Star Wars Ships: Sphyrna-class Corvette (Complete Breakdown & History)

[@inquisitorgarza312]

This ship served with honor and dignity for thousands of years in the Old Republic. For canon to give the hammerhead this honor is truly wonderful for legends fans, here hoping they add other legends ships.

[@dreamingflurry2729]

I'd rather they leave it alone - unless they want to bring it all back,then we can talk! Otherwise fuck Disney! They shouldn't tomb-raid the EU, as it shows they are hacks without a shred of talent, who destroyed something (the EU) for "creative freedom" and now can't come up with anything good!

[@Irongarrison.5764]

actually i think they should use more old stuff. If you haven't noticed they suck at coming up with things on their own; que the "MG-100 StarFortress SF-17"

[@joedoe7041]

@@dreamingflurry2729 I completely agree with you, what get me though is people that talk about lore but treat the old lore(legends) like is fan made, and the dumpster fire thats disney lore like it's what lucus originaly intended.

[@mikecobalt7005]

:) Exactly my thoughts also.

[@a.morphous66]

@@joedoe7041 ...Legends literally is fan-made. Lucas never considered it canon.

[@demanischaffer]

When Raddus called in the Hammerhead I knew what was probably about to happen and it was amazing

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

this ship is perfect for literally ramming through blockades.😎

[@marcusdaniel6406]

Jean-Luc Martel if the other corvete classes are called blockade-runners, this one is definetely blockade-rammer. “They don’t run, they ram!” - probable tagline

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

@@marcusdaniel6406 SHOVE THIS UP YOUR EXHAUST PORT AND SNOKE IT!

[@Kilo-ct8dh]

Probably the best scene in any of the movies since the second death star explosion...

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

@@Kilo-ct8dh or that scene from Star Trek FC: PERHAPS TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE, CALL UP A HAMMERHEAD CORVETTE!!!

[@Ozraptor4]

"315m" also is the exact length of the KotOR Hammerhead-class cruiser. Clearly somebody accidentally inserted this figure into the stats of the Sphryna-class corvette even though it is consistently depicted in Rebels and Rogue One as vastly smaller, certainly shorter than a 300m Nebulon-B.

[@Asporez]

Yes they made hammerhead looking ships and got the stats confused sadly, probavbly some noob scenarist assistant who underestimated the fan base.

[@manfredvoncarstein3313]

Ozraptor4 yes 115 meters si the real long

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Or just under 117 (383 ft)

[@vipe650r]

That makes a lot of sense. I agree.

[@ThatDragonGuy]

@@Asporez Bruh fuck the fanbase. The dude was just doing his damn job and 3D modeled a ship, not everyone gives a single fuck about the smallest details like you fans.

[@blubberyoyster4]

*"Today is a good day to die, RAMMING SPEED!"* Wait, wrong universe...

[@juliankirby9880]

BlubberyOyster 4 the second Picard maneuver. Always a good decision.

[@FreeFallingAir]

Worf!!

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

CAPTAIN WORF CALL UP A HAMMERHEAD CORVETTE!

[@yukin1990]

@@FreeFallingAir well Picard did use it in Nemesis!!

[@reginaldtyroneshort]

Worf would’ve dominated in Star Wars. Money on him joining Mandalore.

[@georgesulea]

That's a Thuster Cluster, Buster!

[@aramhder]

Finally! The real size of a Hammer Head! Disney is blind with sizes of Star Wars ships. Like the Landing shuttle from Rebels is larger then the cargo shuttle from Rogue One?! ._. EXCUSE ME?

[@chrissonofpear1384]

You mean the Sentinel-class? It didn't even have an official length for years. The size used in starwars.wikia of 38 metres is from the X-wing Alliance game, and is fair enough for the earlier schematics... the one in Rebels is CLEARLY mean't to be smaller, say 19 to 23 metres. Which scales down the Arquitens as well, as it was scaled to it...

[@aramhder]

@@chrissonofpear1384 I totally agree with you.

[@kR-qj7rw]

2:03 i like that they have different color schemes

[@Delta-zy1et]

I’ve been waiting for the DP-20’s old brother to get some egknowlemnets on the channel.

