“Failure is unacceptable!” What did everyone think of Vader: Dark Visions issue #2? I was unprepared for just how much I would enjoy this series, and issue #3 looks like it is going to be an interesting one too! Thank you for watching everyone, I hope you enjoy today’s video.
It's amazing to me that these comics are so good when the new films are so mediocre. The new Vader comics have flat out been some of the best SW media ever, imo. It's a conundrum to be sure.
Yeah, I'm surprised Palpatine didn't demand for a lightsaber harakiri at that point. How many times has Vader feiled his missions in EU by Empire Strikes Back?
Can you imagine what the Rebels thought when they exit from hyperspace, only to rescue a single pilot. Only to see this absolutely battered Star Destroyer. I bet the Spy had a helluva story to tell.
I just imagine them in a docking bay after the mission like "Yeah, I thought it was weird they followed me through the asteroid belt, but damn, what kinda maniac flies a Star Destroyer into the mouth of a giant space worm? Honestly though, when I was shooting my way outta the thing, I was on the edge of pissing myself. I mean, for all I knew, the guy was about the blow their hyper drive or something. And for what? I mean, sure, the data will come in handy, but it's just a damn factory!"
Vader: *humming* Tylux has been doing well, more than well. I may promote him when I get there. *exits hyperspace to find the star destroyer torn to shreds, covered in worm goop, and on fire with an entire rebel fleet six inches from his face* Vader: WTF Tylux.
It was your fault Vader, you threatening Tylux death and killed multiple imperial officers in front of him, making Tylux think that the smallest mistake is death and forgetting that Tylux is human not sith. Note: "I know the comment is a joke."
@@knytrydr73 Yes, but he lasted longer than if you weren't respectful, like that guy who got choked just because he insulted the force, I forgot his name, I think it was Tagge or Motti, I don't remember.
This was a major problem with the Imperial command structure. With the constant threat of being brutally murdered for small blunders hanging over your head, with not even your rank and years of experience to save you, officers get desperate to succeed in their goals, often resulting in making bigger mistakes at the cost if the Empire. While Vader was supposedly the Empire's most powerful tool, he was also the Empite's greatest liability by crippling the command structure from the organized meritocracy of the Republic to a fear-driven free-for-all in the Empire. Then again, what do you exoect when you put deranged, emotionally unstable, cyborg, space wizard in charge of morale.
Samuel Bedsole that’s not the only reason he would kill officers . They all looked down on him behind his back and only wanted to gain power within the empire by any means . He expected them to follow thru with their jobs. Like when he killed Ozzel thru FaceTime on a destroyer , he noted that it isn’t the first time he failed him and because of ozzel they now had to fight their way into the rebel base . Officers tended not to think and Vader punished them
@@slavaukraini54 Not all of them. He had quarrels with many officers, but natural selection alone started to trim that out of the population over time.
Well how many decent officers were lost to this method, at least one we know of, Lorth Needa. Excellent Star Destroyer Captain, qualified, was handpicked for Death Squadron. It's that sort of stupidity with automatically destroying the career of officers for one or two failures that should never fly in a truly professional military. I think lore wise, it shows how far Vader declined morally from his days as a Jedi Knight. Rommel had failures, eventually made Field Marshal, Halsey didn't get it right every single time with his Carrier Task Force, still managed to batter the Jap navy into the bottom of the Pacific. You build 50,000 Star Destroyers, you should have had 50,000 Captains ready to command them, and then let them go, cut them loose! Foster the Nelson spirit, not the Hitler spirit. Withdrawal is an option, but always seek to close with the enemy whenever possible and defeat them. However, if you are not victorious but preserve your ship and crew, you're not going to be shot. That aside in a small joke, never let Commanders Captain ships.
Considering how his suit was made to be inefficient enough to keep Vader in near constant pain or discomfort without him dying, Empirial officers were dancing around getting killed every time they encountered him. Lord have mercy on the Imperial officer that mentions they like sand around Vader.
Officer: "Commander, The Rebel Spy has fled into that space slug. Shields are down, Weapons Tracking is offline and Damage Control reports hull breaches across several bow sections." Tylux: "..." Tylux: *"Ramming Speed."*
I'da just been like "Whelp, it's been nice working with you all, and good job on the mission. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go blow myself out of the nearest airlock."
I think the commander hallucinated the whole time. His fear of Vader made him imagine how his visit and learning that they didn't have the spy was going to go down, and that fear pushed him to the edge to pursuit, which is something the rebels expected. In the end, as the ship is on fire and he's about to die, the sum of all his fears materializes in front of his to deliver him to the Force. But Vader was never there.
Agreed. Vader certainly wouldn't board a doomed ship and focus on killing the commander. He'd focus on salvaging the situation first, THEN kill the commander. It was simply the sum of his fears that made him see Vader, when what no doubt actually led to his death was a barrage of turbolaser fire from the Rebel ships.
@@jakealter5504 No, a true Sith needs to keep in control of themselves. That guy was just off his rocker, and basically made himself worthless to the empire through the recklessness.
Dude, I loved it as well but my favorite art is used in the KOTOR Comics and early Dark Times series. They were a mix of rough sketch and paint that somehow looked amazing. Wouldn't transition great to animation but the stories themselves could save Star Wars from a fate worse than death right now 😂
I just wanna see Vader's reaction to this blunder, and I really wanna know if he recognizes that he indirectly caused this. That's what you get when your only method of keeping things in order is fear. People can handle only so much fear before they snap into something more destructive.
I was wondering if Vader was going to let him go given how desperate his attempt was, but failure really is unacceptable for Vader lol. Thank you for watching ZB!
2:42 tylex, somehow FOUND the rebel, damaged his ship and forced him to land on a desert planet with no hope of escape.... So in all tense and purpose the rebel is contained and can't escape. He should have just told the fleet to surround the planet and just wait for vader to arrive and tell him "the spy is trapped on the planet vader he will be ours in a short time." which is true. Dead or captured Tylex succeeded had he stopped then and there.
