They pretty much have to bring Merrin into live action at this point. Merrin is a powerful force sensitive Nightsister that regularly returns to Dathomir to replenish her ichor supply. The Great Mothers going to Dathomir to rebuild their Witch Kingdom seems like a very obvious way to introduce Merrin. Merrin should be able to sense the Great Mothers going to Dathomir.

I find almost fun how much in common has Thrawn's current situation not only with Julius Caesar after his time in the Gaelic lands but also with the history of my country (Spain) during the past century. Here we also stablished a Republic after making the tyrannical king run away for the country, but its first steps were very convoluted. There was this militar council working against it in the same way than the Shadow one, and then this general (Franco) who spent his entire career fighting far away of the country in one of the hardest batterfields of that time, having and entire army of mauled soldiers and foreing troops like Thrawn with his Night Troopers and his Nightsisters caskets. The coup plotting militar council gave Franco the way to coming back to the country, and he obliterated the spanish army, the civil volunteers and even his own allies, showing how dangerous could be the colission between a stranded army totally devoted to war in the most harsh way and civil population. That ended with 40 years of militar dictatorship in our country through Franco, and now watching Thrawn coming back from Peridea is almost like seeing Caesar coming back to Rome from Galia or Franco to Spain from North Africa, and that kind of colission never ends well

Alan I gotta say dude your a rare gem in this community.Your intelligent and have integrity. I never see any click bait view grabbing titles,videos or thumbnails.Just well thought out intelligent content. Keep up the great work.

Seeing all the Ventress clips from Clone Wars with Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters makes me want to rewatch those episodes yet again

Am I the only one who's low-key rooting for Thrawn? In a lot of ways, he almost reminds me of Napoleon: an extremely competent leader who gets defeated and exiled far away. Now he's returning to reclaim his position and settle the score. Thrawn is probably the only "bad guy" who I'd be seriously tempted join. Vive L'Empereur!

It's started to occur to me that the Night Sisters who are often considered "bad guys" despite not being part of the Jedi/Sith or Empire/Republic conflict could also have a "light" and "dark" faction perhaps even a gray, in-between faction as even the other two have people in the middle like Baylan or even Dr. Pershing. Also, I imagine if you have a giant stone Keep, you probably don't need to hang bodies in stinky flesh bags. These sisters probably have nice clean freezers for extended storage.

The thing that blows my mind about traveling to another galaxy is the possibility of a whole separate structure and new stories. Does this other galaxy have a completely different political system if one has even formed in that galaxy. The possibilities are literally endless.

UNDEAD NIGHTSISTERS!

The Nightsisters, Star Wars Necrons. I love when the necromancy archetype is played with, especially when portrayed as being morally gray

The "new" Nightsisters we met, are the ancestors. Elsbeth said this was where they, the ancestors of the Nightsisters if Dathomir, originated from. That they came over to the SW Galaxy "riding the purgil".

Mother Talzin is legit an underrated and very interesting character, especially when it comes to the people she cares about. At the one hand she doesnt seem to care at all about outsiders (lets not forget she was gonna sacrifice Jar Jar's girlfriend for a ritual) nor the males of her clan (her two other sons Savage and Feral included) like at all, hell when her clan was pretty much wiped out she didnt seem all that bothered by it. However on the other hand she did seem to genuinely love Maul (even tho he was just another male by Dark Sister colture),to the point she even sacrificed her life to keep him safe and she even went out of her way to guide Ventress and even backed up her assasination attempt on Dooku, even tho it could bring attention to her planet (and it did). It really begs the question. Why did Ventress and Maul seemed to be so much special to her?

Thanks for a great video, It was really sad when a whole population of the Night Sisters was killed, with their very specific way of using force, and it was sad again when Ezra and Maul didn't let them resurrect. Same as killing the surviving Geonosian queen. They don't use either the light or dark side of the force specifically, and they have their own plan. Hope to see them as a powerful and independent power, competing with Republic, Mandalorians, and Empire leftovers. It's an exciting way of expanding the Star Wars universe.

The slow step could be an elevator, with Night Troopers loading it at top and bottom-- it's hard to estimate throughput without knowing what the slowest step is.

I'd like to add the theory that instead of corpses there could be sisters in some sort of stasis in this coffins.

If those coffins are more of his dead staff that they’ll use to revive as undead, this could be a nasty plan. Edit: well, guess the stormtroopers aren’t undead.

I really liked how both the Clone Wars and Rebels showed that there were other Force using factions besides the Jedi and Sith. I think the Dathomiri magic is different based on whatever planet they're on. The Peridia witches use artifacts similar in appearance to the star map. Maybe they need the spirits of their ancestors to work their magic. So these are most likely coffins. I think the Night Troopers are just one example of what the Nightsisters can do and those capsules are the next version of fighters.

