How the NEW REPUBLIC destroyed the first YUUZHAN VONG WORLDSHIP | Star Wars Battle Breakdown

[@EckhartsLadder]

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[@aurorathearcticwolf4243]

EckhartsLadder well that's a weird and cheap way of deleting an entire planet (star wars logic never makes sense)

[@Lolomlas]

Please make Star Trek Battle Breakdown!

[@timbartschwolfman]

EckhartsLadder It's ok

[@matthalo871]

EckhartsLadder I think they might have mint heated instead of cooled if the ice had methane pockets in large amounts it could trigger a large explosion

[@scifience8297]

well a rise in heat is an influx in the vibrations of particles: so by adding energy into the system (whilst counterdicting basic thermodynamics) the excess energy can be used to slow the micro-vibrations in a way similar to how lasers are used to cool matter to near absolute zero but that's just a theory an EU theory thanks for reading

[@justafaniv1097]

Judging by where that worldship landed, it seems like even in a galaxy far far away, the Balkans still can’t catch a break.

[@eurobabis]

Justafan IV buaaahaha i noticed the same thing.. bloody ship landed right dead smack on the Balkans.. good eye

[@c0ntraiL_yt]

LMAO

[@ericstone4444]

I didn’t even notice it was earth until I saw this, that’s amazing😂

[@firewildergoalie8270]

I was wondering if anyone saw this as well, its really strange to use that

[@bradymenting5120]

payback for causing WW I and indirectly every war after that

[@DarkSapiens]

I'm an astrophysicist, and yeah… I was really disappointed by the explanation given in the book, since it really didn't make any sense. It would've been fine if they hadn't insisted the strategy was based in actual thermodynamics, because cooling a system by adding *more* energy to it doesn't really work unless you manage to use the energy to remove the hotter particles and leave the colder ones (this is what evaporation does). But then the planet explodes…? So I think they could've skipped the "we're cooling it with this method" entirely and it would've been better. However… The shieldships were built to *dissipate* energy from the nearby sun at Nkllon, not concentrate it back. That's why they had an umbrella shape, basically. So I doubt the plan would've worked unless you keep the six of them close together in a concave configuration, and definitely not just a couple of them reflecting a bit of energy back…

[@TakManSan]

I wonder whether the World Ship drew so much power (because it's defense was not very effective due to the Shield Ships) from the planet's core that it just imploded? If it cooled the core by absorbing all the thermal energy to power it's energy needs too fast it would make sense. Shielding against that kind of energy is exactly what those ships were designed to do.

[@A_Wet_Duck]

I know I'm massively late to the party, but wouldn't adding heat to water in one place of the planet, causing it to evaporate, shift air and water currents locally, causing a big cooldown in the rest of the planet? That vapor rises into the athmosphere, both generating a vacuum and displacing the cold air around, which goes down to the surface and cools the planet's surface down in the area around the heating (because evaporation is the convective transfer of energy from a liquid to a gas/vapor, and planets work, as far as I know, as a set of big ass convection "cells")

[@toadwiiremotewithwiimotion4151]

Imma pretend I understood what the fuck u just said

[@chuahseongteik4488]

But the alternate way to blow up the planet is to magicly find a death star in luke's back pocket

[@DarkSapiens]

@@chuahseongteik4488 Was there a real need to blow it up, though 😄

[@darthvader4594]

It's funny how yuuzhan vong worldships are shaped like a galaxy,symbolising their invasion for control of the star wars galaxy.

[@the_bohemian4536]

Darth Vader shaped like pizza.....*mouth waters*

[@darthvader4594]

BXOTROT ___ now i'm gettin real hungry...

[@honguyenngocphi8301]

That's why we don't let italians travel to space.

[@aurorathearcticwolf4243]

Darth Vader star destroyers ARE pizzas

[@darthvader4594]

Nguyen Ngoc Phi Ho you underestimate the power of pepperonis.

[@variousnumber891]

Now this is why you need an Eclipse in your fleet. Superlaser VS World. World Is badly damaged. Superlaser VS thing smaller than World. Blown to hell. Well, unless Base Delta Zero works on World Ships. Then you don't need an Eclipse. I'd still have one though. Just in case.

