7 Worst Jobs in the Galactic Empire Military

[@jameslewis2635]

I'd say that the worst jobs were probably any that brought you into contact with any members of the imperial leadership. After all, you could never tell whether you were going to be force choked for spilling Vader's coffee, have your home planet destroyed because Tarkin found the slightest fault or if some farm boy was about to launch a torpedo into your exhaust port.

[@shawn6860]

Imperial Aquatic Navy might be a terrible job. Given the Imperial standards on Tie Fighters, I would not trust their deep sea equipment any deeper than a swimming pool's deep end.

[@Straswa]

Yeah I feel sorry for the captain of an Imperial Utility trawler. Officer: "You there, you have failed to meet your quota of harvested fish!

[@manhunter433]

Being a Scuba Trooper is all around bad. Your suit gets breached, odds are you're dead.

[@kc9602]

You mean their craft COULD float?

[@DMSProduktions]

'Ohhh da pressure...'

[@Springfield1191]

Bruh, I wouldn't trust them with floaties in the shallow end.

[@isaackim7675]

Imperial Lieutenant, “Hold your fire. There’s no life forms onboard.” Imperial Gunner, “Hold your fire? What we’re gettpaid by the laser now?” Lieutenant, “You don’t make the regulations, Jerry! I do.”

[@indianajones4321]

Lol

[@Straswa]

"Those were the droids we were looking for"

[@OhOh996]

*Shoots anway* "........Jensen? May I see you in office?"

[@yung_andre]

Those are the best family guy episodes

[@Brownie.-]

They didn’t shoot it so they could search the pod just incase. But it did bite them in the butt. Should’ve just blast it no need to search what other information the droids held.

[@herodaresfire4512]

One of my favorite minor characters is Tenn Graneet, the man who actually fired the super laser. After Alderaan, he couldn't bring himself to fire it again, so he just kept repeating "stand by," all the while praying that something would stop it. Had he fired right away, all the Rebels on Yavin IV would've died. Luke would've destroyed the Death Star moments later regardless, but his delay saved the Rebellion.

[@kingnaga619]

The hyper intense training of TIE pilots is to counterbalance the flying coffin that is your average TIE fighter. Anyone half decent in that likely gets bumped up to the marginally less suicidal ships in the imperial fleet.

[@BlackIce3190]

There is a reason they’re called coffin jockeys.

[@earnestbrown6524]

11:15 Then two floor chiefs dragged the "body" away, redressed him, gave him a larger mustache and he came back as Lt. Leopold the 2nd. Just like they trained in Death Star Orientation.

[@violentscorl697]

Love that sketch😂

[@anthonymichaeleardley494]

With a simple training presentation, a small group of officers have fooled a Sith Lord, however there is yet to be something that can fool a proton torpedo.

[@childishisnotachild7277]

6:21 I'd say being an At-At driver is not that bad of a job considering out of all the jobs in the imperial military. It has thick armor nearly impenetrable with even heavy guns and if they do end in up in a scenario of falling, it is not that hard to imagine that it's possible for them to survive, after surviving the fall they wouldn't be stranded either, they still got Speederbikes and I'm sure the power on board or at least some is still on, so they could request for back up using communications.

[@namex5348]

Good Point. However the at-at would be a Huge priority target because of it's massive Size and firepower. So If the enemy we're disciplined and skilled enough to take one on the At-at would be First to Go down probably

[@rainbowscarface2496]

@@namex5348 if they were disciplined and skilled enough chances are you'd be dead no matter how they attacked lol

[@namex5348]

@@rainbowscarface2496 yeah but in a Bulky, slow, and Giant vehicle that Sticks Out Like a sore thumb the chances to escape are miniscule

[@GrandmasterDevo]

@@namex5348 And when that thing goes down... Ooh, you're gonna feel it, boy. (Until you break your neck once the cockpit hits the ground).

[@thunderK5]

Being able to drive your enemies before you and see them run. That can be a serious power trip, in a Dark Side way.

