I wonder if SWTOR will ever tie into this with Vitiate's desire to consume the galaxy. Also I'm still convinced the Exegol cult was loosely based off these guys just done really badly.
It's weird that the force seems to only care about the known galaxy. Like you'd think Anakin brought balance to the whole force yet in both Canon and legends there's all sorts of dark side shenanigans going on in the unkown regions
Perhaps the dark side it just more natural then the light side in the unknown regions then the light side and the force views that as dark side territory with the know galaxy being light side territory with balance making sure never get to much influence in the regions where they are lest natural the the other
@@jetheotaku Yeah, in fact I always thought it a bit weird that "bringing balance to the force" seemed to always mean destroying the dark side. That the unknown territories are more dark makes more sense
Yuen Wang that was really only the view point of George Lucas who doesn’t have any creative input on Star Wars anymore it be like using bob kane input for modern day Batman
@@yuenwang4894 I like the interpretation that bringing balance, means constraining Dark Side users, namely the Sith. We have to remember the Force is life itself, literally every living thing is connected to the Force and becomes one with it upon death. The Force needs life to exist. However those who exclusively use the Dark Side aka the Sith, actively try to use it dominate and destroy everyone and everything around them. Look at all the Sith throughout both Canon and Legends. We've had Sith spread war and destruction throughout the galaxy, several becoming something less then human with some having the power to completely wipe entire worlds of life with a wave of their hands. Such Dark Side users actively disrupt the natural order of things, with many basically wishing to become gods that rule over the universe. So it would make sense that the Force would create a Chosen One to "balance" things out by eliminating Dark Side users, namely the Sith. The reason why I say the Sith are the Forces primary target is because their philosophy actively propagates power crazed maniacs who can single handily disrupt the natural order. Just look at what Palpatine was able to do on his own, his machinations brought about the death of *billions* . The Sith are a natural enemy of life because they seek to dominate it and if failing that, destroy it. Meanwhile you have Dark Side groups like the Nightsisters who were okay with confining themselves to their home world and were willing to form attachments and perform selfless actions. Just look at Mother Talzin, she was nearly Palpatines equal when it came to mastery of the Dark Side and yet she showed a clear love for her son Maul and even sacrificed herself to save him. A true Sith, one following their teachings to the letter, would never do such a thing. So that is why "bringing balance" entails destroying the Sith because even one Sith is enough to disrupt the balance of life. At least that's how I see it anyway.
@@rhymenoceros3303 But the Jedi disrupt the balance as well. While the Sith become so focused on themselves that the value of others means nothing, the Jedi are selfless to the point that life holds no meaning for them. The jedi say things like love and attachment make you weak when those are the things that make us human. The Jedi and Sith are two sides of them same coin.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion Through passion I gain strength Through strength I gain victory Though victory my chains are broken The force shall free me -Sith Code
@ScrubbyGamerNight S Yes but it both lazy and unoriginal in thought. These assholes are just powerful cynics living in another galaxy, too lazy to create or maintain because it is easier to just let shit die. These guys are LOSERS!
"Trying to summon apocalyptic gods in the middle of space, which is not super cool." I love how understated this is. Like could you try to sound less miffed about it if you tried?
The Knell and their dark worship could lead to the end of all things if they and other insidious cults aren't hunted down and exterminated. The eyes of "The Old Ones" remain in the galaxy. And from their dimension they seethe in hatred and lust for domination, chaos, fear, and death.
They know that it's all going to end eventually, so they just hasten the inevitable. The killing and destruction are justified, in their eyes, as it was going to happen anyway, one way or another. Their goal is to simply achieve that state of entropy, perhaps out of a morbid belief that if there is no galaxy there can finally be peace, or possibly because they see any other ambitions of theirs as doomed to failure in the long run and see taking part in the destruction as getting their moneys worth out of it.