[@corwinhyatt519]

Might have worked, not sure how the Eclipse would have dealt with Dovin Basals and the gravitic effects they have though. So there is that hole in your plan.

[@komitadjie]

Use the massive number of conventional turbolasers focused into a small area to saturate them, THEN lay out the superlaser punch.

[@isaacloring7384]

Geez, well I guess I better go grab that Eclipse SSD that I had just laying around in my wardrobe ffs

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

They should have kept some blueprints for a Eclipse star destroyer after destroying the first one that was owned by the cloned palpatine.

[@jeambeam3173]

Random Typer002 they would have never had enough time or resources to build it

[@linktheheroofhyrule2498]

Yeah it makes no scientific sense whatsoever. *but then again, this is Star Wars*

[@kofola9145]

That is not an argument. Every Universe has its own internal rules and those rules have to be maintained, otherwise, it just does not make sense and you get the Disney trilogy. For example. The rule of Simpsons is a very selective continuity. And we understand that. But it is not something you can pull off in Star Wars, that universe has different rules.

[@elijahsellers3727]

@@kofola9145 agreed. This new set of movies doesn't follow the established rules and universe at all.

[@muscularclassrepresentativ5663]

Planet made of cold, u add some warm, and boom. Got eem -scientific explanation

[@c0ntraiL_yt]

yep. i see nothing wrong with this^

[@elijahsellers3727]

You could technically make it explode by sublimating a lot of the ice, turning it directly into steam. I'm not sure what you would need to do this, but I would think it would work.

[@jeanpaulchristian3282]

What happened was isostatic rebound- the melting ice caused the tectonic plates to lift up- on a weak planet interior a barrage of twisted tea and hillary clintions batty clinkers and the whole planet goes kaboom bitch

[@Apollo-zc2rj]

wait a moment, that's earth in an ice age that you used for the planet

[@justafaniv1097]

Even in the Star Wars galaxy, the Balkans can't catch a break.

[@robertagu5533]

Exactly one my thoughts.. if so and that ice as WE KNOW IT. That's not how science works. Can respect they tried a real world, science approach that would possibly make sense. But the only way that works is if basicly we're ACTUALLY talking about Venus in an ice age here full of Methane and other frozen known explosive gases here.. question is how much would be required to actually do THIS an have the kinda effect seen here.. An they said by "cooling" but MOST explosive gases known explode like that by some kinda HEAT source.. so I guess plot is also a good detonator too...

[@stab74]

Star Wars trying to be Star Trek.

[@marty7442]

That's exactly what is used. This is also sound science in theory. When the oceans warm up, they evaporate more, and water vapor is way stronger as a greenhouse gas than CO2. Here's where the climate change crew lies to you all. They continually claim that the greenhouse gases will warm the planet when in fact the opposite is true. The greenhouse effect pushes more of the sun's EM radiation away from the Earth, MUCH more than is trapped within the atmosphere. This will actually have a net cooling effect, not a warming effect. This is actually reflected in the first climate change theory in the 20th century which claimed that we were heading for a cooling cycle. I trust this analysis because it was the most uncorrupted analysis before the whole climate change thing became a scandal.

[@Arterexius]

@@marty7442 You sir, makes zero sense whatso ever. Water vapor today is literally the clouds above our heads. When they get too heavy (due to too much water vapor trapped in them) they let go of the vapor in the shape of rain. That's how it's worked on Earth for millions of years. Water is heavy as fuck, so it won't ever stay long enough in the atmosphere to cause any climate change. I don't even think that saying is scientifically plausible. CO2 and Methane isn't heavy at all. You need a planet wide atmosphere like the one on Venus before any of that starts to fall like rain. Which won't happen before all life on Earth has gone extinct (literally nothing we know of can survive on Venus. We can't even craft a spacecraft that can survive on the planets surface for more than a few minutes before it gets crushed). You have a lot of science to read up on

[@SteelsCrow]

Any analysis of the Yuuzhan Vong is worth a watch. One of my favorite sci-fi factions of all time.

