@@galaxyeyesphotondragon8191 Probably could be on a mission for longer because without a pilot it could carry more fuel as opposed to life support systems. Even a pilot in a non-pressurized cabin wearing a pressure-suit like in a TIE-fighter would take up a lot of space and still use plenty of resources.
I gotta say that this is one of my favorites just because of its virsatility to cost ratio. Is it a tie defender? Ha, no. But could it work easily? Definitely. If they have them greater processing power (or, better programming) imagine what they could do!
They don't even need better processors or programming, AS IS they are superior to the TIE LN as a close support Space fighter. Now if you wanted something beefier for more independent operations, you'd be better off with a Tri-Droid or my own Quad-Droid, what you get when you mix the Vulture and Tri-droid fighters with a Droch-class boarding pod.
The best part... you CAN pilot it, like Mace Wendu animated Clone wars 03.. simply smash your hand into the back of it... rip out the wires and "convince" it to work for you
Fun fact, the the B1 battle droid pilot is also seen in some of the older vulture droid lego models. The battle droid mini figure can slip in to the head section of the model.
I’m sure the droids would have actually won if it weren’t for the fact they were the “bad guys” . I wish they did a movie or something set in the view of the separatist and their fight for freedom!
If only the empire had used these instead of useless tie fighters. They would have decimated the rebel pilots and saved a lot of imperial pilots' lives.
weldonwin yeah but the Tie-D cost 170,000 credits ( close to 3 times a normal Tie with no real improvement on it) compared with the vulture 16,000 credits which is as fast but with much stronger weapons and around a hundredth of the cost
Star Destroyer: I have 72 fighters, what do you have. Lucrehulk Battleship: That's cute. I have 1,500. Star Destroyer: Um, wanna talk about it. Lucrehulk Battleship: Nope. "Launches all fighters"
"A baby Jawa short of a Tie fighter" Always good to see we're keeping things not just in metric, but "easy to visualise" for our Yank friends accross the pond...
@@aaz1010 well no... You wouldn't just convert over the course of a month at the click of your fingers, never mind a day. It would take about a decade at the least. Like it took the UK. You'd have to start with the younger generations, the people who haven't actually been indoctrinated in one or the other yet. Although, I'm surprised that hasn't been the case yet? Because 300mm/12" rulers have both mm and inches... In truth though. You already have. Ever single part, on every single Ford, and Tesla manufactured car is made to a metric standard. Every screw, bolt, panel, even the pharo arms used by QC are set to output in Metric, and the staff using them, use metric. The pharmaceutical industry... I don't know why, but yes, many companies do still use Imperial, even when the machine itself was built using metric measurements. They like to convert it to Imperial, get a really awkward number, and write it down as such on every piece of paperwork. In short though, the reason the major public, such as hair dressers, shop staff, or more importantly news agencies use Imperial, is because that's what they were educated in, and the rest of the US is educated in. So again, in boils down to Metricvrequiring emphasis over Imperial in class rooms. It would make secondary level physics and maths a lot easier too though. Because a lot of major numbers, have been measured, and conveniently fit metric, but come up as really awkward multi-decimal numbers. The news broadcast of a sinkhole "about 12 washing machines" accross has kind of become a joke here in Ireland around my secondary school, and now my University... In reality though, you moved to metric decades ago. As your universal standards are 1Kg and all measurements of length, are a measurement of wavelengths of light, within 1mm as it's a universal constant. As a result, every single digital measuring device in the World, that uses the international standards (that does include the US), measures in metric, even when it's set to output in Imperial. Like a digital calipers, or micrometer (not to be confused with micrometre (sorry, small dig at US spelling)), even when set to Imperial, the equipment inside, used to measure, before sending information to the small processor to then send to the screen; A) is always checked for accuracy in Metric at the factory, as there is no universal constant for Imperial. Its an infinitely long Decimal if you tried to measure an inch, to the wavelengths of light. So instead, we just use a conversion factor. B) The device itself typically measures with a light sensor anyway, or is set to the country of origin's Mass standard, and as a result, is designed around, metric. TL,DR; There are no universal standards in Imperial. Myanmar or Liberia may perhaps have made attempts, but then there's simply too few of them, and as a result any variation in their mass standard cannot be averaged... But we know they use Kg mass standards anyway, so.. Again, we're back to metric
Grasshopper K I understand how hard it is to convert to a different system and that it is very prevalent in a lot of things but until recently schools have been using almost entirely imperial system, especially where I live. It just never made sense to me as why America decided to keep the imperial system at all while almost everywhere else it was being used
@@aaz1010 yes, It's always surprised me why it wasn't part of the US curriculum either :/ like I said, cm's are on every ruler... With the exception of geometry sets. A lot of them here have only metric, and maybe the short 30°/60° side has 3" or so. But I know many US made geometry sets are the opposite. Beyond that, every 15cm and 30cm size ruler has Imperial and metric. The only measuring tool I have, which is strictly Imperial, is a 24" wooden folding ruler, my Great Grandpa made. He was a carpenter and tool maker. I won't deny, I use Imperial from time to time. Not only when what I'm making is written in Imperial, but sometimes the wood is so soft, and I'm not looking to make anything ultra fancy, that just half ass guessing my way through a think project means I'm lazy enough to use Inches. Even then though, I've still had plenty of similar projects, and still just used metric. I think the only other thing I personaly use, is nautical miles.... Beyond that, I've been indoctrinated so hard, I don't even have much of an understanding of pounds, until I remind myself the conversion rate, and think of Kg. Which maked helping Mum out with my Sisters wedding cake a little strange last year as my Nana's/Mum's recipe book is 99% in Imperial. That however does give me a good understanding of the typical US commenter on TH-cam saying how "people shouldn't be using such arbitrary systems that can't be visualised" even if every commenter afterwards is laughing their head off xD If you're saying Metric is now in the curriculum, then I'd say the US will be on metric withing the next 2-3 decades when today's student are in their teens, and late 20's. Whether it becomes official or not. The other part of Imperial, no one talks very much about is Fahrenheit. Which Celsius may not have invented the exact scale we use today, he did come up with the idea to use the water melting and boiling points. Which his lab technician later re marked from high to decreasing numbers, to the low to increasing numbers we know today, and marketed it. I don't think the US will be converting to °Centigrade for a while though.
