Why the LUCREHULK is a GENIUS Capital Ship | Star Wars Lore 

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The lucrehulk is a genius capital ship until a kid in a naboo star fighter shows up

Trade Federation: "Our capital ship is impenetrable." Ani: "I'll try spinning that's a good trick." TF: "He can't do that. Shoot him or something!"

Historically, cargo freighter converted to military use has been very common, from Renaissance galleons to camouflaged privateers in both world wars.

When I first saw this ship, I thought its a Space Station, rather than a moving Capital Ship... Mainly due to the donut shape...

Well yeah, it's the donut ship, no other capital ship can come close to the donut ship and its glory

Republic: Hey, you can't make big scary dangerous ships! Trade Federation: We need to defend our freighters. Republic: Yeah sure no problem.

The Lucrehulk is probably my favorite Capital Ship in Star Wars. It's so adaptable to any use. It can be freighter, fighter carrier, battleship, mobile base. I could even see it being possibly some rich guy's personal traveling palace. Or even a small moving city. Safe to say, if I could own any Ship in Star Wars, it would be a Lucrehulk.

General Skywalker said he destroyed one of these when he was a kid

*Reads details of the Ruusan Reformation* Grand Moff Tarkin: "Looks like I've got a lot of work to do."

Kinda reminds me of German tank development pre-ww2. With the Versailles Treaty not allowing the Germans to build or develop tanks, the Germans built, design and tested 'Tractors' that they could utilized to test suspension designs.

Honestly this was my favorite ship from TPM and TCW TV show.

When I was little I used to call them “Hugger Ships” cuz they always looked like they wanted to give me a hug

This makes me think that Amazon warehouses could be easily turned into military factories to overthrow the government

I always thought that the Trade Federation doing business in the outer rim and having to fight off pirates or something would've been a much better motivation than the taxation of trade routes. They're sick of having to pay for their droids to do it and want the Republic to foot the bill, militarizing to get rid of the pirates or something but Naboo was saying "no we don't need to militarize, fighting off pirates is the cost of doing business in the outer rim." So the Trade Federation blockades the planet to prove that the Republic does need to get their act together in case a real threat comes along. And of course all that business they're doing in the outer rim is mostly weapons deals in preparation for the upcoming separatist movement. But then I'm not a huge lore buff, just a guy who watched the movies and spent a very little bit of time on wookiepedia.

What is underappreciated is what a brilliant *logistical* design they were. They were already refined and optimised, with a whole spare parts infrastructure. No hastily built ship that had bugs to be ironed out. All they really had to do besides add guns and shields was install a safety so that the doors to the reactor couldn't be open the same time as the outer hanger doors were … … And the automation was crucial, if the GAR had implemented ship automation for basic task to the same extent (saving clones just for combat operations) they would have had a lot more forces available. Post clone wars they would have made a great _mobile base_ for rebels as well, especially as maintenance and spares would be available and crew requirements were ridiculously low. The CIS could have had a lot more of these if they had wanted to during the lead up time.

Who would win? One Trade Federation Capital ship OR One pod racing boi

Why did Force-users need matched/attuned Kyber crystals for their lightsabers? What was the benefit to a good match or the drawback of a bad one? #AskEck

Who would win? Incredible and formidable capital ship packed with armament, troops, and defenses. Some school shooter who tried spinning, thats a good trick.

James Luceno is great for this kinda connectivity its why i liked his Agents of Chaos books in the NJO series and Cloak of Deception which illustrates how the Neimoidians gained a majority hold in the Trade Federation.

Turning a freighter into a carrier is a time honored tradition of earth militaries. There is a very large overlap of requirements. It certainly helped that those ships were heavily shielded and armored. Even if their gun weaponry was rather weak (being only a refitted, giant freighter).