[@NYG1991]

This story goes to show you how different canon and Legends content are different in so many ways. I've never heard this battle until now. I'm liking this channel. Just found it a couple of days ago before the new year.

[@kyogre4322]

"The planet blows up, because of science" Science baby

[@duncanmcgee13]

I've been toying with the idea of having 20+ Interdictors to use their gravity wells to rip apart or even crush opposing navies/planets. Would that work? And if so, would that be able to fight the Vong? The navy that doesnt have to fire a single shot.

[@hanzzel6086]

Potentially, but you eould need a lot of them. You could also maybe use tractor beams (which in Star Wars can only 'pull') for a similar effect.

[@chrismartindale7840]

Gravity wells don't work like that. Vong dovin basals (I hope I spelled that right) are miniature black holes so they manipulate gravity, but an Interdictor only simulates a planets effect on hyperdrive. I suppose if you got enough it might work, but those ships aren't cheap. There are better uses, like a Thrawn Pincer.

[@needtoknow6423]

Interesting idea, but it would be very difficult for several reasons. 1. You want to crush your opponents ships not your own. Therefore it's important to calculate the necessary safety distance between your ships. But if your ships are too isolated from eachother, they become an easy target until the gravity wells are activated. 2. I would always recommend to crush them, since the gravity pull makes Interdictors into a flying magnet. Enemy torpedoes won't miss their target, because of the gravity well. All in all it's an interesting tactic, but there are much more efficient tactics. For example gravity bombs. Use Separatist style boarding craft and ram them into a cruiser. Activate the bombs and pull every enemy starfighter and frigate into the cruiser. Or use a rope tactic, if a black hole is present. Create a tug-of-war situation were your Interdictors "fight" with the black hole over the enemy ships. Once enough energy is built up, deactivate the gravity wells of your Interdictors and observse how the released energy pushes the enemy fleet into the black hole. But remember that enemy torpedoes won't miss their target.

[@angelbeatzbell4057]

Ignore the new face, I can't replace it until tomorrow/ 96th Attempt: Yuuzhan Vong vs. Reapers * Love the vids Eck keep it up

[@umbralumbreon7380]

The real reason they won: Anakin told them to have the High Ground

[@yagirlblakiee]

Drunk Anakin: Hey guys! I am totally sober, let’s blow up that planet with shields!

[@lionelmason339]

I've always assumed that the planet was more of a dead comet in a captured orbit rather than its own world. In that case, shielding it from the nearby star could force to freeze even more but it would definitely take a significant explosion to start the planet shattering.

[@californiarespublica]

I love these Videos! But, I like the Clone Wars. Could you make some Clone Wars videos on Battle Breakdown?

[@daviddavidson9923]

No

[@espinoth9913]

The energy redirection was the equivalent of singing a note of the exact frequency to make glass shatter. The energy front caused the planet to fragment, made those moon-sized shards shatter further, so on and so forth. That's my interpretation at least.

[@warden-3699]

Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-fi universes. (29th try)

[@danic_c]

Probably a powerful main capital ship, like the Eclipse or the UNSC Infinity, and then pepper in a bunch of corvettes and light cruisers to screen for fighters, and some interdictor ships to prevent escape.

[@34door11]

The planet looks like earth covered in ice

[@greg1156]

Lol, that planet is just a white Earth

[@noobster4779]

meanwhile if the empire would have still been in full control: -millions dead ---) local warlord gets his fleet and oblidarates the worldship with his executer stardestroyer --) day saved

[@404found00]

The Empire would had done a lot better job than the New Republic at fighting the Vong. They would str8 up blast the planet with the Death Star.

[@nukclear2741]

@@404found00 Do you think we got him?

[@404found00]

@@nukclear2741 Moffs and Admirals, we got them.

[@nukclear2741]

@@404found00 That was a last jedi reference.