[@K.Clawbender]

I always thought the Sphyrna was a bit smaller than a CR-90.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

It is. Somewhere between that and 96 metres, maybe. A KOTOR ship figure was cut and pasted, in effect.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

We see in Rebels cartoon it is about twice to two and half times the length of the Ghost, and the ISD comparison allows no longer than 3 times (132 metres) by my estimates.

[@darkjedifilmsmusic3002]

It is, if you look at the official updated numbers, CR-90 is 150 and Hammerhead is 117 meters.

[@K.Clawbender]

@@darkjedifilmsmusic3002 that makes a lot more sense.

[@iontached9577]

They should be like the same size in my head

[@pauljankootje3943]

nice for making the on screen measurments, 315 meters never sat well with me, seeing how small it was next to an ISD, 165 meters sounds so much more plausible. great breakdown on this cool little ship.

[@luckyfan8974]

*insert obligatory necro warning* Not to mention there's absolutely no way something rivaling the size of an Arquitens would cost a third the price of a significantly smaller Corvette

[@suicide1015]

the official length is 116.7 meters

[@jonathancameron3842]

I love how he uses such random units of measurement, it is 4 Wookiee’s wide and 3 black hawks long

[@pollall2793]

I haven’t watched a video of yours in almost a year, and I come back to one of my favorite ship in all of Star Wars. Keep it up man!

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Welcome back! Glad you liked it. Quality is a lot better than before.

[@pollall2793]

MetaNerdz Lore I can certainly tell! You’ve done a great job man!

[@casbot71]

Someone played Homeworld Cataclysm and liked the *Ramming Frigate.*

[@Gavanater7]

I like the way your doing in depth reviews now. It's nice to have more context on these amazing ships.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

How do you think it changed? Like the graphics and audio I think is better, but I didn't really know I changed anything like that, really want to know what you like more so i can do it on purpose lol

[@Gavanater7]

MetaNerdz Lore I don't really know exactly what it is but the quantity has seen to have gone down but quality is up. The variety and topics covered are different. Maybe it's just the thumb nail XD. Just keep doing what your doing

[@rickgrimes7721]

Hammerhead! hammerhead! hammerhead! he finally did the hammerhead video! This is the best day of my life ❤️💙!!!!

[@saltyfrenchfry8806]

Agreed!! I love the hammerhead so much!!

[@henrytoledo4103]

next to the Destroyer it's the little ship that could!

[@marsar1775]

I love the old republic designs, and i love this largely due to that bias

[@revenevan11]

Your videos on all sorts of ships like these, of all sizes, are giving me tons of ideas for getting back into the game "Space Engineers"

[@cocacola4blood365]

Finally! Hammerhead history! Long have i waited for this day!

[@neofulcrum5013]

Hammerheads are pretty sweet

[@samuelfawell9159]

I loved Rogue One, simply because of just how the ships interact with everything, the Xwings slamming into the shield, the Ship colliding with the Devastator, and the use of the Hammerhead to push the ISD.

[@hanc37]

Rogue One was the only good Disney-made Star Wars movie. The Last Jedi trilogy and Han Solo were dog shit.

[@i2rtw]

I really appreciate your units of measurement; “a couple hurts narrower...”, etc...

[@JanusMikaelos]

I loved this ship when I saw Rogue One. It was like something out of Knights of the Old Republic on the big screen!

[@ZETH_27]

The Hammerhead Corvette is definitely my favourite. Just goes to show that you should never underestimate the little guy.

[@WoobiewookieBlogspot]

Really great analysis of the lore vs "canon" sources. I hadn't realized the size as described in publications was so different from how this vessel was represented in the movie. Was wonderful to see it on screen, in any case.

[@christianbarger9524]

The smaller stats also fit much better into the Rebel navel doctrine. Small, yet powerful ships.

[@dilladinbutler5811]

I've really like your measurements for the hammerhead corvette, I always fought against the idea that it was big than the corellian corvette. It just didn't look right.

[@johnbuczkowski5628]

This is the Admiral of the Notification Alliance! All wings report in!

[@georgesulea]

Red Velvet, Standing By!

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

Black Squadron, at the Frontline!

[@Some_Random_Asshole]

Dagger wolves, ready in attack position.

