The Empire is broken... this shouldn't have happened 

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Bro gave his beard to Rampart😭

So in the Emperor’s Empire, you had Tarkin discarding the competent Imperial officers, meanwhile Darth Vader was choking the life out of incompetent officers, so the safest bet in the Empire, was to be a mid, extremely mediocre officer, I am sure in the officers’ break room “out of sight, out of mind” was their mantra to live another day 😅

Crosshair said it best: Loyalty to the empire doesn’t go both ways. You’re more of a cog to them that’s easily replaced.

First Tarkin throws Rampart underneath the bus; then he eliminates Krennic. Both were ruthless monsters but in the authoritarian Empire they were some of the best leaders in the system. And of course, let's not forget the massive idiocy that was destroying Alderaan: in a High Human Culture society, you go after the aliens first and quietly sweep up the humans suporting them; if Tarkin had destroyed Mon Cala or an Outer Rim world like Lothal, the backlash wouldn't have been so fierce. Then Tarkin backs the worst people possible: Pryce was an imbecile who climbed the ranks thanks to aiding Tarkin in his political manuvearing. Thrawn, while a strategic genuis, was forced to accommodate Pryce for the political leaverage she wielded and Tarkin did little to aid Thrawn on this front. Even in BB S3, he's quarreling with Hemlock over finances and trying to worm his way into Tantiss!

Palpatine after the creation of the Empire kind of reminds me of Plaguis in his book, where they both gain as much power in the mundane world as they possibly can before realizing that true power comes from unlocking the full potential of the dark side where they then abandon just about everything but their studies and leave the domination of the galaxy to their apprentice/underlings which ultimately leads to their downfall

"The Empire is Broken" You say that as if it wasn't intentionally made to be a pyramid scheme that only truly benefits Palpatine.

What’s most unbelievable about the imprisonment of Rampart js the Emperor didn’t need to actually imprison him. The Emperor could easily have gone through the motions of punishing Rampart only to have e him whisked into a secret team on any number of secret vault worlds or secret projects. In an Empire comprised of millions of inhabited worlds and, I assume, has many thousands of secret projects happening at any given time, the Emperor could have done it. But the other problem with being evil and narcissistic is you can’t be bothered to make that kind of effort.

0:04 Also Palpatine: "I love democracy. I love the Republic."

Rampart stole Alan's beard

Palpatine's command over the darkside was such that he could draw on the hatred and suffering of others to empower himself. Whats more, he was in his late seventies by the time the Clone Wars ended. Combined you begin to understand why he was so mask off post republic even though the Empire was far from complete. He would either find a way to extend his lifespan through plundering the galaxy, or die with the satisfaction he got to spend his golden years being cartoonishly evil. Palpatine was the perfect Sith, so completely selfish he was willing to squander the thousand year old grand plan for no reason other than it didn't directly benefit him to execute it to completion.

The empire really was a clusterfuck of donkeys leading lions (or in Thrawns case, lions leading donkeys). If Rampart had the good fortune to be placed under Thrawns command insead of Tarkins he would likely have become one of Thrawns most trusted officers, the guy he trusts to run things.

Clean shaven Alan will haunt my dreams like a creepypasta

Palpatine made the empire around himself and it fell with him

Admiral Rampart grew a beard, Alan shaves his. Hmmm, conspiracy?

Vader had to kill so many incompetent officers because of people like Tarkin, but he can only be in so many places at once.

Alan's face looks different...

*thumbnail* How the mighty have fallen on Admiral Rampart.

Its also sad to see people that served the republic and the empire see this chaos around them and either did nothing or decided to instead add more fuel to the fire by joining it knowing full well that it could've led to the destruction of the empire.

An excellent analysis of the Empire and its intrinsic deficiencies. With respect to idealistic people like Rampart, you have two possible scenarios: first, the more they learn about how the system they support actually works, the more disillusioned they become and the more likely they are to ultimately betray it and defect, which is essentially what happened with Agent Callus in Rebels. Alternatively, they maintain their loyalty but come to see its leadership as the ultimate source of imperfection and conspire with like-minded people to overthrow it. A perfect example of this in real life was Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators in the July Plot. Whatever the case, it's only a matter of time before they become a threat to those in power. Thus, his face turn (assuming that's what the writers of the show intend) doesn't come as a complete shock.

I was under the impression that Rampart overestimated his own importance to the Empire. He got perks, even believed in the New Order, but lacked the clout of someone like Tarkin or Mass Ameda, so when the Senate found out it his Star Destroyers that destroyed Tipoca City, he was the one left holding the bag. And the Emperor was able to put everything on him.

James Norrington vibes anyone?

🎶 somebody got a haircut 🎶

"And run by a bunch of chaotic..." Good analysis. There are several authoritarian leaders available currently for comparison. I'd like to see your analysis of their organizations versus the Empire, as you started with Hitler's.