I both love the remanung damage to the chimera And do hope it gets repaird/upgraded

I like the Great Mothers being the canon version of Jorus C'Baoth from the old Thrawn books. C'Baoth was the one thing about the old Thrawn books I didn't like.

I think those coffins contain the Nightwolves, of course. They tap into the mystic Wolfhowl energy that permeates the universe and are led by Red "Red Wolf" Wolf, a new character that will become the most important character in Star Wars probably.

I think it's pretty clear from the dialog they are Dathomiry night sisters whose ancestors migrated from Dathomir. The temples on this planet were part of a great "Dathomiry Witch" civilization, according to Baylen. Morgan says her ancestors were the first to harness the purgill for intergalactic travel to the planet from the SW galaxy. There's no reason to think they came from anywhere else other than Dathomir.

Allen, thank you for bringing in some anthropology ("alien-pology") concepts into your videos. Your stuff is edutainment and has "real" world applications. I am not sure why you hate dolphins but you are right, these mammals can be dangerous like primates. I saw a recent report where a group of dolphins killed a porpoise and the attack is not due to predation.

I've always loved the Nightsisters and Ventris. What ever happened to Ventris after the Clone Wars?

Ive liked all the SW shows, to some degree or another, but this one is the first where I feel like they are growing the universe more than ever, and I am excited to see how the last two episodes develop. I really hope that they make season 2 much quicker.

I always wanted the empire to go against a larger threat other than just the rebels.

Dark Disciple is amazing. I need Quinlan Voss back in live action.

It's probably an undead army of Nightsisters

“dark science, cloning: secrets only the Sith knew” LOL

Huge fan thank you for what you do and thank you for explaining the lore we've missed!

There is still a section of the loathal Jedi temple that contains some sort of force portal in one of the chimera’s cargo bays. I wonder if Thrawn reassembled it. Or, more likely, Feloni forgot it was there.

I feel if the night sisters are getting the heck off planet and bringing their remains with them they could be controlling the night troopers as the red ribbons act as tethers to control them. Could be a plan to bring back the mother from the dead

Great so Alen! Keep up the great work.

Whatever comes next will be interesting! Thanks for the video!

What if every one of those bodies ends up being stronger than the Dathomer zombies? Heck, what if each one is a full on Inquistor grade force adept (if Nightsister trained rather than dark jedi). In those sort of numbers... that... would legitimately be a terrifying force.

Dark Disciple, is one of my favourite SW books. A fantastic recommendation. Staring two of, in my opinion, the best and most underused characters in Ventress and Voss.

This is seeming more and more like Filoni’s version of the Yuuzhan Vong. I’m not opposed to that at all haha

From now on I will consider BT pairing like an initiation ritual. With how long it takes and how flaky some Bluetooth connections can be, it checks out...

Alan going crazy with these uploads

All this talk about the Nightsisters made me wonder what is going to happen if Mother Talzin successfully assassinated Count Dooku? How will this impacted the Clones Wars and everyone involved in it?

but can we talk about how thrawn and ezra even survived? like at the end of rebels the windows were fully shattered, which means they were literally just in space during the purrgil hyperspace jump

Allan. You have unlocked truth star wars aside but this and many videos show truth.

your analysis is excellent and hilarious

i swear Allan is my favorite youtuber

Plenty of societies in Star wars Is hard to believe have interstellar travel. Maybe they had it but gave it up

There is that current rumor that Filoni and Kennedy have a plan here. The Ahsoka series and the movie to finish the story off are, supposedly, going to see the Witches cast a spell that destroys the Force meaning no Jedi, no Sith, no Force users ever again and the only magic will be the Night Sisters.

That thumbnail is hilarious and I love it a lot.

I couldn't help but think project blackwing, especially when they say there is a darker force they are running from. The caskets could contain bodies from the infected individuals.. definitely a long shot, one can only wish.

I think you could make a video about the how the distinction between the night sisters and Jedi/Sith. Primarily collective powers vs individual powers. The average member of Sith or Jedi is a trained warrior competent in their use of the force while an average night sister is pretty weak in comparison.

They might not be actually zombies, the pods remind me of Han Solo in Carbonite if you look at the end of them you can see a electronic control panel, it might just be for the repulsorlift functions so those could be living Nightsisters and Brother in there.

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15:38 thrawn would be the only one to support a unionized force--he treats his servicemembers well, and gets ultimate loyalty from them

I hope that they understand Thrawn as a charakter. Thrawn could play such a important role in the Star wars future.

Gods i love Thrawns voice. Its like spicy butter.

Great synopsis ! 🍷😏🔥

Great video Alan, I wanted to point out a plot hole that I haven't seen anyone else talk about and figured I'd point it out, it's when Thrawn and Morgan are first talking about loading the caskets, she tells Thrawn that she has seen the catacombs and she thinks it'll take 3 days to do it. The plot hole is that she couldn't have seen it before, she has never been hear to see it and plus that would invalidate the show if she had been to Peridia before, she would have already known where to go to get Thrawn!! Please help with this conundrum!