[@PaulJWells-ud2eq]

I would watch an animated "Star Wars Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe as a beleaguered HoloNet host droid. Disney+ needs to think weirder with stories. Great topic and video. Thanks

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Bwahahaa I need this now

[@Archerdon88]

3:15 “the planet disappeared in a mining accident” absolutely floored me 😂

[@indianajones4321]

An officer near an angry Vader

[@isaackim7675]

Moral of the story: Never piss off Vader

[@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244]

Correction: any officer near Vader, because he even if he doesn't get mad at you, everyone else would be walking on egshells for a month after someone pissed him

[@dogloversrule8476]

@@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244 being even on the same ship as Vader was like walking on eggshells in a mine field

[@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244]

@@dogloversrule8476 Yeah, never take a promotion to Death Squadron, or the Executor

[@indianajones4321]

@@davidmauriciogutierrezespi5244 very true

[@g.williams2047]

This is some good old fashioned Generation Tech right here.

[@sundragon7703]

Missed a terrible job classification. It is the IT group serving on any ship with Vader or the Emperor. Those leaders probably went through techs like a gamer with a bag of Cheetos. If the network glitches for whatever reason, someone is gonna catch hell regardless of fault or not.

[@violetlight1548]

AT-AT driver would actually be pretty fun, provided you had smaller walkers watching your undersides, and weren't up against snowspeeders. Just stepping on rebel scum would be quite enjoyable.

[@TheGreatThicc]

Until the Rebels eventually (and inevitably) find an AT weapon capable of blowing one of the legs off or call in proper air support from X/Y Wings.

[@bobaoriley1912]

I don’t know if this counts but shipbuilding would probably be high. Normal dangers building from very large projects and add risks like to falling your death on Corellia or the vacuum of space at Fondor shipyards.

[@eruseayt9244]

depends on the safety standards probably

[@Straswa]

@@eruseayt9244 Considering what we saw of the ship-breaking facility on Bracca, the standards are low I think.

[@lordMartiya]

Nitpick on the Battle of Hoth: the Rebels lost almost all their Snowspeeder to pull the tow cable trick ONCE. The other AT-AT losses at that battle came from a Snowspeeder pilot discovering a weakness in the foot (namely that if you repeatedly shoot a certain spot for a prolonged period it disassembles), a guy with a lightsaber cutting a hole and throwing a bomb inside, and a kamikaze attack.

[@jaden6211]

Being a scout trooper seems cool unless you run into a named character

[@shawn6860]

That and the snide comments from storm troopers and Regular Imperial army units.

[@brianschlicher59]

I always wanted to hear a joke about why there are no guard rails on landings and ridiculously deep pits. My thought was by not including safety rails the empire could build 3.4 more bases per 1000 bases by saving the endo steel that would have been used to build safety railing.

[@sashabraus9422]

I appreciate GT for writing out in Aurebesh in their videos as well for those not understanding Earth Basic.

[@Daron7181]

Having latrine/sanitation duty sucks in any military operation real or imagined.

[@HisShadow]

Tie Fighter design is so infuriating. They are far faster than the rebel fighters. Giving the Tie even the most basic shields that could block one or two blasts would have not only saved lives but also the Ties themselves.

[@MaitreEtherion]

Two points I want to talk about: - I higly recommad to read the The Death Star novel, it's just so awesome to know the position of gunner of DS1. - Yup, pilot of the empire is just sh**, i dont know why Baron Fel sign up twice for service XD

[@Attaxalotl]

Baron Fel is an Ace Combat protagonist; and I'd assume a reference to the Red Baron

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

The accounts and the burial personnel. How do you explain to different cultures that their sons and daughters were cremated even if their remains came back complete?

[@Fire157_]

i don't think they'd care enough to inform the families of their lost ones

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@@Fire157_ true enough

[@VictoryFireStudios]

9:43, it looks like there's some ray barrier between them and the laser

[@robertgreaney7378]

best vid from gen tech in a while glad to see a return to form

[@bored8321]

We're still crapping on the Empire? Some of these jobs come with great benefits, including wonderful medical and dental care.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

And you almost never have to worry about your retirement!

[@residentrump3271]

I heard Empire employees don't get paid holiday vacations, but they *DO* get free Sam's Club memberships....

[@bored8321]

@@residentrump3271 free Sam's Club memberships? Then by the force the Empire is the good guy!