[@DieKaase]

Green leader standing bye

[@ihateracin]

This is Gold leader............. standing by!

[@jjonestown]

I love how you put the legends banner up when you’re talking about that stuff

[@sternguard8283]

Starhawk and resurgents are probably the best original ships made by Disney, and the Starhawk does indeed take some heavy inspiration from hammerhead type ships.

[@danielramsey6141]

This ship was the best moment out of Rogue One!

[@zachikhlef7722]

I love these videos they teach me more of the hidden lore every time

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Hey thanks man that's awesome to hear

[@viktornapolitano6113]

So you’re saying I can pilot this giant hammer shaped ship alone?! I need to make some changes to my Christmas wish list.

[@slicer940]

You put so much time and effort into these videos. I wish I saw how they were edited

[@redshirt0479]

Latter seems more accurate. Similar issues crop up with Arquitens sizing. I think someone is taking designs and just doubling the design numbers the artists made. It’s something that happens fairly often across all of sci-fi.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Oh, and the Republic-cruiser/Consular class too. It has to fit inside a Venator's belly docking bay, AND have large enough airlocks for Anakin to stand upright in in a diving suit in Clone Wars, so may be sized inconsistently in the show...

[@rebelappliance771]

Naming ships after genera of fish is pretty cool. But then again I’m biased because I like fish so much.

[@telivan776]

I too like fish

[@mainerockflour3462]

Me too, like a McFish sandwich.😁👋

[@stingywingy1607]

Cheap, low crew numbers, disguisable as a freighter, easily modified, fast, durable, and equiped with a lot of point defense, this is a perfect ship for the rebel Alliance.

[@cornmaized]

I wonder if the reason this ships thrusters were so good was because it was original built in that tug format, this requiring such powerful engines. And them modified to the other formats.

[@LoneWolf20213]

There should be a ship special made to ram ships

[@iontached9577]

The hammerhead does it pretty well tho

[@briansgaming1479]

I love the hammer head ships

[@thorshammer7883]

How powerful were Turbolasers on the Old Sith Empire ships from Swtor?

[@farkasabel]

Well Darth Malak destroyed Taris with a single ship. Although that ship was made by the Starforge.

[@derekrobinson2366]

Yes please do a video on this^!

[@deadshot5007]

@@farkasabel Actually it was all of his fleet that destroyed the city

[@Bloodgod40]

If you got a CG model of the Hammerhead, and also of an ISD (of which there are many lying around the internet) you could analyze the volume of each vessel... and then, by assuming approximately equal density for both ships, you could measure how fast the Hammerhead pushed the ISD, and from that work out how fast the Hammerhead would accelerate normally (i.e. when not pushing an ISD). I'd guess it would be pretty fast.

[@danielfoster3813]

This is my favorite ship, along with the ISD. This is Star Wars to me. I still need to make a MOC of this.... and will.

[@richardched6085]

I called it the Apherion class before the official name "Sphyrna" was introduced.

[@TheJedaiHero9000]

When I first saw this ship, I knew that it reminded me of KOTOR game.

[@SignoftheMagi]

After seeing the image from Rebels, where one of these is right next to a CR-90, it looks about 2/3rds the length. So I say 100 meters even. Note that the much, MUCH larger Hammerhead Cruiser is also 300 meters. Apparently there was a typo made, but the lore guys at Lucasarts don't want to change the books painted so....we got this.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Yeah, Landry Q. Walker clearly got it wrong in that Starships guide book. He didn't do the Arquitens though, so there is still time to nip that size discrepancy as well, I think?

[@Eman-720]

I think the 315m length is a stuff up and they quoted the Hammerhead CRUISER. Which is 315m Long.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

This is in fact precisely what seems to have happened...

[@wordwyrd]

The old republic cruiser is the same size as the "official" ship, and the whole mess was started because somebody said it's design was "a variation of the old warship" and people lack math skills.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Correct. The ramming scene and the comparison with the Ghost should have sorted this out.

[@wordwyrd]

@@chrissonofpear1384 should.. but won't now. Sadly the people now in charge of sourcebooks seem to have glomped onto that number.