This actually was a perfectly reasonable response. Sure you might lose the ship or a bunch of fighters, but failure was not an option. Too bad he actually ended up near a planet with a raging sandstorm. I doubt that did him any good. :P
Vader: ......Not only did he fail, but he's also at a sandy planet? You know, I WAS going to let him live, but now that I have to be so close to sand, no, he's dead.
Reasonable? He turned a 99% flawless victory into a complete disaster, lost a destroyer, wasted the lives of himself and his entire crew and gained nothing. He didn't deserve to be punished for failing to capture the spy but definitely did after losing the destroyer for no reason
In the end vader would have killed him because he destroyed an whole ISD and lost many fighters. And ISD is more important than an officer. You see this in ep5 where he killed the Admiral because his ISD was too close too the planet and because of that it got easily disabled. Material like an ISD is more important then almost anything else.
I just want to take a moment and admire the dedication of the crew. In the face of his every insane command, they obeyed. Was it out of fear, or had Tylux's fear of Vader in the past inspired him to become a most capable commander that had earned his crew's loyalty, and thus convinced them to have faith in his methods during this final terrifying chase.
and intimidation as a motivator can result in failure like here, the imperials had won but in his fear of failing vader the commander fucked up everything
A moment of silence for the Bellicose, please. Just brought back into canon with this issue (it originally appeared in the Thrawn trilogy), and already devastated by the end of it.
Its why the Empire was doomed from the start. Palpatine, sith lord as he is, relied so much on fear and intimidation through it that it ultimately back fired in a great number of ways.
To be perfectly honest, this is entirely Vader's fault. The guy did not even mess up the mission very badly, it was tactically an Imperial victory, and they knew exactly what the Rebels stole, so they could just warn that factory to double the guards, change the codes and alter the protocols. But because Vader always demanded perfection, which is impossible, people made more serious mistakes on all the double or nothings they were forced to take.
Imagine being the rebel pilot in this story. *u wing goes into slug* Imperial Captain: Fire all weapons and open a hailing channel for my victory yodel. U Wing pilot: don’t worry they’ll never follow us in here. Imperial captain over intercom: *_Yodalehehoo!_*
This actually explains why you can take an AT-AT down with a towing cable. Usually you would just open the bottom hatch and shoot the cable off. But would you want to tell Darth Vader the Rebels escaped because you stopped your vehicle, especially when the rumor is going around he just executed the admiral? Better take your chances with the cable.
If not for meee... (shows picture of space slug with Star Destroyer halfway down its throat and/or mynocks chewing up the hull of the Star Destroyer) For biting of more than you can chew...literaaaallllyyyy...
You know, it must've been utterly terrifying for the Rebel pilot. He tries to take refuge within a large space worm, only to have some crazy guy ram a whole damn Star Destroyer down the worm after them.
@@WatcherCCG that’s why I only said similar since the falcon did wind up inside of the space worm and needa got killed by Vader even though loosing the falcon wasn’t really his fault since Han Solo was a very good pilot and was pretty clever on escapes
@@jakealter5504 Interestingly enough, Needa took the bullet on that one. He could've tossed anyone on his bridge under the bus and Vader might have actually accepted their death as a sufficient warning he should stop fooling around. But he took the L and died for his crew.
I dunno guys but the amount of drugs for the Imperial officer to ram a fucking ship to a giant metal slug makes me question the empire’s decisions even more...
Commander Tylux clearly did not attend the Death Star Orientation Day meeting where he could fake his strangulation at the hands of Vader and return back to service with a disguise ..tssk
I kind of wonder how Stalinesque Self-Destructive Vader ended up being to the Galactic Empire. Killing every subordinate that fails, especially when said failures are due to enemy superior tactics or strategy or even just luck, will eventually get you to kill all of your own military commanders. Eventually, no one will be crazy enough to want a position of higher leadership so only those who are exceptionally good at hiding their own ineptitude or the less-clever will get the top spots. Meanwhile, your military commanders will end up taking more catastrophic losses to ensure their own survival and will hide more mistakes rather than get them addressed as the penalty for any mistake is death. Last but not least, if you think you're going to be executed for a failure not your fault no matter what...isn't that massive incentive to defect to the Rebel Alliance?
Well, the only reason they won’t defect to the Rebels en masse is because their families are still under Imperial surveillance and the pay is probably worse. Most Rebel fighters are just people who are down on their luck and had nowhere else to go.
Oh wow that is literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in all the Star Wars and I never seen any Imperial on this desperate! I guess the grand Inquisitor was right, "there are some things far more frightening than death."
Imagine where how long Palpatine would have ruled if he had just told Vader to stop killing his military leadership every time they lost more than one battle.
and this is why the empire failed. bc when someone fails a mission they are killed over it. that's gotta be bad for moral. I would have never though I would get so many likes lol you guys are awesome 😁😁😎😎
I'd say that, even more than the moral thing, skilled officers could be killed for a single mistake. You remove valuable assets to the Empire, which could eventually become great, because something naturally unforeseeable occurred. I mean really, not everyone is a psychic space wizard Vader! When is that gonna get through that shiny ass metal head of yours? But also, yeah, the plot armor thing. The old trilogy is a good story, but no one ever said it was perfect.
I think that's the point of it. But wannabe facists on the internet see the uniforms and go "wow so cool!" And ignore all the moral implications the writers put in.
this happened to an ancient chinese general after he lost the battle of talas. He was executed by the emperor but the other generals werent as good as him so the empire fell
The Killings will continue until moral improves. But seriously who is running this Navy when you officers going loco at the thought of Vader killing them for missing one ship you've got a problem.
Yeah, but who the hell is gonna tell Vader that he needs to stop killing officers? I mean, Palpatine is just as much of a psycho if not more, and for everyone else, that's just a good way to wind up the next dead officer. "Hey Vader, you need to stop killing officers, it's really not helping th- ack! ack!"
