The Best Faction in Star Wars Explained 

Chiss deck officer: "Grand Admiral. The Republic outnumber us 10 to 1." Thrawn: "Then it's an even fight."

Heck yeah!!! I love the visual story-telling that all the Chiss military uniforms use: 12 families, all with different colors, leaving the military to wear black as a combination of all colors, for they serve all families equally. Meanwhile, Navigators and Admirals wear white, for they serve no families, but the Chiss as a whole.

Honestly, the Chiss deserve more coverage in my opinion

I love the way the Chiss are designed, with their red eyes and blue skin

Also, I’ll admit... If it wasn’t the Mandalorians who were the best faction, it would have to be the Chiss

The eyes and skin could be from a genetic mutation. Everyone on earth today with blue eyes have a single common ancestor that lived 10,000 years ago. There was also a fisherman from Iceland in recent times that survived at sea in freezing water for hours and turned out he had a genetic mutation which helped him retain body heat almost like a seal.

I really wish we had more designs and images for Chiss ships and fighters.

"The Chiss are extremely fit, probably due to their culture" Well, they might be a civilization of gym rats, but it's useful to note that the Chiss we encounter are almost entirely active-duty military serving in combat zones. You'd expect troops like that to make it a point to stay in shape, regardless of their homeland.

Before watching the Video, my vote would go to the Eternal Empire. For all the crap Valkorion did in the known Galaxy, he was a great leader for Zakuul. The civilians had peaceful lifes and had nothing to fear, the soldiers were exceptionally brave and the Knights viewed the Force not limited like the Jedi and Sith. But then Valk's past catched up and well, the rest is history.

After playing Thrawn's Revenge, they definitely are.

A combination of the Chiss and the Mandalorians would be OP

Significant mutations in skin pigmentation have certainly evolved in less time than 27,500 years here on Earth. Though evolving a blue pigment would be an interesting process...

So basically the Chiss are the Swiss?

"27,000 BBY...back *BEFORE* the *INVENTION* of the Hyperdrive and FTL travel." Seriously, Alan? I'm gonna need my glasses for this one. **puts on obnoxiously nerdy glasses** Any youngling who knows 5th grade Galactic History can tell you that the existence of the Hyperdrive goes back well beyond 27,000 years BBY and that the modern Hyperdrive was reverse-engineered from the Rakatan Hyperdrive in the Corellia System. The Rakata had FTL technology at least 10,000 years before the founding of the Old Republic. And we know that they inherited that when they overthrew the Kwa and stole the secrets to their FTL Infinity Gates, and the Kwa who in turn took that technology from the Celestials who were traversing the Galaxy with FTL Drives well over 100,000 years BBY. And who's to say that the Celestials weren't inspired to develop hyperdrive technology from the Purrgils who have had the natural ability to fly through hyperspace for the Force knows how long. When you don't know something that basic about Galactic History it just really makes you look like a dork Alan. **pushes up on the rim of obscenely nerdy glasses**

...aside from having more advance starships, the Chiss sound a lot like the T'au from 40k. The devotion to the role in society, the noble caste that runs the government, stealth suits, small territory, blue skin. I wonder if they were inspired by each other as they were developed more.

Imagine a Chiss/Mandalorian hybrid, that's also force sensitive, now that would be a deadly warrior.

Could you do an episode one fighter escape systems. T-65 pilots have been told to eject but we have never ever see a single pilot punch out (Fin's chute landing in Force Awakens being the only landing but no explanation of ejecting). Thank you and may the force be with you.

Chiss Ascendancy? That's pretty Chissy come to think of it.

I thought at first Mandalorians (partially because I'm a little biased), but as soon as you said the Chiss Ascendancy, I had to agree.

Chiss are human offshoots, adapted to their environment... So they have the same ancestors as humans.

Suggested topic: How to reform and fix the Republic in the pre Clone Wars era? Say around 200 BBY when it's relatively static and just slowly sinking into corruption and complacency. And a separate what if? What if Yoda had been taken out or retired around the start of the Clone Wars (maybe even around the time of TPM) and say Mace Windu had been made leader. And what if Yoda wasn't in the picture for decades before.

I remember A Imperial Soldier on Hoth in SWTOR say something like, there exotic and another saying its like that until you wake up with a knife in your throat and the Cold stare was colder than Hoth

The Chiss were indeed a great faction, I really respect them and they make great allies, especially to the Sith Empire back in the day. And I admit that their red eyes and blue skin are very attractive

I want to see more of the Chiss and UR factions but I love the Republic in the third year of the CW with the Empire.

Correction: human sleeper ships actually did have ftl travel, it was just incredibly slow so people would often need to carbonite freeze themselves. Edit: Maybe the skin defects are a result of 1,000+ years in stasis Edit 2: I also doubt that the chiss are the most technologically advanced, I mean the final order had a fleet of more practical death stars.

