Where did you get that rebel alliance motorcycle helmet?

@@user-ox3mj2sr8n Thanks.

Spivving finance? BAD karma!

Will the code be good if I want to buy two sabers? Or is it just off the total?

That’s why we love him, he’s a real one

Integrity. It's outstanding.

I noted this as well. Great ethics

This is why I like him. He’s full of wisdom.

Big fan of that one.

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imagine asquadron full of Ted Lassos :D

Can confirm, I shaved my mustache and my garden died.

My moustache is my key to success. I finally grew one, and my ship finally made me leading petty officer of electrical division.

As a Clone trooper, I can confirm The Force prefers men with mustaches. I don't have to wear a ton of layers of armor, all the time to live a long life anymore.

Exactly her temperament and pacifist background and actually benefited the rebellion greatly. Whereas the partisans were eventual hunted down and destroyed

Yep. WW2 RAF had volunteers from all over the world. Poland, Croatia, France, United States, and many more. They had no trouble finding pilots willing to fly for them. The trouble was the high casualties, but they were determined to win, so they did.

Didn't he go down during the Battle of Hoth?

@@Tank50us yes, according to Legends, (at least,) he crashed his speeder into the AT-AT that was being commanded by General Veers no less.

Zev Senesca found Luke and Han unless they got lost twice.

@@Wand422 I suppose it may depend on the source, but from the film, "The Empire Strikes Back" it was Hobbie in the position of "Rogue-2," and it is he, (even though the pilot is not identified by actual name during the sequence, the actor who played Hobbie is in the cockpit of the search & rescue speeder, and therefore it should translate that it is Hobbie,) who says, "Echo Base, this is Rogue- 2. I found them. Repeat, I found them," the designation he had during the evacuation. However, I also know that during the evacuation sequence, a couple of designations get switched-up during the actual battle/film sequence, i.e., at one point, in particular when the Rebels trip up a walker via tow-cable, it's somewhat unclear if Luke is calling Wedge Antilles "Rogue-2" or if Luke is addressing Hobbie because Luke seems to refer to both of them as "Rogue-2." This confusion happens again just before/during Luke's getting shot down. So, in consideration of so many other "re-writes" or overlooks by the storytellers/(re)-productions it is possible that the narrative changed. So, I definitely won't say that "Zev Senesca" is incorrect.

@@skyden24195 Richard Oldfield plays Derek Klivian in both films and Zev Senesca is played by Christopher Malcom. The line "I've found them" was portrayed and voiced by Christopher Malcom as Zev Senesca. Callsigns might have been messed up in post credits and writing but I think it's pretty safe to say that the person portrayed on screen was never intended to be Derek Klivian.

Not to mention attrition in general. Losses of both men and materiel in combination with shrinking territories meant that the IJN and Army lost most of its logistical support.

I should add that the lack of armor and engine issues were a comrpomise that the designer had to make. A stronger engine and more armor were possible, and the IJAAF versions of the A6M did feature them. However, the reason was because that speed, firepower and range, all had to land on a carrier, and Japanese metallurgy at the time the Zero was designed wasn't up to making the stronger frames necessary to withstand repeated landings on a carrier. Funny enough, the US had similar issues which is why the Wildcat lacked the automatic folding wings and landing gear in the early days... the engine was already at its peak, and adding those features would just make it too heavy for carrier operations. This changed in the F-6F, which is the fighter the USN always wanted.... fast, powerful, durable, easy to fly, and actually capable of operating from its decks. The size and weight made it ill-suited for the lighter 'jeep carriers', but the big fleet carriers could handle them with no di... well... with little difficulty (let's face it, landing on a carrier is a tricky concept even under the best conditions).

@@Tank50us I also might add that at the time, Japanese engineers, because of the subpar metallurgy you mentioned, couldn't make an engine that was both powerful enough and light enough to add more armor while still being able to take off and land on a carrier. The Zero fighter was an excellent fighter for the limitations the engineers faced, and although it was easily outclassed by other fighters later in the Pacific War, at the outset of the conflict it was pretty terrifying until the Allied pilots learned how to counter their diving attack patterns.

@@Tank50us and then the corsairs showed up…

And Star Wars XWing Alliance :3

@@ForestRaptor Absolutely! Although, X-Wing Alliance takes place after The Battle of Hoth. The first X-Wing takes place before A New Hope and I feel like it's one of the best representations of how vulnerable the early Alliance really was.

theres a dude on youtube documenting him fixing and flying a jet (so far not so much luck but ay HE OWNS A JET)

@@Otacon2099 grounded jet? :)

Didn`t pepsi own a destroyer ship for a while, or something like that?

​@@openfly4u actually that was just a myth. In reality there was a deal between Pepsi and the USSR for the latter to sell the former some decomissioned merchant ships so Pepsi could scrap them but it didn't pan out cuz the USSR collapsed

​@@openfly4u they owned the sixth largest Navy. Technically. They never actually owned it, it was just scrap metal from the USSR.

It didn't help Biggs Darklighter though. RIP.

​@Arcturion Blade his mustache wasn't big enough 😔

It's not just pilots who benefited from mustaches. In fact, the Rebel Alliance would've likely won much sooner if Mon Mothma had grown a mustache.

