Recusant-class Light Destroyer COMPLETE Breakdown | CIS Navy Ships

[@MetaNerdzLore]

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[@wut5910]

Yes finally 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@pyeitme508]

Cool bro

[@ColdGamingLp]

Hey, could you maybe try doing a video on the Aleph-class starfighter? It's a bit obscure but you're not new to that. Love the content, keep up the amazing work 👏.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Ones more i say it again pls do the story of the sith species and home and empire or the story of Darth revan

[@GoryBark]

nice photoshop on that recusant xD

[@calico8361]

The Recusant is soo underrated

[@niculescualex3515]

The CIS fleet is :(

[@halaljalalgaems6970]

Ye

[@sadontafiir2955]

@@niculescualex3515 the whole CIS is underated

[@stillmetal760rider5]

The HMP was a straight beast... That gunship was ALWAYS my favorite on the original star wars battlefront 2 space battles! It was soooo much more OP in the real Canon tho but still, ship alone could have won CIS the war if it wasn't rigged by the Sith.

[@jackstefan8639]

Yeah it was one of the first ships I fell in love with.

[@NoBudjetFilms]

I love how both the Republic and CIS Navys had very different doctrines, but they both had excellent designs that worked for those doctrines.

[@senatorluxbonteri6065]

Don’t exactly agree with everything the CIS does but they have some pretty amazing capital ships

[@patchworkfellow]

_Agree with the CIS. Agree. AGREE._ *- Me (A Magnaguard), 20BBY*

[@princeofpokemon2934]

Didn't they say something about this ship having a droid brain?

[@DeanmC261993]

Ah yes but preserving the status quo of oppression of minorities and the outer rim is fine..

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Those ship can even land without half of ship

[@princeofpokemon2934]

@@ImieNazwiskoOK WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!

[@toby1061]

Honestly the Separatist ships would have been perfect for the Rebel fleet, especially the Recusant, Munificent and Providence. I feel like the Rebels missed the opportunity to stage hundreds even thousands of Seperatist ships from scrap yards.

[@yapyapthedestroyer2562]

Possibly have to do to them not thinking of using them, or other reasons. Also the video says that many were destroyed, but the rebels did have one

[@omega13whitelucario95]

They did have them but in limited numbers The Recusant and Providence probably because they were not as common and any in scrap yards may have been too badly damaged Munificents though were not as uncommon as they were used by private hands such as pirates But at the end of the day man power and also being able to acquire one would be why they weren't as common as other ships

[@michaelmazey3322]

Also worth noting the Empire labeling the rebellion as separatist holdouts was an effective propaganda tool. From a purely military perspective it made no sense for Palpatine to order the CIS military shutdown. You'd likely see way more under the Empire at least early on if public perception wasn't a thing either side was concerned with. Real reason is probably as simple as the rebels were created first but, still an interesting and believable in lore reason.

[@thenerfkid9228]

Also, hardcells, which are basically just cargo ships that you can retrofit into anything, and they have amazing sensor suites

[@emberfist8347]

They need to refitted for organic crews, they were obsolete and most were already being used by the CSA Picket Fleet.

[@marshalllatta2073]

That is one of my favorite Star wars ships in all Star wars thank you for doing this man made the force be with you

[@ArtificialDragon]

I always love hearing more about separatist ships, they are my favorite faction and designs are soo unique and cool!

[@priestly8164]

Same.

[@mikenapier3598]

You should try the tabletop game star qars armada. The CIS faction ships are amazing models and the game is great!

[@Julia-mx3ki]

Hot take: The Recusant is the best designed Star Wars ship (for a realistic setting). As you may know, space isn't completely empty, there are a few tiny particles and atoms floating around. And even these tiny things can cause massive damage to a ships hull at the speeds ships are travelling in Star Wars. That's why it is wise to design a ship to be very long and not very wide, so you can concentrate most of your protection on the front part of the ship, which will then protect most of the ships surface area from incoming particle collisions. For more and more in-depth info about that you can watch Isaac Arthur's video essay about spaceship design.

