I love Generation Tech cause he makes it seem like the Star Wars universe is our own, he makes it seem real and relatable

The Venator wasn’t ever retired fully. They were still in service after A New Hope. There’s a warlord in Star Wars who had over 100 Venator and Acclimator class assault ships and he didn’t just poop them out of his butt. The Venator just stopped being produced. as long as it was in good condition stayed in imperial service until it was too broken to fix. If not it was scrapped.

This is why Allen will never advance in the ranks of the Imperial Navy. He makes too much sense, and he would disagree too much with Tarkin

The Gozanti was truly the underdog workhorse of the Empire. It's smaller craft like these that are useful for patrols, transport, and fleet escort.

Anyone else find it strange that life long politician Sheev Palpatine, who spent most of his adult life as a Republic senator, had almost no idea how to operate a functioning galactic government?

Another nice thing about the Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier is that it can actually house the TIEs that are being ferried around by the Gozanti-class and Arquitens-class light cruisers. In the hanger bays they have the space to do all of the maintenance and repair needed to keep all the TIEs in the patrol fleet up and running. I can imagine some of the Gozanti-class cruisers used their outsized cargo capacity to keep the other ships supplied on longer patrols as well. These three ships are very complementary.

Palpatine would have gotten away with it, too, if not for those meddling kids!

See, light ships alone would be enough to more effectively clamp down on piracy than most republic worlds outside the main hyperlanes. This is totally cost effective. Clamps down on piracy improves economy, this ingratiates the populations, has a (even if token) military presence for Reassurance/intimidation as well as general imperial operational business. All for a very low price. Its pure win.

Man, I am delighted that at least the Venator was being kept in service at the start of the Galactic Civil War.

I'm running a Star Wars RPG campaign using the old West End Games system. During one mission I replaced the generic armoured transport from the adventure module with a Gozanti. Then I placed the 1/270 scale model from the X-wing game on the table and said "That's what you're facing!" (And yes, it was carrying a TIE escort.) Good times!

We need to see canon Victory Class, Strike Cruiser, Gladiator, etc and a few more from X Wing/Tie Fighter games/ Table Top Armada. The days of 'we can only make so many models' when people have made these models and could be purchased far cheaper than making is available.

I like that you mentioned how the Americans worked with Vietnamese villagers against the NVA , my father was a US Air Force Air Police Colonel and was a advisor to South Vietnam. He was one of the first advisors and took part in many of the first early battles even before we were fully engaged with North Vietnam and was very highly decorated.

I love the gonzanti to me it is a near perfect design. Great for delivering cargo or troops while having ample protection and being able to carry a compliment of ties of walkers

I love these videos. Really helps bring the details of the Star Wars universe to life, while also helping us connect some of the lessons of the fiction to the real world.

Speaking purely on aesthetics the Arquitence is probably one of my favorites in the Star Wars IP. Tied with the Raider corvette. They just look dynamic and aggressive in a way that few other ships pull off.

This is a fantastic channel! I find it awesome how much sense can be perceived in a fictional universe that was never designed to have this level of detail......but I gotta admit its a little disquieting when i wonder if everyone is perceiving sense in an irl universe that was never intended to make sense.

The Empire could have cheaply replaced the double bridge of the Venator with a ISD looking bridge, if they wanted to simplify differentiate the Republic Navy from the Imperial Navy. And done a bit of a refit to make them more efficient and less crew intensive. And kept them as ISD screening ships.

Getting some Tex Talks Battletech vibes from this analysis. Solid work!

Thank you for this series, Alan! I've been trying to formulate an outline for the Empire of the Hand's navy for my fanfics, but you brought up some points I had completely overlooked, and that would logically work well with the Hand's philosophy of forming actual alliances with the worlds of Wild Space and the Unknown Regions, as opposed to the Empire proper's more heavy-handed approach. The Gzanti-class' importance is especially relevant. Looks like I have some edits to make to my "Hand Navy" worldbuilding document!

Deep old school SW fan. Put down all the books after RoTJ and comics. Love the fleet action break down. It paints a reality that the war lords who formed after the emperors death had reasons to do so. And the equipment they needed.

The empire had capital ships for the Outerim as well. Vindicator class heavy cruisers, neutron class bulk cruisers, dreadnaught class heavy cruisers and gladiator class star destroyers worked great.

Just hearing you say Eli Vanto aloud made my day. Man, I wish they would bring him into a show.

I recall reading somewhere that the classification of ships you'd normally see in independent actions were Cruisers or Corvettes. Frigates were escorts and battleships ask for escort.

