The Evolution of Starship Design | Star Wars Documentary

0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Evolution of Super Star Destroyer
13:44 - Evolution of Rebel Starfighter Corp
24:27 - Evolution of Hammerhead Line
30:35 - Evolution of Starship Size
42:32 - Evolution of the Y-wing
54:00 - Evolution of the A-wing
1:03:41- Evolution of the Star Destroyer
1:12:42 - Evolution of theTie Fighter
1:20:07 Evolution of the X-wing

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[dontworry]

Alan: “today we have a pretty massive video”

Me who just finished watching 10 hours of generation tech Star Wars lore:

[nicholaseedy]

Not a bad long format video for Saturday morning coffee. Thanks

[MBSill]

Dude! Alan! Your "pretty massive" videos are so much fun! Just like a history documentary! I LOVE it!!

[reclaimatorerebus]

Amusing that in the Empire at War mods (since these made the big ships much more available versus the main game), dropping a Star Dreadnought in was a near automatic win again anything other than another Star Dreadnought. To some extent, this shows the limits of a closed map - the slow maneuverability of a Dreadnought is not as big a deal when the map size is limited, but it was actually still possible to take out a even an Executor or even an Eclipse with something like Strike Cruisers warping in behind hit. It would still be expensive in terms of losses, but you'd still spend a lot less than the Dreadnought you killed.

More interestingly for me, it showed the effectiveness of Dreadnoughts when hitting slow or static targets. Using a scout unit, then warping in a SSD onto of a space station, or even a more robust support fleet, was super effective.

In general, I don't know how much this applies to planetary defense (modern and future), but when it comes to space, ships that can give out and take a massive beating come into their own when the enemy can no longer retreat, and have to take a stand to defend a planet. Drop a SSD on them, and unless they have their own, this becomes an immediate problem.

Per the point of this portion of the video, I think it shows that you don't want a ton of Dreadnoughts, at least in a more mobile war, but a solid course of the vessels to deploy as needed can be invaluable.

[kelvere]

it's videos like these where i wish Gen Tech would upload it on Spotify labelled as a podcast, one of the few channels where i enjoy the content far more often than i don't

[BrotherFoxx]

I'm so glad that Alan makes his videos without getting involved with the rude debates a lot of the other analysts get involved in. Thank you for making your lore videos I love exploring the Galaxy Far Far Away

[dogdog]

Bro must have gotten a bactca tank he is spitting out videos lately.

[doomsdaySephiroth]

Thank you for mentioning the Harrower-class dreadnoughts of the Old Republic era

[Uberdude]

Its interesting how the scale of government and empires increases alongside it. A great empire in the beginning of the period was like, 30 ystems. By the Clone Wars, galactic government has consolidated to the point where "10 000 systems" are considered a relatively grounded number

[ThunderingVids]

Allen got that Cat security;no sneaky Ewoks will get his ass ambushed :D

[CraigPayne-ou]

I have always loved your videos since i first saw one and i am loving your hard work and passion you have for it. Please never stop or give up this brilliant channel.

[gabrielho]

I was learning about Jin roh and how the front focus armour, as well as inspirating fear, has only frontal protection to emphasize teamwork to cover their backs. Somehow this reminds me of the star destroyer, where the only way to protect the capital ship was to co-ordinate the fighter cover or have a ship in the back to deter larger ships from targeting the exposed engines. Just a thought.

[nerdwatch]

If I was going to spend the credits to make multiple SSD I’d design these ships to be able to dock up to 6 SD so if there damaged then the massive ship can carry all the materials needed to repair a fleet of SD. Also this SSD used as ships to go into newly mapped systems in unknown space and can carry enough supplies for the crew on my ship but also able to restock my fleet. That’s definitely one good thing for the First Order and there massive SSDN able to act as a movable base of operations and able to build SD and any other ships they needed.

[Wintermute]

Have any fans managed find a believable explaination for the weird time scales in SW?
(ie the way a single company can last for 25, 000 years, and technology barely develops at all for 10's of thousands of years and then all of a sudden it accelerates for around a century, and then randomly stagnates for another few millennia.)
Tbh I think Lucas didn't really grasp the vast time scale and the vast populations.

[williejack]

show me more of the cat in the background!!!

[Anon]

I feel like the wrong lesson has been learned here. It's not that smaller ships are better, it's that no amount of actual armor can compete with plot armor. If the plot requires you to lose, no amount of size and power can help you.

[desperado]

Always a great way to get ready for Saturday finally got to watch this

[Tony-rnfm]

more about the dreadnought heavy cruiser

[EventHorrorEyesOn]

I’m getting pretty stoned, and the jokes in evolution of the x-wing had me in hysterics.

[ComfortsSpecter]

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Thank You


God Bless Allen; He is actively Living in Star Wars

Making actually Good content and almost all in Medium to Long video length

Incredible Good work

Wonderful Vibe