I fully believe nearly all CIS units were highly "intelligent" and sentient. B1s constantly talked casually to each other and conveyed their problems and issues to their partners. They had sarcastic and sad personalities and could easily make choices themselves such as running or fighting. Super Battle Droids in TCW series could be fooled and could act alone too! And as Vultures and Hyenas chatter to each other I fully believe they have a sense of self too! Due to their hightened programming droids were amazing and interesting units are so captivating to watch and study. E.G on Naboo for the invasion the B1s has to overtake the AATs (tanks) to try and disable the shields for them. Right before they arrived the droids seemed to brace for some adverse effect meaning they expected something to happen. But as soon as they were through they rallied themselves and opened fire instantly due to the shield having no effect on the droids. Honestly droids are awesome and I wish they were expanded upon instead of being treated as trash by the TF.
I'm just going to say that from the CIS droid armada, this is my favorite aerial model. Their design has the "common but menacing alien style look" and looks wonderful here. Also, is perfect designed for swarm attacks, cheaper, can be modified and can also operate relatively on earth as a light tank.
All the details of why droid ships where used would easily mean victory. Build 7 vultures for each arc 170 to easily outnumber and kill them. Just based on reaction time and maneuverability
Definitely my favorite starship in Star Wars. I’d definitely remodel it a fair bit, if I had a manufacturing plant to myself, but even the base model is beyond useful. It may not be super intelligent, but a thinking tool is better than wonton slaughter. Granted all my terrible fanart and personal designs used Legends measurements for simplicity’s sake.
I love the CIS and all their droids! I always try to find good videos for them and most people focus on any other faction. Thank you for making CIS videos.
I actually prefer the smaller legends size. What's scarier: one big, easy to hit ship, or a swarm of small space-birds zipping around you as you struggle to hit any of them?
It's astonishing how quickly you research SW lore, edit, and upload these videos. All without losing quality. Thank you, and if the Metanerdz team is more than just the narrator and his girlfriend, send my gratitude to them, please.
vulture droids look like they could be very affectionate to their owners (kind of like a car-sized steel cat or something like that)and other people if they were reprogrammed, while also looking like they could take down a death star in under a minute, i love them and i want reprogrammed vulture droid buddies to be canon
I love their look and design thourouness so much! But they turn to bombs inside the hangers during Thrawn's crazy OP plan of full spectrum jamming. The one's that relied on a signal to operate self destruct after a few minutes without their signal. This works to prevent enemy aquasition or humanitarian efforts to not leave behind deadly war machines like mines, but when jamming hits em while still inside the hangers just does what Anikin did times ten. So much internal explosions, all over the place setting off the auxiliary generations in the hangers too! Also, plot armor. The only improvements I can think of would be to integrate more organic support through remote drone controls when tactical adjustments benefit from it, or maybe even turn them into mixed teams of longer ranged vultures flying around an organic pilot in an elite craft. The droids or their supporting programs template would learn to support and defend their elite organic partner and you'd get a mix of fighters with cunning organic intellect and intuition supported by laser precise G proof supporting drones. Maybe I'd code name the mixed units Black Hand.
I have long felt that the empire should have used an modernized and upgraded version of this, Hyena or tri-fighters, as well as a few select other driods, such as droidikas. Their fairly small size and, with some of them being able transforming would make it possible to load up a ton of them into their ISD, SSD, and Death Star's hangers, even if kept 1/2 their space for piloted star fighters, although since they would need half the number they could have upgraded the ties, or replace them completely without something far more effective. Hell these could even be set up to "live" on the hull, outside the hangers until needed, thus not only allowing an even larger number to be carried, but allowing an instant response with a mass of star fighters, they would only need to go to hangers to rearm and/or be repaired, as charging systems for them could be distributed across the hulls of the various ships. Yes, it would make number small targets for enemy pilots to target, but if they are isolated over armed plates, worst case would be that a few of the docking ports would be destroyed, and if more fighters survived then there were ports they would have to share the recharging connection, either swapping in and out, or by having spare connections on each hub. Image moving in on a pair of ISDs and being met with say 60-80 tie interceptors, defenders or avengers as well as huge waves with a mix of modernized vulture, hyena and tri-fighters? I don't think the could dozen x-wing the rebels field each time would make it very far.
