The Evolution of Starship Design | Star Wars Documentary

[@dontworry2379]

Alan: “today we have a pretty massive video” Me who just finished watching 10 hours of generation tech Star Wars lore:

[@RiotPanda19]

You know what else is massive?

[@mugilanjoorindanjn7500]

@RiotPanda19 your mom?

[@AmelityshTV]

*_It's Generation Tech time_*

[@Stickanimatess]

Love that

[@Wintermute909]

I believe its usually right after "Hammer Time!", cos..... You Can't Touch this!

[@samthebeef]

I love when the Generation Tech guy says that!

[@drew-horst]

Yeah and then he teched all over the place, my favorite

[@AmelityshTV]

@@drew-horst When he Generation in my Tech

[@jeremiahlowe3268]

This is what every Star Wars director needs to see. Don't let them leave, until the video is over.

[@brenchyalowicois6748]

Is it worth watching? Or is it just filler mostly?

[@art-games6230]

@@brenchyalowicois6748it’s fully worth it.

[@The_Caledonian]

starships and fighters arent the problem with star wars though lmao

[@17mindgate]

Seconded.

[@HAMMER-DOWN-NU7]

Perfect to listen to while hungover

[@playboig4696]

Currently hungover and i agree 🤣

[@matthewallen978]

currently hungover and i agree... wait... im stil drunk...

[@playboig4696]

@@matthewallen978 wait im drinking now💀💀 and hopped back on the vid

[@denen404]

enough drinks to make me sleepy.....it is indeed perfect....no promises on making it through the vid though its time to lay down with headphones on rofl

[@MBSill]

Dude! Alan! Your "pretty massive" videos are so much fun! Just like a history documentary! I LOVE it!!

[@RiotPanda19]

You know what else is massive?

[@reclaimatorerebus6531]

Amusing that in the Empire at War mods (since these made the big ships much more available versus the main game), dropping a Star Dreadnought in was a near automatic win again anything other than another Star Dreadnought. To some extent, this shows the limits of a closed map - the slow maneuverability of a Dreadnought is not as big a deal when the map size is limited, but it was actually still possible to take out a even an Executor or even an Eclipse with something like Strike Cruisers warping in behind hit. It would still be expensive in terms of losses, but you'd still spend a lot less than the Dreadnought you killed. More interestingly for me, it showed the effectiveness of Dreadnoughts when hitting slow or static targets. Using a scout unit, then warping in a SSD onto of a space station, or even a more robust support fleet, was super effective. In general, I don't know how much this applies to planetary defense (modern and future), but when it comes to space, ships that can give out and take a massive beating come into their own when the enemy can no longer retreat, and have to take a stand to defend a planet. Drop a SSD on them, and unless they have their own, this becomes an immediate problem. Per the point of this portion of the video, I think it shows that you don't want a ton of Dreadnoughts, at least in a more mobile war, but a solid course of the vessels to deploy as needed can be invaluable.

[@thieupham493]

Well some Rebel genius will probably develop a Cyber Truck Wing that can fly through shields at hyper speed and just take out a dreadnought.

[@nicholaseedy3244]

Not a bad long format video for Saturday morning coffee. Thanks

[@epicclaww8030]

Goated Star Wars Lore KZbinr

[@dogdog4386]

Bro must have gotten a bactca tank he is spitting out videos lately.

[@TitusSmith-i6r]

Go, Allen, go!!!!📣🍻🥂🍺

[@BrotherFoxx57]

I'm so glad that Alan makes his videos without getting involved with the rude debates a lot of the other analysts get involved in. Thank you for making your lore videos I love exploring the Galaxy Far Far Away

[@doomsdaySephiroth]

Thank you for mentioning the Harrower-class dreadnoughts of the Old Republic era

[@Velatus5978]

Just a bit sad the Valor class wasn’t mentioned as it was an interesting very different design made to go against the harrower.

[@doomsdaySephiroth]

@Velatus5978 The Valor class wasn't mentioned, but it's a very drab design, even if it is a versatile and useful one. Plus, we've seen it plenty of times in the og trilogy and in SWTOR.