The Gozanti Class Cruiser is one of my favorite ships in the Star Wars universe. It's just solidly built, looks utilitarian, and is a great size for a hero ship.

"gen x talks" beat off a dead horse reference XD I noticed what you did there GenTech. ;)

Why do you suppose we didn’t see more Corvettes from the CIS during the Clone Wars?

The Arquitence command cruiser is 320 meters long. We see in a clip u play when it’s next to a quesar there is no way there is more then a 30 or 40 meter gap between these to ships in length

Not gonna lie, the arquitens class was always one of my favourite ships, much prefer it over an isd. And I love the imperial version but it always bothered me that they got rid of the 4 twin laser canons on the side

Its really annoying when I try to explain why the ISD was not the greatest ship for the empire and people just say it's good for oppressing people so it's good for them

True isd were more like battleships, fit for the clone wars to fight enemy with overwhrlming numbers like the cis, but for time of peace thr empire was, the light and heavy cruisers and carrier mix would fit perfectly for peacekeeping where the main enemy would be pirates smugglers, slavers and simply other types of criminals, i would advise there would be few "heavy hitting" fleets in case war would happen (like the yuuzhan vong) but the backbone should be light-medium ships that can handle 99.99% of threats criminals could throw at you

I like it when you do these videos. Thank you

I mean this also applies to reality. A massive portion of the navy is smaller auxiliary ships. There's a lot of ships with lotta roles to play and star wars doesn't show it at all. Would be nice if those star destroyers had escorts like anti strike craft frigates or corvettes with them.

Alan, I really like Gozantis, Arquitens light cruisers, and Quasar Fire-Class carriers, these ships, (combined in a fleet together), are an economic and perfect way to project Imperial power and stay within budget. With 1 Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser-Class ship as flagship would be perfect. "My Emperor: right or wrong!" 💪🏻✊🏻👊🏻

The amount of credits spent on the two death stars could fund 10,000,000 Gozanti class cruisers. If the empire had taken those credits and built lots of the cruisers in this video, and more tie fighters, maybe some tie defenders, and a few ISDs they could’ve had so much more military power than they did with the death stars. Or yk, they could’ve invested it in the economy, and infrastructure and actually helped the people… but they’re the empire so lots of gozantis is probably the best we could’ve hoped for

The post Refermation Republic should have mass produced medium cruisers for planetary defence fleets, to take advantage of economies of scale. Planetary fleets can buy them at a subsidised cost or they can be assigned, or a mixture of both systems - with careful bookkeeping to prevent them being onsold to pirates ect. That would enable a vast amount of practical mid sized military ships to be available to patrol the regions outside the Core. In effect they become like police cars bought by departments from a manufacturer with a standardised design. It is definitely a lot cheaper and more practical than every police department having to commission their own squad car designs. Except they are also the local Coast Guard. And in times of war they can be requisitioned to join as a form of GAR. But in day to day operations they are the patrol fleet of a inhabited system, owned and operated by that systems government. A from the ground up Galactic Navy, instead of top down. Like if the Galaxy Fleet all bought from the same lot with a package deal.

If I was a pirate in the Star Wars universe I would want three Gozanti class cruisers with the four TIE Fighters each and possibly a Arquiten Cruiser as a home base. You could break them up into smaller strike groups to go after multiple targets or as one group to hit larger targets.

I really like your channel thank you for making this videos.

Me: "Lord it's flog, to flog a dead horse or flogging a dead horse" Allen: "I find your lack of humour disturbing"

I like to do mental exercises and come up with solutions for issues like this. Alan has the great idea of long term transplantation of population and growing your own defense. In the meantime I came up with a solution involving a modernized Gozanti, 2 RZ1's, and a homemade shuttle that I came up with. It could patrol 6 systems at a time with the shuttles operating in pairs non-stop, while the Gozanti with it's 2 RZ1 would patrol a 7th. Each of the 7 groups would operate mostly independently but would periodically make scheduled refueling roundezvous with the Gozanti.

This old saying applies here. If all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

I'm surprised I'm not seeing anyone else pointing it out, but it seems audio quality has been better in the past. I hope there was just a trouble during recording. I know you always strive for the best.

Thanks for the great insights! May the LORD be with you! 🙏🏾💥

Amateurs talk tactics, Professionals talk strategy, Masters talk logistics.

Mobile and multipurpose can often times beat slow and heavily armored and armed, simply because it takes so long to get the bigger thing to the problem area. Logistics can be a bitch.

