The IMPERIAL Nebulon-B Frigate (Fan design)
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- The Nebulon-B has long been considered a Rebel vessel, but canonically this frigate was originally an Imperial vessel. I took on the challenge of creating what that might have looked like.
Credits:
I designed and modeled this ship, with input from Angelos Karderinis who provided much of the hangar bay interior, as well as all of the renders in this video. Check out his work!
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The 3D Rebel Nebulon-B in this video was provided by Adam Burch of Hangar-B productions. Check out his mind-blowing 3D aerospace work here:
www.hangar-b.com
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This model was a big undertaking that included input from a lot of people.
Angelos Karderinis was instrumental in fleshing out the hangar and rendering virtually all the beauty shots for the video.
The Rebel Nebulon comes from Adam Burch of Hangar-B productions. So that's his Nebulon when we're fading between the two versions. We used it as a guide to the proportions for the Imperial version, and a few of its components are still visible in the final model, too!
Some of the details (particularly in the hangar) are also sourced from other artists, such as Ole Magnus Schei Sunnevåg (who has incredible Star Wars renders on ArtStation under that name). Many additional greeble details come from Howard Day (who can also be found on ArtStation with that name).
I remember when I ask you to do this a couple months back. I dont know if you did this in response to my request, but whether or not you did, these results far exceeded what my imagination could conceive of. Thank you so much for bringing a richer and deeper feeling to the ships we all know and love.
now can we have a remade Venator that's more heavily armed, armored, and has a smarter, all-around better design
Your team work deserve the highest praise.
I am not complaining, but you are overqualified for this job.
This design is absolutely awesome, it should be made official! Some parts remind me a little bit of the Raider-class corvette. Did you use it as inspiration?
BTW I think it would be nice, if you could do the Z-96 starfighter. It is only mentioned in one episode of Resistance and was introduced as the successor of the Z-95 Headhunter after the Clone Wars.
Imperial engineer: sir we have a new ship.
Officer: is it a triangle?
Engineer: no
Officer: I DONT WANT IT.
This was actually very funny.
Tarkin: If it's not a tie or a wedge trash it
Must be a triangle if it's bigger than a lambda, if it's not, Tarkin won't allow it
Gozanti: 👀
@@animosital1645 gozanti are just too good even for tarkin's pizza fetish
"Just once, I'd like to destroy a starship that we didn't pay for!"
―Imperial Admiral Hurkk at the Battle of Oovo IV
That's why I like the galactic civil war era
Probably your best work yet!
Happy birthday to son Eck.
@@StuartLugsden Thank you Stew
EckhartsLadder Tell him I said happy birthday
The imagined Imperial version of the Nebulon B looks nice...
But personally I'd say his work on an accurate T-85 X-Wing takes the cake as his best :)
It's just so damn pretty!
Aaand happy B-day to your son too....
I know right
This reimagining makes so much sense! And it seems entirely possible and logical, one need look no further than the Y-wing bombers used by the Rebellion.
The armor was stripped and the parts simplified for maintenance and to increase speed, which was fitting considering the high speed hit-and-run tactics employed by the Rebellion. And this looks so good and the canon version legitimately looks stripped down by comparison.
Brilliant!
The Rebel Y-wings aren't the same model as Republic Y-wings, though. For all we know, they haven't been stripped at all.
Jack Rutledge Goembel have you seen Star Wars Rebels?
Jack Rutledge Goembel the Galactic Republic used both a dual seated and single seated Y-Wing. The rebels would later steal the single seat models and strip them down.
wonder if anyone thinks it would be a better idea if the Nebulon Bs were built by the Rebellion. i like the idea that EC-Henry's designs are the original model intended for the Empire and the The rebellion stole the plans and began building as many Nebulon-Bs as they could- hence the name "Nebulon B" its a stripped down version of the original. Not a fan of the "they stole it" since the Rebels have lots of Neby-Bs in service and lots get destroyed yet you still see tons of them. These would be the largest ships built by the Alliance completely from scratch and it fits since it does not take lots of resources to build- other ships in the Fleet like Mon Cals and Assault Frigates were conversions of existing ship
MR.Chickennuget 360, no, the Rebellion never really controlled the sorts of shipyards necessary to build production-line capital ships.
Henry, we need to get you hired by ILM because your a genius when it comes to ship designs.
don't forget fractalsponge and Angelos Karderinis, both create wonderful designs
Seriously, Disney, ILM, SOMEONE HIRE THESE PEOPLE
Definitely!
