The Empire Has Fallen! - As Told In Legends: Battles of Hoth, Endor, Mindor & Coruscant Explained

[@chriswriter9087]

Geetsly, this may be stuff Legends fans know by heart but the real draw of the video was hearing it in your voice & presentation style.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

Finally, the intro to the Warlord Era of the true timeline! Lot of potential for videos here, Grand Moff Ardus Kaine's Pentastar Alignment, Warlord Zsinj's Empire, High Admiral Treuten Teradoc's Greater Maldrood, Superior General Sander Delvardus Eriadu Authority, Supreme Warlord Blitzer Harrsk's Zero Command, Moff Utoxx Prentioch's Dominion, Moff Par Lankin's Lambda Sector, the apocalyptic mutual destruction of Grand Admiral Josef Grunger and Grand Admiral Danetta Pitta's massive fleets in the battle of Tralus...the list goes on.

[@My19922]

Prince High Admiral Delak Krennel's Ciutric Hegemony and Emperor Palpatine's Dark Empire, Carnor Jax's Crimson Empire,Restored Empire,Second Imperium and finally the Imperial Remnant/Fel Empire.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@My19922 just Prince Admiral. "High Admiral" was claimed by both Teradoc brothers and one source mistakenly attributes 'Lord High Admiral' to Harrsk, though he claimed 'Supreme Warlord' as his title. But yeah, there's a ton of great characters and factions to explore post Endor. The Warlord era makes the Clone Wars look like a cute little skirmish.

[@marshalllatta2073]

I wish we seen more of these galactic civil war battles in star wars

[@neofulcrum5013]

Agreed.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

Corey's Datapad does a good breakdown of some of them. There's also Eckharts Ladder, MandaLore as well as StarWarsGalacticEmpire Imperials Explained that cover this era well.

[@21234u]

for a series called “star wars” there’s not a lot of wars on screen

[@sambridgers9543]

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor is a certified classic. The last Star Wars novel written by Matt Stover.

[@joshuadesautels]

Meh. It makes it completely unbelievable that Leia would have ever chosen Isolder over Han in Courtship of Princess Leia.

[@mrzirak792]

​@@joshuadesautels humans are no strangers to unbelievable choices

[@constantinonieves8905]

This is the Star Wars that i fell in love with. Nothing that Disney throws will ever top it.

[@vitorpereira9515]

Now this is *Star Wars*

[@brandonbain224]

"Now this is podracing"

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@brandonbain224correct

[@lapraslover101]

The Liberation of Coruscant by the Rebels would be nice to see in live action TV.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

There's an X Wing fan film that shows a version of it with a lot of inspiration from Legends

[@thomasfeddersen5214]

This channel is pretty much the only thing sustaining my love for Star Wars❤️ Keep up the great great great work mate!!

[@davidordaz5251]

Same i love this channel

[@namelesssomebody2557]

Only Legends is real. Reject Disney

[@dmac3183]

So nice to see I am not alone. I didn't have access to the books so all of this is fascinating. I am old enough to have to wait for Christmas to see them OT on TV as we didn't have a VCR ( pre 84), then we got the toys man I wish we knew this lore then our battles would have been even more epic. It broke my heart that I couldn't share it with my kids but Disney had it by then. I hope this channel creator does more in depth about the EU.

[@8_8_Purpura_Committatus_0_5]

It actually has more sense than what happened in disnep fan fiction. "hurr durr evil empire holding galaxy under iron hand has collapsed after year after endor and disapeared". While in Legends it lasted for more than 15 years.

[@jaieregilmore971]

Great video the legends battles and those comes after Endor always interest me.

[@scottmccrea1873]

"...along the way, the Rebels encountered the Ewoks, a new marketing opportunity..."

[@parsoniareigns]

What? GL wasn't motivated that way. That's only been the driving force of the House of Mouse.😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@scottmccrea1873]

@@parsoniareigns Um, sure, dude-bro. I repent of my sacrilege against St George! He has no care for money! I REPENT! I REPENT!"

[@Ken_Koonz]

Spaceballs the Flamethrower! Kids love this one.

[@DestroySteve]

“Many worlds flocked to the Rebellion, Eager to sample the delicious Ewok meat.”

