Star Wars Capital Ships | Is this the BEST Use of ION TECH? | Aggressor-class Star Destroyer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- The Aggressor-class Star Destroyer has what I think is the best use of ion technology in all of Star Wars. See how this Star Wars Capital Ship compared to others like the Super Star Destroyer, Imperial-1 class Star Destroyer, CR90, and Venator-class Star Destroyer. See how the Aggressor-class Star Destroyer was used by the Zann Consortium and why the Imperial Navy was deprived of this amazing ship.
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EAW had some of the coolest designs for ships.
yep best game of the year
Their ideas were great in general. Combining so much "Illegal" or forgotten technology to build an arsenat that can easily rip apart every super star destroyer in secret..
And then use it to steal some money, maybe own a senator.
Now that EA dosnet hold exclusive rights to star wars games I hope we get a new strategy game set in a galaxy far far away. Lol
@@greyhunter3271 We can only wait.
@@greyhunter3271 EA doesn't hm?
i wish they fleshed out tyber zann, and his whole plan of corruption. i really did love it.
Same here! Really wish they could've made references to him in shows like Star Wars: Rebels. Hell, in FOC, it's established that Tyber Zann knew Thrawn from the Imperial Academy, and Thrawn was the main villain in one of the seasons. Would've been really neat to see Tyber come into play, maybe staging a raid on an Imperial facility under Thrawn's control, inadvertently aiding the Rebels as a distraction while at the same time posing another threat to them. Or at the very least, have him in the background during a cantina scene or something.
Sorry, I'm just fanboying here.
Id love a EAW 2 with Tyber corrupting the galaxy of the new republic.
ALL Hale the Zann Consortium!!! 🤠👍
The FoC fleet was so OP in Empire at War. Those massdrivers and the disruptors on the fighters were deadly.
“I hate torpedo’s, let’s destroy them.”
“It’s almost not fair.”
“Shields? Not for long!”
“That shield generator is mine!”
“You didn’t need those ion cannons did you?”
"I'm out, but I'm taking YOU with me!"
"Need a really big gun?"
Imperial engineers: "We've got the best ion cannon in the whole galaxy!"
General Grievous: "been there, done that... The Malevolence would've wrecked the Republic's fleet if that Skywalker boy hadn't steered it into a moon!"
Fun fact, in the spanish ver of EAW it is called the Krayt Class
That's actually Badass as hell
Niiiice
I had an aneurysm reading that
Sort of looks like a UNSC frigate from halo meta
Fr looks like a harbringer class
@@richardg7485 more like the paris class
It looks like UNSC frigates like the Forward Unto Dawn and In Amber Clad, but thicker and with wings on the side.
Yeah it does
Looks like a bigger Charon-class frigate from halo 3
This ship would be the perfect centerpiece and a well rounded battlegroup. Along with a carrier, a dedicated battleship, and an interdicted cruiser, it would be virtually unstoppable.
It was in game, 5 gunships, 5 mass-driver frigates ,this one and Kedalbe = unstoppable !!!
@@jangounchained5279 ok
Not gonna lie this is my favorite glasscannon approach of a Capital Ship.
RIP Tom
RIP Carl as well
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Mistakes were made....
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ouch do the stupid edit and get the pin removed
@@at-bazelgeuse silence Carl, else I edit you as well
It's like a really advanced MAC from Halo, with point defense stripped out
“Need a really big gun?”
Me: “Yes.”
Malevolence: "Am I a joke to you?"
The Malevolence wasn't helpless against statfighters and bombers the way this ship was.
There were other malevolence classes deadlier
A ship that has the proper use of the term “Destroyer”
“Need a really big gun”
Looks kinda like a giant UNSC Frigate from Halo. It definitely redefines the meaning of "Star Destroyer". I remember calling in Orbital Strikes from the Aggressor which wrecked any AT-AT that was unfortunate enough to be within it's blast radius.
The Zann Consortium was completely broken tbqh.