KK e JJ Binks Abrams are committed to destroying everything from Star Wars ... I hope that in a decade this couple will be fired and all this last trilogy will be portrayed as the nightmare in an alternate reality.
@@dreadedpixel9022 Soon we will have artificial intelligence on our PCs where fans will dictate a decent script with this kind of compatible ship design. So we will no longer need these financiers committed to making profits at all costs for yesterday based on what they think is right for Star Wars .
Rebel Nebulon: Looks cool
Imperial Nebulon: Looks Amazing
Resistance Nebulon: Looks as ugly as hell
Don't hate the Nebulon C Class Escort Frigate because it's beautiful
u mispronounced the resistance nebulon it’s “looks as ugly as hec”
lmao
@@carlobayani noooooooooooooòoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Looks sure ain't everything
Empire: scraps ship
Rebels: its free reel estate.
*real
I thought that you could just connect containers to the exposed keel section, making it very versatile with heavy freight.
@@sim.frischh9781 *keel
@@adamcetinkent Good one ;)
It's free keel estate
Admiral Hurkk: "Just once, I'd like to destroy a starship that we didn't pay for!"
After he saw the rebels using Nebulon B frigates.
Well hey, it isn't like the Rebels can afford to design many of their own types of ships since they're resource poor so they have no choice but to steal ships from the Empire or obtain them from the black market......
@@girlgarde and...
Same for the X-Wings.
@@Jpeg.g so they couldn't easily get around all the immensely overpowering authoritarian controls the Empire had on everything in order to have their own facilities for a full supply-to-end-of-production-chain to produce stuff... is roughly what he (ryan macdonald) should have said
@@girlgarde Almost, but not quite [this isn't a video game ;))]. Being resource poor and getting things from black market at the same time is something of a contradiction. You might be able to get some things from the "black market", but probably not whole ships, and certainly not ships that wouldn't need extensive modification to be made combat-worthy... so that part might be true about what "the Rebels can afford"...
combined with what they can steal (and then presumably welded on to their civilian-or-black-market-bought, non-military-yet-easily-modified-large-ships or something).
But, the inability to design ships is not really based on being "so resource poor" per-say, but probably more of just having fewer than their adversary as well as having to get around an opponent who already controlled the entire government, economy and field of battle (so the whole construction/production loop for large projects like that of a space combat frigate). So, basically, it seems somewhat incomplete/confusing without a conclusion after the "......." [such as the one i wrote below in response to Jpeg.]
Just saying. :)
This is officially part of my head-cannon. If it' cool, I'd like to incorporate this model and lore into an Age of Rebellion table-top campaign I'm writing.
Hatmadder I’m thinking of doing the same. This is a gorgeous design.
Hatmadder Is there any way we can keep updated with your work? Little bit interested.
No need, it is now cannon...they stole it of course...but it is now cannon
@@southernbear736 what?
@@Xozkov Yeah don't worry a few hours later I realized I was wrong, they stole the Nebulon K design by a fan not this, it just happens to look very similar
Nebulon K :i.redd.it/vdzgd89d50331.png
Comic Page it was stolen for:
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This version would be nice to have in "Empire at War" as an Imperial vessel.
I second this
as a replacement for the accumulator class
@@RocketHarry865 acclamator*
@@RocketHarry865
1) it's Acclamator
2) How dare you
@@RocketHarry865 F*** you. The Acclamator is a sexy ship and you have bad taste. This Nebulon-B is like a 6. Acclamator is easily an 8.
i hope some one models this into a empire at war mod
100% agreed, especially AotR or Thrawn's Revenge.
*_"Nebulon-B0"_*
EAW Remake pls
EAW Remake would implement the prettiest and most HD possible, I'm even going to post this video on their discord
someone needs to take his models and put all of them in a EAW FOC mod. like, seriously, that'd be awesome
I personally consider fan designs like this as part of my head-canon as they fit in nicely and only build upon the Disney Canon and Legends as well
This makes a little more sense as it’s heavily armored
I agree , that thin mid-section on the original always had me worried it would break apart at any given moment. In this way it looks like a ship that's a tough nut to crack
@@Taiko206 it was also a major target for any enemy you were up against, making it a massive handicap so I was alway's worry about that obvious weakness
@@Taiko206 it breaking in rouge one confirmed evryones fear
Now, imagine an alternate timeline, with these frigates painted in the red and white of Republic warships, and carrying a squadron of Nimbus-class V-Wings.