Also go Tomcatters, but by some point, Vader himself was actually running the Navy as Supreme Commander. So. It just goes to show one person alone cannot do the job, its why the US Navy is divided into so many commands, though the authority stops with the President, theres oversight from the DDG Captain to the Chief of Naval Operations and everything in between, the DesRon Commodore, the TF Commander that DesRon gets assigned to, the Fleet Commander, the Naval Commander in the area, like CINCPACFLT or COMUSFF (Pacific Fleet/Fleet Forces,) or theater commander like with USEUCOM, the Vice-CNO, the CNO, SecNAV, SecDef, President. At no time should the CNO personally be on board your DDG running around screwing with your command, Vader does do this often, and even if on a mission for the Emperor, reduces the effectiveness of his commanders in the field as such. They even make this Death Squadron for him, which sounds fine, but then you realize its a finite speck of the entire Imperial Navy when he should be like Jellicoe or Nimitz, commanding the entire Fleet from up on high, with subordinates all the way down to this guy in his Star Destroyer (which really is probably a Battleship, but still should be considered a individual unit, like a DDG or CG, or SSN, or CVN)
Vader when he heard the news of the captain's victory: Aw yeah boi! Another captain for the Death Squadron! And only one escapee, I think I'll surprise all by shooting it down and giving the man his transfer orders myself. Piett: Shouldn't you warn him you're coming? Vader: And ruin the surprise, what's the worst that can happen? *The Captain goes clinically insane and looses everything*
Piett "sir this is the third time this happened, May I suggest next time we say, Vader is coming with your reward, or is pleased and wishes to congratulate you" Vader looks at piett for a few seconds,"I suppose it wouldn't hurt, I was looking forward to a new competent captain"
Vader: Failure is unacceptable! Also Vader: *LOSES TO HIS SON THAT HE DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS HIS SON AND ALSO HIS SON WAS BARLEY NEAR A JEDI AND LEADS TO HIS ENTIRE DEATH STAR GETTING DESTROYED*
I would love to see a fan made short of this moment with a really good actor playing Tylus. I want to *HEAR* his subordinates protesting his crazy insistences as he looks at them with mad eyes and says "FOLLOW THEM!" Over and over.
Well good luck with the mutiny, hiding a star destroyer, and extreme rebel suspicion if not hostility. Not to mention Vader would likely be very ticked about it
I think the Emperor is more forgiving. After all, he’s more of a politician compared to Vader the enforcer. Palpatine is only unforgiving for cases of high treason and seriously gross cases of ineptitude.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 not really. If palpatine is the one that wants you dead you can expect any of three things to happen, 1: if he’s feeling merciful he will have Vader kill you, 2: if he’s feeling semi merciful he will give you a quick death, or 3: he’s not feeling merciful and will give you the bevil lemolisk treatment several times before killing you
Its all the person who relays messages fault, if they didn't informe high command that they captured a rebel spy and instead just said that a single rebel ship escaped none of this would have happened.
Can you imagine just chilling in a bunch of spacerocks thinking about your complete defeat when out of no where the people who killed your comrades just start killing themselves trying to chase you. I imagine it would feel weird
Breaking News: "Crazed imperial Officer risks getting his ship and crew swallowed by giant space slug to capture a single enemy spy.".... Perfect Headline.
I don't know what's crazier, the officer ordering his crew to fly the Star Destroyer into the mouth of a space slug, or Vader flying into the burning wreck of said Star Destroyer just to execute the officer as cruelly as possible, despite the fact he was pretty much about to die anyway. Gotta respect Vader's dedication toward being the ultimate troll.
You know, Vader might have congratulated him for his victory against the rebels, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, he just had to play the right side up Moon tarot, utter fear.
Commander Tylux sounds like the kind of person trying to get back home as soon as possible so he can delete his internet history before anyone checks it because he forgot to do so beforehand.
If Vader really was in that ship, he probably would have either tried to hail all of the Rebel ships to Force-choke all their command staff or jumped back into his TIE advanced and took care of them in a more-direct way, calling in death squadron to clean up the rest.
The image of that entire Star Destroyer ramming itself down the space worm's throat with its engines blazing away at full power, made me laugh like a village idiot. It's just _so_ over the top ridiculous.
I can just picture the Chicken Robot scene for that - So... About that officer? Vader? - I took care of him. - Yes yes, so... Did he truly flew a Star Destroyer INSIDE a giant space slug? - He did. - Whoa, the guy must have been really scared of ya buddy, huh? - Well, I tend to make people nervous. - Can't figure out why slug brain. You know how much you cost us for officer formations? Now we are scratching the bottom of the barrel Vader! - Yes, well failure is unacceptable. - Big words coming from a 2 meter machine-man that don't like sand!
I freakin the the facial expression on Tylux’ face. He quickly when to scared, to evil villain, to mad man, to f****** terrified! It would of been funny if a similar thing happened to another officer and Vader was all, “oh, okay sure, good plan Lt.”. XD
Vader: It's either a force-choking from me or your cheeks clapped on the Holonet by the Emperor. You're fucked one way or the other. If i were you, I'd take the force-choking.
I’m willing to bet that the empire would have easily succeeded in the end if Vader wasn’t constantly slaughtering their best men like pigs on a farm. The constant fear among the higher ranks was crippling to their moral, and thus, cost them the war.
I dunno what's more unbelievable, that this guy has such a ring of failures by being driven to madness via fear of Vader or they had won a battle without a single casualty.
Yeah, that Has to have been just a dying hallucination. There is no way in hell Annie's gonna swoop into a ISD being fucked on all sides by Rebels, just to kill one guy and peace out. And death by _Lightsaber?_ C'mon! He always killed screw-ups with Force Choke. Why would he waste battery on this one guy?
I think it's fair to argue that the number of victories Vader was able to secure by terrorizing fellow imperials was largely offset by the number of fatal errors that he forced among them.
This officer was probably one of the best in the Imperial Navy. Plot Armor and fear of Vader's Wrath was the only reason why he failed to become Grand Admiral...with 10 like him? Empire could have destroyed the alliance.
Also If I were a Imperial player and MY DM pulled this stunt with obvious favoritism to his beloved NPC's I'd have quit playing. "I've actually been in a situation where DM put us through a plot armor wringer like this." It sucks
I'm surprised anything ever got done in the Empire considering the disfunctional command structure. It really should have collapsed under its own weight.
