Star Wars: How to Capture a Star Destroyer | Battle Plan - Spacedock Short 

Or steal a lucrehulk

Whats Sucks is the Clone Wars Venerators were scrapped for the ISDs

Or use droids for said ISD and have it act a proper battleship for a Venator carrier

The venator is far to underpowered for its size and crew requirement. Also the Alliance kind of does not need that many carriers, most of ther star fighters have hyperdrives

@@motivationlessaxolotl8266 plus if you loses the carrier and need to bug out you have lost all the fighters as well and as a hit and run gorilla rebel group you need ever ship and fighter you can get.

Nah. The rebel alliance would absolutely load their marines onto the ship being tractored into the hanger bay and engage in a running gunfight through half the vessel.

@@CptJistuce yeah sounds about right lol

@@CptJistuce Imagine Luke among them, what a dream that would be!

I did it in Gmod once. And all I had was some B1s and B2s for backup.

Halopro895 Bananas in pajamas ?

Here's how I think you can capture a Star Destroyer or even two Star Destroyer's! All you need is a fleet of 16 heavily armed Klingon Negh'Var class Battleships and 200 Klingon Vor'Cha class Attack Cruisers, and 150 K'Tinga class battle cruisers, and 1,000 Klingon Bird's of Prey, that will decloak; surround, and take out the Star Destroyer's shields, weapons power grid, jam communications, destroy the fighter bay; so they can't launch fighters or shuttles, and hyperdrive just in case if they try to escape or try sending a distress call. Then beam over Klingon boarding parties onto the main bridge! Klingon warriors are much better trained fighters than those lousy Stormtroopers who have the worst aim ever! Total Klingon victory assured because Klingons do not surrender to the likes of those Galactic Empire Swine!!!

Greywolf905 totaly right

Your attention honors me! Thank you and QA'PLA!

Statesmen that is a really good idea

That would be sick!

Statesmen but taking a supper star destroyer

Raptor A a super star destroyer would be really hard to get close enough to board

Slight problem they would turn it into a weird capture the point game since they are to cheap to make a unique animations for it

Bingo. This is the only way to realistically put an Impstar to use for the rebellion.

Thst and you could scrap it for materials to build dozens of star fighters.

Or pull a Kahm Rota and train a militia in the use of the ship and pack it full of your own forces. Aliens, escaped slaves, patriots, droids. Use B-2 and B-1 droids as security and turn the ship into a mobile factory for your fighters and droids

@@Darqshadow The rebel alliance generally lacks the manpower to pull that off in any actually useful capacity. They're better off putting that huge crew on a much larger number of smaller ships.

Stinks through, bc with this plan most of the material would be sucked out with the crew. 😂

Only so many troops can fit in one hallway or room. That's why they're only capturing three mission critical rooms, and then spacing the rest of the ship.

Gas them Edit:or just use the doors

+Piotr Wójcik Or rather, _de-gas_ them.

According to my (dubious) calculations, that means an ISD is big enough to physically fit another 92 ISD crews.

@@piotrwojcik6277 Or open all the airlocks and suck them out the ISD.

That is why i watched this video when i saw the thumbnail lol

Exactly what I was thinking as soon as I saw the thumbnail

I saw this before doing that mission then thought "wait didn't I see something like this on RU-vid..."

i feel like it would be more realistic at the time of squardrens then it would be at the time of rebels

Star hawk for the win

Me too lol

At least there, it's the fledgling Galactic Republic - the Imperial Navy is still there and still powerful, but they are no longer in a position of dominance, and the -rebels- Republic can more reliably recruit and field large numbers than they previously could.

Or cloak it and use it for a ambush craft or an undetectable mobile base. Even a gaurd for yavin so that the empire won't take the rebel base.

Just drag it with tugs outside of charted territory and cole proticole its location and use it as rebel highcom. Tye dismantle for what shipyard are avaliable

Strip the sucker of guns, armour, shield generators, communications equipment, sensors, electronic parts, everything useful. Then tug the useless husk to the orbit of some loyal imperial planet and leave it there broadcasting the Declaration of the Alliance to Restore the Republic for all to hear and see it.

