How the NEW REPUBLIC took the vital KUAT SHIPYARDS (Legends) | Star Wars Battle Breakdown 

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Kuat be like " look man I just wanna build ships, dont care for who"

I think it's actually pretty cool that the New Republic appealed to Kuat's corporate elements to win them over, instead of a costly battle. Kuat Drive Yards wants to earn money and the New Republic convinced them that joining them would be more profitable than staying with the Empire. Ironic, isn't it. The Empire lost Kuat because they gave them too much freedom...

How do you just lose the eclipse like that, just by accident like "oh yeah and the eclipse just kind of disappeared"

The Republic makes a show of force, while giving Kuat positive incentive to surrender, and manages to succeed in gaining control of the shipyard without bloodshed. Why can't Canon have interesting incidents like these.

The Rebel Alliance's plan to seize Kuat in its initial attack was so ingenious. They took out half of the defense fleet without casualties. Utterly amazing.

Kinda dissapointed but it was also pretty cool in a way. It was a very smart strategy used by the New Republic and sounds like a realistic thing to do in such a situation. They showed their power without spilling blood on either side, made a victory for Kuat look unlikely (lowering the people working their and the soldiers morale). They then used this and a big weakness of the enemy to their advantage to make them surrender without a fight. This was right out of the pages of the Art of War.Thrawn would even give the New Republic a thumbs up for this.

The New Republic made the right call, utilising the element of surprise, combined with a great variation of wonderfully-coordinated tactics (covertly installed astromech droids, the squadrons of A-Wings and political manoeuvring) to achieve victory at Kuat. Well done, General Kraken. You, my friend, are an underrated master of the art of war.

I actually like this setup. It shows the old strengths of the rebellion/new republic in its diplomacy, and subterfuge campaigns. A tactic that would be used in the real world since no one wants to die or order a battle that can lead to any deaths.

Glad you did the legend version too. Great video these battle breakdowns are amazing.

Of the 15 Imperial Star Destroyers the Empire stationed at Kuat in Legends, one (Mauler) was heavily damaged and another (Gilded Claw) was destroyed by the Iron Fist during Zsinj's raid on KDY to capture Razor's Kiss.

Its pretty on par with a rebel way of doing things. They always had to think of alternative ways to overcome a large opponent than direct combat. Even though they're now the new republic In think this method still holds true to character.

"Suprise squadron", and I thought the "mega star destroyer" name was unoriginal.

I love the giant "surprise" above the squadron. It's probably just for the title but I imagine the leader of the A-Wing squadron shouting "Surprise" as he disabled the dreadnought. Edit: this is exactly the opposite of the canon battle of Kuat. The difference between a months-long campaign and a small strike with A-Wings almost couldn't be more different.

Yay, more battle breakdown. Thanks man, love your content.

I like that there wasn't much of a battle with them. It shows the occasional instance in Legends where there actually is strong military theory put into use. An actual battle would be potentially disastrous for both sides.

I absolutely love the Battle Breakdowns. I am a huge fan of the battle grids drawn up in these types of videos and would enjoy seeing them in theoretical battles, as well as starship versus Awesome work here

I really enjoyed that mission in Zann campaign.

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Excellent video, I also remember briefly from the final book if the Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy, that Kuat of Kuat destroyed some or part of his own shipyards to prevent the Rebels from seizing ships before Endor. Great video!

Love the Legends stuff, keep it coming!

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I like the inclusion of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan at 3:40... a subtle reference to short negotiations, eh? ;) Nicely done.

Idea: do an episode where you describe your “perfect fleet”, with access to ships from Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect, and/or other sci-fi universes. (45th try)

These battle breakdowns are so interesting thanks for making these

I love that the Alliance just bought Kuat stock.

Definitely an instance where both the canon and Legends versions of events were both very interesting and played out in a well written way.

the other ship i know with the name "event horizon" was literally one HELL of a ship. ~fliesaway

FINNALY Battle Breakdown again! :D

Nice job echeart

Eck all I could think of when I looked at the thumbnail was and I quote, “Tri-Force” like from Zelda...

Great video

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Nice video. Kuats ship building industries is a neat little bit of star wars. I sometimes wonder just how many ships they can build with that massive ring and other shipyards.

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Amazing Video! Yes not to much is said about Kuat but I fondly remember in Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds an RTS from early LucasArts where Leia leads a team down pass the blockage, crash lands and brings about the liberation of the KSY populace. She even encountered a Jedi Master in hiding there. Eduri or something like that.

I actually like the canon version more, simply for the fact that there was a big, long battle for it, and I like me my Star Wars battles. However, this video did just show me an interesting parallel between canon and Legends that I never knew before. You said that in Legends, the Empire retreated from the Core to the Rim, right, and because of this, planets like Coruscant and Kuat fell somewhat quickly to the New Republic. This reminds me of in canon how Rax's Empire seemed to be based in the Outer Rim (correct me if I'm wrong on that), and he payed no attention to Coruscant, sending no forces to help hold it and instead forcing the ISB to take up the burden of holding it. The big difference is that the New Republic didn't seem interested in Coruscant either in canon, instead allowing insurgent groups to fight to take the planet and sending little support (much like they did with other planets such as Kashyyyk), while in Legends it seems they actually invaded Coruscant, but it's still interesting that the Empire in both iterations largely left the Core after Endor and retreated to the Rim/Outer Rim. Also, these videos are very much making me want to buy the Essential Guide to Warfare with that link you gave a few videos ago so I can learn more about Legends, which I know very little about.