[@emberfist8347]

They have long-developed particle shields to counter that issue. The best design is the Venator because it is a true jack of all trades vessel.

[@Julia-mx3ki]

@@emberfist8347 I tend to disagree with that. While yes, particle shields are indispensable for space travel, they are still energy fields which require a lot of fuel to keep running. I think that's why those capital ships burn those massive amounts of fuel. That's because the most expensive part to operate on a capital ship are shields and weaponry, as engines aren't that energy hungry with the little resistance in space and the rest of the ships systems (like lights, life support, computer systems, etc.) are negligable in the scales we're talking about. We can see this in effect when comparing the amounts of fuel burned by a Venator and Recusant reactor. So you want to design you're ship to be as energy efficient as possible to gain an edge over you're enemy and that's why the shape of the Recusant is superior to most ships in Star Wars.

[@emberfist8347]

@@Julia-mx3ki Well most ships are already energy efficient. An ISD’s reactor run all systems at the redline limits and still have significant energy reserve.

[@papapalps2415]

@@emberfist8347 Did... did you just actually, unironically call the Venator a "jack of all trades" ship? Are you high on crack?

[@papapalps2415]

@@Julia-mx3ki And you are assuming SW grade armor, nevermind shields, are going to have any trouble with micro meteorites and the like...uh, why exactly? For that matter, how is a ship whose main weapon is a spinal mounted one trick pony supposed to be "well designed" by any rational definition? By and large, ALL CIS ships are garbage, both in design and otherwise. Which is perfectly fine, because like with its ground troops, the CIS embraced the idea of unending swarms rather than individual quality.

[@tezlaactual6582]

I love that each manufacturer in the CIS have their own naming convention and design elements but still have some semblance of similarity to reflect how the CIS actually operates

[@ProtovoxMedia]

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[@paulsteinhauser434]

According to some old lore, the Rebels got a few of these ships and modified them.

[@captainseabass874]

Another S tier breakdown. Would love to see a Master K’Kruhk legends breakdown. By far the coolest Jedi in legends

[@tufab3494]

Oh man i love so much this Channel, many inner questions of myself were solved due to the huge amount of details you guys put on the videos. Keep the good work, greetings from Brazil 👍🇧🇷

[@kitfo18]

Have to say you are by far one of the best people on youtube that just goes over the specs of ships and I am someone that love this stuff!

[@austinfutty5902]

The CIS are just so cool, I love hearing these more in-depth breakdowns of their stuff. So is it the munificent or the recusant that had the massive turbolasers on their front? I always thought that was a really unique design choice and something we don't see too much in Star wars either

[@Yogahoe]

Wait, so would this light destroyer be classified as both a ship and droid?

[@MetaNerdzLore]

idk if it could operate fully autonomously but I don't see how that couldn't be set up

[@emberfist8347]

@@MetaNerdzLore It is not autonomous.

[@yagdtigercommander]

@@MetaNerdzLore Why do I picture the ship getting into arguments with crew especially B1s. Kind of like in the one Futurama Episode with the ship at the beginning of the episode before the male AI was replaced with a Female one. Not that everything I said was entirely relevant. But I guess the problems with having a sentient ship it might not always want to do what you tell it to do lol.

[@salmiribrahimovic4741]

Imagine a giant ship droid lol

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

@@MetaNerdzLore although heavily automated, i not sure

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

I love the CIS ships & fleet. They instantly standout and have great designs

[@thatsaltyfish1960]

I love the recusant so efficient and practical

[@darthvengeance59]

Ah grand admiral thrawn welcome

[@ignatiuswisnuwidya8547]

I agree with you, this is one of my favorite warship.

[@YourGirlYang]

Huge thumbs up for referring to the Mon Calamari and Quarren homeworld as Dac, and also as Mon Cala. So many people call the planet itself "Mon Calamari" and it pisses me off.

