This Ship Could've Saved the Empire

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crazy how luthen already knew they were gonna mess with him so he instantly started preparing when he was stopped

The part where Luthen used the countermeasures reminded me of that scene from Spaceballs where Lone Starr and Barf "jam the radar" on Dark Helmet's ship. Although the countermeasures probably didn't taste like raspberry 😂

Wasn't this a concept from Solo that was cut from the film? This communication ship should have been accompanied by a combat frigate specially since it was on a pirate heavy area. Edit: using an ID from Alderaan is brutal.

Also including more TIE Defenders to accompany those smaller, less resource intensive ships would have helped with Imperial power projection and rapid reaction. Yes, TIE Defenders were also expensive compared to regular TIEs but still less so than bringing a big battle wagon that is the ISD.

It's not even a bad looking ship. I like the kind of diamond configuration, and as a Star Trek fan having a giant dish in the front feels cozy.

I think it's a given that the empire went way overboard. If Palpatine knew about the Yuuzhan Von, he could have just manipulated the entire galaxy to create these mass weapons and they probably would have done a really good job fighting them with Thrawn. For cannon there wasn't really a point except scaring the empire's citizens who were being taken advantage of so they wouldn't fight back. But if the empire toned down their massive ships, it would have been way better

It's a cool cruiser at first glance it doesn't look like a patrol craft with all of its satellite panels. Can't wait to see more of it, the captain in Andor definitely wasn't as experienced seeing that he still let his boarding crew leave after Luthen became a threat.

"The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers."

Thrawn could have saved the Empire if he was at Endor

I love the arrestor cruiser, even if it hardly ever gets mentioned.

I like to think that he went overboard, so that they would be more likely to try to track or follow him, rather than leave them to try to see what he was doing on the planet, which might get Saw into trouble. Then again, Saw had to receive those excessive wounds some how before Rogue One, which might also explain how he feels betrayed by EVERYONE.

Did anyone else catch the Cantwell in Solo? It was one of the ships on the recruitment screen where Han signed up to join the imperial navy.

Andor is a great inspiration. Series really enjoying it the most from all the spin off's . Great video from you all . From your friends across the pond 🇬🇧

Dog fighting in Star Wars, is just the epiphany of a long tradition of fighting on horse drawn, or otherwise propelled carts, ben-hur style... that's why sometimes traditional axial spikes come to bare... also why young Skywalker compares dog fighting to pod racing, which sprouts from that same tradition, it's practicly the same.

On the shields being down thing, I don't actually know, but I suspect tractor beams need to not have shields between them and the target to work. The obvious objection to this is that obviously the ship it is grabbing may have shields, but I would guess that the tractor beam then grabs on to the shield itself, making it not a problem if it is on the target side. If my speculation is correct, then Luthen's countermeasures would be very hard to defend against specifically in a tractor beam using scenario. Maybe you could reactively turn on the forward shields very quickly, and live with whatever the interaction between the shield and the tractor beam is, since it is likely to at least be less bad than letting the countermeasures do their thing. Or maybe the tractor beam can briefly reverse direction in a pulse at a slightly wider angle aiming to push the particles out of it's firing cone, but you'd have to design that feature specifically with this kind of countermeasure in mind.

This is probably my favorite ship in star wars now to be honest

Actually I think those lightsaber blades are to prevent any boarding shuttles from docking with him, and he just found a creative use for it

feels like the empire kind of did what a lot of armchair analysts would do which is prepare their doctrine and infrastructure for the last war instead of the one they have. focusing on warship v warship and planetary conquest instead of insurgents and small scale skirmishes. which considering the basing of starwars on the Vietnam war. feels quite fitting.

Tharwn's superpower was art appreciation.