Ain't that the truth. It was either their excessive use of mass drivers, their 1 hit 1 kill glass cannons, their bombers which fired 2 bombs at a time or their starvipers which could kill capital ships in large enough swarms with their buzz droids
The only real downside was the significantly higher price of their ships, but with the Zann consortiums ability to gain credits, it was never really a problem
i mean if you keep all the astroids at the start and rufh them with a whole bunch of bombers then maybe
That just made it more fun
Ships, such as these, should be made canon. However, certain finer details such as its mobility, firepower, & such could be Tweaked to better fit into canon & such.
Disney is too busy suffering regressive feminism to do something that useful.
It doesn’t need to be on the Silver Screen, Joshua Tupper.
I’m hoping that one might pop up on “Star Wars: Resistance” & such.
The Zann consortium is canon again thanks to a mobile developer sneaking them into a game. So anything is possible.
Which game, TroopperFoFo?
@@nickvinsable3798 It is one that isn't playable anymore but is still canon. Star Wars uprising. The Devs put in a unit called Zann Racketeer before the game shutdown.
I like to think that the Aggressor project became the foundation for the Peltast-class Star Destroyer fielded by the Empire of the hand, signifying the Imperial origins of the vessel, both are similar in design, function and size...mostly in the spinal mounting of a giant weapon
It’s orbital bombardment from FoC was sooooo cool looking!
We DID see a massive ion weapon in Clone Wars, the Malevolence. It even had good defensive arrays. Why this was the only appearance is bizarre.
Yeah, the lack of upscaled Ion weaponry in ship to ship combat has always struck me as a little bizarre. Maybe not this big, but I'd like to see more ships with forward Ion cannons like this. Think a cook hero ship idea would be a C70 Charger that swapped out the Salon pod to mount a pair of forward facing Ion Cannons
According to lore the CIS Munificent Class Frigate has a pair of bow-mounted Ion Cannons right below the bridge.
@@evanboll4651They aren't ion cannons.
I ask since one year for a video about the Aggressor Class. And finally we have one.
This is one of the most unique Ships in Star Wars. With a complete different design. I wish. We see one or two in the next Star Wars Movie. As Star Destroyer killer. ^^
That thing reminds me of something from Homeworld honestly.
Looks like something from Halo if you ask me.
I like the sleek desing of this vessel. Mercilles sounds like a capital ship assassin. Sneaks up on a target with cloak turned on and then unloads the main battery fire on unsuspecting victim.
Don't forget that all important kryte dragon paint (it seriously is, really badass).
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As far as I’m concerned. It’s still canon.
Don't you mean.....
Cannon?
*CSI MIAMI SCREAM*
This is my favorite Star Wars ship. It's both practical and wonderfully/terrifying designed. It definitely puts the destroy in destroyer.
Whenever I played is the Zahn Consortium I would always have at least one aggressor class in my fleet. I found out that having an aggressor class and a entire fleet in support of Corvettes would utterly destroy anything it came across. I've destroyed high-level space stations and even taken out the executor with that setup. And a lot of the time people use weapons that have missiles that have longer range and lock on so the Corvettes on the Consortium have Point defense lasers that completely stops any type of attack, and a single ship has a very wide area as protection so you can sit there and individually engage each one as one ends so you're essentially Invincible to missiles.
I hope a lot of the ships from this old game come back, I love the Mando ships
I never realised how big this ship is...
With each main weapon being so large, I think the recharge/rate of fire would really be a huge disadvantage and would rely heavily on support ships for protection in between shots.
They're a little silly looking, and the game did NOT balance them correctly, but they're pretty cool. I like to imagine that since they're built from weapons schematics found in the Death Star 1 wreckage that their guns at least saw some use in other imperial superweapons like the Eye of Palpatine. (ANd honestly they are KINDA similar to the massive guns in the attack asteroids from the second to fourth level of Jedi Knight Mysteries of the Sith.
In my headcanon this and the Keldabe Battleship were based on old Mandalorian Warship designs from the KOTOR Era. I bet the Aggressor wouldn't have seen Imperial Service even if the Death Star survived, and that it was Tyber Zann who gave the class life.
Love this ship and would love to see it return!
