No one ever seems to mention how broken the Defender Elite was. It was the fastest starship of all time, barring a few FO ships that… never displayed that speed, carried the toughest shields and firepower of any starfighter and many bombers, and was almost insanely user-friendly to fly. The thing is: I love that the reason it’s so good is because it’s A) built by the mastermind of all things, B) it costs more than some cruisers, and C) the assembly time is so long and complex that without a Grand Admiral pushing for it constantly and requiring Death Star appropriated funds: it collapsed almost instantly.
TIE Interceptors and TIE Avengers had the same cannons, and post ROTJ every TIE, even all the boarding and Bomber types, had the same powerful heavy laser cannon.
Also, inflation would play a role in prices. 200k in the republic era might be more like 250-300k in the final years of the empire. Just look at real life examples of the US dollar and costs of cars and houses over a 20-30 year period 🙃
I would think the N-1 that Anakin used to destroy the Trade Federation control ship gained a lot of value due to its historic significance to the planet of Naboo and was probably treated like the liberty bell or a national monument for display in Naboo.
Thank you for finally covering Dooku’s solar sailer! I had kind of clamored to have it included in your rare starships series. I have my doubts about the price tag you assigned to it, it was such a rare and exotic ship. The sail itself was practically a relic, ancient Gree technology. The ship was composed of rare metals, and fitted to suit Dooku’s refined tastes. It was meant to show Dooku’s eminence as CIS head of state.
The problem with most of the follow-on TIE fighters was they didn't fit in the storage racks which seriously reduced how many could be carried on a Star Destroyer. Also, the lack of a hyperdrive and life support on TIE fighters was a way of preventing pilots from stealing one and defecting. The Empire didn't trust most of its pilots enough to put them alone in a craft capable of damaging the ship that carried it or able to reach somewhere habitable by itself.
Makes sense though. Historically, pilots have been relatively smart bastards and I feel like tie pilots are no exception, you see it in comics, legends etc. all the time. Fascists and authoritarian governments don’t like smart people working for them and even when they do they’re put on a short leash and kept under suspicion at all times. Erwin Rommels greatest enemy wasn’t the Allies he was fighting in the desert but German high command that employed him. Even Thrawn had to deal with imperial bureaucracy that limited his ability to effectively fuck up rebels despite his success. Checks out, fascists acting like fascists.
Certainly beautiful, but in case you lose one engine, it will became totally uncontrollable. Still better than no starfighter at all, but it's a civilian race toy, weaponized for military parade and honor guard purpose. It looks nice on propaganda video, but I'd rather fly a self build ugly collected from battlefield debris than that.
This was a fun one; maybe do a video on super expensive ships that aren’t military? Might be harder to find though considering Star Wars is, who would have thought, all about wars.
I'd definitely go with a VCX-100 and spend my extra credits fitting it with a faster Class 1 hyperdrive faster more powerful sublight engines and an enhanced armaments with heavy laser cannons, ion cannons and a proton torpedo launcher. Have the optional shuttle/starfighter fitted with a hyperdrive and I'd probably have over 300,000 credits into my ship.
well VCX-100 is not a fighter anymore, its too big to be a fighter. If we talk non fighter i would take YV-929 without hesitation, gave it class1 hyperdrive and BAM
With either of those ships, I'd also add lessons learnt from the Millennium Falcon and add a separate back up hyperdrive _on a completely independent system,_ so if the main drive packed up the class -10 or whatever would still work.
8:55 I will dispute the Aurek. expensive in it's introduction but as of "modern" star wars is really really cheap. you could buy a new one from an outer rim starfighter workshop for as much as a tie fighter and get a better deal. finding an original however from the kotor era will set you back millions of credits.
Ah, good: I was hoping to see the TIE Defender on this list. An extraordinarily powerful machine with no compromises in performance, it was such a hotshot ride that Darth Vader himself felt they compared favorably to even his own custom-designed TIE Advanced x1. And they came with a price tag to match. At 300K credits per each, you could buy two TIE Defender fighters or three Arquitens-class light cruisers. Presumably, the Defenders' eye-watering unit price would drop once the fighter entered mass production, but during the R&D stage, they were so expensive that they threatened to push the Death Star project's deadline back by months or even years. For a sense of scale, the DS-1 was such a massive money pit that just scraping together enough material to build the outer hull disrupted metals markets _on a galactic scale._
um you can't buy three Arquitens for 300k. Looking it up an Arquitens is 4 million credits bro. I think you mean "two TIE advanced fighters" as well. A TIE Defender is not worth 2 TIE Defenders unless it has a value of 0 (simple algebra)
I have 2 suggestions for you: The StarViper-class attack platform (Prince Xizor's starfighter) costing a whopping 160,000 credits and the Ginivex-class starfighter (Asaj Ventress's Fan shaped starfighter), only 6 were made so despite i haven't found any values i imagine it must be really expensive.
