10 Highest Casualty Battles | Galactic Empire Military 

Hawkeye Pierce: "war is war and hell is hell, and of the two, war is worse." Father Mulcahy: "why do you say that Hawkeye?" H.P: "who goes to hell father?" F.M: "sinners I believe" H.P: "right. There are no innocent bystanders in hell."

Listening to Imperial ship names always makes me wonder if any Imps in the navy had an "Are we the baddies?" moment. "Persecutor", "Devastator", "Ravager", etc...

We hear shots being fired on DS2 when Luke was pulling Vader as it was about to blow. As far as we know, there were no rebels on the station, aside from Lando who was blowing it up. That can only mean that in all the panic, the imperials were killing each other to get the chance to get of the station before it is destroyed.

Very impressive. Now do one for the Republic during Clone Wars. The Battle of Hypori was probably the Republic’s greatest defeat in either the canon or legends timelines. 99% casualties!

Anyone else find it ironic that the end of the 501st would come in a battle where their opponents were in part being commanded by Captain Rex, the original commander of the 501st?

Wish we had a Star Wars movie that just shows how terrible war is like from the view of a Rebel or Stormtrooper

I'm honestly getting a lot of WWI or WWII vibes in The Mimban Campaign. The battle looks so cinematic in the Solo movie, probably one of the best moments of the movie. I also really love the realistic appearance of the armor the Imperials were wearing in that battle.

As an imperial fan (not a die hard one, just like them) this deeply saddens me because just because they were shown as evil doesn't mean there weren't innocent ones among them...

I would honestly love to see how Lothal turned out, in the aftermath of the battle. I wonder if it became like a base of operations for the rebels, or did they keep Lothal neutral after the fact, so that the Empire wouldn't be encouraged to strike there again?

"Expended." That word perfectly encapsulates the real tragedy of war. Not lost. Not killed. Expended. A person who was born, who grew, who lived, and whose death is treated like a spent round of ammunition or an empty battery.

When I first watched Star Wars, I thought the Empire had been around for hundreds of years up until Yavin. I was surprised when it was just 19 years old up till then.

The Battle of Jakkut should be the focus of SW Squadrons 2. Edit: we were gonna have a few CW episodes focused in Mimbaan

Han solo wasn't "pressed into service" he volunteered for military service and subsequently was derelect from duty and went awol for cowardice. Leaving his brothers and sisters on the battlefield when they needed him most. See Solo:A Star Wars Story.

Mah boy Alan always turning up with the quality content ✌🏻✌🏻

Sadly though if the first DS hadn't been destroyed, there is nothing that would lead me to believe that trillions wouldn't have died in the hands of Tarkin.

What's kinda insane to me, is think about how many planets have been just wiped out in the ~7000 years of history that the Jedi and Sith have been at war. Between the Death Star, , Malachor V, Darth Nihilus, Vitiate's Rituals, Bane's thought bomb, and just all the other stuff. There's 104 articles on destroyed planets in both legends and canon on wookiepedia. There's gonna be like 5 habitable planets in the whole galaxy given another 7000 years. And to think, it all could have been avoided if the Jedi weren't self-righteous dickheads.

Operation Cinder was ostensibly to punish the Imperials for not protecting Palpatine. But I can't help but wonder if it's REAL purpose was to extinguish enough lifeforce to allow Palpatine to pull a Vitiate/Valkorian/Tenebrae and resurrect himself in another body.

Love how you use the same music for the first segment that Star Wars Theory uses for his outros. Makes everything interconnect. Someday, I hope for you guys to do a collab. Stay safe.

Damn, that was deeper than I expected.

I honestly want a star wars strategy game that gives a proper scale of the battles and lenght of the the empire era and stuff like it. Mods for star wars empire at war forces of corruption do a decent job of it but they can only do so much with it sadly...

That intro about war was actually incredibly insightful

That speech was deep and amazing

I would like some content from Disney showing what a galaxy that just went through 40 years of war would be like. Post empire would be a hard scrabble existence for everyone except for the most well off.

