You are my favorite starwars youtuber.

Thank you Alden, I appreciate that and the support! @@BaronAlden

You should have 1 Million+. This channel is Star Wars GOLD.

LOVE your channel, been watching for a very long time now!!

You deserve 1 Billion subscribers thank you for making these

Not to be a complete dick here, but TIE Defenders were made by Grand Admiral Zaarin from Legends. I did however, design Missile Boats.

Palpatine: No, we will build a another Death Star.

@@darkwolf4434 and we will make the ewoks pay for it

@@darkwolf4434 ",but BIGGER!"

If they went with Thrawn's project the rebels would have crumbled under the Empire. I wish they would have 🥲.

I know the feeling IO! I wonder if when Palpatine concluded Thrawn would "go far", he considered that he would one day take control of the Imperial Remnant and all but crush the Rebellion/New Republic. :) Thank you for watching buddy!

@@starwarsreadingclub Only stopped by that traitor Rukh..!

Oh, you charmer.

Thrawn is by far the best character in Star Wars, canon or legends, especially canon.

The emperor is not as easily impressed as you are

Or Thrawn himself, he fought with Anakin a few times

I'm sure there's more than one family line with the same family name

@@carlosandleon yeah nice try. Palpatine literally created Anakin through the force. He followed him his entire life. Knew all about the prophecy and belief that it was him. No way he would ever think for a second that Luke SKYWALKER was a coincidence.

Vader: OBI-WAN WAS HIDING MY SON ON MY OLD HOME PLANET, WHY CAN'T MY SON BE IN NABOO!?! Thrawn: hmmmm, when did Anakin got busy to have child also Naboo???? This what I got but meh I try.

@@robertovaldivia1573 No, it was Plagueis. As far as I know Lucas denied the theory that anakin was fathered/created by Palpatine

The movies were always separated from the books/comics/etc. under Lucas. They were entirely separate canons.

Jeffrey Scott hokus pokus Mara Jade begonous just to make Luke gay ugh

Disney def....

@@pezpowerproductions2602 correction. Lucasfilm is in charge of the canon, NOT Disney. Hell the EU was already a separate canon under Lucas

This franchise is getting worse by the minute!

This

So true! :)

Then the first movie would have been about 10 minutes long lol.

@@Sgt_Glory would of saved everyones time with that shit story and it would of been a great 10 minutes instead of a shit 8 hours

Mystic 7 hours and 14 minutes

@@Mystickrage Absolutely agreed!

Thrawn hated such grandiose arrangements and superweapons. When he came back from the Unknown Regions to confront the New Republic he had a very small force (comparatively) not even much support from the remaining Imperial hierarchy because of his non-human origins, but he almost took over the whole galaxy. And ten years later when his name was being used to create confusion, they almost made it again. The ‘First Order’ is a joke led by that comical General Hux.

I think in the new Thrawn book coming out he meets Eli again

@@LordTuskk it's possible, depends when the book is set. I suspect it will be placed between Alliances and Rebels finale, covering everything which wasn't covered (like when he had to go to Coruscant and talk to Palpatine personally). Then again there could be some contacts between teacher and pupil, after all Thrawn had to have a way to notify the Chiss about Eli's arrival.

I feel like this is a slight spoiler for Thrawn Alliances, and I am slightly annoyed but yet somewhat deserving of the spoiler, I do not own the book yet.

How dare you sully the god emperors name by attributing it to Palpatine you heretic!

@@EchthelionII ups sorry, wasn't intentional. @Altair I wasn't referring to Palpatine but to Dave, who said Thrawn and Ezra survived the hyperspace jump at the end of Rebels.

In charge of an army or battle station yes but in 1 on 1 combat no

I agree

It depends on the situation.

You alive yet or have you been force choked through your monitor for your insolence?

@@illevarslendetyrann What Vader doesn't know won't hurt you.

Too bad you got beaten by space whales

It's not his fault, they were completely unexpected. (never watched Rebels)

@@EchthelionII LOL! Rebels is actually pretty good

@@realahsokatano5046 So I've heard, I just don't know where I can watch it.

I just bought it in dvd

I love his voice bruh tf you talkin bout

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This is definitely a cool one in my opinion from Legends. Before taking a look at Star Wars: Rebel Force: Target, I didn't even know Palpatine was the one to directly tell Thrawn about the Death Star/Yavin. I've been on a real journey to find out as much as possible re: Thrawn between the Battle of Yavin and his travels to the Unknown Regions, so this was an interesting find. :) Thank you for watching NW, I hope that you enjoy the video!

@@starwarsreadingclub I really enjoyed it :)

To be fair Canon Had 5 years and Legends 20

@@hardcorebatmanfan7591 they have hack writers that bare know what they're doing with the franchise. Is that fair?

More detailed and also idiotic and obviously retroactive.

Thank you! I always have to look twice whenever I see it because I keep thinking it's the Undertaker and then I become slightly confused as to why a wrestler is in Star Wars.

@@EchthelionII same.

Legends

In current Cannon he’s promoted to Grand Admiral in 3-2BBY

No, he wasn’t made a grand admiral until later on. Iirc a cutscene in the tie fighter games is set around empire or Jedi where he is promoted.

This is a great question! In Canon, I would argue that if Thrawn remained with the Empire up until the Battle of Yavin, the TIE Defender most likely would have been in play by then, which would have made the Rebel assault at Yavin very difficult. That is just one path to look at, but in the case of Thrawn himself being there, that is another topic entirely and would be cool to look at from a Legends and/or Canon perspective. Thank you for watching Daryl!

It would of been interesting, especially since Thrawn was fighting for resources being diverted to Project Star Dust. Though had he not been kidnapped by space whales, it's very likely the TIE Defender would of been put into service instead of the TIE Interceptor.

