“The Uighur One” that is simultaneously hilarious and disturbingly accurate. So many people are ignorant of how many of their every day objects are being produced by Uighur slave labor.

The Star Wars fan in me is screeching that you called the Slave-1 dumb and stupid but the logical engineer in me totally agrees with your assessment of most star wars ships including this one.

Calling it the Uyghur I instead of the Slave I was the best joke I've heard in a long time! That's good.

As a former child pilot of my own Slave One... I figured out the ramp doors were better left open so you could flick the wing struts fast enough to launch the han solo popsicle at your sibling.

“ The Mouse would like to know your location.”

"There is neither a galaxy nor a universe wherein enslaving your fellow sephant is acceptable. So if you want to take it upon yourself to rationalize, excuse, or otherwise simp for a totalitarian nation currently visiting all manner of atrocities, including slavery, upon the Uyghur people...well just rest assured that the cubeifier has space for you. Try me." Dockmaster is making it clear and simple where the lines of just and unjust stand and what we need to do to those who decide to cross that line. We need more beings of this caliber, and we need them soon.

The really fun part of "Jango isn't a real Mandalorian" retcon in Clone Wars (9:40) is that it was meant as a joke. Because the then-current backstory was that Jango had actually been the leader and last survivor of the True Mandalorian faction in their recent civil war. It also foreshadowed that the guy who said it was loyal to the reconstituted other side. Then Disney wiped all of that out except for Clone Wars, and that line was the only part still canon. With The Mandalorian retconning it back that Jango (and therefore Boba) really was a Mandalorian after all, but not the other details, we're just left with "some asshole lied about it for literally no reason".

Uighur 1 freaking killed me my dude

The Uygur 1 really caught me off guard lmao

What I find absolutely stupid is that, instead of following a flight profile that exposes the Kunta 1 to as little fire as possible (the 'iron' profile), it instead flies in a 'SHOOT ALL OF ME' profile exposing itself fully in a sort of constant Cobra Maneuver.

I loved that subtle 'Uyghur 1' shot at China (and Disney as well)... then you made sure everyone understood it with the last few seconds of the vid. Absolutely savage, great job!

F in chat for the dockmaster. we shall soon look fondly on his work of yesterday. in the times before he was epsteined by those who make billions off of the chinese slave industry.

I see the Firespray class as a police cruiser not a bounty hunter or combat ship. The last ship Jango had was better as it was a Kuat Drive Yards amphibious troop transport. Slave 1 was not taken by choice. 4:00 the flat back actually was used more for ambilical docking the tail sitting was a concession made for planetary landings.

9:30 I'm glad you brought that up. The fact that mandalorians literally only exist to explain Boba's backstory, then the writers just decide Boba is not the thing that only exists to explain him, is one of the most asinine writing decisions I have seen. And yes Disney not acknowledging "Slave I" while appeasing a nation with significantly more than 1 slave is an excellent example of corporate hypocrisy.

Hilariously the design for the Slave I is actually taken from a type of Street light found in California. . . Which is better than the Falcon which is rumored to come from a cheeseburger of all things.

Also for those VTOL aircraft... Imagine having to mount external pods, missiles or bombs to that thing. No cart, bottle jack for you, no! You'll have to use some kind of hoist system, dangle out a few hundred lbs of god knows what, and at some point hope whatever fixing you use doesn't decide to give way and drop 10 ft to the ground/deck.

It's really telling how many words we have for slaves.

The sarcasm is strong with this one.

And the Impressed Sailor 1 is STILL not the stupidest ship design in Star Wars. That is still and will forever be the Nebulon-B Frigate (even Rogue One showed the biggest flaw with that idiotically moronic design.)

I always had a hunch (before reading into S1/Jango’s backstory) that the Slave 1 was apart of a class of ship made more for the reason of “because we can” then actual practicality before being bought and made far more deadly by Jango/Boba At least its not Dengar’s ship which is a flying toilet 🤪

I always assumed that the reason the S-1 landed like that was so in an emergency the pilot could literally just punch it and launch at maximum burn straight up. Which for a bounty hunter might indeed be an extremely valuable ability. Landing in a potentially unfriendly enclosed space should be the exception, not the rule.