I like how recently in Star Wars Media, they been actually showing “WHY” exactly The Galactic Empire are the “BAD GUYS.” 😉

5:49 the shitty part is that all these shows revolve around “some how palaptine returned”

Great video but the opening title is a misnomer. The empire wasn't broken, it was functioning as Palpatine intended it to. It was an extension of his self serving will, a pyramid of power where he was at the top and everyone else below him.

Praise be to sweet baby Yoda, the Star Wars channel has provided more factually accurate info than 90% of RU-vid pointing out that the Aryans were Persians. Please for the love of the Great Father Skywalker, make a side channel on actual world history. I think you would do a better job than the vast majority of the current producers.

you always gotta squeeze that helldivers reference in there (6:30)

A bit the emperor's brain got fried when his face did.

Damn dude, going with the clean look.

Im begining to think that deflected Sith lighting may have fried the Emperors brain a little..

Thrawn's story is a perfect example of this. If the Empire hadnt been so focused a culture on glory, pretisige, and personal achievement, they would have been far more likely to see the wisdom in Thrawns tactics and projects (like the TIE fighter initiative) and apply them. The talent and quality were all stamped on by the power hungry, and thats what made the empire fall. So poetic considering that' quite literally what the dark side does to an individual.

Good stuff, Alan, like always. I guess it's spring because it was time for the annual spring shaving.

Oh well beard gone, carry on.

Great video sir. Love the detail and passion you have for it. Not sure it's a video you would want to make but if you were Palatines second instead of Tarkin in the beginning after the clone wars how would you have made the Empire work. What initiatives, reforms, focus would you champion and how would you have dealt with the insurgency?

Who else was expecting Rampart was going to be Tarkin’s protege?

Thanks Alan 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

If Rampart just reassigned Howzer’s unit and had another stationed on Ryloth, he would have gotten away with it.

I love this channel! Where you give great insight and wonderful content on motives and politics, going through Star Wars with a fine comb other channels that say they are fans like ‘Thor Skywalker’ just give a barebones explanation as “I hope the Rampart situation doesn’t turn him into a rebel because that story has been told before” never mind the bad batch series show you great character development over three seasons. Those content creators that called this episode boring is simply because they could not be bothered to make their own connections for this character and his place in the wider story.

I like the new look Alan

The Emperor's Work Husband Tarkin was who sewed the seeds of the Emipre's fall.

Excellent analysis. The Empire is an absolute flustercluck, and Tarkin is part of it. Fun, that.

oh bro I totally forgot this dude. Looks way different.

Well said and I agree

Alan, what do you consider to be the star wars equivalent to the Mazda Miata?

How do you not have over 1 million subscribers? You've phenomenal content, and it's always relevant, in some manner, to what is going on right now around the world.

Honestly I'm surprised Rampart was still alive at this point. Palpatine can be even more brutal to failures then Vader is, as terrifying and brutal as Vader force choking an Imperial Officer to death or impaling them with a lightsaber its tame in comparison to how Palpatine would treat Imperial officers that screwed up in a big way hell even non-officers just ask Beval Lemelisk the Death Star Archetect who Sidious executed by throwing him to flesh eating bettles, then cloned and essence-transfered him only to execute him a second time by dropping him into a vat of molten copper and repeat the process. That's just one example you need also take a look at the Crimson Protectors in how they the most elite of the Emperor's guards were trained he'd have trainees at the end of the class paired up and have to fight each other to the death for a position in the guard, very often the two guard trainees were good friends and the trainees previous had trained in teams. Also overpreformers risked having to fight Darth Vader when Sidous and Vader both showed up when that happened Palpatine would select the best in the class and have them fight Vader to the death in an arena called the Squall and well anyone knows what happens when they have to fight Darth Vader one vs one you are dead no matter what. But yeah given Palpatine's brutality towards anyone that draws his ire or hell even people that preform too good its surprising that Rampart was alive, albiet sent to waste the rest of his days in a labor camp and even more so considering Rampart was a loose end and Sidious doesn't like leaving loose ends alive just ask Lama Su and the Kaminoans as a whole; you'd think that he'd have used Rampart as a brutal example to any Imperial officers. Just saying Rampart being alive is something that bastard can count himself lucky for considering that Sidious has killed people for far less and well the guy is a psychopath who enjoys killing people in messed up fashion the guy's first act on becoming a Sith was to murder his entire family something that very few Sith Lords are attributed as doing, the only other Sith of note to have done that was Darth Vitiate who like Palpatine was also a cold-blooded psychopath.

1:14 Yo Alan’s bread just went into hyperspace and went to the unknown regions

Who is this man and what did he do to Alan?

Looking good

Amazing video

7:00 and yet the Sith Eternal were able to build and staff a huge fleet of massive star destroyers each of which were armed with a planet-killing weapon…

How the empire made it 20 years is a Down right miracle.

The Automatons are invading in the West. Super Earth needs you Gen Tech.

Very Nice 🖤🖤

It's almost as if Star Wars is showing us that dictatorships don't work as a lesson for IRL

Looks so different 👀

0:18 AAAH! Unexpected baby Alan face again!

12:24 ish. i've always wondered how they got those third person hologram footage. was there another ship just floating around recording stuff? lol

Like the new look Alan

You know Alan doesn’t look bad at all clean shaven, the Obi wan beard will be missed.