Finally someone that can think in three dimensions. Though you missed a single point. If it is used as support for fighters when assaulting larger targets it can be used as a mobile command center and space born artillery support. There is actually a lot you can due with a battleship.

@@OrDuneStudios Cole protocol is science fact, this is science fantasy. I only bring this up because I doubt they have ever had such a protocol.

Galvars I feel that is probably the weakest part of the plan, if I was in a SD Captain I would be very suspicious of bringing a ship that is in an unknown condition within my own, but then again Imperials have made some questionable decisions before.

Well the core of this plan demand that Imperial captain will be stereotypical, arrogant and incompetent.

Galvars haha yes "plan requires typical imperial" XD

I thought about this too. The Rebels would have to fake the life signatures somehow. Also it might be good if they got a Confederacy commando droid on that ship or some other droid modle that can mimic voices. That way the captain has someone to talk to.

My thought exactly, this plan needs to succeed before it even begins. Another problem is how do i make shure iam behind the ISD and have it in my front arc. Also what stop the ISD from flipping up side down so it shoots the Nebulons.

Phantom Menace was a great episode. So many things that are now memes, like that line you mentioned and the all-powerful Gungan, Jar Jar Binks.

Roll the star destroyer and bring them into firing range.

Or Episode 2 meme "They can't do that! Shoot them or something!"

"Yes, under, I said *under.* Move as low as you can, and engage that Arquitens at point-blank range!"

i wish CIS hold outs did more cool stuff, also in cnnon lots of CIS army and navy gies joined the rebels i wich they used more of their ships and droids

Boo Bah How is that silly? The ships gets scrapped and turned into raw materials for future ships. This happens in real life lmao.

The Venator represents the old Republic, Palpatine wanted that dead. Of course he would get rid of every reminder of the Republic including it's ships as fast as possible

Boo Bah I’m sure a lot of Venators were still being used, I don’t think all of them were scrapped instantly, they were slowly replaced as the new ones were being built. And the imperial destroyers fit the empire’s doctrine better, overwhelming firepower, lots of space for power projection/crisis response.

Well they did capture a lucrehulk in legends

I made an X-Wing (DOS) mission once where the objective was to do exactly that. It was... entertaining. XD

In discanon, only one ISD was in Rebel hands. In Legends, VSDs were more the target but a few ISDs fell too.

At least you don't need a Jedi for that.

Come on, everything easier than destroying the ds-1

That's all of Star Wars canon basically, a series of Mary Sues who luck their way to victory... Edit: Rogue One being the exception, they come up with a similarly desperate plan as other star wars episodes, then get wrecked when it falls to shit.

Star Wars is centered on the Skywalker family drama, in all its iterations either tangentially or directly. (All the films/cartoons have either anakin/Darth Vader or Luke or Leia). They're the only ones with plot armor unless its a redemption storyline, then one of them will die. As for the Ghost crew and Ezra, my money is still 50/50 on whether Ezra becomes a sith apprentice or even better, he somehow becomes snook :o

the force forbids it XD

hahahaha..........yeah....Are you sure about that? If you've seen the newest episodes of season four...... *Spoilers* That plot armor is failing.

Because half of Legends isn't people just the same OT heroes exploiting plot armor time and again...

in this time in the rebellion it is litterally easier to take a star destroyer with darth vader on board than to infiltrate kuat drive yards and nab one.

I see that working. Half of Star Wars (Canon) is infiltrating an enemy base to fuck with it. An improvement would be to add a distraction in a nearby system to draw off any imperial forces that would investigate this sudden disappearance. What would work with less important military equipment is pinning the heist on a organized crime syndicate. But I cant imagine what the Hut cartel would want with an I.S.D...

The hutts wouldn't, but the Zann Consortium Certainly could do with one or two...

or maybe separatist holdouts

It doesn't have to be Kuat. Just find a Star Destroyer at a small, out of the way facility being refitted or finishing construction. Either way, it's a whole lot easier than capturing a fully manned ship in a combat situation.

The crew may as well join the boarding party too. Their odds of surviving are terrible, but better than if they try to escape in the ships and they're likely more qualified than the boarders to actually fly the damn thing if they do succeed.

@@fnsmike i find it funny because the New Republic uses this exact plan to steal a Star Destroyer in the new Squadrons game.