Xizor's StarViper was a really sweet ride. Given that it was designed completely from scratch, rather than being a custom mod or a new-model redesign of an existing ship, I'm more than a little surprised it isn't valued in the millions. Maybe the design team was worried Prince Xizor might think they were overcharging him, and only billed him for the parts. That, or the 160K-credit figure is the price tag for the downgraded mass-production model.
I would like to submit the little known Imperial "Alpha class XG-1 Star Wing" for consideration. A heavily armoured and shielded fighter with lasers, ion cannons, and a robust missile array with flexible payload selection and an optional tractor beam. A class 1 hyperdrive with a backup class 10. It's like the imperial Lambda Shuttle's pissed off little brother.
The XG-1's descendent the Nova Wing would also do nicely, though it could be considered more of a bomber (or a "Missile Boat") than a fighter. And the operating costs would be insane. All those missiles can't be cheap to replace.
@@NikoLavikainen On the other end of the spectrum if you went the Defender route and just packed on eight or more lasers, you'd probably need a killer power supply. Who knows how the maintenance costs for a reactor like that compares to the occasional rearm.
While the Aurek's 360,000 credits may seem incredibly expensive, when that's _amortizated over 4000 years,_ it's a bargain. That's *90 credits a year…* just the food bill of the pilot would be far higher.
@@JenosIdallian That's my point exactly, the original purchase price in nothing compared to the total cost of running a Starfighter for 4000 years. I wonder how many spare parts it's gone through? … We've replaced the engines 20 times, the frame 5 times, the shields 50 times, and as for the pilot seat, it needs a new one every generation or so - those butt crevices get worn in.
10:38 YES! I love when you bring up the fact that the slave is one of six and that the building of said ship was scrapped cause it means its rare and now I get to share this video with a guy who tried to tell me it wasn't rare xD.
Got to go with the Aurek, powerful, fast and reliable plus most likely with the Mandalorians N1 the inclusion of more modern after market parts could probably take it to a whole new level
I don’t mean to quote Leia Alan but “Thank you Alan, in dark times you’ve been my only hope” no but for real watching your videos gives me happiness. So thanks so much Alan and GT. 🥰
If i lived in star wars, i would be saving up my credits, to buy a YT-1300 exact like the Millenium Falcon with a few modifications, i would be installing solar collectors/solar panels, so that it'll never run out of power and at the front of the ship, where there's empty space, i would put a shuttle/gunship. The YT-1300 is perfect because it could be use as a living space and it's fast, it has one of the fastest hyperdrive in the galaxy. With the ship i could explore the whole galaxy.
Between a personal massive fleet made of Star Destroyers equipped plenty of a variety of TIE-fighters, including the defender ones, and building another Death Star, just so that Palpatine can use the "near his subjects but also not far from them" strategy, which one is the better strategy?
That one was the plan for the second death star in legends.. He needed to be close to Coruscant while not being near it because there were a few riots and uprisings there.
I really wish the Mandolorian Kyr'galaar/Bes'uliik-class assault star fighter got more love in TV shows and animations. Its essentially the Mandolorians answer to the X-wing and Tie-Defender series star fighters and would be up there with both in terms of performance and price as well. (Its been named both Kyr'galaar and Bes'uliik but Bes'uliik is the most recent name this fighter has had)
Really hoping something crazy like Mando’s N-1 getting beskar plating when he inevitably goes into the mines on mandalor to apologize for taking his helmet off lol
I would say a TIE defender is worth the cost of 300k credits. Even if deployed in low numbers, you could have some of your best pilots fly TIE defenders. Even a handful of TIE defenders (especially with your top pilots) would devastate enemy starfighters easily. For the empire, such a starfighter would be very good for countering the rebel alliance's starfighter based strategy. In addition, the rebel alliance was pretty short on personnel and losing large amounts of starfighter pilots would be crippling. The TIE defender being superior to any rebel alliance starfighter and the empire having far superior pilots (much more trained having formal training) would further this advantage.