This dude CLEARLY lost his mind QUICKLY.. an got about everyone in his command killed. I'm willing to bet "Vader" at the end was even a hallucination he saw just before he died seeing how apparently no one on that ship or under his command made it either... all for 1 rebel Transport that MIGHTVE been important..
I'd wager Vader didn't even bother to SWING his Lightsaber at Tylux. He probably just held the Lightsaber right up against Tylux's forehead and pressed the button!
“Failure is unacceptable!”
What did everyone think of Vader: Dark Visions issue #2? I was unprepared for just how much I would enjoy this series, and issue #3 looks like it is going to be an interesting one too! Thank you for watching everyone, I hope you enjoy today’s video.
Honestly thought it was a great issue. Fear certainly serves as motivation in the Empire, but here we see how badly it can backfire.
It's amazing to me that these comics are so good when the new films are so mediocre. The new Vader comics have flat out been some of the best SW media ever, imo.
It's a conundrum to be sure.
I thought this was a huge drop off in quality from issue#1. The story and art honestly left me disappointed. Dropped a review explaining my points
Still haven't read a single Star Wars comic.
Those last scenes, Are you sure Tylux wasn't just hallucinating as his ship quite literally fell apart around him?
"Failure is unacceptable"
*fails to shoot down a farm boy blowing up death star*
Also failing to kill the guy who trained that farm boy
Yeah, I'm surprised Palpatine didn't demand for a lightsaber harakiri at that point. How many times has Vader feiled his missions in EU by Empire Strikes Back?
Daddy Max The plot armor abandoned him for his son.
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Chrząszczyżewoszyce He didn't fail that; he killed Kenobi. I mean, sure it was a willing sacrifice but still, he won.
*force choke intensifies*
Can you imagine what the Rebels thought when they exit from hyperspace, only to rescue a single pilot. Only to see this absolutely battered Star Destroyer.
I bet the Spy had a helluva story to tell.
I just imagine them in a docking bay after the mission like "Yeah, I thought it was weird they followed me through the asteroid belt, but damn, what kinda maniac flies a Star Destroyer into the mouth of a giant space worm? Honestly though, when I was shooting my way outta the thing, I was on the edge of pissing myself. I mean, for all I knew, the guy was about the blow their hyper drive or something. And for what? I mean, sure, the data will come in handy, but it's just a damn factory!"
Shit story
Matthew Hilliker Somebody got a promotion
@Itnetlolor He did. It was Larry.
"He literally drove his ship into a giant worm! The absolute madman!'
Vader: *humming* Tylux has been doing well, more than well. I may promote him when I get there.
*exits hyperspace to find the star destroyer torn to shreds, covered in worm goop, and on fire with an entire rebel fleet six inches from his face*
Vader: WTF Tylux.
Man if the Rebels would've opened fire they might've killed Vader
Lol, if only that was an actual plot xD
@@ThatDragonGuy remember what happened in Rebels when Vader entered the battle in space?
@@marcosgalvis3498 they died
It was your fault Vader, you threatening Tylux death and killed multiple imperial officers in front of him, making Tylux think that the smallest mistake is death and forgetting that Tylux is human not sith.
Note: "I know the comment is a joke."
As an imperial officer I would have also become mad and crazy witnessing the ridicolous amount of plot armor the rebels were getting.
Someone should make a drinking game out of every time some nerd says the word plot armor in these comment sections.
@@nathanielyee2535 But are they wrong?
@@AstinCrow Technically no, their just being jerks by bringing up something everyone already knows to look smart or something.
@@nathanielyee2535 How is that being a jerk?
@@AstinCrow How are you confused by what I said?
When you tell your mom you cleaned your room and then you hear footsteps coming upstairs
Failure is unacceptable
*pulls out kitchen knife*
*pulls out belt*
Haa im going to my friends house for the night fuck that.
Or you tell her that you're doing your homework.
Promotions are not really a good thing in the Imperial Navy.
It all depends on your personality and how respectful you are, also how intelligent you are as well, and I guess how useful you are to the Emperor.
@@EchthelionII - I dunno, being respectful didn't really help out Captain Needa. LOL
@@knytrydr73 Yes, but he lasted longer than if you weren't respectful, like that guy who got choked just because he insulted the force, I forgot his name, I think it was Tagge or Motti, I don't remember.
@@EchthelionII - He only lived because Governor Tarkin ordered Vader to release him.
@@knytrydr73 Right, if Tarkin wasn't there, there would be a new job position open.
Vader: *kills everyone that failed*
5 minute later
Vader:Where everyone go?
One last Stormtrooper: you killed them all sir.
@@kareemlawson34 Emperor: Ahmmm... Maybe you must let the official fail one or two times to get experience, Vader
“One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.”
Nice touch there! Quote from J.R.R. Tolkien, if I'm not mistaken?
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 No, it's Jean de La Fontaine.
@@rikk319 No It's Oogway from Kung Fu Panda
Yeah that happened to Anakin and Padmé
Same thing happened to Œdipus😥
Tylux was trying to escape because Vader heard him saying that he liked sand.
the embodiment of light & darkness Give this man an award.
I heard padmay was a thot
Tylux should have got the high ground.
@@allblazing1160 be careful not to choke on your language ALLBLAZING 1
@@AriSarrafha what it's true i I saw her played with maces Wendy's lightsaber in her mouth
“Flying an ISD into the space slug much to the dismay of the crew”. Yeah much to the dismay of the slug too I’d imagine!
The slug got deepthroated
@Paradoxical Nightmare that's enough internet for today
@@sovietunion7643 same
Slug be like "I'm into vore but This? This is a bit too much!"
The only time you ever feel bad for a large omnivorous space slug is when it's deepthroating a star destroyer.
This was a major problem with the Imperial command structure.
With the constant threat of being brutally murdered for small blunders hanging over your head, with not even your rank and years of experience to save you, officers get desperate to succeed in their goals, often resulting in making bigger mistakes at the cost if the Empire.
