The Imperial Capital Ships NOT designed by morons
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Publicado 2022-08-31
The Empire is well known for having many flawed capital ships, perhaps exemplified by the powerful but somewhat silly Imperial Class Star Destroyer. But, what of the ships which WERE well designed. We'll talk that and more in today's Star Wars lore video! #starwars #starwarslore #stardestroyer
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Imperial Nebulon B by EC Henry
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Honestly, most Imperial vessels look competently designed when you go by the FractalSponge specifications.
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I think the original Star Destroyer designs are picked on a bit too much lol. They're slightly silly, but they're cool and work for the universe they're in, and that's good enough for me. Also, I hope they continue the sunken bridge design from the fan ships and the First Order star destroyer, it's sleeker, more practical (I know I just said it didn't matter, but come on lol), and creepy in its own way.
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If the Galactic Empire was run by competent people, they would’ve won the war, and just maybe overthrow the Sith
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Honestly surprised you didn't include the Arquitens light cruiser. I know the design pre-dates the Empire, but it's a robust design that saw a look of good use under Imperial command.
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5:18 The Carrack class has a huge advantage in that the CGI model of it can be scaled down from a 350 metre long Light Cruiser with a giant front bridge window to become a small shuttle sized ship or even a longish snubfighter van with just a cockpit window on the front. That's something that even the ISD couldn't do, without getting freakishly large windows all over it's Xyston variant.
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It makes me so happy when a ship isn't called a "Star Destroyer". The term has been so overused it causes me physical discomfort when a new "star destroyer" or "super star destroyer" is introduced to the franchise. Designs like the strike cruiser, lancer-class, or EC Henry's Incursor-class are really refreshing as it offers a more believable role for a ship rather than the role: "perform the roles of all ships".
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I always loved Strike cruisers and I absolutely fell in love with the Kontos the moment I saw it.
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There’s just something about the nebulon-B, it’s cost effective, fast, has good firepower, and even though it looks stripped down it’s still a beautiful ship.
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I would expect the Interdictor Class Destroyer after facing it couple of times in Star Wars X-Wing Alliance, it became my 2nd favorite Imperial Ship after the Executor Class Destroyer
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I have the theory that Palpatine was more concerned with an internal takeover than with the Rebel Alliance, so he wanted the Empire to be not very competent, just efficient enough to ensure control of the systems. It wasn't until his wet dream, the Death Star, was destroyed that he took the Rebel Alliance seriously, but even so he would rather plan to ambush them at Endor than optimize the Empire.
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The Empire was just too busy putting resources into counter-plot armor weapons, so they couldn’t mass produce actual good ships
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To be fair, most star wars ships have some terrible design flaws and weapon firing arcs. That's not just an Imperial thing. But regardless they weren't made with logic in first place and that doesn't stop them from being perfect imo. Dumb bridges and WW2 style space dogfights are what makes star wars what it is :D
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It's a good reminder of the huge scale of Star Wars ships when you consider that at 250m the Lancer is a relatively tiny, but it's almost as long as the real life Yamato (~260m) which is one of the biggest warships we've ever made. And it's more than twice as long as the ISS, our biggest spacecraft.
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Escort carriers IRL were never designed or intended to escort capital ships. They weren't fast enough to keep up with them on top of other characteristics that made them unsuitable for the task. They would escort slower things like cargo convoys or take on duties that involved sitting in one place like amphibious assault support. That freed up the capital ships and fleet carriers to do fleet carrier stuff.
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The Raider is my favorite ship to come out of all ships since maybe the Royal Naboo Starship in The Phantom Menace.
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I know it didn't show up much, but I loved the Tartan Class Patrol Cruiser.
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Let’s be honest, Tarkin designed the ships, and he was clearly compensating
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Nebulon-B2 frigate, a later iteration of the rightfully infamous B2, will be my favorite. Came to know her trough TIE fighter and TIE fighter vs X-wing, man, she was far more difficult to solo take down than an impy star destroyer.
