OOM-9 is pretty cool. Everything from his color scheme, voice, to his overall competence as a droid commander just makes him interesting. I always appreciated how in the novelization of The Phantom Menace, he gets a lot more dialogue.
@@debbiebernhardt5406 I just checked the Star Wars wiki, and it doesn't have anything on what OOM stands for. Could you give a source on where you got that information?
In Legends, I heard OOM-9 was rebuilt and was in services through into the Clones Wars. Sadly, that Legends no longer canon because we will get to see this droid commander in the Clones Wars.
As kids you just gravitate to certain characters, and for my little brother it was the Battle Droids and he couldn’t get enough of them. And I remember after we saw the movie my dad took us to a toy store to buy a Episode 1 toy and my brother got OOM-9
3:12 that part, there were a few parts he covered inaccuratly: OOM-14 wasn't really captured, and OOM-9 didn't recover the software by himself, OOM-14 was actually killed by Naboo troops from the town where OOM-14 had set up a base camp where the CCC software was located that controlled a leigon of B1 battle droids that were in charge of capturing the small town of harte secur, just before OOM-14 was killed he sent an S.O.S as the Naboo troops then stole the Software causing OOM-14's troops to shutdown and be disconnected from the droid control ships CCC, as the town of Harte Secur worked at reverse engineering the CCC software to seize control of the entire droid army, Viceroy Gunray received the S.O.S in time to realize that his invasion could be compromised, he contacted OOM-9 to warn him about the Incident, and OOM-9 left his battalion of droids at the last town they captured and he along with a squad of Droidekas, a small platoon of Security Droids and a Nemoidian technician and 4 AATs he then arrived at OOM-14s base camp where he moved on to harte secur, he destroy the towns outer defenses as the Platoon moved in to recover OOM-14s software, rendezvousing with the Nemoidian technician at the base camp OOM-9 then restored the Software into the base camp as OOM-14s leigon of Droids were reactivated and where placed under OOM-9s command and ordered the droids to destroy the town of Harte Secur and Massacre the inhabitants... that's what mostly happened look up on Wookiepedia on OOM-9 and his biography.
If you're looking for someone else to talk about, I'd go with Rune Hako. He was with Gunray in all three movies and I'd love to learn if he did anything of noteworthiness during the Clone Wars, since much like the Separatists Council(outside of Gunray, Watt Tambor, and Poggle) the Clone Wars TV series didn't show what he was up to. Also, since you just talked about all OOM-9 did during The Phantom Menace, it shows how much bigger that story was, and now makes me hope for a video talking about everything that happened during The Battle of Naboo, similar to the video on the First Battle of Geonosis.
If you're going to tell the story line of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds you might want to mention in the video that this content is where it's from maybe add a little screen time of the game in there as well
Hear me out...how cool would it be if we got a novel from someone like Timothy Zahn about a droid commander that had some type of glitch in his programming that actually made him a very competent commander, and the book is about the droid leading successful attacks against the Republic.
You predicted my thoughts perfectly in your suggestion to make (a) video(s) about other other protagonists that are in the background of the movies, but equally important to lore as the main characters.
Honestly, I figured those were different commanders throughout, with OOM-9 only in command at the Battle of the Great Grass Plains. Either that, or OOM-9 was the designation of the type of droid commander rather than a specific droid. I didn't realize they were the same character throughout.
Tbh, I had no idea that this is actually one droid. for years, I thought that these are separate yellow color droids that were spreaded in strategic locations by The Trade Federation.
He used pretty good tactics not to mention the ones in the vid but with those tanks he tried to reduce losses by hitting them with there main guns first and only deployed when he saw that it was not working
40k:"We can throw chunks of stars at a base" Star Wars: "Yes, and we can blow up ten of them at once" Necrons, and their Celestial Orrery: "Yeah... So we could destroy the entire galaxy in an instant...." Never try to one-up Warhammer.
Wow i thought i didn't notice it look like the same. Love to see same of them survive then come out book Bobo Fett . It's is good storyline .how some smuggling to use security Droid in tatooine
Vid idea: why did separatist battle droids ever surrender? Since their generals obviously didn't care about them why was this written in their programming?
For a basic loremaster like me, I sure overlook him ("it" is undeserving of the droid) quite a lot. As much as I still prefer Empire at War more that Galactic Battlegrounds, the latter sure has its setpieces, even if the multitude of mostly non-canon/semi-canon units and vehicles used and the AoE II replication of the game kinda bugs me. Edit: "Without incident?" Why do I have the feeling these words mean "war crimes galore"?