While Vader was supposedly the Empire's most powerful tool, he was also the Empite's greatest liability by crippling the command structure from the organized meritocracy of the Republic to a fear-driven free-for-all in the Empire. Then again, what do you exoect when you put deranged, emotionally unstable, cyborg, space wizard in charge of morale.
Samuel Bedsole that’s not the only reason he would kill officers . They all looked down on him behind his back and only wanted to gain power within the empire by any means . He expected them to follow thru with their jobs. Like when he killed Ozzel thru FaceTime on a destroyer , he noted that it isn’t the first time he failed him and because of ozzel they now had to fight their way into the rebel base . Officers tended not to think and Vader punished them
@@slavaukraini54 Not all of them.
He had quarrels with many officers, but natural selection alone started to trim that out of the population over time.
unless one could interpret it as intentional.
Well how many decent officers were lost to this method, at least one we know of, Lorth Needa. Excellent Star Destroyer Captain, qualified, was handpicked for Death Squadron. It's that sort of stupidity with automatically destroying the career of officers for one or two failures that should never fly in a truly professional military. I think lore wise, it shows how far Vader declined morally from his days as a Jedi Knight.
Rommel had failures, eventually made Field Marshal, Halsey didn't get it right every single time with his Carrier Task Force, still managed to batter the Jap navy into the bottom of the Pacific.
You build 50,000 Star Destroyers, you should have had 50,000 Captains ready to command them, and then let them go, cut them loose! Foster the Nelson spirit, not the Hitler spirit. Withdrawal is an option, but always seek to close with the enemy whenever possible and defeat them. However, if you are not victorious but preserve your ship and crew, you're not going to be shot. That aside in a small joke, never let Commanders Captain ships.
Considering how his suit was made to be inefficient enough to keep Vader in near constant pain or discomfort without him dying, Empirial officers were dancing around getting killed every time they encountered him.
Lord have mercy on the Imperial officer that mentions they like sand around Vader.
Officer: "Commander, The Rebel Spy has fled into that space slug. Shields are down, Weapons Tracking is offline and Damage Control reports hull breaches across several bow sections."
Tylux: "..."
Tylux: *"Ramming Speed."*
* *_rebels get inside Space slug_* * we'll be safe here
*ISD:* Heeereee is Tylux!
Looool. That killed me
The stardestroyer should have waited outside the mouth of the worm, tractor beam ready. The commander was too desperate
The officer's reaction to the news that Vader was coming to collect the spy is one of my favorite panels from a Star Wars comic ever
fffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Matthew Dollar this is probably my favorite starwaes comic
@@Fhnfunn thats when he knew, he fucked up
I'da just been like "Whelp, it's been nice working with you all, and good job on the mission. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go blow myself out of the nearest airlock."
*glass breaking sound*
I think the commander hallucinated the whole time. His fear of Vader made him imagine how his visit and learning that they didn't have the spy was going to go down, and that fear pushed him to the edge to pursuit, which is something the rebels expected.
In the end, as the ship is on fire and he's about to die, the sum of all his fears materializes in front of his to deliver him to the Force. But Vader was never there.
Woah. Deep, man.
That makes this even more sad.
I thought he might have been hallucinating as well. He heard Vader was coming, THEN he broke off from the main fleet to go look for the Rebel Pilot.
....jesus
Agreed. Vader certainly wouldn't board a doomed ship and focus on killing the commander. He'd focus on salvaging the situation first, THEN kill the commander. It was simply the sum of his fears that made him see Vader, when what no doubt actually led to his death was a barrage of turbolaser fire from the Rebel ships.
Damn, i feel sorry for him
Fear drove him to insanity
Krosis Seyn insanity is a part of the path to the dark side
OptimalOptimus50 true
@@jakealter5504
No, a true Sith needs to keep in control of themselves. That guy was just off his rocker, and basically made himself worthless to the empire through the recklessness.
ClayXros I know but this guy WASN’T a sith or force sensitive
Yes
I think the art really pulls this off. It's crazy visceral and I love the style.
Dude, I loved it as well but my favorite art is used in the KOTOR Comics and early Dark Times series. They were a mix of rough sketch and paint that somehow looked amazing. Wouldn't transition great to animation but the stories themselves could save Star Wars from a fate worse than death right now 😂
We've lost a command post, fight for it!!
They're losing reinforcements, keep it up!
@@EchthelionII Watch those wrist rockets! ;)
@@DarrelsWonderland I actually died from one before, before that moment I thought it was almost impossible, I got hit square in the chest.
@@EchthelionII just like the simulation
ROGER! ROGER! ROGER! ROGEEER!
Rebel Spy: _runs into space worm_
Tylux: *Let me in,* *_let me iiiiiiiiiin!_*
I just wanna see Vader's reaction to this blunder, and I really wanna know if he recognizes that he indirectly caused this.
That's what you get when your only method of keeping things in order is fear. People can handle only so much fear before they snap into something more destructive.
Imperial: NO NO NO YOUR NOT GETTING ME!
I was wondering if Vader was going to let him go given how desperate his attempt was, but failure really is unacceptable for Vader lol. Thank you for watching ZB!
Apology accepted
Denied
Don't worry buddy, I get the reference.
Gottem
2:42 tylex, somehow FOUND the rebel, damaged his ship and forced him to land on a desert planet with no hope of escape.... So in all tense and purpose the rebel is contained and can't escape. He should have just told the fleet to surround the planet and just wait for vader to arrive and tell him "the spy is trapped on the planet vader he will be ours in a short time." which is true. Dead or captured Tylex succeeded had he stopped then and there.
But Tylux was acting irrationally out of fear. Oh, and there was also the rebel attack group coming.
@@demi-femme4821 All feckless excuses in vaders eyes.
I don't think anyone who is ''below'' Darth Vader could get away by calling him ''Vader''.
Problem is that he's on a desert planet and Vader doesn't like sand.
Space slug = Me at 3 AM
ISD = Piece of swiss cheese in my freezer
Mmmmm Swiss cheese......wait a minute, why do you keep swiss cheese in your freezer? Why not the fridge?
Relatable
This actually was a perfectly reasonable response. Sure you might lose the ship or a bunch of fighters, but failure was not an option.