The only issue I see in the Chiss (Thrawn being the exception), is their stiffness when it comes to regulations and protocol, sure those things run an efficient machine, but sometimes other methods are required.

WE ARE CELESTIAL BEING!! sorry wrong Franchise D:

The Chiss remind me of the Tau from Warhammer 40K. Small, but efficient and technologically advanced hierarchical race of blue humanoids.

Outbound Flight was so good at expanding the Chiss. Top 10 SW novels imo

I always wrote the Chiss off bc of Thrawn’s cold and calculated nature. I mean I guess they are like that, but they have a lot more dimension to them than I thought. I play in Star Wars DnD 5e campaign, and my dm is thinking of doing an unknown regions campaign after our current one. This still (10:50) during this part of the video gave me the best character idea: a 7-12 yr old Chiss kid joins the rag-tag unknown regions exploration ship (it’s a remodeled Nebulon-B with tons of different people from across the galaxy). I’d play a non-Force class but with the Force-sensitive feat (Magic Initiate in regular DnD terms). Secretly, it’s a Chiss Navigator in training, who ran away from the Ascendancy. But they’re so rare, they want her back, and will stop at nothing to collect her!!

Love that comment at the end about how size matters and how you turned it around. Very funny.

Cosmic Smurfs~

You guys should totally cover the Kaleesh sometime! They’re extremely under reviewed and their culture is pretty interesting

This channel is such quality. You won’t hear story telling like the way this guy does it.

The use of Force sensitive navigators and the Unknown Regions being impossible to traverse using conventional navcomputers reminds me a lot of Warhammer 40,000 travel, except there aren't soul eating creatures waiting for you when you shift into hyperspace...that we know of. Considering that the Force could allow persons and objects to be moved across light years of distance, it wouldn't surprise me if there were dangerous things lurking in the hyperspace lanes of the Unknown Regions.

4:03 "As if some ancient race was capable of moving stars and black holes around to create a giant _Celestial_ Wall" I see what you did there.

At 7:23 you described the Chiss as a "hegemonic" government but then went on to describe an oligarchy.

I enjoy listening to your channel as you are so interesting and informative! Thank you!

Jagged Fel is not a half Chiss, he was actually Wedge Antilles’s nephew.

My favorite Star Wars faction is Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. I love everything about it. Amazing design when it comes to buildings, starfighters, ships and ground vehicles. Badass clone army wearing sleek armor, hundreds of different Jedi Knights and all that good stuff. Plus I love the music theme for the Republican Army. Even more than the Imperial March.

This is the perfect example of a tall empire versus a wide empire.

were there ever any Jedi or Sith Chiss

Remember that the best tactician in the empire was a chiss

"They could see in the infrared spectrum" I think that qualifies as more than "a bit" better than human vision.

Awesome I was hoping this video would be about the Chiss ascendency, and I was not disappointed. I love the Thrawn books.

Congrats... Your video actually made me consider a possible reason for the Fermi Paradox. What if WE exist in our version of the UNKNOWN REGIONS?

I figure the reason Thrawn liked the empire is because he saw it as a step toward the hyper disciplined duty based society of the Chiss, but didn't realize that such a system couldn't possibly work for a larger more diverse faction.

As Legends fan, I'd say the Fel Empire, particularly the Imperial Order. The emperor himself was more of a constitutional monarch while the government was the same type of the galactic republic, but now with the moffs in charge of the administration of local systems, this due to the fact that the empire was created through the unification of the New Republic with the remains of the Galactic Empire with one of the generals being crowned emperor as part of the peace treaty. The order itself used the light side, but they didnt focus their efforts on meditation and were not seeking to become one with the force, they sought and praised efficiency and efficacy alone, much to the dislike of the remaining jedi of the galaxy, and that put the strenght of the members between that of a jedi master and your average sith lord. They also prevented the emperor from ever becoming a corrupt leader, having orders to kill him if he ever fell to the dark side and to execute themselves if they felt they were going to fall as well. In short, they prevented corruption, they could sense if someone was acting immoral or embracing their inner darkness and they could kill them for it, it was impossible to be a corrupt politician much less an corrupt or tyrannical emperor with them around and if you tried to bribe or blackmail them, they would either kill you, kill themselves(if they felt tempted) or both. Of course you wouldn't be able to become a force ghost by following them, but hey that was never a problem for the other factions.

If only we've seen more of the Chiss other than Thrawn in canon. Granted in the books we see a bit more but marginally

If Earth is in Star Wars, the Terrans will be the best & worst faction! 😂

I find the Chiss a very interesting race, in Star Wars the Old Republic, playing as a Chiss you begin to learn alot about a race. Specially if their a Imperial Agent.

