The Coup That Almost Killed Palpatine and Took Coruscant

Today we look at the ghost prison rebellion led by General Gentis and his cadets.
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[@rawtheran9319]

That awkward moment when you realize it doesn't matter if the coup would have succeeded or not because Palpatine is a master of cheating death and just would have come back anyway.

[@akumaking1]

At least Legends has a good excuse

[@michaely409]

NO ONES EVER REALLY GONE

[@donnellebarfield3964]

But them killing him would have prevented operation cinder

[@fryingpanman1250]

this was 19bby. who knows, maybe Palpatine's cloning facilities weren't yet active

[@neoblakkrstal9865]

This is interesting Lore in seeing exactly how evil the Emperor was, and how the Empire actually worked. Well done.

[@nekonetflux2258]

Vader could have you know, accidentally force choked palp while he was in statis. Even if it caused massive instability, hey it’s better then being ruled over by palp as your master

[@yourstruly4817]

The attempt to pronounce Klaus von Stauffenberg has left me scarred...and deformed

[@baldthanos4614]

Your just scared to pronounce Klaus cause Santa got stuck in your Chimney on Christmas Eve☝️🙂

[@RetractedandRedacted]

but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger. The war is over. The Separatists have been defeated, and the Jedi rebellion has been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years. An Empire that will continue to be ruled by this august body and a sovereign ruler chosen for life. An Empire ruled by the majority, ruled by a new constitution!

[@baldthanos4614]

@@RetractedandRedacted But the Dolphins are taking over Miami, through the Darkside☝️🙂

[@calvinmatthews1527]

One of the more interesting stories I wish Disney hadn't retconned

[@danielchavez919]

you cannot be a traitor in an organization that sees its men as tools, and the officers are constantly betraying each other for having more power in the hierarchy .

[@thadmeboy1129]

The thumbnail Nobody: Almost every imperial rp server:

[@marcbartuschka6372]

But in both cases young men and women also were crucial for the survival of Palps and the Empire - it is clear that the Empire had quite some appeal to young, skilled people and gave them opportunities. Sloane would become Grand Admiral one day, for example.

[@StarWarsCorner]

Gotta respect Palpatine’s ability to take some pretty high stakes risks.

[@keplerthe3399]

You can't kill *the senate* Oh wait..

[@someguy9293]

You can't kill the Senate...unless your Darth Vader, or the Senate himself.

[@andrewlim9345]

It was a very good video on the Gentes coup but you omitted to mentioned how Moff Thracta was upset with Vader for blowing the ship carrying the former Separatist fighters and how Vader killed that cadet. That would have shown how evil the Sith were.

[@shawnv3711]

What comic is this from. It’s amazingly dark. With some more unique art when it comes to Star Wars

[@JediAcolyte94]

Dark Horse Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison.

[@_warsp1te760]

Dark Horse is not Canon, correct?

[@tomtheconqerur]

@@_warsp1te760 its too good to be dusney canon

[@thenobletaco4232]

@@JediAcolyte94 Dark Horse were the best star wars comics

[@topdog5252]

@@JediAcolyte94 cool

[@bk8541]

DID YOU NOTICE HOW PALPATINE SAYS 'THE FORCE' INSTEAD OF THE 'DARK SIDE', INTERESTING...

[@bensonfang1868]

When the two burn/explosion victims are safe from the virus

[@casbot71]

*_after order 66, as Yoda prepares to face Palpatine_* [Padme waddles in] *Padme:* You're going to confront the Sith who turned my Annie [Yoda looks at Padmes belly and realises]. *Yoda:* Powerful he is, the mastermind of it all, but alone I must face him. *Padme:* He caused the Clone Wars? Just shoot him then. *Obi-Wan:* It's not that easy, he could deflect any blaster bolt with ease back to the firer. *Padme:* I'm taking about with a turbolaser … [Obi-Wan's eyes go wide, but he agrees] *Obi-Wan:* I know it's _uncivilised,_ but why don't we just take out Sidious's office with a proton torpedo? *Yoda:* Unsporting it is, no final soliloquy he could make. *Obi-Wan:* How many Jedi did he just have shot by their own troops, without a chance for any profound final words… oh it's on, we're throwing out the rulebook as well. *Padme:* Screw this, I'm stealing a Acclamator and crashing it into his office, the bridge is on top and I can use a escape pod at the last second. *Yoda:* Dedicated to peace, a religious order we are . Not revenge for our fallen brethren we will stoop. So we will blast him with calmness, not hate. But blast him we will. Then together we will deal with Vader. [Turning to Padme] To a OBGYM you must make haste. *Padme:* I'm Vader's wife, you're going to need me to get past the Clones, I'll use that as an excuse. *Yoda:* Fuck me…well, been played I have… Idiot I am. Your plan we will embrace. *Obi-Wan [turning to Padme as she walks ahead]:* Have you had a midiclorin count of your amniotic fluid yet… [Scene].