I liked almost all of this, with one exception. Surely there's more to being classified as a starfighter than "being small". Wookiepedia even lists it as a sloop and yacht. In fact, an issue you identified, namely its slow acceleration, would exclude it from effective use as a starfighter, even if you replaced its tractor emitters with actual weapons. Maybe this list should be named most expensive tiny craft?
I'm probably choosing the aurek fighter I think with current day modding it would be an amazing interceptor especially if we jam as many features into as possible like they did with the current day a wing
Personally I'd go with the GAT-12m Skipray Blastboat. A heavy starfighter, this variant came equipped with triple ion cannons, a dual 360° medium laser turret, proton torpedo launcher, and either a concussion missile launcher or a tractor beam projector. The m variant was faster in both real space and hyperspace, which put it between a X-wing and a TIE fighter in maneuverability, 3 times the armored hull of a X-wing, twice the shields of a X-wing, and a hyperspace class of more than likely 1.0. Add some sensor jamming equipment and you've got a mean starfighter. New this starfighter cost 285,000 credits.
@@caseyhart9916 I also love the Skipray but according to Wookiepedia it's listed at a heavy starfighter and could be configured to be run by just the pilot. Also it's just a tad larger than the Firespray-31 at the end of the list and just as heavily armed. Plus it's as fast as a starfighter, as maneuverable as a starfighter and can be carried on capital ships like a starfighter. It's on the large side for a starfighter but in Star Wars sometimes splitting hairs is just what you need to do to survive.
@@steeltimberwolf It can be flown by one person, but its not intended to be, and you lose a lot of effectiveness like that. For what its worth, I also disagree with the Firespray being called a fighter. Its fighter SCALE, certainly, but so is the Millenium Falcon, but nobody would mistake it for an actual fighter, even with all the mods. Being carried by a larger vessel doesn't make it a fighter, either, or else Lambda shuttles would also count. Another solid ship choice for an entrepreneur, btw.
If I had a lot of money. I would build my own starfighter. :) I have a design in my head that I need to draw out one of these days. It's sorta a love child between a U-wing, X-wing, and B-wing.
Talking about stock versions and if you're in the unique position of buying any of these ships: 1: Solar Sailor, fuel efficiency 2: TIE Silencer, Fire Power w/Atmosphere 3: T85 X-Wing, Iconic and Reliable 4: N-1 Starfighter, Notoriety and how Difficult it is to acquire in the first place In that order, and for these reasons, in my humble opinion.
My own head cannon star fighter would be 500,000 credits and would have a built in Kyber rail gun and would have two high power ion cannons that have enough power to blow a small star destroyer if placed correctly. The name is, the R.I.A.N, aka the rail interceptor and neutralizer. Manufactured SOLELY in the undiscovered regions planet DH-163 alpha, a metal rich super planet the size of a small star.
Personally id want a ship thats small but also big enough for me and a couple of others to live on like the Millennium Falcon or the Razorcrest or the one from the Bad Batch (forgot the name)
MandalMotors/Mandal Hypernautics StarViper. Specifically the Virago, but the StarViper itself was like 200,000 credits a piece itself if memory serves.
VCX100 with Sheathipede Auxilary shuttle, A-wings docked at the sides, and a Y wing docked underneath. OP? Yes. But it'd be a special forces swiss army knife.
Imagine someone using the Death Star as a starfighter?. Just with custom parts to make it actually move like a starfighter. Or lots and lots of force magic.
You missed one of the best Starfighters and coincidentally it was in the final seconds of your video. How gorgeous is the Mandalorian Kom’rk class fighter. It stunning and I was so happy when they crossed over to live action in The Mandalorian.
(Btw, I rather like what your lightsaber sponsor is putting out. They've got a nice selection of pretty simple and practical-looking stuff. :) Figured maybe they ought to know the sponsorship's worth it. :)
No mention of the "Hell God King of Starfighters?" I mean, you can't fly the thing, but still... The Missile Boat is one of the best things to come out of the Imperial fighter designs...
Personally I realy think the tie phantom should be on this list granted im not sure if this is a cannon only list but regardless it's personally my fav starfighter and is like the tie defender probably one of the best starfighters ever made.