Iambic Pendragon and they probably know of the war to come in the future where the Celestials and the eldritch horrors of Otherspace will destroy everything in a hellish apocalyptic war before it all goes... *blank*
Palpatine: “The Empire rules the whole galaxy!” Imperial citizen points to galactic West: “what about all that over ther...” Palpatine: “Quiet, peasant!” Edit: damn guys, this is my most liked comment ever! Gooood, gooood
In a way its kinda like in Renesance or medeval time where Empire couldnt just spread 99% of the planet so it was mostly just the inhabitated area and cities
The Unknown Regions would have been the perfect location to build the sequel trilogy from, whilst simultaneously building up the tension and giving more time for characters to build a dynamic. You could have had Luke, a crabby trickster mentor, with Ben Solo as his eversuffering apprentice, trying to track down Han Solo, who vanished after a supposedly secret mission went belly-up. Along their travels, they interact with the denizens of this unlawful region, with Poe Dameron being a hot-shot pilot whom was re-assigned to their border region, Leia Organa whom is pushing the republic to send a task-force into the regions in order to bring some sort of stability to the area. This would have been the perfect premise to build up the fact that something is coming, something dark, something primordial, something that is not a god-damn reincarnated Palpatine (Hell - the Yuzhon Vong would have been interesting villian)
Well thanks to Disney's stupidity. They have blocked any progression on Legends, and made 3 movies that are trash. Books that are independent. If Star Wars dies. It will be on Disney's hands.
HOLD UP YOU CAN'T JUST WRITE SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS UNIQUE AND EXPECT DISNEY WOULD MAKE THAT. NOPE INSTEAD THEY GO AND MAKE A WATERED DOWN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEE
Alright, guys. which one of you wants to hire this guy? I would, but I don't have the funds for a trilogy, buy the rights from Disney, and dismiss 7-8-9 as the third trilogy at the same time. or either one of them for that matter. So... anyone?
Unfortunately, Disney would not make this because the want to follow their political agenda and promote annoyingly overpowered characters with no development. Also what could they use as marketable plushies to children. This is probably one of the best substitutes for the current sequel trilogy that I have seen, and I bet in some alternate universe this happened, but not in this one.
Crazy how both they and the Mandalorians both came from the Taung. These guys will always be my fav villains. Really wish they would've showed up in more stories.
The Sorcerors of Rhand reminds me of the Sarkic Cult from the SCP Foundation universe, specifically how their members were described as unspeakable and grotesque body horrors, which the Sarkicists are HUGE on body horror and worshiping death and disease, such as creating SCP-610, a disease which turns people into mindless disfigured body horrors.
@OOM- 32 Worshipper of false life, you call the followers of the Grand Karcist abominations when you defile yourselves with lifeless metal. Adytum shall reign eternal
@@DejectedJester What but instinct drives a creature of flesh ? The followers of the great forge seek wholeness and freedom from the repulsive decay that sarkites worship , and they shall once the iron heart is whole again.
They could be really interesting if used in a story primarily about showing how someone could be driven to believing their philosophy. Otherwise they're just kind of boring.
@@AMoistEggroll I think its fair to complain in regards to the villain's factions being a mess since Disney essentially made it that way by having 2 different directors that seemingly didnt communicate shit with each other.
Only at first glance. Call me a heretic, but even the ruinous powers of the Warp have _something_ positive at their very core. Also, Nurgle wants all this sweet, sweet suffering, but he sure as hell does not want all of existence destroyed. The Warp gods are _very_ interested in their continued existence, which also requires a material universe and living beings existing in it. Total entropy is not in their interest.
They're from the Old Republic MMO. Regardless of how anyone feels about the game itself, the cinematics are absolutely god tier. Personally, I really like the content related to the twins. They're expansions related to the Eternal Empire of the planet Zakuul.
I have always wonder why most factions of the unkown region's use the "darkside" of the force. And i guess it is becuase most of the factions move towards the known regions of the galaxy because of resources and etc. Which leaves dark factions like the rand in the unknown regions becuase they were not interested in resources (and that type of stuff) hey where more interested in harnessing the power of time, space, immortality and thoes types of things. Who knows.