Inside those caskets are all of our fan theories about this show so far.

Hey now! Good stuff

Definitely the peridea ones came first. Elsbeth confirmed as such when she said that the peridea nightsisters were the first to discover the pathway into the main galaxy by using the purgill

"Unionized" You're crack'in me up Allen !!!

Make Sorceress Charal Great Again! It would be cool if they had another shapeshifter witch.

The rest of his staff, and they need to travel to Dathomir which might warrant a cameo of Merrin running into them.

Lol Go-Gurt in the background 😆

Doesn't have to be just Night Sister & Brother corpses, could also be Zepho corpses too they could reanimate.

Do you think the ISD can dock in the middel of the Hyper Space Ring like an jedi fighter? Why else would they load everything on the ISD. The ring also did not look like it had any significant Space dedicated to cargo ore personal .

You think locations over vas space all looks the same would be referred to by cowardness direction instead of names

I feel like if Mandolorians and Nightsisters allied or even merged and intermingled they would be insane!

Undead magically reanimated Night Troopers.... probably not unionized :)

Sir I totally agree that Asajj Ventress to me is one of the Great forgotten characters in Star Wars. Which I would love to see more of. And I understand it would be almost impossible to bring her back in this timeline that we have now because she's dead. 👁️

The coffins are probably just cryo pods. I believe Ezra mentions Thrawn woke up the elder witches when he arrived on Pyredia, so I would assume the rest are just sleeping as well. And if they do go the Abeloth route, what better way to prevent some random witch from hearing the call and waking her than putting everyone to sleep.

And just like that, my question from the last vid was answered. Lol!😂

I kinda suspect that, in at least a percentage of those caskets, is a supply of ichor. And even those caskets with ancestors...whether bodies or spirits or both, they could be having two, maybe three (more?) per casket.

In the episode they actually say that the planet is the real homeworld for them. So, the Dathomirian witches originate from this galaxy, not SW one.

At this point in time in the Star Wars galaxy, there is a force power vacuum. A vacuum that needs to be filled. Thrawn's ship is a colonization vessel as this faction of the Sisterhood will repopulate this part the Star Wars galaxy. Wouldn't be surprised if there were more than one ritual of resurrection.

I’m guessing it’s undead night sisters or cloning equipment or something like that given the inspiration from the og thrawn novels

Great Mothers still remember what a Jedi smells like after millenia - that is the top of an iceberg lore drop: Jedi fought the Night Sisters in another galaxy long ago!h Add in all Baylan's 'old Jedi tales' lines and maybe the story Huyang is telling Ahsoka is about this time.

So, a few head-scratching points; - Morgan said "I've seen the catacombs, it will take some time" in ref to Thrawn stating they'll load the 'caskets' onboard his ship. When did she have the chance for that little visit? - There seems to be a LOT of these caskets. As we've yet to see any other Night Sisters other than the three "Great Mothers", where might the rest be and what by chance killed so MANY of them to require so many caskets? There must be something VERY powerful here to kill so many. You would think Thrawn might have mentioned that to Baylan. - It would seem Peridea is VERY strong with the Force but until/unless Filoni shows us what he has living here, It's very confusing what's been killing off/wounding Thrawn's remaining troopers (they all look like they've been engaged in recent skirmishes) and has decimated the Night Sisters. - another possibility, is these caskets are holding not dead NS bodies but actually live NS in stasis. Put there perhaps due to such low resources on the planet. Mind, Who built this huge temple complex (labour wise) and to what end? - if we travel "home" next episode, these questions may not get answered for a VERY long time.

Yo. Allen do you think those nightsisters caskets. Are carrying very important high-ranking nightsisters bodies , do you remember that episode in the clone wars animated series we're Mace windu went with jar jar Binks to find out why the night sisters where taking these force-sensitive spirits in a spear to revive the nightsister mother Towson. Maybe thrawn at will take the night sisters back to Dathomir so they can be revived by taking other souls like they did in clone wars using those sphears

I'm just waiting for the chimaera to latch into the ring a-wing style

maybe those pods are stasis pod,. living nightsisters in induced in sleep and stasis?

you are epic man

Nightsister Zerg rush? Oh heeeeeeels yeah! Do it Filoni. Do it.

The troopers are boosted by N. sisters magic like Savage Opress and got some cyber prosthetics replacement. Not moved by some zombie vodoo puppet master type of magic.

Judging by Thrawns' beer belly I would guess that they're loading caskets of Peridean Pilsner.

as someone who made the undead nightsisters for clone wars, I'm slightly excited on the implications...heh...