[@patchworkfellow4262]

Lol

[@daghostds]

Technically killing the emperor at that point would have made him a martyr and they could have blamed the jedi even more and Vader would probably be Emperor. Nice chuckle though :p

[@averyaggressivefish3334]

This attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed

[@noneedtoknow07]

Trachta was later a part of his own coup, though that one fell apart more to infighting then a failure to follow through.

[@GamingWithMoses]

If that coup killed Palpatine, the Empire would mostly fall unless Darth Vader redeemed it.

[@Erebdai]

I love your videos. They calm me down when driving and I listen to the audio while running. Keep making videos. Did this rebellion happen while vader was building his temple on mustafar?

[@HolyknightVader999]

You should also go over Moff Trachta's and Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin's coup attempts.

[@alec7501]

VIDEO IDEA : what if Luke skywalkwr joined Darth Vader at cloud city or if Luke missed the escape hatch and died. Would the Rebellion survive?

[@thadmeboy1129]

Definitely not if he joined vader but if he died there is still hope because the first deathstar is dead

[@someguy9293]

Someone did the first one. And not sure about the escape hatch.

[@mattpetrigala7639]

Funny thing about Von Stauffenberg…..he actually wanted Germany to have to right to keep large swathes of the land it had annexed from Poland, such as the Poznan region, as well as other lands such as Austria, and the Sudentenland, and even for Germany to annex the Tyrol region of Italy outright. He also wanted to prevent any war crimes trials and to keep the war in the East going while only “withdrawing” on the western front. Given how deeply complicit the Heer was in committing atrocities on the eastern front……. Someone whose reputation has definitely gotten whitewashed a bit simply by realizing the Nazis were going too far.

[@DarqeDestroyer]

What does it matter, even if they succeeded in killing him, a little thing like death won't keep him down. _"I have died before. The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural."_

[@JB-yb4wn]

Yes but I would imagine that a nuke to the face would make that statement irrelevant.

[@DarqeDestroyer]

@@JB-yb4wn He was inside the guts of the Death Star when it was blown up. His original body was vaporized. He came back anyway.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@DarqeDestroyer Well that was due to lazy writing, not the dark side of the force.😁

[@BlackIce3190]

@@DarqeDestroyer In Legends at least he had multiple clone bodies he could shift his mind into.

[@mider9996]

Not valuing the troops was a huge mistake, the fact that Tai fighters were so crappy. They should have kept clone troopers as well.

[@thatoneguy3591]

Why haven't we talked about how in episode 1 Darth Maul just stood there and let obi wan cut him in half

[@akumaking1]

Overconfidence.

[@thatoneguy3591]

@@akumaking1 😂😂😂

[@xxvaltielxx1789]

He was shocked that the mighty High ground didn't work for him, i would have been too

[@HuckOrris]

"From my point of view Gentis is evil!"

[@jakethesnake3593]

"Then you are lost!"

[@jamiepeterson2230]

Very interesting this would make for a great star wars movie akin to Valkyrie that starred Tom Cruise who i believe was snubbed for an academy award

[@reidthebigcheese7351]

Yo that’s crazy bro but idon memba askin

[@JeanLucCaptain]

THE SCHOOLA PROGENIUM REPRESENTS THE FINEST OF THE IMPERIUM! YES, THESE MEN ARE ALL HEROES!

[@Dartowl1]

What if echo really was a techno union spy

[@somegirl7848]

He was a traitor who tried to kill my Emperor the man who wiped out the filthy Jedi scum

[@nickvinsable3798]

A Heroic Traitor! I’m pondering if there was a Jedi Reject who was done being a youngling, became a Republic Trooper before becoming an Imperial Trooper, and is a more serious version of Jar Jar Binks … This ex-Jedi is more Loyal to the People & only through the Emperor does he show his Loyalty. He even upright refuses redirections from his superiors to quell uprisings & rebellions by using more peaceful methods, not overtly violent ones, but may at times assassinate upstarts IF he couldn’t simply arrest them & put ‘em on trial and such…

[@AxelotlYT]

Anyone else read it as The Soup that almost killed palpatine?