@@Monarch_Prime The Eastern side of the known galaxy is " yang " balance with Hutt's Space being the " dot/ yin " of greed, anger, murder, and slavery of suffering.( Darkside) So the Western side of the unknown region of the galaxy is the " Darkside/ yin " balance. Over my pass 30 years of drawing D&D maps, I found myself subconscious drawing in spiritual arch-types themes into the picture. Besides the whole George Lucas " Balance to the Force " is more than a bit childish view. The Old EU was good before Lucas did " Phantom Menace " Anakin is the Chosen One crap. The " OT " was the classic hero journey about father & son. The question to how or why the Emperor Palpatine was defeated, please read Dark Horse comic series that is posted on YT. " Crimson Empire."
I'd love a video on the Unknown Regions. One of my favorite things about Star Wars is the mystery of what's outside the galaxy and what kind of weird things could be out there in deep space.
Shadows of Mindor is such an odd book. It was published in December 2008 (somewhat late in the pre-Disney era) and it wasn’t part of any series, which wasn’t very common in the Lucas era. It was a somewhat random return to the near post ROTJ era, at a time when the timeline was getting pushed further and further out. Plus not many people talk about it (because it quite frankly wasn’t great) and a lot of what is introduced/discussed ended up being largely irrelevant if not boring.
The Star Wars galaxy literally is a yin yang. The light side where history and civilization happened, and who knows what happened stays happened shut up it's happened on the other.
My theory was the galaxy is split in two opposing forces. The light east side representing a more stable place where most of civilization was able to thrive, and a chaotic dark west side where only a few civilians found a way to survive.
Great channel! Really liked the O.T. when I was younger but until recently had no idea what else there was in the Star Wars universe. Didn't enjoy the recent movie offerings, AT ALL! but then along comes The Mandalorian. I started watching Ecks breakdown vids and he mentioned so many related characters and places from various sources and so, I've since binge watched Clone Wars and Rebels and I'm growing a whole new interest in the E.U. that I'm moving on to books and comics next with a big bucket list to get through, so thanks Eck and keep it up!!!!
The known regions should just mass mobilize and explore the unknown regions, it’s frightening to not know what’s literally around the corner, separated by something that isn’t impossible to pass. A major enemy could be lurking, just like the Yuuzhan Vong.
In Starwars when people die they become a part of the force right? So when new people are born is the basically force recycling it’s self or is it possible that the more people who were to die would empower the force in a sense r is it more vice versa?
Perhaps peaceful deaths? Like yodas, not horrific terrifying deaths like when starkiller base deatroyed like 5 planets which send ripples through the force?
Great video Eck. Please make more content on the wierd supernatural aspects in the unknown regions there's so much out there that is frightening and not much coverge on it.
Where is the background video in this video from? The asset list only seems to cover the music, and I'm curious what that whole story is about and if there's more to watch.
Top Hat Mercenary Confederation: “We gonna Explode Unknown Regions, and nobody’s Gonna Stop us. We have a Night Hunter with us, and he will guide us into the Unknown Regions.”
#AskEck What's the range of an Interdiction field? Is it measured in km, light seconds, or AU? What's stopping someone from running away at sunlight speeds until jumping to hyperspace becomes possible?
A " light second " is more or less the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. 1.28sec at c. and 384,402km. In most of the early EU: Legends books it takes a ship between 3 to 5 minutes to get out of a planets gravity well. In the RPG books the average travel time between a planet & it's moon is 30 minutes. More or less it is about the writer building tension in the encounter you are reading.
@@krispalermo8133 well, the Battle of Yavin took place across 2-3 light seconds, given the size of Yavin Prime and sensible orbital radii for such a system, and the Rebel fighters only needed a few minutes to cross that distance, so it's not too out there.