[@BattlestarZenobia]

404 found no, Han was right, they would a have tried to build a giant super weapon, say the Nostrils of Palpatine to combat the Vong, only it’d have one fatal flaw and be relatively easily destroyed

[@nikolacukovic2249]

Plot > science and logic

[@salemmostafa3661]

By far

[@michaelomeley152]

Also, great video But the plan Anakin hatched made no logical sense

[@DarkKnight52365]

Fallout prewar America Vs. Brotherhood of Nod at the start of the third Tiberium War

[@f4tornado450]

2:48, I just noticed, your image of the planet is earth, but iced up. The image is around Anatolia, and the middle east. Just between the Caspian and Mediterranean seas.

[@MrDrProfessor4]

I know you'll get to this in the finale of the Vong sub-series. Won't stop me from going through the motions though. Anyways: Can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the entire franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: Forty-two times. Going to end at... fifty? Sixty? Let's find out.

[@BattlestarZenobia]

Don’t you mean the recapture of Coruscant

[@Jessie_Helms]

Calling this science is like when only-child authors write sibling dialogue like “hey bro” “hey sis” “oh you, you goofball” “oh yeah sis I am a goof”

[@BeBetter22992]

Dark Helmet Vs Darth Vader

[@sir.beltropes6769]

Spartan Abrams yes

[@germanvisitor2]

Vader is a eunuch so he has the high ground in that fight.

[@sleepninja2350]

Dark helmet solos because his Schwartz is bigger than vader’s

[@P4Tri0t420]

2:09 Thats basically our Earth in the Ice Age😂

[@clonetrooper2835]

Corsuscant defense fleet vs UNSC home fleet

[@joshuakielty]

Clone Trooper Depends which era you are talking about. Coruscant defence fleet in the Empires or Kryats time would thrash the UNSC home fleet! However the clone wars variant could be closer

[@Rhinoiron]

@@joshuakielty also depends on which UNSC home fleet. During the human covenant war, or after? Afterward, even lowly frigates have some decent shieldpower.

[@diegoandrade467]

The “New Republic” in this case is mostly the efforts of the Solos and Skywalkers.

[@rohanmurphy6984]

Your scientific explanation is SPACE WIZARDS

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

5:47 "The planet blows up - because of science."

[@barrybend7189]

Best transforming fighter: VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross Plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber Mospeda.

[@godzilla5006]

Could The First Order Defeat Godzilla Earth (Planet of the monsters) On Star Killer Base?

[@codename1176]

Godzilla Earth if they had a siege dreadnaught yes

[@scytheseven9173]

No. Even those siege turbolasers would be useless against its EM shield. Remember, this thing shrugged off pretty much all the nukes like they were nothing, and that was when it was a fraction of it's current size. They just don't have the tech to discern its weaknesses. The only way they could kill it would be by shooting it with the superlaser or blowing up the planet.

[@hernehaugen6878]

@@scytheseven9173 If they blow up the planet then they'll probably just end up with a massive Space Godzilla

[@CoreRealm]

Fun fact: the background planet is snowball Earth

[@MikMoen]

Energy is never destroyed, it's either moved or changes form. It can also be amplified. You said the thing output massive amounts of energy, and those shield ships were basically gigantic mirrors, rebounding and focusing all that energy onto a single location. Think Resonance Cascade from Half Life meets the mother of all fission reactions.

[@elvenchipmunk2369]

Okay, so theoretically the only thing you need to do to blow up a planet is apply more energy to it than is holding it together. Effectively you simply need to apply greater force than the mass of the planet, and boom. So if the Vong thingy (sorry, new to all this, basically working off Eck's videos) was outputting a great enough quantity of energy, then it is theoretically plausible that the Shield Ships redirecting and thus magnifying the amount of energy directly being applied to the planet could literally blow up the planet. Now I am not a physicist, plausible doesn't mean possible, and we're talking about a stupidly large amount of energy, BUT, I'd consider it plausible enough to suspend my disbelief and just accept it. love your videos by the way man, the production is absolutely top notch keep up the good work.

[@thomasshirley318]

For galactic verses: could the flood from halo beat the necromorphs from dead space? (Suggestion)

[@dontuseyourcellulardata7599]

Probably i mean if they can beat the borg and the tirranids then they can

[@thomasshirley318]

Andrew Leclair here's what's interesting. Could the flood infect the necromorphs or would the necromorphs infect the flood?