This vessel is by far my favorite design
Oh! I love the merciless! That ship has won me so many wars via its cloak super shot combo, I usually deal the killing blow with only that one ship
I remember how I cheesed the final mission in force of corruption by building 50 of these things and then just throwing them at the Executor Class SSD. The moment they lost their main guns, I'd detonate them RIGHT ON TOP of the SSD
This ship was definitely a unique it terrifying weapon of mass destruction that could have been built by the empire later on but wound up in the hands of a criminal Warlord that Unleashed its full capability on both the Empire and the rebels after the battle of Endor. I really hope that Disney makes a book for this to make this Canon and I also hope to see this ship as well as remnants of the Zann Consortium in the new movies or series.
I envy Zahn👏👏👏all that power and a Clutch paint job, he even had some badass mandalorian starvipers...all he needed was a crew of IG 100's with jet packs and his second in command to be Black Krrsantan, and lots of DX-2 disruptor pistols
I love your videos!! You find & make videos on things no one else thinks about!!👍☯️👍
Oh Hell Yeah!!! I am a Big fan of the Zann Consortium!!!
God, I would love to see this be more mainstream.
I share your opinion about the lack of utilization of Ion weapons in Star Wars, though from a slightly different angle. I like them because they provide a nice alternative to simply destroying or trying to destroy an opponent's ship. While good for setting up a target for a devastating follow up barrage, just being able to use them to disable the target ship and then get out of the area is a big deal to me. :)
I feel like there is enough space on the hull of the ship to have lots of point defense laser cannons to make up for that weakness against fighters.
It’s the matter of power needed, not space
Was expecting to leave finish this video being informed, not laughing as well.
But 0:48 killed me
For a crime consortium it might have been an option to fire the plasma canon first to drain the shield and then ION to disable the ship to get to the cargo unopposed. Has it ever been used that way?
My question: Could you cover a turbo laser shot in a ion "sleeve" to allow it to pass through a shield?
Has anyone done fan art combining the keldabe and the aggressor??? Now that would be a fleet killer!!!!!!!
the story to EawFc was really good in my opinion and i wish we got a squeal to it or at least a remastered original
I think this ship is a mix between Star Wars and UNSC ships.
To be entirely honest, I've go with something similar to a regular Victory-class Star Destroyer but equipped with v-200 ion cannons which were capable of breaking through the most advanced shields known to the galaxy prior to the Galaxy Sun's missiles or and upscaled version of the Zeta One Heavy Ion Cannon which could ionize an entire ship in a single hit.
Would love to see it back in canon. Could kinda see used as a space artillery when defending a planet
now imagine this in a fleet of just 5 of these against any large ship
It looks like the Empire and UNSC worked together to make this thing, so kinda like the Empire of the Hand ships which had both Chiss and Imperial influences. Which is pretty cool ngl.
The ships too cool for Disney to put it back in but still would love to see it back agen
Thank you. I always enjoy anything from Empire at War.
Sees Krayt Dragon, "I'm so gonna have that painted on the side of my van someday!"
Would love to see the aggressor class in canon.
Now just imagine if they made a quad variant
0:54 press f in the chat for tom the imperial officer.
"Need a really big gun?"
The Venator Class Star Destroyer could either be the Aggressor's greatest ally or the greatest foe the Aggressor has to deal with.
I completely agree that Ion weaponry is severely underutilized in the Star Wars Universe. The Empire could have their Star Destroyers rely mainly on Ion cannons in place of their massive number of Turbolasers. Disable an enemy capital ship (and their shields) with a barrage of Ion cannon fire, then destroy or further cripple them with precision bombardment from the still numerous and incredibly powerful Turbolasers. Also, by reducing the amount of power being used by a frankly excessive number of Turbolasers, they could outfit their Star Destroyers with point-defense turrets. I think missile and torpedo weapons are also underutilized by capital ships in the Star Wars universe, particularly those of the Empire.
It would make a great thing to fight in canon
This ship reminds me a lot of those paris class unsc (halo) cruisers
Tyber zan knew what was best
You know shit's boutta get real when the ships start getting named "Aggressor"
I could totally see the Zann Consortium coming back. Though maybe as an Imperial warlord faction with no interest to be a part of the New Republic or First Order.