@@silentdrew7636 Years ago I went to two different game shops to RPG. First one in my early 20's and my second one I around 30. We try using the base stats of ship travel speed from WEG with the game play of WotC 3.5e ... while talking in all actions as if it was a ST:TNG & DS9. End effect it Really slow down game, cause a bunch of math paper work. After note taking or actions and dice rolls. We then read off all dialog as Star Trek characters on tv would do. 1.) All action movies are " time compressed " for tension and some scenes are speed up such as running across a battle field yet they then slow the film down where the bullets hit in slow motion. 2.) Yavin is more like Jupiter with its' moons than it is compare to Earth and its moon. So then is a whole different math progression you have to work through. 3.) George Lucas was making an Action Fantasy movie, " thank god he did...! " And to make sure it didn't come off as " nerdy," he left out all math science talk. 4.) Even in the first few seasons of ST:TNG, the writers made math mistakes. Such as " Wounded " where Chief O'brien former captain is attacking Cardassians ships. The run down in one encounter, a Federation attack and destroyed a Cardassian warship with phaser fire at basic the range of 1lt.sec. Sorry at short range a phaser looks like a " laser " single beam of light. but over long range. All a phaser is a burst of sub atomic particles fire off like a high speed bullet within a carrier straw field. Cause the funny thing is, Space is not " Empty " and even your long range weapons need a " navigation defector beam " to clear the bullets flight path, or it " sub atomic particle burst " will be deflected on space dust/ rocks. TNG phaser come off more like chain feed machine guns. Point being, phasers travel just below the c. barrier and a single or multiple phaser bursts will still take a full second to travel one light second. By that time the other ship has already moves dozens or hundreds of km north or south out of the leading aiming zone by drift alone. Base speed just to get into space is 12km/ second. Even if you can tap weapon fire button in 1/ 12 th sec. The ship still moved a 1,000 meters off coarse. 5.) Over the years my old friends and I fill dozens of note books and looking up aiming times and the chances of a hit for air craft that has been built over the pass 60 years. The Battle of Yavin, is a mess of things that can go wrong. The first Death Star was listed as being 120km across. Circumference of 240km. R2-D2, could fly a full circle around it within 20 seconds or less. Kinetic impact from a 6lb/ 3kg sledge hammer will be unbelievable. Sorry for the ramble.... As one or a few people have stated, what was an ideal in the 1940's became science fictions in the 1960's. And 60 years later in 2020's we got, " We did find gravimetic waves particles ! Ok now how do we create them ourselves ?"
I haven't drove too much the unknown regions in Legends I have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to Legend continuity but from very little that I gathered it seems very interesting and I'm looking forward to learn more about it
The reason it is called unknown region is because it is totally crazy to even go there. It will have many undiscovered aliens planets and what's worse predators too. I still have nightmares about the starwars predators we know of.😖😖😖🙀
I'd really like to see a video about Vitiate/Valkorian. That entire era is full of questions from me. I read some of the Wookiepedia page on it, but I think that you may be able to explain it better. Keep up the awesome work.
Hi Eck So on your last video I left a comment asking if there was a ever a pure blood Sith becoming a Jedi and after a little more research I found that during the Jedi knight story in SWTOR (the game I was talking about for inspiration) actually has a selection of missions based around a pure blood named Praven who did become a Jedi after being beaten by the player’s Jedi character. But whilst I have the answer, I have not played the Jedi knight story yet, and would still be hoping if you could maybe cover him in a video and maybe other surprising Jedi/Sith such as the Chis sith and Jedi shown in the game as well. Always love your content, keep it up❤️
That cult is a bunch of haters projecting their own misery onto life itself. Such a group could never fulfill its purpose because they are too self-defeating. There's nothing in it for them if everything is destroyed.
Would anyone be able to tell me where the game/movie/video around 2:02 comes from? The two force users in black and white kinda look like Starkiller from The Force Unleashed but it's been a while since I played that and don't remember if it's from there tho I suspect it's from something else.
I fear when humans reach deep space and I fear more what we eventually find. There will be places out there in our own universe that will totally puzzle us. What people need to realise it just how big our universe is.