@@mitwhitgaming7722 lol replayed the mission a few days ago and was reminded of this video and i thought well they took spacedocks idea and made it work

The GR-75s should have planned to jump to hyperspace as soon as they deployed the boarding parties. Because either the boarding parties succeed and don't need them or they fail and everyone is either dead or captured. Either way, the ships were no longer needed.

He is also teaching what tactics the rebels would use so a defense can be developed.

Not gonna work when the Separatist Holdouts team up officially with them. We still fight the old way. Big capital ships with lots of frigates and fighters!

Not related to this video but to the only boarding action we see in Star Wars. In Episode III, Kenobi and Anakin are fleeing with the "Emperor" when the ships engines take a hit. The whole thing pivots towards the planet, but is still far outside a gravity field that a human would notice. However everything thing no the ship begins to fall towards the planet. This makes no sense for both real physic and fictional physics reasons. Real; the ship is falling and accelerating, so it's contents would be in free fall a plane doing a dive. Fictional; the ship has artificial gravity towards the floor of the decking, surely that pulls to the floor at all times regardless of ship facing relative to a planet. Is there a lore reason for this? Was it ever explained? Or was it just lazy scripting. I've been bugged by this question since Episode III was released... I still find it amusing.

Whoops? lol

Spacedock what about "fleet in being" concept? Bismark and Tirpitz couldn't stand to british navy, but having them in certain area would require british to relocate several more battleships for the small chance they *_may_*_ be used_ thus removing them from another theatres of war. Same goes for Yamato and Musashi. Rebellion having ISD somewhere would force Empire to being able to field less of them against normal rebel forces because they would be busy countering single ship! Freeing space for your destroyers and submarines to raid much more freely. P.S.: wouldn't approaching from engines melt their ships?

Anyone else signing for Space Admiral??

A torpedo run on the main bridge by Y-wings would help with no fighters to contend with a well trained and rehearsed squadron attack should be able to take it out. If the bridge is destroyed it would mean the strike team would only need to take two areas instead of three. (strengthening the infiltrating forces and making capture and holding the two remaining objectives easier and more likely). And as the auxiliary bridge function is that of the main bridge the Rebels could control the star destroyer easily until repairs could me made. Also switch out explosives with the stun bombs used by phoenix squad on the assault on grand moth Tarkins star destroyer and you got a completely disabled crew, weapon systems, fighters and communications for the assault. leaving just the escort to take out with ease

Well if you think 1.2 kilometers is small.

A captured/abandoned Venator would be an almost perfect Rebel flagship. A large carrier that can hold its own against anything less than an ISD. With a good fighter wing, it could probably compete with several ISDs.

John Lavery Pretty well if the Rebels use them sparingly and not for Hit and run attacks. 8 Venators can take on 1 ISD.

ship to ship wise it's 8 Venators per ISD. But if the Venators have a full Compliment of Fighters it should be about equal to an ISD if we take the Fighters into account.

if they could stay out of range of the guns from the ISD then they could bring 400 fighters to the fight :) but in the legends did the rebels not capture a few venators ?

Legends and cannon both have both sides using clone war ships.

@ddam1320 That's not really a reason to not ontain one.

Maybe reason is crew coplaiment. 7400 Crew for Venator is too much for rebels to mantain larger number

In the Star Wars FFG game my friend is running for us, our home base for a lot of our operations at the start of our campaign was an old Venator captained by a defector from right at the end of the Clone Wars.

If it weren't the fact that the imperial empire has no way of telling if a ship has been hijacked except for self destruct that plan would fail

Or just dismantle it somewhere out of sight and leave Empire guessing where it'll strike thus increasing protection of most valuable targets and stretching thin or outright removing forces from less valuable ones. Or use it akin to HMS Campbeltown.

TheArklyte So you suggesting something akin to loading the ship with all the explosive the Rebels could muster, and then ram it into whatever is causing the Rebels trouble? That seems like a good way to punch a huge hole into a Death Star.

@@TheArklyte that's always a good one. forcing the Empire to dump time, credits, and detachments to chasing an ISD that doesn't exist.