For Matthew Chenault at comment of the week: Nah not just stars but ones weaponized to go supernova wiping whole fleets and planets. Also if you are referring to cringe fanfics that Disney has put out, nah those aint canon, though if legends have something like that you got my attention.
Everyone out here saying its the command ship that’s responsible for oom-9. Nah chief it was millions of 13 year olds around the world preparing hours per mission whose final fight lasted 5 minutes.
Is no one gonna point out the fact that the campaign in Naboo was a heavily armed and technologically advanced army against scattered subpar forces Only in the great battle did he ever have a chance to lose It’s not that impressive
Since I've seen Phantom Menace in my early teens, these battle droids are my favourite. The chunky super battledroids are not my taste at all. It was an extremley good choice from Lucas to bring this thin tin fellas in the lore as antagonists - destroyable opponents - they were very helpful to show how potent was the Jedi order in combat in its twilight. I think the prequel serie would be a huge dump without them. If the moviemakers been forced to stand ordinary soliders against the Jedi and every battle would be a general bloodbath the prequel serie I'm sure been dumped. bytheway what game is that at 3:27? Thanks.
imagine a series about background characters, where each episode tells the backstory/story of a background character, like "OOM9: A star wars story" or R2-D2's battle droids. and the series will live up to the title of "every character in star wars has a story"
Definitely a battle droid commander with a good record. Even some Tactical Droids can't boast about having his sort of success although it could be argued the central computer did much of the processing for him. Nevertheless, I'm grateful for this video and look forward to the next one about another forgotten Star Wars antagonist.
Imagine if OOM-9 being a member of the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire. The Rebel Alliance was composed of people from the Republic and Separatists who joined together against a common foe.
I like to think that the CCC helped play a roll in this. All the Battle Droids would report to the CCC, it would formulate plans and send them to OOM-9, where he would choose and change plans based upon battlefield conditions. I feel like when the Trade Federation and latter the CIS stopped using CCC's for armies, they lost fluidity in their military operations.
yep, should have kept CCCs, they should have just had multiple CCCs for redundancy, and then mind-linked the droids themselves so the ones upgraded with processors could have a psuedo-CCC if all CCCs are destroyed.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I think the Tactical Droids fits what you described in the end. In a Bad batch episode the used the head of one to activate offline battle droids, I thought it looken similar. Edit: Maybe if there where more tactical droids spread out through the army, since the old version was replaced by the super tactical droids then the old model could be repurpoused as a sergeant or something.
This sent me reeling back to when I first started playing Galactic Battlegrounds. One of my favourite classic RTS games; and yeah, OOM-9 was an efficient MENACE to the ground forces of Naboo.
it'd be pretty easy to handwave recreating OOM-9, since it would make a decent amount of sense to keep OOM-9 around to reverse engineer his command protocols (as was with OOM-14) and then archive it.
personally, i like to think the command battle droid in episode 3 we see is OOM-9, he is sassy to even grievous because he dislikes his new voice and grievous tolerated it because he knows OOM-9 is competent.
A Disney+ series about surviving droids after RoTS, having some off the droids developing personalities, having to hide and defend against the clones/new storm troopers
Commander OOM-9 was the prototype droid models but yeah he was a Scary voiced Battle Droid, OOM was the designation for the predacessor to B1 battle droids not the name of 1 individual droid they all were OOMs
Y'know, it's almost funny really. Gunray trusted OOM-9 *more* than his own secretary droid TC-14, whom received almost excessive amounts of memory wipes by her Neimoidian owners.
That couldn't have been oom9 on the trade federation battle ship outside the door which Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were behind. Or in the hanger because Qui-Gon cut down both yellow driods. Cool vid though. I love oom9.
You're right. The Battle droid Commander on the Trade Federation Starship where he fails to capture Obi-Wan, and his master was OWO-1 and the Battle droid Commander that Qui-Gon sliced was Commander 2163
In terms of specific droids, the first one that comes up is 224, the recently promoted commander sent to hunt for Yoda and three clones on the Toydarian Moon of Rugosa. His death was hilarious.
I knew him since my childhood. As a kid I saw the pantom menace and dived into wookipedia, droids were my favourites characters and I quickly learn the name of OOM9. I named one of my B1droid lego figures after him x) . Nostalgia.