[@thieupham493]

He forgot the Cyber Truck class destroyer.

[@doomsdaySephiroth]

@thieupham493 that doesn't exist in Star Wars. What you're looking at was a Hammerhead Corvette, the Sphyna-class Hammerhead Corvette, which was the Clone War era corvette version of the Hammerhead-class battle cruiser.

[@ThunderingVids]

Allen got that Cat security;no sneaky Ewoks will get his ass ambushed :D

[@kelvere1660]

it's videos like these where i wish Gen Tech would upload it on Spotify labelled as a podcast, one of the few channels where i enjoy the content far more often than i don't

[@williejack4842]

show me more of the cat in the background!!!

[@Xis-ql5pj]

Yup. Any KZbinr that has a cat in the scenery instantly gets put in the shadows

[@TitusSmith-i6r]

Your videos rule!!!!

[@TitusSmith-i6r]

I 🧡💛 Generation Tech

[@gomahklawm4446]

Same, when he leaves politics and geopolitics out of his videos.

[@justinwainwright5069]

​@@gomahklawm4446he can express his views however he wants. He just happens to be more interested in the politics of the Star Wars galaxy and at times how they relate to our own, than what the magic laser sword welding monks are up to.

[@Wintermute909]

Have any fans managed find a believable explaination for the weird time scales in SW? (ie the way a single company can last for 25,000 years, and technology barely develops at all for 10's of thousands of years and then all of a sudden it accelerates for around a century, and then randomly stagnates for another few millennia.) Tbh I think Lucas didn't really grasp the vast time scale and the vast populations.

[@ChiefBret]

I think I've seen a video about that where there was some kind of lore explanation about it being technology kind of evolving in cycles or something. But yeah in reality I think it was just wanting to explore different times, but keeping the same star wars looks/tech, so they just kept similar ships and technology.

[@SomeTheorist9090]

Can you explain how humans millions of years walked? Then, for thousands of years, only uses horses.... Then, they had a jump of using cars and other technology over about 100 years. Then, after WW3, in 2027, went back to horses and walking?

[@josephedmond3723]

​@SomeTheorist9090 Yeah, I think the thing about high tech is that it's high maintenance. Modern smart weapons need specialized technology and people to build them where as a spear will always have the relative effectiveness of a spear. There comes a point where people just say "if it ain't broke don't fix it." I'm sure that logic applies in the Star Wars universe.

[@papapalps2415]

Because SW doesn't actually develop technologically in any real or meaningful ways bar niche or minute improvements; they more or less reached their apex or zenith thousands of years ago, at least so far as they are concerned. And that's perfectly fine; trying to pretend like as if the RL technological advancement we have been experiencing for the past hundred or 2 hundred years is the norm, even in fictional universe's, or is even sustainable FORRAAVAHH, is delusional.

[@thieupham493]

Not every company can be a Tesla, willing to sacrifice a few bags of mostly water to advance quickly, some companies like making wheels that wears our fast so they can invest once and just collect profit for 25,000 years.

[@donmcbongo4617]

so basically triangles are the golden ratio of starwars ships

[@Uberdude6666]

Its interesting how the scale of government and empires increases alongside it. A great empire in the beginning of the period was like, 30 ystems. By the Clone Wars, galactic government has consolidated to the point where "10 000 systems" are considered a relatively grounded number

[@CraigPayne-o8u]

I have always loved your videos since i first saw one and i am loving your hard work and passion you have for it. Please never stop or give up this brilliant channel.

[@nerdwatch1017]

If I was going to spend the credits to make multiple SSD I’d design these ships to be able to dock up to 6 SD so if there damaged then the massive ship can carry all the materials needed to repair a fleet of SD. Also this SSD used as ships to go into newly mapped systems in unknown space and can carry enough supplies for the crew on my ship but also able to restock my fleet. That’s definitely one good thing for the First Order and there massive SSDN able to act as a movable base of operations and able to build SD and any other ships they needed.