SouthpawZer0 that would be awsome
I always wondered what would happen to future imperial ships if the republic never reformed. Combine that with my interest in nebulon-b's overall, and you've got some amazingly high expectations from me.
Or painted red and white with a squadron of E-Wings of the New Republic
@@bioboy1819 even better.
i wonder if anyone thinks it would be a better idea if the Nebulon Bs were built by the Rebellion. i like the idea that EC-Henry's designs are the original model intended for the Empire and the The rebellion stole the plans and began building as many Nebulon-Bs as they could- hence the name "Nebulon B" its a stripped down version of the original. Not a fan of the "they stole it" since the Rebels have lots of Neby-Bs in service and lots get destroyed yet you still see tons of them. These would be the largest ships built by the Alliance completely from scratch and it fits since it does nto take lots of resources to build- other ships in the Fleet like Mon Cals and Assault Frigates were conversions of existing ships
*encounters rebel nebulon-b*
"Look how theyve slaughtered you my boy"
I have always thought the Nebulon-B looked way too weak. This would explain that like the Clone Wars Y-Wing vs the New Hope Y-Wing.
Pretty much. The Nebulon B design canonically hints at this being pretty close to what we would call an out off the dock Imperial Nebulon B.
Such a gorgeous ship, undoubtedly one of my favorites you've done so far. I'd love to see you give the Resistance ships from TLJ like the Nebulon-C and Bunker Buster the same treatment at some point, since it's pretty obvious those ships were partially scrapped and missing a pretty hefty amount of the armor plating and such they originally had when fresh off the production line
Good idea
I wonder what the disgusting Nebulon-C looked liked originally?
Give this comment some more likes so Henry can do a video on what the New Republic Nebular C looked like.
In this non canon continuity I imagine the C was simply another amalgam of salvaged Nebulon hardware pressed into service. Possibly existing in it's on screen form during the rebellion era or being assembled from vintage hardware by the resistance in a similar fashion to what the rebels had done.
@Aspiring Marauder More like a wreck.
What about the Nebulon-B2?
I think it looks pretty cool. Why you gotta hate on the Nebulon C?
The Nebulon B was always one of my favorite ships due to the crazy design. Your interpretation looks super bombad. It makes sense, because the YWing we see in the films and such are themselves stripped of armour playing as seen in Clone Wars.
Goddamit Lucasfilms, JUST HIRE THE DUDE ALREADY.
Plz don't.. plz keep your dirty money loving hands of these creative geniuses
No don't even bother, people in power will kill the creativity of true scfi fans
Don't put that juju on him man.
Lucasfilms? Is it not Disney now? Or am I wrong
He is very talented indeed and the model looks awesome!
he did get the TIE he designed in canon soooooo...
Like the Y wing, this ship has seen better days.
Perfection, that design... is just perfect.
Kota's Nebulon in Force Unleashed II had like a hundred A-wings and Y-wings as well as a whole damn railway connecting both ends
There's like no agreed-upon size for this thing
Which, considering they showed the Falcon attached to one of these things, would give a general estimate.
The Executor changes sizes in Star Wars with some regularity.
There is absolutely an agreed-upon size in Canon. That one Nebulon B in the force unleashed was a bizarre exception.
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 Yeah, it was probably a Pillar of Autumn type situation where the ship was scaled up for gameplay purposes.
@@Exakter that's because it went to the gym regularly.
I need this in Thrawns Revenge Mod for Empire at War!
agreed
Definitely
I’ve always wondered what the purpose of those fins on the ventral aft side were for, in universe. (Out of universe, I’m sure it was added just to look cool). But this realization make it look like the solar panels on TIE fighters, which I can totally get behind and enjoy, and the rebels found them without the solar panels, but decided to leave the rigging on there just in case more were to be found
Wow, 80% of these images actually look like studio models. Amazing work on the textures and film grain.
Also: Something about this makes me really rewatch the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I am not sure whether it is the hangar, or the similarity shaped forward section.
The bit about an explosion in the hangar touching off a chain reaction in munitions storage also reminds me of S1E3
Engineer: sir here is the finished product.
Admiral: not enough dakka.
Engineer: what sir.
Admiral: I said your design lacks the minimum required firepower of imperial vessels.
Engineer: oh I see that's what I thought you said.