[@someguy9293]

That must be some strong soup.

[@anthonyowens9320]

Ok so like what if you guys did a planet profile series where you would go over the history and population and location of a planet in the star wars universe because honestly I watch alot of your videos and other star wars lore channels and they talk about where battles happen in the universe but I dont really have an idea where these planets really are in the wider scope of things

[@pejj300gamer2]

This is so funny claus von stauffenberg was my grandfather's cousin tomec Hubert von stauffenberg he was a polish fighter pilot in ww2 that fought for the allies

[@reedcoffman3210]

Well was a polish fighter pilot from September 1st-27th

[@pejj300gamer2]

@@reedcoffman3210 Actually he was taken to Gulag then he made his way to. Pesrure iran tuenb to the UK were he fought during d day battle of the bulge and Tue invasion of Germany

[@eddieram435]

I can think that he was right in the middle...He didn't like the Jedi or the Emperor so I guess there are people who just seem to take justice in their own hands.

[@kalebmiller9670]

I've always been curious about what Palpatine did in his free time during his deception of the time of the Republic

[@DefecTec]

This is why legends is superior, legends content isn’t afraid to get dark

[@valmid5069]

Star Wars-Valkyrie Story: “LONG LIVE SACRED CORUSCANT!!!”

[@gary9346]

"It was totally an accident..." Alan, you troll.

[@TheThunderguardian]

I've seen a video on the Prism but the reason Vader was there was never up, thank you. O the possibilities if things were slightly different. 😌

[@tidbits3055]

I waw wondering if you could do a video on the lightsaber rifle.

[@jameswg13]

You've mixed legends and canon comics together again

[@damienridding6627]

Were now on quarantine it's fine tho I got generation teck to keep me company

[@timhare9867]

If anyone ever wanted to do a Vader standalone movie in the same style of ‘Solo’, I’d nominate this. With Vader still coming to terms with his part in Padme’s demise, it would make a brilliant psychological-political thriller.

[@user-uo2xn2fn7g]

8:11 Asari from Mass Effect are surely the most dangerous enemy of the Galactic Republic.

[@akumaking1]

Yet another good story ignored by Disney.

[@mgonza1350]

1:30 Why does he have AirPods in?

[@jadelee2501]

Would have liked to see this in a movie!!!

[@eldenvedetta635]

I love the videos but I would VERY much appreciate sources like comic names so I could try and buy them lol

[@WildeFyre69]

Galaxies: where we live. Universe: where everyone lives. They are not interchangeable. There are anywhere from 100-150 BILLION galaxies in the universe. Thanks for the video, I know we all appreciate it!

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Fon Sh-tau-ffen-berg!

[@lamaahruloma4270]

V in German von is pronounced like F like in van Gogh or the great American hero and SS member von Braun. Then there is Sh like in Shi..p! English is using so many German and Czech words, but sometimes it seems the languages aren't so closely related as they're.

[@hypersecures]

Your Reign is over headmaster

[@MrDude826]

"This attempt on my life has left me scared... and deformed...."

[@stevebotham2018]

Is that one of those robes lined with the fur of baby Ewoks looks comfey

[@iamigloo840]

How you been my guy?

[@cynergycx4323]

I can confirm the case is really good on a budget. I wish I had known about the 1600 AF because I would have been able to get a 2060, but I got the 2600 with a 1660ti.

[@TMMS-13]

Difference between a traitor and hero is how you plan to use that you gain

[@Dartowl1]

What if savage killed dooku and ventress during his rage

[@earth117]

Could u plz do like a top 10 attempts on palpatines life

[@olafgurke4699]

There already is a Video of them which lists the attempts on palpie's life before he got killed.

[@earth117]

olaf gurke what’s it called and who’s it by?

[@bk8541]

what about the fir-tree?

[@bk8541]

Best lightsabers are in episode 3

[@zachschmitt3654]

Interesting

[@tomtheconqerur]

What if the Doomslayer was found by the rebels?