[@isaackim7675]

While the Last Jedi destroyed the potential of the sequels trilogy, that ship was a smart design

[@johannesbowers7467]

Mon Mothma: " We cannot crew it " Talon Karrde: "Hold my 🍺, and my dice." Why scrap it? Why subsidize it? Saddle the bill for upkeep to the private sector! There is ANOTHER Y-Wing variant, used by Princess Leia as a personal Courier vessel, much larger than the starfighter, with internal cabins and a commuter aircraft style side access stair. Featured in Marvel comic's "The Last Jedi" (no relation) adventure. Basically the princess' Space Learjet for diplomatic and espionage missions. Of the Xwing series I still reserve love for the T-65:XJA (Jedi Advanced) upgrade of Legends fame and the Shadow Fighters. The only good things to come out of the Vong War.

[@ChrisFerguson-zm4gt]

Compared to disney wars the vong war was Shakespeare

[@waz207]

While I love the typical 15ish minute video, I enjoy the occasional 1 hour+ ones as well to have on in the background.

[@gabrielho1874]

I was learning about Jin roh and how the front focus armour, as well as inspirating fear, has only frontal protection to emphasize teamwork to cover their backs. Somehow this reminds me of the star destroyer, where the only way to protect the capital ship was to co-ordinate the fighter cover or have a ship in the back to deter larger ships from targeting the exposed engines. Just a thought.

[@williamshakesbeer4163]

Hey Generation tech. Have you ever played Stellaris? I think that a video comparing the power level, ships, and weapons of Stellaris and Star Wars could be really interesting to watch. As always a good video my friend.

[@Sephiroth144]

Thank you for all this juicy info!

[@Gaverny]

Allen we love you. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@dustybunny6716]

I always wondered about this. Was there no way to give the Astromech droid on the Y-Wing and ARC-170 control of the turrets?

[@stuglife5514]

Yes that was always a thing, but more of a back up. Astromechs are busy optimizing all your subsystems. So if your gunner is say, incapacitated, yes the Astro mech can take over, but it wasn’t their primary job. Now, on layer Y wings the cut out the human gunner and only used an atromech for that, which started with rebel modified Y wings

[@desperado8605]

Always a great way to get ready for Saturday finally got to watch this

[@Dinocore193]

Best channel to watch while eating

[@Tony-rn5fm]

more about the dreadnought heavy cruiser

[@Anon33467]

I feel like the wrong lesson has been learned here. It's not that smaller ships are better, it's that no amount of actual armor can compete with plot armor. If the plot requires you to lose, no amount of size and power can help you.

[@nigelrock6439]

Thanks Alan great video 😅

[@bigsarge2085]

Impractical, perhaps, but Super Star Destroyers are the coolest thing!

[@Vid3o_1diot]

More practical than a death star

[@111tykatypka]

@@Vid3o_1diot even just default star destroyers were more practical, five to ten of them can turn a planet into sand for short time

[@ComfortsSpecter]

… Thank You God Bless Allen; He is actively Living in Star Wars Making actually Good content and almost all in Medium to Long video length Incredible Good work Wonderful Vibe

[@dylannavarro1902]

Good to see you back on Naboo it’s a nice change of pace compared to coruscant

[@Wintermute909]

I always wonder why x-wings are called snub fighters when it has an enormously long nose.

[@Obi-WanKepnobi]

Alan, why the Christmas tree if this video was uploaded in September? Also, spectacular content as always. You are the only KZbinr I will stay up till 3 am watching.

[@isaackim7675]

It’s a sad shame that the Empire discontinued the Venator. Just imagine how many TIEs you could fill in

[@fakshen1973]

The dialog sounds much better today.

[@playboig4696]

My boy sean kingston🙌🏾 a man of culture i see ✊🏾

[@ShibuwuF7]

I love these 😌

[@BeyondtheRailz]

With the Rebel Alliance have such a shortage of man power and equipment, they really should have looked into possibly having a droid army to supplement their shortcomings if they had the resources. If so, they would benefited the most for having Separatist Materials.

[@StoriesByDighe]

Optics I think. They were already being painted as leftover separatists. At least a couple of rebel cells used droids, but they were hard to get fired up factories without supply chains.

[@runswithphantoms]

🤤 *nerdgyaat* activated by that thumbnail of the ISSD Executor! My favorite ship!

