hyperspace when the rebels arrived.
Hey, I remember the Devastators. I have Rogue Squadron for the N64.
Random question here but does anyone know how the Death Star 1 or 2 could aim its super laser up or down? Would it have to rotate up 45" or more to target capital ships above it and if so how did the crew walk about the hallways?
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Not sure if done, but can you breakdown the energy/power yield of mass effect weaponry, i.e. Thannix cannons is this amount of kiltonnes of tnt, and reaper blasts are this much. I like that mass effect is more tame than other space scifi media considering its only 170s in the future
I love the ending of your videos
one Versus I'd like to see is how well an ImpStar Deuce would stand up to a Manticorian SuperDreadnaught or Pod Superdreadnaught
Ask eck . I would love to see a vs video of b-wing and tie defender
lol i love the dog video at the end
Can you do a video on the limits of the Death Star as in how big would a planet have to be before the Death Star couldn't destroy it with one shot or could the Death Star destroy a Sun or a gas giant
In the darth vadet comics mon calamari was assualted and eventually destroyed. Although a large segment of their fleet escaped.
Thanks I have been waiting for this one
I remember the world devastator from Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on N64
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can you talk about our lord and savior, the Valiant Class SuperHeavy Cruiser / BattleCruiser
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Excellent video/review👍☯️👍
I never considered the Empire to be smart enough to think things through.
If you want to instill fear across the galaxy, Alderaan is the better target. It is an ancient world within the Core Worlds that is revered by other worlds and has no military. Mon Cala is in the Outer Rim Territories and it is armed to the teeth.
You destroy Alderaan and people fear the Empire's ruthlessness.
You destroy Mon Cala, first it is far from the Core and well armed. There is no way that the Empire can do the job without a hell of a battle. After is over, the Empire will have to lick its wounds and the people of Mon Cala would be considered martyrs to the rebel cause. The rebellion will be hurt, but galvanized to fight harder and avenge their allies.
Not inclined to agree. The death star could attack mon calamari and come away with no damage whatsoever. And, since alderaan was a nominally peaceful planet and Mon Cala was in open rebellion and producing ships for the rebel alliance, destroying mon cala would not trigger nearly as much support for the rebellion as destroying alderaan- its basically a legitimate target.
Even if they didnt use the death star, the empire could lose a hundred star destroyers and it wouldnt be significant to its total military power. Theres no way mon cala could do enough damage to actually negatively impact the empire.
Given that Mon Cala was so fortified, why didn’t they use it as a HQ for the Alliance and only utilize smaller outposts. This instead of trying to consolidate on secret bases that concentrated too many assets, personnel or otherwise, without heavy defenses that would potentially result in the deaths of alliance heads or important equipment. Basing on Mon Cala has the advantage of a solid rendezvous point for personnel but without compromising security. I know he said the Imps had the place bottlenecked, as well as the Mon Cala having it mined, but he also said they scouted out secret hyper lanes.
I'm totally chill with the plug. :)