What I thought when I saw the n1. Eh it would make a pretty craopy bounty hunter ship. But maybe it signifies he's no longer a lone hunter. But still makes a horrible home
If I had the means all my bomber pilots would fly Deathravens, the double B Wing designed by mercenary pilot Erron Kell. All my interceptor pilots would fly Twi 'lek "Deathseed" starfighters, redesigned with TIE Defenders being the base instead of the standard TIE, so they are faster and have projectile launchers. I would rename the "Deathraptors". Last but certainly not least, my standard fighter would be the "Deatheagles". These would be TIE Defenders that have been modified to have three laser cannons and three ion cannons as weapons, one of each on each of the three wings. Furthermore, the wings themselves would be fitted to a revolving collar so they would spin around the cockpit, giving the pilots optimal firing arcs for their weapons. I would have twelve squadrons of my "Deatheagle" and six each of my "Deathraptor" and "Deathraven" fighters in the Fighter Bay of my Assertor class Star Dreadnought "Lightbringer".
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No one ever seems to mention how broken the Defender Elite was. It was the fastest starship of all time, barring a few FO ships that… never displayed that speed, carried the toughest shields and firepower of any starfighter and many bombers, and was almost insanely user-friendly to fly.
The thing is: I love that the reason it’s so good is because it’s A) built by the mastermind of all things, B) it costs more than some cruisers, and C) the assembly time is so long and complex that without a Grand Admiral pushing for it constantly and requiring Death Star appropriated funds: it collapsed almost instantly.
still expect to see one in mando season 3 or 4
TIE Interceptors and TIE Avengers had the same cannons, and post ROTJ every TIE, even all the boarding and Bomber types, had the same powerful heavy laser cannon.
It may be the best stats wise, but fuvk it’s an ugly ass ship
Hand-made classic starships would generally be more expensive.
Like a classic Ferrari
Also, inflation would play a role in prices. 200k in the republic era might be more like 250-300k in the final years of the empire.
Just look at real life examples of the US dollar and costs of cars and houses over a 20-30 year period 🙃
Like the Pirates Uglies
@@Buletspunge555yeah and also that’s under and industrial military based government
I would think the N-1 that Anakin used to destroy the Trade Federation control ship gained a lot of value due to its historic significance to the planet of Naboo and was probably treated like the liberty bell or a national monument for display in Naboo.
One minor problem with having a Tie Defender (or Defender Elite) is that you're going to have to do a lot of explaining to _everyone_ you meet.
Thank you for finally covering Dooku’s solar sailer! I had kind of clamored to have it included in your rare starships series. I have my doubts about the price tag you assigned to it, it was such a rare and exotic ship. The sail itself was practically a relic, ancient Gree technology. The ship was composed of rare metals, and fitted to suit Dooku’s refined tastes. It was meant to show Dooku’s eminence as CIS head of state.
The problem with most of the follow-on TIE fighters was they didn't fit in the storage racks which seriously reduced how many could be carried on a Star Destroyer. Also, the lack of a hyperdrive and life support on TIE fighters was a way of preventing pilots from stealing one and defecting. The Empire didn't trust most of its pilots enough to put them alone in a craft capable of damaging the ship that carried it or able to reach somewhere habitable by itself.
Makes sense though. Historically, pilots have been relatively smart bastards and I feel like tie pilots are no exception, you see it in comics, legends etc. all the time. Fascists and authoritarian governments don’t like smart people working for them and even when they do they’re put on a short leash and kept under suspicion at all times. Erwin Rommels greatest enemy wasn’t the Allies he was fighting in the desert but German high command that employed him. Even Thrawn had to deal with imperial bureaucracy that limited his ability to effectively fuck up rebels despite his success. Checks out, fascists acting like fascists.
The N1 is probably one of my all-time favorites. I just love Naboo's ships in general. Of course I have wine tastes as usual 🙄
Certainly beautiful, but in case you lose one engine, it will became totally uncontrollable. Still better than no starfighter at all, but it's a civilian race toy, weaponized for military parade and honor guard purpose. It looks nice on propaganda video, but I'd rather fly a self build ugly collected from battlefield debris than that.
@@bandiras2 pretty ship is pretty :P
This was a fun one; maybe do a video on super expensive ships that aren’t military? Might be harder to find though considering Star Wars is, who would have thought, all about wars.