[@sandorsbox]

The arquitens-class is also overestimated: when seen in The Clone Wars, it is only about 50% larger than a consular-class

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Yes, it was around 170 metres scaled to the super-Recusant in Clone Wars, and the version in Rebels seems around 200 metres or so when ramming into a Star Destroyer...

[@monusbrewer4911]

Dude, great episode! ✌️

[@aramhder]

I really do think though that the hammerhead is smaller than the blockade runner in Rebels.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

It is, nearer to 100 metres, scaled to the Ghost...

[@aramhder]

@@chrissonofpear1384 Yeah. I agree

[@cfknock52]

Your number definitely seem a lot more accurate, but I'm thinking the Skarif battle was using the tug variant. The extra engine would allow for more thrust (needed for pulling other ships of various size) and allow the power generation for additional tractor beams.

[@eonbree8593]

this particular ship is my favorite ship in all of sw

[@nextnetworkent]

Instead of going into the backstory of all these ships I think it would be more interesting to explore the interior architecture and what it would be like to live on one of these ships

[@purplespeckledappleeater8738]

I enjoy the later stat. Much more badass

[@Irongarrison.5764]

The states are probably so sloppy because it has so many different models and an historc origin. I mean it was used during the era of the Old Republic and even than it was veteran to war. That is like older than Yoda. And Ezra calls it "OLD," thats like literally an understatement of a lifetime. Must be a good model, where can i buy one lol.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Length recently confirmed by Pablo Hidalgo as some 116.7 metres, from filming documents...

[@derlasercrafterwally4342]

4:52 2x the length of a CR90. Ah yes :D The German wookiepedia, Jedipedia says 116m. That makes much more sense

[@captianmorgan7627]

Nice as always.

[@kylestark1800]

It's interesting that there is such a divergent amount of data regarding the statistics. It's almost as if one hand doesn't know what the other is doing over at Lucasfilm. Even in the old days things were relatively cohesive between the various media producing companies because they were getting oversight from them, not perfectly I know but details like ship information were pretty spot on.

[@MrApplemat]

I loved this ship from the moment I saw it but did think the size a little odd, especially when it had only 3 weapon points and 3 are fixed forward. I really hope we get to see more of this ship in the future.

[@JoaoPedro-ol7sl]

I love that they took that old model of the old republic and made into a small covette that the rebels could afford

[@collectpanda3350]

Favorite ship ever

[@jedileader0174]

Anyone else reminded of the Dark Elf starfighter in Thor the Dark World with the MC-140 Sythe Class?

[@Classicman_269]

I think that the canon larger size is right but the smaller ones seen in rogue one is the scout with a smaller cut down frame and size for the role of a scout ship.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

A smaller size of around 100 metres fits both Rebels and Rogue One perfectly well, to me. The size of the KOTOR games Hammerhead was used by mistake in prior references.

[@thenauticalnomadmactire]

i propose that the 4 engine version is the tug version because for a tug the two aspects of a tug is to be able to latch on and have enough engine to push around ships much larger than itself.

[@GodzillacrafterHD]

Personally my favourite ship.

[@nicolastousignant9160]

I think you need to revise your conception of 'old' in the star wars universe. These ships could have been stationned or mothballed in some backwater for hundreds of years for all we know.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Oh okay

[@Ravencos]

Very cool stuff.

[@chrisgurney2467]

I really like the bow structure cos I'm sure you could pop a couple of 360 degree turrets top and bottom for a decent fire arc Also sniggered at "Thruster Cluster" XD

[@benholcomb8615]

The original ship 3 times the size is as old as the old republic this is a newer model designed near the end of the clone wars

[@captpenguinlord7208]

Your stats are correct bc in rebels it was rlly small even compared to an at at. And the cr90s look much bigger. But they might have had different models as you said. The rogue one version looks bigger and has extra side parts plus an extra engine

[@moritzk3004]

Just have to add one thing: RAMMING SPEED!

[@evankalmokoff6401]

Can you do a video on mister Bones the b1 battle droid

[@stardude2006]

Hammerhead Corvettes are Cool ! 👽💚

[@isaacmaier4150]

I like this ship and it think your stats make more sense

[@chrissonofpear1384]

I think it's even shorter, 100 to 110 metres, say, but he used some good methods.