Your little dissertation at the end about those who would make you excuses for a certain very populous country persecuting one of its ethnic minorities made me proud to be a subscriber

The Mandalorian culture originally comes from Georges production notes and even at that stage Boba was supposed to be someone who just wore the armour but wasn't an actual Mandalorian. It wasn't until the 2000's when Karen Traviss really fleshed them out, I always liked her take on them being more like Vikings as they spent most of their time as farmers and craftsmen on Mandalore and set out to fight when they needed money or were called to war by the current Mandalore. That was overwritten by The Clone Wars even before the Disney canon took over and while I like both versions, the legends Mando's had a really pragmatic outlook that set them apart from the binary morality you usually find in Star Wars.

I just saved this to watch later and already cracking up. You didn't even make the title and then first word of the description. Bloody legendary.

I'm glad someone agrees with me on this ship. It's well armed and equipped, but that's really all. I understand Boba's personal attachment to the design as well, but about the only thing it has going for it is being tractor-beam capable with such a small ship. My friends argue that it is good because it is well armored. I argue that if it were so well armored the cockpit would be using sensors, or at least utilize a viewport that isn't so large that pretty much any hit to the front with something explosive would pop it like the can of pressurized air that it is.

“Try me.” I applaud your references up to there, and cheer at that phrase.

Okay, while I completely agree with the judgement that making the ship's profile as wide as it can get makes absolutely no sense neither drive nor maneuverability wise, nor can I find ANY other reason why this configuration would be beneficial (although I must admit the design looks cool, perhaps that alone has indeed been in mind of the designer,) I still am inclined to point out a few features of this ship you haven't really mentioned. First off, the blaster cannons on the chin of the ship. While it would be absolutely atrocious for these to be mounted that way on a fighter, on the Slave I they presumed the presence of a gunner using the weapons' built in optics (note how Boba Fett was shooting at Obi-Wan in Episode 2: there was no way for him to have a visual from the cockpit at that angle). In _that_ configuration _in particular,_ having the cannons on the long arm in relation to the cockpit could actually be an advantage in space combat: you could quickly alter firing angles by simply rotating the craft around the roll axis. Second, I want to point out that a seismic charge emits what is clearly a concentrated wave of gravitational disruption, judging by how it slices asteroids in half, and there is thus no reason for it not to work in space.

As someone who knows/knew one of the disappeared--and indeed was her boyfriend--thank you. I want to get that out of the way before weighing in on a single ship design, Star Wars or otherwise. As to Uyghur 1, Kazakh 1, Hui 1, Tibetan 1, or whatever name she goes under that the Bloodthirsty Mouse has brought upon itself, back when she was called Slave 1, ships of her class appeared in a game called X-Wing: Alliance, which was designed by people who clearly had experience at the whole combat flight sim genre. I'm only guessing on the experience part here, but the second you'd climb into that ship, virtually all of your shots would go low (real parallax error!) and your target profile was ENORMOUS. It was not a ship you wanted to fly if you wanted to survive, and I often wonder if they did that intentionally or not (especially since it was extremely well-armored and extremely-well-shielded, but both your shields and hull integrity got whittled down REAL fast).

2:22 While no prototype was ever built, the Germans also considered a similar design in WW2, with the Focke Wulf Triebflügel. However, the Triebflügel, as its name implies, had three wings attached to a rotating ring around the fuselage, and each wing had a ramjet on the end. The ramjets would push the wings to rotate fast enough to lift the plane off the ground, then the plane and its engines would rotate to propel it in forward flight, still keeping the wing assembly rotating. Yes, it looks as stupid as it sounds.

Cube it

The only thing it really had to do in Empire Strikes Back was blend in with a bunch of garbage, and it accomplished that task well.

I always thought it looked more like a hand held vacuum cleaner, an emergency lamp or a trophy head of an elephant. The ACTUAL thing is based on some street lamp heads though.