[@oliversmalley7771]

Not a scientist by profession but I know this much: you cannot evaporate planets without emitting energy equivalent to that planet's binding energy. If the War Coordinator was actually emitting enough energy to melt the planet, then the NR wouldn't have to do anything: They could just wait.

[@CABRALFAN27]

"And the planet blew up, because science." And people say the new canon makes no sense...

[@dragonsword7370]

I think the mezzacan wave wouldn't blow up the planet but Crack it apart. It'd be like melting an ice cube too fast. It makes the ice cube shatter from extreme Temperature change. It makes more sense to reflect sunlight and down the vong in they're ice fortress tunnels but that's just me.

[@nuclearjanitors]

Oh real star wars how i have missed you. I CRY FOR LEGENDS EVERYDAY

[@crazykirsch]

Almost nothing in Star Wars comes close to being scientifically accurate so I wouldn't sweat it too much.

[@joshuakielty]

crazykirsch You’d be surprised... It’s one of the only ones whose FTL makes a shred of scientific sense (though still not anywhere near scientifically accurate)

[@friedhelmchrist1547]

I have a question you could maybe talk about in a future video: How would the Catana-fleet impacted the clone wars, if it never got lost?

[@mitchellbrecht2240]

I love how you were honest in the beginning. Keep up the good work!

[@bigbrother1736]

1:15

[@adamcarpman]

Ahh a man of culture I see

[@Hawkeye_-gh3xe]

“The New Republics scientifically questionable plan works” I love it

[@samspeed6271]

It sounds like the reflected energy was gravitational in nature rather than thermal. The gravity tore the planet apart in a similar way to a large planet destroying another because of the Roche limit. Using heat to destroy the planet wouldn't work very well as you'd need a lot of it to destroy the planet.

[@JJumper8888]

So basicly they committed Star wars exterminatus? *Happy Gas mask noises* the emperor is pleased

[@benjamingrigsby9886]

A better plan would have been to use the shield ships like giant mirrors, redirecting the sun’s energy.

[@AonghasMcTavish]

It sounds like the plan kinda makes sense, it sounds as if the plan was to basically make a nuclear winter on an extreme scale.

[@Xion431]

We could have had a Yuuzhan Vong trilogy, instead we got Ray...

[@marduk1734]

aka how hipsters see exterminatus.

[@TheRedSpy43]

Theoretically the plan works, but that depends on how much energy is put out in a certain area, and if it really puts out that much energy, the mere existence of it on a planet would cause enormous damage alone.

[@seanwave0152]

Anakin solo: This is where the fun begins Force ghost Anakin : THAT'S MY BOY Obi wan and yoda and the force ghost jedi: He really does like anakin now there is 2 of you now

[@c0ntraiL_yt]

I haven't read the book, but the way you explained it, the planet was entirely ice, or at least frozen. If you vaporize the underground ice using the reflected energy, the water vapor, since it is trapped underground, is at a very high pressure, which eventually explodes out, destroying the planet and the worldship with it. It would take quite a few quintilion (100000000000000000000=1 quin.) terajoules of energy all converted to heat to destroy an entire planet, though, and that is if the entire world was ice and you melted to the center of the world. If that was true, the gravity of the world pulled the still solid surface into the now gaseous core, which caused the world to slowly collapse in on itself, and then violently explode outward as the extremely pressurized gas escaped through the cracked crust.

[@c0ntraiL_yt]

An analogy is like putting a wet sedimentary rock in a fire. The pores soak up the water, and when the water is rapidly vaporized. the pressure is too great and it explodes like a shotgun shell

[@Shermos]

"scientifically questionable" LOL It's Star Wars mate. You're not supposed to think too much about this kind of stuff.

[@garethgobulcoque8668]

True, but Star Wars rarely has its heroes technobabbling your way out of a problem a la Star Trek like you saw here in the Battle of Helska IV. If you go down the technobabble route when writing your story, you usually want to try to make the use of it at least somewhat plausible. RA Salvatore was probably stretching a tad too far here.

