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We're gonna Preox your Morlana with this TacPod. Wait. That sounds Not-Safe-For-Andor.
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2024
- Yes, I am going to do an episode about a throwaway vehicle that was driven by idiots carrying other idiots to a planet.
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0:00 Intro
0:55 On with the show
Me "mom can we get a Laat"
Mom "no we have a Laat at home"
*at home Laat*
It looks a lot like a cross between the old LAAT, the Snowspeeder cockpit, and the Legends Delta-class Dx-9 Stormtrooper* Transport.
Just in miniaturized form and nowhere near as well armed as any of them.
*Actually used by everybody and their mother.
I would like to point out that inside the TacPod both walls are covered in cargo strapping and there is no seating. This is NOT a person rated shuttle, this is a cargo van that has been requisitioned to function as a drop pod. This makes the main ship an actual CARGO hauler and... oh my god...Corporate Security hitched a ride on the FEDEX truck didn't they?
Shit. I think they did.
Should've paid out a little extra and got DHL, I hear they're armed with an extra blaster and dedicated gunner. Also they offer air fresheners with every ride.
@@failedgrace2891 DHL do apparently deliver mortar teams, questions of Perfidy aside.
@@failedgrace2891 DHL was founded by a pedophile that escaped government custody and faked his death
Also the wings folding up would help prevent you from bonking you head
-Can we get a Puddle Jumper?
-We have Puddle Jumpers at home.
Puddle Jumpers at home:
I drive trucks for a living and when I saw the control panel for that ship, I was honestly expecting to see a couple knobs for a parking brake and trailer brake air supply.
I still love the idea of Clone Troopers in LAATs blaring Fortunate Son on speakers about to fuck up someones/things faces,or the equivalent of faces...
Also they might just have asked the Goa'uld to build these things for them, certainly seems like their handy work as you said. It is almost interesting how the Empire manages to combine so much "Form over function" with "quantity is a quality of it's own" when building their stuff, surprised you don't see a bunch of white painted B1 droids on guard duty all the time.
The goluld were mostly fighting dirt farming bronze age humans cheaply made terror weapons make more sense for them than it does for a empire that's got a high tech base, educated population and has a democratic republic within living memory.
Wonder how many were listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" or "Black Thunder" instead. :P
@@seanheath4492 Probably more than a few. And don’t forget that one guy who’s blasting “Sombody to Love” (who I assume is Commander Bly)
Given LAATs are more HIND it would be Afghan war songs like that "who will save the world" onem
Who is to say they don't have B1s on less important defensive locations
The mothership looks like it was built by Vogons. Which is very appropriate thematically.
Ah, but such divine poetry!
Looks like it is trying to knocknoff both the LAAT and the Telgorn built Dx-9 Stormtrooper transport.
For a "peacekeeper" force, Vogon would be more effective. All they need is to mount some loud speakers to one of these door stops and play poetry. Populations would flee in terror. Much cheaper in manpower and ordinance.
DON'T PANIC!
2 joysticks is a classic spacecraft steering interface hailing from Soyuz. One is for rotation (pitch, yaw, roll; can twist for roll), one for translation (sway, heave surge; can be depressed in/pulled out for surge). Game controllers also use similar control scheme, although the sticks only have 2 degrees of freedom, as usually you don't need precise roll control and your up/down motion is achieved by jumping and falling.
Seems overly complicated for what it is and not necessarily suited for the relative speeds involved.
@@SacredCowShipyards It's mainly for manual docking. Rarely used at all, and the speeds are puny, centimeters per second. Autopilots handle all the flying normally, these controls are just for emergency.
Speaking of the "Imperial Aesthetic", *In-Universe*, the machine they used to interrogate Han Solo on Bespin's Cloud City's main function was to look scary. It was designed to shoot sparks and make frightening noises in order to intimidate the captive into compliance. It could shock as well but that was about it.
actually, that was a pain inducer. It directly stimulates your nerves and inflicts tremendous pain. Imagine feeling like you are freezing to death, while feeling like you are on fire, while you feel like you are being dipped in acid, while feeling like you are being electrocuted, while being crushed to death. that kind of pain.
@@Rembanspellsong ah yes that happens to me all the time
In Legends at least yeah it was direct neural pain stimulation, Isaard had an improved one that also triggered heat and cold receptors.
@@DIEGhostfish It was there as well, that is why Han was screaming. He was in agony. Vader used that agony to draw Luke in.