I happen to like it when my star wars commanders are competent

Person I still think it's a little bit more interesting Then Canon but I will say this it deftly makes more sense to do what they did from a military point yeah they did suffer a small loss but they did lose any of their own ships men and a did Still some of the assets so it was still major victories and good video keep up the good work

Hi there, I’m such a big fan of your videos on your channel here and after seeing this one I was wondering if you could do one on how the alliance was able to take coruscant from the empire after the battle of Endor.

Excellent strategy by the New Republic in Legends

It's a brilliant battle, fought with both arms and cunning.

Instalike, keep up the excellent content

Definitely wish there had been a book or comic dedicated to this battle. It seems like Kuat never gets any love despite how important it is in the lore.

1:48 - the Aurora may be an Assertor-class dreadnought, or maybe a Bellator. The Stellar Halo and Luminous might be Praetors, or maybe even Bellators - a Bellator in New Republic colours is later seen in the Guide to Warfare, which might be the Luminous.

I like it end up peacefully im a big fan of truces. 😊

Major strategic assets have a history of being handed over peacefully by the operators after occupying resistance is squashed because the asset is so valuable no one wants it to be destroyed.

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Although the Essential Guide to Warfare was obliged to cover the Kuati Campaign as a mop-up/afterthought for the Legends timeline (as no fiction work had actually covered this, and we only had some offhand mentions in the WEG Dark Empire Sourcebook and the Essential Chronology to go on), I'm rather pleased that they opted to go with asymmetric and economic/droid-hacking warfare, rather than Yet Another Cruiser Slugging Match.

Kuat is awesome!

I love the self aware meme endings

Kuat is, arguably, the most important planet in the galaxy. It houses the largest overall shipyards in the galaxy (Kuat Drive Yards) , as well as the largest capital shipyards in the galaxy. Planets that are similarly important are Rothana (Rothana Heavy Engineering), Fondor (Fondor Shipyards), Corellia (Corellian Engineering), and Mon Calamari (Mon Calamari Shipyards). Coruscant may be the "center of the galaxy", but if you don't have control over any of the above-mentioned shipyards, it's highly likely you're in for an uphill battle against anyone who does control them. Production is key to victory; a lack of production is just as key to a defeat.

Cylons vs CIS

This easily could be a stand alone movie imo

Simple. The Tyranny wasn't in the Fresia System, and so was not able to respond to the Emergency Code Zero.

The Yuuzhan Vong vs the Dark Eldar. The Covenant vs the Eldar. The Rebels vs the UNSC.

Could Doom's Hell invade the Death Star? (Not giving up)

Here's an idea for a next video the entire Halo universe vs the star wars universe, this means all halo factions vs all star wars factions

1000th Like. All hail the shipbuilders!

Galactic versus idea if you haven't already: Xenomorphs vs the Yuuzhan Vong

Man the Triforce Darkyards must make the best ships.

That’s a lot of damage

Gladiator 2 class Star Destroyer vs Dreadnought-class Heavy Cruiser.

It is said the ultimate victory lies in winning the battle without fighting.

Recusant Class Light Destroyer vs Something

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Didn t you upload this already? Edit:oh this is legends NICE.

Long live to legends

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Reaper (Mass Effect) vs. Autumn-class Cruiser (Halo)

If you did empire at war canon, the battle for kuat would have a lot of new republic blood and imperial blood spilled over it.

I have a big problem with how it was captured in the NEU. Apparently in less than a year the Rebellion had enough ships to go toe to toe with imperial capital ships and tie down an entire fleet for months while they seiged Kuat.

The Imperial Navy remembers it's heroes!

Maybe they'll portray an attack on the Kuat shipyards in one of the upcoming series

Tora, Tora, Tora.

"Oh come on. We get a Dreadnought, and then it hyperspaces into a sun!"

what if you started a new series where you did the history of certain planets

Republic and CIS vs Yuuzhan Vong

Actually, I am more surprised more worlds did not just switch sides during the war since to me, it makes sense that few would continue to fight for a dying Empire, or Warlords that just take and not build anything.

I feel like kdy is running the whole galaxy and just raking in the money

Can you do a video on StarWars Galactic Empire vs Halo Guardian policing or something like that?

Could you do a video on Graphene?

Not every major naval action, space or blue water, ends in a Midway scenario. Sometimes you just have to show that a postion is utterly untenable and an enemy will willingly cede it to you, if for no other reason than to later reclaim it.

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Flood be Necramorophs!

Can you do a Banished vs Spirit of fire space or ground or both

I've always wondered why the separatists didnt invade just during the clone wars like in 19 BBY when they broke through to the core worlds like anaxes and coruscant

If you could design a realworld space-battleship how would you build it? (which game, movie, series made the best job in creating realistic battleships?) attempt 12

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Wait, what about the one kuat battle that ended with the weird pirate dudes sniping an ssd with the eclipse?

A few ion canons mounted on interceptors disable a dreaghtnought and a few other ships. Sounds almost like a super weapon, if we consider that the massive ion canon of the malovelence barley could disable a venator, which is fairly weak shields. They were they never used again? I am sure they would be usefull in almost every engament against imperial forces, espacially the dreahtnoughts of the imperial reminant. This a-wings are as stupidly powerfull as the conquerer (ISD with the deathstars superlaser).

Spartans vs N7 and UNSC Marines vs System Alliance Marines

What about the battle in the Eaw FoC campaign?

It’s ours for the taking