Watching episode one the first time I thought it was a little lightly armed to be a main battleship, but looking back at it now a Carrier role fits better with the CIS tactics especially at the start of the war, so it makes sense it would be more focused on defending itself with fighters

I've always loved the Lucrehulk-class vessel since I saw The Phantom Menace

1. T-70 X-Wing VS E-Wing 2. Nebula Star Destroyer VS Pellaon class Star Destroyer

This and the Munificent were probably the best ships of the CW era. The Munificent wasn’t the most powerful but it was cheap and well applied to its intended purpose

Lucrahulk is one of my favourite star ship designs think it's amazingly unique

The Lucrehulk is my favorite capital ship in SW, idk exactly why but ive been in love with the TF ships and droids (and by extension the CIS) since i first saw the phantom menace as a child. I just LOVE the droids!! Lucre hulks are beasts!!

I love using fleets of Lucrehulks in the Republic at War mod for Empire at War. You really nailed why they are such a potent Force in the galaxy. It was their swarms of droid snubfighters that shifted Imperial doctrine away from such "cowardly" tactics, and towards heavily armed and armored battleships.

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#AskEck How would you lead a rebel faction against the empire. Also, how would you improve the rebel’s logistical situation? “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…” - Sun Tzu

Generation Tech covered this before (ie the Space Donut is a sensible design); you guys should do a collaboration together.

Makes sense. A good portion of British Freight ships were converted into Aircraft Carriers on the onset of the Second World War in the Pacific.

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Because it has ONE job that it does really well.

An interesting point of trivia is that the Lucrehulk is shaped exactly like the port of Carthage, which was a trade federation itself, (and a place to launch warships from) and it fought Rome which was a republic, but slowly, because of the war, started a very slow but eventual transformation to an Empire, which then split apart to an imperial remnant, which invaded he west, and west became, in time, centered again in Italy, but usually guided by the trade centers of Genua and and especially Venice, which is a very famous Republic. Of the genius of Lucrehulks, i suggest reading about Q-ships, disguised merchant raiders, which were basically light warships made to look like merchant ships. Hardly genius, but good, reliable plan nonetheless.

Chiming in to say that Lucrehulk is one of my favourite ship names. And was it the main powerplant that a certain young child hit, or did they get Midway’d and Anakin just put explosions smack dab in the middle of their fuel system? Which is a much more logical thing to have attached directly to your cargo hangers than the main reactor, and also more sensible for it to connect all around the ring as a) you have manuevering engines across the hull and b) you’ve just converted a cargo ship into a carrier, and fighters need spacefuel.

Watching one of these decend on Bracca was awe inspiring.

I’m surprised that the Russian Reformation didn’t have an escalation clause like the historical London Naval Treaty. If a major faction sees someone adding heavy armor and possibly offensive weapons onto a large stock of heavy ships, then I would assume that the Republic would have taken action to actually safeguard their own interests

Another interesting thing that the Darth Plagueis book brings to the fore is an assassination attempt using nuclear weapons, which confirms that nuclear bombs exist in the setting and are significantly much more powerful than other weapons (with other words, turbolasers are not in the same energy category as nuclear bombs or relativistic weapons). In addition to all the implications the existence of nuclear weapons has on space combat, it also makes clear that for all the vaunted power of the Sith Lords, not even Plagueis could have survived being in the immediate blast zone of a nuclear device. This further highlights the basic fallacy of the rule of two, that is a dynasty. A dynasty is a chain, and like royal dynasties you need but one weak link or even just an unfortunate accident to break that chain. That the rule of two didn't end suddenly and somewhat predictably at some point between Bane and Plagueis is really fortunate, and as Plagueis himself points out in the book, at several points the dynasty almost fell to random accidents befalling the master. Going directly against the predictions of Bane, the dynasty of Sith Lords descending from the rule of two actually lost power as Plagueis mentions that some of these accidents and weak links in the chain actually lost the knowledge of how to perform feats like draining the life of another to sustain oneself.

according to what I know about those ships, they had pretty good reactors, enough for some great shields and much bigger weapons than shown, I feel these ships are underutilized

#AskEck How did the Republic acquire such a large number of Venators so quickly?