Alright. There’s a key detail missed in this video that sort of explains why this ship is the way it is. Granted, from the beginning as you mentioned all the ship was meant to be was “cool-looking.” There is a fair explanation here though. The Indentured Servant 1 was a modified Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft. In lore this craft was commissioned and created specifically for use on the prison moon of Oovo IV. It was used solely by that prison. The ship was never meant to be a space superiority fighter or even a long-range starship by any means. With space for six prisoners, its primary use would have been transportation of said prisoners, and occasionally taking care of breakouts. In these circumstances, the high visibility of the windscreen would be useful for surveying the moonscape. Beyond that, its threatening appearance would be sufficient to quell an escapee. Imagine being an escapee staring that thing down. It appears very formidable, despite having only its dual blaster cannons and a tractor beam in its armament. Either way, that was really all it needed. If you take this into consideration the ship serves its purpose and serves its purpose well. Jango Fett once took a job on Oovo IV and stole a Firespray-31 in his getaway. This ship became the Unpaid Intern I. Jango would go on to heavily modify the ship. He upgraded the twin cannons and added all of its other weapons. It’s no longer canon as far as I am aware, but can still be assumed to be, that Boba is the one who modified the cockpit to rotate. So long story short, this craft used to basically be a prison bus, but Jango stole it and replaced all of the seats with guns to make it worth his while.

Less than a minute in and I am ROLLING! 🤣 This is one of my favorite ships in the franchise, yet I fully agree with your assessment. All the other vessels have real life inspiration - including everyone's favorite flying half eaten cheeseburger*. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where this thing came from. * No, seriously. GL has said a number of times that was eating a cheeseburger when he came up with the design of the Falcon. It's literally, and with zero hyperbole or exaggeration, designed to look like a flying cheeseburger. Edit: I would love to see them mess with fans by subtly changing the interior layout every season.

Theres an extremely weird version of a tail sitter called the coleoptere, its like removing the traditional wings and getting the fuselage to wear a short barrel instead.

Tail-sitting VTOL drones are a thing nowadays though, they seem to work a lot better on account of being much lighter and not having to look over their shoulder to land.

I lost it on first uyghur 1 LOL XD I realy apriciate the fact the space entity can see moral wrongs of totalitarianism better than some people here on earth

You can always judge someone's character by how they treat those who are uighur.

Benefits. 1. You landing engines are you main propulsion 2. Increased field of view in flight Downsides - A.You kinda need 90 degree ofset artificial gravity to make it work well in the interior cabin. B. Larger target profile

that last line... I'd been holding off throwing my sub because you were just good fun to listen too when I gave a damn about the subject you were talking about. This whole episode had me cackling and that last line, I am right there with you.

About perfect on the new name. I always thought this looks like its part of another ship, like an escape capsule/landing craft, but the rest has been missing due to something or other. Serf and uygar(sp) are great, can't say that enough. btw, Involuntary intern would be a good one, but you may have said it and I didn't hear it.

Thank you for adding that little offer at the end. If you ever need some help loading the cuber for give me a call.

I've always thought it looked like an elephant's face when it's stood up. So, I guess "Beware the space iron, it will transform into an elephant"

"Indentured servant 1" omg I'm dying laughing dockmaster!

The Perpetual Indentured Individual Uno.

Every new name you give the Salaryman 1 warms my chuckle engine.

The first tailsitter i am aware of was the german Bachem Ba 349 „Natter“, then the X-13 Vertijet, after them the Pogo and Salmon. Meanwhile the french tried to throw their Baguette in the ring with the SNECMA C.450-01 Coléoptère (Beetle in english, but don´t get me to speak it!). Russia wanted to play too, creating the Suchoi Schkwal, another plane i am not able to pronounce correctly. Unless i had enough Vodka. However if you think we learned anything out of all those failures, since 2015 Northrup Grumman is fiddling on a tailsitting drone for recon.

Your way of words sir, makes this the best break down of indentured servant one...ever! Thank you. Loved every moment of your work!

Love it! And all the protest names you gave it!

2:26 that's useful for a repair ship that would repair space stations and larger ships and maybe do some shifting and moving of construction supplies and shipping containers, but not so much elsewise. It would make much more sense if there were lifting/grasping arms coming out of the the stubby wings. As a gunship it's rather poor. And there's no rear visibility. You have to be a space wizard er, I mean "force user" to have any situational awareness in the Slave 1, and even then there's times where that will fail

To be fair, Star Wars clearly takes place in that Pre-Post-Technology type of era where people are more concerned with making cool unique stuff than things that are "oh so uber duper efficient and perfect". We have real-world mirrors of such things happening all the time.

