How the New Republic won the Battle of Jakku | Star Wars Battle Breakdowns
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2018
- On today's Star Wars Canon episode of Battle Breakdown, we take a closer look at the Battle of Jakku, which saw the New Republic destroy the Ravager Super Star Destroyer and seriously weaken the Empire.
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The Battle of Jakku, (which, as much as Endor, could arguably be regarded as the end of the Galactic Civil War) has been featured heavily in Star Wars Battlefront II and I, the Star Wars Aftermath Trilogy, and in a way Star Wars the Force Awakens. It featured the New Republic, led by Starhawk Cruisers and Admiral Ackbar, and the Galactic Empire's Ravager Super Star Destroyer.
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EckhartsLadder can you do how the resistance destroyers the starkiller base?
Can you do one on the Battle of Coruscaunt (from episode 3)
Can we see what you would have done if you had control of the imperial fleet at Endor as well as the death star?
there were around 23 star destroyers at jakku just saying
EckhartsLadder I love these new battle breakdowns! Keep em' going Eckhart. It's an interesting series
"The new Republic is famous for its demilitarisation" Well thank god this is so well expalined in the new Movies- wait a second..
No the first order was famous for it's demilitarization of the new republic.
@Chosen One They did demiliarized. The Senate passed The Demilitarization Act. The funding for the Republic fleet was transfered to the local defense systems. They retired most of the New Republic ships including the Raddus.
@Chosen One Not really. What happens if dictatorship or a power hungry government suddenly rules a system and then sets off a military campaign? (Say the Zygerrians) and they have their own fleet of starships. The New Republic will be screwed
@Chosen One Look what happen to The New Republic at Episode 7. After The First Order used Starkiller base destroyed the Republic Senate and MAJORITY of the Starfleet, the galaxy was fucked. Several star systems fell with little to no resistance since it's every planet on it's own. Unlike the Republic fleet that covers the entire galaxy, the local defense systems only cover their own system.
@Chosen One those were not armies, those were scavenged ships and mostly regular people, there were 0 large cruisers to fight the Final Order, mostly cargo ships and modified frigates.
If the new republic would’ve had a well fortified Star fleet the First Order would’ve never won, watch how a single Star destroyer took over an entire planet, that’s how weak the New Republic was.
Star wars orbital mechanics 101
1) Ship moving very slowly
2) ship is shot
3) ship quickly plummets to the planet
lol if these ships parked in a stable orbit (to remove much need for engines to stay 'afloat' at an appropriate inclination the star ships would taken years or never crashed back into the surface. they could prob wait till after the war was over and still have time to go up and salvage the wrecks
Well, it really depends on what maneuvers they do. If they simply change orbits during the fight - they won't fall to surface for eons even with engines disabled. But if they slow down below orbital speed (to keep themselves above specific point of surface, for example) and keep themselves on choosen altitude in case their battle maneuvers require to - they may fall.
@@Vasim122 I don´t think any starwars ship cares for orbital maneuvers. They just sit above the planet, held there with their engines.
@@Sidewinder1311 probably the case, engines just counteract gravity, also means you can slowly descend to the surface,
If I was Rax, I would move the Ravenger over jakku, unstead with the fleet.
“However it would soon be reborn in a new pure from”
*loses planet sized super weapon and mega star destroyer in the span of 36 hours or less
The overbloated empire WAS REBORN into an even MORE incompetent faction!
The Empire lost a Death Star and a SSD in a single battle.
Azurai In a battle that had been meticulously planned by the Rebellion for a long time, in which a good portion of the rebel fleet was still destroyed before victory was achieved. As opposed to a literal last-minute plan by a janitor carried out by a handful of x-wings, AFTER the exact same thing has happened with the first Death Star.
Both the Empire and the First Order lose to people they outgun tenfold on a regular basis.
KingDeath720 You seem to be under the impression that I was defending the attack on Starkiller Base. Let me be clear: I absolutely was not. I was comparing the logically thought out attack on the second Death Star to the idiotic attack on Starkiller to show how bad it is.