[@fakenuke7487]

Btw it seems those structures mounted to the airlocks seem to be additional weapons as in the model you can make out 2 dual laser cannons, one mounted to the ventral side of the pod and one in the dorsal side, I doubt they are very strong since you can barely make them out, the pods also seems to posses airlocks which makes sense since they are mounted to the original airlocks

[@gregmosher4287]

Thruster cluster would be a fun band name :P opening song Thuster clusters - nut buster :P

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

The 350 meter length might be for the old republic version...while the Rebels version is about 110 meters long (based on airlocks and entry ramp). I suppose the Rogue One version might be a newer model- or just a version geared more for patrolling a system than the freightliner Rebels version.

[@thestarwarsgamer3258]

hopefully we get old republic movies and we get to see the hammerhead cruiser

[@kyleruiz7167]

There seems to be 2 different versions or variations. The ones seen in rebels seem to be alittle bit smaller than the ones in Rogue one. The one's in Rogue one seem to be alot more heavily modified or a different variation and would be slightly bigger than the rebels TV one (including a fourth engine, the 2 pods at the air locks, slightly longer neck and 2 superstructure on the neck that include escape pods)

[@chrissonofpear1384]

They are mean't to be the same ship. In Rebels, it MUST be no longer than 3 times that of the Ghost, so no longer than 132 metres. And seems nearer to two times as long. Either fits fairly well with the ISD ram.

[@OMEGATHENIETZCHIAN]

I'd be interested in an obscure ship called the Kazellis Class Light Freighter. All I know is its in Saga edition and was used by a bounty hunter who's Kazellis was called "The Claw"

[@TycoonTitian01]

ISDs to small corvettes: StOp BuLlYiNg Me!!! REeeeEe!!

[@FireheartSamurai]

I’m guess the size difference because of it’s variations like with the Consular Class Cruiser & C-70 retrofit.

[@JothDasim]

I would love to see a breakdown of the Foray class blockade runner from the old republic.

[@nahmanyomama]

Honestly, one of my favorite parts of these videos is wondering what obscure measurement will be used to describe the ship.

[@Thors.hammer69420]

Rip hammer head bois, gone but never forgotten.

[@djtoilet6310]

i hope they appear in episode 9

[@logancook5261]

nice facts man

[@gabrieljones2510]

your stats make more sense to what we see in rebels and in rouge one

[@mariagloriadelcarmen]

The hammerhead Corvettes were present in the rise of the Skywalker movie

[@topphatt1312]

2:49 look at how fast they shmoovin

[@J_Lag]

very nice, I like 😊👍

[@mikkelnpetersen]

1:37 If it happen once it's a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

[@simonwillis1529]

Great vids always what’s the music you use I’m liking it

[@kennethferland5579]

Obviously your analysis of the visual in the movie is accurate with in that context. Also note the holographic comparison with ATATs which also match you size estimate. But I find the idea of a ship that small pushing around an ISD which probably has a thousand times its mass rather silly, the official stat is far more believable for the actual job the ship did in the movie.

[@adampender3685]

They existed during the clone wars; one can be seen during the Bad Batch Episode Battle Scars as wreckage.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

For the record, the length of BOTH this ship and the Arquitens in official sources is wrong, and I know WHY it ended up that way. The Hammerhead length was copy-pasted from the Hammerhead CRUISER version in KOTOR 1 and 2 games. The Arquitens was scaled to the Sentinel shuttle by a guy on Wookieepedia/starwars.wikia, but he ignored that Rebels cartoon uses a smaller version of the Sentinel from what was in earlier video games, so the whole cruiser drops to nearer 200 metres long...

[@zakiducky]

How rich was the royal family of Alderaan? That would be an interesting video topic, because those people were buying a fuck ton of ships, and seemingly quite regularly as well.

[@thestarwarsgamer3258]

The ram is cool but it would be awesome to see some ships shooting at each other up close

[@briandoherty8337]

It is about the length of a block runner so i figure that you numbers are right on the button.

[@Dead0Bone0Brook]

I think it's a little smaller yet, if I remember doing measurements right I compiled them to the AT-AT's from that Rebles episode. ^^ I need it for a Star wars EOTE campaign. ^^

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Although I think those are somewhat bigger AT-ATs than usual? But I do agree the corvette is likely smaller.