[@grannytoes7221]

It really bums me out that this video is not seeing thr viewership thay other videos have, because this has got to be the best video I've seen you make. So well done, info kept tight and relevant, and well resarched. My only complaint is leaving out some info i feot would have been fun to include, such as the imperials on Bakura not believing the Rebels have defeated the Emperor and such. I hope tou make more legends focused content like this. Perhaps a string of CWMMP battles that shaped anakin? Perhaps a sequel to this video, wince this covered mostly thr rebellion POV, seeing you continue the fall of the empire woth a focus on the warlords thay tried to take control up until Pelleaons treaty with the NR would make such a great companion piece to tbis video.

[@inquisitorgarza312]

The Galactic Empire was doomed from the start as Darth Sidious didn’t realize that his power structure would have cannibalize itself for rivals to an advantage over themselves while depleting the resources of the Empire.

[@augustus_lex6126]

I think he did but didn't actually care

[@stardragon7893]

@@augustus_lex6126 It was a feature. If everybody was stabbing each other in the back, they'd be too busy to threaten Sheev himself.

[@zexalbrony4799]

Not to mention the fact that the military was constantly being expanded to the point that the economy would have collapsed in on itself. His Empire was going down regardless of weather the Rebels won or not. Like an Orbarus Snake it would consume itself.

[@roshan2164]

He should have listened to admiral Thrawn Twice the pride double the fall

[@tengkualiff]

Didnt he do it intentionally? He assumed that he would be in power (essentially immortal/forever). And like the comments above, the constant backstabbing to earn the Emperor's favour is what kept them weak.

[@ninjamasterbuilder8675]

So this episode shows the rebels go from one of their biggest defeats at Hoth that nearly saw the end of the war with an Imperial victory to Coruscant where it's the Empire on the defeat and not the Rebellion (New Republic)

[@merafirewing6591]

The one question I have is what if Ozzel was right and that Hoth base turns out to be a smuggler base, just something to think about?

[@CommissarDan]

Chad Vitiate vs virgin Palpatine.

[@emzonik8851]

Will you cover all remaining periods until the 19ABY treaty?

[@quantemwensday]

35:15 anakin:😳❤

[@NasTalkz]

Yeah baby, more Geetsly’s. And the GCW content? My favorite.

[@zsedcftglkjh]

Ahh Star Wars...I've missed you!

[@alexhudson277]

Need more content like this.

[@indianajones4321]

Well done Geetsly’s, well done again 👍

[@NewDealChief]

Hell yeah! Another hour-long Geetsly video that I can add to my videos to fall asleep playlist.

[@Luno_Ryoko]

Please do more! I love you covering legends.

[@zexalbrony4799]

I freely admit I'm a much bigger Clone Wars fan, that's one of the reasons I love this channel so much, thus my knowledge of the Galactic Civil War is very limited, but I was expecting there to be more important battles to be fought between Yavin and Hoth, since the time between those two battles is three years I assume more battles happened. Also, the Rebels and Imperials having to team up to fight a third power during the Battle of Bakura wasn't surprising. What was surprising was the fact that the third power were dinosaurs by the looks of things. And people laugh when we in the crossover community try to have any franchise crossover with Star Wars thinking it's crazy, oh yeah Pooh, Pokemon, and Ponies being in the Star Wars universe, but the Billars, the Ceruk, all the insectoid species, and many other species they all make perfect sense and aren't crazy. LOL.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

There were. Alien Warlord Nuso Esva tried to manipulate the Rebellion, the Empire and Thrawn into a mutual destruction for his benefit in the Poln System. Prince Xizor and Black Sun fought with the Rebels and Vader. The Dark Trooper and TIE Phantom Projects were destroyed by the Rebels. There was the Zaarin Insurrection where the Grand Admiral that invented the TIE Defender staged a coup and fought Thrawn for six months. A lot happened that was big between Yavin, Hoth and Endor.

[@zexalbrony4799]

@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 Wow. So we skipped over a lot. Well, I suppose even the great Grand Master Geetsly can make mistakes.