0:25 "The Battle of Endor saw the Death of Palpatine"
Star Wars IX: -
Hey, check when this was released please....
@@Cheese-qk1ft doesn't matter, disney star wars is non canon bad fanfiction
@@Demiurge13 True! BUT I AM STILL ALIVE, AND I ALWAYS WILL
Sheev Palpatine gay
@@leathers4340 more like A SITH LaWd!?!
The Empire really does suffer from an acute lack of aggression in space. In all of your videos so far they could have carried the day by just using their size and superior firepower to bull their way into the enemy and attack key targets, but every time they seem to sit passively and let things happen to them.
True, they assume their presence and power is enough to handle the day, not proper tactics.
Which is why the few intelligent officers, such as Thrawn, are so deadly: they use the Imperial war machine to its most effective capabilities.
The Tarkin Doctrine at its finest.
"Why actually have strategy, when you can just be big and scary? Never mind having a military that's prepared, competent, AND capable - in the event your enemies *aren't* intimidated into submission. Just keep being bigger, scarier, and more powerful/threatening than anyone else around! Trust me bro, I guarantee it'll work!
There's no way the entire concept could possibly backfire or fall apart in practice, by making you such an evident threat that your enemies feel *compelled* to take you down at all costs - purely out of necessity for their own survival! Nah, just keep trying to scare them with big, pointy-shaped warships, and moon-sized, planet-destroying disco balls. Trust me, everything'll work out just fine!" -Grand Moron Weedhuff Tarkin to Emperor Steve Plantain, Circa 14 BBY
(Seriously, though: The man single-handedly did more to cripple the Empire than the Rebellion could have ever hoped to without him, purely by convincing Palpatine that "Fear = ez W".)
True. Exactly because plot armour. In reality the rebellion woulda been lost
I think this is perfectly showcased in Empire at War, where the Empire will lose most space battles against the Rebels and the Xan Consortium (especially the consortium, Jesus Christ) unless you as the player actively go out of your way to mass target enemies.
Gallius Rax: I'm a genius!
Also Gallius Rax: Oh no!
Gallius Rax earlier in the battle: "Hell yes!"
Later in the battle: "Hell no!"
Rax didn't care how the battle went. The plan was to blow up Jakku and take out both sides, the Empire and the New Republic, in one sweep while he ran off to the Unknown Regions with the parts of the Empire he planned to use to rebuild. The purpose of the battle was to draw in and mire down the New Republic's forces long enough to trigger the planetary destruction mechanism.
Too bad he threw the wrong woman to the wolves.
Admiral Versio: "._. I should be in command, rip."
"There's nothing that can be done, gravity takes over"
As 30+ Star destroyers sit around, each with their own tractor beam, with their thumbs up their buts.
TURN ON THE DAMN TRACTOR BEAMS AND PREVENT THE SUPER STAR DESTROYER FROM FALLING TO THE PLANET!!
They would of fell as well
@@Darkdestroyer21 Yes because Starhawk's tractor beam is super powerful
Argueably that could work.but I mean the Executor was as heavy as the whole fleet and as far as i know a Star Destroyer Tractor beam can BARELY take a Cr90
@ToMlgForYou Uhm one year is logical to destroy the Empire because whole galaxy is against them
I love aftermath story
@ your a sequel supporter, it wouldn't of taken 1 year. They didn't even have the whole galaxy, only parts of it. In Canon, planets revolted and defeated them. That doesn't make sense, go get a brain.
"The Death of Palpatine"
well... wellll... welllllllllllll... not really
Palpatine died. His clone existed.
Shut up the sequels don’t exist
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Actually Palpatine never died in any of the canons. His physical body died but his conscious survived and got out into thousands of clones. Don’t ask how this is possible, it’s dark force manipulation
@100 subs 1 vid wut? I never said anything about that
Couldn't the star destroyers have used their own tractor beams to keep the ravager up?
Would've been a good strategy
Multiple beams could have caused shearing, perhaps there was not enough power with all the ISD's using power to turbolasers, and there would have to be a command issued to all the ships.
yah it was so big they would just be tearing chunks off of it and be completely vulnerable to, well, everything
Thanks for replying. In my opinion sacrificing a few ISDs would have been worth it to save the ship that was basically their only hope. But I'm no expert! May not have been possible.