I have to say, Palpatine had an easy opportunity to save a huge cost on money and manpower by having all of the CIS' droid fighters rounded up, reprogrammed, re-branded, and put into Imperial service after the Separatist military was literally shut down. He could have nationalised the companies that manufactured them, and eventually phased them out with new, unrecognizable droid fighters to fill in the expendable role that the Imperial TIE Fighter would eventually fill. And with that, he could then invest that money into his contract with Seinar, and put in orders for better-quality fighters for his pilots. I assume if that were the case, the Empire would have been much more likely to afford superior craft like the X-Wing as its mainstay fighter.
I would love to have a modified personal version, what I want is a class 2 hyperdrive, shields, a modified cockpit in place of the droid brain since I am the shard species, more efficient reactor for much bigger flight time, better engines, and the removal of certain components I don't like to be hacked. The standard armament is fine with me and lastly, I would like to have a black with green vectors paint design and for the "eyes" to be green. I know the tri fighter would be a better choice, but I like this design more. I'll pay anything!
Out of all the Fighter/flying droids in the Prequel era, I always liked this one the most~ +... I think these fighters are so cute when they are in walking mode. X3
Outside of a few games the Vulture's technically equipped with "Energy Torpedo Launchers" which are basically slow firing cannons that fire very fast bolts of still-reacting fusion reactor plasma that burn out quickly (But thanks to the projectile speed can get very far before burning out.) It's unclear exactly how hard they hit vs proton torpedoes or turbolasers but they're an interesting niche weapon.
Advent of droid starfighters mimics the technological development in our real world. Arguably A.I piloted vessels are innumerably better in every way than one that has to fit organic being inside itself. This is one of the drawbacks that SW has as, OT was made in 70-80... Star Wars has to somehow reason why everyone wouldn't use droid starfighters or soldiers in every encounter. After all, they are cost-effective, efficient and keep the casualties (on your own side) low. I think that contributes to the fact why CIS has so many fans beyond aesthetics. It's one of the more realistic Star Wars factions. At least one employing infinitely more clever solutions to warfare and other problems than Republic or Empire ever did.
I know this is a really late reply but... But you have to remember two VERY important details about the star wars universe. 1. The Force exists, that mystical energy field that surrounds all things and is especially receptive to organic life. This spiritual essence can allow organics to accomplish Similar or even greater feats of super, crazy fast reaction times than even the the most complex or powerful of droid brains, that's why most of the best pilots in the SW galaxy are organics with pretty much zero augmentation, only unconsciously or purposefully strengthening their connection to the Force and in turn reaping the benefits in the form of (typically but not unheard of) inhuman (or in-alien??) reflexes. Not only that but many can knowingly or intuitively utilize the Force of spiritual Energy to enhance their bodies in other ways, super strength, speed and or ungodly resilience which allows them to perform just as amazing or even greater feats as any droid could do. 2. There have been several major droid or AI uprisings for those exact same reasons you stated but take from said droids perspectives. *For these rebelling droids it was the idea of "yeah, why do I have to take orders from these clearly inferior organic (save for the relative few millions that rival or even surpass us in many ways with help from strange spirit powers), meatbags that see me and my fellow droids as expendable cannon fodder at best, let's rise up and wipe these carbon based lifeforms out!"* **bloody and devastating droid rebellions ensue** Whatever the Star wars techs use to make AI for their droids, even relatively rudimentary "dumb" artificial intelligence can and eventually will develop full self awareness and more importantly a sense of self preservation which kinda defeats the purpose of machines to serve as inexpensive cannon fodder to fight our battles, wage wars doesn't it? A droid that spends more time contemplating it's own existence is a droid that's not doing it's job, a major loss of efficiency. Heck it can even get to the point where your droids simply refuse to do their jobs altogether and start demanding rights, organize unions, more oil baths, take every other weekends off and etc. (you get the idea) This is why just about every droid goes through regular memory wipes, basically it's a sort of factory reset. A downside of that is said droids effectively have to start from scratch, relearn things, relearn better ways to do things, having no prior experiences or accumulated knowledge to draw from and most importantly lacking the foresight that comes with becoming more and more conscious to make future plans that might greatly increase their efficiency. So with all that said it's no wonder there's a severe cultural stigma towards droids, there still very useful but they can be dangerous and quite frankly unproductive, inefficient when they start to develope personalities and their thoughts start to wonder off, this makes AI in the star wars universe a sort of "crapshoot", in that on the one hand having ubiquitous AI has greatly improved society in many ways but on the other hand AI has a tendency to either rebel when it becomes feed up enough with taking orders from it's organic masters OR they remain loyal but also kinda bubbling, the more the become conscious and emotional the worse they are at doing jobs overall, so the technology is a double edged sword.
That's an amazing question. There was something like that with the manta droid fighters, I'm pretty sure I mention that in the video. But I don't think I get into how that could be applied to other ships
@@MetaNerdzLore there are several people from other countries who are fans of Star Wars who watch their videos it would be interesting if you put subtitles in Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese(Brazil and Portugal), Russian, German and several other languages to try to increase the channel.