I like that darktrooper frigate
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
ALWAYS reminded me of a UNSC Charon-Class light frigate from Halo.
Despite the absolute hell Disney's 'Star Wars' has turned into, I do hope this ship is added into the canon, along with the Keldabe Class and a few others, as well as some interation of the Zann Consortium, except we only get to see little hints of it in the movies and TV shows to follow, and the main portrayal will be in future Star Wars games - in the EU, it is after all the deep, extremely corrupt underworld that has these monsters.
There's some amazing new 3D models for the Keldabe and the Aggressor, adding a few more weapons and more robust overall design and plating, like 3 armor prongs near the frontal sections, really pretty. It adds much-needed detail work on the ship, while making it look even more intimidating.
In my fan fiction brain the Aggressor-Class is based on the Malevolence.
Same Stuff but cheaper to produce. :3
Poor Tom! You might have un wittingly created a a new idea for a shirt.Your logo with the phrase "Tom's Dead" on it. I dig how you go over such unique and cool ships that go unnoticed most of the time.
A slight redesign would've made it even better. Loose the 2 Turbolasers and replace them with as many light laser cannons as that allows.
It will have some Starfighter defense - which is it's big weakness.
Causing attacking fighters and bombers to take evasive maneuvers and keep a eye on them, which will help it's own escort screening fighters in combat.
And give it's own fighters more time to finish them off - doing a attack run _against_ a ship firing AA requires more caution.
After all the heavy Turbolasers are almost redundant considering any Captial ships have to face the dual superweapons.
And Snubfighters are more of a threat than Corvettes.
Way cool!! I've never heard of it.... but that's definitely a practical and deadly....
If you look really closely at that V150 Planet Defender cross-section, you'll see a marking saying "1 km gap" between the generator and the emitter. That thing is absolutely massive... If the scale is to be trusted, more massive than the Imperial Star Destroyer... Quite and impressive achievement, fitting THAT on a ship. Remember the Malevolence from Clone Wars? The thing was built around its cannon.
But with the plasma blaster, I'm not impressed. Would have thought fitting a several hundred turbolaser turrets, or, better, one massive turbolaser a-la the ramming laser from TLJ and a battery of about 20 articulated turrets to either reinforce the main fire or defend from these pesky starfighters, would be a better solution.
But synchronising the two is a really nice touch if you ask me. The Ion may actually momentarily overload the shield just enough to deal damage...
I want a Tyber Zahn trilogy.
4:06 i though it was Vosnkr
The Aggressors had significantly more turbolasers. The "2" is only a gameplay function.
This should’ve been the ship that Palpatine used in ROTS.
Imagine if he put more weapons on it, so that it became a capital ship killer!
That is far scarier than just a "death star destroyer".
Best part Richard Epcar was the VA for this unit of a Capital ship
But, most important of all, remember: calling an Imperial officer "bro" is a very bad idea, and the Force will be with you, always.
Crusader , Vengeance and Aggressor +Kedalbe = UNNNNNSTOPPABLE !!! 5 5 1 1 pcs .... in that formation... And MCU ( or MALP - That mobile missile platform i forgot ) + Crusader tank 👍😉👍
love empire at war and the design is quit intresting
OH GOD YES i hope it does!
Cant believe that they invented the Xyston for episode 9 while thingsl ike this or the onager have been on the shelf for all this time
I hope these ships appear in the book of boba fett
Can we take the time and pay our respects for tom💯
We need an Empire at War three so we can learn of the rest of Tyber Zanns story
Can u please do the Zygerrians we been waiting for a long time
Best Glass Cannon Ever
The fact that Tyber got these designs from destroyed the Death Star data caches means that in Legends the Empire had a better alternative to the DS.
Edit: needs to be brought into cannon.
Smoke should have this built into his ship
This is Tyber Zann's Command ship. Albeit slow this thing was a shipkiller in Forces of Corruption
The Aggressor's certainly got big guns but it's unclear how much generation it had to back them up without a cross-section to give reactor scale vs barrel containment generation scale. (Or how good it was at waste heat management, which is a decided advantage most planetary weapons have.)
It reminds me of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn or a marathon class cruiser