I never thought the separatists would make something that’s quality over quantity instead of the other way around

Thanks for all your videos Eckhartladder! Always makes me glad you cover all the legacy knowledge with precision. Keep up all the excellent work!

Also big boon is the way vulture droids are stored. They can attach themselves to the hulls, and fly when needed. And it makes large surface area ships really great

Honestly love the way this ship looks

When I first saw the Lucerhulk ship I IMMEDIATELY wanted one. Still kinda do even today, they just look so cool and having an army of Battle Droids B1 or otherwise doesn't hurt either xD

Great vid Eckhart! Very interesting info.

Best part of all your videos is the outtro, not cause the video is over but because that dog is beyond adorable

Ruusan Reformations sound remarkably similar to the London Naval Treaty with regards to impact to naval production, with a decentralizing-the-national-military twist. Did not know about this.

I still maintain that for the Lucrehulk would've been best utilized as a mobile base of operations.

Yus I love this era of Star Wars, pls do more future videos on this. Great stuff!

The consistency in the "Story" is quite ingenious. How in the Universe does the Trade Federation have such a vast fighting force. The retro-fitted massive transports. Why? To fend off pirates. Makes complete and total sence to evlove in that manner.

Ruusan Reformation, the SW version of the London Naval Treaty and everyone know how that end...

Who will win?? A Deadly space donut with lazer canon and a army of battledroid Or 1 spinning 🅱oi

the moment you said this was on spotify i instantly looked it up and now i know what im gonna be listening too while i play WoW

I’ve been looking for just such a podcast, didn’t expect to find one here, I’ll be checking it out after this video

china has 1 or 2 and the U.S. is thinking about it. basically a cargo ship with a few hundred cruise missiles that can be shot and guided by real military ships/aircraft. called arsenal ships i think.

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So glad you mentioned Plagueis. That book pretty much made ep.1 make sense. The movie left way too much out for others to understand.

Love reading these books, right now I am reading star wars after math trilogy so many to read. Keep up the good work. . May the force be with you always. .

Still one of my overall favorite ships! I recently binged a lot of vids covering various Transports, which in turn inspired me to make two diametrically opposed Imperial Quartermasters; one is a Loyalist that rises through the Imperial Navy, eventually attaining the rank of Admiral. He had GM Tarkin's approval & blessing to reactivate CIS assets to augment his cargo flotilla, and make a Lucrehulk his command ship. The other Quartermaster rose through the ranks of the Imperial Army, eventually having earned the rank of Commander. These two would have a brief friendship, before it turned into a friendly rivalry in early 4 BBY, and later into just rivalry in 2 BBY. Around the time that Alderaan was destroyed, the Commander secretly defected to the Rebel Alliance. During this time, Palpatine had a secret directive, in which the Logistics branches of the Imperial armed forces discretely redistributed mothballed GAR & CIS assets to secret bunkers; caches of ships, weapons, battle droids & supplies, for latter Imperial use. The Commander would exploit this directive, creating secret 'drop point' locations within his assigned sector, and deleting the records after making a copy of the critical info for the Rebel's dead drop. In this manner, war material intended for the Imperial Army instead fed the growing Rebellion. In 2 ABY, one drop's cache included coordinates to a depot that held CIS & GAR capital ships... Shortly after The Battle of Endor, the Commander would be instrumental the his sector's liberation by the New Republic. Soon after that, he was made a General in the New Republic. While the Admiral was not one of the many commanders ordered to execute Operation Cinder, he was however required to facilitate it. As he did so however, he was also gathering to himself loyalists, survivors and additional resources as he was able. When the majority of the systematically crippled Imperial Fleet gathered for a battle at Jakku, the Admiral instead took his armada to a remote sector, that had by that time established itself as an Imperial Remnant, one that could capitalize on its remoteness to escape both the infighting that would decimate the majority of the Imperial Remnant factions, and the notice of the New Republic. +[{❆}]+ From 4 to c.30 ABY, these Imperial Caches would be plundered by the New Republic & the Imperial Remnants, though the majority of them were claimed by the First Order.