One thing I wanna ask… How do vulture droids charge while on the outside of the ship when the use solid fuel slugs? Do they have a separate system for all the tech that uses batteries while the flight is powered by the slug? Sorry if it’s stated, I am kinda dumb sometimes so…
Yeah I wish star wars stats were more detailed. But it it would be cool to consider if you could have automated point defense, or use these as reactive point defense
So if I understand this correctly this fighter cost less than a third of a tie fighter. Was more versatile due to the walking mode. Didnt need a trained pilot which reduced the cost even more in comparison. They didnt need food so they were easier to maintain. All in all for the same ressources you can construct so many more of these things that you could probably lose double digit numbers for every republic fighter and you still came out with less monetary losses not to mention you never lost valuable pilots.
Can you please do a Video Comparing the Mobile Suits from Gundam. And the Vulture-class Droid Starfighter from Star wars. :) While your at it. How do you think the Common Mobile Suit Would do in star wars. So No Over Powered Gundams in this Comparison.
Why do I get the feeling a lot of these obscure aliens who manufactured non-humanoid droids were just drawn to resemble an organic version of the droids that were shown in the movies... also holy tiny starship that thing could land in my driveway O.O
What really irks me is that these should have been used by the Empire with Tie acting as commanders for squads of them. They would have been quicker to deploy than actual Tie and an incredibly low cost for defenses and offense if utilized properly.
Now I just need to know. Which one was more expensive Vulture droids or The Fighters? Because honestly I'm getting the feeling Palpatine either had an old man moment or he just enjoys watching his own troops and fighters get blown to smithereens. Thats if the Tie was more expensive.
They're basically just TIEs but way better. if palpy kept them around and modernized them the rebels would never have stood a chance. Hell, the might not even need modernization.
Ok im looking at the proportions of the TIE Fighter, and im like, are we sure. Like could a human fit in that cockpit as well as everything else you'd need to fly it?
This ship was truly a masterpiece
I wouldn't call it a ship considering that it doesn't carry a pilot.
@@twistedyogert even better, no loss of life
@@galaxyeyesphotondragon8191 Probably could be on a mission for longer because without a pilot it could carry more fuel as opposed to life support systems. Even a pilot in a non-pressurized cabin wearing a pressure-suit like in a TIE-fighter would take up a lot of space and still use plenty of resources.
Makes me think of a robot you'd find in a Metal Gear game
@@galaxyeyesphotondragon8191 that makes less funny
Never knew that star wars ships were so damn detailed
yeah its pretty great
I gotta say that this is one of my favorites just because of its virsatility to cost ratio. Is it a tie defender? Ha, no. But could it work easily? Definitely. If they have them greater processing power (or, better programming) imagine what they could do!
Yeah definitely one of the best investments a military could make
They don't even need better processors or programming, AS IS they are superior to the TIE LN as a close support Space fighter.
Now if you wanted something beefier for more independent operations, you'd be better off with a Tri-Droid or my own Quad-Droid, what you get when you mix the Vulture and Tri-droid fighters with a Droch-class boarding pod.
Imagine if they had shields
That's why I came up with VGSPBD MK II, III, and IV for a fanmade CIS splinter that still exists during the first order-resistance war.
@@maudika3892 _MK IV has shields_
Flying roger rogers
Flying clanker should you say
The best part... you CAN pilot it, like Mace Wendu animated Clone wars 03.. simply smash your hand into the back of it... rip out the wires and "convince" it to work for you
It's sad that we never get to see that method ever again throughout the series of Star Wars.
@@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847 you can kinda do it in lego star wars the clone wars chop the head off and control its body
Pretty sure he was using the force to help him do that.
Fun fact, the the B1 battle droid pilot is also seen in some of the older vulture droid lego models. The battle droid mini figure can slip in to the head section of the model.
Oh that's cool didn't know that
One of the most recent models actually has a cockpit designed for a droid
Actually it's the current 2014 model. The older models didn't include a seat for a battle droid.
Sug Dolomar Do your research LEGO...sigh
Same in the lego games that let you fly it including the skywalker saga.
I’m sure the droids would have actually won if it weren’t for the fact they were the “bad guys” . I wish they did a movie or something set in the view of the separatist and their fight for freedom!
Mr Lego They lost because their leader was actively making them lose, some of them even had legitimate reasons or being in the CIS past “my money”
Mr.Lego, are you a stormtrooper or clonetrooper? Just wondering.
@@Corvus__ That appears to be a clonetrooper.
The Droids did win: It's called Battlestar Galactica!
what would be scary is if the CIS had our level of software design with their technology.
The idea that you can just put a squad of these little droids on the hull of any bigger ship to defend it is awesome and unique!
If only the empire had used these instead of useless tie fighters. They would have decimated the rebel pilots and saved a lot of imperial pilots' lives.
And the cost, omg. The training program for a tie pilot can be, at times, cost the empire more than a tie fighter itself.
Very true
Admiral Thrawn certainly thought so when he introduce the Tie-D droid fighter
weldonwin yeah but the Tie-D cost 170,000 credits ( close to 3 times a normal Tie with no real improvement on it) compared with the vulture 16,000 credits which is as fast but with much stronger weapons and around a hundredth of the cost
They're doomed by canon
I love the Vulture Droid, especially the Separatist blue and grey version!
not blue and gree - blue and gray
@@GabrielRamos-ji9gu there's two ways to say grey/gray. it's wierd
@@MundoLatino184 roger roger sir
@@A_random_wolf_brigade_member Roger roger
@@MundoLatino184 did you were being sent to oredon to help the new king there
Star Destroyer: I have 72 fighters, what do you have.
