10 Most Important Planetary Defense Forces in Star Wars

[@sierravortec2494]

Imagine how awesome Star Wars could be if Disney hired writers as knowledgeable and passionate as Alan?

[@mrzirak792]

Imagine how awesome Star Wars could be if disney just didn't throw everything but movies into trash bin, and instead at least tried to finish certain things like Legacy 2, series of novels and some games like Republic Commando 2, First Assault, 1313 and Battle of The Sith Lords (aka Maul game).

[@robertnelson9599]

Imagine if Disney had never bought LucasArts

[@silverjohn6037]

Or at least bothered to read a wikipedia article on the subject.

[@powerist209]

Then again, people were pissing at George Lukas for prequel or his “dumb ideas” (at least good ones coming from other studios or staff). Or better yet, adapting Legends series to begin with.

[@strambino1]

I still think Umbara has the scariest defense force.

[@skyden24195]

Umbara's defense force wasn't actually all that powerful. The only way they were able to mount any significant defense was due to a rogue Jedi-General giving his clone-forces suicidal orders, and the Umbarans still lost the overall battle. ...but it still was a pretty scary force to have to deal with.

[@ahnok2855]

they were still pretty strong even before krell came to umbara. They were outnumbered and facing two of the most experienced clone units and still put up incredibly stiff resistance@@skyden24195

[@sir_captainmorgan]

They were definitely the scariest, but mostly cause their planet was terrifying

[@theempiredidnothingwrong3227]

The kaleesh are lowkey more horrifying. It’s all fun and games till the trees start speaking kaleesh.

[@Freeplayone]

Mimbans are badass too

[@casbot71]

The Naboo defence forces could have been far stronger _if_ the Humans and Gungans had a mutual defence treaty that united them against any outside invader. The Humans deliberately kept their forces weak so as to not appear to be a threat to their one time rivals. But a mutual defence force would have enabled them to build up instead. As well, by keeping some of their space fighting force hidden in Gungan underwater bunkers, the Naboo forces would be able to mount a suprise counter-attack, catching landing forces off guard. And with their completely different styles of combat, combined ground forces would have been far more difficult for a enemy to confront. The Gungan ground units would have benefited from having Humans with blasters and ground vehicles to back them up.

[@motherteresa8418]

The deep state is treating the Ukrainians the way the Nation treated the gungens. As Cannon farter

[@marrqi7wini54]

Also with Naboo, unlike most planets, it has no molten core but one of flowing plasma and hollow tubes that you could reasonably use to travel across the planet with. Perfect for planetary bunkers!

[@-CrimsoN-]

I agree, but you're also forgetting one thing about the human Naboo. At least in Legends, the Naboo are settlers. The Gungans are the true indigenous species of the planet. I think the issue with the Gungans and humans never uniting was because the humans were technically colonialist invaders. The Trade Federation were far worse, but the humans who came to Naboo really only saught to exploit the planet. They ended up building a civilization, but it's no surprise that the Gungans never wanted to unite with the humans, who were invading their planet.

[@Meravokas]

​@@-CrimsoN- While the Naboo had become extremely peaceful and (Almost) pacifistic in their nature, by the late Russan period. (Or even earlier, it's not clear) the original settlers and the gungans had been at odds with each other over land, territory and even ideology for what was likely hundreds of years or more. Leaving the Gungans extremely untrusting of most humans, but the (now politically and societally) established settlers in particular. As such a joint ground force was basically impossible. I realize you're saying similar things. But it was the long standing mistrust between the two (Particularly on the gungan side) that prevented anyone from working together until after 20-BBY. That said the only real reason aside from the pacifistic nature that the defense forces were under equipped or relatively easily swept aside didn't really have much to do with their equipment. Their blasters were extremely powerful and while the vehicles they had were light, well, we saw what one of the heavy anti vehicle blaster cannons a speeder could do to an AAT... Also the N-1 was by no means an under gunned fighter. While primarily an interceptor, the heavy fighter blaster cannons and the very high power blaster torp munitions on top of strong shielding for a fighter of it's size... Well, not many messed with the Naboo. The main crux was that for the non pilot corp, was that while there was some mandatory service training, many did not seek careers in the guard and when they were called up for defending the planet, there was a large number of those that did have service that were out of shape and out of practice. The only 'professionals' amongst the guard (As a whole) were the fighter corp and the royal guard. If there had been more men on the guard level with half of Panaka's skill at the time and vehicle crews of comparable levels, the invasion still would have been a success, but the resistance afterwards would have been much more successful. That said the highest trained were those in the fighter corp. With the danger that the vulture droids possessed under control ship coordination, we see most of the pilots in the movie being taken down by flak and the laser defense batteries, meaning they *Really* knew how to fly. Also forgive me for this post for being so long. I'm lore nerding... But there also was a civilization that lived on the planet a **Long** time ago. Neither the gungans nor modern humans built the ruins and ruined statues that were present on the planet, and were considered sacred places to the gungans. Which we've had no background on in the EU at all yet.

