The worst year in Star Wars history 

The start of the Yuuzahn Vong War would rank pretty high

In Legends, I always thought it was 27 ABY during the Yuuzhan Vong War, when the Vong conquered Coruscant. This wasn't just bad for the New Republic, it was bad for everyone in the galaxy, New Republic or Imperial Remnant. Remember, 365 trillion beings died in that war.

Me, a total Legends noob: “Oh, I guess it’s just the Thrawn Campaign then?” Eck: “Thrawn was just the beginning.” Me: 😳

Fall of Coruscant during the Vong war has to be up there. Especially because it runs concurrent to Anakin Solo's death.

Eck: "We'll take this from a good guys' perspective. When did things really, really fall apart?" Me: From what I remember of Legends, my vote would have to be any time Borsk Fey'lya was involved in things.

The first year after order 66 must've been rough though, at least for a Jedi. The order you devoted your life to that had lasted for thousands of years was mercilessly taken away from you in an instant by the soldiers you once trusted with your life, those who survived were cursed to see the galaxy they swore to protect be corrupted by the dark side. Every day you wake up in an unending nightmare wishing you could have just died in the initial culling instead of living your life in hiding from the new Empire and their inquistors. The saddest part, and probably the reason it isnt the saddest year in Star Wars history, is that its only really the saddest for the Jedi. The rest of the galaxy were so thoroughly convinced by Palpatine's words that they cheered on the Jedi Order's demise. Truly a dark time.

This video is so perfectly timed with my reading of Dark Empire where I kept asking myself again and again "Wait didn't the New Republic hold Coruscant during the Thrawn Triology? How are they in hiding at Pinncale Base?". This video definitely cleared it up for me!!

Ironic. Sidious body could move his soul but in the end he was destroyed once and for all by a blaster from everyone's favorite smuggler.

I remember going from the Thrawn Trilogy to the Jedi Academy trilogy and the first book brought up the Emperor's return and Coruscant falling to the Imperials and I remember thinking when the hell did all this happen, did I miss a trilogy?

Almost any year in my opinion the galaxy could never catch a break from war.

I’d say the first year of owning Coruscant by the Rebels. The Krytos virus, bacta shortage, Imperial sabotage attacks, just hell all around for them.

I like the idea of videos like this basically being accounts from historians in universe. Kind of like how the Essential Guide books were something akin to historical reference books.

Depends on your faction. Confederacy sympathizer? Probably 19 BBY. Empire fanatic? 4 ABY. Star Wars fan? 2017

I feel like either 19bby, the Mid Rim Campaign by the Empire OR 26 aby, when the Vong had just started their stomps

Its not one year, but in terms of eras its gotta be the Sith Wars. The Great Sith War, Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, and First Jedi Purge were all literal back-to-back events. Imagine living in that era, im surprised everyone in the galaxy didnt become an alcoholic.

Yuuzhan Vong War... 300 trillion dead IIRC.

I wonder if there's EVER been a moment or period of peace in the Star Wars universe

Aside from Disney going out of its way to literally dismantle Star Wars I think it's worst was when they tried turning Star Wars into Warhammer 40k...

was about to type 2017/2018 lmaoooooo

getting here at 57 seconds is crazy. Also I'd say that the worst period in star wars is definently the Yuuzhon Vong invasion.

Worst year is Disney's High Republic were the jedi Temple have a baking contest for some reason.

7:42 She really did given how CURSED the Skywalker bloodline seems to be at times. 7:44 Hey, it could be worse. She could have married a Capellan.

Jaina and Jagged got married on a Hapan Battle Dragon! Not a Star Destroyer.

The year when legends became non canon imo 👀

I would have chosen any year of the Yuuzhan Vong war, personally, especially the later ones. You know, 365 trillion casualties and all that.

The thumbnail reminded me of the Eclipse ships and now I am remembering the Force Storms. Thank you for the good memories.

3951 during the events of Kotor 2 was a pretty crappy year.

As an imperial myself, this is certainly the best year or two of Star Wars. R.I.P Thrawn though. He will always be in our hearts!!!😭😭😭😢😔

Very interesting video topic Eckford.

Starting with exar kun and finishing with the Sith triumvirate would rank high I think

Eck, after doing a search on RU-vid I realized something. There are barely any videos on Talon Karrde. I think you should do a video on the clever old smuggler.

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"War, War Never Changes" Eckhart should try to do Fallout Styled monologue upon Star Wars universe.

