The Grand Admiral Who Almost Took Down Palpatine | Zaarin

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  • We've covered 11 of the 12 original Grand Admirals so far, and it's finally time to get to the twelth- Grand Admiral Zaarin. Zaarin was the first of the Grand Admirals to die, and had a series of battles against Grand Admiral Thrawn, but most importantly he tried to kill Palpatine to become Emperor.
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  • @LordofIsleofTritone
    @LordofIsleofTritone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    "So, what are we going to call your new starfighter, Grand Admiral Thrawn?" Emperor Palpatine asked.
    "King Hell God Emperor Starfighter of Death." Thrawn smiled sardonically.
    "Maybe just call it the Missile Boat..." Palpatine replied while sighing.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I vote for Thrawn's naming idea.

    • @NiiRubra
      @NiiRubra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No appreciation for art.

    • @Elitex62
      @Elitex62 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "sardonically" Well, someone actually reads.

    • @Reverenz88-14
      @Reverenz88-14 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And then they did, and so the Skipray BlastBoat was made😅

  • @aethertech
    @aethertech 2 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Thank you Zarrin for the wonderful contribution to the Galaxy. The TIE Defender.

    • @laisphinto6372
      @laisphinto6372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Disney Canon Thrawn: yo let me steal that quickly oh and your uniform and rank too.

    • @ahsenkhan5386
      @ahsenkhan5386 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@laisphinto6372 I thought Thrawn made the Tie defender

    • @empirednw6624
      @empirednw6624 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ahsenkhan5386in the Disney stuff yes, in the old stuff it was this guy but thrawn really liked the ship and hoped that more resources would be allocated to them instead of building a second Death Star.

    • @christopherwall2121
      @christopherwall2121 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@empirednw6624 Which carried across both continuities. I think it was one of the points Timothy Zahn gave to Dave Filoni on how Thrawn's arc should proceed

    • @youwayo
      @youwayo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ahsenkhan5386Only in Disney Canon. In Legends, it was GA Zarrin that made the TIE Defender (He was the head of Starfighter R&D). Ironically, Legends Thrawn made the Missile Gunboat, the counter to Zarrin’s TIE Defender.

  • @sentrysapper45
    @sentrysapper45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I always found it a bit odd that Zaarin wasn't mentioned more outside of the games. You'd think the man who almost overthrew the Emperor, destroyed most of the Empire's advanced starfighter facilities and gave Thrawn a run for his money would have been referenced more in Legends.
    One of my favorite aspects about the Zaarin Insurrection is that it fits in neatly with the lore and addresses several potential plot holes that may have otherwise cropped up. For example, it explains why you don't see the Empire field hilariously overpowered starfighters like Tie Defenders and Missile Boats in large numbers (Zaarin destroyed the production facilities and took many of the surviving ships), along with addressing Thrawn's absence at pivotal battles like Endor (he was busy fighting Zaarin).

    • @johnnygyro2295
      @johnnygyro2295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The one plot hole I don't get is what happened to Merrick Steele? Not only did he help Thrawn against Zaarin, but was another Emperor's Hand. Was he the reason Thrawn knew Mara Jade wasn't the only one? And where was he during the Thrawn Trilogy?

    • @danielboatright8887
      @danielboatright8887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@johnnygyro2295 Probably in the unknown regions, or he went up against the Rogues.

    • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
      @grandadmiralzaarin4962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He is mentioned briefly in a few spots but certainly nowhere near what he should be. He's directly mentioned in Choices of One and Indirectly in X Wing Omnibus.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@grandadmiralzaarin4962 He shows up as part of the Old Spacers' Home to trench run Kessel in the start of that whole fate of the Jedi business

    • @sypherthe297th2
      @sypherthe297th2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think Thrawn's timeline is really screwy when trying reconcile the events of SW: TIE Fighter (mostly concerning the timing of his promotions to Admiral and Grand Admiral imo and not even counting that disparity the dude was practically bouncing between the Unknown Regions and the galaxy proper on a weekly basis) with other sources but Zaarin was dead midway through 3 ABY and the Battle of Endor occurred not too long after in 4 ABY.

  • @TheRoomforImprovement
    @TheRoomforImprovement 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This was kind of like the Star Wars equivalent of operation Valkyrie: The failed assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.

  • @Kolonol1
    @Kolonol1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The King Hell God Emperor of Death....what a name HAHAHAHA

  • @s.31.l50
    @s.31.l50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Tie Fighter Total Conversion is such an amazing fan-made project. Everyone with a flight stick should give it a shot.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If not that, then just master it with a really good keyboard and gaming mouse.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelandreipalon359 I thought XWA took that option out unless the mod puts it back in.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Maarek Steele amuses me because he's had like three different skin tones. All because the art render that came with his original game had a serious case of the DCAU Luthors.

  • @George-Hawthorne
    @George-Hawthorne ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Imagine if Zaarin had waited for Endor

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Director Lenzer was just Wraith Seinar himself after dissociating on a massive spice bender.

  • @afunkymonke
    @afunkymonke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm sure Palpatine enjoyed the mini vacation of the coup, gets to take his mind off ruling for a few hours as a treat.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    6:10 The Gammorean could breathe fire IIRC. They also tied it in to the Republic/Legacy comics and Dark Forces video games by associating the Tusken from that game with Hett/Krayt and the Grave Tusken heretic gang from Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight and its MotS expansion.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gotta love Legends for its cross references.
      Still hate Masters of Teras Kasi though. That's a game that deserves to be forgotten and not rereleased.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@michaelandreipalon359 I dunno mn a Gammorean who can breathe fucking fire is great.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, the lore is good, but the game is still trash. Just put it the important and bearable stuff of the game on a lot of essential guide material and call it a day.

  • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
    @grandadmiralzaarin4962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Excellent video on the best Grand Admiral!

  • @michaelandreipalon359
    @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Really criminal of you and Eck to deem TIE Fighter as below S-tier. Seriously, that game gets really good once you master it, and believe me, it sure is better than the unfortunately decaying Squadrons because of many reasons you sorely overlooked.
    Anyhow, gotta love taking down this traitor to the Empire via his own obsession with experimental craft.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its an incredible game but I still tapped out on the first Expansion Pack mission.

    • @youwayo
      @youwayo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I mean, Eck is the same guy that said BF2’s lootbox controversy was “blown out of proportion”. Maybe he is not much of a gamer. Idk.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DIEGhostfish Yeah, too much TIE Defenders, I know.
      Still not as bad as X-Wing's own tiring expansions, and though not Star Wars, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@youwayo Honestly, if one has to be a true Star Wars fan nowadays, they REALLY have to be into retro gaming with little or no complaints, and with many genres too.

  • @drmaxwellandminecddp1116
    @drmaxwellandminecddp1116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hope your friend enjoyed it. That was nice of you

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I feel like the vanilla game's finale where Palpatine is somehow loaded onto the shuttle and kidnapped doesn't make much sense. Even when retcons said the cyborg force user martial arts chick from Masters of Teras Kasi had joined Zaarin and helped. The XWA port fan made version of the events skips the shuttle part and makes the fleets much bigger, but sadly puts Vader back in his own X1 instead of making him a monster in a Defender.

    • @Emberheart_
      @Emberheart_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I always just figured they must have used Ysalamari's somehow.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Emberheart_ Palps would have glassed Myrkyr for that.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@grandadmiralzaarin4962 It's the finale of the base game, IIRC every level after that is expansion pack content. Hence the gigantic difficulty spike. The upgraded re-release packed them all into one game.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@grandadmiralzaarin4962 I'm like 99% sure every mission after the Emperor's kidnapping was expansion content. Just looked it up and I'm right, everything after the Emperor's Kidnapping is from Defender of the Empire. Which is expansion content that was included in the upgraded re-release.

    • @Elitex62
      @Elitex62 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It actually makes sence why he's in his X1. Every fighter is needed and you might as well have pilots in the craft they are trained on instead of Vader and some other pilot having to learn a new craft on the spot.

  • @beevis690
    @beevis690 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I dislike the retcon where they give the defender to thrawn. Good video.

  • @antonisauren8998
    @antonisauren8998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I made prelection about Zaarin campaign about decade ago, animated as XWA briefings, thinking it would be faster then making it as slideshow or learning some new soft. It worked, but I never touched modding of XWA ever again. :D

  • @cmason105
    @cmason105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Will the grand admirals ever come to new canon? We have thrawn, the most recognizable grand admiral. But it'd be cool to see some of the other ones, esspically since new canon doesn't shy away from talking about the politics of the empire. So seeing some of these men getting their positions because they were huge political supporters, I think that'd be interesting.

    • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
      @grandadmiralzaarin4962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's Grand Admiral Selit in Thrawn Treason and Rae Sloane though there's not much they do

    • @drakeevans3066
      @drakeevans3066 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@grandadmiralzaarin4962 would love to see some of the OGs pop up and get some fleshing out in the new cannon.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    5:40 Really Palpy? The same trick AGAIN? Let me guess, you took her to the Opera to make your pitch. Get some creativity man!

    • @CoreysDatapad
      @CoreysDatapad  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If it's not broke, don't fix it.

    • @ianmckee4726
      @ianmckee4726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wonder if Palps has a favorite opera to recurit force sensitives to. Did he have one tsilored for, say, the grand inquisator?

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is this Robot Chicken?

  • @Zoomer3989
    @Zoomer3989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    awesome ep, was waiting for this one from the start of the series

  • @MRDLT00
    @MRDLT00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't know if you had mentioned it in a prior video or not, but have you considered looking into a reviewing the "Galaxy of Fear" line of Star Wars books?
    One of them has a notable appearance of Grand Admiral Thrawn himself.

  • @danielboatright8887
    @danielboatright8887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Rebels Thrawn is a child show paradoy in comparison.

  • @hcmv007
    @hcmv007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love videos like this, thanks!!

  • @sachinmistry1
    @sachinmistry1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Elaine's boss from Seinfeld would be the perfect actor to portray Zaarin.

  • @siegel947
    @siegel947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Legends materials should have been a animation of series from the beginning to the end.

    • @Kolonol1
      @Kolonol1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God no...the animation style they use is awful

  • @michaelandreipalon359
    @michaelandreipalon359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:01: And boy, do I love calling it that at the most virtuous of times.
    Flies and fights more like a Star Trek starship though, if one thinks about it much.

  • @trazyntheinfinite9895
    @trazyntheinfinite9895 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Soooooo.... his last name be Gaas?

  • @ArcBing
    @ArcBing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol campaignion video. Top tier tactical wordplay.

  • @matrix-5466
    @matrix-5466 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😊

  • @TylerJosephAbrahamHodges
    @TylerJosephAbrahamHodges 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    👍

  • @boobah5643
    @boobah5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm assuming that location name you butchered was 'Cygnus;' it''s less Sigh-gnus and more Sig-nus when spoken. It's Latin, it means swan, and it's associated with space because the first black hole discovered is known as Cygnus X-1 (because first and it's in the part of the sky dominated by the Swan constellation as these things are measured.)

  • @Maggi9909
    @Maggi9909 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Once again. Legends has some wack shit in it

  • @inertloki5193
    @inertloki5193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Algorithm