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

I am afraid you are incorrect in saying this was the closest to succeed.. The closest to succeed was Grand Admiral Zaarin in 3.5 ABY. He successfully captured Palpatine over Coruscant with the aid of Ardyn Lyn and a Sith artifact, rendering the Emperor unconscious and helpless. He also had sent both Vader and Thrawn into a trap at the same time. As a Grand Admiral he and the remaining 11 Grand Admirals were the highest ranked individuals in the Empire after the Emperor and Vader, with the Emperor executed over Imperial Center, Vader and his loyal Vice Admiral Thrawn lured to their deaths Zaarin would hold the Imperial Capital and possess the TIE Avengers and TIE Defenders he had invented giving him central control, authority and the technological edge to hold that. Even when his initial plan was thwarted he almost killed Palpatine a second time on his personal star liner and managed to fight the full might of the Empire and Thrawn for almost six months with only 27 capital ships.

[@hansolo5912]

Damn, what a badass

[@villekuronen6242]

actually that's really impressive

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@villekuronen6242 and then there was Carnor Jax, the Sovereign Protector that actually DID succeed in killing Palpatine by proxy when he arranged for the clones Palpatine was using to escape death to be poisoned forcing the Emperor to put himself in personal danger to try and get a new body from Leia's kid. He'd arranged for the Ruling Council to seize power as soon as Palpatine was dead and he'd be named Emperor with access to the Sith knowledge on Palptine's Throneworld citadel, the Eclipse II, Galaxy Gun and the Shadow Hand fleet...unfortunately due to a certain astromech the Eclipse, Galaxy Gun and Byss were all destroyed as a byproduct of his plan, meaning that while he did succeed in becoming Emperor, he didn't have the military might to force the imperial Warlords to obey him or access to any further Sith knowledge so he was largely nominal as a ruler until the last Royal Guard Kir Kanos avenged Palpatine and killed Jax in a duel.

[@bradmorales4002]

What novel does that story come from?

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@bradmorales4002 Zaarin's Insurrection is in the PC game TIE Fighter, Carnor Jax's plan and fate are in the comic Star Wars Crimson Empire. Both are phenomenal.

[@sboilerboy7882]

Please what If Cal Kestis rebuilt the Jedi order

[@Raining_Heavily]

Palpatine always survive !! 😎

[@baldthanos4614]

Did he say his name is Allen or Ellen🤔

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

This would have made a great cannon story as others have made.

[@ivanvidakovic9222]

Certanly much better than sequals movies (wich i dont consider cannon)

[@vanders4198]

Definitely still a traitor, but he had honourable intentions.

[@reedcoffman3210]

Not to mention he committed a bunch of war crimes in the process of this assassination attemp

[@AdrianoOliveiraRocha]

Hero

[@delarrianriley6240]

Why didn’t Vader take this time to take out the Emperor.

[@hectoraliegbe9429]

The time General Gentis committed his (Unsuccessful) coup was just one year after the formation of the Galactic Empire. Vader was still much weaker than he was as Anakin Skywalker, and was still getting used to mechanics of his suit (In both combat and non-combat situations). The reason Vader did not make an attempt on Palpatine's life is that he wanted to know everything he had to offer before he overthrows him (as per Rule of Two). However, as the years go by in Palpatine's reign over the Galaxy, Vader started to realize his master has no intention of teaching everything he knows, and as a result he decided to leverage his position of being the "Supreme Commander of the Imperial Forces" (Vader's rank in the Legends Continuity) and use all of the resources at his disposal to become as powerful as he can. By the time of "A New Hope", Darth Vader became the greatest "Jedi Hunter" in Galactic history due to him fully mastering the mechanics of his suit, which is thanks to both his greater mastery of the Dark Side of the Force when compared to his former self and constantly having Lightsaber Combat drills day-in and day-out. However, even if during this time that Vader finally became more powerful than he was as Anakin Skywalker (Even if his potential to become the greatest Force wielder in Galactic history was severely diminished after Mustafar) he realized that he will never be able to rival his master, as a result Vader was forced to rely on either Sith artifacts (Muur Talisman) or secret apprentices (Galen Marek, Starkiller (Clone of the former), and at the very least tried to with his son Luke Skywalker) in his attempted overthrows.

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Sh-tau-ffen-berg

[@hadoukenocx4746]

you can tell in elans face he is sick he need to do home work bec he cant go out. lul kekw ^^

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Von is fon, Van is Fan.

[@DayZeroGaming]

Why did KZbin unsubscribe me from your channel...

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Dear Halen(is it writte right?), you have awesome videos, but you must learn German, Bavarian or Sudeten or Austrian or Prussian.

