"So, what are we going to call your new starfighter, Grand Admiral Thrawn?" Emperor Palpatine asked. "King Hell God Emperor Starfighter of Death." Thrawn smiled sardonically. "Maybe just call it the Missile Boat..." Palpatine replied while sighing.

Thank you Zarrin for the wonderful contribution to the Galaxy. The TIE Defender.

This was kind of like the Star Wars equivalent of operation Valkyrie: The failed assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.

I always found it a bit odd that Zaarin wasn't mentioned more outside of the games. You'd think the man who almost overthrew the Emperor, destroyed most of the Empire's advanced starfighter facilities and gave Thrawn a run for his money would have been referenced more in Legends. One of my favorite aspects about the Zaarin Insurrection is that it fits in neatly with the lore and addresses several potential plot holes that may have otherwise cropped up. For example, it explains why you don't see the Empire field hilariously overpowered starfighters like Tie Defenders and Missile Boats in large numbers (Zaarin destroyed the production facilities and took many of the surviving ships), along with addressing Thrawn's absence at pivotal battles like Endor (he was busy fighting Zaarin).

The King Hell God Emperor of Death....what a name HAHAHAHA

Tie Fighter Total Conversion is such an amazing fan-made project. Everyone with a flight stick should give it a shot.

Maarek Steele amuses me because he's had like three different skin tones. All because the art render that came with his original game had a serious case of the DCAU Luthors.

Imagine if Zaarin had waited for Endor

Director Lenzer was just Wraith Seinar himself after dissociating on a massive spice bender.

I'm sure Palpatine enjoyed the mini vacation of the coup, gets to take his mind off ruling for a few hours as a treat.

6:10 The Gammorean could breathe fire IIRC. They also tied it in to the Republic/Legacy comics and Dark Forces video games by associating the Tusken from that game with Hett/Krayt and the Grave Tusken heretic gang from Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight and its MotS expansion.

Excellent video on the best Grand Admiral!

Really criminal of you and Eck to deem TIE Fighter as below S-tier. Seriously, that game gets really good once you master it, and believe me, it sure is better than the unfortunately decaying Squadrons because of many reasons you sorely overlooked. Anyhow, gotta love taking down this traitor to the Empire via his own obsession with experimental craft.

I dislike the retcon where they give the defender to thrawn. Good video.

I made prelection about Zaarin campaign about decade ago, animated as XWA briefings, thinking it would be faster then making it as slideshow or learning some new soft. It worked, but I never touched modding of XWA ever again. :D

I feel like the vanilla game's finale where Palpatine is somehow loaded onto the shuttle and kidnapped doesn't make much sense. Even when retcons said the cyborg force user martial arts chick from Masters of Teras Kasi had joined Zaarin and helped. The XWA port fan made version of the events skips the shuttle part and makes the fleets much bigger, but sadly puts Vader back in his own X1 instead of making him a monster in a Defender.

Hope your friend enjoyed it. That was nice of you

Will the grand admirals ever come to new canon? We have thrawn, the most recognizable grand admiral. But it'd be cool to see some of the other ones, esspically since new canon doesn't shy away from talking about the politics of the empire. So seeing some of these men getting their positions because they were huge political supporters, I think that'd be interesting.

I don't know if you had mentioned it in a prior video or not, but have you considered looking into a reviewing the "Galaxy of Fear" line of Star Wars books? One of them has a notable appearance of Grand Admiral Thrawn himself.

awesome ep, was waiting for this one from the start of the series

Elaine's boss from Seinfeld would be the perfect actor to portray Zaarin.

I love videos like this, thanks!!

Legends materials should have been a animation of series from the beginning to the end.

Rebels Thrawn is a child show paradoy in comparison.

8:01: And boy, do I love calling it that at the most virtuous of times. Flies and fights more like a Star Trek starship though, if one thinks about it much.

5:40 Really Palpy? The same trick AGAIN? Let me guess, you took her to the Opera to make your pitch. Get some creativity man!

Soooooo.... his last name be Gaas?

Lol campaignion video. Top tier tactical wordplay.

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I'm assuming that location name you butchered was 'Cygnus;' it''s less Sigh-gnus and more Sig-nus when spoken. It's Latin, it means swan, and it's associated with space because the first black hole discovered is known as Cygnus X-1 (because first and it's in the part of the sky dominated by the Swan constellation as these things are measured.)

Once again. Legends has some wack shit in it

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