Lucrehulk Battleship: That's cute. I have 1,500.
Star Destroyer: Um, wanna talk about it.
Lucrehulk Battleship: Nope. "Launches all fighters"
1,500 fighters and a heavier broadside. :)
Corwin Hyatt Indeed
star destroyer: hahaha your cheap starfighters don't have hyperdrives or shielding... oh mine also don't
*Knock *knock it´s the Death Star. I would say your Lucrehulk is Doomed.
Paradoxical Nightmare *both sides go into full retreat*
It's a shame these didn't survive to see use against the Yuzahn Vong, they would be scared beyond belief.
Holy shit! I just realized that the Xi Char image is from spore! I have watched this chanel for so long without realizing that!
You just resurfaced within me a forgotten game from my childhood. Thankyou.
@Chewbacca
It's a game where you create creatures and stuff. It's pretty fun.
"A baby Jawa short of a Tie fighter"
Always good to see we're keeping things not just in metric, but "easy to visualise" for our Yank friends accross the pond...
I am one of the few average yanks who comprehends the metric system and prefer it over the "freedom system"
The fact that America (I am American BTW) won’t convert to metric is pretty stupid.
@@aaz1010 well no... You wouldn't just convert over the course of a month at the click of your fingers, never mind a day. It would take about a decade at the least. Like it took the UK. You'd have to start with the younger generations, the people who haven't actually been indoctrinated in one or the other yet.
Although, I'm surprised that hasn't been the case yet? Because 300mm/12" rulers have both mm and inches...
In truth though. You already have. Ever single part, on every single Ford, and Tesla manufactured car is made to a metric standard. Every screw, bolt, panel, even the pharo arms used by QC are set to output in Metric, and the staff using them, use metric.
The pharmaceutical industry... I don't know why, but yes, many companies do still use Imperial, even when the machine itself was built using metric measurements. They like to convert it to Imperial, get a really awkward number, and write it down as such on every piece of paperwork.
In short though, the reason the major public, such as hair dressers, shop staff, or more importantly news agencies use Imperial, is because that's what they were educated in, and the rest of the US is educated in. So again, in boils down to Metricvrequiring emphasis over Imperial in class rooms. It would make secondary level physics and maths a lot easier too though. Because a lot of major numbers, have been measured, and conveniently fit metric, but come up as really awkward multi-decimal numbers.
The news broadcast of a sinkhole "about 12 washing machines" accross has kind of become a joke here in Ireland around my secondary school, and now my University...
In reality though, you moved to metric decades ago. As your universal standards are 1Kg and all measurements of length, are a measurement of wavelengths of light, within 1mm as it's a universal constant.
As a result, every single digital measuring device in the World, that uses the international standards (that does include the US), measures in metric, even when it's set to output in Imperial. Like a digital calipers, or micrometer (not to be confused with micrometre (sorry, small dig at US spelling)), even when set to Imperial, the equipment inside, used to measure, before sending information to the small processor to then send to the screen; A) is always checked for accuracy in Metric at the factory, as there is no universal constant for Imperial. Its an infinitely long Decimal if you tried to measure an inch, to the wavelengths of light. So instead, we just use a conversion factor. B) The device itself typically measures with a light sensor anyway, or is set to the country of origin's Mass standard, and as a result, is designed around, metric.
TL,DR; There are no universal standards in Imperial. Myanmar or Liberia may perhaps have made attempts, but then there's simply too few of them, and as a result any variation in their mass standard cannot be averaged...
But we know they use Kg mass standards anyway, so.. Again, we're back to metric
Grasshopper K I understand how hard it is to convert to a different system and that it is very prevalent in a lot of things but until recently schools have been using almost entirely imperial system, especially where I live. It just never made sense to me as why America decided to keep the imperial system at all while almost everywhere else it was being used
@@aaz1010 yes, It's always surprised me why it wasn't part of the US curriculum either :/ like I said, cm's are on every ruler... With the exception of geometry sets. A lot of them here have only metric, and maybe the short 30°/60° side has 3" or so. But I know many US made geometry sets are the opposite. Beyond that, every 15cm and 30cm size ruler has Imperial and metric.
The only measuring tool I have, which is strictly Imperial, is a 24" wooden folding ruler, my Great Grandpa made. He was a carpenter and tool maker.
I won't deny, I use Imperial from time to time. Not only when what I'm making is written in Imperial, but sometimes the wood is so soft, and I'm not looking to make anything ultra fancy, that just half ass guessing my way through a think project means I'm lazy enough to use Inches. Even then though, I've still had plenty of similar projects, and still just used metric. I think the only other thing I personaly use, is nautical miles.... Beyond that, I've been indoctrinated so hard, I don't even have much of an understanding of pounds, until I remind myself the conversion rate, and think of Kg. Which maked helping Mum out with my Sisters wedding cake a little strange last year as my Nana's/Mum's recipe book is 99% in Imperial.
That however does give me a good understanding of the typical US commenter on TH-cam saying how "people shouldn't be using such arbitrary systems that can't be visualised" even if every commenter afterwards is laughing their head off xD
If you're saying Metric is now in the curriculum, then I'd say the US will be on metric withing the next 2-3 decades when today's student are in their teens, and late 20's. Whether it becomes official or not.
