How Thrawn protected the Galaxy from the Yuuzhan Vong | Star Wars Battle Breakdown 

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Thrawn attac Thrawn protec But most importantly, Thrawn push Yuuzhan Vong bacc

Some think that Thrawn’s genius was based on Napoleon but actually Napoleon was based off of Thrawn

He just killed them all to death

He's the hero we needed, but not the one we deserved.

I absolutely love this battle from Outbound Flight and the breakdown here is fantastic as always. Keep up the great work EL, the recent Thrawn videos have been greatly appreciated!

I'm disappointed that you skimmed over the detail of what the final stages of Thrawn's plan actually was: to use the droid starfighters wired with what amounts to a neutron bomb to kill off all the vagaari. However, the contingency programming that Dorianna activated caused the starfighters to kamikaze into the various compartment seals within the dreadnaughts, at which point the neutron bombs were flown into the openings created and detonated. The civilians were kept safe by C'baoth having ordered them confined deep inside one of the dreadnoughts because they'd disobeyed him. I know, you're trying to keep the video relatively quick, but that detail sort of illustrates that although highly professional and opposed to simply killing without a specific need, Thrawn was fully prepared to simply erase an entire people from existence to protect the Ascendency and neutralize a distaction that might prove fatal in a confrontation with the "far outsiders"

Cool, never actually knew the circumstances around thrawn destroying outbound flight. Good to know.

The Outbound Flight is really good at demonstrating one of Thrawn's greatest abilities: being able to accomplish great things with limited resources. For the battles we see in this book Thrawn only has a few small ships and fighters, as well as whatever gear his forces could salvage from defeated enemies. And yet he manages to defeat fleets that massively outnumber and/or outclass his own.

Thrawn does not simply know war he is playing a completely different complex game that he made and knows all the rules in a dark room while being 20 stops ahead

I spent the last 3 hours reading exactly that part of the book, now I'm on youtube and BAAAM, a video of exactly that part. Are you spying on me or something ?

Well, these two battles are really different. The first one was won by advanced interdictor and jamming technology, as well as Thrawn's tactical thinking. The second one was won with the use of extensive knowledge and external assets. It was a pure strategic victory. Though it also relied on interdiction technology as well as, yet again, some form of jamming. This time "jedi jamming". The first one seems to be the most impressive. Since it's the one that relies less about stuff that Thrawn knows, but not us.

Honestly, I would be hard-pressed to choose. Thrawn it's just so good at turning the enemy's strengths against them. His character makes for good storytelling.

Classic Thrawn, being 5 steps ahead of everyone else.

I love these videos 10/10 for entertainment value 👍

While the first one is my favorite so far, this one is a close second. In both instances he takes calculated risks with minimal information and understanding, everyone calls him a Deus ex machina, but honestly he is a tactician, that's what they do, they never overlook things and become more powerful with knowledge.

1:17 - and that is where the concept for the Imperator Class Star Destroyer came from. Palpatine was indeed worried about the threat from outside the galaxy and the Imperator was put into design and production. Note I am saying Imperator not Imperial for a reason. In the original Star Wars Cross Sections (before Disney) it was said in the opening lines for the Star Destroyer that is was created to deal with the rebel threat - and possible threats from outside the galaxy - now we know why with Outbound.

I force myself to sit through ads for you, Eck =P

Yep im seeing this vid like 2 years later but i want to say: Man you make my days, i really love your star wars...halo.. etc videos and put on play while i do more boring things (like home work etc) and your videos are like a jetpack for me: They lift me over xD. So much thanks about that Eck, keep doing this marvelous vids about lore, battles, ship breakdown and versus battles.... I really much appreciate them all ❤.

Outbound Flight was one of my Favorite Books im so happy you did a battle breakdown of it. Makes me want to re read it all over again.

I absolutely love these videos you put out man! The way you map out the space battles and detail as much as possible really leaves an open imagination of the actual battle! Well it does to me at least. But yeah dude keep up the Awesome work!

I wonder how someone like Palpatine would have explained the Force to Thrawn

I wish Disney made a Clone Wars/Rebels like animated adaption of some of the EU's better stories like Outbound Flight and the Thrawn Trilogy. It's not like a TV series based on books is unprecedented; just look at Game of Thrones. There's nothing wrong with making appropriate changes the way the MCU has adapted specific story arcs to accommodate the two-hour-movie mold. Also, I know this would be difficult, but can you breakdown what is by far the largest space battle in the entire franchise? *The* *Battle* *of* *Yuuzhan'tar!* I have made this request: thirty-one times.

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. (20th try)

I run a Star Wars Legends RPG Campaign for my friends and am about to get into Thrawn's return from the Unknown Regions. I'm afraid that I may not be able to display his unparallelled genius properly, but at the same time I'm very excited! Thanks to these videos, I believe I have a better chance of doing justice to one of the greatest Star Wars characters ever!