Or hire flim and secretly execute the captain and replace him. There are 1001 ways to capture an imperial star destroyer, or any ship for that matter. Mara jade, use override codes. use a jedi with a lightsaber, practically any jedi. Thrawn, from a guerilla campaign from exile on a feral world. Starkiller, by threatening to smash it into a planet, kyp duron, equally. The list is so huge.

I'm guessing that the Rebel Alliance got a few ISD ships after the battle of Endor. With the Emperor, Vader and a bunch of other important Imperial leaders gone there would have been plenty of defectors. And that really is the best way to get the ship, with most of the old crew willing to work for the rebels.

it depends on who those captains are, war crimes or just loyalty to a cause superases loyalty to an individual. if star wars was realistic the endor fleet would have just punded the rebels to death after they lost the 2nd death star then burned the moon with orbital fire. no more rebels (also gravity well generators to stop the rebels from escaping). the leader of the fleet would then probably become the next emperor as he had the prestige of ending the rebles although other imperial war lords would challenge him and imperial civil war starts.

Matthew Burger most of the imperial fleet was over the death star before it exploded, realistically most of their fleet would be destroyed and the remaining would either stay and fight a losing battle or retreat

Badger from what I could see most of the fleet was spread out from the death star to the flanks of the rebel fleet making at least half but due to the physics of how space and explosions work most likely 4 out of 5 (or more) of the fleet survived and since it took the entire rebel fleet to bring down The executor ssd the rest of the imperial fleet probably already damaged the rebels shields so after the explosion they would have easily moped up the rebel fleet

A lot of older Separatist hardware did get found and repurposed by the Rebellion such as warships, so it's not illogical to think some Battle Droids may have been used as well.

XironbeastX I honestly am still holding out hope to see something like this in Star Wars Rebels. I bet Kalani knew all sorts of secret separatist installations that could have what he needs, from infantry to star fighters to ships.

in legends the rebels had large numbers of separatist droids at their disposal but didn't use them openly (i beleive they were used separate from rebel fleets so as to be blamed as separatist hold outs or pirates) because 20 or so years of imperial propaganda made any open use of battle droids and such the equivalent to waving Nazi emblems in our world. in the new cannon we have 2 major post endor factions that are basically CIS factions, intill we get more info on them i will head cannon them as separatist turned rebels turned back into seps after the war. i also head cannon them useing B1 and B2, etc, droids in their armies but like modernized (like new CUP and programing and simplifed production, FYI B1s are already very good the only real problem was that their proceesing units were too cheap slightly better CUPs which are now cheaper 30+ years later and we have smart B1s with maybe slightly better eyes and new formula for armour, the B1 was often showed in cannon and legends as being stronger than clones [eg one battle droid easily lifting a shell then latter 2 clones struggling to lift the same shell, or that jedi game back in the early 2000s were B1s could 1 punch you]) infact th rebels could use their resauces and simply install program updates in regular B1s and have better troops then their standard men, i mean in the movies B1s are actually quite accurate and take cover so are already not that bad soldiers with improved 'brains' they would be exelent grunts. upgraded clone wars vet droids would also be very useful (remeber star wars droids learn and stuff from experiances so droids surviveing battle could be very effective latter. a cool star wars rebel scene cud have a vet B1 exclaiming how 'he' fought clones and even saw a jedi, these storm troopers are nothing

Yep: sad to say that is in the legends storyline: unless it got rebooted into canon at some point. Would have liked to see it used more often, but running those SSD's is a logistical nightmare.

became legend, but at least, New Republic succeeded-or tried- hijacking Empire's ships, like as Battle of Jakku, or Battle of Coruscant(not Old Republic vs CIS, should be necessary after battle of endor), or somewhere.

Two, actually. The second was named the Guardian, also used during the Yuuzhan Vong war. The New Republic also had the Viscount-class Star Defender, which was a comparable ship of Mon Cal design.

Wampa Stompa1 yes but they had the resources and man power to use it and other dreadnaughts unlike the rebellion heck

@@thepbg8453 epic load of parts though. If you look even half of itd weapons and turned them into ground to space gear that portion of the planet would fuck imperial fleets for days.