The other part of Imperial, no one talks very much about is Fahrenheit. Which Celsius may not have invented the exact scale we use today, he did come up with the idea to use the water melting and boiling points. Which his lab technician later re marked from high to decreasing numbers, to the low to increasing numbers we know today, and marketed it.
I don't think the US will be converting to °Centigrade for a while though.
I fully believe nearly all CIS units were highly "intelligent" and sentient. B1s constantly talked casually to each other and conveyed their problems and issues to their partners. They had sarcastic and sad personalities and could easily make choices themselves such as running or fighting. Super Battle Droids in TCW series could be fooled and could act alone too! And as Vultures and Hyenas chatter to each other I fully believe they have a sense of self too! Due to their hightened programming droids were amazing and interesting units are so captivating to watch and study. E.G on Naboo for the invasion the B1s has to overtake the AATs (tanks) to try and disable the shields for them. Right before they arrived the droids seemed to brace for some adverse effect meaning they expected something to happen. But as soon as they were through they rallied themselves and opened fire instantly due to the shield having no effect on the droids. Honestly droids are awesome and I wish they were expanded upon instead of being treated as trash by the TF.
I'm just going to say that from the CIS droid armada, this is my favorite aerial model.
Their design has the "common but menacing alien style look" and looks wonderful here.
Also, is perfect designed for swarm attacks, cheaper, can be modified and can also operate relatively on earth as a light tank.
So they are cheap and can be used as kamikaze aircraft without the pilot and I love the videos I'm so glad I subbed to your channel.
it would be even better at kamikaze if it had a hyperdrive.
Still better than a Tie Fighter.
Yes but tie fighter still kinda cool
All the details of why droid ships where used would easily mean victory.
Build 7 vultures for each arc 170 to easily outnumber and kill them.
Just based on reaction time and maneuverability
Definitely my favorite starship in Star Wars.
I’d definitely remodel it a fair bit, if I had a manufacturing plant to myself, but even the base model is beyond useful.
It may not be super intelligent, but a thinking tool is better than wonton slaughter.
Granted all my terrible fanart and personal designs used Legends measurements for simplicity’s sake.
Ah, vulture droid and wonderful video MetaNerdz
I love the CIS and all their droids! I always try to find good videos for them and most people focus on any other faction. Thank you for making CIS videos.
Love these droids, almost cute, honestly.
I actually prefer the smaller legends size. What's scarier: one big, easy to hit ship, or a swarm of small space-birds zipping around you as you struggle to hit any of them?
If the big ship can take more hits then you, there's more of them, and carry bigger guns then yes it would be scarier
Nah because it only being 3 meters long is stupidly small
It's astonishing how quickly you research SW lore, edit, and upload these videos. All without losing quality. Thank you, and if the Metanerdz team is more than just the narrator and his girlfriend, send my gratitude to them, please.
vulture droids look like they could be very affectionate to their owners (kind of like a car-sized steel cat or something like that)and other people if they were reprogrammed, while also looking like they could take down a death star in under a minute, i love them and i want reprogrammed vulture droid buddies to be canon
I honestly say, that I have nrver found any channel that made so great videos, thank you metanerdz 💓💓
thanks man that is an amazing compliment!
Great video as always
Love all these great neard channels I follow.
Feeding my inner geek 😁❤🤘🤘
I dont know how you guys you do it
Cause this is AWSOME !!
Always loved the look of the vulture droids..
MetaNerdz, teh best star wars channel. Vulture droids the best starfighter? You be the judge.
I have been fascinated with this ship ever since its introduction
I love their look and design thourouness so much! But they turn to bombs inside the hangers during Thrawn's crazy OP plan of full spectrum jamming. The one's that relied on a signal to operate self destruct after a few minutes without their signal. This works to prevent enemy aquasition or humanitarian efforts to not leave behind deadly war machines like mines, but when jamming hits em while still inside the hangers just does what Anikin did times ten. So much internal explosions, all over the place setting off the auxiliary generations in the hangers too!
Also, plot armor. The only improvements I can think of would be to integrate more organic support through remote drone controls when tactical adjustments benefit from it, or maybe even turn them into mixed teams of longer ranged vultures flying around an organic pilot in an elite craft.
The droids or their supporting programs template would learn to support and defend their elite organic partner and you'd get a mix of fighters with cunning organic intellect and intuition supported by laser precise G proof supporting drones. Maybe I'd code name the mixed units Black Hand.
One of my favourite starwars ships
I have waited for this moment
This ship is so cool looking.
Brilliant!
One of the cooler designs from Episode I.
I can see this inspiring future space drone-warfare, much like how Star Trek inspired much of our current technology! :)
Wow dude u deserve so many more subscribers
This is a very cool starfight
Was one of my favorite ships. Next to the acr170
I have long felt that the empire should have used an modernized and upgraded version of this, Hyena or tri-fighters, as well as a few select other driods, such as droidikas. Their fairly small size and, with some of them being able transforming would make it possible to load up a ton of them into their ISD, SSD, and Death Star's hangers, even if kept 1/2 their space for piloted star fighters, although since they would need half the number they could have upgraded the ties, or replace them completely without something far more effective. Hell these could even be set up to "live" on the hull, outside the hangers until needed, thus not only allowing an even larger number to be carried, but allowing an instant response with a mass of star fighters, they would only need to go to hangers to rearm and/or be repaired, as charging systems for them could be distributed across the hulls of the various ships. Yes, it would make number small targets for enemy pilots to target, but if they are isolated over armed plates, worst case would be that a few of the docking ports would be destroyed, and if more fighters survived then there were ports they would have to share the recharging connection, either swapping in and out, or by having spare connections on each hub.