[@mitchellrounds4266]

I think they where going for the fact that the temperature was changing so much planet would shatter like if you take a glass from the freezer and put it in the oven and the evaporation heats it up and it being an ice planet and the clouds now over the whole planet blocking out the sun cools it down fast

[@btdchalupa1455]

World ship vs snokes fleet

[@californiarespublica]

that would be fun.

[@joshuakielty]

Snoke easily unless one of the Vong star fighters jumped to hyperspace while facing them...

[@bluesaberproductions8991]

The Vong would win by sending a "yo mama" joke over villip. snoke's generals would start screaming like they always do and make poor tactical decisions.

[@btdchalupa1455]

Bluesaber Productions more like me yelling I EAT MENTOS in a crowd to get them away so I get all the space this usually happened on my family couch

[@narangood42]

Just hyperspace through the World ship it is not gonna be hard.

[@hobojeffscatman2276]

Hell yeah eating pizza and watching eckharts this is the best!

[@zachpetracek2330]

PLEASE READ VID IDEA For vid what were to happen if you launched say an x wing out of a hangar of a ship in hyperspace And what would happen if you launched an x wing into hyperspace from an unmoving ship

[@Zachcraftone]

Did everything make sense, not at all. But was it a cool book? Yes!!!!

[@kingsolomon673]

SCP 001 the gate guardian vs charmx and pewdiepie

[@latinpassion]

Robert the dude wtf 😂

[@kingsolomon673]

Strikers CFG wut?

[@latinpassion]

Nothing xd, charmx would forget is a battle and die, xd

[@kingsolomon673]

Strikers CFG oh ya I completely forgot he has memory problems

[@HalfDemonInuyasha]

Hmm...Gate Guardian does have 3750 ATK and 3400 DEF, which is pretty good, but no decent effect...lol

[@corydorton2660]

Please keep up the good work man this battle is pretty interesting

[@SoranoGuardias]

The planet was covered in a glacial sheet, but below that it was an sub-arctic ocean. Supercooling the planet made the entire ocean freeze. Ice expands, so the planet blew apart.

[@CedarHunt]

Matt Spriggs expanding ice doesn't explode. It would just crack the surface ice and probably increase the diameter of the planet.

[@DDragon501]

CedarHunt I don’t think you know how a planet grows. The expanding ice would rupture the surface, and that amount of expansion at that rate would make the planet explode. It’s why you don’t freeze a water balloon: the expanding ice ruptures the balloon’s surface tension, causing it to burst. A planet can’t just expand like that without becoming destabilized. It takes millions if not billions of years for a planet to form or expand.

[@CedarHunt]

@@DDragon501 That's nonsense.

[@shane5196]

It's statwars it doesn't have to make sense

[@wintershade1760]

Read this last night, was quite interesting how they came to this solution

[@harryirhamni]

Can you do one of the battles thrawn fought during the thrawn novel

[@hansmendoza2007]

Viscount class star defender vs 2 Malevolence Subjagator class Heavy cruiser

[@markguardiana600]

They maybe destroy the planet's athmoshere. Wow star wars has also a Science Problem

[@whitegold2960]

Space Wizards Science for the win

[@thorshammer7883]

41st try Imperium of Man vs the Forerunners (Warhammer 40k vs Halo)

[@spider0804]

Get the Thrawn book its amazing. Also evaporation would cause heating, condensing causes cooling. Cold air is heavier than hot air so no it makes no sense. Just look at an air conditioner with the evaporation / condensing cycle and the hi/low sides,

[@derrickstorm6976]

Your animations are really amazing! :D

[@LegendsLiterature]

Even ignoring the whole “more energy cools the planet” which already makes no sense, I don’t see the narrative significance of having this blow up the planet. I think it would’ve been more interesting and made more sense if the cooling of the planet simply froze all the water beneath the surface ice, basically freezing entombing the Vong there, and nullifying the yammosk’s effects. From there, with the coralskippers in disarray, the New Republic could dispatch them and finish the Vong off while they’re vulnerable.

