How the Empire lost almost 25,000 STAR DESTROYERS after Endor | Star Wars Legends 

They lost all of their Star Destroyers because they auto-resolved all of their battles in Empire at War.

Was kind of hoping the video would be like: “how did the Empire lose 25k Star destroyers? Because they forgot where they put them.” *outro music plays for 12 minutes*

The High Ground eviscerated all 25,000

Can we get an F in chat for all those lost Dorito ships.

I find it hard to believe the Empire had 25,000 Star Destroyers. Remember in Episode IV Han Solo said: "The entire star fleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more fire power than I've-" and Han had an Imperial background.

What if Palpatine woke up one day and just had a heart-attack then died?

I love the shots from X-Wing Alliance in this video. I think the other major side of things is the sheer maintenance cost of such a fleet requires an immense tax and logistical base which really was showed in the Legends series. With reduced recruiting and the academies you wouldn’t have even had enough folks or economic might to support such a fleet.

Legends: The Empire formed various factions that fought through over a decade of war with the growing New Republic as well as each other. Gradually being filed down until they formed the Imperial Remnant and became a legitimate government. Though weaker than the New Republic, it would survive over a century later and have various conflicts with the Jedi and Sith alike. Disney: Eraser

"not only did the emperor die" *JJ Abrams 'doubt'

I always wonder what ever happen to those star destroyer and now I know thanks. Great lore video love your content

''loss due to essentially falling into private hands and disappearing'' - I swear I saw a Red Imperial Star Destroyer once, but hardly anyone believed me... 😁

In Soviet Empire, Star Destroyer loses 25,000 Endors

to see what the Canon has to say with the loss of so many ships...? ...Do it.

Why is it so easy to take out such powerful ships as star and super star destroyers in the Star Wars saga? Especially as the rebel navy is equipped with much lighter ships like the CR-90 corvette? It’s only in the years after Endor that the New Republic gets larger numbers of the heavier Mon Cal ships and captured Star Destroyers.

Battle of Jakkut was a death blow and a lot went to the Unknown Regions and then there is the suprise in Episode 9.

perhaps the second part of Dreadnought's battle will be seen

Death star: **gets destroyed** Palpatine: *lets do that again*

They gave the rights to thecStar Destroyers and Empire to EatsAssGames aka ElectronicArtsGames aka ElectronicArtsSwiss.

ugh, that tie fighter and x-wing alliance footage. getting those nostalgia feels

That Blue General Guy: "Emperor P, we're taking some destroyers on a little detour" Emperor P: "Dew it"

Think of all the S-1 stationed on the Death Star(s) all that paperwork... all those pay issues... the end was inevitable at that point.

Ideas i had considering this vid; a new ISD I variant with an EMP-type weapon that knocks out the Sensors of all ships in range, but not its own, and a new class of SD, based off of this variant, but only 1,326 meters long... Imperial I-class SD Logis, and the later Logis-class SD. Story hook for the ISD Logis; it was on of a very few ships that was tracking where ISDs & Imperial assets went post-Endor, until it... TBD, a Star Destroyer 1,309m long, designed in compliance with the Tarkin Doctrine.

Now I'm wondering what a "cost effective" variant of the ISD-1 would look like. All of the combat capabilities, from it's troop transport and fighters to firepower and defenses, with none of the fat, hopefully decreasing the required crew and maintenance costs. Fulfilling the goals/missions of the ISD without being an absolute drain of resources.

The Empire lost because the script writer wrote it that way. Though they don't exist so they can't really lose.

what is the video that plays in the background, is it a movie or something? m talking about the one at 1:30

What about admiral versio? Surely he outranked Pellion after the battle of endor?

@eck you should do a video on a Death Star but instead of a massive super laser, cover it with point defense and turbo lasers

What video was being played near the end with the super star destroyer blowing up the revel fleet

What live action movie/show is that with them talking about Fondor and/or the star destroyer with the fin on front?

New match up. X-wing vs. Arwing from star fox!!

Rise of Skywalker shows that random civilians, flying civilian ships, can show up and take out about 10,000 of them in minutes so... I assume 25,000 could be destroyed in about half an hour.

Legends is so much better than any of the trash Disney has put out so far

I just think they forgot were they parked them, the universe is quite big. Happens to me all the time

the dog at the end is always so funny!!!! (((-:

Is there a number of how much the whole empire was worth? (deathstar 1&2, all dreads, every star destroyer and frigatte, all ground troops and vehicles and superweapons like the galaxy gun)

Ive always thought Warhammer lost 100 baneblades was the worst thing happened then you saw this.

Can you do more swtor content?? Like tatooine or the battle of hoth in swtor? Great videos btw man! Glad I subbed

Uhm, where is the scene with the giant mon cala monster ship @1:20 taken from?

