Battle of Endor - Galactic Civil War - Star Wars Lore DOCUMENTARY 

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I want translate the videos of the Channel to spanish

Thanks a bunch for airing this video. It made my day. Please don't let it be too long before you air you next Sci-Fi video. And also seriously consider doing a video series on the Star Trek Universe preferably "The War Against the Dominion" timeline. Now that would be great.

Great video! I look forward to more Star Wars!

@WizardsandWarriors May I see a complete Cannon and Legend Clone Wars timeline, please? Please also include plenty of space battles and more. I want to hear of Ahsoka Tano, too, please. I would appreciate a reply. Also, what is the music used in the conclusion of this video?

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in the Legends canon and some of the video games the Death Star continued to fire at the Rebel ships, but hit several Imperial ships in the process. After a while Moff Jejerrod (the official base commander) ordered the firing to stop for that reason.

Since the events of "A New Hope", the empire have been on increasingly shakey grounds.They needed to crush the rebels or else risk losing all.

@@randomusernameCallin they nearly succeeded at Hoth but the entire Rebel leadership escaped, which allowed them to get extra help from stronger allies including the Mon Calamari and various other groups like the Bothans became more willing to help. Post a New Hope the Rebels were scrambling to leave and had to lay low for the most part.

@@SantomPh After a New Hope, the rebels were able to perform larger actions and recover faster. More and more the Empire political power was being undermined. The Empire needed not just to defeat the rebels but wipe out the core of the alliance.

“It’s a trap!” - Admiral Ackbar, a few hours later

Manny Bothans died to bring us this information. RIP Manny, you brave soldier.

I will have the calamari- Mon Mothma. Well thank you! I will have the insensitive b*tch, with a side of f*ck you! -Admiral Ackbar.

They needed a second shot that’s one in a million.

Palpatine didn't understand LOVE. That's why he lost.

Personally, Scarif manages to be just a hair short of being neck to neck with Endor for me. A large part is because of how much of Endor is still impressive and beats out most space battles before and since then. Also, another reason is that it is Lando's big moment as his truest redemption. Not simply as him making up for his actions in ESB, but redeeming the person he always was but failed to be then: Lando Calrissian, the legendary gambler. Played it safe and lost everything. Took three high risks here and all paid off handsomely.

@@reyonXIII bear in mind that Endor has been touched up, in terms of sfx, a few times since the original release

@@reyonXIII Meanwhile, Wedge runs thru the whole battle, once again takes the trench/tunnel, delivers part of the killing blow... and I'll bet he didn't get a medal this time either.

No V-wings though. Smh.

​@@tigertank06 The Legends V-Wing or the Republic one?

oh how the mighty have fallen

That was the 501st? I thought the ewoks in general were some of the worst characters in general scifi. Their idiotic stick fighting pretty much killed any joy derived from the theater movies. C3PO, that floppy eared dingbat, and hamill portraying a masculine hero role also helped detract as well. Thank God for fan films and channels like this, because in general, the complex storyline is fantastic.

It all boils down to the fact that the Empire was founded on the power of the Dark Side, thus doomed from the start.

Everything proceeded as the Emperor foresaw. He had seen his death at Vader's hand and knew he would rise again. He even knew that he would die at the hands of Rey in the next trilogy. His plans perfectly played out in such a way that not even his true master, Darth Jar Jar, could have predicted.

It should also be noted that had Admiral Piett being allowed to engage the Rebel armada from the get go then the Imperial Fleet would have made short work of the Alliance's ships and crushed them. Had Palpatine not ordered him to just sit there and in so lose the initiative, this could have turned out to be a decisive victory for the Empire. Goes to show that Palpatine was his own worse enemy.

@@barbiquearea Or maybe you just can't understand the brilliance of his plans. Something.. something.. dark side.

The Endor trap was poorly researched. It failed because Palpatine never considered that the Rebels (and Anakin's children specifically) could bring skilled and warlike stone-age indigenes into their Alliance. That's sloppy prep.

