This is one of my favorite Star Wars ships, probably because it makes a lot of sense. The Venator-class is cool in personal opinion, but it is just a supercarrier with a battleship attached to it as an afterthought, while the Imperial-class is a battleship that carries TIE fighters as its AAA armament. The Arquitens is like a show designer went "hey you know what these two fleets need, a destroyer analogue." That is just great.

11:28 They're called Kanmusu (literally "Ship Humans") in Japan, but they actually started out in the 1920's as propaganda tools for the IJN and then the idea was quickly adopted by both the Italian and German Navy's. Apparently the Captain of the Bismarck was so infuriated by it that he, in nearly every written or radio communication, would lambast any mention of the Bismarck's propaganda counterpart and that fact that it was female - Bismarck in history was, of course, a dude, and the captain was really defensive about it. T h e M o r e Y o u K n o o o o o o w...

40 seconds in, and he kills my plan of asking for a starship trooper video every day. *crawls into the cuber*

My personal headcannon is that the lack of things like railings in Imperial design is a side effect of the Tarkin Doctorine, the Empire's military philosophy, which emphasises ruling through fear via the projection of overwhelming strength. This obsession with the appearance of strength has lead to features such as safety railings being seen as an implicit admission of weakness, and so Imperial designs don't mostly have them.

Fun fact. The incredible cross sections book series claims that a single shot from a turbo laser from an Aclimator class star destroyer has a yield of 200gigatons, and the main turbolasers of a Venator class Star Destroyer has a maximum combined output of approximately 860 Teratons per second. That’s eight hundred and sixty million tons of TNT per second! For reference if all 70,000 nuclear bombs on earth at the time of the cold war were detonated at once in the same spot it would only equal a yield of 4.769 Gigatons. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs equaled a yield of 100,000 Gigatons. That is some insane BS.

"What is it with the Empire and no railings?" Simple, only the Hutts had Space OSHA an the Republic and later Empire turned their noses up at such a concept cuz "space slugs".

The comparison is totally fair- It's not about the level of firepower, but the proportion of that firepower that can be directed at a single target

Dockmaster, this channel is a joke. Thank you for it. You never fail to improve my day with at least a small chuckle or two. Keep slaughtering all the cows. Make the videos more of an abbatoir than the Event Horizon. Metaphorically speaking, we don't need you getting banned.

The Argh-kittens is a fantastic ship and they desperately need more screen time. It's a nice versatile little design, presenting a credible but not overwhelming threat. It can meaningfully contribute in larger fleet actions, or shine in small solo actions. And for everything except raw anti-fighter fire output it outshines the more popular Raider (though to be fair that's screen time has been limited to games). Particularly as the ISD is just too big for most star wars plots. Seeing a handful of rebels constantly defeat them is just ridiculous.

The Arquitens was always one of favorites

Umm actually, the Republic version of the arquitens didn’t actually have a proper hangar. I’m pretty sure not all imperial variants had a hangar either, as the variant shown in the mandalorian was a very late version.

I believe the cat walk into open space is a launch bay for the dark troopers. I think Gideon’s ship is modified, as it’s apparently larger than an average arquitens

the irony is starwars tech in regards to sensors/etc is akin to sonar/radar displays and limited cameras from what is shown in the movies/shows As for weapons, light/medium/heavy is variable. Both as regards to power output and scale. A light ion cannon is what the y-wing uses, a medium ion cannon is mounted onto something like the frigate/transports, and heavy ion canons are capital weapons.... but then you have the same categories in capital weapons related to damage output.

The Republic Navy's thinking was to operate each Venator class Star Destroyer with a dedicated battle group of a dedicated single or pair of Arquitens class light Cruiser for escort/fire support duties along with a squadron of three to five Charger class Frigates to handle flanking attacks.

The Arquitens, Venator, Acclamator, Imperial and a few other ships are built by the same company, Kuat Drive Yards its the reason for the triangular design motif.

