Why Ancient REPUBLIC Shipbuilding Just Hit Different: Old Republic Engineering EXPLAINED

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@dagdamor1 Ай бұрын

The Hammerheads clutched against a Sith infinite ships cheat code superweapon so hard that the Republic probably had to deal with Warship Fudds for literal millennia.

@klobknocker65 Ай бұрын

I know what kind of ship I got sonny.

@thebighurt2495 Ай бұрын

I love that KOTOR gave the Republic it's own distinct Iconic ship design to stand out from the Star Destroyer's shadow. From the Cruiser to the Corvette to the Starhawk Battleship, Hammerheads lead the way.

@ryanwilson5834 Ай бұрын

Muh two Sith Wars!

@sicor94 Ай бұрын

If the Hammerheads were so good, then why did the Endar Spire go down, hmmm? Turning point Malak.

@ryanwilson5834 Ай бұрын

@sicor94 because it was a single, unsupported ship vs. an entire Sith fleet. Nothing could have faced that down. Have some more respect for a masterpiece, sonny

@inductivegrunt94 Ай бұрын

This is why Rendili Stardrives is my favorite Starship manufacturer in Star Wars. I love all the hammerhead style ships from the Praetorian to the Hammerhead and Thranta, and even the cute little Forey. They're all so cool.

@thebighurt2495 Ай бұрын

@@inductivegrunt94 Unfun Fact: The Thrantas are made by CEC, not RSD. I was disappointed, too.

@Panzerless_SG Ай бұрын

I Adore the Hammerheads aswell. In any Rebel (and Sometimes Clone or Old Republic Scenario) I designate them as my flagship, no matter if there are larger ones available. Its design is just amazing and looks great to. RSD is definitely my favorute aswell

@mrzirak792 17 күн бұрын

@@Panzerless_SG having Corvette (because Hammerheads of Old Republic which were Frigates, were all nonexistent after Ruusan Reformation) as flagship is crazy.

@andreykuzmin4317 Ай бұрын

This video made me realize, why I find Separatist ship designs so striking. They are organic, with many curved surfaces and protrusions, like ancient Republic or later Mon Calamari ships. But they are all spiny and predatory, looking less like whales, but more like sharks or eels. GAR ships were Sith vessels with Republic coat of paint on. CIS ships were Old Republic designes, waped into shapes of pelagic horrors. Both navies served as foreshadowing of *dark times* to come.

@Snailsareawesome-yb5hl Ай бұрын

😮😮😮

@thebighurt2495 29 күн бұрын

It also foreshadowed how far the Sith influence and control had reached, to the point where they were playing both sides of the game

@merafirewing6591 Ай бұрын

The Old Republic Navy is just built different.

@DanTheYoutubeAddict Ай бұрын

My favorite ship that you covered is the Invincible because its shape is so unconventional for a Star Wars ship and it is essentially the embodiment of the phrase, "Why fix perfection."

@FOXY_SPHYNX Ай бұрын

I missed your videos Geet. Glad you made it back

@christopheraponte306 Ай бұрын

"Sir we need ships to defend republic space" "Alright, let's make sure all the main guns face forward " "But sir, these are supposed to be for defense" "Soldier, the best defense is a good offense "

@thebighurt2495 Ай бұрын

@christopheraponte306 I would argue that the idea is to eliminate the enemy fleet as fast as possible and minimize loss of lives and material, rather than enter a long, miserable war of attrition.

@christopheraponte306 Ай бұрын

@thebighurt2495 Oh, I totally get the sentiment. It doesn't make it any less ironic, lol

@evanallen172 Ай бұрын

@@thebighurt2495 *Proceeds to nearly exclusively get into decades to millenia long, grueling wars of attrition*

@thebighurt2495 29 күн бұрын

@@evanallen172 Alas

@waterbottles393 Ай бұрын

They should make a game or a show set in the old school times of the Republic. I'd like to see how things were going 10,000 years ago and how different everything was

@FrostbiteDigital Ай бұрын

Well if you want games, I mean... There's a bunch of them set in the Old Republic; KOTOR 1-2 and SWTOR being the main ones

@Virtual_Jester Ай бұрын

You’re new here, aren’t you?

@dragonlord498 Ай бұрын

i agree their needs to be more stuff from legends old republic era or pre republic eras one of my personal favorite things to suggest would be a episodic documentary covering different time periods/events along with maybe more games and series covering those events and such in more detail though sadly i don't think atm we will get anything like that

@captincyborg1349 22 күн бұрын

@@dragonlord498 Yes like what did most civilians use for ships that sort of stuff

@dragonlord498 22 күн бұрын

@@captincyborg1349 ya also more of the military vehicles like they really don't show many other then capital ships from that era and they should actually be better then the stuff made by the cis/rep/GE as well given the tor era actually overall had better tech the clone wars + was still mostly in a dark age in regards to tech why the required such giant ships compared to the tor era for mounting planet crackers and such on

@LMG1792 Ай бұрын

The OR Navy was a proper navy but the Venator is still my favorite republic vessel.