The best consolation for all of these issues is that the Slave 1 is just a shitty cargo ship that Jango had gotten a hold of, and just never got rid of because "hey, it hasn't broken yet and it does the job." I fully believe Jango and later Boba were secretly hoping to find someone stupid enough to buy the Slave 1 or trade it for something better.

the uyghur 1 got me at the beginning though, i rewatched it a few times just to make sure

the last bit got me reminded of the slogan: "If you invade us today, you'll be home allready."

I appreciate the aware subtext throughout the video, major props for what feels like a little known major problem getting more light.

So it has a name. The cubifyer.

I'm impressed that he thinks the Firespray class is the worst design in the SW universe considering that ships like the Nebulon B and B-Wing also exist there.

"Slavery is bad" Someone ought to go back in time and tell every African nation ever that

Shhhht... Silly-1 is actually a typical phone booth on the world of Kuat, and Jango took it from a strange guy calling hi self doctor.

That final warning might have earned a subscription.

If you want stupid tail-sitters, try the Focke-Wulf Triebflugel: make a tail-sitter and put the propellers below the cockpit. You forget: hull space means nothing in Star Wars, e.g., the Millennium Falcon’s ribbon o’ light speed in the back. At least Star Trek realized that power plants take up hull volume. The “Chain Gang One”? The “Unpaid Intern One?” The “Production Assistant One?” “The Crowd Scene Extra One?”

To paraphrase TFS DBZ abridged Vegeta: “…That’s so dumb. But it’s so cool! But that’s so dumb!!!”

Boba; Stands around for about a minute and falls in a pit some time during the eighties. The planet Mandalore; Guess I'll explode now. Boba; But actually, I was fine. The planet Mandalore; ...You're out of the club.

Boba is a kind of tea supplement. George just wanted some Boba tea.

The smart play on Disney's part wouldn't have been to remove or change the name, but give it a good reason to have the name. . The Clones were all mind-controlled slaves. Boba, following in his father's footsteps, instead made a life for himself as a free man. The ship's name is Slave 1, in honor of him being the first clone (which, he doesn't actually know he is, but reasonably assumes so), and of his enslaved "brothers". . Since the name of the ship is never actually mentioned in Attack of the Clones, it's not unreasonable to say that Jango might've had a different name for it before, and that Boba changed it shortly after Order 66, when he would've started hearing about the clones being "removed" from active duty.

9:02 oddly the Ion cannon in the Mandalorian is where the blasters are in Book of Boba as an alt-fire. Older stuff had them replacing the rapid fire funs from Episode 2. Maybe both can alt fire or maybe each barrel of each gun at the end of the handle is different.

Yup, definitely dumb. As dumb as the B wing? Eh, flip a coin. Stick with the flat approach, merge the handle bit in to the base and flatten the whole thing out to present a narrower profile head on. That would leave enough room for the appropriate armament for a patrol craft - turrets. Forward cannons and launchers, definitely. Needs a dorsal turret too though. Now for the obligatory rant section - The VH22 Osprey is an engineering clusterfuck. The logical, sensible thing to do, especially considering the "redundant" shaft drive system between the engines, would have been to put the engines in the bloody middle and use a significantly lighter shaft drive assemby to each rotor assembly. That reduces wing loading, hydraulic loading (you don't have to turn the engines as well now) and the overall mass of the systems required for the aircraft. That's not even mentioning what you could then do with the wing section and profile now you aren't hanging bits of equipment from the ends of them that should be in the middle, you know, near the CG laterally as well as fore and aft. Oh and ducted fans rather than rotors, mechanically simpler therefore less likely to fail. I love the concept, just the execution is a 2/10 at most. Oh and the Dockmaster sounds like he/it requires an antivirus course and possibly a look at the VRMs. There seem to have been a few voltage spikes here and there on this one... :P

Cube 1 reporting in. Standing by and waiting for your orders; Dockmaster.