After listening to veterans describe their experiences with being involved in mass casualty events such as the fire bombing of Tokyo, how Luke Skywalker came to terms with the destruction of the Death Star would make a great story line particularly since he was in tune with the Force by that time. He seemed far more broken losing Kylo Ren to the Dark Side, which in itself could maybe be tied to those experiences. The way you describe it here not everyone on that Death Star was a ruthless Imperial killing machine; although the elites among those on board would have been in the upper ranks of the most ruthless and devout in the Imperial military I cannot help but think someone on board would have been questioning their faith in the Emperor by the destruction of Alderaan. It's a shame how so many of our celebrated heroes need to have psychopathic traits.

With everything going on in the world and how you have done personally about documenting said pain from war. I am surprised how well you handle these videos on the dark parts of a good distraction. Keep up the good work.

Such a story driven vibe with these vids lately. Keeps me coming back.

The delicious pancakes comment, followed by the picture of the corn cob was golden!

I wrote this battle in my fan fic as the " Battle of Hells " and I did research and I feel the name fitted Mimban and many other battles were rough, I wrote the Mimban battle as a " Victory" in the Clone Wars era where they decided to leave the area for other trooper units to take over then Communications were jammed for 10 years so the victory withdrawl orders never reached the troopers still on mimban and they kept on fighting with Jedi padawans

Imagine being at those battles

Can we have a moment of silence for our brothers

Please cover the Exosquad

Can you do a rebel alliance timeline type of thing where you go through the ups and many downs of the organization and how it evovled over time?

Twilight Company was such a good book

Great vid GenTech! Please do more on this topic.

I love generation tech, you're content is amazing.

This was an amazing vid! Thanks!

I find it interesting that before the Ukrainian invasion, GT generally had a jokingly positive view on the Empire, often describing them as somewhat heroic peacekeepers who fought against rebel terrorists. But since the invasion, GT has been harshly critical of what the Empire was: a facist authoritarian state that ruled through force and often exploited certain groups to benefit their urban elites. Don't think GT has it in them to joke about that anymore when they've seen first hand the effects of what the Empire would have caused if they were real.

Alan I absolutely love your narratives. Great job always!

we hear about the bad things the empire did, but we never hear about the trillions of people living good lives because of the empire.

Thanks for including the profound intro, there is more humanity and understanding in the intro to this Star Wars video than most world leaders these days

Seriously Alan, you are like the Ken Burns of Star Wars.

Nice content, and what about best moments for being a stormtrooper? Or best imperial battles?

Seeing those scenes from Solo makes me want a 100% on the ground dirty war movie set in Star Wars. Like just make the Battle of Jabiim a canon Star Wars movie.

There are some neat new elements in NuStar Wars. But only a few. Otherwise I'd rather just imagine that the EU stopped after the Thrawn Trilogy and affiliates. And that Disney Canon never existed.

Geeze that intro was deep, well said though and completely true

Loving the new intros Generation Tech

I just recently learned what "going over the top" originally meant. It is still unbelievable

8:00 “When the Death Star was destroyed, about half of the 501st were still in the hanger getting to their ships. Of those that made it out, another third got caught in the explosion. I’ve fought with some of those men for over twenty years.”~Journal of the 501st

"My friend here's trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when it was destroyed by the Rebels."

I love these types of videos keep it up! And am I the only one who noticed when he said delicious pancakes it showed corn on the cob?

Video Idea:All the galactic governments explained,their strength and weaknesses,greatest victories and losses,scale,overall strength and then which is the best

The opening words were true spoken..I KINDA STARTED GETTING TEARY EYED...FUCK .

Did you just absolutely destroy a dolphin with one slice damn nice swordsman skills

That quote at the beginning was powerful

that intro was deep man almost got me tearing up

First! Thanks so much for posting this!

Great opening!!!

Thank you.

Dang the empire has massive amounts of troops for fodder. The way he tells the story it's almost like it's really a part of history. Love this RU-vid channel 👍🏾👍🏾

I loved that Allen says "delicious pancakes" but shows corn. Must be a dolphin thing.

that intro was awesome

Please do a video like this on the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars!