[@residentrump3271]

@@bored8321 Not really. The Empire employees only get to use it once or twice before they get smoked anyway. General Grievous used to buy gloves in bulk from Sam's before...well, you know what happened to him

[@Starwarsgeek-nx9pq]

So going onto your point about the TIE Pilots having good training but low budget gear is actually a fair point. The reason why is because of just cost. The cost of TIEs were cheap so it was easy on the budget. But the reason they were given the good training is so that they can always preform at their very best. The US Marines have a similar way of training (coming from a marine) we get trained rigorously and the training can be very difficult but it helps because when we get issued our gear and eventually have to fight in combat with the cheapest BS the military can buy we can preform above and beyond what is required of us.

[@keithlivingstone2525]

The lady that washed down the cells on Detention Block AA. She didn’t want to do it but Darth Made her....

[@keithlivingstone2525]

The guy that cleaned the toilets on the Death Star. The Poopertrooper.....

[@armorbearer9702]

(2:05) I feel bad for these gunners. It's like the guys that were involved in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You had to overcome some major mental hurdles in order to move on. If anyone wants to know how firing weapons of mass destruction can affect one's life, look up the story of Claude Eatherly.

[@Omnipotentkami]

Any Admiral in Vader's Death Squadron tasked to catch the Falcon. Remember Battlefront 2 with the Prison break on the Death Star? Whoever worked on Scarif after Rogue One. The first Death Star architect. Legends especially proved that. Whoever has to drive the AT-TP. The Dark Trooper program. The Endor unit when the Ewoks get hungry and it's night time. Bonus points after the Rebels won.

[@user-Jay178]

I would say being a stormtrooper or death star technician as they were near the death star laser.

[@krisgonynor689]

Every time I see Padmé now I wonder why she just doesn't summon Mjolnir and deal with the situation "Mighty Thor" style.

[@residentrump3271]

She should've called her friend Leon. He's a professional

[@Straswa]

Great vid GenTech, I enjoy your content.

[@martesdeo]

Your like the History Channel of the Star Wars Unvierse

[@TimaeusEXE]

I think the training for the Tie fighter was more for dedication instead of actual utility. The tie fighter screams quantity at it's honest worse. The best example as to how dime a dozen Tie Fighters and their pilots are was the battle of Scarif. Hundreds of Tie Fighters just poured out of the shield gate, and quite literally threw themselves at the rebels. They were engaging ships with point defense weapons and star fighter support it was basically suicide for the Tie Fighters. The idea wasn't to get someone useful in the cockpit but someone willing to fly a glass peashooter at the enemy. Hence all the empire propaganda poured into them during training.

[@dekoldrick]

Basically Kamikaze pilots with a least a small chance of coming back home.

[@patwiggins6969]

Thought you were going to mention the lack of a railing there

[@DarknessGuard]

Sucks to be employed on so many key positions according to the Galactic Empire policies. Makes me wonder if the working conditions in the Old Sith Empire were better or worse.

[@levierickson7321]

There is a reasonable correlation between TIE Fighters and the A6M “Zero”

[@myplane150]

Can someone tell me which comic book number 1 is from? The reaction for Moff Tarkin regarding the gunners... thx. ☺

[@crabenjoyer2556]

I imagine this guy lives in a jedi monestary contemplating his infinite knowledge of the Star Wars Universe

[@malarkey5323]

Being Lord Vader’s underling is pretty bad

[@Straswa]

Maarek Stele succeeded at least.

[@wisdumbgaming9316]

Awesome!

[@h.c.bollinger6281]

Allen, as a retired Marine and former senior instructor at Quantico Officer training I find you extremely well read. You have a Command and Staff or War College level education. I wanted to ask what is you military background or what was your inspiration and guide to your studies. 8:58

[@scottishbananaclan]

Let's pay respects for the lower level officers and beurecrats who had to manage all the logistics and paperwork for transitioning the republic to the empire.

[@cubeshots7225]

The worst job is the sand trooper they had to work in small groups and in a hot climate

[@residentrump3271]

...not to mention sand is coarse and gets everywhere....

[@cubeshots7225]

@@residentrump3271 nice that also how anakin felt about sand

[@shadowrising6387]

Unfortunately I don't think they give you a choice where you go after all "you are no longer serving yourself, you serve the empire"

[@neofulcrum5013]

Being a tie pilot, a stormtrooper, an officer under Vader etc.

[@blackc1479]

Don't forget that the tunnel techs also don't even get a railing.