[@vanblattenberger]

KITTY in the background at the beggining

[@definitlyEgirl-safetf2]

Bro i singlehandedly carrying all of Star wars lore and worldbuilding

[@JediSentinal]

Not singlehandedly but there aren't many good ones left

[@jeffk862]

Nah geetsly and Eckharts Ladder are both sick too. Need these loremasters though

[@definitlyEgirl-safetf2]

@@jeffk862 thanks for the recommendation :) i'll check em out

[@wojtek561]

@@definitlyEgirl-safetf2 Corey's datapad, lore channel of the creator of Thrawn revenge mod is also great.

[@willadeefriesland5107]

The dreadnought part got me wondering... what kind of 'man hours' were involved on making even the smallest of these? What labor saving technical advantages were there in comparison to making Earth's largest 'wet navy' ships... the aircraft carriers? Is there an existing video answering these questions?

[@gomahklawm4446]

What "dry navy" ships do we have? Naval aircraft are.....aircraft.

[@moroguin1331]

9:17 bro thought we will let it slide with a baseball game

[@djloading]

need you to make a star wars game, maybe a spy game with politics. I'm tired of what we've been given besides cal kestis we deserve better

[@gomahklawm4446]

Star Wars politics? Sure. USA politics need left out entirely!!!! That's exactly what is ruining Star Wars.

[@obinutkonobi1407]

This is where the fun begins

[@brucebrannon7251]

Hi Allen I'm Bruce from Tampa Florida and I truly love all of your videos my brother. And I hope that you do a video on Death Vader star destroy and why it was so big

[@killingragethrowback]

The way Palpatine love building big... he was clearly compensating for something. 😁

[@MikhailUlyanovv]

A Christmas tree in late August? Who is this guy?

[@pkscolax9480]

Southern hemisphere gets winter early, not bad for a Star Wars themed bunker keeping an ear (or cat ears) out for Imp walkers.

[@WarLightning042]

​@@pkscolax9480why'd you put "(or cat ears)" is it a stereotype to be a furry if you like star wars

[@masteryoma5350]

Who in charge of the continuity of these there all over the place with different shirts and lighting

[@BennyFromFalloutNewVegas]

Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

[@Neoth40k]

Not you again, Benny.

[@asabovesobelow5683]

life as well.

[@theangrygermanlad1328]

“Benny you checkered fuck I will get back my chip!”

[@RamsHeadRepair]

You better mosey on out of here partner

[@kiplingslastcat]

Is Allen just a couch surfing bum that goes from place to place making videos? My hero.

[@Xis-ql5pj]

I'm surprised Disney/star wars division hasn't contacted Alan to be an advisor for future series

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Well, the First Order HQ was amazing in of itself.

[@birdtrap12]

this is the contnet i come to yt for

[@dylannavarro1902]

I want me some porg bacon!!! Take my money!!!

[@Stickanimatess]

Hiya

[@lightcloud1835]

The term dreafnaught comes from the HMS Dreadnaught (which when you look at the name means fear not, what it’s supposed to make its allies do). It was a battleship

[@stuglife5514]

Yea but it was a new class of ship when she came out basically, the “all big gun ship”, as the ships that came before her are known as “pre dreadnaughts” and her era of ships are known as “dreadnaughts”

[@stuglife5514]

Battleship is less of a type of ship, and more of the era/role the ship played. When most navies had predreadnaught battleships, and you had a fleet of dreadnaught battleships, that was a massive advantage. Dreadnaughts were larger then any other battleships, and more powerful by extension. Then you have super dreadnaughts, absolute behemoths…but yea, battleship is a very lose term. It’s like saying “customer service” when in the role of customer service you could be a cashier, operating a phone line, etc. the term battleship is more like a family of classes of ships.

[@Nightguardian]

The video compares the TIE fighter to the Japanese Zero. Consider, perhaps, a comparison with the Messerschmidt Me163 Komet. The Komet was a short range rocket powered interceptor with a hugely powerful engine but not much else. The wheels fell away from it as it took off and it landed on skids. Like with the TIE fighter's utilization of solar panels to power its electronics, the Komet utilized a little wind turbine to power its panel. Could the Me163 have been the inspiration for the TIE?