The Omnissiah demands more dakka.
Dakka dakka dakka!
*MOE DAKKA!!!*
Yes.
Engineer: But it's an escort frigate. It is for missions where even the Gladiator class would be massive overkill and inefficient usage of resources. It already has more than enough firepower and starfighter to deal with most expected pirate forces and lone backwater rebellious worlds. Star Destroyers are for major opposition like those Mon Cal Cruisers from Dac.
Your designs always brigthen my day
Holy shit that's amazing! I remember being like 8 and thinking that the Nebulon they showed in Empire was cool but looked like a deathtrap, this design maintains its interesting lines and overall hull architecture but actually manages to make something that doesn't look like a star destroyer could shoot it in half in under a second. I also really like the lore you came up with, as it's exactly like something the empire would do.
What about an Imperial X-Wing? Weren't they initially intended for the Empire until the Incom designers defected to the Rebellion?
I'd imagine that it would the same as the changes would be all hardware, but with the work EC Henry does who knows. It might be completely different (my personal hope).
Love this idea! I imagine EC would envision them to ne far more interesting than just a black & grey variant most people design them as. I reckon the rebels (lacking in funds/materials) would've struggled to manufacturer them the way the empire would've.
Given how good they already are I can't see them being too different aside from a paint job
@@AdmiralBlackstar One possibility is an X-wing with a shorter, stubbier nose, since the X-wing's long nose section is supposed to be to hold advanced sensor systems, but the Empire would likely want an X-wing that was more focused as a pure attack ship, so drop the advanced sensors, going with a smaller, cheaper and more compact sensor package and shorten the nose, thus saving weight, or alternately, use the freed up space for additional weaponry like a pair of heavy cannons or warhead launchers.
@@weldonwin well, maybe not shorten the nose, but if the sensor package was reduced then it'd be able to hold a larger compliment of ordinance for its launchers, and perhaps allow for the addition of a concussion missile launcher above and beyond the pair of proton torpedo launchers it already has
This has to be my favourite ship design so far, I absolutely love seeing these Imperial vessels in their glory, and genuinely wish they'd make an appearance in SW canon, because they are gorgeous.
Holy funions, this is my favorite model that I have seen you do so far!! Super dope man!!
Not only do I find your imperial nebulon b to be aesthetically awesome, but I think your logic of the rebel nebulon b being a striped down vessel to be a sound theory.
After seeing this, I would love to see your take on a fully intact Nebulon C, as the one shown in The Last Jedi looks quite battered (seeing that it doesn't have both of its left fins and its body looks like if it lacks a "bit" of the plating).
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I think it's supposed to be like that. Like a modified Nebulon-B. Not an actual model of ship.
@@naisagathefirstdestronmand8559 They are called Nebulon C in the Wookiepedia. So it seems to be an evolution of the Nebulon B rather than a modified version of it.
starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nebulon-C_escort_frigate
i got to admit this has to be one of my favorite fan design. Having something that looks fresh out of the dock compared to the bones we see is amazingly well done. You got me subscribed and I am bookmarking your friends art page.
This is such a glorious redesign, it's a crime that it's not featured in more stories. I know I definitely want to somehow incorporate it in mine. x_x
I've always hated those ships, as they literally look like junk just strung randomly together.
Somehow you managed to make them look amazing---fantastic work.
I think it looks cool. Except for the thing in the middle. I was so happy when I saw it get snapped in Rogue One
@@eternal5930 the ships rely on the shields to survive. most ships don't last long without shields regardless.
I love its "messy gun"-design but I know it's not everyone's taste.
They looked incredibly cool and added to the used-universe feel of the originals. The broken, assymeteic shape that suggested it was utilitarian and form-follows-function while it didn't need to be smooth or aerodynamic.
Now it looks like Star Trek.
And kids - technical interpretation of of anything Star War's never made sense, never will. It is designed to tell an emotional narrative, not a technical. Look too close and nothing makes sense. That's why all the design "developments" are complete bullshit.
From the Fusion-Designed ships, over the Jedi uniforms, over the Mandalorian armor to the old-mans-face of baby Joda. There is no continuity it's just BS to trigger nostalgia. Leave it alone.
@@j.m.w.5064 i like the idea that they are rebel built ships- from the ground up that is why they are so bare bones. They are just a reactor core, life support suit, shields, bridge and weapons and not much else. Built to transport rebel fighters on the central spar and transport them to different parts of the galaxy.
if the rebels built them that explains why we see them so much in rebel fleets.