[@itsyaboidaniel2919]

SkyNet vs The Flood *100th Attempt* Scenario: Skynet beats the resistance, and after that it is alerted of the Flood coming to Earth, and it is given a basic rundown on what the Flood is and what it does, it gets 3 Years to militarize and prepare for the Floods arrival, The Flood will arrive using High Charity's, including it's fleets, weapons, and so on, in Scenario 1a it gets 5 High Charity's, in Scenario 1b it gets 10 High Charity's, and in Scenario 1c it gets 20 High Charities, The Flood may not use the Logic Plague on Skynet, nor may it just glass the planet, SkyNet may not just send a bunch of nukes to the High Charity's, Basically no hard core weapons of mass destruction that could basically end the match up in a few days if not hours, If SkyNet can survive until Scenario 1c then I personally say that it would win, although if that is not enough each scenario could in fact be a wave that SkyNet has to destroy, which would make 35 High Charity's in total, and each wave would come a week after the wave before it was destroyed, giving SkyNet the chance to regroup and analyze whatever data it received from the battle, whether it be more efficient ways to kill Flood Forms or even gathering and using/reverse engineering Covenant Technology,

[@michaelhanson8296]

Also a horrifically Pyrrhic victory.

[@crusader2239]

Another great video

[@akaBoG]

aLL THE OLD sTAR wARS BOOKS GOT BAD AUDIO BOOK TREATMENTS BACK IN THE DAY BECAUSEETHEY WERE ABRIDGED FOR CDs - THEY ARE FINALLY GOING BACK AND DOING GOOD RELEASES OF THE OLD BOOKS - i KNOW THE FIRST 2 BOOKS OF THE x-wING SERIES ARE AVAILABLE NOW UNABRIDGED.

[@JJgaming7]

I think when they’re putting the energy back and it’s overflowing the planet because the plan is producing so much energy when it comes out when he goes back and I think of a reactor when it’s overheating is explodes think about that but with energy

[@kennethkates3140]

Krytonian Covenant Dune and Star Wars technology compared

[@kennethkates3140]

2 Harrower Dreadnaughts vs 1 Imperial Star Destroyer

[@PJOZeus]

They’re hoping rapid expansion of parts of the planet via reflected energy that would provide enough of an energy spike allowing the expansion to break the planet apart

[@Person-Lastname]

Because of science, eck, because of science

[@rossdaley5829]

" The yuzhan vong have killed millions" and chewie :(

[@whoovian7180]

Thank for covering these books. I've wanted to reread them for a while but haven't found the time. Just recommend the thrawn books. They're unabridged and well performed, that and amazing stories

[@chrismartindale7840]

Since your comment more Thrawn books have come out.

[@BgMapping]

at 2:10 that aint any ice planet.... thats earth but white? wait... does that mean that star wars is actually in our galaxy and because it was a long time ago Earth itsself was in an ice age....... jk lol

[@razgriz9146]

This entire battle basically shows why the Galactic Empire would've all too easily crushed the Yuuzhan Vong without so much as breaking a sweat. Whereas the New Republic (or Luke Skywalker and the Solo children, to be exact) ACCIDENTALLY blew up Helska IV with some kooky scientific solution to the Praetorite Vong occupation there without any kind of intention to do so, the Galactic Civil would've just obliterated Helska IV and the entirety of the Praetorite Vong along with it with either just a single shot from the Galaxy Gun (boring), Death Star I/II alongside a massive fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers/Star Dreadnoughts (interesting) or Darth Sidious just unleashing Force Storms upon their extragalactic asses (awesome) with no fucks given. Whereas the New Republic and the New Jedi Order were both far too overcautious and morally restrained for their own good to the point of essentially just giving the galaxy away to the Yuuzhan Vong without much of a fight, the Galactic Empire would've just rolled up its collective sleeves and got shit done regardless of the moral aspect of their actions.

[@KushSalad]

Recusant Class Light Destroyer vs Something

[@jaroftar]

There could have been a way better explanation Maybe the yaamask couldn't focus or was suffering because of the extreme cold it didn't evolve for Yes. They do survive in space but like you instinctively spread your arms when you are falling even if you don't know that creates drag, the ship could instictively disable whatever special organs it has to survive in vacuum when on land, so the cold could at least interfere But then, my explanation is ruined by the planet EXPLODING

[@Stealrobot]

Hey Eck, i love your battle breakdowns, can you please read the galaxy's edge books and do some battle breakdowns on the starship battles in the series. Thanks, if you can. Thanks for trying, if you can't.