Strongly doubt it. They barely got by on a miracle, and if Thrawn was there I doubt even the gold squadron would’ve even had a chance to do their attack run. They’d have all been wiped out because Thrawn would’ve had the Interceptors there, and he certainly wouldn’t have hesitated to send ships out from the beginning to defend the base.

@@SystemZ3RO no... it was too expensive. In essence plan of empire was to replace standard ties with interceptors and have elite running few tie defenders in the mix. there would certainly not be that many of them at yavin... but alone . TIE-D has one purpose - its Xwing killer.

They would of scaled down the costs, the same way the Interceptor was a scaled down Advance. It was only after Yavin did the empire ramp up their star fighter production. It is also unlikely that he would been in charge of the battle at Yavin since the Death Star was Tarkin's baby, even in Legends

Insightful interpretation! Lol!

Darrel's Wonderland Weird when you’re look at this when he is at 217k

I'm not going to lie. When I find a Thrawn idea that I previously didn't know and think everyone would enjoy, it goes right to the top of the list! Thank you for watching MS, hope you're having a good end to your week.

@@starwarsreadingclub hahaha, figured. Appreciate the honesty/feedback. How much did you enjoy Celebration? Was that your first one? And if not and you've been to others, where did this one rank compared to those others? I'd imagine that the one before Episode8 came out was phenomenal, since everyone was so excited for THE LAST JEDI, and getting answers to all the questions TFA raised (or at least so they THOUGHT lol...smh), seeing if indeed "their Snoke theory sucked"....that's basically what got me into the whole star wars youtube community, and hence your channel. I was watching The Force Awakens for like the 5th time at home on HBO, and it had actually NEVER occurred to me to do so before, but I said "who the hell are Rey's parents???" And i googled it, and that was that.. I discovered a ton of videos on that subject, as well as "Snoke's Identity, REVEALED" and "What Luke was doing on Ach To, CONFIRMED" vids, and then the good ol' KZfaq "down the rabbit hole" click click click click thing, and you're drowning in videos and theories and all that stuff....and then THAT led to me clicking on vids about LEgends stuff (or NON-CANON EXPERT stuff lol), and then light saber forms, and stuff from the old comics, and Yuuzahn Vong (i always forget how to spell it, so forive me if i didnt spell it right), and so on and so on (kinda like this comment, "so on and so on" lol).... and that was it, i became fully enthralled once again in the world of star wars, as Marvel took away my attention for this universe for a while.... and now ive made some friends on youtube through star wars, have cool, informative convos with people like you, and crack eggs of knowledge all over my friends who love star wars, after watching and learning new stuff, or getting refreshed on stuff i knew already from back in the day, but fell to the waste side.... and that's my story, N.C..E (Non-Canon-Expert!) and im stickin to it---forever!

@@masterrserch3971 you're almost correct, you just need to reverse the a and h, for Yuuzhan Vong.

Thank you for watching Adam and for the kind words. Your support means a lot!

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Thank you Mark, I very much appreciate the support!

... genius

So smooth........

Imperial.

...Thrawn

In the recent Thrawn trilogy of books yes. He was a Grand Admiral before the death star was completed

I'm not sure if it was Vice Admiral specifically, but I was fairly certain he was higher than a Captain by this time myself. I was a bit surprised to see it as Captain in Star Wars: Rebel Force: Target, but it does give him a few years to climb the rest of the ranks to Grand Admiral. I'll have to take a closer look at that. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment!

My only knowledge of rank for Thrawn comes from the canon book Thrawn, except that he is a Grand Admiral in the Thrawn trilogy.

@@EchthelionII DisCan and Legends are two different universes. Legends Thrawn was a Captain, then a Commander, then Vice Admiral by Yavin and was promoted to Grand Admiral 6 months before Endor during the hunting down and killing of renegade Grand Admiral Zaarin

@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 I knew none of that, my only knowledge of legends Thrawn is from the books, Outbound Flight and the Thrawn trilogy, I have not read the Thrawn duology yet, but I do have it.

@@EchthelionII I recommend before you read the Duology read Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command. For the specific story I'm referencing with Thrawn and Zaarin look up the game Star Wars TIE Fighter.

Definitely.

Others had higher rank,but not intelligence. The empire was raining and sexist(accept Disney added women to their canon) and thrawn was one of the few to break the rules and join,he was so skilled they didn't care he was alien or not. Well sidious didn't,many were racist to thrawn. He still excelled despite that.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@fridaynightnicktoons6885Don’t know about the sexist part. Can’t find any evidence for it either in recruitment or representation. Infact I recall there being around 4 females in the Empire created before Disneys acquisition. Tessala Corvae who is one of these was first mentioned in 1997. Can’t go off the actors considering I don’t even remember anyone female in the Rebel Alliance outside of Leia going off the original movies. The only change that happened during Disney ownership was more representation of females on both sides. First time I seen a female alien in the alliance was Captain Syndulla and that was Disneys. Above all, there is also no evidence that there weren’t women serving under the stormtrooper armour. They are unseen and could be anyone. It’s very unlikely the Empire or Alliance are sexist. Infact I’d say now it’s impossible tbh. Sexism seems to be a long time past and as you’ve referenced as Thrawn dealt with himself, the xenophobia against ‘aliens’ takes a WAY WAY bigger seat and presence, and even then exceptions were made especially with Thrawn though being a blue human at look probably gave him the green flag. I have no doubt Admiral Ackbar given he was humanoid at least and not a Rebel would probably be considered by Palpatine in the Empire considering he did demonsrate way more competence and bottlenecked the Super Star Destroyer Executor into destruction.

It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere