Cargo Raid - A Star Wars: Remnant Fan Film 

The rebels are one of the best pilots in the galaxy

I'm new to this channel but dam it is fantastic looks so cool

If someone told me these were Ireland models from 1983 I would believe them. Not even the new movies are that polished

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@James Gallarelli Wait, which ship?

True, but if they knew an ISD was going to show up, what was the point? The loss of a few fighters and the need to repair some cargo haulers is barely noticeable for an organization as vast as The Empire. The Rebels lost a couple of precious fighters, which they desperately need and can't afford to waste.

The only reason would be that the Rebels have someone on one of the Gozantis. And the empire wouldn't look at someone who had been on an attacked ship

Possible explanations: a) A feint designed to draw away the Imperial cruiser from its post. b) The Gazontis held supplies for which delaying their arrival was mission critical in and of itself. c) The Rebels DID want to board/capture, but got word of the cruiser just in time. d) An inexperienced, overconfident, or glory-seeking Rebel commander chose to risk engaging with a real sense of tactical advantage but less regard for losses in the big picture. e) Getting a sense of the Imperial response time was mission-critical and they jumped out the literal first second they had a reading on an approaching ship. I’ve seen a few TV shows seem to indicate one can detect ships approaching with about 5 seconds advance notice, especially if you are expecting them. My wacky theory is that this is the time-dilation as the ship drops below E, arrives back in realspace, and faces realspace physics. It actually takes 3-6 seconds, which to the rapidly-decelerating pilots feels like only a second or so. f) Maybe, maybe your premise is off. I saw the rebels lose only 1 A-Wing against 8 TIEs and crippling, for a while, 2 Gazontis. That seems a lot like many successful guérilla ambushes in military history. The rebels were terribly outgunned in large, full-on warships but the Empire was deeply unpopular. Not counting fighters, the totality of ALL resistance to their rule may have meant that rebels of any and every stripe totaled a LARGER total number of ships - albeit smaller, less sophisticated, and less unified command to start.

Conner Clark all very good points! This story could go in many directions from here. I felt like the cargo was fragile, and now it’s too damaged to use. They didn’t completely destroy their objectives, but they did shoot through the roof and destroy the cargo. And they had some knowledge of when this meeting was to take place, and got there first, knowing the big ship would show up, they hit and run. Or perhaps the cargo ships sent out a distress call as soon as they attacked, and seeing this distress call go out, they knew about how much time they had. Short films like this are great! As they allow the imagination to work, and let each viewer write their own story. Maybe the rebels had a Jedi amongst them, who sensed through the force that the cruiser was coming?! Even more thrilling.

@@connerclark3678 A, B and C

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Farseer Animation and also sound design. I’ve noticed that the turret sounds are all the same for the bigger ships, and their needs to be the feeling of velocity form the Tie Fighters and A wing. The sound is great in this, but it sounds too, um, not flat, but simple. Their isn’t depth to it, Edit: you can tell what I mean. When the ships exit out of hyper space, it’s as if you can feel the force, but when they’re flying, it takes you out of immersion.

The explosions on FarSeer do look really nice, which is interesting to me because I don't know alot about animation but the overall resolution on FarSeer looks like it's more old school or less res, like it's for PlayStation 2 or something. But the explosions always look really good.

I'm happy yall watch eachother's work and help eachother out on things like that

@@_vasty3776 "Science Fiction" mean anything to you?

@@_vasty3776 Actually it can if there is a leak of oxygen from the ship. It would probably look different though.

A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one

kingofmonsters14 you mean the incursor class?

Trey Stephens so rogue on, clone wars, rebels, the mandalorian, BF2 and squadrons is all shit is it??

Trey Stephens wow....

@Trey Stephens i disagree but this is a funny metaphor

They were called Hit and Fade strikes in many EU books.

@Piotr Walczak Oxygen leaking from the internal atmosphere of the ship...it's a pretty common thing in official Star Wars space battles

1:35 I saw it. But I also see the passion inthis project. Good work!

LMAO

Hate to be that guy but it isn't a Star Destroyer.

@@geekiusmaximus1882 it is, it’s just the original concept design for one.

@@aresthecrazy9335 Yeah I know but EC Henry made that 3-D model and called it the "Incursor Class Cruiser" Too small to be a Star Destroyer.

@@geekiusmaximus1882 did not know that part, thank you for correcting me.

Also noticed that the guided missile corvettes aren't shooting guided missiles!

A-Wings are that small. If you watch the hangar scene on Home One in Return of the Jedi you will see an A-Wing sitting near the Falcon and a Y-Wing, they really are tiny.

Not quite. There's alot of little details that you notice that don't match what you'd expect from a AAA production (or a fan production that is AAA quality, like Astartes). It looks very good for the most part though.

Lmao the joke that thats the original special effects used in the original film

until the fire at 2:02 that shit just looked wonky

This is Ryan's work, not mine. I did the gunships, thats all

Man, will we ever see the Yuuzhan Vong war be translated into a film or series?

Heh...the aforementioned authors won't be working for Disney (anytime soon) for the same reason those A-wing pilots kicked Imperial ass...there wasn't a single Gender Studies graduate / diversity hire amongst them. 😏

@@ironwolfF1 Thank You 🙏 for answer! To be honest, such things like genders and diversity, very unavoidable nowadays have become too toxic, and annoying(at least for me), so that’s why the new Star Trek discovery makes me feel vomiting , despite the great visual))))

It did not fall it started to spin,

So anything must always maintain exactly the same trajectory even though there's an outside force acting on it? That takes you out of the action?

@@enermaxstephens1051 That's the thing. There was no outside force acting on the cargo vessel. It wasn't already moving in the direction of the "fall", and nothing else was affecting its movement in the way presented. A ship in space moves in the same direction it was going if the engines are destroyed; the ship does not move sideways, up, or down. So yes, that took me out of the action. And yes, the ship should have had the same trajectory, before and after the engines were destroyed.

@@PaulVandersypen That doesn't seem likely. The explosions may have generated such force that it was enough to start making the ship drift in a certain direction.

I thought exactly this thing, why when star destroyer loosing engines or electricity it start aiming down!?!?

I thought the same thing, but I remembered Darth Vaders ship in Return Of The Jedi. Also, as the main engines are destroyed, there might be manouvering thrusters that start to malfunction, causing a change in attitude.

@@johnmccnj In regards to that scene in ROTJ, the Dtar Destroyer was over both the moon of Endor and the Death Star II so I’m assuming the mass of both objects pulled it down.

Battle of the Dreadnoughts Is also great. What was the anime one, Tie Fighter or something. There's just so many great ones.

SC38 reimagined is by far the best

And the one with Nihlus had to be one of the worst. The Lightsaber fight with the constant spins. It was more of a Beyblade fight.

Yep, or very good model or very bad CGI

@Daniel Fedor: I didn't mind the fire-- looks great, if unrealistic. But I didn't like the black smoke-- that pushed that special visual-effect a little too far.

Fires and explosions, yeah I like that. There can be fireballs but they should be immediately extinguished as the heat and gasses are vented into space.

Perhaps a jet of flame as fuel is ignited, or a pure oxygen leak catches fire, in which case make it a different colour. And to emphasise that it's a jet of gas/liquid that's acting like a rocket - have it act _like a rocket._ Make it give Delta V and push the ship in a spin in the opposite direction.

@Daniel Fedor: Unlike, say, _Star Trek_ , _Star Wars_ doesn't have to be quite so concerned with realism, can do with a little unrealism for the sake of the grandeur of the spectacle. Yeah, a "little." Not even _Star Wars_ should go too very far with that, shouldn't go all kooky off the rails (like Disney's space bombers, for one dumb, awful example). I'd say: Leave the level of unrealism to, say, some bits of fire and no more, OR go more for the realism of Space (not bad for _Star Wars_ ) and get rid of the fire, and leaving all else (explosions, etc.) as is in the short VFX demo-film above. I like the fire but not the smoke, but I could do without the fire, myself hehehehehe P.S.: It might be, honestly, that casbott has given the best advice/feedback in this thread so far. Well, I think maybe so hehehehe

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@@bobbuilder1009 Cruiser seems to be a generic term that can apply to any transport ship or larger. There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive system for identifying ships by size class in Star Wars.

If he was using a wide angle lens, then distant objects wouldn't look too much smaller than near objects. It's a cinematic trick that helps pull the viewer into the action. However, it relies on having a background to scale against, which is probably why it looks a bit odd here. Stars are a poor background to shoot moving action against.

It is not a lens or background issue, the a wing is superimposed on top of the Tie Fighter and is as small as the engine housing. At first I thought it had gone in front of the Tie Fighter and was shooting backwards at it because the a wing was so much smaller and in the distance but somehow gotten composited on top of the Tie Fighter

The A-wing is a tiny craft. Most people overestimate its size and assume it is rendered or shown too small when it is actually to scale. The A-wing can easily fit inside the wingspan of a Tie Fighter.

@@holden88 naw.... there is no excusing this size discrepancy. If you watch it the a wing is so small that it would fit within the cockpit of the Tie Fighter and the pilot would have to be one foot tall. It was merely a composition error, the a-wing should have been behind the Tie Fighter and explosion not in front of it from our point of view.

@@Jack_Stafford Huh? At 1:35 you can see the A-wing behind the Tie Fighter and blowing it up. It is clearly sized correctly here (just fitting inside the Tie Fighter panels). At no point can I see is it "so small that it would fit within the cockpit of the Tie Fighter". What are you looking at?

BP_CherryBlossomTree no if the reactor is close to them or all the stabilizer engines are connected to the main engine some how

I think they shouldn't but should definitely list the the side do to imbalance of thrust. Maybe starting to do so depending to blast points/engine alignment.

If the engines get damaged enough to flame out and explode, that could impact enough force to send the ship into a slow spin as its thrusters go offline

@@pretzelbomb6105 exactly, I'd love to see a bunch of that

​@@renaissancenovice7202 Totally agree, even when a starfighter gets hit by its engines it wouldn't go down so easily. For example, an X-wing has 4 thrusters yet one blast does not disable or blow up the entire fighter it can still fly but without some way to steer it.

I was wondering the same. The ships are disabled but intact. Aside from the harassment value the entire mission feels like a pointless risk.

Maybe the power levels of the main/secondary reactors can't provide enough to fire all weapons at once, so you have to choose slow firing main guns or faster firing secondary guns? Just a rationalization.

@@KentonBenfield Well we know that isn't the case, since these ships have been shown to fire more than one gun at once. Plus, what would be the point of having more than one weapon if you can't use them all?

@@LordVader1094 Some could be for defence against fast moving targets like squadrons, others to be used in dreadnaught vs dreadnaught attacks where the tiny cannons would be useless and therefore it is a waste to have a larger reactor to power them all, because there isn't often a situation where you could or would have the manpower to be able to use all the guns at once. Another reason could be that they are diverting more power to the shields. In other scenarios the shields are useless because of the magnitude of the enemy weapons or the size of the attacker and you could divert all power to the guns. If you were a lone ship attacking the death star on its own, you wouldn't have much need for shields giving the power of the superlaser, and you would use more energy for propelling yourself around the death star to the other side of the superlaser and for firing the guns. And small anti-squadron defence guns would be useless against a death star.

Yep. I mean, at 1:19 you can see three other gun turrets just...sitting there. I would have chosen a different shot, maybe a POV from over the firing turret or something.

Thank you! I can't take credit for modeling, however - a lot of it is done by others - especially the wonderful Corellian gunship by Howard Day! I'm more of an animator, than anything.

Rebel scums!

They picked up that there was a Star Destroyer inbound an aborted the raid.

Or they just target cargo to destroy it.

@@tomaskops7119 Yep, disabling the cargo ships or destroying the cargo with minimal losses on their side is still a win for the Rebels. Now repeat 100 times and the Imperial Navy has a big problem. If they're flitting about chasing commerce raiders, they're not tracking down and destroying the Rebel fleet.

I like to think of it as the Rebel's battle doctrine working as intended. that force would've been wiped out if that Star Destroyer came in sooner

I love it too, and I love it more after watching Rebels and getting all the references. This clip here now, it might as well be a cut scene from Rebels, maybe a Phoenix Squadron jaunt… In my head, after the Battle of Scarif, I'm pretty sure that the Ghost flew down at the end and snatched Jin and Cassian off the beach… Hera was always doing stuff like that.

They're gunships, designed by Randy Cooper and built in 3D by Howard Day.

@@SkyForgeFilms Awesome! Thanks for the reply, have a great day! Love your work.

Was never sure about the sound in space to begin with.