@thegrr1346 Ай бұрын

I wouldn't say the Endar Spire was vaporized, she's still mostly intact on the surface of Taris.

@matthewchristian9591 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure that planet was destroyed

@spartantraveler7251 Ай бұрын

@@matthewchristian9591 we actually go there in some missions in Star Wars the Old Republic.

@matthewchristian9591 Ай бұрын

@@spartantraveler7251 really I thought Malek blew it up with the bombardment he litterally said wipe the planet. Damn someone got electrocuted over that screw up.

@SmokeyMountainSuccubus 12 күн бұрын

I agree it wasn't vaporized but "mostly intact" is wrong in the other direction lol

@isaackim7675 Ай бұрын

It would’ve been nice if the EU’s ships such as the New Republic Star Destroyers made it into live action flanking the Starhawks

@thebighurt2495 Ай бұрын

@@isaackim7675 True. At least we get to see Hammerheads deorbiting Star Destroyers again.

@alias_aka_alias Ай бұрын

Those Cathedral-Dreadnaughts are some real gothic shit

@lonlidood116 Ай бұрын

22:58 you okay, Geetsly?

@VortexLIFEHAXX Ай бұрын

lmao xD

@geetslys Ай бұрын

Choked on my bantha milk while recording😿

@Snailsareawesome-yb5hl Ай бұрын

@@geetslys😂🤣😳

@VortexLIFEHAXX Ай бұрын

@@geetslys hahahah lmao

@chrissonofpear1384 29 күн бұрын

@@geetslys Another great vid - and thanks. I rather suspect the Delaya-class has been scaled too big by official sources - but who can say. Recently I made up some nice stats on the Jedi Council Forums (on Share your Headcanons) for the command ship Reliance 1, and the smaller Battleships of the Great Sith War, which I thought worked well. The first at about 2200 metres (including that long, narrow nose) and the other design at about half that or less. Also, a guy called Trytix on Deviantart did a good 'silhouette chart' - that includes those ships, and many others from the vid, plus Sith ships.

@blakeetter280 Ай бұрын

While it would be a short video, I’d like to see some more about non-space craft in the Star Wars universe. Like we mostly see military tech, I wanna see what a car is in Star Wars. Do they have busses? Explain wheelchairs to me! Stuff like that.

@ambassador-classenjoyer6239 Ай бұрын

Finally, some respect for the Inexpungable!

@Kaze-i9z Ай бұрын

that akhem was sus. "flooding the starlanes" hmm?

@alexxxaa2366 Ай бұрын

The hammerhead is just the GOAT😮‍💨 it saved the republic so many times throughout its long service.

@Dr_Doctor_Lee Ай бұрын

i read somewhere that the republic/old republic had one super stardestroyer but i cant remember where. it was hexagonal i think

@lachlanthomaslangmead1651 10 күн бұрын

Inexpugnable class Command Ship from the Mandalorian wars? Kind of vaguely disc shaped and quite large

@26th_Primarch Ай бұрын

I think a video on the Galaxy's other light freighters that aren't part of the YT series.

@ThatDragonGuy Ай бұрын

Maybe next could be pre-Clone Wars ships or ships used by pirates and smugglers?

@noblesix3571 Ай бұрын

My two favorite Old Republic ships are the Thranta and the Valor. Because the first Star wars game I played was SWTOR

@indianajones4321 Ай бұрын

Guess you could say the Old Republic Navy really was built different

@gehrigstory6674 Ай бұрын

Since you've been delving into Post-Revenge of The Sith content, lately, how about a video on Galactic Civil War-era warships? From 2 BBY, to 19 ABY, in particular; spanning from The Empire, and later Imperial Remnant states, to The Rebel Alliance, and later New Republic? Yes, it would be long videos, but so what? I would love to see some videos about those warships in particular, and just Original Trilogy, and Post-Return of The Jedi content in general, especially if they're talked about in hour long videos, or longer. Or, why not a video on the warships of The Ruusan Reformation-era Republic (1000 BBY-22 BBY) right up to The Clone Wars? Heck, how about a video on the warships of The Late Legacy Era (127 ABY-140 ABY) at the end of The Star Wars Legends timeline? Seriously, please make some more Star Wars videos outside of The Old Republic, and Clone Wars eras! I would want to know more about what happened after Return of The Jedi, from your perspective, Geetsly.

@WhiteWidow2111 27 күн бұрын

Tie them all in to one long video please. Awesome to listen to falling asleep.

@e.corellius4495 Ай бұрын

kinda funny how these unique republic aesthetic designs had their own decline into drab modernist steel (triangle) boxes, much like building design in our own reality. like looking at 1980s mcdonalds versus 2020+. and what's interesting is that this shift in star wars was seen before it actually happened here... almost like a writer somewhere knew something we didn't... hmmm makes you think.

@chase5436 29 күн бұрын

Simple standardized designs are just more economical/efficient to produce. Palpatine had to start pumping out entire fleets to maintain control of his newly formed Empire.