As Luke said to Palpatine: "Your overconfidence is your weakness"

⁠@@Darkdaej”You’re faith in your friends is yours”

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although Jabba passed out after being choked, the destruction of the sail barge confirmed his death. A slug like creature like a Hutt hardly has a neck to choke or breathe, when you think about it

I hope Leia became his slave for the rest of her life

@@direkramseychikboy9102 no, but she was his slave for the rest of _his_ life. That just wasn't very long.

Jabba died in a bondage episode.😂

let them take their time. There are plenty of RU-vid videos on the Clone Wars' history.

I completely agree with you on that because I would like to see them do the battle of geonosis and also the stuff that happened before the phantom menace.

@@chasechristophermurraydola9314 I completely agree, especially when the galactic senate wasn't effective at all.

Great video but think you missed out some ships. A Barrack cruiser was there as well, its shown briefly in the film and z-95 head hunter fights was used. A escort ship was also there.

A video on the Clone Wars would be awesome, though thanks to the 2008 show, I think the war has already been covered excellently. Geonosis, Kamino, Anaxes, and Coruscant being some of the most significant battles.

That would involve better, more complex plots that cannot be handled in a 2 hour film.

I think the dark side has a Freudian obsession with giant balls and symbolic phallic objects... As do di many power trippers

@@rahowherox1177 , I think you're reading too far into it...

I agree, as did many Imperials. Thrawn was very concerned about lack of security during DS1’s construction. Another Grand Admiral (Savit) was equally concerned, realising that the station couldn’t operate indefinitely and that it was inevitable someone would eventually work out how to destroy it.

The empire is a giant bureaucracy where intimation and thinking outside the box is not exactly encouraged or rewarded

Even he wouldn't have been immune to the Emperor's death and the sudden Battle Meditation cut off that's the reason everything fell apart after he died.

Long post is long, sorry in advance. I can't help myself. See, I don't see the battle proceeding *much* differently for the most part until after the DS2 is destroyed. In the old canon, the Emperor's Battle Meditation wore off and all of the admirals suddenly lost all competence and the battle plan fell apart until Pellaeon gave the general retreat. New canon, the chain of command falls apart, Admiral Sloane sounds the general retreat immediately, and several Imperials follow orders. For the battle itself, the Emperor's orders overrode GA Thrawn's, and the Emperor wanted to really drive home the hopelessness of the situation. Thrawn would have allowed the Star Destroyers to engage the Rebels, rather than simply sit around and do nothing while the superlaser was fired, but that would have been mostly irreconcilable to the Emperor's plans. So we must assume the battle plan is still for the DS2 to power up and kablooey the Calamari, and that the first stage of the battle proceeds the same, until Calrissian and Ackbar engage the SDs directly. Also, bear in mind, Thrawn was a Grand ADMIRAL, meaning his expertise was in space battles, and thus the ground battle would likely have remained the same, so let's assume it does. Solo's team destroys the Shield Generator and the DS2 is still rendered vulnerable. The initial setup was excellent. Bait the rebels in, then slam the door shut on them. However, the Interdictor SDs at Endor were concentrated within the fleet, so escape was an option. IIRC the DS2 had gravity well projectors of its own, which would force all starships to fly out of range before they could jump. Snub fighters could easily escape, but the DS2 and ISDs would pick off capital ships while they fled, decimating the force. I believe this was the idea. Make the Rebels abandon all hope, decimate, and escape. Thrawn would have stationed the Interdictors with guards at key points to make sure that escape wasn't an option at all and the DS2 could pick all capital ships off, not just a few. He also likely would have kept TIE squadrons ready aboard the DS2 in case of shield failure and would have scrambled them around the DS2's entry points once the shield went down because the Empire deliberately left the weaknesses vulnerable to allow the Rebels to believe in the possibility of victory, under the assumption that the shield generator wouldn't fall. Remember, no TIE-Defenders, that program got shut down in favor of the DS1. I think the Rebels still would have destroyed the DS2, mainly due to the Emperor's own bait proving to be his downfall. Calrissian and Rogue Squadron were too good of pilots to be taken down by average TIE pilots, no matter how well-positioned. However, once the Emperor was dead and GA Thrawn took over leading all naval forces, I do believe he would have leveraged his numerical superiority and found a way to salvage a tactical victory from the battle in spite of the destruction of the DS2. And because the Rebels have essentially brought *everything*, this major pyrrhic victory is ultimately a decisive victory for the Empire against the Rebel Alliance, but with so many resources having been lost with the destruction of DS2, the Empire is still left in an extremely vulnerable state, meaning other rebellions and factions can arise to fracture it even further (which is what happened in the old canon). And especially once Operation Cinder gets launched, those rebellions will start popping up all over the place.

