The Chiss Ascendancy - Factions Explained | Star Wars Legends Lore

The Chiss Ascendancy was arguably the most powerful group in the Unknown Regions, but how did their society work?
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[@sergioruiz733]

Ahh the Chiss, Im trying to think of a real world comparison , but I can't, they are just that great.

[@mattk6719]

How about the Soviet Union? Russia? From the communist government, to the cold weather, to drinking vodka at age 14... the Chiss were even written as the proverbial foreign "other" superpower in the galaxy. There are tons of similarities.

[@sergioruiz733]

@@mattk6719 The Chiss more remind me of an Earth 19th century Imperial Germany or Russia in retrospect with a tint of British Meritocracy.

[@mattk6719]

@@sergioruiz733 Yes, that, too. It definitely has an air of Victorian era snobbery.

[@phantoms2053]

Australia 🇦🇺 Australians.

[@Vimanas.8209]

Australia 🇦🇺 or New Zealand 🇳🇿?

[@DIEGhostfish]

Long time enemies of the Chiss Ascendancy that the Acendency refused to recognize as a threat till it was almost too late so Thrawn had to smack em down without orders.

[@adventwolfbane]

Ah the Chiss Ascendancy one of my favorite factions. If only they were willing to strike out first against threats they could have been so much larger. They might have been able to get control of a good part of the Unknown Regions if they did.

[@kumardias9348]

Was looking forward to this! Enjoyed the video. Good to see more backstory about Thrawn's people. Would love to see more about the conflict between Thrawn and chiss society rules about preemptive strikes. Hope this factions explored becomes a series. The greater maldrood,Pentastar Alignment etc would make for interesting topics.

[@Mark-gs6nn]

I know this is 3yrs later but there are 3 books out now call thrawn ascendancy it's about thrawn before he went to the empire and what led up to him being banished.

[@csillafel8226]

It is pronounced CHILL/LA . It is a Hungarian female name meaning "star"

[@darthxerxes5468]

He also pronounces Aristocra wrong.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

They are not to be underestimated especially thrawn.

[@heavyarms55]

Great video Corey! You're clearly becoming more at ease with doing these videos, and I can tell you've put more effort into having something visual for use to look at while you talk about things that don't have a lot of official images. The Chiss are one of my favorite factions as well, and I really wish we had gotten to see more of them before the Expanded Universe was ended.

[@mannymore_music]

Good video really interesting those facts kind off explain wyh Thrawn was such a good taction.

[@Mark-gs6nn]

Thrawn my all time top favorite character in star wars

[@DoctorX17]

Ohhh, that was good. I've seen a lot of videos about Thrawn, but nobody really talks about the Chiss as a whole!

[@Ifedude]

Chiss could seriously rule the galaxy. It's a good thing for everyone else that they don't especially want to...or, at least, not enough of them do.

[@MrShivshank]

nice vid! doing prep for a star wars 5e game this helped a bunch.

[@majgijoe]

Thanks for doing a video on a recommendation I made during your first published video.

[@alexcamacho1842]

Corey after watching this video again I'm curious as to the differences between the Legends and Canon Chiss Ascendancies because Zahn seems to have made some changes between his original and the newer one in his Ascendancy trilogy, have you made a video covering that already?

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Quite fascinating culture with different technologies and doctrines.

[@maxrander0101]

the chiss in the mmo are like thrawn they are outside of the standard forces of the Ascendancy they were snet because the chiss were aware of the sith empire in exile and offered limited services in exchange for being left alone the empire agreed due to the fact that the chiss had managed to arrive on the sith homeworld without being detected by any imperial force and the empires leadership saw them as a race that would make great agents and spies they would later vanish from history due to much info about this time being lost

[@dwaldpilar9309]

Another AMAZING video!!!!

[@Finn_7117]

You should make a cannon version too once there’s more info

[@Kolonol1]

No thanks

[@govic55]

Great video.

[@MrMarinus18]

Also what about the Hapes consortium? There are very few videos but they are a very big part of legends.

[@googesowders2758]

Do you think Thrawn knew Palpatine would have moved to invade unknown space one day .

[@dillonellis4798]

Ohhhhhh.... MiTHRAWNuruodo. It all makes sense now...

[@felinekaiju4517]

Do you have a video of this, covering g the now 9 ruling families?.

[@lordinvictus793]

"no preemptive strike"

[@Shadx27]

Do you think the First Order has taken over them, or would they be an autonomous state within it? Or, still entirely separate.

[@marrqi7wini54]

I personally don't think that they even had much contact with them.

[@Shadx27]

@@marrqi7wini54 That might be true. I cannot, for the life of me, find a map showing the First Order's holdings in the unknown territories.

[@Kolonol1]

I don't think Disney wars has thought that far ahead...it will probably be yet another inconsistency lol

[@kiwi4035]

It's possible they became extinct. Since Thrawn was their only hope in getting allies to help them against the Grysk

[@luckyabdurrahman1085]

the most insane thing is that they have no concept of money

[@DIEGhostfish]

Is someone way too into Chiss a Weablue?

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

Yes

[@matthewgaviola8885]

That could also apply to Pantorans

[@mnddcmpnn]

There is too much known of the "Unknown Regions!"

[@Jascosaurus]

So drow in SPEHSS!

[@breadcurate62]

The chiss chic with the sniper is pretty smokin’

[@Mayakran]

Bread Curate you can definitely tell those two illustrations were drawn by a straight man, lol; the girl is hot, the guy is.... a guy (as are most illustrations done by men, ah the plight of a straight woman interested in a science fiction franchise...).

[@csillafel8226]

Well, my family will poop in their pants if they make a movie based on Zahn's books. We just think it is so cool.

[@TheQuincyEdwards]

Voss Parck looks like Thrawn but pink. Random thought: Why would Palpatine ever have made a deal with this man? He had absolutely nothing to gain from it and would possibly open himself up to attack. Canon-wise now, not Legends. I think they might have screwed the pooch on that one.

[@user-rr6jj5mr6f]

A entire race of Thrawn's now I'm scared

[@supremeleadergnkdroid3202]

I hate what Disney did to thrawn. Straight disrespect. The thrawn trilogy was amazing. How dare Disney destroy it to label it legends and then replace it with their fan fiction

[@FidgetTheMidget8P]

I must admit, though, that the voice actor they got for Thrawn did a magnificent job.

[@Mayakran]

I mean, “Thrawn” was my first introduction to the character and he’s now one of my favorite characters of all time. I do not like “Rebels,” though, where he became this stereotypical spooky bad guy and was defeated by a bunch of children (and what’s with that ugly visual design? Not my favorite).

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@Mercurystars4202 fanfiction ? It's written by Timothy Zahn and actually works even as a prequel to heir to the empire

[@Kolonol1]

@@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 it's still fan fiction if it's in the Disney wars universe because it's all a bunch of smut

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@Kolonol1 but it's literally by the guy that invented the character....

[@Jeapify]

Wait... Chiss are blue because there's silver in the water or something? Like Paul Karason? That's hilarious.

[@aloysiuskalligunderratedsi8861]

SWTOR traitor among the chiss

[@mattdickson2]

@Coreyloses it’s Z-AH-N not Z-AN (pronunciation guide not spelling obv)

[@TheIfifi]

Always found the chiss to be a bit too perfect made my eyes roll and thus became boring. Still enjoyed the video a lot!