[@Meravokas]

It wasn't to appear as a non threat to the Gungans. They already kept their distance because continued conflict (Whenever it officially ended) was not advantageous to either side. It was simply the mindset that came into play over time. The need/desire to only police their own solar system with the power of the N-1 had (The surprise we see from veteran pilots of not getting through the DCS, says something) and the pacifistic nature, led to a small force, even if armed with very powerful weapons in limited numbers. The main issue with the Naboo PDF was it's small size and limited skill from a lack of active, and skilled career members. Many took their initial training rotation and left the blaster behind.

[@SossuSoturi]

I have always loved the armor of Coruscant underworld police officers

[@skyden24195]

Their armor is similar to stormtrooper armor in the fact that the armor conceals the identity of the officers which can prevent criminal elements from taking advantage of knowledge of officers' private lives.

[@Al_the_Phantom]

I love Planetary Defense Forces, it adds a Faction outside the regular Movie/TV/or Game of Rebel vs Empire or Republic vs Separatist or even Sith vs Jedi

[@TheWarmachine375]

"The good defense is the best offense." - Rogal Dorn

[@neckermangames5872]

I love that TTS quote

[@jiyuhong5853]

@@neckermangames5872 TTS?

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

The Clone Wars was good in that it allowed us to see more parts of the galaxy.

[@mrzirak792]

Thats exactly what EU was doing, even Prequels and OT was doing it, with showing planets like Geonosis or Bespin. EU even invented Coruscant and "Sith".

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@@mrzirak792 correct.

[@TURRG]

Wish we seen more of these in TCW

[@mrwubbs7265]

Id love to see a video like this on 10 of the lesser known but more interesting or dinstinctive planetary defense forces

[@casbot71]

The Alderaan Defence forces ultimately weren't that effective, their ground forces and infantry were proven to not up to the task in 0BBY.

[@kenle2]

Uhmm ... Exactly HOW would they have mounted an effective defense? Short of a Jedi who actually knew about a certain thermal exhaust port.

[@SmellyCheese146Gaming]

😂😂😂

[@weldonwin]

Well, I mean how could they have prepared for the Mining Disaster, that no one could possibly have forseen?

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

​@@kenle2they should have built their own flawless death star to counter the Empire death star and have coruscants Shields 😂

[@skyden24195]

Alderaan was peaceful, they had no weapons.

[@wedgeantillies66]

Hapes Consortium should have been worth a look as having a battle dragon for each of its 63 worlds along with other vessels and fighters to defend its home territory is not to be sniffed at.

[@williamfescemyer4739]

I don’t think they exist in technical cannon. They are still one of my favorite factions.

[@wedgeantillies66]

@@williamfescemyer4739 They don't at the moment, but at the rate, disney is reintroducing legends cannon into its own verse, never say never.

[@ad_astra5]

What was that movie clip about sentient fish on the beach? Also, PDFs and local police are underrated in Star Wars I think. Same with Halo to a lesser degree and a lot of media I feel. The big galaxy spanning forces are cool, but militia and police would probably bare the brunt of any first invasion, or organized crime. Like the post ww2 morphine smuggling but with GAR med supplies or something.

[@GenerationTech]

Korean movie Called the Host or Monster (excellent movie)

[@casbot71]

"What about the Droid attack on the Wookies?"

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

Sorry but I ate all the cookies

[@puffsniffy6425]

I hear they make great coats

[@onliwankannoli]

Is that tactical training swing in the background standard Imperial issue?

[@andrewdau1299]

Glad to see you use a clip from The Host. That movie is seriously underrated.

[@TNR3DN3CK]

Would love to see a video about the Corellian Security Force

[@thegreenlightbulb6573]

What would Earth's Planetary Defence Force look like.

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

Ads

[@Number1Irishlad]

If we _ever_ could unite? I could see every country being required to provide a certain % of people to join the force. Idk, say ~10% of each country's standing military? Ex: big ass states like us would provide roughly 140,000, China 203,500. But smaller states like Luxemborg providing just under 100

[@tba113]

Probably somewhere between the early months of the XCOM Project, Stargate Command, and C&C's Global Defense Initiative. Good to excellent atmospheric fighters; the numbers, experience, and equipment to make any ground invasion immediately regret its life choices - and zero space-based assets outside of Earth orbit.