Image moving in on a pair of ISDs and being met with say 60-80 tie interceptors, defenders or avengers as well as huge waves with a mix of modernized vulture, hyena and tri-fighters? I don't think the could dozen x-wing the rebels field each time would make it very far.
This is my most favorite starfighter design from the Separtist Alliance.
A mention of Outbound flight might have been nice (not a complaint).
I have the toy version of the CIS Vulture droid, but I wish I also had the Hyena toy, and the Trade Federation Vulture droid
....plz make a video about the Death star! If you already made one i failed to find it!
I have to say, Palpatine had an easy opportunity to save a huge cost on money and manpower by having all of the CIS' droid fighters rounded up, reprogrammed, re-branded, and put into Imperial service after the Separatist military was literally shut down. He could have nationalised the companies that manufactured them, and eventually phased them out with new, unrecognizable droid fighters to fill in the expendable role that the Imperial TIE Fighter would eventually fill.
And with that, he could then invest that money into his contract with Seinar, and put in orders for better-quality fighters for his pilots. I assume if that were the case, the Empire would have been much more likely to afford superior craft like the X-Wing as its mainstay fighter.
The VGSPBD MK.1 is probably my favourite star wars ship just because of the idea
What's cracking MetaMerdz it's ya boi
Vulture droids, transform and roll out!
* *_loves TIE Fighter series_* * Well shit, guess im a bug.
I would love to have a modified personal version, what I want is a class 2 hyperdrive, shields, a modified cockpit in place of the droid brain since I am the shard species, more efficient reactor for much bigger flight time, better engines, and the removal of certain components I don't like to be hacked. The standard armament is fine with me and lastly, I would like to have a black with green vectors paint design and for the "eyes" to be green. I know the tri fighter would be a better choice, but I like this design more.
I'll pay anything!
I'd suggest upgrading the body guns which would help with both space and ground combat
And now we go into the lives of the vulture droids
Out of all the Fighter/flying droids in the Prequel era, I always liked this one the most~
+... I think these fighters are so cute when they are in walking mode. X3
Roses are red,
brb gotta take a piss,
"I have a bad feeling
about this."
Outside of a few games the Vulture's technically equipped with "Energy Torpedo Launchers" which are basically slow firing cannons that fire very fast bolts of still-reacting fusion reactor plasma that burn out quickly (But thanks to the projectile speed can get very far before burning out.) It's unclear exactly how hard they hit vs proton torpedoes or turbolasers but they're an interesting niche weapon.
Advent of droid starfighters mimics the technological development in our real world. Arguably A.I piloted vessels are innumerably better in every way than one that has to fit organic being inside itself.
This is one of the drawbacks that SW has as, OT was made in 70-80... Star Wars has to somehow reason why everyone wouldn't use droid starfighters or soldiers in every encounter. After all, they are cost-effective, efficient and keep the casualties (on your own side) low.
I think that contributes to the fact why CIS has so many fans beyond aesthetics. It's one of the more realistic Star Wars factions. At least one employing infinitely more clever solutions to warfare and other problems than Republic or Empire ever did.
I know this is a really late reply but...
But you have to remember two VERY important details about the star wars universe.
1. The Force exists, that mystical energy field that surrounds all things and is especially receptive to organic life. This spiritual essence can allow organics to accomplish Similar or even greater feats of super, crazy fast reaction times than even the the most complex or powerful of droid brains, that's why most of the best pilots in the SW galaxy are organics with pretty much zero augmentation, only unconsciously or purposefully strengthening their connection to the Force and in turn reaping the benefits in the form of (typically but not unheard of) inhuman (or in-alien??) reflexes. Not only that but many can knowingly or intuitively utilize the Force of spiritual Energy to enhance their bodies in other ways, super strength, speed and or ungodly resilience which allows them to perform just as amazing or even greater feats as any droid could do.
2. There have been several major droid or AI uprisings for those exact same reasons you stated but take from said droids perspectives. *For these rebelling droids it was the idea of "yeah, why do I have to take orders from these clearly inferior organic (save for the relative few millions that rival or even surpass us in many ways with help from strange spirit powers), meatbags that see me and my fellow droids as expendable cannon fodder at best, let's rise up and wipe these carbon based lifeforms out!"*
**bloody and devastating droid rebellions ensue**
Whatever the Star wars techs use to make AI for their droids, even relatively rudimentary "dumb" artificial intelligence can and eventually will develop full self awareness and more importantly a sense of self preservation which kinda defeats the purpose of machines to serve as inexpensive cannon fodder to fight our battles, wage wars doesn't it? A droid that spends more time contemplating it's own existence is a droid that's not doing it's job, a major loss of efficiency. Heck it can even get to the point where your droids simply refuse to do their jobs altogether and start demanding rights, organize unions, more oil baths, take every other weekends off and etc. (you get the idea)
This is why just about every droid goes through regular memory wipes, basically it's a sort of factory reset. A downside of that is said droids effectively have to start from scratch, relearn things, relearn better ways to do things, having no prior experiences or accumulated knowledge to draw from and most importantly lacking the foresight that comes with becoming more and more conscious to make future plans that might greatly increase their efficiency. So with all that said it's no wonder there's a severe cultural stigma towards droids, there still very useful but they can be dangerous and quite frankly unproductive, inefficient when they start to develope personalities and their thoughts start to wonder off, this makes AI in the star wars universe a sort of "crapshoot", in that on the one hand having ubiquitous AI has greatly improved society in many ways but on the other hand AI has a tendency to either rebel when it becomes feed up enough with taking orders from it's organic masters OR they remain loyal but also kinda bubbling, the more the become conscious and emotional the worse they are at doing jobs overall, so the technology is a double edged sword.