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

TIE fighter were very good when they did not go against main characters with huge plot armour.And in the movies i did not see one fighter with shields.From ARC-170 to X-Wing,if they are piloted by extras,they go done from 1 or 2 shots.

[@andrewmaderer1989]

Letter from the Imperial VA to laser tunnel techs on the Death Star: Your acute radiation poisoning has been deemed not service related.

[@beerlite6940]

Imperial Plumber. That’s gotta be up there. Imagine how many toilets are flushing at any given moment on a Star destroyer or the Death Star? That’s some major TP usage

[@TechnicalJimActual]

Honestly, working for the Empire seems to be just the worst. I mean, the Sith literally get their power from being assholes & most of the higher ups benefit from being dicks as well. No normal person benefits from that in a way that could be worth it by any stretch of the imagination.

[@tommyfox854]

I think those are the *ONLY* jobs in the Empires' military, but I'm probably wrong; long comment short, just *being* apart of the Empires' military is a death sentence even if you never fired your blaster once.

[@MrANTICRAZY]

Also the speeder bikes might blow up depending on where they're manufactured. Lol!

[@jamesfry8983]

I always thought the worst job was cleaning the methane breather's toilets

[@916009]

Worst? Guy who dumps Vaders biological waste tank

[@thechaoscraftcamtcc3770]

Don't forget one of the most memorable lines given out by Vader - 'Apology accepted, Captain Needa.' That dumb sod was just like Ozzel, choked to death, but this was earlier in the trilogy... I think... I don't really remember... And how about this: had Return of the Jedi turned out different, Vader would've likely killed the rest of the 501st that'd served on Endor protecting the shield generator bunker for their sheer incompetence and rebuilt his personal legion from the ground up. That would've been one of the worst jobs then, serving in Vader's personal legion that'd failed to protect the second Death Star and thus under intense scrutiny by the Dark Lord at all times.

[@Shakkarz]

the bata tanks are probably stored close proximity through to the corridors of the death laser of the death Star probably.

[@megashadowdancer1]

Admiral Piett spinoff!! Coolest under stress ever

[@brandengonzalez4633]

Can do the Republic next please

[@dogloversrule8476]

You forgot about under city police, the Inquisitors

[@joshuadelbelbelluz8325]

Can you please continue the separatist alliance vs earth series please

[@angryfatguy4503]

And let's not forget the old cliche about the guy standing in the barrel of the death Star. They don't even get the poor bastards a handrail to stop them from falling in. I have a feeling these are the guys who pissed off Tarkin at some point

[@sirhenry9313]

The worst job in the Galactic Empire? Palpy McScrotumFace's beauty therapist. Can you imagine trying to clean that?

[@appo9357]

Stormtrooper installing a toilet main on the second Death Star.

[@oldmanjim2376]

Vader had messed up at one point and when they were on the DS1, he was actually subordinate to Tarkin per the Emperor's order.

[@Starfleet8555]

I feel bad for those poor Death Star technicians. Empire is so cheap they don't put a some kind of barrier between them and the super laser. I really hope the Empire has some really good medical insurance.

[@scottgalbraith7461]

High catwalk patrol is pretty bad too.

[@LordBloodraven]

The best nickname for Scout Troopers: Tree "Dodgers"

[@BlackIce3190]

You mentioned Death Gunners, and didn’t include Tenn Graneet?

[@yagdtigercommander]

Another thing to add about Darth Vader only being accountable to Empire Palpatine. Is that often Palpatine found it amusing and even hilarious at times when he was present witnessing Darth Vader Punishing his minions. So the only man who really could save your life as a minion to the empire often didn't care because he was complete pyschopath who murdered his entire family when he was young. So Old sheev wouldn't think twice about Vader slaughtering minions he deemed to incompetent do there jobs the only way it would happen if Palpatine still thought the individual or individuals were still useful as tool in some capacity to the Empire.

[@Hapa45lolo]

Fun fact they hesitated at Yavin 4 on purpose

[@clavenbostic8212]

You forgot Amazon warehouse and delivery driver

[@toddkurzbard]

"Why, yes, Sir, I would LOVE to service this Death Star laser tunnel...uhh, what's that light coming towards me?"

[@josephnowak6802]

So the empire had the lowest unemployment rate?