Too bad he actually ended up near a planet with a raging sandstorm. I doubt that did him any good. :P
Vader: ......Not only did he fail, but he's also at a sandy planet? You know, I WAS going to let him live, but now that I have to be so close to sand, no, he's dead.
it had a sandstorm going on it lmao
Reasonable? He turned a 99% flawless victory into a complete disaster, lost a destroyer, wasted the lives of himself and his entire crew and gained nothing. He didn't deserve to be punished for failing to capture the spy but definitely did after losing the destroyer for no reason
@@exantiuse497 he was full of fear and Vader would have killed him
In the end vader would have killed him because he destroyed an whole ISD and lost many fighters.
And ISD is more important than an officer.
You see this in ep5 where he killed the Admiral because his ISD was too close too the planet and because of that it got easily disabled.
Material like an ISD is more important then almost anything else.
I just want to take a moment and admire the dedication of the crew. In the face of his every insane command, they obeyed. Was it out of fear, or had Tylux's fear of Vader in the past inspired him to become a most capable commander that had earned his crew's loyalty, and thus convinced them to have faith in his methods during this final terrifying chase.
Failing Vader is like Failing Stalin, people go crazy to not face the consequences
Vader is basically like stalin
I see the similarities
and intimidation as a motivator can result in failure like here, the imperials had won but in his fear of failing vader the commander fucked up everything
Vader ended up destroying more of his own ships than the rebels could have done with his mismanagement.
Darth Vader is Stalin, then Palpatine is Mao.
A moment of silence for the Bellicose, please. Just brought back into canon with this issue (it originally appeared in the Thrawn trilogy), and already devastated by the end of it.
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It turned into a self fulfilling prophecy. His fear turned what otherwise would have been a success for the Empire into a resounding failure.
Its why the Empire was doomed from the start. Palpatine, sith lord as he is, relied so much on fear and intimidation through it that it ultimately back fired in a great number of ways.
I wonder why the crew didn’t eventually just go “You’re fucking insane, we won’t follow your orders!”
To be perfectly honest, this is entirely Vader's fault. The guy did not even mess up the mission very badly, it was tactically an Imperial victory, and they knew exactly what the Rebels stole, so they could just warn that factory to double the guards, change the codes and alter the protocols. But because Vader always demanded perfection, which is impossible, people made more serious mistakes on all the double or nothings they were forced to take.
Imagine being the rebel pilot in this story.
*u wing goes into slug*
Imperial Captain: Fire all weapons and open a hailing channel for my victory yodel.
U Wing pilot: don’t worry they’ll never follow us in here.
Imperial captain over intercom: *_Yodalehehoo!_*
Only true people of culture get this reference.
Uhhh Jawbreaker?
Articus Ramos no.
FUTURAMA
krongusgaming good hahaha good
This actually explains why you can take an AT-AT down with a towing cable. Usually you would just open the bottom hatch and shoot the cable off. But would you want to tell Darth Vader the Rebels escaped because you stopped your vehicle, especially when the rumor is going around he just executed the admiral? Better take your chances with the cable.
Vader: "FAILURE IS UNACCEPTABLE!"
Also Vader: *Literally loses the entire war to a discount farm boy!*
If not for meee...
(shows picture of space slug with Star Destroyer halfway down its throat and/or mynocks chewing up the hull of the Star Destroyer)
For biting of more than you can chew...literaaaallllyyyy...
You know, it must've been utterly terrifying for the Rebel pilot. He tries to take refuge within a large space worm, only to have some crazy guy ram a whole damn Star Destroyer down the worm after them.
Hell of a story to tell the boys when the fleet dropped in to save him, though. Not sure anyone short of Wedge himself can claim a story THIS insane.
@@WatcherCCG Han Solo can since he did something very similar during the escape from hoth
@@jakealter5504 Needa didn't literally chase Han down the worm's gullet, though.
@@WatcherCCG that’s why I only said similar since the falcon did wind up inside of the space worm and needa got killed by Vader even though loosing the falcon wasn’t really his fault since Han Solo was a very good pilot and was pretty clever on escapes
@@jakealter5504 Interestingly enough, Needa took the bullet on that one. He could've tossed anyone on his bridge under the bus and Vader might have actually accepted their death as a sufficient warning he should stop fooling around. But he took the L and died for his crew.
The amount of Plot armor that U-Wing had is the only unacceptable thing I saw in this video
That U-Wing must be made of Mandalorian Iron and piloted by Han or Wedge if it got that far with only a few scratches 😂😂😂
I dunno guys but the amount of drugs for the Imperial officer to ram a fucking ship to a giant metal slug makes me question the empire’s decisions even more...
@@Krone0k It was his fear and desperation not to fail that’s why.
Man. He *really* didn't want to fail.
My dude. Im sure the airlock or a blaster was avaliable.
Commander Tylux clearly did not attend the Death Star Orientation Day meeting where he could fake his strangulation at the hands of Vader
and return back to service with a disguise ..tssk
Bery well said Commander Liopold
@@andreipoplauschi180 It's Commander Reginald now
Sadly Vader caught on.
He only uses the laser sword now
Could be the perfect essay titled “Why the Empire is Unsustainable”.
“The Sith Lord ignited his lightsaber before the doomed Commander Tylux”
“So there we have it”
We all love badass vader when he pitchs a fit dont we
That poor guy thought he could escape from his fate
Darth Vader He was so scared of you that he Hallucinated before his death of you coming to kill him
If you ever start to Force choke me, I'll just say "choke me daddy", so if you don't put me down, it's gay.
I kind of wonder how Stalinesque Self-Destructive Vader ended up being to the Galactic Empire. Killing every subordinate that fails, especially when said failures are due to enemy superior tactics or strategy or even just luck, will eventually get you to kill all of your own military commanders. Eventually, no one will be crazy enough to want a position of higher leadership so only those who are exceptionally good at hiding their own ineptitude or the less-clever will get the top spots. Meanwhile, your military commanders will end up taking more catastrophic losses to ensure their own survival and will hide more mistakes rather than get them addressed as the penalty for any mistake is death. Last but not least, if you think you're going to be executed for a failure not your fault no matter what...isn't that massive incentive to defect to the Rebel Alliance?