The Yuuzhan Vong war is up there, specifically the beginning,

A great take! I’m still not interested after the last two movies in seeing Rey do what we wanted to see Luke do though.

So late to the game and not related to the video but finally ordered your vite ramen flavor it's great. Thanks.

U should probably do a video on the top 5 fleets in canon and Legends that could defeat both the Exegol Sith Eternal fleet and the Resistance Citizens Fleet from Rise of Skywalker. The video should be each fleet compared to both opposing fleets, like, Republic Coruscant fleet vs Exegol Fleet then the same Coruscant fleet against the Citizens Fleet. Pls take this idea into account, Eckhart! I'm a big fan of ur channel!

I really need to get more into legends, i read heir to the empire but that is it, also exellent thumbnail there.

Where do you get all these great clips of space battles for your channel, is it a game, or just star wars media I've never heard of or seen?

In our world it was 2017, in SW I’d argue the day of order 66 was the worst

Yuuzahn Vong wars be like: *"Am I a joke to you?"*

Lots of interesting stuff happened in canon. I never tied all of those stories into a unified timeline before. Thanks!

According the audio drama version of Dark Empire, the fall of Coruscant took place literal DAYS after the defeat of Thrawn which is absolutely insane based on how that trilogy ended.

There is no Episode 10. Rey's movie is just that, Rey's movie.

can you do a battle breakdown about the nadiri dockyards please?

I want to hear about that marriage on a super star destroyer

Legends is canon

I would have said the first year of the Vong Invasion

The worst moments in Star Wars history aren’t the Sequel Trilogy? Interesting

Imagine if the GA gets formed in Star Wars cannon somehow

What timing. A week after that one Dark Empire video was released.

You should specify this is for The Expanded Universe (Legends) (which is what we know the most about and is arguably better anyway), but several of your comments and visuals early on made me think you were talking about Disney Canon.

Say Eck, I heard the Rishi Maze might have got a mention in Jedi Survivor. If that’s true, could you do a video on it on that clips channel of yours? Also with all due respect, I’m doubtful that the galaxy will have a new galactic government after Exegol. Even if some of the First Order survives to bide it’s time and even if the Resistance tries to create a new government, there will be serious doubt in a new government after seeing how quickly the New Republic fell after the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime. What was left of the military was divided up by surviving senators to protect their homes, leaving the rest of the galaxy to get conquered. And despite the Resistance being the first ones to fight the First Order and spearheading the attack on Exegol, it took a fleet of people from all across the galaxy to defeat the Sith Eternal. Basically I’m doubtful people really will have any trust for galactic institutions. They may decide that the galaxy never needed a galactic government and try to live on their own. Maybe some worlds sign alliances recognizing how working together allowed them to defeat a massive enemy, but otherwise there may be no galactic unity. Actually, that would be a cool story for the movie. After all, supposedly this new movie is about Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order, so maybe at the same time her friends from the Resistance are also trying to recreate a new galactic government, but they’re opposed by so many planets who don’t believe in living together anymore. Despite the intentions of these worlds though, there will be serious negative consequences. For one thing, any planet rich enough will be able to create superweapons or massive militaries and attack each other. Planets that are attacked may have allies, but otherwise may get no help unless the attackers prove to be a galactic threat. Maybe surviving members of the First Order manipulate worlds to stay independent of the new government, so that they can slowly take them over by infiltrating their governments. Or just like in the Phantom Menace, the bad guys are going to be corporations who will really thrive in this era. No galactic laws to restrict them. And planets will still be dependent on trade guilds. The happy ending for the movie would not just include the Jedi Order returning to the galaxy, but several worlds change their minds and join the new galactic government to bring the galaxy back to the thousand year peace preceding the Clone Wars.

Well in current canon around the time of Empire Strikes Back when The Empire was pretty much kicking the shit out of The Rebellion for the most part and by the time they finally catch their breaths they find out about The Death Star II. And apparently there is going to be a droid rebellion in this time frame.

As someone who didn't grow up with star wars legends material this was very overwhelming😂😂

Holy crap, all that was in a singe year?!

Solo gets a bad rap I think. I quite enjoyed it, it's a lot better than the reputation it gets - I'd place it above all the sequels, Phantom Menace and AOTC personally

The worst one was 2012, because it's when Disney bought Star Wars

Ooo I'd love to know what happens with Jeana and...her brother....Jeb? Anyway I used to read the books about them as a kid but idk what happened after the first 5 or 6 books

I loved reading the Thrawn trilogy and the Dark Empire books. So much better than anything Disney has been able to crap out. The only thing worth cannon in Rogue One. One movie worth watching!