[@h21lad13]

I still have no idea like why tf would the empire the clone trooper program aren’t clone trooper physically and mentally better and also loyal af to the point of following order 66 without hesitation which spoiler alert could literally implant loyalty chips so u wouldn’t need to fear desertion or whatever

[@LegoBob4123]

The clones were expensive and the Empire thought they could use regular people since there wasn't a galactic war happening. The Empire felt it didn't need top quality soldiers for policing/security work and putting down a insurrection every so often. Also the Kamino Uprising might have turned them away from clones. (RIP EU)

[@Zeb0101]

The empire military volume is like 10 times bigger than the republics' , pretty sure every credit count when reducing costs to achieve that

[@scoutman66]

@@Zeb0101 I hate the fucking idea that the Empire has managed to keep all of the 120 star systems they control in check because "Hurr durr there were just a lot of Stormtroopers." Do you really think that they would be able to keep an entire planet under their rule for even just over a year if all of their soldiers truly suck at their jobs so much?

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Stormtrooper: "for the empire."

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

In the star wars galaxy, i am the danger. Just ask Mace Windows 🤣

[@dennishenderson1644]

nice

[@jeffreycarman2185]

These are only the onscreen dirty jobs. I assume that a sanitation worker in the depths of Coruscant would be worse.

[@weelzneal4768]

Light saber in the background gave me an idea of a jedi / sith using a hover board. Boomers will either love it as a nod to Back to the future or they'll hate it saying "they're just appealing to kids ughh we need more wizards fighting politicians, not zoomers zooming"

[@christopherort2889]

cool video

[@mikehaddan4]

Al you missed sanitation worker 9n death star

[@casbot71]

Working in *HR* or *OSH.*

[@Wavemaninawe]

Allen missed 3... 8. Dolphin wrangler 9. Prison guard on Kashyyk 10. Death Star janitor

[@rljpdx]

yes!

[@BennyProductions]

why does the narrator sound like pete davidson

[@thirdcoastfirebird]

So basically it would be better to be a janitor at the Mos Eisley cantina than work for the Empire.

[@KamikazeMedias]

Death Star 1 is undesirable post over all.

[@KonjakTheSober]

If I had an army in the star wars universe it would consist of forcesensetive clone wookies in mandalorian armor.

[@jazermano]

By the force... That would be horrifyingly cracked in any battle sim. And stupidly difficult and expensive to maintain, equip, and train. Wookies aren't light eaters, and beskar is actually probably rarer than platinum.

[@KonjakTheSober]

@@jazermano Perhaps but I´m just having fun

[@jazermano]

@@KonjakTheSober I'd honestly love it, but I was pulling a bit of an Allen and analysing it rationally. But I mean, if you could make an army that could live off of cool-factor... I shudder to think of the power you could gain.

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

If clones could be force-sensitive... without succumbing to additional health risks.

[@Straswa]

@@jazermano Excellent points, logistics is the Achilles heel to any military strategy.

[@Chisszaru]

Being an officer near a sith is never good. You end up dead quicker than you can manage even the worst things ever, meaning that being close to Darth Vader is a death sentence. If you ever commit a crime, a really bad one at that, then maybe we should send you to Lord Vader and let him decide your fate, but you'll most likely just end up more dead than an ant being close to a 5 year old kid. Good luck surviving

[@A-Wreck]

Being on the same planet as Emperor.

[@STB-jh7od]

Being an Admiral-most likely to die by Vader's force choke.

[@4mobius280]

We can tell that the TIE pilots were not the top 10%. They’re used as disposable cannon fodder. You don’t use your top 10% as cannon fodder

[@privard89]

7 best jobs to have next!

[@Hina_Hanta]

The Sith are impatient? I would say Rule of 2 era Sith tend to be very patient, especially Sidious.

[@starflameroyale]

i just feel terrible for those two pointless guys who just have to sit there and get cooked by the insane heat that must be coming off the superlaser

[@residentrump3271]

You forgot the guy who has to empty and replace Darth Vader's colostomy bags. Particularly unpleasant after taco tuesday in the Death Star cafeteria

[@DMSProduktions]

Apology accepted!

[@mmraf1]

Well Thrawn wouldve made them better but all of that funding went to the death stars production. So, blame the skimping on the superweapon