I'd say those mandibles are a hazard to a launching ship - unless they come with some sort of force-field accelerator in them. The side hangers are perfectly serviceable for non "hot" launches though.

So, with regards to the whole 'light' 'medium' and 'heavy' classification of weapons, I've always linked that towards real world naval weaponry that we have, based on WW2. "Light" capital ship weapons (turbolasers) would be equivalent to 6" and smaller naval cannons (such as those found on the Cleveland-class Light Cruisers, and then smaller guns (5") found on Fletcher-class Destroyers, all the way down to the 4" or so commonly found on older ships, british destroyers, and IJN destroyers... "Medium" would be that 6-9" range, such as Des Moines-class heavy cruisers (8"), and whatever weird french/german/japanese naval guns existed in that range as well. And above the 9" range would be the "heavy' guns. From early 9" pre-dreadnought guns, all the way up to the 18.1" Yamato guns (e.g. the super heavy turbolasers found flanking the Imperator-class Star Destroyer's command tower.) Then on the lower end, 4" down to about 3" is heavy lasers , 3" down to 2" is medium, and below that, 2" down to... 0.5" (12.7mm) are the light guns (mostly self-defense grade stuff, and common land vehicle weaponry.) Then of course, hand-held/blasters.... come in light, medium, and heavy varieties too...but thats a long, long book... BUT, it does give some reasonable context to the Arquietens' armament, Eight barrels of lets say, 6" (light) turbolasers; along with another sixteen barbette mounted 3" laser cannons; and four torpedo tubes (big boom, short range, so probably something like a 21" USN WW2 torpedo found on the Mahan or Farragut classes.) Which, lines up pretty well with a real-world post-WW1-WW2 light cruisers armament. And it has a small hangar too. So, it fits a variety of rolls quite well.

The thing I LOVE about this ship is that it’s not a Star Destroyer. For all together too long all we saw of the Empire was Star Destroyers. Either your standard or the gargantuan Super-Star Destroyer. That was it. Any fleet worth a spit has variety. Tactically you need diversity to be flexible. Now we saw (or at least heard about) other classes in the expanded Universe, but it was always disappointing that we never saw them I practically jumped out of my seat when I saw this beautiful beast on the Mandalorian and look forward to seeing more practical Imperial vessels in the future!

In defense of having windows on the bridge, machines break, eyes don't. It allows the commander to have a visual on the situation when the battle is up close and personal.

God I love the Arquintens

I bet those little gaps in the "cargo hold" were something like a bomb bay or dark trooper orbital drop deployment bay, but idk why they would require one.

Recommendation: SSV Normandy. Both the SR1 and the SR2 from Mass Effect

I'd make a joke about the empire not using railings but it'd fall flat, also it's beend done to death so instead i'll reminisce about discovering mecha musume (girls with tanks, plannes or ships bits strapped to them), at the time when Revenge of the Sith came out.

"... THIS is why aliens don't visit you, fuckers!" So you're telling us we're achieving the desired effect? NOICE

The Arquitens; the rare occasion that the Empire and the Republic's navy both did something quite sensible; build a ship which is both economic while still giving a fair bit of bang for your buck. I will quickly point out that it seems that the Imperial Arquitens got an extra pair of laser cannons on the ventral hull. It also seems that only certain variants had an internal hangar, while most variants had to just hold three TIEs in the fork of its bow. While I can't say that the extra guns were added just because some Imperial Admiral with their head screwed on was worried that Tarkin was going to mothball them because they didn't fit the Tarkin doctrine (which is a subject I'm looking forward to), it definitely helped give the ship some extra firepower. All in all, I think the Arquitens is a good ship. Personally, I would strip out the broadside batteries and either upgrade the ventral turrets or add in more missile batteries and bring the bridge down a bit more so it doesn't end up being rammed by an A-Wing, but that's just me. Also quick shout-out to the Gazonti Class; it ain't pretty, but when you need extra Star fighters for a patrol floatilla or something for Logi work, it isn't a bad choice.