[@colonelavenue27]

have always been curious about this ship, glad you could cover it

[@midniteraptor1474]

I love how skeletal it looks, and that it has a droid brain. I think that if I was in the Confederacy, I'd either want the recuscant or the lukerhulk as a command ship. Or maybe the malevolence because...it's a badass ship

[@Kitkat-986]

This is one of my favorite star wars ships. It's the perfect small ship of the line. It's cost effective, requires few crew (resulting in lower maintenance costs and allowing additional mass to be dedicated to armor and weapons rather than crew accommodations), fast, well armed for its size, has an array of defensive weapons, can carry some starfighters without giving up any mass to dedicated hangers thanks to clever use of negative space, makes use of layers of spaced armor for protection, and unlike many star wars ships, actually seems to have a relatively intelligent weapons layout where most turrets have a good field of fire.

[@kajn3206]

the fact that he fights to the last shriek is an advantage in an automatic ship, especially if the crew is eliminated

[@thevaderman2912]

Best Star Wars channel around!

[@scarface406]

Such an underappreciated vessel at least I love you recusant

[@KirbyBWebb]

This explains a lot . At first I could not understand its build , but now I see how it's functional . Not Pretty but BAD TO THE BONE . More videos like this Please !

[@CyberController-]

This is one of my favorite ships, thanks for covering it.

[@darrenklein6742]

I always like the look of this ship. It was a light destroyer so it had a lot of purpose in almost any formation. Though I write some fan fiction on Star Wars in my spare time, and i have been thinking about an idea turning this into a ship that a heavy hitter of a small fleet. Love the design, and I have the complete cross section book so I got all that information on it. Like Torn Lamb said, an underrated ship by far.

[@nickvinsable3798]

I personally believe that it could be both: a merchant vessel designed to ward off pirates & such… However, based on the engine layout, I initially thought it was a Techno Union ship, just like the rocket ship looking ships that were on Geonosis. All-in-all, when I saw the various ships in “Revenge of the Sith”, I felt there was a connection with the various Separatist ships & Gallofree as well as Mon Calamari…

[@omega13whitelucario95]

I think it was originally a Commerce Ship designed at the Mon Calamari Ship Yards and expanded upon at some point to be able to go toe to toe with heavier ships when it joined the CIS

[@emberfist8347]

It is a Techno Union ship. Most of the Confederacy-aligned manufacturers and even a few Republic ones were owned by the Techno Union. Despite the name, it is more of an example of the collaborative nature of the Separatists. It is a Quarren stolen design built using Commerce Guild material under Techno Union foremen by both the Quarrens who stole the design and another shipwright owned by the Trade Federation through a Nimbanese clan.

[@emberfist8347]

@@omega13whitelucario95 It was actually using Mon Cal blueprints the Quarren Isolationist League stole after they had their butts handed to them on a silver platter during the First Battle of Mon Calamari. The Commerce Guild supplied the material the Techno Union supplied the labor and the Trade Federation supplied one of the manufacturers.

[@tezlaactual6582]

The entire seperstist fleet is just terrifying, you get these skeletal ships with essentially ghost or skeleton crews and then as you get closer a bunch of swarm fighters just spew from every nook and cranny like wasps even though all of your data says that most of them don't even have hangers and then you get the droning roar as the engines come to life as the entire formation just advances on you

[@igncom1]

"Light Destroyer" bigger then a venator. But what does it matter when 80% of all ships are cruisers anyway, the terms are made up and the points don't matter.

[@psyrus728]

Well it’s not actually bigger than the venator. It’s only barely longer and 1/3rd the width, which makes it much smaller than a venator

[@toby1061]

No, the Dreadnaught version is bigger than a Venator, but the Light Crusier Variant is much smaller, only like 1 kilometer long while the venator was 1 kilometer and 600 meters. The Dreadnaught version of the Recusent was huge at 2,200 meters or 2 kilometers and 200 meters.