Standard procedure during hostile boarding action: Evac crew to med bay and vent the rest of the ship to space. :p

I would just use my oxygen sucker troops and stick them in the room with the medbay and make the intruders go there so they are regenerating, fighting and making the others die from lack of oxygen

tu vv my space marines would not board with the intention to capture more just destroy as much as possible on board people and systems alike before they recall teleport back to the cruiser they just lunched from or if it’s a squad of Terminators they would just deep strike teleport straight into the heart of the ship and blow it up with a bomb if they were to capture they would just kill all the Crew by hand venting atmosphere would not work because all there armour is air sealed and has its own oxygen generation on board plus magnet boots to stop them from being vented into space

A second option is having the troops eject from the freighters in spacesuits with thruster packs on them just as the rebel combat group jumps in. The GR75's could be installed with a remote control system and be used as guided missiles against the raiser and light cruiser to disable/destroy them without risking the Nebulon-7's or CR90's. The rebels could then quickly deploy their fighters to disable the ISD and the troops could manually fly into the ship as described in the video after the fighters bomb it.

James gross GR75s are equipped with 8 Turbolaser Cannons so they aren't completely useless.

I just thought the same and put it as a comment but its a perfect idea if losing too many ships its not an option, and it shouldnt be.

Have the crews of the GR75s jump with the commandos to serve as crew on the ISD. Pilot the vessels away remotely and then use them as ram vessels if necessary against the Imperial cruiser.

Or at least run in different directions, preventing the opponent from firing on all the rebel ships at the same time

It would still contain them, and take out a decent chunk of Imperial forces.

I have Always wondered what degree of control one could have over such a ships life support, perhaps one could alter the system to not recycle oxygen, eventually replacing all the oxygen with another gas, Like carbon dioxide or nitrogen but idk

Walker Gargagliano yes but he did also say that the rebels would disable life support on all the ship which would take longer but would still end up killing the imperials

They could vent various gasses through the life support system to either incapacitate or kill the imperials aboard.

So don't vent them, just stop pumping air INTO them and let the crews suffocate.

It's star wars we are talking about, where space is an ocean, and the spaceships are boats, so no.

Shame really, they could pull off come interesting manoeuvres like flipping one ISD and positioning another over it's underside so, provided you don't want to launch anything, you've got a whole lot of guns top and bottom. Plus no need to shield that section of the ships until the plucky rebel bomber makes a run between the two scratching the paint as they go.

Loquacious Lobster Lapidary I think that has to do with the artificial gravity they make being centred around the same point so if the ship rolls gravity doesn’t roll with it

@@thehunter4873 I imagine they could at least flip the gravitational flow, maybe arrange it so that it follows the ship's crew perspectives as it flips over? If they don't have this technology, couldn't they create it?

Riven Obyss maybe they could but who knows

Isn't it something like a cohort rather than an entire legion?

A typical Roman legion was 5,000 men which consisted of 10 cohorts. The typical ISD would hold something like 10,000 stormtroopers. So that would be 2 legions of those bastards. No way 180 commandos are fighting through that split into 3 groups of 60.

problem with Not Splitting is... Self Destruction as a Thing on an ISD like Spacedock said.... an Imperial Captain was not allowed to let his ship fall into Rebel Hands and he was instructed to use the Self Destruction if there is no other way... so.... if they manage too capture the first Key Location the Captain would just vent this Section of the Ship and ore trap them in till Troopers Arives, if they Manage to caputre two Locations he would do the same ore even consider Self Destruc at that point. and of the Rebels managed to Secure two points and are going for the bridge.... at this point the Captain would Certainly either already gave an Distress Call so that Imperial Ships are only a few Moments away(it woudl take at least like 2 Hours(probably more) to caputre the Aux bridge and Engine room) ore did have a big ammount of Troops near it, ore would give the Command to Self Destruct. they need to Capture all 3 Location preferably at the almost exact same Moment. if you controll the Main and Aux Bridge you can Vent the Ship, but without controll over the Engine room they would self Destruct the Ship before they would die. maybe DESTROYING the Main Bridge with Bombing Runs would be something to consider... even if it would somewhat compromise his Combat Ability(even if not much.... maybe even not at all) and just attack the Aux Bridge and Engine room

That was my thought. Couple hundred commandos, even killing 10 to 1 men, would be simply swamped in the 10k odd storm troopers around the place, who would all be moving towards the detected breach.