This video is a masterpiece: story, design, presentation, everything is perfect and believable in universe. Simply outstanding!
I love the inclusion of the re-enforced midsection looking like the structural fins of the CR-90 which are clearly there for the same reason.
Or the struts added to the imperial Arquitens and Gozanti!
3:32 When Alderaan blew up, THAT was a tragedy. Kuat engineering a flaw into a ship they built for the Empire is brilliant
Kuat did nothing but profit from producing ships for the Empire. It's possible they wanted to focus on producing larger more expensive Star Destroyers to get more profit. Kuat didn't get oppressed by the Empire unlike Lothal or something.
You have transformed a ship I was meh about to one that instantly garners my attention!
love this design! if Armada added this, i might get into it.
can you make a cutaway showing the hangar from the outside?
If Kevin Feige needs new ships for his Star Wars movie link him to this channel, outstanding work
I already loved the Nebulon B frigate before, but this design I can love even more because it's true to it's imperial origins and can truly be a contender for galaxy wide deployment. An up armoured hull reducing the mid section weak point, more robust firepower, a hangar with a versatile loadout (x12 Tie Fighters, x6 Tie Bomber/Shuttle, 1x Lambda), concussion missile launchers, and adding on it's other known strengths.
I can easily see how this ship could be chosen over something like an Arquitens light cruiser in convoy escort, planetary defense/blockade, or even as a support vessel in a fleet battle.
I always love these videos, especially the extended lore to justify all the alterations. They reminded me of the extensive work the designers for the Thunderbirds are Go! show put into updating the 60s style vehicles for the 21st century, with so many logical features added without compromising the iconic silhouette of the ships.
Agreed, updates/reimaginings when done well are a joy to behold. EC Henry The guys behind the new Thunderbirds series definitely fall into that category of design work.
@@inthert8118 I was just drooling when I first saw TB3 in action, the rotating cockpit, the utility arms, and all while keeping to the original silhouette, not to mention the redesign of the launch sequences!
I hereby dub this vessel: The Nebulon-BC Henry.
This will make a fine addition to my headcannon.
This reimagined design makes so much sense, pity its not official.
This is gorgeous work! It rivals fractal sponge!
Also, I really like the design similarities to the newly announced Starhawk class. I wonder if the specs from your "original" non-stripped Nebulon - B influenced the Starhawk design...?
I never truly like the rebel alliance nebulon-b but when you designed the Imperial nebulon-b I just fell in love and is now my personal favorite ship if I was in Star Wars I would actually own and to command one of these beautiful Starships
please do the turbulent-class star destroyer from legends and do you colaborate with ansel hsiao?
Fractalsponge also made his own version of the Imperial Nebulon B frigate and comparing both I think the EC Henry version is better.
I'd definitely like to see some more obscure background ships revitalized!
Also, I wonder what the ski speeders from Crait would've looked like when they were brand-new?
I forgot what it looked like but there was a comic about the rebellion days on Crait. So look that up and you'd see the speeder there
After rewatching this a hundred times, I just realized it looks like a mini Eclipse-class lol
Amazing work btw!
Lucasfilm should hire this man, his ships look amazing and fit in star wars
I assumed that the neb B had been repaired by Mon Calimari. it has that bulbous look that is indicative of the fish people.
I really really hope someone at ILM sees this. I always thought the Nebulon B looked stripped down and your design fits so perfectly it's stunning 10/10
This looks perfect. Like an unstripped y-wing.
That is a DAMN good looking ship, i never liked the Nebulon B but looking at it as a stripped down version makes a good deal more sense. Your rendering breaths a new light into it, i just love the forward blade, it reminds me of one of my favorite EVE online hulls, the Maller which can be seen here. wiki.eveuniversity.org/Maller
“Just once I’d like to destroy a ship we didn’t pay for”
I must this is absolutely beautiful job well done
This is now canon for me.
What are the chances, Me and a friend was planning out a fan trilogy and we decided to have a large fleet battle with Neb B's on the imperial side and literally not 2 days ago decided to design an imperial version and the results was surprisingly close to your design. Great work 🤙
If i had to suggest a ship to do next it would be the buckshot from solo it was only a concept for the main ship for the cloud riders.
@@minesolo1969 plz do share your design
@@DrTheRich not sure how i would go about that.