I'd definitely go with a VCX-100 and spend my extra credits fitting it with a faster Class 1 hyperdrive faster more powerful sublight engines and an enhanced armaments with heavy laser cannons, ion cannons and a proton torpedo launcher. Have the optional shuttle/starfighter fitted with a hyperdrive and I'd probably have over 300,000 credits into my ship.
well VCX-100 is not a fighter anymore, its too big to be a fighter. If we talk non fighter i would take YV-929 without hesitation, gave it class1 hyperdrive and BAM
With either of those ships, I'd also add lessons learnt from the Millennium Falcon and add a separate back up hyperdrive _on a completely independent system,_ so if the main drive packed up the class -10 or whatever would still work.
8:55 I will dispute the Aurek. expensive in it's introduction but as of "modern" star wars is really really cheap. you could buy a new one from an outer rim starfighter workshop for as much as a tie fighter and get a better deal. finding an original however from the kotor era will set you back millions of credits.
Aureus we’re discontinued like a1000 years before the clone wars fym
@@bl4k4tt84 not in the old lore.
I'd have gone with the Deathraven, myself, because what's better than 1 B-wing than 2 B-Wings melded together into a massive super starfighter/bomber.
So glad someone mentioned one of my favorite two "ugly" starfighters, the other being the Twi 'lek designed Chirdaki or "Deathseed" starfighter.
Ah, good: I was hoping to see the TIE Defender on this list. An extraordinarily powerful machine with no compromises in performance, it was such a hotshot ride that Darth Vader himself felt they compared favorably to even his own custom-designed TIE Advanced x1.
And they came with a price tag to match. At 300K credits per each, you could buy two TIE Defender fighters or three Arquitens-class light cruisers. Presumably, the Defenders' eye-watering unit price would drop once the fighter entered mass production, but during the R&D stage, they were so expensive that they threatened to push the Death Star project's deadline back by months or even years. For a sense of scale, the DS-1 was such a massive money pit that just scraping together enough material to build the outer hull disrupted metals markets _on a galactic scale._
um you can't buy three Arquitens for 300k. Looking it up an Arquitens is 4 million credits bro. I think you mean "two TIE advanced fighters" as well. A TIE Defender is not worth 2 TIE Defenders unless it has a value of 0 (simple algebra)
Even worse, that thing wasn’t even fully paid off yet.
I have 2 suggestions for you:
The StarViper-class attack platform (Prince Xizor's starfighter) costing a whopping 160,000 credits and the Ginivex-class starfighter (Asaj Ventress's Fan shaped starfighter), only 6 were made so despite i haven't found any values i imagine it must be really expensive.
Xizor's StarViper was a really sweet ride. Given that it was designed completely from scratch, rather than being a custom mod or a new-model redesign of an existing ship, I'm more than a little surprised it isn't valued in the millions. Maybe the design team was worried Prince Xizor might think they were overcharging him, and only billed him for the parts. That, or the 160K-credit figure is the price tag for the downgraded mass-production model.
@@tba113 probably the downgraded model
The Star Saber is beautiful. I’ve never heard of it before but it reminds me of the F-104. Which is similarly known for being a pretty death trap.
Thank you for the aurebesh subtitles. Makes the video easier to understand.
I would like to submit the little known Imperial "Alpha class XG-1 Star Wing" for consideration. A heavily armoured and shielded fighter with lasers, ion cannons, and a robust missile array with flexible payload selection and an optional tractor beam. A class 1 hyperdrive with a backup class 10. It's like the imperial Lambda Shuttle's pissed off little brother.
The XG-1's descendent the Nova Wing would also do nicely, though it could be considered more of a bomber (or a "Missile Boat") than a fighter. And the operating costs would be insane. All those missiles can't be cheap to replace.
@@NikoLavikainen On the other end of the spectrum if you went the Defender route and just packed on eight or more lasers, you'd probably need a killer power supply. Who knows how the maintenance costs for a reactor like that compares to the occasional rearm.
If the Geonosian Sloop doesn’t require traditional fuel and is powered by photons emitted from a star, how does it power its hyperdrive?
It travels at sub light speeds so no hyperdrive I think if it does happen to have one maybe nuclear?
While the Aurek's 360,000 credits may seem incredibly expensive, when that's _amortizated over 4000 years,_ it's a bargain.