You are correct, the Hijack of the ISD is probably the biggest risk in this plan. However it would take a while for the majority of imperial troops to muster to the defense, given the shear size of the warship. Additionally the ISD is full of choke points and corridors which would allow the rebels to delay reinforcements as they secured their positions. It all comes down to the timing. How long before the Captain realizes the threat of the boarding action, how long it takes for the storm troopers to respond, how long it takes for the rebels to secure the rooms, how long can the rebels delay before they are repulsed. Given that the Empire is characterized by nepotism, incompetence and infighting, it's a coin toss as to whether the Captain is as dumb as a brick, or somewhat intelligent. So the Rebels have a chance...

Instead of immediatly detonating giving enough time for the rebel imp defectos to get to medical or something before sealing that up and depriving anysirviving forces a strategic fallback.

In Star Wars a life scanning device does exist, but it's not a mind reading one. As long as all the saboteurs speak basic, this should be possible. Just remember that if you go this route, you aren't going to be able to vent the ship unless it's a suicide mission.

Luca9108 ooooh i like that idea

+The Random Llama _ Thanks! Although I think it could be difficult to get them inside.

Why reprogram them? The only remaining droid commander is no enemy of the Alliance, all they'd need to do was ask for some help and make it worth the droids' while.

+ThePCguy17 You mean Kalani? I don't think he had any Droidekas left, just B1s that espcaped with him in the shuttle. So they only other options are to buy them on the black market or find some on an old battlefield.

Luca9108 Kalani could build more (If course he wouldn't be able to mass produce more Battle Droids or Droideka Units) But he could make a miniature Droid Factory using resources from a random asteroid field. All he would need at that point is time and a good hiding place from the Empire.

If their spy network was large enough to accomplish this then maybe on a small scale this would work. The main portion you are forgetting is that once one, or more, of their battleships go missing they would have to be hidden for months while crews are trained and battle plans are drawn. You sound like you would immediately want to turn their guns on the rest of the enemy. This is a marathon not a sprint. Move to early and you risk loosing everything you have gained.

StuntProductions2012 they have nearly no capacity for starfighters while he star destroyer could Cary about a hundred

StuntProductions2012 as he said, capping an isd is a terrible idea lol

Joey Kevorkian 72 to be exact.

StuntProductions2012 The light cruiser would probably be a better idea but the situation is that the rebels want a star destroyer

I doubt an ISD would be configured to carry rebel craft. Capturing a star destroyer has nearly 0 tactical benefit for the Rebel Alliance.

Remember still a Spacedock is going to hae massive defenses. Presuming it's not in a core system, it's still going to be at least two kilometers long (a Star Destroyer is 1.6), have thousands of personnel, defense emplacemetns, have multiple squadrons of TIES, probably a Golan Platform, and smal capital ships in the area. It's easier, but not a cakewalk either.

What do you do when you arrive with your "refreshment" party and they say "Nope, you aint gonna get in because you are not standing on our shedule plans?"

Chris K My plan includes that they're on schedule. But if? Show them our fake orders signed by the regional gouverneur.

Risky... By the way you forgot to mention that thousands of Bothan Spies died in the process of getting those fake orders.

Chris K because this was an intel from Fulcrum.

What about a super star destryer or eclipse class.

A reactor exploding inside the ISD will shred it to bits but if it were outside it wouldn't cause very significant damage to the hull and deflector shield combo.

@@BoostedMonkey05 the inside should be armored and shielded in case of a bomb going of in the launch bay's due to technical failure...

@@nareik8017 yeah but it's not gonna be as strong as the hull though

lexington476 the Artiquiens can carry a couple fighters, but not enough to make a difference here.

They Carry two fighters that the A wings can dispatch easily

No.