"Endentured Servant 1" Got me pretty good ngl 😅

I always chalked the look of the Slave I (and the Firespray class in general) as being Rule-of-Cool rather than an actually useful or practical design

Hey, at least this time the cannons that're mounted way off the line of sight are turret-mounted? It's got *that* at least over a certain other ship.

He got me with the “Endentured Servant 1”

*Weigar 1* (aka Uyghurs). _smiles internally…_

YES WE DO NEED A CUTAWAY OF EVERYTHING, AND IM STILL WAITING FOR ONE OF THE GHOST!!!

Love all the different euphemisms for the ship name.

Uyghur I Serf I Indentured Servant I Uyghur I (again) Unpaid Worker I Helot I Uyghur I (again again) Vassal I Odalisque I Uyghur I x3 Hierodule I Uyghur I x4 Chattel I I learned some new words today

I could see a design reason for "well, it lands on its back" if the ship were designed as part of a larger ship, maybe normally acting as a turret or something, operating in space 99.9% of the time that way and just happening to be able to land on its back if it absolutely *had* to go to a planet since that's where the thrusters were. . Maybe. But the ramp and blasters don't make sense in that configuration, either.

You know, another name you could have used that would have fit in universe is “ugnaut 1”

The Cubifier will be feed with all the totalitarian ships!

The cockpit rotated in season 2 of the Mandalorian.

3:23 Missed oportunity to say Pain in the Neck

There was this one plane in IL2 1946 called the "Heinkel Lerche" which I actually enjoyed for its redicules but still appealing design and its ludicrous weapon compliment... now wo go to the "Flying Stupid Iron" that works because Space Magic and Disney needs Money... I feel like my childhood just came back in to spit me in the face.

*tries to hack and leave a funny GIF* oh darn.... Fail 😭 Lol thanks for the laugh Who needs a bathroom... Just hang your junk out in vacuum and let fly bro! You dont need o2 except for your face right? Right?....oh..... right.... I forgot.... 14psi to prevent implosion.... Well... Life is risk... Unzip and let it go quickly... Lmao dont mind that freezing problem.... Seriously....frostbite isnt that bad.... We have cyborg body parts! We can rebuild you better, faster, and stronger!

The cockpit rotates is even more dumb/complex than it first appears. When it lays on its back to land, the cockpit rotates and then has the pilot facing what is normally the bottom of the ship, the boom that the blasters are mounted on.

SLAVE 1 always reminded me of the Toad Croaker from Capt. Bucky O'Hare. At least the TC was designed to be a Shoe and didn't shy away from it.

I have to say, as a longtime Star Wars fanboy, that you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! I have never understood how Indentured 1 worked. It has definitely been my least favorite SW ship. Would love to see a video on my favorite though, the Legends only Skipray Blastboat. Even though it has unnecessary spinning bits, it actually seems to make sense for what it is supposedly to be.

wow , loved the ending and i will happily feed entities who want to enslave others in to cubber or a hog pen. i do love bacon.

11:00 You know who else tries to explain every goddamned thing? Liars, under police interrogation.

I was going to say it’s upright flight position maximizes the surface area to point as many weapons systems forward as possible….until I realized most of them are at the very end of the tail leaving most of that space unused….oh well I tried.

Why, two reasons. Two the way Boba fell victim to Hand Solo's bad luck. One he has a rocketpack!

It rotated in the mandalorian.

The toilet is built standard into the armour, so the prison labour worker 1 doesn’t need to have it

Non-consensual Performer of Tasks I

I agree with most things you said. The inconsistency of the Slave-1’s design throughout its iterations is very confusing.

6:25 I know it doesn't scale in well, but long and narrow reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's sports ambulance.

I always thought it looked like a coffin

At least the tail landers idea was so you could fit more planes on the same deck space, this thing would take up MORE SPACE when landed than when flying

Bless you dock master

One thing that I love about your channel is that you bring THE important question: In the world of engineering, you do NOT make stuff just to be cool. You build shit to work...to do its job...and THEN if you can make it pretty then that's fine. In the world of sci-fi, ship volume and reality have nothing to do with the designs. The creators tell the model-makers to make 'something' and they don't worry about whether it makes sense or not.

"nowhere is it acceptable to enslave your fellow sophont" Star Wars setting treatment of droids: nervous coughing