PLEASE do the Canon video on this topic. Probably much shorter, but still.

(@5:39) did anyone notice the guy sitting near the base of the spine that joins the bridge module to the ship (lower-right corner)? I guess the Captain got tired of telling that guy that smoking was not allowed on the bridge, and made him take it outside. 🤣😂 Yet another reason that smoking kills.

Just like in any modern navy: Every craft requires significant funding and a massive support infrastructure. If that funding dries up or that infrastructure fails, the crafts cease to be operable. As a modern example: consider what happened when President Carter sent the Delta Force in to recover American hostages being held by the Iranians. Half the helicopters suffered equipment failures that were directly linked to poor maintenance due to Carter's years of military budget cuts. The more complex the equipment the more complex and expensive the required support structure.

What was that video with the Mon Cal cruiser getting rektd in the end?

Where are the space battle clips from? A game? I am not talking about the low res game clips {TIE fighter}.

Thats like asking how the French lost against Germany in the beginning of WW2: Poor military planning/poor logistics, and being incompetent.

Rise of Skywalker: You gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers

#AskEck What games other then Tie Fighter and EA Battlefront are you using for this video. Looks amazing. Thank you

Palpatine orderd them to excicle to be retrofited with super laser canons .

Well, I s'pose that's why Mama told me to park the star destroyer under a street light.

Where is the Star Destroyer with the Death Star weapon that destroys the Mon Cal cruiser from? A video game?

I’ve got your answer!!!! Plot Armor

Give me 100 Blockade Runners for each of these battles, I would be coming home with a flag waving

Yes, please do this video for Canon. I attempted a mathmatical explanation of the attrition a while back and I didn't come to a satisfactory answer.

25,000 star destroyers in 2,500,000 systems averages to 1%; if 0.1% of systems have a major shipyard they could build an equivalent fleet every 10 years, so local govts could probably outbuild local Empire remnants of they weren't locked down quickly

Here is what i never understood about Star Wars. You have robots (Drones) and you can obviously get close to ANY ship... where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?

They aren't playing any games with the number of starships they have... Btw,I like your channel.

I wonder how many ships the First Order are going to lose after Episode IX?

By relying on fighters to defend them instead of fixed turrets that would have been cheaper and more effective.

Legends: a hundred different reasons.... Canon: SPACE MAGIC!

I don't care about the new canon. But I love vids like this!

PLEASE do one for Canon

It was because the good guys always win, yayayayayayayayay!

What's the space battle footage from?

What was that game in the beginning of the video culled

#askeck what’s the motivation for the empire during palleon’s leadership? Was it that planets adopted the empires ideas or structures or is it just an army of ships being lead around hating the new republic

Palpatine hid them underground until episode IX

E ~ Depth of the... EP9 ~ hold my light sword

They fell through the plot holes.

In harsh times unity is important.

Yeah, I want to see the canon take on this as well.

Because they were all buried and had Death Star lasers put on them

Very late to the party..... But there’s also the loss of a solid supply chain. Ships need hyperfuel (nice one, Solo!), plus Tibanna Gas, parts and gubbins etc. They’d also need replacement fighters, crew etc. When you go from an Empire where your credit is obviously good, to “not today, Mr Fascist-Pants”, you’ll struggle. Yes, you probably could take what you need by force if the vendor isn’t willing - but you’re further depleting your resources in doing so, and creating ever more enemies. And if you actually intend to buy stuff? Well....how much cash do you think a Star Destroyer travels around with? I’m willing to bet not a huge amount, if any (again, prior to Endor their credit was good, negating the need for actual currency). So then you’re likely down to bartering. What and how much of tradeable goods do you have? At first glance it seems a given Star Destroyer would hold a fair amount. But those resources remain finite, and you may well be loathe to part with stuff.

“Women and other aliens” are so beneath men that recruiting more of them is a possible reason why they lost warships? Wow.

Press F to pay respects to the Empire.

If I remember the ludicrous size of the Star Destroyer refueling platforms, I imagine a good percentage of Star Destroyers simply couldn't be maintained after the the fracturing and losses to the Galactic Empire's logistics infrastructure.

Willing to bet that most of the ISD's were actually lost to not being able to maintain them. Booster Terrick had an immensely hard time maintaining his single one even without it being in combat a lot.

Before vid: It must take a supreme level of incompetence to lose that many ships. After vid: It was a domino effect of many events.

I wish Disney went with the idea of the empire fracturing ing warlord factions. Seems way more interesting.

*Empire loses battle of Endor* 25,000 Star destroyers: Iight imma head out

They couldn’t afford to make the payments. They were repossessed.