Piett and Sloane were competent fleet commanders. However at Endor they were specifically instructed not to immediately destroy the Rebels, because the Emperor wanted them destroyed in a very specific way. The reason Piett didn’t destroy the Rebels in a naval engagement has nothing to do with his ability as an admiral and everything to do with his orders. So if Thrawn was in command, he would have been ordered not to engage the Rebels as well. Thrawn then would have been killed when the Executor went down, just as Piett was. The reason the Imperials lost the battle because was because Palpatine strictly ordered them not to engage the Rebel fleet when it came out of hyperspace and got them to fight defensively just so he could play whack a mole with his new toy and make Luke agitated.

@@raetekusu1 Or, Thrawn would've repeated his tactics over Lothal, and had a few hundred TIEs sitting in close proximity to the DS2 (under the shield); if the shield goes down, their whole job is to intercept any approaching fighters or ordinance. The TIEs in the battle had to react and give chase- facing a few wings coming at them as well would've put the Rebels in a very dicey position.

He was a genius, it would have been a disaster almost certainly.

I wish they did more content of unknown wars

I wish they did events of the clone wars.

@@chasechristophermurraydola9314I wish they did events of the prequels

@@nursestoyland that’s what I am saying.

@@chasechristophermurraydola9314 oh I thought u meant the tv show

I was there too back in the day, were you the pilot who took out that tie interceptor chasing me under the belly of the executor?

Don't listen to this channel. It's rebel propaganda I tell you!

Mon Mothma herself didn't join the fleet, jumping to a different location after making a speech.

@@SantomPh I never said she did lol but yes

And frankly, it depends on which source you want to believe; do you go with the "official Disney canon"? Legends/EU? The novelization? The movie? Cuz they each claim significantly different fleet compositions

@@Sephiroth144 , Do the movies even claim how big the fleets are? By my count there were over 30 Imperial Star Destroyers present... but I could barely count more than 20 Rebel Ships... and by ships I mean, everything larger than the Falcon...

Gets even more gnarly in the old EU. Imperial civil wars resulting in fully on Alexandrian successor states that had to be systematically dismantled by the New Republic over a period of ten years. Contrast that to the Disney universe in which the ENTIRE EMPIRE is gone within ONE friggin year.

there are still people like Moff Gideon around, it's just that Sloane managed to rally everyone to Jakku and then there was the purge at Akiva. There wasn't an Imperial Remnant anymore but there were still pockets of Imp power here and there holding out until the First Order.

@@Schniedragon88 Thrawn's Revenge is based on the EU, FYI

@@SantomPh Don’t forget that Admiral Thrawn is still lurking.

@@Schniedragon88 I'll never understand why Disney did that.

Does that make the Falcon, USS Johnston?

@@Fuse1990and the Executor (or the DS2) Yamato?

@@nursestoyland the executor as Yamato makes sense when you consider DS2 could be the Philippines

@@Fuse1990 or Endor itself

Lol

Yeah, we want to see the Clone Wars

Those annoying ankle biters ruined the movie for me. Turned what could have been an epic film into a mockery.

The 50st getting wacked by stick wielding ankle biters ruined it for me.

@@ronjon7942 That is what happens when you underestimate an enemy to your cost. For which the buck stops with Sidious as had he listed to Thrawn in choice of one and his advice how to many the shield generator impregnable. Could have avoided such a humiliating defeat.

He accidentally put the Liberties upside-down