My favourite part of the video is always the dog at the end😁👍👍

Sooo basically the outbound flight was a project set up by Palpatine just to kill a dozen of Jedi Masters?

I loved Outbound Flight, and your breakdown was amazing and informative. Do you think you'll do one for any of the battles from the Hand of Thrawn duology?

The part at the end with the dog has me in tears lollllllll

Recusant Class Light Destroyer vs Something (Almost every video has this suggestion, Never giving up!!!)

This is another one of your videos I’ve watched involving the Outbound Flight. I see you love your Legends stories.

We are gathered here today to witness this special event of this two Very lovely People, Admiral Thrawn and Eck Thrawn.

Goodness gracious, your videos on Thrawn just become more and more amazing. I feel like it's going to keep escalating until something like How Thrawn beat an entire rebel fleet using a toothpick or something

i love how engaged you are with your audience

Those battle tactics videos of yours are amazing it must take you a lot of research in order to make them. Great work man.

Please keep these going I love learning about the best military mind in all of Star Wars

I Love these battle breakdowns! Please make more about Thrawn. Also nice video.

Love this Series what would happen to the ship versus ship series

CONGRATS ON 250K!!!!

Love the video, just bloody love it. Keep up with the good work!

Would love to see an old starfighter versus episode that compares the Empire's XG1 Starwing Assault Gunboat with the Rebel Aliance's B-Wing. Would also like to see something on the "Adama Maneuver" from the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 episode Exodus, maybe comparing it to other unorthodox tactics in other series.

Funfact: Palpatine created the Galatic Empire to protect the Galaxy from a future Yuuzhan Vong invasion! Yes Sidious was aware of their existence and he knew they were going to invade!

I had no knowledge of this until now. Very well done!

(28th request) 1 CAS Class Assault Carrier with 4 CSS Class Battlecruisers and 4 SDV-class heavy corvettes VS 1 Bellator Class Super Star Destroyer (yes i look it up and the Bellator Class has Fighters about 100 of them) 4 Imperial 2 class Star Destroyers and 4 Dreadnought Class Heavy cruisers (theses ships use to be Victory 2 class Star Destroyers but that would give the Empire too much an edge in the battle so i made them Dreadnought class Heavy cruisers instated too make it equal in a way)

Nice video

This was technically, the first Star Wars novel I read and finished. T'was great.

What I like with C'Baoth as a character is that he shows that some of the jedi sense something is wrong and suspect that a new purge is coming, and he intended to use the Outbound Flight as a means of escaping whatever threat were coming their way. He was also opposed to the Ruusan Reformation and basically dismantled it on the ship with the intent of bringing the older form of the jedi order back. He was however also a force supremacist and by all rights a dark jedi who fell oh so very quickly when the time came.

Getting close to that 1/4 million mark, can’t wait to see you get there!

I love this book.

That mind-meld thing sounds absurdly OP.

Man you have the best outro

wow im learning alot about thrawn

Hey Ecki love ur vids keep up the good work I watch all ur videos and their amazing. Ur videos are like art to me.

Honestly my favorite stories are ones where the bad guys turn out to truly be the good guys even though they have to act like the bad guys. Like emperor palpatine having to do all the dark side stuff to take control over the galaxy as preparations for fighting the yuuzhan vong. If it wasn't for him doing all that stuff to solidify a massive part of the galaxy into a small number of governments the galaxy wouldn't have had a chance since they would have been far too splintered and the fighting among themselves would have dwindled resources/capabilities. OR if was him pushing for constant battles that furthered technological advancement and production of weapons systems that allowed for a capable defense against the invasion. It's just a really complex and incredible story. I like to think that The Joker is actually one of these kinds of bad guy is actually good guy kind of characters. Where he has 4th wall breaking powers but has to do all this evil shit to the super heroes as a way to get them to the points in their lives that they are capable of defeating all the super villains that come around which are capable of destroying everything. Like superboy prime, Mongul, Hank Henshaw, etc... Very few of them would have turned out the same way if it wasn't for the messed up stuff Joker did even if sometimes it was very subtle.

Yes! More great thrawn videos, i always enjoy watching these vids and thanks for doing these videos. Keep being amazing and have a great day!

Started reading it Yesterday

I will never get over how much of an absolute unit Thrawn was.

I would love to see thrawn go head to head against the Vong

I was a bit disappointed with how the Jedi Meld was defeated by the gimmick of being distracted by the mass casualties of the Vagari. It's too easy of an out that had no setup.

Galaxy: Get trouble bc for Yuuzhan Vong Thrawn: Yeah, this is Big Brain time

Excellent

best outro with doggo

Please could you do a video focusing on Adm. Preston Cole in Halo? You’ve already made the video comparing him to Thrawn, but why not another one!