If the Gozanti was a bit longer, had more engines or faster engines, and could carry 8 tie fighters and 2 bombers, it would be the backbone of my fleet.

Saw the video title and thought was gonna be about logistics but still very nice

Rome had a great idea for incorporating conquered territory. When their soldiers retired after 10 or more years of duty, they were given land in a conquered place. Many soldiers, even a whole legion, would retire together; and settle, with their families. Basically creating a new Roman town. The government was able to: pay their soldiers and put them to peacetime work, with the funds they'd use for creating a new colony. Furthermore, you'd have a colony populated by trained soldiers. Who'd defend their new home at no extra cost to the state. Which would otherwise have needed to afford a garrison. Plus, you be able to recruit capable soldiers from these towns. New territory secured and developed while ensuring old soldiers don't become bandits or help a rival overthrow you.

No way he said “there’s really just one way to bear off a dead horse” and then just moved on

this is why i'd love to see an updated version of Star Wars: Rebellion with more ship options available to use

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="776">12:56</a> I LOVE MANAGED DEMOCRACY

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If you play the Star Wars Armada table top miniature game A class 546 Command Cruiser 2 Arquitens Light Cruiser 1 Quasarfire cruiser carrier With plenty of fighter squadrons Makes a very versatile force that can take on light raiding groups by Rebels, if commanded competently.

The Gladiator class was the smaller, more reasonably priced Star Destroyer that was relegated to Outer Rim patrol duty. Personally I think the Gladiator would have made a fantastic baseline ship for the Empire, it is one of their most well-balanced designs.

Love this video

I enjoy all of Generation Tech videos

I'd love a Gozanti class cruiser kitted with 2 TIE Fighters and 2 AT-ST Walkers.

In a galaxy with such expansive wealth and unimaginable population, it is actually quite possible to have a significant military presence on every inhabited planet and moon. It just would have to be a practical presence. (Like a small orbital garrison with two or three platoons of foot soldiers, a squadron of well-rounded and tough fighter craft, a Gozanti-class cruiser, and a bunch of probe droids keeping an eye on things).

The Imperial Navy was either designed to refight the Clone War but do it better or, in Legends, to prepare to fight the Yuzang Vong. The problem was that the Navy was mismatched for the tasks it was assigned.

Lastly the average Outerim would population if u look at the essential atlas, is anywhere from a few million which is actually pretty rare if u actually google all the planets in the outer rim. Plenty named ones have populations in the tens or hundreds of millions.. and quite a few even have billions or the rarer tens of billions.

I'd argue the Carrack Cruiser was the real workhorse.

The Empire's gear in Rebels seems a lot smarter than in the films.

Not always, in Australia the mining billionaires get given a sweet deal from the government who are afraid of them.

Is it weird that i really like the imperial Gozanti? I can definitely see an adventurers party make a base out of one.

So, out of curiosity, which of these would be great boarding vessels? Id say the Gazantte due too how cheap it is but would a Boarding Vessel configuration of the arquentins be good too?

The one ship the Empire seemed to need but you so rarely see was the Interdictor. The Alliances tactic was Hit and Fade (the tactic of assymetricall warfare.) Interdictor comes in and you need to take it out before you can fade. Yes they are weaker so need more protection, but they are giving time for the ISD to do its thing, and that's not something you want to be on recieving end of. (I say ISD as its the poster child, the smaller ships mentioned in this video work better, but again need time that the Alliance wont give.)

You should do a video about the Imperial Cargo ships used during the events of the Bad Batch and Rebels

I can't say I even really like Star Wars anymore. That isn't to say I don't think fondly about some of it (original trilogy, kotor 1-2, republic commando, to name some). But I don't care about the last 15 years or so worth of stuff and have no desire to revisit anything from the franchise at all. Yet for some reason I still sit here watching SW videos from this guy alone. (well, if sacred cow shipyards does a video on SW stuff, i'll watch that too, but he talks about a lot more than just SW)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="206">3:26</a> not "calls local for help", it's "calls TRAITORS for help"!!! And not "Create peace" it's "Maintain control"!!!

I wonder if the empire every tried magnetically sealing the tie fighter like the trash compactors were.

*Italian voice* Gozanti🤌🤌🤌 ze stronga arma of ze empire! Edit: now if they had kept the acclamator and upgraded it as much as they did with the arquettins(sp?) And the gozanti they wouldn't have much need for the gigantic death doritos.