Replicators vs a Unified Star Wars universe (526th try now, *_I._** WILL NEEEEVER EEEVER GIVE UP!!!)*

I love the dog at the end in coordination with the music lol

Could we get a video just talking about what the russon reformation is in detail? I've heard about it a lot but have never gotten a video on what it fully is. Seems right up your alley.

okay, I have trouble believing that a freighter can possibly have been built that large, in such numbers and that the Droid control Ship (which seemed waaay too purpose built as a battleship) had to be converted for military application.

I never thought they were ships, I thought they were space stations.

Love your videos keep it up can’t wait for the podcast !!!!

Just to bring some more "science" into this type of ship from another SciFi series: Perry Rhodan uses sphere shaped space ships since its first published volume in 1961 because 1) the sphere is the geometrical object with the smallest surface but largest volume, 2) it is statically stable (for landings on planets) and 3) it has tactical advantages because you can rotate the ship to relieve weapons on one side. It all may be SciFi, but I find this interesting :)

Good ep. Love technical law treaty shit. Somehow makes it all more real.

To all the astromechs that risked their lives during that blockade, your sacrifice will never be forgotten...

Plagueis is one of my fave legends novels. Awesome vid!

sounds good! and "the force" answers a lot of howd he know questions!

Interesting video but it turned out to have very little discussion of the Lucrehulk itself in my opinion - I was expected to hear more about its specifications, capabilities, and performance.

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This was a top notch video concept

I was a bit confused about what happened the last time you uploaded this

#ASKECK Helllooooooo Eck, I wanted to ask - have you done any videos on the galactic economy? Some explanation of star wars credits, banking ("The Banking Clan") , the clone wars, pre-clone wars era economy, etc.... would be really cool and welcome! Love your channel. Thanks!

Great videos!

I agree and the Lukrehulk has been my favorite capital ship since its introduction. I love the versatility and the look of it.

It seems that starfighters would fall within the legal limits, so couldn't the trade federation just defend their ships from pirates with a large compliment of fighters without running afoul of the law?

Ahh, yes. The Washington Naval Treaty... IN SPACE!

Best episode ever!!! Eck you’re awesome

The title alone earned you a like immediately! These are my favorite ships!

Actually I like the design as well, so logical and practically designed, nowhere fancy as any ship exist but practical than them all

You know what else is a Genius Capital Ship? The Valiant Class Superheavy Cruiser/BattleCruiser

Great podcast!

Great book, just finished reading it and loved it all!

Nice Video again Eck, #AskEck What happened to Starkiller, Rahm Kota, Juno Eclipse, and Proxy after The Force Unleashed Two?

I'm not sure, man. Sounds like something a T-series tactical commander would say

Loving the vid😆

i reminds me of the IJN Mogami class cruisers. it was a inter-war (between WW1 and WW2) cruiser of the Japanese navy that was the size of a heavy cruiser. but in order to comply with the Washington navy treaty limiting the number of heavy cruisers it was equip of 6" gun turrets with the intention (and fulfilling) swapping them out with 8" gun turrets. the 6" guns were then re-used as secondary guns on the yamato class battle ships.

Can you imagine if Revan had Lucrehulks in his Star Forge fleet?

Republic: I have an army! Cis: We have a lucrehulk.

Perfect video!!!

Ahhh yes you finally did it! I love the lucrehulk so much, i feel like not enough ppl ever praise or talk bout how pretty decent the actual ship is looks wise and its general armament and complement of shit it brought into battle

#AskEck Which SCP would fit in perfectly in the star wars Universe?

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Your intro and outro music helps me sleep

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="571">9:31</a> best outro I've ever seen