The Empire's Most Secret Places

Today we'll take a look at some of the most secret and interesting Imperial Bases in Star Wars Legends and Star Wars canon. We'll cover all that and more on today's Star Wars lore video!

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[sinisterisrandom]

Their secret, contingency, and emergency bases were interesting. Palpatine had plans ready yet many would never be known since they weren't for the empire to seem dumb.

[jamesmichael]

The Maw, the Deep Core, and the Unknown Regions are all super interesting to me cause they’re all mysterious in unique ways that seem to contradict every understanding of physics and the Force. They carry a sense of doom and living close to the beginning or the end of time and space. And the Emperor decided to construct bases in those places lol.

[imperialadvisor]

I have always believed & maintained that Grand Admiral Thrwan (especially in his original novel portrayal) was Himself an Imperial “Secret Weapon, ” he was a quick adapting, mobile command and control center, with bolstered Imperial factions’ morale by his mere presence.

[grandadmiralzaarin]

One correction Eckhart.

Rancor Base was built by Warlord Zsinj, not Palpatine. The Imperials had built a Prison on Dathomir and a Spaceport. As Gethzerion grew in power Palpatine grew concerned that she and her cadre of Nightsisters might become a threat if they decided to leave the planet and form a power base in the galaxy, but he also didn't want to kill them in case they might prove useful one day. Zsinj solved this problem with ruthless efficiency, by orbitally bombarding the spaceport and any spaceworthy ships on the world, thus stranding the Nightsisters, but keeping them alive should there ever be a use for them. Palpatine was so pleased with this solution, he awarded Zsinj command of Brawl and promoted him to Grand Moff. Zsinj built his secret shipyards and HQ above Dathomir due to the relative obscurity of the world and starting mining operations on one of Dathomir's moons shortly after he became a Warlord.

[generalsmite]

I would really like to see a video on Galius rax. I found him a really interesting villain as an imperial who was a master manipulator and skilled in espionage

[neofulcrum]

Would be nice to see Saw Gerrera and his partisans or even the rebellion spec force going after some of these facilities in media.

[violetlight]

That artwork for the Maw Installation is absolutely gorgeous!

I would have added the Hand of Thrawn Fortress, and Nirauan in general, depending on whether you think the Empire of the Hand counts as part of the Empire proper or not. Either way, leave it to Thrawn to make *his* secret base a library.

[TyrannoNoddy]

I'd be down to see a video about Palpatine's ambitions for the Unknown Regions in canon. I'm a fan of what he was looking for being Exegol, I just wonder how well that works with canon now with stuff like Lords of the Sith and implications there

[thomass]

Whoa! Within two minutes of uploading? This is my chance. Eck, I maintain that there are fewer full-scale units of clone trooper specialists than we realize. Instead of many full-sized units of -for example- Clone snowtroopers, most clone snowtroopers are simply regular clone troopers with an additional block of winterized training. For most of their time they behave like normal clone infantry, however when their unit is due to arrive in winter conditions, they teach their fellow troopers about what they can expect, and probably oversee distribution of their unit's snow equipment. There probably are pure snowtrooper units, but they are fewer in number than regular units that have "experts" sprinkled among them. For most types of specialist troopers, I'd reason this is the case.
If you read this, thank you for taking a look at something that has been bugging me for a bit. What do you think?
Love your work, these locations in this video are some of my favorites

[A_Random_Trainer]

I would love a video about the jakku oservitory, I would also love a part 2 to this video about secret bases

[frozarburst]

If there's one thing I always get a kick out of with legends, it's that they've got a TON of contingencies and secret facilities that folk like Luke or Han just happen to find by sheer luck. So glad we're getting one of these facilities in Bad Batch

[TrendyTrenty]

I love these older style lore videos. Reminds me of the good old days haha

[DIEGhostfish]

0:12 Unless they wanted to sell a new toy or spice up a videogame, then the Armor got a bazillion variants, and it was cool as hell.

[fazbrogaming]

1:30 what if these were the same type of people Palatine recruited in canon as his Sith Eternal, people who had no families and their planets were devastated etc and that’s why they were so loyal to him for many years.

[enisra_bowman]

when talking about the Lusankya it might be interesting to talk about the "resting" place, like i always got the impression it was stored "bow up" like a Space Spaceshuttle on the launchpad due the picture in the Essential Chronology Book

[Nivajoe]

We have only a precious few moments of existence on this world. And I have just spend 9 of those minutes watching a video about the secret locations an empire had, in a fantasy movie about space monks, that fight with magic and laser swords.

A life well lived

[imperialadvisor]

I was no fan of Kevin J. Anderson’s handling of the Jedi Academy Trilogy, I found it uninspired and uninspired, especially when held up the crown jewels of the Thrawn / Heir to the Empire Trilogy. One fun take away though was Admiral Daala’s musings & memories that Grand Moff Tarkin was a stallion (Bantha ?) in the bedroom. Cheers 🥂 to that !

[DanBen]

Vjun Bast Castle was my fav location on Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron PSP. Played there all the time. You could land at either side of it and fight inside.

[FlisLo]

Yes a video about these observatories would be very cool

[shadowkhan]

Yea I would love to see a list of secret imperial bases and facilities, especially where did the Emperor put all the Missile Boats after the events of the TIE Fighter game? They were never mentioned or seen again, also did Isard say in book Isards Revenge that there was a bunch of hidden facilities?