One thing I love about the Thrawn Series is that Zahn talks about viewports having shutters that come down over them, **and** there’s a secondary command center deeper within the ship.

On what happened with railings, OSA is part of the Jedi order and was purged.

How would I describe this channel? Imagine someone who knows physics and design ranting at 'Science Fiction Ships" in the way that a historian rants at a Mel Gibson historical epic!

the Dockmaster: What the fuck is this. Me and my fleet of ship girls: A new recruit.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the general ship classes from the Honor Harrington book series if you've read it...

"asinine escape pods" Definitely gotta be starship troopers

You definitely deserve the 100k dude, you’re videos are pure gold

Thank you for these vids. :) I started thinking about optimising turret placement for the Arquitens to maximise both forward and broadside power. I wandered through offset placement (retain one in the current position and move the other toward the bow, say). Then I thought, "Why not just put them both on the dorsal spine, one turret superfiring?" Sure, to have rear-firing main battery capability you'll have to remove the bridge, but we all agree that's a good idea.

God do I love the Arquitens. It’s just a perfect little multirole ship, nice Jack of all trades, and actually master of of a few. Helps that it’s really, really cool looking. Also, your ramblings are hilarious as always. EDIT: My best guess for the weird drop hangar is things is ground deployment. It can fly in atmosphere, so even if it doesn’t have landing gear, it can probably drop some murder bricks / troop transports, if they can survive AT-AT cannons they can survive a 25 meter drop to the ground.

I loved your intro. And am happy for your sense of humor.

I enjoy your ramblings. I listen to it while leafing through a catalogue of decommissioned ships for dice materials.

Hey! Ship Wifu's are best wifus! Can _your_ wifu lay waste to _your_ enemies with a full turbo laser broadside? I think not! Argument over :P

I think the walk way with the holes in the floor is for the deployment of the dark troopers as aren’t they flight capable?

Yay a new upload from one of my favorite channels

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When are we getting into the ships from Iain M. Banks' "Culture" novels? Granted they're a bit difficult to illustrate, but I'd like to hear you rant about the _Clear Air Turbulence_ or any of the smaller ships.

I would love to see the Resolute done from Exo-Squad by that is a niche show.

Personally, I came here for the rambling. This channel is alot of fun! Keep it up mate!

I read an exuse for the bridges somewhere in the old cannon books pre Disney. Since transparent durasteel is like 98% strength of normal durasteel the "glass" itself isn't an issue, just the comparative lack of armour. They argued that since ion weaponry or natural phenomena were so common and would knock out key electronic systems (also why most main guns were manually operated by droids/clones and not centralised) this meant that the officers could still see what was going on without sensors or cameras being online. Allowing them to use what systems were still active to full effect, and be ready to immediately use other systems when brought back online.

I always liked that video on the Venator as god people defend and stick up for that ship sooo much even though it's basically a space version of Kiev-class carrier and there is a good reason those didn't catch on. The Arquitens is a light cruiser which only tries to do light cruiser things and outside of dealing with plot armour seems pretty good at it's role, compared with the Venator which tires to do everything and requires ungodly levels of plot armour to be effective.

Ah yes the Arquitens a light cruiser. It should be a frigate as a CR90 could do the same function with less crew required. Hey at least with my Gundam examples last video I didn't ask you to cover it.

Discussing drop pods without discussing Undying Mercenaries, will always be incomplete

The general shape of the ship is basically a big diamond with a engine stuck on one side. Quite elegant really with the cannons positioned where the bulk of the hull doesn't completely get in the way of their intended duty, namely on the front slopes where they can fire forward and to the sides.

Arquitens-tan? I'm not into that stuff, but I remember learning about that style when I ran across Vista-tan (among OS-tans) many years ago. The colors and transparency of the outfit was thirst-making, but there was just something about Opera-tan that made me want to breakup with Internet Explorer.

Someone who can draw, PLEASE start drawing the starwhores ships compressed into a cube and send them to SCS. Actually, ANY ship that turns out to not make sense should be 'cubed'!