U da man and all the very best for the team . Love your constant. From your friends across the pond

You know something I ocasionally think of in starwars terms is what the empire should have been using to hunt down rebels instead squardrons of 3 or 4 stardestroyers, and what that comes down to is something like a squadron of 1 or 2 star destroyers as command ships with teeth, then at least 2 fully loaded venators for fighters support and bombing runs, finally an interdictor cruiser or 2, and at least 2 arquintens cruisers for every one of those larger ships to deal with the massive investment the rebels have in strike fighters. That way you can have a tight little squadron that can go around dealing with potentially very large rebel groups left right and center instead of sending inumerable amounts of resources in the form of star destroyers and death stars with 0 point defence that just get poped by a garbage scow full of explosives ramming the bridge. Edit. I suppose I can ammend that fleet mix to replace a quarter of those arquintens cruisers with about 20-30 gizanti cruisers, half of which would be scouts equipped with tie defenders and the other half would be ground support equipped with AT-TEs for that matter I would want all my tie fighters to be defender or at least intereceptor class rather than the standard styrofoam block class.

I've been a follower of GenerationTech for quite a while. Alan has a very inviting personality. Not to mention, he knows his sh@t when it comes to Star Wars. This is my very 1st post. It's more like a question. Some would say a very stupid question. What's the difference between Canon and Legends?? Thank you in advance for not making fun of me.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="299">4:59</a> That scene doesn't ring a bell; which show is it from?

I wish bro would do videos on the victory class star destroyers

The quasar is a nice carrier but ill be honest i feel like the tonfulk is more efficent space wise

I would like to see all three "cruisers" of the Imperial "Gunboat" Navy in service of the New Republic, the Light Cruiser was great in Mando, and the ideal "big flagship" for a small power like Mandolore.

I'd love to run a small shipping company with a trio of Gonzanti class cruisers.

Yup this is what thrawn kept talking about but nobody listened.

Rip the victory class.

You would think they would keep some acclimators in the core regions

Hello, friends. I watched the entire video. I am Generation Tech.

Can you guys do a video on the parallels between Star Wars and Hinduism?

Generation Tech: Smaller ships does show a thought process in writting. Smaller ships is going to be faster from a technological point of view. The Rebel Alliance being able to do surgical strikes, and speed is immportant. Why bring an entire armada when a couple C4 devices, completes the mission. The empire proved too much reliance on larger ships, with severe weak points. one thing i dislike is blastable bits on the outerhull. I have a really good idea, lets place Ammo, and plasma storage containers over our armor. The Starwars Rebels is lucky, i am not doing the planning for the Imperial war machine. Hint: The DeathStar would not have majical vents. I would have little baseball sized projectiles, Silent but once going off, your fighters is not coming back.

Caldwell class too

I will never use a star destroyer unless it’s the venator

if only Palpatine saw more than a "symbol" to the venators the rebels would have a harder time to deal with the empire. but ofcourse Palps wants big laser and big trigualar ships instead of investing more on starfighters, frigates and cruisers

Dunno if an armada of ships like Gazantis would be BETTER or worse then a bunch of classic SDs? Guess depends on how modular, reliable an being able to equip, maintain an properly staff them

25,000 star destroyers or 18.75 million gozantis. I'd take the gozantis

I’ll never give up, what happened to Ben and American Ben?

Those ships shidded and farded and camed their pant

What about the Carrack class??

Oddly, there was a ship type missing from Star Wars lore (because it's not glamorous) - the fleet supply vessel. Supplying the infrastructure of the Imperial fleets (and armies) requires scores of medium to large transports. Subcontracting most or all of the infrastructure to the private sector creates a platform for military information bleeding out to Imperial enemies as well as a galactic money pit. Using ISDs as freighters is a misallocation of resources. Therefore, there should be a "space-born mobility" division of the Imperial navy.

Alan just cutting to the heart of the matter by saying the Empire was compensating for something by waving around their ISDs. I feel so sorry for the American economy now.

is it just me or is the audio a lot more prominent on the left ear side?

Has he been recording his videos in Japan recently?

The Gozanti is the Ford Econoline of the Star Wars Galaxy? Is Alan actually old enough to remember the Ford Econoline?

There were plenty of Outerim worlds loyal to the empire. And the ones that weren’t were usually suppressed fairly easily cause many didn’t have extremely militarized worlds. A few months of a complain and the war on that would was pretty much over. Just look at mocala. It took like 1 day for the empire to conquer It and it had a huge fleet on it.

No love for the Raider-class corvette? 🤨

Yay more ships