[@jamiewalsh3349]

I still find it weird that the Rebels and Empire teamed up to take on space velociraptors. Old Marvel comics were so weird

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

It was a book, not comics. There's a lot of alien species that were hostile to the New Republic and the Empire. The weird Marvel comics you should be referencing are the Tof who had literal pirate sailing ships and dressed like 16th century buccaneers. THOSE were weird

[@jamiewalsh3349]

Sorry my mistake. I just thought of the post-Endor comics. So much weirdness happened

[@DarkElvishChick98]

The Empire never falls in Legends. It just coexists with the New Republic and ends up being the good guys with Jedi. In the end, the Fel Empire is the last thing we see in control. Which is realistic. You can't just be like Disney and say Palpatine died and every Imperial suddenly forgot how to drive, shoot, plan, and mentally function. Empires do not fall like ever especially when they are that massive and despite the Rebellion, very much still supported. Funny thing is that even in Legends, the New Republic was worse than the Empire and in the end, what Palpatine started remained but with a better heart.

[@AmericanImperium1776]

Fel Empire>>>New Republic>>>Galactic Empire

[@MintyLime703]

Imperial factions still exist in Disney's canon though. And like in legends the Empire didn't just immediately fall with Palpatine's death, I have no idea where you're getting that from.

[@AaronBaker-g8g]

Rome would beg to differ on the empires don’t just fall statement

[@jameskazd9951]

@@AaronBaker-g8g the eastern half of rome (aka byzantium) lasted for another 1000 years after the west fell, and even the western part of the empire had a slow deterioration so by the time Odoacer took over rome in 476 the western empire only existed in name and regions outside of central Italy were already more or less self governing.

[@neofulcrum5013]

I enjoyed the 2020 comic run that covered the time between episode 5 and 6.

[@ShiroShouten]

The way I rapid tapped my desk at work at the mention of Galatic Battlegrounds story, I have never experienced such sudden joy 😂

[@axe2373]

Amazing content g, never fails💯💯💯

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Darn, the interbellum era isn't here. If only Marvel 1977, Classic Star Wars, Empire+Rebellion, Star Wars 2013, and other stories set during it weren't extremely inconsistent and somewhat incompatible.

[@AhsokaFanboy1138]

I'm surprised you've never mentioned the Fel Empire or the One Sith.

[@quantemwensday]

the empire was only ment to serve the emperor not last as long as the republic did

[@liamwaddleton]

Here I was thinking I knew about the most obscure Star wars species, yet this is the first time I'm ever learning about Ssi-Ruuk

[@djashovel]

Imagine if the star forge was around Or there where more of them or The republic In their thousands of years made more of them That would have helped the empire A lot

[@FoxHoundUnit90]

If I remember right, one of the last stories in the legacy era before Disney cancelled it was that the remains of the Starforge were potentially rebuilding themselves into a second one.

[@ThommyofThenn]

29:16 i thought this was a weird lil guy at first

[@triviszla1536]

the pictures for the hoth battle are sick

[@teleportedbreadfor3days]

The Mandalorian’s introduction to ‘reeducation camps’ by the New Republic is just wrong on so many levels in several ways.

[@DarkKnight-dq7ek]

shadows of mindor was such a good book really appreciated it, if only disney HADNT discontinued it

[@garrettlittle1279]

Can someone please explain to me why some of this artwork looks completely off?

[@IrishMcScottish]

Because it's mostly ai generated

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Truly wild

[@icefire5799]

Ion cannon that destroys dont they only make electrical damage dissabling ships or are they so powerful that they also do actual damage

[@garrettgarner438]

Disney really saw all of this extensive lore and storytelling and said “lmao scrap it and let’s make our own version”.

[@merafirewing6591]

Incredibly short sighted in every description of the term. Not to mention a huge missed opportunity to make a sure amount of money by making those source materials make it to the small screen and big screen. What could've been, it's saddening that it is never to be.

[@garrettgarner438]

@@merafirewing6591 I wake up angry knowing we’ll never get a Yuuzhan Vong movie saga because Disney doesn’t have the balls to go beyond PG-13 with Star Wars.

[@merafirewing6591]

@@garrettgarner438 Me, I'm frickin depressed that we never got alot of cool things to become a reality from Legends, instead we got madwoman feminist on a high ego power trip that destroyed everything, including the Disney Star Wars Canon caught in the cross hairs.