Wow how young he looks 😮

I will always say it. Absolutely no one did more damage to the empire then tarkin

Excellent video as always but you need to bring back the beard brother

Bit of a counter point though is actually, a lot of leaders unfortunately are like Wilhuff Tarkin. However unlike Tarkin, most of them are willing to spend time on people worth the effort. In other words you exist to make your leaders look good, if you do it enough, eventually they will take notice and they will make you look good in turn.

Had Vice Admiral Rampart replaced the clones on his ship with soldiers from War Mantle, his fate would have been different… until Tarkin figured out that Rampart would eventually take his position. At that point, Tarkin would set him up for failure and get rid of him. So, basically, Rampart was always one slip up away from prison. Or execution. As for Palpatine, he would have been better off letting others be the face of government while he secretly manipulated things behind the scenes. That way, he could simply instigate a regime change to give the appearance of democracy while he still held the reins from the shadows. It’s kinda how DCAU Lex Luthor didn’t want to be President because he’d have to give up too much power.

Rampart has always looked like woody to me somehow he looks even more like woody now 🤣

The irony of a system that promisses order be run by chaotic individuals

Yay Hell Diverse reference

Ramparts problem was he got caught with something that was poltitically inconvenient at a time when the empire wasnt firmly entrench yet. If it had been 5 yeara later he'd have been fine.

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please can you make a video about how the bad batch will brake omega out. I love your videos

Anakin liked Tarkin in clone wars so I wonder if maybe that also played a part in Palpatine in having him around. A team up of Rampart and Thrawn at the top instead of Tarkin would've done wonders for the empire.

Where is that scene of Rampart in the cell from?

Rampart having beard look like dormir imperial officer

You are partially correct. Linguistically speaking, the Aryan peoples started in Ukraine and went on a population replacement campaign West and South. Basically replacing every population in Europe and most of the Middle East to northwestern, India.

If you were Palpatine's key advisor starting on the first day of the Galactic Republic, what would you advise Palpatine to do? This would make a great video.

Sorry this is off topic, but is that the Hudson River outside the window behind you?

Rampart's mistake: he was caught

An imposter! Doppelganger! Alternate! Who is on my screen!?!?

I never really understand why slavery is so huge in Star Wars. I know you can make the argument against droids for the empire. It was right after the clone wars and anti droid sentiment, all that. But a droid workforce is so much less resource intensive. You’d think the pros would out way the cons just from a practical standpoint. That’s not even mentioning the moral implications that go along with slavery.

Alan did you get glasses? Something seems different

I recall in the marvel Starwars comic adaptation there Wes a battle station named the Tarken.

When you lose a fight with a dolphin they always take what you most value. They took Alan’s beard. Those damn dirty fish.

Ah you missed that he was also expendable, and a good scape goat if necessary.

After watching this video, I cannot helped but wondering what went through Palpatine's mind when he heard that Tarkin is no more and so did most of the high-ranking Imperial military officers onboard the First Death Star. Personally, I believed he went into total panicking mode because he had no idea what to do with this like at all. But what do you guys think?

Fellow Alan has became an imperial officer hence the shiny face 🫡

Man, that baby face is really setting me on edge

Rampart's worst trait is defintely the fact that he looks uncannily like Woody from toy Story

No ads on this one😂 Damnit yt, chill!

Kinda makes you wonder how the hell the Galactic Empire even lasted as long as it did. It's no wonder why it fell to the Rebel Alliance. 😂

Beardless Alan doesn't exist, he can't hurt you...

What did the Sith do to Alan's face?

pls dont do that again LMAOOOOO

When will we see this new haircut? I like it's potential.

Waiting for Alan to blame tarkin for why stormtroopers have such bad aim

If you want to make a comparison, Hitler with Palpatine. Hitler despite being an idiot at times knew when to and where to garner support, he started off with with the economic issues Germany was facing, then in time when he and the Nazis got into enough of a position of power he then shifted to propaganda tactics, he played on people's fears making Jews and enemy to target, gettign worse and worse over time, even came up with the whole Aryan Race nonesense. He always had consistant "enemies" to put blame on, his undoing came from overextending Germany's military into a 2 front war with most of Europe, he succeeded well politically, but failed militarily, but still he propped up loyal but devoted followers but still took some of their advice and placated to the people to some degree. Palpatine on the other hand basically neglected the Empire, heck he was already laying the groundwork for his dark experiments during the Clone Wars, Mount Tantus and other secret locations like Byss in the old EU. He was rather egotistical. He'd have to be to willingly trust agents with these secret locations and clearly already had some of the Death Star starting construction. He propped up essentially yes men and didn't take long before placating the people wasn't important to him anymore. He constantly drove people and even military officers to despise him.

Wow! It’s amazing how an animated series can so closely depict modern politics. I think bringing Rampart back in the picture will set up the remaining episodes. Will Rampart seek revenge on the Empire and assist the Bad Batch, or will he seek favor from the Empire and rat them out?

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