Well, the only reason they won’t defect to the Rebels en masse is because their families are still under Imperial surveillance and the pay is probably worse. Most Rebel fighters are just people who are down on their luck and had nowhere else to go.
@@alexanderchristopher6237After the death star was destroyed, many hated the rebels. They were not well liked by all.
Oh wow that is literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in all the Star Wars and I never seen any Imperial on this desperate! I guess the grand Inquisitor was right, "there are some things far more frightening than death."
This is just an example of what fear can do to people.
*V-Wing enters a huge worm*
Tylux: We'll follow.
Crewman: But the Destroyer is too big to fit-
Tylux: MAKE IT FIT.
Imagine where how long Palpatine would have ruled if he had just told Vader to stop killing his military leadership every time they lost more than one battle.
I think he did tell him that once
Well that's more of the new canon ordeal. Older canon Vader wasn't going on a General Grevious psychopathic rampage at the drop of a pen.
@@RandoGrunt Splinter in the Mind's Eye. He cuts the officer in half. That was the first EVER expanded universe installation.
and this is why the empire failed. bc when someone fails a mission they are killed over it. that's gotta be bad for moral.
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Nope, imperium died because the lacked plot armor
Not really
I'd say that, even more than the moral thing, skilled officers could be killed for a single mistake. You remove valuable assets to the Empire, which could eventually become great, because something naturally unforeseeable occurred. I mean really, not everyone is a psychic space wizard Vader! When is that gonna get through that shiny ass metal head of yours?
But also, yeah, the plot armor thing. The old trilogy is a good story, but no one ever said it was perfect.
I think that's the point of it. But wannabe facists on the internet see the uniforms and go "wow so cool!" And ignore all the moral implications the writers put in.
this happened to an ancient chinese general after he lost the battle of talas. He was executed by the emperor but the other generals werent as good as him so the empire fell
The Killings will continue until moral improves.
But seriously who is running this Navy when you officers going loco at the thought of Vader killing them for missing one ship you've got a problem.
Yeah, but who the hell is gonna tell Vader that he needs to stop killing officers? I mean, Palpatine is just as much of a psycho if not more, and for everyone else, that's just a good way to wind up the next dead officer.
"Hey Vader, you need to stop killing officers, it's really not helping th- ack! ack!"
But that's more of a flawed take on order 227 which actually had a purpose this is pointless
Also go Tomcatters, but by some point, Vader himself was actually running the Navy as Supreme Commander. So.
It just goes to show one person alone cannot do the job, its why the US Navy is divided into so many commands, though the authority stops with the President, theres oversight from the DDG Captain to the Chief of Naval Operations and everything in between, the DesRon Commodore, the TF Commander that DesRon gets assigned to, the Fleet Commander, the Naval Commander in the area, like CINCPACFLT or COMUSFF (Pacific Fleet/Fleet Forces,) or theater commander like with USEUCOM, the Vice-CNO, the CNO, SecNAV, SecDef, President.
At no time should the CNO personally be on board your DDG running around screwing with your command, Vader does do this often, and even if on a mission for the Emperor, reduces the effectiveness of his commanders in the field as such. They even make this Death Squadron for him, which sounds fine, but then you realize its a finite speck of the entire Imperial Navy when he should be like Jellicoe or Nimitz, commanding the entire Fleet from up on high, with subordinates all the way down to this guy in his Star Destroyer (which really is probably a Battleship, but still should be considered a individual unit, like a DDG or CG, or SSN, or CVN)
Vader when he heard the news of the captain's victory: Aw yeah boi! Another captain for the Death Squadron! And only one escapee, I think I'll surprise all by shooting it down and giving the man his transfer orders myself.
Piett: Shouldn't you warn him you're coming?
Vader: And ruin the surprise, what's the worst that can happen?
*The Captain goes clinically insane and looses everything*
Piett "sir this is the third time this happened, May I suggest next time we say, Vader is coming with your reward, or is pleased and wishes to congratulate you"
Vader looks at piett for a few seconds,"I suppose it wouldn't hurt, I was looking forward to a new competent captain"
Vader: Failure is unacceptable!
Also Vader: *LOSES TO HIS SON THAT HE DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS HIS SON AND ALSO HIS SON WAS BARLEY NEAR A JEDI AND LEADS TO HIS ENTIRE DEATH STAR GETTING DESTROYED*
The deathstar was an inside job.
I would love to see a fan made short of this moment with a really good actor playing Tylus. I want to *HEAR* his subordinates protesting his crazy insistences as he looks at them with mad eyes and says "FOLLOW THEM!" Over and over.
Why not just join the rebels?
I mean...Vader probably would have still come for him.
and the rebels would have a bitch of a time just to kill vader and keep the imperial safe
Well good luck with the mutiny, hiding a star destroyer, and extreme rebel suspicion if not hostility. Not to mention Vader would likely be very ticked about it
The rebels r gay
the rebels did have two star destroyers though, mon monthma and i forgot the name of theother one
Imperial officer: fails to capture rebel spy
Vader: *your free trial of life has expired*
I’ve also heard of an Imperial that committed suicide so ha can’t face Vader.
Nobody:
Tylux: **flies a star destroyer into a worm**
Yo, this was an amazing story, I'm amazed it came from the Disney era, this is stuff you'd see in legends.
"What is wrong with this officer?"
*EVERYTHING.*
Just imagine what will happen when it's the emperor coming after you.
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am."
I think the Emperor is more forgiving. After all, he’s more of a politician compared to Vader the enforcer.
Palpatine is only unforgiving for cases of high treason and seriously gross cases of ineptitude.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 not really. If palpatine is the one that wants you dead you can expect any of three things to happen, 1: if he’s feeling merciful he will have Vader kill you, 2: if he’s feeling semi merciful he will give you a quick death, or 3: he’s not feeling merciful and will give you the bevil lemolisk treatment several times before killing you
No more booty if Palpatine is pissed
Its all the person who relays messages fault, if they didn't informe high command that they captured a rebel spy and instead just said that a single rebel ship escaped none of this would have happened.