[@armanplayzyt9082]

i think that was a recusant dreadnought

[@quox3987]

I have two theories as to the classification. 1:weight-classes are based not on their length but volume and mass, where the Venator is a battle carrier with both the necessary crew for direct combat and strike-craft, the Recusant is slimmer and has numerous open spaces for spaced armor and vultures, alongside its minuscule crew requirements. 2: much like in real life, it’s not weight or design that denotes classifies a ship, but politics.

[@JCDFlex]

Well we also got Star Destroyers which were clearly battleships. Star Wars is quite confusing when it comes to naming their ship classes.

[@SirenRunner]

God you fucking killed it this video bro. I love this ship's design and to see you pick it apart like it's nothing is awesome!

[@thesenate5770]

Thank you so much for including sources, so many youtubers neglect them, so its good to see some change!

[@chrisflattcvy93]

I can't get enough of these types of videos.

[@gyratingwolpertiger6851]

One of my favourite ships.

[@dert444]

Thanks for the great video!

[@madrabbit9007]

One of my favorite Star Wars capital ships. I've just always enjoyed the look of it for some reason and wished they would have been showcased more in The Clone Wars.

[@barrett206]

I love these ship lore videos so much, it makes Star Wars feel we real and fun!

[@slidetime7438]

By far my favorite type of videos, ship breakdowns!

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

I love this ship!!!

[@Arashmickey]

I used to work on a cargo ship, one of the big ones. We used to ferry around and rent out dewbacks which engineers used to field test their cargo hold tolerances and stowing protocols.

[@indymcconnell]

Thanks for keeping "Legends" alive!

[@lord-commander4732]

I’ve missed these kind of videos. The life of, species, and planet videos are neat but I enjoy the ship and vehicle breakdowns.

[@jessiewronski5011]

I am a simple man I see ship breakdowns, I click

[@dewdew80]

It's funny how quickly I switched from "oof the clone wars movie was worse looking than I remember" to "oh that's the cartoon that's pretty impressive" once I realized it wasn't the live action scene where they crash land on Coruscant.

[@wrightroenigk]

This is a fascinating look at a very underrated ship thank you Would recommend to a friend and probably will

[@Centurion0419]

4.4K views and no dislikes, truly a Jedi’s balance in the force

[@notgray88]

Yay more vehicle breakdowns! Hype!

[@patchworkfellow]

*My Star Wars OC had a heavily modified Dreadnaught-variant of this as their flagship and spy-command; the Empire suffered when it appeared out of hyperspace 😂*

[@rashiqspencer6925]

Link to your fanfiction

[@patrik9328]

Sounds powerful

[@raymondsims537]

Link?

[@patchworkfellow]

@@rashiqspencer6925 there isn’t one, it was a roleplay me and my friends did 😅

[@yfrit_gg]

It's a quality ship! It and other CIS vessels make up the naval fleet of a CIS holdout in a story I'm involved with as well

[@michaelcarney6280]

My favourite Star Wars ship design ❤️

[@BigBossMan2000]

Would be great to see more CIS battles from the various holdouts after the Clone Wars officially ended.

[@richardcharay7788]

Enjoyed, thanks!

[@jonathanpadgett2800]

-WAS UP METANERD- Great video as always & of course we always want tooo see more more more

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

It’s a cool ship, I like it better as a Quarren design based from surplus munificent parts,

[@wet_weather_imp]

Probably my favourite naval ship in Star Wars

[@coastsouljah]

As far back as the original sw bf2 and the phantom menace battle of coruscant scene, this has always been my favourite sw captial ship.

[@nuxirl2582]

Hell yeah!!!!! More vehicle breakdowns!!!!

[@vortexflash4944]

Love seeing Empire at War footage for reference!

[@dylanadvyt9769]

The reason there isn’t any armored plates over the section near the engines is because there is a large amount of point defense cannons there to defend it so it would just block a lot of the ships fire power

[@Kevin-qg8eb]

I love the CIS

[@NikitaWolf1776]

Anyone else think this ship is very underused and underrated?

