The BATTLE OF ORINDA & the End of the GALACTIC CIVIL WAR | Star Wars Battle Breakdown 

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I wonder how long it took to paint the rebel symbol onto the super star destroyer

Eckhart: "6 Interdictors destroyed by a single squadron of X-Wings." Empire at War Players: * *confused screaming* *

This is what the Sequel Trilogy should have been; a battle of attrition between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, not just a re-hash of the Original Trilogy.

Pellaeon I think was the best overall Imperial leader. While Thrawn is still the grand master in terms of tactical and grand strategy, Pellaeon also had a good measure of political savvy on his side. He wasn't overly ambitious, he knew his limits, and knew when to pursue peace over conflict for the sake of the Empire's survival.

Admiral Pellaeon has now my respect.

Had the Moffs not been so war-hungry, the Imperial Remnant would still have the remaining Star Dreadnoughts and Interdictor cruisers under their command. Imagine the amount of damage those Star Dreadnoughts would have inflicted on the Yuuzhan Vong. Anyway, excellent video, Ecks! Good work!

Who would love to see a new star wars movie trilogy but during operation shadow hand all the way to the Vong invasion.

I've always wondered where the picture with the SSD's having a slugfest came from.

Here's to Pellaeon, man of loyalty and honor!

In the good Admiral’s words...ITS A TRAP!!!

The battle of Orinda was one of the finest moments of Pellaeon's career. Throughout most of his service history he was one of the most reliably good officers in the Imperial Fleet. His only major failure was at the 3rd battle of Yavin.

I... Why... Why in the hell would they place the fleet carrier there in that formation? Captain be damned the Commander should of had him thrown in the brig for such stupidity.

It’s really nice how Pelion used the Trawn Pincer to surprise the new republic with the second super star destroyer

Even though the battle of Orinda was the last major imperial victory in the post Endor era it's one of my most favorite battles in which Pellaeon proofed that the Empire was still a force to be reckoned with.

I love how the civil war in legends went from a game of tag to a half traditional war to a war between dark and light side of the force to a fully traditional war.

“Thankfully rogue squadron was able to clear out the interdictors” damn new republic survives another battle

A real shame, Pelleon showing some of the skills he has (picked up), managing a victory against the NR (that would've been even greater if not for Plot Armour, uh, Rogue Squadron only for the idiotic Moffs to screw things up. Ah well. He did get a few good ones in still later on.

It hurts, seeing an Executor Super Star Destroyer with that red rebel symbol. Its like putting blue neon lights and family-stickers on a royals royce.

I’d like a new trilogy based around the conflict between the imperial remnant and the new republic.

Im a Rebel and New Republic fanboy, but Pellion was my favorite Impiral, unlike the other greedy Impirals, knew that the time of the Empire had come, and now it was the New Republic turn to rule. Preventing further unnecessary bloodshed. 🙄

Ahh the Lusankaya. When I first read the original 4 book Rogue Squadron run in paperback way back when, that was such a cool scene where what people thought was a massive underground prison was really a SSD, that then blasted it's way out and left. Just picturing such a scene was awesome. A SSD firing up its engines and blasting through kilometers of buildings and infrastructure.

Fascinating.

Holy cheese I had my leopard gecko on my hand 😄😀😀

Great battle breakdown and hi this is great battle and I wish this happen in canon. Great video

Could you do the battle of Yuuzhan Tar? Or would that be too difficult?

90th Attempt: Yuuzhan Vong v. Reapers * Video can be made whenever you feel like now * Disregard that "Attempt 130" business from the stream haha * Thanks for doing all these vids Eck, you're so great

Imagine losing 6 star destroyers to a squad of fighters

Imagine a 10 episode star wars series from the time of Issard all the way to the events of crucible just before the legacy novels

Why is yoda such a good gardener Because he has a green thumb

Pellaeon is such a legend.

Ah, the tried-and-true Imperial strategy of deploying super star destroyers with no more than a token support fleet, if any at all. They keep doing it because it had never led them astray before. If fact, it worked so well the New Republic tried the same tactic at the battle of Orinda. Hopefully that went well.

can you do a video on how the military, particularly warships, transitioned from the republic to the empire?

Hello from Orinda, California. 👋 👋 👋

God imagine the long term fighting in order to capture a super star destroyer

The New Republic was just overpowered. The various fractions of the Empire had far better Resources but still lose because of either Luke, Rougue Squadron or other high held names...

Now, I'm catch myself motivated to return for the dog outro lol

Legends is way more better than Disney Star Wars. 👍

I love your outro. Makes me smile every time. The pup's look of recognition right before the "hand wrestling" starts is hilarious and adorable.

Replicators vs a Unified Star Wars universe (264th try now, *_I._** WILL NEEEEVER EEEVER GIVE UP!!!)*

Pallaeon using his best friend's favorite weapon, the Interdictor brings a smile to my face. He was paying attention

Always glad to see another video! Keep up the good work!

The only question I have is regarding Rogue Squadron. How did they manage to take down six cruisers, being only fighters themselves?