That would make too much sense.
God I want official images of the Starhawk...
Yes. That would be nice.
There is also a model made by the Empire at War Remake Modder Jeroen
Yes, we don't even have stats on them. We know they are pretty big and powerful, but they could be 2,000m; 4,000m or easily over 5,000. It completely varies how much of a scale there was in this battle.
Max Jones I would be so happy if they made it a Reskin of the Bothan assault cruiser but then again it’s supposed to be based off the ISD so who knows
Yeah, that would be cool. The only thing is they are way too small (Starhawks are suggested to be some of the most powerful warships in the NR, capable of easily defeating star destroyers) and they also have a slightly different description, with a tomahawk like a shape at the front.
Would love to see a version of this for the Battle for Coruscant.
Apothecary Galan thrawn or separatist?
Separatist vs Republic
Yeah right the empire had 20000 destroyers and still lost, right that's what you call Disney
it would just be a bunch venator class cruisers versus the far better and more varied cis? i forgot the acronym
@@manabuhorikita1453 bro it was George who decided that he made the empire lose
Rest in peace last officially documented Executor controlled by the official Empire.
Discount Eclipse? In Aftermath :Empire's End the last Imperial Remnant(the one that eventually becomes the First Order) finds the Eclipse in the Unknown Regions
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So the Alliance to Restore the Republic built hundreds, if not thousands, of ships within a year, as well as create a new class of ship with "bleeding edge" tech. The only thing I can say right now is, "WITHIN A YEAR!?"
And why the hell didn't the Ravager's concentrated fire not immediately the Concord?
I know, I know. If it were THREE years say, I wouldn't mind as much. The only hard numbers we get is they sent a fleet to Jakku three times what they had at Endor, so maybe 300-400 ships?
I still hate how Canon decided to end everything within one year instead of the dozens we had in Legends.
It makes no fucking sense, IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE. HOW. HOW. How did a fucking rebellion make the industrial base necessary?
I presume by mass defections and uprisings? But they'd still need TIME to operate also.
I mean shit, How many planets would have to defect for that to happen, in EU, the fight to coruscant was long, hard and bloody, it took effort and multiple times did the alliance nearly lose it all again
I don't watch your videos for the content anymore. I watch for the doge
gg
Could you do a ground battle breakdown at some point
Lucas Clark yesss pls
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I really want a movie about the battle of Jakku. It was absolutly amazing seeing the Ravager crash on Jakku in SWBF, now imagine that on a movie with the full crash on screen not only the contact with the surface.
Yes, I’d really like a series of movies, maybe a trilogy about the fall of the empire that includes project cinder and the battle of Jakku.
Fernando Marques The new live action TV series could give us some footage. It plays only 3 years after Endor
I think a movie thats similar to Rogue One would be great for the Battle of Jakku.
Well until something like that happens, you can look up EA's Battlefront 2 campaign footage as the second to last mission (of the main campaign) takes place in the battle.
I would love to see a movie about everything that's not yet a movie.
I like the little touch of the Raveger falling due to a combination of gravity and a tractor beam.
Pretty cool moment
I’ve been waiting for a video properly explaining the Battle of Jakku since I read Empires End. All I can say is... FINALLY.
Taco1011 read Empire’s End, then watching clips from the Battlefront 2 story mode. It’s so amazing. The whole planet is a battlefield.
Is empires end the book that he gets a lot of his specifics from? If so I definitely need to read thay
Anyone else repeatedly watching his outro?
Austin Mohlis me
Austin Mohlis sames
Intro is short for introduction. There's no such thing as an outroduction. Outro isn't a word. The word you're looking for is closing.
@@KarmaTiger Outroduction is word and it is used for the closing remarks of a book.
KarmaTiger dude, you’re on UA-cam and you’re trying to be literal? Outro is just a colloquialism that’s used to be the opposite of an intro. Also, as previously stated, outroductions do exist. Stop trying to be a smartass since it just makes you look ignorant.
The new trilogy should have showed this battle. That is mentioned so many times books and other medias that not show it in the movies was a big missed opportunity.
no i prefer seeing rey just scavenge through the aftermath of the battle, its way more exciting
The problem was that this baattle happened a year after Endor. But the actors are years older.
@@SmokeDog1871 now that I think about it, yeah it is kinda cool
Or it could’ve showed the battle of jakku skip 36 years later sees Rey scavenges through it and the rest of the movie plays on
Star Wars battlefront does show it. Although you only play as a foot soldier. But it’s awesome to see a star destroyer slowly sink to the ground, with the screen shaking as it finally impacts the ground.
Holy crap, I've only been a subscriber for a few months but I went back and watched some of your earlier videos, using them for my own research and I've got to say the effort you put into making these videos is clearly evident. Your videos before weren't bad, but the audio quality, confidence and over all content associated with the videos now is light-years better than where you started. :) Keep up the good work
The New Republic and its fleet was destroyed by First Order 30 years later
"In the end, physics takes over..." just funny how physics is mentioned in a universe that constantly defies them.
I always wanted to understand this better with a clearer picture!
Thanks Eck!
The Imperial strategy here has always been one I like. Using the Star Destroyers to shield the more valuable Ravager seems like it would work by just waiting until the Empires superior fire power defeated enough rebel ships to just Zerg rush the rebel fleet.
The over-bloated empire was REBORN!
Into an equally as incompetent successor state with even less military power. pheh.
Such a s shame because this was a clever battle too, the last clever thing to happen post-endor. :/
@Chara Except a good chunk of First Order personnel evacuated Starkiller Base when It was nearly blown up.
@@ufukcangencoglu2279 trust me not a whole lot got off of starkiller base when it exploded it still had almost 700k people on the base when it blew up
A lot were on Starkiller but a good many were on Snoke's Supremacy-class Mega Star Destroyer.
Literally every first order star destroyer is just a giant command ship. The loss of starkiller base didnt mean anything
@@ilikepigeons6101 it would certainly mean something, they lost hundreds of thousands of men, equipment and years of work was destroyed.
Imagine surviving the galactic civil war only to get shot by one of empire's star destroyers or tie fighters.
This loss was a tragedy, but it was so artfully done
It brought forth a resurgence, one that again brought order.
Palpatine: So how many Star Destroyers do you want?
Gallius Rex: Yes
Hey Eckharts, if you are going to do a spaceship versus episode, use this system to talk about the battle.
plz
Really loving these brilliant tactical videos Eck! They are so good! :)
this is probably my favorite battle in all of the star wars material I've seen so far. Having this as the conclusion to the Aftermath Trilogy was gold.
Never read the Thrawn trilogy, have you?
Love the style of these kind of videos.
The other star destroyers should have used their tractor beams to try to keep the Ravager in position
I heard that the Empire did not end at Jakku with the First Order becoming its successor in the unknown regions, but rather an Imperial remnant remains centered around the core worlds, with the New Republic mainly in the mid and outer rim. Granted, new canon in general is still muddled but that is what I heard the "Galactic Concordance" was all about.
It all happened so fast.
Boy that sentence is elevated to a whole new level with star wars new cannon.
These battle breakdowns are the best
Awesome video and I love both the empire and the new republic and the visual are cool. Great video
Very cool and informative! Love the visual stuff you put work into. It's definitely worth it!
Amazing video eck, as always ^^
I'm happy you made this video about the battle of jakku, it is one of my favourite battles in all Star Wars
Awesome video man
Love your content.
Love these types of videos keep up the good work
I love the battle breakdowns videos. It gives a whole new meaning to the battles.
Love this video and channel! You’re the only Star Wars channel I can stand anymore.
Absolutely loving this new series, Eck! Could you possibly do a video on what the Empire could've done to win the battle of Endor?
Im liking this new series Eck keep it up!
I feel bad for the crew in the star destroyer that rammed, and the crew in the falling starhawk
EckhartsLadder These new videos are absolutely fantastic. Could you do a video on how the Republic won the Battle of Coruscant?
Liam O galáctica civil war or clone war?
Love this keep it up
Man now I feel so bad for the imperials at the battle of Jakku
I love this new series Ecks! Can't wait for more :)
Really loving these vids man, easily my favourite Star Wars UA-cam channel
Never stop making these.
Even with all the nebulas that were sent to jakku and also (like you said) they housed HUNDREDS of sd's which in my opinion is outrageus. Even no matter how big a fleet of rebellion ships go there to "investigate" how did they win cause 1 nebula must contain at least 1-200 sd's which even if there were like 5 is already too strong. At least in my opinion.
Probably cause of all the Starhawks
How did the rebellion even win in battlefront 2, or am I thinking of the wrong jakku battle?
Just started watching your videos and gotta say I’m extremely impressed and love them already.
I'm enjoying the battle break downs ekharts keep it up
Also you said thousands of star ships are hidden are they used by the first order?
as mentioned in the video: some were, some were destroyed at Jakku
Gerardo Reyes that's my theory
How Imperial ships ARE there at Jakku? Supposedly they can be defeated by a Republic fleet three times the strength of the Rebel fleet at Endor. I call shenanigans.
The rebel fleet at Endor was pretty large, the movie only directly shows one battlegroup of many. You can see far more out the windows of the Executor and deathstar.
I've been trying to count them for years. There are 13 retreating from the Death Star in the DVD version. If there are 20 total, with 5 escorts each, that's 100 ships easy.
Wait, Battle of Jakku is just one year four days after Endor? That's....a lot sooner than I thought, with the notes being made about how the low morale Imperial troops suffered. Also NR having bleeding edge technology sounds like complete BS. How did an insurgent group that had to literally steal to arm themselves suddenly gained control of the highest possible tech that the Empire can't already replicate? Also OP tractor beam aside, does SSD not come with repulsorlifts any more?
Supposedly by uprisings, defections and capture of hardware...
also "bleeding Edge" is kinda overstating.. the ISD Design was nearly 20+ Years old at the Battle ofJakuu, the SSD around 5... the Technology could be from like 2 Yeasr ago and it woudl still be bleeding edge in comparison tothe Empires
Because stealing technology was always a high priority in the Rebel Alliance, starting with their starfighters. Additionally, there was little opportunity for advancement in the Empire for non-humans, so the Imperial Navy largely missed out on the talents of designers who were from other species.
After the NR starts winning across the galaxy (Paldora mentions just how badly the Empire is on the run), tech companies that always sympathized with the rebels, or even the elite that don’t necessarily but sense which way the wind is blowing, would start flocking over to their camp. According to the Darth Vader comics, the Empire had at least 3 SDs within a year of Revenge of the Sith - is it outside of the realm of possibility that a significant portion of a galaxy’s worth of elite, the motivation of a war, and the same amount of time could give the NR at least 3 Starhawks in a year? The Empire had the whole galaxy instead of having a divided intellectual sphere, yes, but the war against the separatists holdouts impacted the galaxy roughly zero in terms of wartime versus peacetime - and war tech always increases exponentially faster in times of war
Perhaps in term of a usual government system, the aspect that war tech stagnates over peacetime would be accurate, but as the Empire has a significant focus on the military to maintain the galaxy, its tech is bound to improve over the years - though admittingly, as you implied, - albeit slower. But even with the major companies of Rebel sympathizers flowing over to the NR at the end of the war, to think that R&D being done for some bleeding edge tech over a year that even things like the highly funded Imperial Department of Military Research - who built the death star - can't even match is just out there for me. For comparison, it's like General Electric suddenly exceeding DARPA in an arms race in 5 years.
Fantastic video! Really well explained.
This is great. Nice job. I read all three aftermath novels, but I hadn't seen this detail in it. Thanks.
I just subbed.
I really like Kyrsta Agate, one of my favorite characters in aftermath.
Me too! Cool robot eye too i believe
jup, and she is both relateable and badass at the same time
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Very cool series so neat to visualize it this way
I love these battle breakdowns!