@@minesolo1969 upload a picture to imgur and share the link here. Or make a TH-cam video about it. Or make an ArtStation account :P
Have you ever considered recording your 3d modelling process? I'm sure it would be pretty interesting to see.
Wow, good job mate
PS: I hope you will look on Nebulon-C (from PT) then it served in New Republic navy
Corvettes : Some have hangar bays
Cruisers : Hangar Bay
Small ships : Somehow have hangar bays
Frigates : OH HELL NAH
in legends imperial nebulons escorted convoys and were very good a destroying snub fighters
@EC_Henry Yes, this is my 1 issue with this presentation, that it is established legends lore that the Empire did deploy many NebulonBs - granted, not until 15-20 years after the formation of the Galactic Empire. As such, it would make sense that even if they were not initially deployed, but become the standard once raiding increased and the shortcomings of the command-class and gozanti-class flotillas were past obvious to the point of embarrassment. In fact, the deployment of the NebulonB could be what forced the Rebellion to focus more on fleet actions, as raiding was becoming prohibitively costly in terms of pilots and fighters. In terms of the model itself... and its back story, its pretty much perfect. 9/10!
Imagine serving on a ship as an imperial officer only to see the skeleton of that ship in battle against you years later.
That is by far the most beautiful version of the Nebulon-B frigate that I have ever seen I wish they would have made it look more like this
Headcanon wise, it's also extremely possible the complicated docking facilities faced cost-overruns and development problems, similar to the EMALS system on the Ford-class aircraft carriers.
Can you modernise (and reajust flaws) of The Old Republic era Capital ships and fighters ? Thank you for all of your amazing work !
That's not necessary for the Harrower. The Harrower class already has a perfect space frame.
Republic ships, not siths ships (y es, the harrower class are elegant and well designed.).
The rebel version definitely has some of those Mon Cal ship traits in the front sections mixed in with some imperial-style angles... I'd imagine that the ones they stole were just barely-functional frames with engines that required basically half the ship to be built new around the old frame, but were still better than just a full build from scratch since the engines were still there.
I believe the front chunk of the rebel nebulon has part of a moncalimari city built into it
I don't know about a city, the ship is relatively small. But I do see the aesthetic similarity there.
It could be that those are MonCala structures used to flesh out the salvaged hulls, and that the Nebulons proved to be a useful host to MonCala structures that couldn't realistically cut it in open space.
"Just once, I'd like to destroy a starship that we didn't pay for!"
― Admiral Hurkk at the battle of Oovo IV
i assume the Admiral was then terrified on seeing his first Mon Cal ship droping out of hyperspace to pound his command.
I have mixed feelings, we've seen several other smaller ships built by KDY that radically depart from the aesthetic of the Imperial navy. Funnily enough, what most people call the 'Imperial Aesthetic' is more a design style of the Blissex / Wessex family that designed the Imperial and Victory class in legends then something inherent in Kuati designs.
While this design looks good, it seems almost too clean to me. I'd have gone more with a modular mission pod like is used by the Temple-class Heavy Freighter design for a hangar bay. That would give the ship some girth and bulk.
well if you look at the full legends name "EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate". The EF76 was introduced as a counter-insurgency ship after the Clone Wars. It largely phased out the Class-C frigate. The Nebulon-B was originally designed to defend Imperial convoys against raids by Rebel starfighters, as the Imperial Navy wasn't keen on the idea of relegating its expensive Imperial-class Star Destroyers to escort duty, and the CR90 corvettes were too weak and carried few, if any, TIE Fighters. and for it job of a escort it has a Fabritech ANs-9.5w wide range sensor system. that why there a lot of antennas on the left side of the ship
This was such a great video! I love the concept of this Imperial Nebulon-B. I remember playing X-Wing as a kid and was shocked in my youthful naivety to find out from the game that this was originally Imperial hull design. I did, however, find it odd that the Empire would use such an "incomplete" looking ship, so this vision of it originally decked out in more Imperial fashion looks amazing! I also really liked the design of your speculative Nebulon-A with the smaller forward section, just a really cool look, and the interpretive leap you made to explain the extensive vertical section of the forward hull on the B was a neat idea. Amazing work, you really put a ton of effort into this and all of these videos and it shows! Thank you for your amazing work; we fans really appreciate it.
This will be in my armies fleet since it’s awesome
"So we've a ship that massively overpowers the ISD but they didn't use it because Tarkin is a dumbass."