@e.corellius4495 29 күн бұрын

@@chase5436 not quite right. here they spent billions renovating pre-existing restaurants into drab garbage. in star wars it was all a cost balance. tie fighters were dirt cheap sure, but an imperial star destroyer, especially the imperial 2's cost more to make than basically any other ship of the era (short of mega ships like super star destroyers or mandators of which few could afford more than 1) the empire made the imperial class the backbone of the fleet in spite of its cost not because of it. most of the empires fighters and small escort ships or frigates, the ones you need the most of were made dirt cheap sure. but the capital ships, the imperial, or the smaller victory, were some of the most expensive ships of the day. they were made so for their raw effectiveness in combat. possibly to offset the cheapness of the rest of the fleet, or perhaps simply to embody power as sith like to do. bottom line. if it was cheapness that removed the flavor, then thats fine, but in reality both in star wars and in our own world, its hilariously expensive to make everything as boring as possible. making the motives behind the move more.... sinister in nature.

@zexalbrony4799 Ай бұрын

I would recommend the Separatists and the Empire, but they weren't around for very long to have a lot of stuff to talk about, maybe the Rebels given they do become the New Republic could have some stuff. Also, 23:00-23:03: You okay there, Geetsly? You don't usually cough in a video like that.

@joshk96 Ай бұрын

The editor needs to stop using the wrong ship pictures. It confuses fans that don't know any better

@lachlanthomaslangmead1651 12 күн бұрын

Idea: Crimson Tide-ish movie about Vanicus’ and the Republic’s botched attack on the Koros Ground Control Station during the Krath Uprising

@tidepoolclipper8657 24 күн бұрын

My favorite from this time is the Praetorian Hammerhead.

@williamcote4208 Ай бұрын

Generation tomorrow overhaul aka the “Jeune École” of the Star Wars universe. The Jeune École was a French naval school of thought that said that a smaller navy could win against a bigger one by fielding small and less costly ships, like cruiser, torpedo boats and submarine, by attacking it’s merchant fleet and bailing out when bigger warships showed up. On paper, it works. In practice… Japan tried it once and they immediately knew that, if it wasn’t for the corruption and lack of maintenance on the Chinese Navy, they would have gotten their ass kicked. Which led to them turning to the UK to build them Battleships. One of those battleships still exist today: The IJN Mikasa.

@pgkr62pljks1 Ай бұрын

23:00 lmao

@DragonxFlutter Ай бұрын

Like their True Sith counterparts, I would love to have detailed deck maps and TTRPG stats for the SWTOR Era ships. And I will not stand for the slander against their aesthetics.

@enthusiasticgrog465 Ай бұрын

Good to see Tales of the Jedi lore!

@TheRezro Ай бұрын

Minor complain. I know it was intended as background. But mixing modern and historical design is really confusing.

@chrismills2439 Ай бұрын

the hammerhead heavy cruiser is the best ship of the old republic followed by the corvette the jedi used. Their heavily armed interstellar space liner Cruiser not so much( the valor class)

@Unammedacc Ай бұрын

I strongly disagree with you about the Valor, I love that ship, and find it very cool, original and beautiful. It feels different and yet give some personnality to the Republic Navy of the SWTOR games.

@Josh-ye9ol Ай бұрын

Did we not cover the tb-7 or did I miss it some how

@eugenebelford9087 Ай бұрын

While the Hammerhead is quite nice and durable, nothing - absolutely nothing! - at its time could beat the durability of a Dynamic-class freighter manned(?) and armed with a certain T3-M4 Droid. 😁

@vexile1239 Ай бұрын

The Hawk?

@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 Ай бұрын

What? The Valor class cruiser is ugly? I thought it looked awesome, it's my favorite Old Republic ship

@45bullshark Ай бұрын

That open section does it no favors.

@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 Ай бұрын

@@45bullshark except make it look cool

@jarumascz4361 Ай бұрын

You Ok? And this quite puzzles me for a while. How do sw ships stop? Like in Space engineers and general Space science you need some counter Force to stop from moving from one direction to the other

@codypatton2859 Ай бұрын

Inertial dampeners

@jarumascz4361 Ай бұрын

@codypatton2859 potentionaly it would melt the ship from inside

@worldtraveler930 Ай бұрын

Are you using AI to Generate your Background images because a LOT of these are Clone War Era and Post BBY images?!? 🤔

@CubTy 24 күн бұрын

Valor is one of my fav ships 😡

@danielcastaneda4975 10 күн бұрын

This is why it sucks that they added most of these ships in star wars rebels and the disney movies. Just to copy and paste already existing material and not having to work

@kharak1050 Ай бұрын

I see you used a few pieces of my work, while I'm glad you liked my work enough to want to use it here and in other videos. It would have been nice if you had reached out to me first instead of using it without asking. I'm very easy to reach, and would have been more than happy to create some custom renders for you use in exchange for a shoutout or something. Alas, you didn't even do the bare minimum and credit me.