What if the night sister zombies turn out to be the dark side worshippers on Exegol that help Palpatine return? Maybe dark magick combines with cloning to help in a resurrection of sorts? And... staff all those star destroyers too. I know the nightsisters are no fans of the Sith, but I could easily see an alliance be worked out through Thrawn. Just a thought...

Everybody gangsta til the witches summon their dead cousins

I just hate having to wait a week everytime for an episode. I wish they would just release all of them at once. I feel like it might even work better for them if they do that, bc a lot of times ppl will get “upset” that what they were wanting/waiting to happen didn’t happen in the newest episode. But if they just released it all at once there would be no complaints bc it’s just one part after another. The thing with these Star Wars shows is they’re basically just longer movies cut into parts, so if they just release sit all together some of those parts that “don’t make sense or are random” (to some ppl) wouldn’t have as much of an impact on the reviews.

Probably have dead nightsisters, but maybe also dead imperials. Thrawn mentioned his forces had thinned. Perhaps they will be brought back once in the main galaxy.

Thrawns about to have a one chip challenge party

With the hindsight of episode 8 I think I can make some more precise counts to thrawn current troop strength. There is one shot in episode 8 in which you can actually see the whole hangar full of those coffins- if I count correctly i came up with 5,760 coffins arranged in a regular grid and then some more stacked into the alkoves on the side, so I'd say we have 8,000 to 10,000 coffins on board. Thgen we have the troops Thrwan brought with him from Lothal: one Legion of Stormtroopers (now Nighttroopers), about 10k man - minus some which might have fallen victim to Ezra, Ahsoka, Sabine And or the general circumstances of their long exile. So give that another 8,000. The night troopers, as far as we know, can be revived at least one time by the great mothers, so I will count them twice. Thrawns contingent of TIE fighters, shuttles and heavy mechanized infantry might have survived the waiting time almost untouched, which - with a little luck - goes also for their crew. They are also enforced by a small to medium sized mercenary force that Elsbeth, Hati and Skoll brought from Seatos and some officer corps, special forces, personal bodyguards and so on, so add another maybe 4-5,000 persons from that. The medical personnel, deck watch, gunners, machinists and so on (the onboard crew) of the star destroyer might as well have survived more or less completely. THey are a bit hard to count, however, as Jedipedia gives no clear answer about wether the Chimera was Imerium class I or II, which maeans either 20-30k or (in case of Imperium II clas) even up to 40k personnel. So in the worst case (for the new republic, that is) we might have a combat force of between 33,000 and up to 80,000 (in the absolute worst case) men on board.

Asajj Ventress was not just taken, she was given to a man as a trade or offering for peace if I remember correctly. I don't remember under what curcumstances this was done. I don't remember who this man was or why he wanted Assajj and why the sisters gave Ventress to him. Mother Talzin clearly says to Asajj Ventress when she came back after Count Dooku betraided her "your sacrifice will be rewarded" or "your sacrifice has not been forgotten" something like that. They gave Ventress to some one, under pressure probably, but they did give her up for something. Asajj was not just taken without Mother's Talzin's concent.

Hey Allen….I have the high ground muahahah

Oh totally agree that Thrawn is definately, based upon available evidence, transporting either a zombie night sister army in stasis or something even deadly, more terrifying force that Thrawn can make use of in his campaign to conquer the new republic, alongside the Chimera..

It's Ezra and Sabine sneaking back onto the Chimera!

Dave F is opening the door for a Halloween Horror movie. Possibly directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Stephen King would be my dream choice.

graves, witches, undead troopers, man this star wars series is getting super dark

Maybe that red ribbon is not only ribbon, but also some really good duck tape

I always thought Ventress was cool asf, she got shafted in life but I don’t think she was truly evil, she could have been brought to the light. Great video, thanks man

It is a little confusing why exactly the Night Sisters have this deal with Thrawn. It is mentioned in the last episode that the Sisters used the space whales in the past to go to other galaxies, such as the Star Wars one, so they shouldn't need Thrawn and the Chimera to escape that planet. It is also stated that the Night Sisters reached out to Morgan Elsbeth to come to them, so again, Morgan has that big ship which can get the Night Sisters to our galaxy. So then what does Thrawn have to bargain with if not transport out of there? The only thing that made sense was that Thrawn could unite the shattered elements of the Empire still existing and so give the Sisters a power base to operate from. If so then my theory on the deal they made is that the Sisters are giving Thrawn their undead to fill out more Trooper armor and make his army bigger. For right now they gave him just enough bodies to operate the Chimera and have a small unit of troopers if he needed them. But once back in the Star Wars galaxy and set up they will give him the rest, those in the canisters, to fill out his army.

The undead nightsisters kinda remind of playing Cod zombies when you get through a certain number of waves and the zombies get tougher and faster.

My motorcycle helmet also has a rebel sticker in the same spot.