That's *90 credits a year…* just the food bill of the pilot would be far higher.
That's a bit disingenuous. You'd have to include maintenance and upkeep as well.
@@JenosIdallian That's my point exactly, the original purchase price in nothing compared to the total cost of running a Starfighter for 4000 years.
I wonder how many spare parts it's gone through? … We've replaced the engines 20 times, the frame 5 times, the shields 50 times, and as for the pilot seat, it needs a new one every generation or so - those butt crevices get worn in.
10:38 YES! I love when you bring up the fact that the slave is one of six and that the building of said ship was scrapped cause it means its rare and now I get to share this video with a guy who tried to tell me it wasn't rare xD.
Got to go with the Aurek, powerful, fast and reliable plus most likely with the Mandalorians N1 the inclusion of more modern after market parts could probably take it to a whole new level
N1 is hands down my favorite ship. In every game I look for it, i love the speed and I love the cannons on it for how nimble it can be.
I don’t mean to quote Leia Alan but “Thank you Alan, in dark times you’ve been my only hope” no but for real watching your videos gives me happiness. So thanks so much Alan and GT. 🥰
10:33; let's not forget that Jango Fett destroyed all but the Slave1, which he used as his escape vehicle.
If i lived in star wars, i would be saving up my credits, to buy a YT-1300 exact like the Millenium Falcon with a few modifications, i would be installing solar collectors/solar panels, so that it'll never run out of power and at the front of the ship, where there's empty space, i would put a shuttle/gunship. The YT-1300 is perfect because it could be use as a living space and it's fast, it has one of the fastest hyperdrive in the galaxy. With the ship i could explore the whole galaxy.
Just remember to not skimp out on defense and offense. The galaxy will fuck you up if you are not ready for it.
The VCX-100 is great as well
You should've included the Eta-2 Actis-class Interceptor which can cost between 140k and up to 320k depending on the Modell
Between a personal massive fleet made of Star Destroyers equipped plenty of a variety of TIE-fighters, including the defender ones, and building another Death Star, just so that Palpatine can use the "near his subjects but also not far from them" strategy, which one is the better strategy?
That one was the plan for the second death star in legends.. He needed to be close to Coruscant while not being near it because there were a few riots and uprisings there.
That N-1 is now a Star Wars version of a Rat Rod. And I LOVE IT!
For some reason I find different things like this satisfying
I really wish the Mandolorian Kyr'galaar/Bes'uliik-class assault star fighter got more love in TV shows and animations. Its essentially the Mandolorians answer to the X-wing and Tie-Defender series star fighters and would be up there with both in terms of performance and price as well. (Its been named both Kyr'galaar and Bes'uliik but Bes'uliik is the most recent name this fighter has had)
Was really hoping to see the Starviper make this list
How about a video on main characters personal wealth? Cannon and not. That would be cool. You guys are my favorite Star Wars channel.
Most of Naboo Fighter's price was the badge and the fashion designer.
Really hoping something crazy like Mando’s N-1 getting beskar plating when he inevitably goes into the mines on mandalor to apologize for taking his helmet off lol
The most expensive cruiser in star wars is the GALACTIC STAR CRUISER! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would say a TIE defender is worth the cost of 300k credits. Even if deployed in low numbers, you could have some of your best pilots fly TIE defenders. Even a handful of TIE defenders (especially with your top pilots) would devastate enemy starfighters easily. For the empire, such a starfighter would be very good for countering the rebel alliance's starfighter based strategy. In addition, the rebel alliance was pretty short on personnel and losing large amounts of starfighter pilots would be crippling. The TIE defender being superior to any rebel alliance starfighter and the empire having far superior pilots (much more trained having formal training) would further this advantage.
I liked almost all of this, with one exception. Surely there's more to being classified as a starfighter than "being small". Wookiepedia even lists it as a sloop and yacht. In fact, an issue you identified, namely its slow acceleration, would exclude it from effective use as a starfighter, even if you replaced its tractor emitters with actual weapons.
Maybe this list should be named most expensive tiny craft?