Wonder what's with the anti-war and anti-empire themes as of late? What happened to glory and conquest

I rarely comment. But beautiful video my friend

Man, that intro hit me.

Jesus dude, I didn't need to cry today...

The start of this video really hit me especially with the way the world is right now.

This was the reason I became imperial fan to the core.

Great video, which lightsaber is that you have behind you?

cool video

Many people see the Imperials as the bad guys, and they are, but few people see that it was only a select group that were truly bad. It’s wonderful that you took the time to research and teach about these battles, and explain how many lives were lost.

This hook hit different

I wonder if you can make a list of 10 worst Rebel casualty battles?

So many good loyal imperial died for the Empire.

Galactic conflict in the Star Wars galaxy is destructive on an unimaginably horrific level.

Damn my guy this was some poetic shit right here

@generationtech ... what is that opening speech from? Did you write it? It's very eloquent and beautifully put.

In some early battles that were more grandiose, Darth Vader was actually at the forefront of some campaigns to extinguish all planetary insurgencies. However, these were more often core planets rather than outer planets like Minbon that were untamed and far away.

As a child I begin to love Star wars because it felt like a "lived-in universe" , the bolts on the ships were Rusty things were dirty, not the sterile clean world of many science fiction movies, this video is a testament to just how lived in it was, in reality war is hell and neither side completely innocent, brilliant video brother 🤘

The fact that it’s now specifically canon that Ewoks ate stormtroopers brings me great joy

needless to say I did what I could for research and these battles were brutal, only thing otherwise is I feel awful the Ukraine crisis hasn't ended peacefully yet I hope it will

Good speech man 😢

Star wars a lot of epic battles

Alan, have you ever wonder why there is no such thing as the Galactic Commonwealth in Star Wars? All I see are Republic, Empire and Confederacy. The Republic existed like three times already and the only reason the Republic survived for so long appeared to be because the Sith threaten the Republic time and time again, only to be defeated later by the Jedi and their Republic allies, which is what exactly strengthen the unity within the Republic and between the Republic itself and the Jedi Order as well.

This intro hithard

I’ve seen other Star Wars channels report that there was only 500,000 people on the original Death Star at the time it was destroyed and 2 million was the total capacity

My grandpa used to say about mourning the lose of fictional characters: "We mourn the people who aren't real, so we don't lose the people who are. Sometimes it's the hero who never was, that inspires the hero yet to be."

What's really sad is that the Rebels didn't even think of the possibly that there were innocents on the Death Star

Is Palpatine actually responsible for 3 galactic conflicts now since they made him the leader of the First Order as well?

Wow & first 🥇, wish for new Earth🌎🌍 in Star Wars in the future. Or other largest casualties compare to real wars on Earth?

I'd like to actually see a star *wars* movie, with very little if any involvement from force users. They're meant to be a rare thing, even at the start of the clone wars there's only 10,000 Jedi which really isn't a lot of people whilst the sith have the rule of two. Ofcourse you have inquisitors, but there's only like 15 of them. A gritty, brutal movie or series about an Infantryman fighting for the empire in a large scale campaign or even one about trying to fight insurgents in a backwater world would be really cool. Unlikely, but cool.

This was your best pronunciation ever, plus also maybe your most depressing video yet, If you replace the death of each person in this video with the joy of a mother giving birth it becomes more depressing, I was present when all my kids were born .... so yeah depressing.

never thought i was about to cry because the death star blew up.

“War never changes”

yo. THAT INTRO. WHY THE FFFF>>> YOU GOTTA DO ME DIRTY

I’d love to see one of these videos for separatists during the clone wars

Maybe a "Worst battles for the Rebel Alliance"?

I've said it for years I'll say it again, battles are so much more compelling from the eyes of the little man.

Honestly, taking out a 2-3 million souls with a few torpedoes is better than letting those 2-3 million souls obliterate planets worth billions of souls

What's that scene from in the beginning of the video, with an imperial TIE interceptor pilot just giving up and crashing into the water?