May the mustache be with you!

and contrary to what many believe... they weren't volunteers. A few were, sure... but the majority were heavily pressured to join... and were dishonored if they didn't.

@@Tank50us please don’t mix origins with the end. For example: When Germany started Volkssturm, it was a veritable Defense strategy and training was taken seriously. At the end, every man, child and woman who could wield something with any deadly effect was sent out with little to no training. When Kamikaze was invented, they originally looked for people crazy enough to fly dive bombers against all odds and those who did it were specifically trained to do so. In the end everyone who could be made to suicide bomb, dive, or run into a final attack was made to. The final order of Hitler was to defend the remainder of Germany to the last drop of blood. The order of the Japanese Military was to gladly give your life for Tenno and Homeland. Tenno heika Banzai, may the Emperor live for 10.000 years. Both were totalitarian regimes like the empire and Operation Burning Cinder was the same train of thought. What started as specialised and very rare forms of attacks turned into mass murder/ suicide.

Also T 16s, which was found everywhere, had similar controls. It's like Russian doctrine, if you can drive a Traktor you can drive Tank.

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well, the motto of Rebels is the same of Richmond: "Believe" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Empire actually pinned Alderaan's destruction on the Rebels. It was done to save face on the loss of the Death Star. The Death Star was meant to go public after Yavin when they could claim it ended the Rebellion.

While that makes sense, a pyrrhic victory would've been extremely detrimental to the Rebellion. The Empire had a vast reserve of ships and personnel to draw on after a battle, but if the Rebellion lost a large portion of their very meager forces in a singular battle? They wouldn't be able to continue further sabotage ops for at least a good long while, prolly wouldn't be able to help people who needed their help, and morale would become an issue potentially to the point of the dissolution of the Rebellion.

Ah yes our dozen or so mc80s can fight it out with a few thousand star destroyers lets send out y wings and x wings to fight hundreds of thousands of tie fighters

No they wouldn't. Remember that the Empire is ruled by Sith and as far as Sith are concerned there is no such thing as 'illegal orders'. Sith consider themselves 'perfect' beings and the rightful rules of all sapience. Much like a Monarchy, there is no such thing as an illegal order if the King wills it. The King's Word is Absolute and if the King wants those civilian freighters shot up, "It will be done My Lord." Even someone like Thrawn and especially the Chiss himself would understand that the best they can do is protest against the system. Better to go with the flow at least from a public perspective. To do otherwise is to challenge the King and when you're against a Sith Lord, you'd better kill on the first shot. You won't get a second. The thing is, the Empire is modelled after Nazi Germany. You do have your competents holding the empire together, it wouldn't function as long as it did otherwise. However they are a minority. But something interesting I found out is that the Germany army fought better when the field officers weren't being micromanaged from central command. When the lines of communication finally caught up to the blitzkrieg (because they hit the ocean and couldn't go any further), that's when things started to go downhill. Imperial Officers aren't supposed to show initiative and creativity. Much like their german counterparts, they are supposed to defer to their superiors who know better because well... they're superior. Yes this was part of the downfall of the Third Reich and the Allies learned to let their field officers do their thing in the field which is part of the modern US Army doctrine today. It worked and continued to work in the real world. And it's part of the reason why the Rebels also won.

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She was? No, that was Poe. (That said, the best “no training” example would be Anakin at age… what was he, 8?)

@@Justanotherconsumer if I remember correctly, Poe said she was the best pilot in TROS. And yeah I completely agree, Anakin knowing how to fly a ship and destroying a space station at 8yo was really weird and kinda ridiculous. Edit: I just remembered Rey for some reason knew how to fly the Falcon and knew how to fix it in TFA, it was quite a weird and random thing....guess her and Anakin were just born knowing stuff

Thrawn was exiled. That's basically the Death Sentence in Chiss society. Any attempt to return or contact the Ascendancy would be treated as a hostile action. As long he continues to ignore them, they will ignore him.

Oh that's why she looks like a younger Nancy Polosi

Even the best senators do it. Go figure.

Maybe it was before Scarif.

@@TheAzureNightmare It might be. That's why they should make a video of them.... To bad Mace dies later..... The rebellion could have needed him

Even though the Ewoks movies are part of the Legends canon, Pablo Hidalgo said that Disney didn't decanonize the films and that authors are free to reference them in the current Canon.

@@hungtheheroluu Yes, true... But I allways been wondering about the witch in Battle for Endor. She clearly is an offworlder and must have come by starship but I never thought of her as a fallen Jedi since her power come from her ring but she might be a runaway Nightsister....

@@theblackgoatofthewoods the witch you speak of, Charal, who was an ally of those marauders that attacked the Ewoks' village, is indeed a Nightsister, perhaps the first live-action debut and overall debut of the Nightsisters before Ventress, Talzin, Merrin, and Morgan Elsbeth.

They will be. Give the writers time to "back-and-fill" the stories. And for the "fans" who endlessly complain about that: There's two choices - either never have (or recognize) a retro story about events before the movies, or suck it up and accept that things are gonna change from "canon" Or you could just give up and stop watching/reading.