The fall of the Ravager was probably my favourite part of the book, and it's something I would seriously love to see happen on-screen.
Technically has happened on screen in Battlefront but yeah I get what you mean, a trilogy of the Aftermath books would've been awesome. We would get to see battles like The Battle of Kuat Drive Yards and Jakku.
Ackbar: It's a trap
Ravenger: * does something stupid *
Ackbar: who's getting traped now?
Can you please do A LOT of Battle Breakdowns in the next weeks? Its so awesome to see how it all happened and the strategies they used. Also, bringing down the Super Star Destroyer to the planet like that was one of the most insane strategies I've seen!
Star Wars space battles are like chess in space. With every piece inventing it's own rules as the plot goes along..
What I don’t understand is how the new republic had almost complete control of the galaxy and they had the edge over the empire in every direction but lost that lead and ended up being able to fit inside the millennium falcon at full numbers, the demilitarized army basically set them up to loose another war
Ummmh... that was just the survivors of the Resistance that fit into the Falcon.
There was no mention of the New Republic fleet in the movies, but we can expect that a good part of it was destroyed together with the Hosnian system. However, I don't remember them mentioning that the Hosnian system was the seat of the New Republic Government either. I guess I either missed that or it was cut out with the scenes that played there.
"The Empire used a fairly intelligent strategy"
That sure is a sentence you don't hear very often
These battle videos are awesome!
awesome! I just read "empire's end" and the whole battle was chaos in my head... now it makes more sense :)
If the empire actually planned like this from the beginning they would have won
“To deal with it” Eckhart’s tough
Did you do the drawings of the battle in space?
The intro song is so nice, it really takes you places. I even have it on Spotify after Shazam’ing it
Can you do how you would have won this battle if you were the empire, like the one on Scariff. Great video though, keep up the good work!
I love this bit from the book. The idea of a New Republic ship pulling down an SSD with a tractor beam is so sick to me.
These tipe of vids are the best keep on the good work
Jakku is one of the most interesting battles in the new canon, love seeing it painted out like this!
I thought that I heard in a video that the starhawk was initially in fine condition and when they started pushing the ravenger out of orbit they decided to sacrifice themselves to make sure the ravenger couldn’t escape or dampen their fall
Idea for a galactic versus: UNSC-Sangheili fleet from Halo 3 vs the Rebel fleet at Endor. The idea here is that both fleets were making a final attack that would determine the fate of their respective galaxies.
Pyres ∆t Varanasi thanks
another great vid by Mr. Ladder
This was a favorite battle of mine, especially it coming from a video game made it so much more immersive
„Reborn in new form”
JJ abrams: forms
couldnt the star destroyers in turn have activated their tractors, and keep the SSD afloat? Im sure even bleeding edge tractor beams wouldnt be able to overcome like 30 other tractors? Or does the mass of the SSD prohibit them from even attempting to inanimate such a huge mass?
It could be a combination of lack of coordination, not being at an angle to use the tractor beam, needing to divert power to the beams thereby exposing shields
A well put together with a hilarious outro!
I like this video really great, looking at the map and space vessels remembers me of playing Tie Fighter in the 90ies.
What a smart guy, "I know I'll get rid of the most powerful ship I have that way the future of the Empire can be pure, and better I'm so smart" a tactical genius
I love the fact that both the New republic and the empire had creative solutions for their problems in this battle.
I like the way you make these videos, very nice
These are incredible! I’ve passed them on to all my friends
The flood vs orks from 40k
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I really hope the disarmament act was more of a hide the New Republic military away, and those allies in the outer rim could be the New Republic Remanet.
The Dark Knight from what the books say, it’s less of a total disarming and more of a congregation of different armies. The idea that Mothma has was to have several systems and worlds help each other out as opposed to a central government
Damn that pulling them down with them thing is badass
I’ve been looking forward to this
More of the tactical grid vids👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I want to see what the starhawk really looks like soon.
Love these vids
If there were an Anthology film about this event, it would be referred to as “Jakku: A Star Wars Story.”