The Raider would seem to carry 4 TIEs, but they couldn't do much, and the Light Cruiser didn't carry fighters as standard practice. (Since the ISD had 72 TIEs it would have no reason to)

I would say the raider corvette wouldn’t have a hanger even with its appearance in SWBII but I think a ship that belongs to a special forces group would have modifications, as for the light cruiser, they can carry like 3 fighters in the middle thing on the ship and the ISD could probably launch fighters through its secondary hanger

Ah the venator, what a ship

If one stole a Venrator it would need a lot of time and resources to make it spaceworthy, reinstall/reactivate the weapon systems, then to get the main reactor and fuel for same back online. Such time and resources are better used elsewhere. To take an ISD you'd have find a way to kill the crew near instantly, silently and in one fell swoop An ISD wouldn't require refitting make it spaceworthy, it already is weapon and defensive systems still online, main reactor fueled and online. Another way to capture an ISD is pulling a "Hunt for Red October" type scenario, ie: The captain and most of the senior officers defect and they get the crew off the ship in such a way that the crew doesn't even suspect a defection. You'd also have to weed out and eliminate any imperial intelligence agents and/or the imperial equivalent of a political officer, Emperor's Hands and the like. Such people will either report back to the Emperor and/Vader who in turn sent a small fleet to retake the ISD or destroy it if retaking the ship is not feasible or not possible

my thoughts precisely

Well, if they were piloted by droids, then a kamikaze attack on the Arquitens would probably help.

Capturing the Eclipse worked pretty easily in Forces of Corruption...granted it was still in construction, but big enough XD

FatBoySlim458 the rebels did capture a Executor class SSD as I do recall. The ship's name was The Lusankya, it perished while battling the Vong.

Nah. The ship the rebellion _really_ needs to try capturing is an Interdictor. The amount of guerilla shenanigans you can get up to with one of those is off the charts.

Nah, it surrendered after a fair fight, it did not really get seized in the way we are talking about here.

Capturing an ISD is suicide enough. Attempting to capture or even board an Executor or an Eclipse is simply autistic...

If Palpatine was desperate they could ram a few executor class dreadnaughts in it......or Vader and good old Palps could use the so called "Power of the Dark side" ;)

Darth vader would be sent, burn a whole through the side with the 501st, and slowly cut his way through the million rebels to capture the station. The empire would have no need to protect a planet in the same way for the urgency to matter.

TIEs that are in use at rebels time period don't have missiles or torpedoes the bombers do though but their too slow to dodge that many AAguns the TIE-I wasn't designed till around the time of the battle of hoth

They would blow it up with the other Death Star

Joseph Emerson Interesting Idea

Attacking from inside the hangar is a death sentence. ISD’s have almost 10,000 troops and 40,000 crew between the hangar and the bridge.

right? Literally just bring an R2 unit, seeing as they can apperently just control fucking anything.

@@joestevenson5568 r2 op

You do realize that Alderaan doesn't have an organized military, right?

Also, the rebels didn’t have a viscount until 27 years after the timeframe of this video, and the single lucrehulk the rebels had was in other duties. Do some damn research

@@erynncollier8672 in the old expanded universe lots of Alderaanians joined the rebellion after destruction of their planet. They seemed to have a grudge against the Empire.

@@Alpha_Digamma Yes they did. I'm not sure how that's relevant to OP's post though. Alderaan doesn't have any trained soldiers to operate warships, LAAt/i dropships, or to fill the role of marines. The planet in question simply lacks the experts in the field to field the units mentioned.

@@erynncollier8672 you seem to be assuming the rebel alliance consisted of miliary experts mainly. Why? Aside from that basic US marine training takes 13 weeks. So why shouldn't alderaanian civilians get trained equally fast by some other rebels or hired mercs?

Blasting an ISD with ion torpedoes would just disable it, and although the rebel alliance is basically magic, I don't think 180 commandos have the ability to un-disable a disabled star destroyer

@@jrobilliard6499 With just a little preparation it is easy. If you need a larger ship to give it 'a boost' just have it on stand-bye. Besides, half the ship would have spaced half of the crew sue to all the force fields coming down. This gives the insertion team an easier time. Plus if you jam communications when you first arrive you could have days to take the ship and get it running again. Like I said before, this is far easier than people want to admit.