[@thegreenlightbulb6573]

@@tba113 Why wouldn't there be any space-based assets outside of Earth's orbit (In the context of a star war's PDF not in a modern sense)

[@tba113]

@@thegreenlightbulb6573 I didn't want to make assumptions about what future-tech we'd have, because adding Star Wars tech - even something as mundane for that setting as a basic droid brain, a repulsorlift, artificial gravity plating, or even just a blaster power pack - would be a _huge_ game-changer for how Earth's industries and technologies work. Since industry and tech determine what kind of military a society can put together, it would be really difficult to make any serious suggestion if you're assuming we have access to SW tech. So, instead I went with more or less what we have now. All three forces I mentioned started out as elite but ultimately pretty conventional modern military formations.

[@Lukastar1]

Great vid, I always love all the indigenous armies in the galaxy Also imagine if Umbara actually wanted to become an empire, they probably could have succeeded with how strong their tech is

[@violetlight1548]

Loved your "co-host" for this video, a noted member of Earth's Planetary Defense Force.

[@brokenbridge6316]

This was a nice look into a Galaxy Far Far Away

[@theromanorder]

I have been doing this for 5 months.... Please do more tactics video And structure videos like formations, or the structure of the cis navy for example

[@knightingale9833]

Love that music track you played during number 6

[@jeffriesarabiancenter4135]

Umbaran weapons are amazing

[@GeneraIKurt]

Planetary Defense Forces deserve more attention. It brings more depth to the lore than just good army and bad army. A missed take on this was in the mandalorian to take over the cruiser and starfighters and use them as a defense force for Nevarro.

[@Ghostfury2004]

Honestly i think all the Republic issues started because of the rusan reformation

[@GenerationTech]

Thousand years of peace tho isn’t shabby

[@Ghostfury2004]

@@GenerationTech yeah but it is basically how half of Europe were not focusing on their military but relying on ours until recent events .

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

​@@GenerationTechthousand years unchallenged republic Government is more like it , No Major Galactic war , Everything else was at hell and rotting

[@bomber92ful]

The Trade Defense Force lived long enough to become the villain.

[@GenerationTech]

yup

[@Toto-TK88]

#1 Umbarian People #2 Outland Régions Security #3 Andor corporation #4 Trade Federarion Millice (before droids) #5 Naboo Security #6 Mon Calamari People #7 Gungan People #8 Onderon Security #9 Coruscant Security #10 Battelfront 2 Secu Corporation

[@feralprocessor9853]

Some pretty unique fighting forces

[@kevingluys3063]

Binging this channel waiting for the Lego store to open

[@thegamingkaiser2874]

Philosophy before Legos is always a good thing.

[@enveenva5584]

My favourite is definitely the Alderaan defence forces, the basis for the rebellion.

[@johnfitzgeraldii1952]

That's why the Right, not the Privilege, to Keep and Carry a Weapon (i.e. Blaster) should and shall not be infringed.

[@lerneanlion]

What are the benefits of becoming members of the Republic anyway? If being part of the Republic makes no different in the Outer Rim, what's the point of even joining it in the first place? Also, if the Republic and the Jedi were willing to commit ethnocide against the Mandalorians, why didn't they do it to the Umbarans as well? After all, what's the different between the Mandalorians begin to taxing the Hydian Way and the Umbarans blocking a route to Kashyyyk?

[@kahtyman7293]

maybe trade and easier access to space ports of other planets

[@lerneanlion]

@@kahtyman7293 Maybe but what's the point of using those trade routes if they cannot be properly maintained and defended? This is why having a number of polities across the galaxy worked better for me.

[@cryptosporidium1375]

Because Umbara doesn’t go on destructive galactic campaigns that exterminate a species on the basis of being inferior warriors.

[@lerneanlion]

​@@cryptosporidium1375 Darth Ruin's actions said otherwise. Plus, Geetsly's stated that the Umbarans are among those species that are affiliated with the Dark Side of the Force. So I am surprised the Jedi did not do what they did to the Sith and the Mandalorians to them by using this reason alone. I know that is wrong but that clearly did not stop Mace Windu from trying to overthrow the democratically elected leader of the Republic.

[@DMSProduktions]

Somebody FORGOT to tell the Mon Calamari/Quarren that lasers do NOT work under water!!!