[@tetrislunatic4290]

Nice works as always but some blunders, 1. The Vong base on Helska was not a Worldship, but an underwater Coral reef transformed by the Vong and combined with an matalok to use as a base. (read book 2 again) 2. The Spiralform of the Worldships is just Fanart (adapted by some comics). The ships are described as Disks with an ballshape in the center and long arms at all sites ... ! (For more details the book with Nem Yim on the Baanu Rass or book 12 when they fight the Hul Domain at Borleas) They are more like Jupiter with tantakels.

[@albeon_draken]

Interestingly enough, the strategy does make at least shred of scientific sense. Evaporation of water does absorb a boatload of energy, about 2,260kJ/kg of water. Water also absorbs energy when melting from solid to liquid, but not nearly as much. As you can imagine, vaporizing millions of tons of ice does suck up a huge amount of energy. Unfortunately, that's where the shred of scientific sense runs out. This is where we run up against the first law of thermodynamics. The fact is that, at the end of the day, they're just dumping copious amounts of energy into the system without taking any out. The idea that this could somehow result in a 5th state of matter located *below* the energy level of solid matter (we already have a 5th state of matter, but that's beside the point), is absurd. Evaporative cooling is a thing, but it certainly can't be used this way. It would've been more realistic to imply that they boiled the yammosk rather than super-froze it.

[@seasidescott]

LOL, this ain't Star Trek: the original style was to be as vague as possible so people could fill in their own theories. It does Star Wars wrong to give too much explanation and get into this sort of trouble so the author should have left it more vague. Lucas is like Stephen King and when they run out of creative steam they just magic the ending. The story is "good guys save the galaxy" and how they get there technically is unimportant; the personal stories are what counts and the emotional motives understandable to someone in junior high: the target audience. Lucas and King really suffered during puberty and never got over it. They are almost twins born a few years apart on opposite sides of the country, their own Force dyad to drive people seeking rational explanation crazy.

[@raphaelalexandreyensen6291]

Eh it's odd but kinda similar to venus where you get a Runaway greenhouse effect except here your a microwave to a snowball not sure it would exactly explode but if it's an Iceball all the way through I could see how having a massive shift in density could cause the planet to collapse in on itself, Partly because Ice is less dense than water due to the way it expands when frozen and then you have gravity pulling it down, Plus the water will eventually vaporize but gravity still applies so umm ya Not gonna blow up the planet but Kill whatever is on the ground or near the area yes. Though this relies on having a Near infinite energy supply from the Vong thingy redirected with relative precision, so if that just stops then you don't really have a working microwave. So you get a partially vaporized ice planet of sorts. Combat Effective? Highly likely, I wouldn't want to be on the ground when it becomes steam which would probably tear off skin and cut flesh and bones. Steam a lot of force behind it and can tear even steel but screams loudly in a concentrated area. This used to be a Roman method of execution, but not what's written here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKrZoIFnna6kiNE

[@bradymenting5120]

basically it was a result of a lot of principles of physics that work individually, but don't really work in conjunction when applied to a planet sized scale. -redirect the thermal energy produced by the Vong facilities -use the heat to melt and evaporate the water -evaporation draws thermal energy out of the planet's surface -resulting cooling freezes the planet -planet, now frozen solid, is smaller -smaller planet rotates faster -faster rotation and greater centrifugal force causes planet to shatter That's how they explain it I guess? individually each part checks out, but putting them together seems dubious at best.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

Yeah none of that makes sense. Evaporation only works like that if 1) the energy is removed from the system, and 2) there is excess energy to expel. It might have made sense to try to superheat the core, going from a solid to a gas very quickly, inducing a kinetic shockwave, that would rip the planet apart if it *was* an ice ball (like a frozen Naboo). That would be particularly effective for an ice planet as the brittle ice suddenly becomes city-sized shrapnel.