LOVE VIDS ABOUT THRAWN!

I am currently reading this book it’s amazing. :)

Thrawn: *shows up Yuuzhan-vongs: *Current objective: SURVIVE*

I like chiss ships, and Thrawn is a favorite character of mine, love these videos. also Love the ending with the corgi.

What do i think? I think Thrawn is both a tactical AND strategic genius.

Man, I have to get those books as soon as possible. I knew Thrawn was a Chiss of precise methodology, but this character is beyond epic!

Another video on what else is in the unknown regions and beyond

Love the dog 😂

I really enjoy all of these videos. What about some mass effect videos on those ships perhaps. But, just suggestion. I do need to get these books and comics. Really enjoy star wars.

That’s incredible. Can you do an analysis on the space battle of Saleucami?

Wait he had a brother? Nice!

Honestly, beating an entire Trade Federation battlegroup with what amounts to little more than the starting military fleet from Stellaris is probably the more impressive achievement.

Both were impressive I want more of Thrawn's Victories

“Nice video” seems to be a trend

We definitely needed Thrawn’s genius when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy.

I can tell you that Thrawn is my favorite Anti-Hero. His only fault was not seeing the possible ramifications of lying to the Noghri. I would argue that this move didn’t save the galaxy from the Yuuzhan Vong though. As they still invaded and caused mass distraction including the annihilation of Ithor. Had he been in command with the empires full power against the Yuuzhan Vong I wonder how different the war would’ve went. It’s probably my favorite part of the Legends in what I call the Skywalker era.

That's what i'm waiting for.

That outro alway's gives me a Giggle :D

Thrawn is a anime hero

Everyone said: Where's Thrawn? But nobody asked: How's Thrawn?

I suggest a video about who would win in Hand to hand combat a spartan or space marine

last time i was this early windu had hand

Most impressive

you forgot the odd use of the droideka shielding tech on the ships attacking the outbound flight near the end of the battle to end it. The shields were inverted making a short range burst field that would be deadly to the meat bags inside the dreadnoughts. but the civilians that had been evacuated to the center cylinder were safe. the dreadnoughts were damaged and the landing had to require landing the last one with working engines on the bottom of the crash to decelerate fast enough not to kill the civilian occupants.

I think what won the battle was highly advanced predictions and supernatural good timeing.

I'd really like to see a Battle Breakdown of the battle of Astarte from Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

I don't recall that part of the Outbound Flight story... I remember some of the New Republic sending people out that way and finding it, I think Luke and a new padawan find it, probably one of the Solo children, and they find that the ship, crippled and drifting in an asteroid belt, connected to a few clusters which impacted the ship, closing off several sections... They find that any child that appears to show any sign of having the gift(curse to them) of being able to use the force, is either killed outright, or imprisoned in another part of the ship, far away from the original survivors, a near unlivable area... filled with traps and rogue droids, including droidekas, which they fight and destroy, and thus finding their way into the colony ship's surviving sectors where the majority of survivors live; they relay the tale of how the commander went Dark-side, killed off most of the other surviving Jedi, and was then killed, along with crippling of the ship. The surviving generation of people who remembered it, condemned all Force-users, no matter how young, or innocent.

now that i think about it, the Yuuzhan Vong are just star wars brand Tyranids.

Either the First Battle of Bakura or the Battle of Geonosis (Galactic Civil War) for the next Battle Breakdown please.

Outbound Flight should've been allowed to go and explore the shit out of unknown space, but not under the command of the lunatic. I want to know more what's happening outside of the known space. Could've been a long series.

The Vong... The one conventional thing that Sith would WILLINGLY work with the Jedi to defeat... Probably anyways. Nice videos here. Would love to see more Vong VS the rest the Star Wars Universe battles. Its a big part the post Galactic Civil War era but i notice its not much covered

Yesterday’s probably. An entire CIS fleet, including 2 Lucrehulks with nothing but 3 patrol ships and a fighter squadron? That takes some serious skill.

When Thrawn graduated from the Imperial Naval Academy, he shook the Commandant's hand and said to him: "Keep it up, you're going to have a bright future."

You should make a video about the entire war of the yuuzhan vong

Its interesting that Palpetine know the danger of the Vong and also, that this was the first meeting between Thrawn and the jediJ. C. I would stil know, if Palpetine have plans to protect his future Empire of a attack of the Vong. Maybe a mystery fleet in the unknown regions or a special weapon

EckhartsLadder, I am curious about Thrawn facing against Gravemind from Halo. I think there might be a chance that Thrawn could be outclassed by Gravemind over time. Would Thrawn commit same acts as Forerunners?

Here’s what I don’t get is they fight like it’s a 2d map or basically flat ground when this is a 3D battlefield. I guess since we’ve never actually done it, it’s hard to make imagined scenarios