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Or all and Czech, Lower and Upper Sorbian, of course

[@nellidivina5280]

How come galactic empire didn't try to create super soldiers?

[@fristnamelastname5549]

Is this Legends now, or still Canon?

[@lateefpou2986]

Really Allen really I want ur robe . U just chilling letting bthe the force wash over u. Lmfao

[@mlgsty8880]

If nation falls apart simply by its leader dying then it was failed state all along, this was case of the Empire in star wars as well. At least the older Sith Empires didnt fall apart just because their Emperor/Empress died.

[@Gelb33]

As a matter of fact it did fall a few years later due to infighting, conflict with the Hutt cartel and the Republic taking advantage of their weakness.

[@reedcoffman3210]

Every strong authoritarian regime has a backup plan the empires backup plan was killing itself

[@AkFumbles]

Honestly, the Empire makes me upset because there really was no reason to get rid of the Clone Troopers. They just made up a dumb reason for replacing them because Lucas couldn’t use CGI back then when Star Wars was first made. The Empire could have paid for the Clone Program with ease, the idea that the Clones could be taken over for rebellion is relevant to the Republic era and just a lame excuse, and they were all around better and capable soldiers who deserved more than what they got treated like by Disney.

[@reedcoffman3210]

Clones are expensive and had half the serving time a human recruit had also Palpatine saw them as a liability

[@AkFumbles]

Reed C. Bruh thanks for replying legit it’s been a month lmao. Good point by the way.

[@neofulcrum5013]

I remember this. Damn. Almost did the galaxy a huge favor

[@toastthekickboxingplant6440]

They can't kill him he still owes me 50 bucks

[@jmoney7772]

Why didn't Vader just kill Palpatine then?

[@efenty6235]

didn't palpatine have clones at this point?

[@playframe6231]

non of this means shit because palpatine was just a clone

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Shtaufenberk

[@anshumansingh769]

Whatif the sith rule of two was never created ?

[@ltbuttersnapa2924]

What about what if the Revans order in Vader sol3 and if peace talks take place and pass what would we do in the event of the attack that killed revan ?

[@BluMan506]

To bad all those prisoners died in that freek accident they seemed like cool guys.

[@cathode6252]

Oh this is really quite embarrassing, but these plots and the main story have all received a hard retcon from Disney and friends. So even if this character wanted to assassinate Palpatine, it wouldn't have mattered because it wasn't the 'real' Palpatine. Sorry!

[@multikings20]

That was true even in legends, there was this legends story called “Dark Empire” where sheev is revealed to have an endless supply of clones

[@ivanvidakovic9222]

I don know if you are joking but more and more people are rejecting sequals as cannon, because of catastrofic destruction of all the good things in previous films, even the comics are becoming terrible. They destroyed Lucas dream....Luke was raped as character, Rey is unrealistic an OP, this first order/last order shit realy burns eyes... Personaly i only like pre disney material..

[@reedcoffman3210]

multikings20 and most people hated dark empire but of course disney had to copy one of the most controversial legends trilogy

[@ivanvidakovic9222]

@@reedcoffman3210 yeah and even dark empire looked like masterpice compered with what we got (at least luke was not green milk drinking hermit who is beaten by every characther in sequals)

[@s4m_1223]

Palpatine: Call an ambulance! *But not for me!* 😈⚡⚡⚡

[@rutimctuti4143]

YEET

[@pyeitme508]

More like almost yeeted.

[@fulcrum5045]

Alan. Shirts. Bare chests are distracting. Did you learn nothing from Ben Swolo?

[@falafeldurum2095]

why don't you guys switch the channel name to Star Wars tech? There's a whole bunch off stuff going on with Star Trek but you guys don't do ANY videos about it...

[@bradyfletcher4191]

You know why ??? BECAUSE STAR TREK IS SHIT

[@mr_h831]

First the emperor isn't benevolent, he's obviously evil, and im getting really tired of those jokes because some people actually take them seriously. Secondly, is this legends or canon?

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

First story is Legends, the last one is Canon

[@someguy-bv3il]

I walked into an empty room and found everything that the emperor did wrong

[@lamaahruloma4270]

Each time I hear the pronounciation of STAUFFENBERG, I feel an urge to correct it. Sorry.

[@earnestbrown6524]

He failed and died a traitor's death.

[@DeepestOfNutts]

Gentis was a homosexual

[@Comrade2261]

Gentis was 100% a traitor. Long live The Emperor!