Reminds me of the line in _The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ about some good-looking ship: "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."

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Anyone else wondering what universe he was referring to at the start is it Warhammer or maybe Titanfall? Also if 2 of the heavy is equal to 4 of the light who cares it’s easier to shoot out the front two turrets on the venator than it is to shoot out 4 separate turrets on opposite sides of the ship and if you take out the front two on the venator there is a very good chance that the other 3 behind it are useless because guess what they can’t shoot past the destroyed one in front of them (Can you due the separatist ships (I don’t know how to spell it but I’m gonna try) like the mulificent I think that would be pretty neat)

I think when you have thoughts like "They really need a smaller size of ship." other thoughts happen too.

The drop pods in the starship troopers book are the best examples.

I just love on how this guy compliments ships and trash talks them simultaneously I am a Star Wars fan and I haven’t really thought about the practical design of the Arcquitens cruisers.

Can you do some videos on the ships of The Expanse?

The Arquitens in The Mandalorian was a modified version, I believe. I read somewhere that it was specialized to work as a deployment platform for those droids. The catwalk you criticized looked like the drop bay for the droids where they walk out onto the catwalk and step off, which would explain the lack of railings. If it were real and not a space fantasy, the mandalorians likely would have ignored a sign somewhere that says "Keep clear while door is open." No idea why the doors were left open though, the moff isn't very good at handling security it seems. I think the forward hanger also was a result of that ship being modified. It definitely wasn't standard, which would make sense with the size of the ship. There's no way its going to be able to hold more than a few TIEs at most, especially since they're already somehow making room for those droids and whatever equipment they needed to power and maintain them. (The Dark Trooper droids were supposedly very power hungry)

Comments for the Algorithmic Gods! Also I hope you continue on with this 'joke' of yours awhile longer. It has been extremely enjoyable.

Neither here nor there but the more I look at the ship the more I see the Millennium Falcon writ large. Thank you for the content may the almighty cube machine abide.

Honestly, you really have to go looking to find ships that _don't_ have an unreasonably exposed bridge. There are examples, of course, but they are definitely few and far between.

Would love to get your thoughts on the MCRN Donnager from The Expanse. That's a franchise that really thinks their ship design through, imo.

that catwalk was probably for the black stormtroopers and is a unique feature to this ship

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I noticed that you mentioned that the cubing is now at the owners expense. Where people using your dock to dump derelicts

The empire does mostly field the version without a hangar as the ones in rebels can only carry fighters and dock shuttles using the front mandibles, they never show how crew (dis)embark though as they clamp onto the wings with no visible docking tube, so do pilots have to perform an EVA action every time they need a bathroom break?

Tbh this ship does make sense as it's quite modular. The fact it can be modified to deploy tie fighters. Makes it rather useful.

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So the dislike of the idea to separate the primary command centre from the starfighter operations centre on the Venator class is not shared by everyone. Look at the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. These Ships got individual structures to house the ships' navigation bridges and and flying control centres.

Honestly I have yet to see a sci-fi ship that makes at least 80% of good sense. And I have sort of hated this one since I first saw it to so... Also just to be an ass, I predict much more ship girl art in your future.

Star Wars construction uses Transparasteel, which is just about as tough as the other stuff they are making the ship out of. So the crew gets a nice view of the planet they are orbiting or the vastness of space while still being protected by steel.

The best Joke is the one that keeps on going.

My assumption on the floor openings is that those are drop bays for troopers or droids equipped with jetpacks to deploy rapidly out of. You could have two lines of troops march down the entire length of the gangway and then simply step off either side, to drop immediately into a combat zone, or drop to planetary surface while the ship is in atmo or low orbit. We don't see the ceiling of that area very well, it's possible there are cable mounts up there allowing troops to tether up or down through the force shield quickly. Such a facility makes sense in a setting without star trek transporters to beam places. I also suspect the walkway is a gangplank that can be retracted, allowing larger cargo to pass through the opening.