I love this design so much, the story you made a imperial design language is in point. If I were an Imperial Moff I would order a hundred of these for system security and trade convoy escort duty.
So... what you're suggesting is that what the rebels did to the Nebulon-B is similar to what they did to the Y-wing: rescue it from a junkyard and strip it down! ^_^ Nonetheless, I loved the video and your lore around it. Keep up the amazing work!
Now imagine this thing loaded with high end TIE fighters. I'm talking TIE Avengers, as the Defender would be a bit too big to fit.
My personal headcanon for the original Nebulon-B is more along the lines of the Porsche Ferdinand. The Empire put out the call to Kuat "We need a heavy-weapons platform frigate." But Kuat, currently focusing on the creation of Imperial-class Star Destroyers decided to outsource the work to several other companies, putting up a competition, as you would. "Whoever makes the best one is the one we will fund." So, several other companies came up with designs. One of these companies was Mon-Calamari Shipyards. MCS knew that a Rebellion was already in the works and knew which side they wanted to be on when it all kicked off, so they used this as an opportunity to create their first Warship idea and have their enemies pay for it. The Nebulon B has a lot of Mon-Cala inspired design-choices. Very smooth front, bulbous griblies along the hull and a dedicated command-deck that jutted out of the main space-frame. However, the lead designer of it was someone MCS had poached from Gallofree Yards INC. The same guy that designed the popular GR-75 and he brought a number of Gallofree inspired choices with him as he came, such as the exposed heavy shielding units that run down the front of the ship.
Kuat was not happy with the design, but every other entrant's designs had gone over budget too. They were originally going to go with one of the other designs, but the Empire demanded a large number of these ships quickly and brought the delivery date forward considerably (We have altered the deal, pray we do not alter it further) and Kuat started panicing. MCS, on the otherhand, was actually so confident in the design that they had already gone into full production and already had most of the order in production. With everyone else's designs still on the drawing-board, Kuat was forced to buy the MCS design. However, a lot of cut-backs happened in order to finish the design in time for the Empires delivery date. Specifically, because they were being built in 3 major sections (The front, the engines and the connecting pylon) So, they were forced to sacrifice a lot of the connective tissue between the 3 parts. Especially around the engines, hense why the Engines look like they were glued on with no real support, because that's pretty much what happened. The ship was good enough and the Empire got their order. Although they quickly fell out of favour with the Empire, as they did not fall inline with the Tarkin Doctrine. Eventually, they were sent back to Kuat who paid MCS to dispose of them. MCS of course pocketed the credits and gave the ships to the Rebellion, using the proceeds to fund more ships.
Why don't you work for ILM?
You could bring new life into the SW films instead of them just building bigger star destroyers.
No. The higher ups would kill any innovative ideas EC Henry had.
Just saying. That's why the dislike. Bad idea.
Looks like one of our amazing modelers has just finished a faithful recreation of this concept imperial Nebulon-B for Xwing Alliance, and possibly TIE Fighter Total Conversion.
Dave Filoni: I'll take that render, idea and lore and pay you nothing for it. Thanks
The Nebulan B to me wasn't an imperial ship but a late old republic one. It had the same design direction as the CR-20, charger and other smaller republic ships we rarely saw.
Hmm. I was only able to find 10 Turbolasers (3 in a turret at the bottom of the forward hull, 2 at the bow, 4 amidships and 1 on thhe stern below the engines) and 4 laser turrets (1 forward facing on the bow, 1 at the rea rof the forward hull facing astern and two on the rear hull fasing astern). Where did you put the rest of them EC Henry? I'm sure they are there I just can't find them.
The Nebulon B was the thoughest capship in the games X Wing and TIE Fighter.
Pop the ISD's shield generators with proton torps and then blast it away from the huge blind spot around the engines. No problem.
Corellian corvette? Pop a turret and you are good.
Nebulon B no blind spot, no exposed shield generators, no turrets to pop. It took ages to wear down its shields and it ate Y Wings and TIE Bombers for breakfast. Any mission that featured the Nebulon B as an opfor was a headache.