Bruh you even heard of Vader?
What's this?! He's finally learned what a video expose is and no longer refers to his videos as such?!
I CAN FINALLY SUBSCRIBE!
Can you imagine just chilling in a bunch of spacerocks thinking about your complete defeat when out of no where the people who killed your comrades just start killing themselves trying to chase you. I imagine it would feel weird
Breaking News: "Crazed imperial Officer risks getting his ship and crew swallowed by giant space slug to capture a single enemy spy.".... Perfect Headline.
I don't know what's crazier, the officer ordering his crew to fly the Star Destroyer into the mouth of a space slug, or Vader flying into the burning wreck of said Star Destroyer just to execute the officer as cruelly as possible, despite the fact he was pretty much about to die anyway.
Gotta respect Vader's dedication toward being the ultimate troll.
"Apology accepted, Commander Tylux."
*when your literally so crazy from fear you ram into a space slug*
You know, Vader might have congratulated him for his victory against the rebels, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, he just had to play the right side up Moon tarot, utter fear.
I've never seen the imperial officers display so much emotion before
“Failure is unacceptable”
Says the guy that burned to a crisp because of a random guy with a sword
Vader constantly failed to capture Luke so... yeah.
Commander Tylux sounds like the kind of person trying to get back home as soon as possible so he can delete his internet history before anyone checks it because he forgot to do so beforehand.
3:19 was not expecting to see that.
At that point I’m amazed the crew didn’t mutiny.
This is the most batshit “Heavy Metal” lookin Star Wars comic I’ve seen.
If Vader really was in that ship, he probably would have either tried to hail all of the Rebel ships to Force-choke all their command staff or jumped back into his TIE advanced and took care of them in a more-direct way, calling in death squadron to clean up the rest.
The image of that entire Star Destroyer ramming itself down the space worm's throat with its engines blazing away at full power, made me laugh like a village idiot. It's just _so_ over the top ridiculous.
Better be a Stormtrooper than an officer, I guess.
I can just picture the Chicken Robot scene for that
- So... About that officer? Vader?
- I took care of him.
- Yes yes, so... Did he truly flew a Star Destroyer INSIDE a giant space slug?
- He did.
- Whoa, the guy must have been really scared of ya buddy, huh?
- Well, I tend to make people nervous.
- Can't figure out why slug brain. You know how much you cost us for officer formations? Now we are scratching the bottom of the barrel Vader!
- Yes, well failure is unacceptable.
- Big words coming from a 2 meter machine-man that don't like sand!
I freakin the the facial expression on Tylux’ face. He quickly when to scared, to evil villain, to mad man, to f****** terrified!
It would of been funny if a similar thing happened to another officer and Vader was all, “oh, okay sure, good plan Lt.”. XD
@SovietBiscuit indeed. :D
Vader: It's either a force-choking from me or your cheeks clapped on the Holonet by the Emperor. You're fucked one way or the other. If i were you, I'd take the force-choking.
I’m willing to bet that the empire would have easily succeeded in the end if Vader wasn’t constantly slaughtering their best men like pigs on a farm.
The constant fear among the higher ranks was crippling to their moral, and thus, cost them the war.
I dunno what's more unbelievable, that this guy has such a ring of failures by being driven to madness via fear of Vader or they had won a battle without a single casualty.
None of the TIE fighter pilots died!
Five minutes later:
All TIE fighter pilots died...
The drawings of the dude's expressions are amazing
In reality the officer is laying on the ground surffering of PTSD
Yeah, that Has to have been just a dying hallucination. There is no way in hell Annie's gonna swoop into a ISD being fucked on all sides by Rebels, just to kill one guy and peace out. And death by _Lightsaber?_ C'mon! He always killed screw-ups with Force Choke. Why would he waste battery on this one guy?
The ultimate "one meets their fate on the road to avoiding it."
Vader just destroyed a lot of troops.
Someone tell me how the imperial military hasn't already fallen apart during it's early days?
Vader was not everywhere, many people in the fleet have never meet him
I think it's fair to argue that the number of victories Vader was able to secure by terrorizing fellow imperials was largely offset by the number of fatal errors that he forced among them.
Wow. This is hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
I am a giant fan of your videos, thank you and keep it up. May the force be with you.
Thank you James!
U-wing pilot: What the f*** is wrong with these people?
This officer was probably one of the best in the Imperial Navy. Plot Armor and fear of Vader's Wrath was the only reason why he failed to become Grand Admiral...with 10 like him? Empire could have destroyed the alliance.
It’d be interesting if Darth Vader said “it was a mistake you’re okay”
I honestly feel that Darth Vader harboured a secret hate for his own Empire.
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Thank you very much for watching and the support Stephen. I hope you enjoy today's video!
Also If I were a Imperial player and MY DM pulled this stunt with obvious favoritism to his beloved NPC's I'd have quit playing. "I've actually been in a situation where DM put us through a plot armor wringer like this." It sucks
And that's why u don't mess with the empire
I'm surprised anything ever got done in the Empire considering the disfunctional command structure. It really should have collapsed under its own weight.
This dude CLEARLY lost his mind QUICKLY.. an got about everyone in his command killed. I'm willing to bet "Vader" at the end was even a hallucination he saw just before he died seeing how apparently no one on that ship or under his command made it either... all for 1 rebel Transport that MIGHTVE been important..
Yeah I think so too, prolly was a hallucination
When Vader failed Sidious would make him build a sand castle the size of Windsor Palace.
So, Vader basically makes his own officers fail.
I'd wager Vader didn't even bother to SWING his Lightsaber at Tylux. He probably just held the Lightsaber right up against Tylux's forehead and pressed the button!
i dont think vader was even there
Tylux probably just died of a heart attack due to hallucination. 😞
@@tk-756brony6 Or of asphyxation from the fire.
@@caav56 That one actually makes a lot more sense due to Vader's signature execution method.
@@tk-756brony6 Hypoxia have brought his worst nightmare to life for those few moments he was still alive and conscious to witness it.