I'm not sure if I remember this correctly but I think the bridge problem was answered back then in the Extended Universe. If I remember correctly the Turbolasers, back when there was no legends and canon, were said to be so powerful that armor was basically useless against it the only reason why there even was armor was to defend against missiles and such So shielding was the only effective counter to Plasma Weaponry so it didn't matter if the bridge was exposed or not once those shields were down it didn't matter either way.

Giving this one a like just for the title alone.

So that’s why the Borg are so pissed. They left their ships docked at the yard to long.

Batting 500 is an amazing batting average. Every major Leaguer would give their eyeteeth for that. As for "that particular universe", I think it's been done to death. However getting you to 100000 subscribers would be nice.

11:28 I fucking died! I never expected you to bring that up of all things! XD

That ventral compartment was for the loading and unloading of Plot-tonium.

Hanger and launch facilities forward, reminds me of the Italian Treaty-era cruisers.

Another great episode dockmaster, I hope ur day is going well, I always preferred separatist ships myself personally, they were almost always better designed for their roles than their republic counterparts, especially the munificent class frigates

The words "cheaper and better" which this is makes me excited beyond all reason.

Starship Trooper's biggest limitations where budget, technology to do the movie, and the fact it was originally an unrelated script called "Whisky Outpost" that was retrofitted into being a Starship Troopers movie after the first draft.

"This is why aliens don't visit you" Good, it's working.

"Wasn't Arquitens one of the Three Musketeers or something?" No, that was Aramis. 😜

Just witch universe is it, that has the superior drop pods? That you can'nt comprehend!

the interesting thing about star wars vessels is the disparity in hull volumes to gun size, compared to, say, earth naval vessels. after heavy TLs you either add more barrels to each turret or mount some seriously oversized spinal or lateral megaweapon

Earth defense strategy 101: Anthropomorphize and moefy everything so the Aliens are too weirded out to say hi.

It was a good example of Empire use of disposable ( talking about the crew ) and how it basically it makes the population rely on the the military

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Now that you’ve pointed out that hole with the bridge area I feel very not okay

The catwalk thing you mentioned could be used for either drop pods or cargo pods you could then launch down at the planet.

This has to be the best long running joke on KZfaq outside of their censorship rules.

Why settle for 100k, lets get the Sacred cow to 1 million!

8:30 that reminds me of something I saw about a lot of US Navy ships, and probably many others too. You have the obvious bridge, which is great for sailing and such, but to command the battle there is a war room deep inside.

The use of the funny bottomless room... I've seen a room like that, with a catwalk like that... It reminds me of the bomb bay configuration on a Flying Fortress or a B-24 Liberator. After all, what's a bomb bay except a cargo bay with a disappearing floor...? A hatch that size might make a convenient place to drop whatever the imperial guided equivalent of a T-12 cloudmaker from.

By sending the tie out from the front right into the line of fire of both the acetens and your target you can use it create a protective cloud of chaff to obstruct hostile sensors and targeting saving you from missiles.

The "glass" is called transparisteel. It's strength varies in the lore but if I remember correctly the original lore treated it as being as strong as durasteel but much more expensive and the windows are used in ships and fighters for landing and taking off and for not running into something if your sensors are too damaged for instrument flight rules. Retcons made it more and more stupid to have windows, though, and weakened transparisteel into a vulnerability.

They use natural visual methods instead of sensors in Star Wars, because they are infamous for being unable to account for the capacity to move in three dimensions. They actually poke fun at this in The Bad Batch.

The Arquitens would serve you well in the early Galactic Civil War period, especially since many early Rebel fleets are made up of starfighters and corvettes. But once the late-game Rebellion shows up with large Mon Calamari ships and B-Wings, you can kiss your Arquitens-class cruisers goodbye; the B-Wings using a mixture of ion cannons and proton torpedoes, and the Mon Calamari cruiser's turbolasers that are designed to punch holes in Star Destroyers, will blow through your smaller cruisers with ease.