[@markgrehan3726]

Imperial shipbuilders really need to work on the placement and power of their ships' shields whilst their Captains need to space the hell out.

[@philjohnson1744]

Dreadnought? Good thing there were no guided munitions

[@dbyrd92]

I swear every intro I hear “Welcome back to Generation Tech Money” before your name is actually said lol

[@thekaxmax]

Dreadnought: a battleship where all the armaments are the biggest that can be fitted, and all the same--so it's a subset of battleship. There are anti-fighter defences, but the big guns are all identical. This is the historical designation, anyway.

[@smartass0124]

What was the Keminowins life span . Maybe the clones had similar life times

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

You are a goddamn beast.

[@jerryedwards6777]

You should do a video on the ssd imperium

[@maxwellyates7085]

We actually do know a bit about the T-85 because it showed up in that one animated sequel Star wars show no one watch if you are curious about it go watch ec Henry's video where he redesigns it for live action its pretty cool

[@aydenwh1te7629]

Alphabet Squadron is just Disney-fied Wraith Squadron

[@gomahklawm4446]

Yep, gross name....

[@evil_new4997]

9:18 wth why baseball

[@nikiong66]

That's a really big cat in the background in the intro..

[@totalycensored]

why was there just a baseball game in the video?

[@ihn-90]

I gonna grab some *choccy milk*

[@nerramedivh3563]

Aww, I kinda miss all the beautiful creations from EU 😮

[@gabrielho1874]

9:05 "invincible-class" So, out of the ships that saw combat, how many destroyed

[@Aichi1138]

Something i've kind of wondered, is there any in universe reason why the A-wing isnt known as the Aurek-wing? Or the X wing the Xesh-wing?

[@blu_j_1977]

I keep hearing “Procreator Class” instead of “Procurator Class.” I need help

[@lordMartiya]

Where did the idea that the wedge shaped ship was originally a Sith idea? The earliest I know of is the Interdictor-class cruiser and it's a Republic design, and so is the immediately following Centurion-class battlecruiser. If anything, it was the True Sith Empire that stole the idea from the Republic after seeing Revan's Interdictors and Centurions. And with practical reason beyond their usual perversion of Republic symbols (like the later Star Destroyers and Mandator-class dreadnoughts, those were Republic designs that Sidious' Empire co-opted), if the Republic had trounced the First Sith Empire in space then why not copy their designs?

[@KnightInAChest]

For a second I thought the thumbnail was that of a Channeled Nail

[@BackyardShenanigansYT]

I have a quick question, how did the ds move? There are no visible engines and where is the hyperdrive?

[@vansocks84]

oh yeah

[@skedran]

Heck yea

[@Psub950]

Please make a video on 200 First Order Stormtroopers vs 200 Clone Troopers

[@cerboris521]

Dreadnoughts only have guns. No aircraft or infantry. Just lots of firepower.

[@georgehilty3561]

god i HATE those stupid star fortresses. they were supposedly dropping gravity bombs...in space! which makes 0 sense!

[@johnrion3232]

In the end, we’re all just chalk lines on the concrete

[@MrSheckstr]

As a Steve…… how did he know i was on my way to work using public trans?

[@GenerationTech]

We spend a lot of money on our Steve intel

[@natedorney7032]

So what I'm getting from all I've heard about the rusan reformation is that is was more or less the old republic equivalent of the washington naval treaties following the end of the first world war.

[@Kilgorio]

Wow

[@dizehjvegnomis]

woooohooooooooo

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I mean even explosive decompression won't immediately kill you

[@thetallgrass]

yessssss

[@lucaskiryucis]

Legal

[@DarthVages]

👍

[@TheBitterSarcasmOfMs.Anthropy]

Im disappointed that sentient beings have not grown out of empires and Capitalism phase. 50000 years and still acting like petulant children!

[@StoriesByDighe]

"it's easier to imagine the end of the world, before the end of capitalism"

[@AskariHodari-b2o]

This explains how people can talk about Jesus as if he was real, cause nothing in Star Wars is real. But you wouldn't be able to tell how he explains it.