Should do a video on all the Solo kids

#askeck #AskThreepio Was the Death Star shot that was being aimed at yavin 4 a full power shot like the one used against Alderaan or a low power shot like the one used against scarif? Cause personally, it just doesn’t make sense to use a full power shot just to wipe out the Yavin 4 rebel base Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III

Does anyone know what series of comics and books were used in the video? Thanks

You always have the best Star wars content you tell the story but in a way that it's so engaging and entertaining that it makes me want to stick around for years like I have thank you for always being there

No year is worse than the year that Solo and last jedi came out

please make longer videos

27 ABY The fall of Coruscant to the Yuuzhan Vong

I'd say the day when abeloth was created or maybe the day when the celestials decided to do some astroengineering and bisect the galaxy

As bad as that year was for the New Republic, it was far worse for the Empire. The Empire never recovered from the catastrophic losses of Shadow Hand and the Imperial Mutiny.

The Etrnal Empire conquest that started 3636 BBY would be one of the worst years. Loosing most of your Jedi and Sith to an unknown force that devastated your fleets and subjugated the galaxy in a year.

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Yeah, things took a massive south turn when Dark Empire happened, but that can make swell storytelling. -James M

Since we don’t know any of the worlds actually destroyed by the galaxy gun, I’m just gonna headcanon that Kijimi exists in legends and just also happened to be destroyed by the reborn emperor

Imagine how much awful stuff someone who was born around 5BBY and lived for a good 80-90 years would’ve had to seen/experienced

Not good with Star Wars history but I would say kotor 2 events or the mandalorian wars

I had no idea how much they ripped off from legends for the sequels

The Republic cannot repel threats of that magnitude

I wouldn’t even consider this the worst year when you consider the vong invasion

Have you played Star Wars Shatterpoint?

It's almost like hypothetical observers from outside the GFFA keep demanding stories of epic struggle with horrible tragedy to add flavor 🤔

At first I thought the title meant the worst year as a fan, I thought pick any one from the last decade. It keeps getting worse.

It was probably during the great Galactic War in which Sith conquered Coruscant and burned down the Jedi Temple.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Ancient Sith and their knowledge, or lack thereof about the Star Forge! Ajunta Pall alludes quite heavily to the treasure of the Ancient Sith from his era to be the Star Forge, but I have yet to see this referenced anywhere else. I don't believe anyone other than the Rakatta, Revan, and Malak had anything to do with the Star Forge, or even had any knowledge whatsoever about its existence, and yet Pall seems to state otherwise and the Star Map is located within Naga Sadow's tomb, which couldn't have been a coincidence. Continuity error? Plot thread left unresolved? #askeck

I hated Palpatine returning in legends and canon so much

Definitely either the last year of the clone wars or the start of the yuuzhan vhong war

6,000 BC. This was a time before wars so there was only stars

You need to link the videos that you talk more about the Solo kids so then we can go back and view those videos'. (please)

October 30, 2012

Man....I’m sorry to hear this Man

It only gets worse when the empire came to power

which movie showed the mon cala ship getting blown up by the eclipse-class star destroyer's superlaser

If Rey's movie doesn't begin to set up the Vong then disney will have missed another golden opportunity to draw from legends

For reals, the worst year for star wars, was when jj Abrams and Disney got their greedy meat hooks on star wars...

Just imagine if you're born in Leends in 30 BBY and you live a good long life and die in your eighties in around 53 ABY. You spend the vast majority of your life either in a war or under a tyrannical regime. Sometimes both. Clone Wars 22-19 BBY, The Empire 19-1BBY, First Galactic Civil War 1 BBY-19 ABY, Vong War 25 ABY - 29 ABY, Second Galactic Civil War 41-42 ABY. And probably more I forgot. Living in Legends would suck.

Thank god it’s in universe

start of the Yuuzahn Vong war Chewie Died i read the whole series

The franchise is called "Star Wars" for a reason

The worst year in Star Wars history is 2012.

Yuuzhang Vong War in Star by Star I would say was worse.

I’d say one of the worst periods of Star Wars in universe history would be the 2000 years dark age during the Great and New Sith Wars. Revan’s time to Bane’s time, nothing but war, technology went backwards, and Republic became a Jedi tan dictatorship during the New Sith Wars.