[@alberrrtttt5802]

I just love the ship,and i love this channel

[@coltrinculo703]

I am amazed you hadn't covered this yet love your vids btw

[@СергійМ-ф9х]

Cool and so nice 😀

[@myjdogz]

Wow as of now 0 people disliked this video That’s a first for me hope it stays that way. Love your videos

[@PRRepublicOfKorea]

Love these vids!

[@CptxGhost]

One of the best looking ships in SW

[@ANotSoBoringGuy]

Perfect breakdown! Love your videos man!

[@HomeOne444]

Recusant is so underrated It has so much potential

[@imperialpatriot6693]

I like the attic of the CIS ships and this is no exception.

[@sillyduck5179]

Awesome content man👍🏻 always look forward to see your videos

[@OryxTheMadGod3]

this ship is one of the coolest looking ones in the Star Wars Universe

[@VictorIV0310]

My favorite CIS ship!

[@Falchion1984]

But, most important of all, remember: if your A.I. starts talking about cake, mentions neurotoxin, and/or sings "Daisy, Daisy", keep in mind that movie by Stanley Kubrick gave you fair warning, and the Force will be with you, always.

[@ApollyonTheBasher]

Its About Damn Time for this upload

[@Voltaic_Fire]

Order Shipsty Ships was a dark day, like a million processors started up and were ended unexpectedly.

[@mjwilliams876]

Of all the Separatist vessels, this cruiser is my favorite when it comes to looks.

[@erindennis8788]

Love the vids bro

[@kaijukrab1369]

Can't wait for the Recusant to come out for Star Wars Armada! It arrives sometime around march. So excited!

[@Tiran654LP]

How can a channel be so nice. Still know very much but always great to watch! Ur Channel is like a awesome database of SW Lore and Infos :D

[@Jack-iy6ic]

Another great video by the best channel on youtube. The other day I was playing Halo MCC and I was wondering how halo needlers work. If you could make a short video on this that would be great.

[@zacharybeck6275]

Great breakdown, I learned some new stuff I had no idea about. Thanks for the awesome video 🧡🤠

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

The recusant one of my favorite ship in the cis

[@TheFirstCurse1]

This ship is easily the most non-uniform of the better known CIS ships. It's general architecture and design look like they're from another faction for the most part.

[@Kragock]

Another excellent video Meta. I'm still waiting for a video on the TIE Oppressor. I know its suppose to be a faster more maneuverable version of the TIE Bomber, but other than that, I don't know anything else, and I'm really hoping you can fill me in.

[@Sirfishy42]

These would be far more dangerous if Cortana had it

[@yapyapthedestroyer2562]

One of my favorite cis ships they had

[@neflesward2727]

Great video, I really love the recusant skeletal look

[@TheHeroRises]

Another great video!

[@EthanFrowen]

Really Epic video bud

[@commanderbracey7501]

Impressive. I would love to see the Dac shipyards. 🤔

[@DanBen07]

Good video.

[@Thatshistoryright]

What a boss cruiser! Somewhere there's got to be a huge separatist graveyard floating in space

[@maltahighjacker9842]

Ah my favorite destroyer in all of star wars👌

[@focusonrhae]

Thank u for I new ship breakdown❤️

[@austinheppes3877]

Can you please make a history of the star destroyer pleez? I love your vids as I am a star wars nerd too. Keep up the good work!

[@robertthompson4393]

The book officially classifieds the main weapon is a heavy prowl turbolaser battery and if you look at the book as well you can see how much bigger the heavy proud turbolaser battery is to a regular heavy turbolaser battery which is almost directly above and in front of. Which has always led me to believe that the heavy prowl turbolaser battery was at the very least three times if not as many as five times more powerful than a regular heavy turbolaser battery by sheer size alone

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Amazing video!

[@mattlouie6413]

I cannot believe he never made a video of the recusant

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Powerful and practical.