I'm probably choosing the aurek fighter I think with current day modding it would be an amazing interceptor especially if we jam as many features into as possible like they did with the current day a wing
Personally I'd go with the GAT-12m Skipray Blastboat. A heavy starfighter, this variant came equipped with triple ion cannons, a dual 360° medium laser turret, proton torpedo launcher, and either a concussion missile launcher or a tractor beam projector. The m variant was faster in both real space and hyperspace, which put it between a X-wing and a TIE fighter in maneuverability, 3 times the armored hull of a X-wing, twice the shields of a X-wing, and a hyperspace class of more than likely 1.0. Add some sensor jamming equipment and you've got a mean starfighter. New this starfighter cost 285,000 credits.
Its more of a gunboat than a fighter, intended for a four man crew, but otherwise I agree. Skiprays don't get enough love.
@@caseyhart9916 I also love the Skipray but according to Wookiepedia it's listed at a heavy starfighter and could be configured to be run by just the pilot. Also it's just a tad larger than the Firespray-31 at the end of the list and just as heavily armed. Plus it's as fast as a starfighter, as maneuverable as a starfighter and can be carried on capital ships like a starfighter. It's on the large side for a starfighter but in Star Wars sometimes splitting hairs is just what you need to do to survive.
@@steeltimberwolf It can be flown by one person, but its not intended to be, and you lose a lot of effectiveness like that. For what its worth, I also disagree with the Firespray being called a fighter. Its fighter SCALE, certainly, but so is the Millenium Falcon, but nobody would mistake it for an actual fighter, even with all the mods. Being carried by a larger vessel doesn't make it a fighter, either, or else Lambda shuttles would also count. Another solid ship choice for an entrepreneur, btw.
@@caseyhart9916 I agree. Just love the ship. If I was solo I would had a droid brain to control the turret and a droid to run the sensors.
Ah yes, the good old Skipray. A pirate's best friend.
More 'expensive star wars stuff' please!
I’ll take a Firespray thank ya very much. And a T-85 X-wing for aesthetic looking dogfights
Using your laptop as a heater while winter camping is real 😂
Hey man gotta survive somehow
If I had a lot of money. I would build my own starfighter. :) I have a design in my head that I need to draw out one of these days. It's sorta a love child between a U-wing, X-wing, and B-wing.
I’m imagining four bwings arranged in an x 🤣
I doubt Thrawn would've failed to crush the rebel cell, rather I think it's the writers that failed Thrawn.
I would choose the N1 Star-fighter. It’s been my favorite ship since I watched Episode 1
Video suggestion: best in atmosphere craft
People talk shit about tie fighters but that crazy sound they make sounds like tearing the literal sky a new one
One of my favorites from legends is the StarViper-class attack platform.
Honestly the lancer class pursuit craft by mandalmotor would be my go to
Talking about stock versions and if you're in the unique position of buying any of these ships:
1: Solar Sailor, fuel efficiency
2: TIE Silencer, Fire Power w/Atmosphere
3: T85 X-Wing, Iconic and Reliable
4: N-1 Starfighter, Notoriety and how Difficult it is to acquire in the first place
In that order, and for these reasons, in my humble opinion.
Easily the Firespray, it may have a light attack package but those seismic charges do a hell of a lot of damage.
I love the naboo fighters, just so clean. Also its werid how the astromech head detatches in them when they slide in, it just looks werid.
The silencer
I have no proof, but I believe that Mando's particular N1 Fighter is the same one Anakin used.
Again, no proof, but I want to believe.
I love this series.
My own head cannon star fighter would be 500,000 credits and would have a built in Kyber rail gun and would have two high power ion cannons that have enough power to blow a small star destroyer if placed correctly. The name is, the R.I.A.N, aka the rail interceptor and neutralizer. Manufactured SOLELY in the undiscovered regions planet DH-163 alpha, a metal rich super planet the size of a small star.
Do you think you can do a video on the 10 strengths or weaknesses of the Z-95 headhunter Starfighter?
Personally id want a ship thats small but also big enough for me and a couple of others to live on like the Millennium Falcon or the Razorcrest or the one from the Bad Batch (forgot the name)
Still love the skipray blast boat
MandalMotors/Mandal Hypernautics StarViper. Specifically the Virago, but the StarViper itself was like 200,000 credits a piece itself if memory serves.
VCX100 with Sheathipede Auxilary shuttle, A-wings docked at the sides, and a Y wing docked underneath. OP? Yes. But it'd be a special forces swiss army knife.
You could do an episode on very expensive lavish start yachts
Imagine someone using the Death Star as a starfighter?. Just with custom parts to make it actually move like a starfighter. Or lots and lots of force magic.