[@crimsoncarnotaurus]

The shots aren't lasers, they are heated gas formed into a plasma.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@crimsoncarnotaurus Still WON'T work under water!

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

If the umbarans were intredted in Galactic domination,We would have another major faction

[@Minty1337]

10:00 pressure of vacuum? you mean lack of pressure? lol

[@Sc0ts]

Surprised the Ewoks didn't feature on this despite not being exactly organized

[@cpr-gaming4151]

Hey does anyone know which music is used in the background here? Would really appreciate some help :)

[@GenerationTech]

We use a service called epidemic sound they produce tracks for creators and video production companies

[@Sheev8435]

@@GenerationTech isn't the first music from goodtimeswithscar? I assume you both used the same service.

[@Zanzabarchocolate]

"Pre-Mor Enforcement, or as I lovingly like to refer to them as, Tactical Blueberries..." Pretty sure 40k already has that petname claimed, but go on.

[@nulious]

Super fast build mode

[@RoanCritter]

Yay, someone else recognises it!

[@JeremyMusgrave-po8rv]

Awesome Awesome

[@KamikazeMedias]

"Im not speciest" DID ALLEN SIDED WITH DOLFINS AND PETA!?

[@motherteresa8418]

How is it day At the same time in both sides of Naboo

[@TheBlckMandalorian]

I think you’re a lil too big for that plastic swing behind u brotha 😂

[@SossuSoturi]

Hey whats the song that starts at around 0:25

[@Shadow-Company-Operator]

The Empire fixed every problem each defense force had. The Empire was the answer to everything the empire made the galaxy safer.

[@DocBadr]

Would the "Bright Star" on Mustafar technically count as planetary defense?

[@Tigerpanzer6666]

dam this made me wonder what happened to coruscants police forces

[@KraytDragon1138]

Where's Kashyyyk?

[@motherteresa8418]

Why did they invent space travel if their so isolationist

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

Isolationist in the way of saying , "They are not like British colonising every fucing planets " and They are busy with thier own 100 caste systems I'd bet they have a inter state war between castes 1 every year atleast

[@Freeplayone]

Nothing about the mimbanese ?! I am heartbroken...

[@amyneith]

Hey look at earth there are lots of defense forces

[@robertagu5533]

Tactical Blueberries... Sounds like some kinda rock band... Can only imagine what kinda names exist in the whole SW verse, especially the SW Intergalactic version of Hollywood... Which is corrupt, borderline evil on plenty ways so they seem, an are just full of Humans... Least so far as we know.

[@skyden24195]

How about the "Hutt Space" defense force? You will never find a more wretched, defensive hive of scum and villainy.

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

"Hello, boys! I'm baaaack!" 😈

[@sumukhvmrsat6347]

Oh no , My back ! 😂

[@CounterLink]

No such thing as a good umbarian

[@justincarter1217]

First

[@Bigjdog0335]

That’s what the suit was for drugs

[@Gabrong]

Plasma mining is the prime example of sci-fi babble

[@lifevest1]

Cham Syndulla = the Osama Bin Laden of Star Wars.

[@marrqi7wini54]

More like Saw Gurrara and his insurgency.

[@Number1Irishlad]

Not cham, cuz he's not going out of his way to strike a different part of the galaxy to get back at people. I could see him.being a bit more like ho chi minh? Maybe? Hell maybe ukraine rn? But not bin laden

[@motherteresa8418]

The Deeop stare is treating the Ukrainian the same way the naboo treatef the Gungens. As cannon farter. Only the gungens were volunteers as Teenagers who already left are conscripted

[@pyeitme508]

21st century US🇺🇲 military 🪖 be like: "Ha those jokers?! Good news the US military is an offense force than a 'defense' force". 😂

[@Foreign0817]

We do have a national guard. And they ain't too shabby. 😌

[@pyeitme508]

@@Foreign0817 the National Guard is part of the US Army & US Air Force. 😑

[@Foreign0817]

@@pyeitme508 I know. But for a home guard, they're not too bad. Relatively well equipped. And yes, I know they can deploy to combat zones, too. My 4th grade teacher had to go in the late 2000s.

[@pyeitme508]

​​@@Foreign0817ok u got some points. As the National Guard has 2 US Army Special Forces Groups - 19th & 20th.

[@Foreign0817]

@@pyeitme508 Yup. And hey, in case the US was ever invaded, they could train civilians in guerilla tactics, ironically enough. Which I believe happened in Red Dawn...

[@mattscott8961]

Love these cultural deepdives...helps me understand culture - period! I live in a world full of aliens!!!