Was the Battle of Mimban Used to Get Rid of Undesirables?

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The Mimban Campaign was an extremely undesirable place to be sent for a young imperial trooper. The planet was covered in swamp lands, mud and currently large swathes of the planet had been converted into trench works. The situation was so bad that some people believed that the Empire purposely sent undesirables here to die.

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[shadowstryker]

It would make sense from the Empire’s perspective. They get the chance to weed out supposed traitors before they even have a chance to be fully trained. I imagine the Mimban campaign had a high desertion rate because of it.

[JayeSunsurn]

Brannigan: "You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kif, show them the medal I won."

[johnquach]

Interesting idea.
I've also heard the theory that Mimban campaign in Solo was primarily due to a terrible Imperial general who wasn't replaced (because the more competent generals were busy elsewhere).

[Jay]

Yeah the empire really sent a lot of people to their deaths, I bet many left and went to join in the rebellion. Love your content.

[AS-lfrg]

Andor: “They gave me a choice — jail, the army, or apologizing to Darth Vader and the emperor. Now of course, if I knew there was a war going on on Mimban, I probably would've apologized.”

[thestanleys]

All of the imperial military is expendable to the Empire many are more than willing to sign up to replace the losses.
The drawn out battle campaigns maybe are done on purpose to create fear of similar battles happening on there own planets

[luisemoralesfalcon]

Interesting, in a deleted scene for Solo the character really uses his charms to not only mis call an officer for his rank but behaving in such a manner that it is awonder he didn't get executed on the spot. He apperantly had a bad tendency for damaging his ships for low gains and got sent to Mimbaan soon after, he still kept some of his attitude on the Rebellion but actually took more responsibilities for the resources and troops under his command.

[SaberKnight]

The Empire really should’ve won the galactic civil war but the nepotism and obsession with loyalty screwed them over

[jacoblansman]

I am reminded of "The Storm" episode of ATLA in which it is explained that Zuko's exile is a result of him speaking out against a war general who planned to send a division of new recruits against a hardened enemy battalion as a diversion for another, more experienced division to attack from another angle, with no expectation for any of the new recruits to survive.

[ryanscanlon]

I just had a thought, what if the trench warfare is simply continued on from the clone wars directly. It's interesting how they clone unit was referred to as the mud jumpers with the advise to "keep your heads down". It sounds like they were in the trenches since very early in the clone wars. Which makes sense based on how thin the clones were spread very thin they would have been more likely to encounter this kind of stalemate than the much larger forces the empire could muster. No one has bothered to reevaluate the situation and the empire is uninterested in investing the units required to break the stalemate but can end the battle because it would make them look weak at a time where the illusion of power was most important. It could even be a sort of recruitment tool having active conflicts no matter how small is just enough truth to breath credibility into propaganda

[TheManicMole]

the only reason I think the empire would purposely try to waste lives like that would be some sort of Sith "slow-cooked darkside nexus" kinda plan. it feels more likely that it's mostly corruption and incompetence that kept that war going like it did.

[indianajones]

The Empire was definitely threatened by Clone Wars veterans

[RedXlV]

I really like the idea that in the time when rebellions were all single-planet affairs without any coordination, Palpatine was exploiting them as a sort of controlled opposition. Drawing any disloyal elements into the open and giving conscripted soldiers (be they outright "undesirables" or just people who don't have any more important use to the Empire than as infantry) with enemies to be fighting indefinitely so that they won't have time to get into anything potentially seditious.

[sonder]

These videos basically everyday help me get through work, great stuff man!

[diggoryjaydark]

Perhaps the trench warfare was not because the empire wasnt able to win, but because they didnt need too. Why waste resources attacking and taking the whole planet when you only needed the stuff underground, If you run out of stuff to mine, throw a couple thousand troops at the enemy. Advance, secure and strip the area, then repeat.

[alexhudson]

It could be similar to in the Legion of the Damned books series by William C. Dietz. Where the troops get sent to hellish worlds with hostile populations as a form of training. In order to give them combat experience, see who survives and where they're best suited.

[lerneanlion]

I have a question: Why the Dreamers, the reorganized Partisans, did launch a raid against Coruscant? To be exact, why Saw never did such a thing when he was in charge of the Partisans?

[johannesbowers]

Another significant factor in the campaign for Mimban Is the nature of the native opposition.

While these surface dwelling native population of Mimbanese would eventually become cowed servile laborers, The subterranean dwelling Coynite Warrior tribes were far more dangerous persistent and inaccessible to artillery, Air strike, or Infantry counterattack.
(Legends: Splinter of the mind's eye.)

Imagine if the VC tunnel complexes of Vietnam were elevated to the level of the minds of Moria.

[matthewwalkemar]

Awesome! I literally commented about this on the previous mimban video. It’s sweet to get some validity even though I don’t know for sure if he saw my comment about it in the other mimban video.