Three words sum-up the Chiss: Walk the walk.

The chiss in Legends are even MORE badass, Thrawn met Palpatine 2 YEARS before the Clone Wars! Disney should read it's mail.

Best faction was the Pius Dea, cause they put humanity first.

Awesome Video!!!!

Jagged Fel is fully human, being the child of 2 Corellians, Baron Soontir Fel and Syal Antilles Fel. He did however grow up in the Empire of the Hand and then joined the Chiss military, so he was certainly shaped by Chiss society and culture, but he wasn't a Chiss-Human hybrid.

Been watching your channel for some time now, quite entertaining, keep it up! I have one question though what does the tattoo on your arm say?

That artwork is amazing!

Bruh the Chiss sound way better than humans lol, at least humans from Earth! Chiss vs Vulcans?

I love your star wars vidoes

Oh and also. The Hapin Consortium is pretty cool, brings an entire Game of Thrones feel to my flavor of space opera.

The clone army plus the Jedi vs thanos and his army. Please make this happen

8:57 is from the game Avorion It’s community has tons of Star Wars based designs and also a lot of other cool ships to fly in the conquest of the galaxy

I wanna give a Chiss a Kiss..

I remember there was a little novel written about a chiss padawan that I was really excited for back in elementary school, maybe the jedi didn't know about the fading.

I found that the Chiss ships at 9:25 are called patrol frigates, but I haven't found any other good pictures of them beyond that one pic. Are there any blueprints or more detailed views of them out there? Seems like an awesome design.

Of course it's the Chiss, they're basically a fanfiction race created just so that we could get a super competent genius alien commander in the Empire.

I just gotta like the video before I actually watch it, because it's a generation tech video, all of their videos are amazing

What happened to British Ben

Plot Twist: Nightcrawler is really a Chiss with yellow eye contacts

Wonder what the Chiss thought of the Mandalorians :-)

Hey I recognise that thumbnail! ;) (I painted it)

Sir Allan where did you get your awesome reference pictures of the Chiss please let us know

The best faction is the chiss ascendancy?! NOT HUMAN?!?!?! Generation tech has turned on us!!!

100/10 for the Charmander evolution line ending in a blue flamed Charizard

Watched a lot of your videos - great stuff! If you were force sensitive, do you see yourself going jedi or sith?

The chiss fleet relied on navigators..? *Looks at Warhammer's psykers that handled navigation via their mental abilities to avoid warp fissures and being pulled into the Warp itself.* " ... Huh. For the chiss emprah, then. "

Humans evolved on a constant set of natural laws on Earth, if they migrated to another habitable world with somewhat different laws of nature in 27,000 years the body would quickly evolve to match those variants in the environment such as blue skin and higher metabolism along with adjustments of the immune system.

The Chiss Ships look so cool.

Yes

The Chiss are one of my favorite races

Jagged fel was actually a full blooded human. His parents were baron soontir fel of the galactic empire and wedge antilles' sister. He was raised in the chiss ascendancy however, but a full blooded human.

I like the Chiss

They’re kinda like the Andoreans of Star Trek. The Chiss are probably one of my most favorite factions in Star Wars along with the Mandaloreans, and the Jedi.

Perhaps their diet had a high amount of something like colloidal silver which can build in the body in high enough concentrations to turn the skin blue.

Like the armour for the thumbnail very legends feel

Basically space Japanese without craziness and Anime

So the Chiss navigated the universe the same way the Imperium of Man does in 40k. But with less demons.

Ok but anyone know who made that art in the thumbnail, that looks amazing

I am with you in that force sensitive beings can see and anticipate blaster bolts but wouldn't you need fast reaction time and reflexes and proper lightsaber technic to execute that deflect?

Been wondering if you could have the saber color of choice what color and why?

Start of video: The Republic and the Empire are good factions three seconds later: The Chiss are awesome *YEET!*

If Legends was present, I reckon my vote would go to The Infinite Empire, due to their sheer domination (before their fall). The Eternal Empire was also very powerful, and good to its own people.

Lol reminds me of the navigators of Warhammer (forgot how they’re called atm)

I would say that a trilogy written by Mr. Zann would be as big a shift in cinema as star wars was back in '77

Can you do a video on galactic marines

your videos haven’t been recommended to me in a long time for some reason. i hope this isn’t a widespread issue for other users

Like the beard Alen

You should do a what if jango fett lived from the battle if geonosis with the clone wars and everything like the attack on kamino and stuff like that

the chiss navigator are like the astropths in w40k, the astropaths have psychic capabilities and can feel in the warp the psychic essence of the emperor, the human god so they can guid the ships