The firespray duh, loved it since I was 6
To fly around the Galaxy? Firespray
To fly into combat? TIE/D Elite or TIE Silencer
Dude is 1000% right about laptops, I dont turn on the heat in winter, I just game.
Ima say it: people sleep on the V-Wing. Modify it for a hyperdrive? Golden.
To be honest, I was surprised there were no more expensive ships given $1 = 1 credit
Me too. But it does explain why a lot of characters in Star Wars can afford to have their own ship.
I want to see a video on what it takes to be a smuggler in the Star Wars universe
That exact blade is on padawan outpost for around half as much as it is on ownasaber
Me I would want a Mandalorian - Lancer-class pursuit craft!!
I always wondered this with blasters
I'd go with the a/sf-1 b-wing and upgrade to a class 1 hyperdrive. Maybe have a droid gunner or use the extra space for storage, flying it solo.
I honestly expected the Fury Class Sith interceptor on the list o.O
I would argue the firespray 31 is a dropship similar to the komerk class fighter transport
An Naboo N1 with Beskar Armor would be cool😎
You missed one of the best Starfighters and coincidentally it was in the final seconds of your video. How gorgeous is the Mandalorian Kom’rk class fighter. It stunning and I was so happy when they crossed over to live action in The Mandalorian.
Unless you plate it in beskar it won’t cost more than 200k
@@GenerationTech Wookieepedia puts it at 190,000 so not far off.
(Btw, I rather like what your lightsaber sponsor is putting out. They've got a nice selection of pretty simple and practical-looking stuff. :) Figured maybe they ought to know the sponsorship's worth it. :)
Yeah the N-1 definitely would appreciate in value by post-empire
No mention of the "Hell God King of Starfighters?" I mean, you can't fly the thing, but still...
The Missile Boat is one of the best things to come out of the Imperial fighter designs...
Personally I realy think the tie phantom should be on this list granted im not sure if this is a cannon only list but regardless it's personally my fav starfighter and is like the tie defender probably one of the best starfighters ever made.
Wuhoo! Finally some Resistance content.
According to Star Wars Wiki Slave 1 cost over 120,000 credits while a bade model is 80,000
Definitely the TIE Defender Elite
The Death Star would be pretty expensive
What I thought when I saw the n1. Eh it would make a pretty craopy bounty hunter ship. But maybe it signifies he's no longer a lone hunter. But still makes a horrible home
Ah yes, eleven minutes of joy
Me I'd dig up the blueprints for the bounty hunter ship from the old republic era
Please make of most cheap starfighters
It seems like the TIE Silencer was purposely designed to be reminiscent of the Millennium Falcon, given that it was flown by Han Solo's on.
If I had the means all my bomber pilots would fly Deathravens, the double B Wing designed by mercenary pilot Erron Kell. All my interceptor pilots would fly Twi 'lek "Deathseed" starfighters, redesigned with TIE Defenders being the base instead of the standard TIE, so they are faster and have projectile launchers. I would rename the "Deathraptors". Last but certainly not least, my standard fighter would be the "Deatheagles". These would be TIE Defenders that have been modified to have three laser cannons and three ion cannons as weapons, one of each on each of the three wings. Furthermore, the wings themselves would be fitted to a revolving collar so they would spin around the cockpit, giving the pilots optimal firing arcs for their weapons. I would have twelve squadrons of my "Deatheagle" and six each of my "Deathraptor" and "Deathraven" fighters in the Fighter Bay of my Assertor class Star Dreadnought "Lightbringer".
U-Wing with weapon living accommodation mods at a minimum. Either that or a Marauder.
Well i was wondering what the price could be for Darth Moul's ship. I remember flying it in the game "Battle of Naboo"
Never mind just discovered the other clip.
Is being pre-Empire another factor in Din taking the N1? Something about the transponder or registration?
Yup. Pre-Empire ships don't have transponders that give away your registration, which the Empire was very big on to maintain control in the galaxy.
I would like to point out that despite the x wing being more expensive the cheaper y wing can still compete with it in a dogfight
I guess Mando is only bringing them in cold now.
Pls make a video on the star wars resistance- starship etc.
firespray 31 in a heart beat
For once in my life, I want to know the sponsor's link. It's not in the description!
TIE Defender, obviusly