Assuming Thrawn may be on it? If he is, the Rebels are absolutely *fucked.*

​@@BlueRaven893 The first question that would pass through Thrawn's head when he received the Gozanti's distress call would be, "What is the objective of those responsible for the vessel's reappearance?" It would be followed closely by, "They're obviously counting on a response to the ship's distress call, so whatever their plan is they're expecting to be springing an ambush. They're also unlikely to possess the firepower to confront an Imperial Star Destroyer head on, so an element of their plan no doubt involves an attempt to cripple this vessel. That Gozanti Cruiser is definitely the bait, but it could also be the vehicle for the attempt to disable this vessel." The thought process would likely then proceed further along the lines of "How could a Gozanti cruiser be used to disable an Imperial Star Destroyer? The only way it could cause any damage at all would be from within the main hangar, beneath the vessel's shields. Ah., They want me to take the vessel aboard. They're counting on chaos or damage caused in the main hangar to disable the ship's ability to launch and recover starfighters. This tells me that the enemy attack will be composed primarily of starfighters. This means that there is either an enemy carrier or fixed base somewhere very close to the Gozanti cruiser's location. In order for the rebels to arrive at the location in question within a reasonable time frame, the length of their hyperspace jump will be very short indeed. This narrows down their possible hiding places dramatically. They'll also need to have deployed a forward element either aboard or in a position to observe the Gozanti cruiser in order to contact their forces when the trap is to be sprung. The best position they could arrive in in order to engage my vessel would be below and behind it. This information provides me the likely approach vector of the rebel forces, further narrowing down their possible hiding places." Thrawn then consults his star charts. "I see there are no stellar bodies within that arc close enough for enemy forces to be stationed on. We're dealing with a carrier for sure then. In order to achieve victory in this engagement, I'll need to turn the situation around on the enemy and ambush their carrier, preferably with the Chimera. Since I already know where the enemy is likely to appear, I'll need to position the Chimera behind their formation while simultaneously convincing them that my Star Destroyer is already present and that it has just been disabled." Thrawn then turns to a junior officer and orders the launch of one or more probe droids to monitor comms traffic in the system. He then uses multiple intercepted transmissions to triangulate the rebel forward observer's position. The forward observer is then killed by Storm Commandos. The Gozanti is then quickly boarded and the bombs are disarmed. Thrawn then rigs one of his assault shuttles to use its tractor beam to catapult the Gozanti cruiser ahead at high speed. Thrawn positions an assault shuttle behind the Gozanti cruiser, using the vessel to hide its presence. He launches his entire complement of starfighters and positions the bombers on the flanks of the expected rebel arrival area. He positions the Chimera behind the expected rebel arrival position, and his two support ships smack in the middle of the expected arrival zone of the enemy fleet. The storm commandos then duplicate the alliance code observed by the probe droid(s) and or divulged by the alliance forward observer prior to execution, and send a message indicating that the Gozanti has been taken aboard the Star Destroyer. The rebel fleet jumps in and is immediately set upon by two corvettes smack in the middle of their formation causing absolute chaos and mowing down starfighters left and right They also cause a breakdown in rebel communication by employing full spectrum jamming to prevent the rebels from sending messages to each other. The Assault shuttle flings the Gozanti at one of the nebulon B cruisers while a droid on board keeps it on target via the use of maneuvering thrusters. The Gozanti then collides with the Nebulon B at high speed and detonates, the explosives the rebels had intended to use against Thrawn taking down one of their own ships instead. Half of the Tie Fighters then move in and engage the rebel starfighters, assisting in the wholesale slaughter of said rebel fighters at the hands of the corvettes. The tie bombers then sweep in from the flanks and disable the rebel ships' engines While the Chimera brings its big guns to bear from behind its fighter screen, assisting in disabling the rebel flotila. The Assault shuttle heads for the Quasar Class to begin a boarding action, while additional assault shuttles launch from the hangars of the Chimera to board and capture each rebel ship as it becomes disabled. The battle goes completely tits up for the rebellion because they can't communicate in order to respond to an unforseen ambush, while Thrawn's forces competently execute a known battle plan to near perfection.

Rebels use Chuck Norris! It's super effective!

You want it captured - not in pieces accros all galaxy

The 00's called. They want their joke back.

Tim Ford Chuck Norris once pointed at an isd , then it exploded.

Put him inside the gozanti and forget the rest of the rebels