@@Rembanspellsong I know, the one for Han was pain only, I just can't speak for Newcanon
I actually have a lot of respect for that cockpit design. The dual stick controls are actually quite accurate for proper spaceflight, as they give you up to 6-axis control of your vessel. I actually run a similar setup in space sims, and have infinitely better control than anyone running HOTAS.
@@John73John similar, but not quite. The Collective is a strange beast for control as it controls upward thrust and yaw.
The setup you see there is probably similar to how I've got mine. Pitch/roll/yaw (all rotational axes) on one stick and up-down/left-right/forward-backward (thrust axes) on the other, with a throttle for more steady-state flying.
Also props to the Dockmaster for the use of "The Gripping Hand," a reference I'm fairly certain the majority of viewers won't have understood.
It seems that the two-stick arrangement is much more common for slower vehicles much more interested in delicate maneuvers and built with massively higher budgets.
@@SacredCowShipyards You would think so, but it also has its uses for things like ship-to-ship combat where speed is a must. As you've remarked on previous videos, most Sci Fi seems to be constrained to the idea of atmospheric style engagement where forward thrust and flying towards your enemy is paramount. With 2-sticks in space its more like keeping your weapons locked on target while trying to keep the other guy from locking on to you, and though you are constantly moving, it doesn't necessarily have to be forward. Down and forward thrust with an up-pitch is amazingly effective at exactly this.
Also, probably the first ship I've seen with that arrangement was actually pretty big: The Andromeda Ascendant (whom I'm surprised you haven't done an episode on yet).
If I remember right, the NSEA Protector had something of a similar setup, and we all know how that turned out.
In general - IN GENERAL - throttle requires more adjustment area than a simple stick can provide for distances/speeds that are more than orbital docking requirements.
But maybe CorpoSector humies have lighter touches on the sticks.
@@SacredCowShipyards in that I agree, some sort of slider type throttle is very necessary for maintained constant thrust for long-distance cruising and atmospheric flight. That's why the setup I use for space sims also uses sliders for constant-forward thrust when needed, and why this little flying coffin also has a throttle on the left (interestingly the same side I use for this function).
Though I've got a bone to pick with the always-burning engine you see in most Sci Fi. Unless you are using it for artificial gravity (Expanse) or prolonged acceleration to %C speeds, it is entirely unnecessary and a waste of fuel. The only reason I could see for a constant-up throttle like that would be for a control rated for a speed scale instead of a thrust scale, especially for something like whatever passes for FTL drives.
Turret placement is also a little odd because when it's on the ground it can't shoot anyone, and while I get that it might need to shoot things going in more than while landed, it still feels like having a gun on top/sides/front that could cover its troops while disembarking might be helpful. LAAT can raise hell with those bubble turrets while dropping off. I don't know, I'm not a ship designer, and it's probably designed to land and take off quickly, though I guess in the episode where they tried to arrest Cassian they just parked it and left it there instead of providing air support/recon.
The MI series of Russian helicopters has a turret on the bottom as well... not very good when landing to insert the limited amount of troops it can carry. You can't have everything.
As far as this TacPod is concerned, it's probably better off having the turret on the bottom. It can provide overwatch in the air after inserting its limited amount of troops. A turret pointing down is much more useful in that respect against small insurrections or suppressing angry crowds that need to get back to work.
@@fakshen1973 Yeah, I'd probably have more respect for its ability to provide air support if they had … y'know... actually used it to provide air support.
@@RorikH well, they wanted to buuuut.... lol
@@aetherial87 The pilot, three seconds before impact: "Did I leave my parking brake on?"
@@RorikH the pilot was an idiot, as soon as he got hung up on something instead of gunning the engine he should have kicked in the repulsorlifts, hovered, and blasted what he was hung up on into a bunch of pieces with the turret.
You'd be surprised with the need for blindingly obvious labels, I've worked with beancounters and the coloured pencil office and I swear half the time we needed to label office equipment "Not Food" to stop them chewing on it... Also regarding the buttons and switches, I can't help but think of a Paranoia reference - "The purpose of the switches is above your clearance level citizen, requesting this information is treason" *KABLAM*. Such a wonderfully fun game to run! The players are absolutely positive the GM is out to get them, as are all of the other players. They are, of course, 100% correct.
The dichotomy of label/no label is amusing, though.
knowing the rules of that game is treason. Master computer! I wish to report treasonous activity!
Glad to see they rolled the Corporate Sector back into existance again.
This is I think the Velcar Free Commerce zone which is a slightly different area.
@@DIEGhostfish : Yeah, if Corporate Sector shows back up it'll probably be "subjugated Separatist worlds" or the like.
I was disappointed because I didn't see Espos being people up on the street.
They are likely used for cargo first, small tiny cargoes... with combat use being a repurpose when they failed as a cargo shuttle.
In fact... it makes me think .. UPS delivery van.
That's it! They were mail ships and delivery trucks that were repurposed and armed with a token bit of firepower.
OR more likely just a design by committee nightmare forced into use.
It looks like its meant to land, grab a trouble maker, take off. Like riot police.
Why would need to fail as cargo? Maybe its a humvee, successful at being cargo and used for other things
@@matthiuskoenig3378 The size is very limiting on cargo, plus extra labor loading and unloading cargo onto the mother ship.
Think of it as a container ship, but has to be manually loaded by delivery vans
I have a theory about the lack of labels on switches and buttons. I run a repair crew the services various pieces of equipment at various locations run by personnel of various levels of Intelligence. As a result of dumbass #1 and dumbass #2's brilliant display of cognitive ability, we were encouraged to remove certain labels from certain controls that everyone except for us should not use. The going logic was if you're not trained on it you shouldn't use it. When they were labeled people tried to use the controls when they shouldn't have because they thought that they would fix the problems, but instead made it worse. After we remove the labels, this problem went away. therefore the theory is somebody had the bright idea to remove the labels from the control console to discourage people who did not have Pilot's licenses from taking these things out on a Joyride.
Thank you for your contribution (fine addition) to the oversight-excuses handbook (our collection).
In other words, this isn't a military transport, it's a police car.
I don't think this 'craft' is tactical enough to be compared to a police car... Honestly, its more akin to a airport parking lot courtesy van. 😕
Reminds me of a transit van... So should come in white, with dirt applied.
Correction: company/mall security patrol golf cart
It’s like those scooters that have a horizontal axle instead of the ones you got as a kid.😂
@@AlexSDU One of the pilots is probably named Pall B'lart
Can we take a moment to appreciate that cockpit windshield which is basically a mini version of the drop ship from aliens’?
This is like a Chinese reverse engineered version of something they had a fuzzy photo of a bad photocopy of the plans. That might be a decent in universe explanation.
If I had to take a guess the Free Trade Sector is meant to be a variation on the Corporate Sector Authority. The CSA is from the Han Solo trilogy of novels from the late 70's/early 80's by Brian Daley. For whatever reason, Emperor Lucas didn't want the Empire to be used in these stories so the CSA is used as a stand-in, with only vague mention of the Empire at all.
>tombstone
It's a bar of TOBLERONE.
Don't forget some LAAT variants were designed for combat dropping walkers...
There were sealed and pressurized LAATs, too. Full suite of modifications to functional properly in vacuum and had the port and starboard ball turrets booms replaced with spotlights, since space isn’t always conveniently lit unless you’re in the inner portions of a star system.
"On the gripping hand..."
You, sir, have made my day.
ALL THE APPENDAGES.
The wings fold up to please some lawyer/s because some boot Lt. or pvt would walk into them & get hurt and then sue for injuries...
I think it's more the length of the wings... hard to tell but seems if they folded down they would impact the ground while landed. so they fold up out of the way.
If you ever find yourself in an old utility vehicle, like 10-20 years old skidsteer, telehandler, or dump truck, there's going to be a lot of unlabeled switches that you have to be trained to recognize.
It would have been a nice touch if all the switches were labeled, but unreadable due to being worn and faded, or maybe obvious spots where a label used to be, but was never replaced. To highlight the lax, undisciplined state of the company.
Bonus points for the Blazing Saddles reference!
It looks a lot like a cross between the old LAAT, the Snowspeeder cockpit, and the Legends Delta-class Dx-9 Stormtrooper* Transport.
*Actually used by everybody and their mother.
Like you said, maybe the whole point is for a low-cost, yet scary-looking dropship. If the corporation only has to deal with unarmed civilians or lightly armed rioters (and many of them throughout a large area), they might be making a design which is cheap and looks intimidating, but doesn’t actually do much, nor regularly need to. The LAAT stylings, combined with gray utilitarianism, might be done to lead the civilian populace to believe the crafts are Imperial (and to remind them of the might of the Republic Army). Perhaps the design is more psychological warfare than actual warfare.
Just a thought. Entertaining episode as usual,
-J
That moment where I remember it was this channel I first encountered the "The Empire had a 'disposable' approach to everything, from ships to soldiers".