Always wondered what this picture was all about. Love your work Eckhart!

This is honestly one of the best star wars channels on youtube......like just ugh....i love you and your channel!!!!

Great video, with lots of great information. Keep being great!

Awesome video and I love that book. I bought that book a while ago and really loved it. Probably the best, most comprehensive and "realistic" text on star wars warfare out there.

Best transforming fighters: VF-11 thunderbolt from Macross plus vs the Union Flag from Gundam 00 vs the Viking from StarCraft vs the Mecha Tengu from Command and Conquer vs the Legioss from Genesis Climber Mospeda.

Am i the only one who would to see the battle of Orinda in Full Live-action? Up until the part where two SSD's clashed at each other.

Pelleon was such an suave and intelligent man.

That would be epic battle to watch on screen.

I love the video of your dog at the end.

Great Video as always

3:30 pelleon really did learn a lot from the time serving under thrawn

Happy 4th of July dude great video

Good summary. I'm still really angry about the way Jason Fry created this battle in Essential Guide to Warfare for two reasons. First, he took the gutsy, daring Admiral Areta Bell, from X-Wing: Isard's Revenge, and turned her into a showboating, overcautious idiot who gets her whole command killed. Second, this battle takes place just before the wonderful novel X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar, and Fry puts the two major commanding figures of that novel, General Wedge Antilles and Admiral Terik Rogriss, as two of the three major super star destroyer commanders in the battle. So they directly faced off in the battle over Orinda. Problem with that? Wedge would feel the loss of Areta Bell under his command acutely, and he would have done research on Rogriss after losing so badly to Rogriss and Pellaeon's fleet. But in the novel, Wedge feels that his fleet career is going well, and though melancholy because of his general loneliness and his breakup with Qui Xux, he doesn't have the kind of darkness that accompanies the kind of defeat he would have just faced given Fry's retcon. Plus, when he discovers Rogriss is his opposite in the diplomatic mission to Adumar, he has to research Rogriss, and never discovers that they were fighting each other at Orinda. (Furthermore, the kind of victory Rogriss had at Orinda isn't congruent with his downward career path as described in Starfighters of Adumar). All in all, the way Fry creates Orinda is fun, but makes zero sense in the context of Starfighters of Adumar, and since Starfighters of Adumar is one of the best books in the Expanded Universe, the retcon is really stupid.

Another great quality video, as always ;)

The ending is the best part in every video

That doge at the end. Noice

The outro is the best part of ur videos

The most epic looking battle ever

That outro is top-tier.

yay, battle breakdown of one of the few battles where you see a super star destroyer take on a super star destroyer and accompanying fleets

Love you eckheartsladder ❤️ I always watch your video's ❤️❤️

God I love that outro scene so much

How many rebels could even be on a super star destroyer? Not that many because of how many rebels there are, and how much space there is in a super star destroyer. Most of it must be empty

I wish they added more to this campaign as it was epic and love to see more

I LOVE your videos keep it up

I think this is a great case of the New Republic having Imperial style over confidence.

Amazing thank you

So.... Are we not going to mention that cute doggo at the end ?

The EU had a lot of great battles, I hope some of them make it to canon lol

I love this channel that's why I subscribe

Outro gets me every time

by the time the old man of the empire was in command it was too little too late to make a difference in wining the war but his action led to the empire not being totally destroyed and eventually like a phoenix rising again from the ashes ( at least in legends)

I'm just here to see the dog at the end ;)

Someone’s got to draw those two superstar destroyer’s and maybe one day make a book about the Orinda campaign.

So many cool names

Next to Thrawn, Pellaeon is probably the smartest imperial leader. He knew when to admit defeat.

Maybe one day will get an audiobook of this

Good video 👍

RIP Areta Bell, captain of the Endurance class star destroyer Endurance. May she never be forgotten

I would love to see a broadside exchange between SSD's

That nebula got absolutely vibe checked

I had that book right next to me a few hours ago lol

super star destroyer, so powerful that it cant engage anything beyond eye contact

Poor Pellaeon, always the dutiful soldier and would have been a fantastic leader but was lost in the shadows of more powerful individuals.

And here we see a clear demonstration of why you should *really* put your interdiction spheres on your dreadnoughts.

Would love to see ur take on snokes fleet vs the high charity fleet.

This battle marked the end of a era

The moment I see SSDs in your thumbnails.... CLICK

Gotta admit, seeing two Super Star Destroyers broadside one another REALLY tickles my fancy.

The New Republic should have just left the Empire alone.

I respect a lot Gillad Pealeon, he is a true leader of the Empire (the remains) and the fact that he wanted not just peace but also coexist with the New Republic os something that I love from this admiral

It's coming home

There is a reference to this battle and destruction of that fleet carrier in the first chapter of book one of the black fleet crisis trilogy, where fifth fleet is doing war game exercise

Yuuzhan Vong War next please!

1:40 man palleon was great, after so much war since the clone wars he probably feels like he's tired for this

How about the mammoth mk2 from command and conquer vs the AT-AT for your next versus match

Pallaeon has learnt a lot from Thrawn