[@cane6074]

Legends did a far better job of handling the fall of the empire, The death of the emperor was definitely a crippling blow, but it wasn't enough to kill it. It remained still quite powerful despite losing it's indispensable leader in the form of Palpatine, despite much of its territory fragmenting into warlord fiefdoms that being reduced to a dysfunctional rump State based in the core and mid rim. They eventually lost it's Capital world, but managed we retake it briefly and managed to push the rebels back to the outer rim under Palpatine reborn for a time, and endured a series of lesser revivals and pulling of some cunning yet awful tricks doing so, until finally after 11 years of conflict they were final reduced to a small number of sectors in the outer rim and was still a force to be reckoned with, even some of the warlords were nothing to sneeze at despite going going rogue, especial Zsinj. So despite beating it, The rebels were never able to destroy it, and in a few generations later the empire again experienced a positive reversal of fortunes and a clawed back much of its lost power and prestige under the Fel dynasty. Despite some incoherency and quality issues in legends, I think it did a way better job of handling the fall of the empire. Strong states like the empire just don't disappear in a year's time as they do in Canon.

[@zelithfang2365]

Wasn't echo base made by Thrawn's species as a listening post? Old Republic I believe

[@Suhayl_Khatib]

Which video talks about the Battle of Yavin?

[@darthcheesecake3392]

Ah the only continuity that matters.

[@jakerupp3840]

Can you do rest of war post endor?

[@Thor13332]

I prefer this version.

[@danielmcphee2546]

The true Star Wars, not that slop that Disney tries to force feed use.

[@davidsmith1310]

In cannon is Echo Base named after Echo?

[@yellomellow9481]

12:07 looks like enclave stormtroopers or space marine stormtroopers. Adult star wars fans deserve some dim/dark or grimdark star wars content, hell even an entire rewrite starting from CW all the way to the end.

[@grannytoes7221]

Read the Expanded Universe my man. The Republic Comics (the main clone wars storyline before Filoni's TCW) really showcases how fricked war is, and what it does to you. New Jedi Order is crazy demoralizing to read for awhile, and everything post NJO gets critiqued for being a bit too grimdark at times. There's so much out there for you to explore, hope you take the plunge :)

[@yellomellow9481]

@@grannytoes7221 Thanks! I'll give them a check! Big fan of the clone war era.

[@isaackim7675]

Long live the Empire!

[@davidmiddleton7958]

The Star Wars Expanded Universe, the only Star Wars! Whatever some MORALLY CHEAP replacement may try to do, it will NEVER replace the only Star Wars!

[@Finn_7117]

Lord Shadowspawn is the most edgelord name I’ve heard in Star Wars

[@ScolarVisar2307]

LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE

[@ernstpodolski2346]

Was wäre wenn Anakin in Episode 3 Meister Windu und Darth Sidious beide durch die Macht auß dem Fenster gestoßen hätte ? Anakin hätte beschlossen sich auf keiner der Seiten anzuschließen. Menschen die keine Klaren Gedanken fassen können Dinge Tuhn die nicht gewollt haben.

[@alexneff]

❤

[@Spike-vp2cx]

Anyone else annoyed about how he pronounces the Executor? (It is pronounced Ecks-Zeck-utor)

[@nameynamename3758]

"the empire has fallen" something never said in legends

[@djashovel]

I wish darth vader Was alive to Lead the imperial remnant With his second in command Grand admiral thrawn Honestly they would of Made the empire a lot better And Would have never made the mistakes the emperor did And actually make the empire A good thing for the galaxy

[@Alex-sv7vt]

Bro, have you even seen Vader's idea of leadership?

[@merafirewing6591]

​@@Alex-sv7vt it's about as bad as Palpatine's, and Vader is more blunt as a leader. Although he is clever but not enough to manage a nation.

[@akumaking1]

The Chad Legends vs the Disney Soy Wars swill.

[@merafirewing6591]

I think you meant the sequel trilogy, solo, the high republic, and Acolyte as the true personification of the Disney Soy Wars.

[@averagegamingchannel6593]

This is what george lucas wanted 🙏🏾