Do a Varactyl video
Nice spaceship
If u havent already could u do weapons from blasters to turbo lasers
What is the comics with the resistances x wing vs the vulture droid?
Wonder what would happen if one wasn't memory wiped for long enough that it developed the "quirks" found in other old droids
That's an amazing question. There was something like that with the manta droid fighters, I'm pretty sure I mention that in the video. But I don't think I get into how that could be applied to other ships
I want to see a story about a memory wipe fail which results in a vulture droid like Scar from Battlestar Gallactica.
I just realized I comment on everyone of you videos but keep forgetting to like them
lol yeah I gotta do a better job of reminding people to do that, all the like, sharing, subs, and comments makes TH-cam recommend your stuff more
@@MetaNerdzLore there are several people from other countries who are fans of Star Wars who watch their videos it would be interesting if you put subtitles in Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese(Brazil and Portugal), Russian, German and several other languages to try to increase the channel.
My favorite droid
Yeah up there for me
I know that the thumbnail came from the star wars episode 1 incredible cross selections because I have the book
My like brought it to 5k. I have nevwr been more proud
One thing I wanna ask… How do vulture droids charge while on the outside of the ship when the use solid fuel slugs? Do they have a separate system for all the tech that uses batteries while the flight is powered by the slug? Sorry if it’s stated, I am kinda dumb sometimes so…
MetaNerdz got the size right! Yay.
Although it's usually more Wookieepedia's fault if he doesn't, given their inconsistencies at times.
I think they make really good point defense systems
Yeah I wish star wars stats were more detailed. But it it would be cool to consider if you could have automated point defense, or use these as reactive point defense
So if I understand this correctly this fighter cost less than a third of a tie fighter. Was more versatile due to the walking mode. Didnt need a trained pilot which reduced the cost even more in comparison. They didnt need food so they were easier to maintain.
All in all for the same ressources you can construct so many more of these things that you could probably lose double digit numbers for every republic fighter and you still came out with less monetary losses not to mention you never lost valuable pilots.
Interesting
Vultures are so adorable
Nice starfighters
Can you please do a Video Comparing the Mobile Suits from Gundam. And the Vulture-class Droid Starfighter from Star wars. :) While your at it. How do you think the Common Mobile Suit Would do in star wars. So No Over Powered Gundams in this Comparison.
My favorite fighter in all of Star Wars. Now if only there was a version that an organic pilot can fly(sigh).
Why do I get the feeling a lot of these obscure aliens who manufactured non-humanoid droids were just drawn to resemble an organic version of the droids that were shown in the movies... also holy tiny starship that thing could land in my driveway O.O
These are actually a lot smaller than I thought they were.
1:25 did anyone notice that the turrets have turrets?
Sage Hactory i just noticed that
Probably inspired by the Yamato
tied with the TIE fighter
It must have an interceptor version, tell your ideas in the replies!
0:15 who else noticed the two small eyes unde the head 👀
What really irks me is that these should have been used by the Empire with Tie acting as commanders for squads of them. They would have been quicker to deploy than actual Tie and an incredibly low cost for defenses and offense if utilized properly.
Now I just need to know. Which one was more expensive Vulture droids or The Fighters?
Because honestly I'm getting the feeling Palpatine either had an old man moment or he just enjoys watching his own troops and fighters get blown to smithereens. Thats if the Tie was more expensive.
fighters were by far more expensive than vulture droids
Can you cover the xi char?
It's design is my favorite from the CIS Naval Army.
That segment about the Zero 😂
Does the name not imply the existence of vultures (aswell as hyenas) in the Star Wars universe? Or is it a fan distinction instead of named in canon?
It would sound great if the vulture droids lasers weapons were replaced by bullet fire and they have cluster missiles.
They're basically just TIEs but way better. if palpy kept them around and modernized them the rebels would never have stood a chance. Hell, the might not even need modernization.
Why was oddball's helmet decal red and not yellow like in the movie
I don’t know why but I find it so funny when you compare them to Civics.
lol I think it just really helps give a different perspective
Lol I see what you did there :D
Ok im looking at the proportions of the TIE Fighter, and im like, are we sure. Like could a human fit in that cockpit as well as everything else you'd need to fly it?
What if I take inspiration from non Star Wars ships? Am I still a zichar (how do you spell it)?
Give them shields and/or hyperdrives possibly
If I was able to have a ship from star wars I would want it to be a vulture droid modified to have a cockpit.
I wish you could land these things and walk around as them in battlefront 2 lol
Its a droid...and still i capture them as a clone! (the one and ONLY Star Wars Battlefront series)
"Tied with the TIE fighter." - heh.