Here is a little addition to your head canon to allow the games X-Wing and TIE Fighter. After the defeat at Yavin, the Empire realized that they needed anti-starfighter ships quick. They went to the scrapyards, too and salvaged everything space worthy and capable to hold anti-starfighter batteries and hanger bays. The Empire went function over form this time because they considered these ships as stop gap cannon fodders. Screen, slow down and annoy the enemy fighters as much as possible until better designs are available. For this reason, any restoration of the stripped down Nebulons was considered a waste of time and resources. On the contrary, they took the most stripped down but still functional Nebulon and made that as the standard template for the class. The Nebulon B. Even those ships, that were in better shape, were stripped down to be the same as the standard. This way, the Imperial Navy gained a fleet of standardized frigates AND resources from the stripping at the same time. Win-Win.
Ships that are technically canonical but have never appeared in any visual media?
Chiss/Empire of the Hand warships.
We know they existed, and that they even had a star destroyer analog, but, with the exception of the Nssis-class Clawcraft, we never see *any* of them. Which in my opinion is a damn shame, as they are one of the most interesting EU factions in star wars (they were allies of the Empire hidden in the unknown regions).
I'd love to see you'd come up with.
Honestly the Empire probably could have kept these things, maybe as an assistant to the cantwell in discouraging pirate activity
I really like your vision here. Disney should get you on board, atleast their ships would be good.
Do you know of Mel's miniatures? I would absolutely buy a model of this for Star Wars Armada game! Seriously try to working something out with Mel's miniatures or maybe do it on your own. This would be awesome to add to a Armada fleet!!!
The big bad in my Star Wars table top game is using one of these, getting one reassembled to use as his flagship was how he managed the massive amount of space he had to cover. My players have come to fear the Comander and his His Nebulon B the Sundown!
This looks like something that could be a ramming ship.
Just make the front pointy.
I always wondered where the "guns" were on this ship as seen in the movies. It's supposed to have quite a bit of turbolasers but I can't see where they would be placed.
Your version makes a lot more sense.
its hard sometimes to explain canonically something that was did in the real life for technichal purposes. During the concept modeling of the ships back in the original trilogy, they wanted the rebel medical vessel to look like it was made from scrap parts, since it was a rebel thing instead of an ordenated imperial one. They literally stacked up some previous models of rejected designs and built nebulon, as you can see in the sw documentary. It looks like this cuz the art guys literally scrapped parts of ships that lucas didnt approve and stacked up them, the result being nebulon b. You could probably in canon say that the nebulon b are damaged nebulon a imperial vessels, but this doesnt make much sense since every nebulon b is the same, like it was produced in a scrappy but ordenated rebel factory, with cheaper materials. A more convincing backstory would be exactly what it is in real life. The nebulon b was comissioned by the rebel alliance as a cheap to produce transport and medical vessel, focusing on infantry carrying, and to build it they tried to imitate the imperial vessel design you created with easily accessible scrap parts of common found spaceships.
its pretty clear LucasFilm should hire you. You have serious design chops. like I would be interested in seeing some completely original work
I also wouldn't be surprised if some Nebulon-Bs were deployed to the outer rim and wild space in order to take care of border disputes and local warlords where it was impractical to send a Victory class Star Destroyer. While on these far flung tours of duty, many young and conscripted officers may have become disillusioned by the Empire and defected to various rebel cells who themselves may have stripped the frigates due to the critical lack of material many cells contended with early in the war. Plus, any Nebulons who were taken intact wouldn't be able to be repaired as the rebellion may have lacked resources, blueprints, or the dockyards needed to repair an imperial capital ship. In their early years though, a mostly intact Nebulon would have been a terrific smuggling or infiltration ship as any minor exterior damage could easily be passed off a damage sustained in the outer rim and with a crew compliment of imperial defectors, they may have been able to sneak into imperial shipyards to steal material, starfighters, or even get repairs to the frigates if the imperials didn't catch on. Unfortunately, few Nebulons would have been able to pull off such a heist and as the war drug on and the rebellion able to secure larger and more capable capital ships, the usefulness of the decrepit Nebulons would have diminished until all they were used for was back of the line support ships, rarely in immediate combat.
Makes me wonder what an ISD would look like modified and stripped down for the rebels.
If I may, can I request a video or two focusing on why the Rebels didn't use Clone War Era CIS ships like the Trade Federation Battleships, or ships of the GAR, and what they could have looked like if they had been (seeing the ring and/or sphere of the Federation ships stripped down like your Nebulon's sounds very fascinating to me). And I recall in legends reading about the New Republic having Star Destroyers, and I would love to hear and see what you would say about that topic. Like, would they just paint them in Republic Red? Or would they also make design changes due to the SD being such an iconic Imperial ship?