0:48 Obviously they were all sent to exogol so that they could take part in a terrible plot battle

They also apparently stashed a lot of Star Destroyers in a Nebula near a ice asteroid.

Personally, I've never bought the 25,000 ISD number (not in Legends, and especially not in Canon) as it never seemed to jive with the Battle of Endor fleet size. Regardless, there is another major factor that chewed through the Empire's ISDs in both continuities: maintenance. Imperial Star Destroyers are massive spaceships that take enormous resources to keep running. They need huge amounts of power, spare parts, hyperfuel, tibanna gas for turbolasers, support craft/TIEs, tens of thousands of people and food for those people. And, usually, you need credits to pay for all of that. The Empire built a massive infrastructure to develop these resources and distribute them among their ships, but when it was decapitated and fractured (either in Legends' warlord Balkanization or Canon's more leaderless chaos), the infrastructure network completely broke down. It's not just hyperfuel mines and shipyards rising up or falling into Rebel hands (though that happened plenty, with Kuat being an especially devastating loss), but the entire system of transporting the resources to the right ships at the right time was gone. The Empire's ability to collect taxes would also be badly damaged by the chaos, and so they are trying to keep all these ships running without anyone really in charge and with no money to pay for things. It's easy to imagine how tons and tons of Star Destroyers would begin breaking down, or run out of fuel or munitions, or be abandoned as supplies run out or their crews decide they just want to go home. War is logistics, and logistics is leadership + communications + resources. A fractured state like the post-Endor Empire would have quite a difficult time uniting and fighting against a determine foe, especially with piles of unrest within their territory.

Look up what happens to US equipment when we leave the Region. Yes, this is a Real-Life phenomenon.

Thats a ouch in my books chief

Wow that’s a lot of duristeel wasted

Mostly by throwing them at each other like they were trying to produce fission reactions.

Do a canon one. Since god knows Disney prolly never will

A considerable number of Star Destroyers had to have been lost already by the time Thrawn emerged from the Unknown Regions because he had a hard time collecting sufficient ships for his fleet. Much of what was left after his death were most likely lost in either Operation Shadow Hand or the Imperial Civil War.

What would have happened if UNSC had defeated he covenant forces and captured the forerunner fleet in Halo Wars instead of destroying the ships?. #askeck

I love how legends explained that after Endor, the Empire basically fought itself for over a decade, resulting in massive losses. However, the new canon, like that crappy aftermath book, would have you believe that the massive Galactic Empire fell to a bunch of space cowboys within a year. The Mandalorian is kind of fixing this by reintroducing Imperial Warlords, but still, the new canon is annoyingly lazy.

#AskEck How did the Empire react to The Ghost Crews Liberation of Lothal?

#AskEck *Attempt 624* Do the Forerunners vs the Imperium of Man Pre-Horus Heresy. (Halo vs Warhammer 40k). The Vagyr Battlecruiser from Homeworld 2 vs The UNSC Canberra Class Battlecruiser from Halo.

So the rebels did the "divided and conquer" pretty effectively.. Makes sense

Earthly navies seem to follow the US pattern where roughly 1/3rd are available for combat while 1/3rd are in training or break in cruise type situations with 1/3rd down for heavy maintenance and upgrades. The training 1/3rd can be pushed into battle after expedited training and likely tasked for the expected easier battle tasks or reserve positions. Some of those getting ready for maintenance work can be deferred while those wrapping things up can be rushed out the door in some cases. When the Empire lost those depot facilities they would have also lost many ships with them that were in the repair or refit cycle. Plus they would have lost the huge resources to keep their own ships repaired and fitted. This would have taken a toll on those forces after a few years. Add in that many of these break away units would not have the ability to handle large scale repairs and that would further degrade the number of Star Destroyers able to put up a fight after 20 years of handyman type repairs vs a professional depot with proper facilities and equipment. Thus these issues could account for well over 1/3rd of the Star Destroyers after 20 years.

25k lost over a dozen years vs 25k lost in the span of a single year. Which one seems more realistic? In one universe Coruscant was fought over while in the other a group of 12yr olds captured Mas Ameda and the planet was given up without a fight.

There’s only one thing that could’ve happened to those Star Destroyers... *Darth Jar Jar*

I personally love this part of Star Wars, we get to see greedy, power hungry Moffs. But then we see some Moffs actually protect their own sectors.

Warhammer 40k: *Laughs Hysterically*

I love how Palpatine was ultimately one of the if not the biggest supporter of the rebellion. Had he made the empire with even a little bit of unity and maybe a successor then the Alliance would have been screwed.

I’ve always liked to know how in canon they lost 25,000 star destroyers despite having “emperor” galius Rex ruling the empire and could’ve answered to him, especially when we don’t know much info about potential imperial warlords