Applicable here too. With the note that exchange in the beginning feels like it could have come from actual experience.
Ah, yes, the Murder Brick, and now its airborne cousin, the Doorstop.
you know, that last point on "what do we do when the locals finally stop giving a shit?" is probably the biggest issue with the entire empire.
True of any government that rules through fear. There's far more locals than enforcers, always.
@@SacredCowShipyards Not to mention that the locals are actually needed to do just about everything that doesn't involve directly enforcing the regime's power. And if the locals ever get any reason to think that they've got nothing to lose, well that just so happens to mean that there's now saboteurs literally running the very system that they're about to break.
The nazi's being the perfect example, as their particular brand of nastiness wound up spawning resistance movements pretty much everywhere except in the ranks of the SS.
3:44 that looks like something you'd see off ancient aliens
I see this ships as a cross between a police cruiser and a police helicopter. It can get some officers where they need to go and can carrier a few single person weapons, and then once it drops them off it can provide minor arial support
My theory on the consoles. The skybrick is primarily moved through repulser technology tuned for space flight. While making these repulser engines adjustable is definitely possible, the makers found a way to cut costs. A simpler, non-adjustable repulser array is used in conjunction with a series of compensators. The compensators compensate for... weather. High humidity? Use the third green switch. Ionized atmosphere? Strong winds? There's a switch for that too. Some of the toggle switches activate compensators that allow two of the other compensators to operate at the same time without interfering with each other. Of course, a droid brain or computer could just as easily do this work, but that would cost money. Expecting the pilot/gunner to add a third job for no increased pay? Now, that's free. In fact, it pays money if you charge them for the training needed to keep their substandard-wage job.
So, somebody took a minivan and slapped wings on it, gotcha.
On the “Flying Monkeys theme”, there’s a Yu-Gi-Oh! card called “Kozmo Soartroopers”. It’s an actually decent bit of support, summoning a Kozmo pilot from your Graveyard and being able to tag out into one of the spaceships or a bigger pilot from your hand.
Kozmo is basically a cross between Star Wars and Wizard of Oz, with a Mara Jade lookalike as the Dorothy stand-in.
If the LAAT is a UH-1 then the door stop is mom's minivan.
I'd say it's closer to a Hughes MD500 in pretty much every way.
@@darranhirose8153 exactly. It could do all the things a UH-1 could but worse.
@@darranhirose8153 more like a Hind gunship but with better troop capacity. Pretty sure that was the inspiration for the LAAT.
@@madrabbit9007 oh totally for the original, just... The door stop is like the MD500/Loach/Cayuse/Kiowa: a stopgap compared to the full up UH-1/UH-60/Hind, not an actual replacement, pushed into a role that it's not designed for, with minimal armament. It can theoretically do everything the bigger can do, but sucks at it.
On the one hand, it's almost already a cube.
On the other hand it was used for galactic tyranny.
On the gripping hand, it's a shoe box's worth of carrying capacity.
Glad someone else caught the "gripping hand" reference!
Regarding the caution sign over the rear ramp...
I've seen some 'don't turn right' signage over the rear ramps of CH53s, so I mean... ya just gotta expect the best, but prepare for the worst...
unlabled switches on random locations is British Leyland car design at it's best! I have an idea who invented this when and where 😊
Now I'm kinda imagining the unlabeled switches being a security feature. If you don't know what they do, you're not supposed to be operating this thing. :P
@@seanheath4492 This is often how things are after a machine has been in service for a few years - all the labels wear off even if only from a trainer putting fingers on them for the trainee. Star Wars fans are good at providing excuses for the writers/developers. All part of the fun.
That Kmart reference made me feel old as hell.
I didn't feel old until the Dockmaster made a song-and-dance about how dated the reference was.
Starwars ships often have stuff in the wings. Radiators, sensors, sheild projectors, whatever. Perhaps this one has some significant dohicky? That might even explain why the ball turret is placed there when landed it's power is disconnected to boost, um, the cappuccino machine! For extra moral.
Didn't know that the carrier had it's main door in the back (haven't watched the show) but I guess that explains why they are not pointed in and if they could connect to the landing crafts power perhaps use their guns that way.
Star Wars has always been like that which is one of the reasons I'm still a fan they always had weasel room er room for expansion.
They blew their label budget on the caution label for the ramp
Stormtroopers carried thermal detonators with no labels on the buttons so it's possible that they just got shitty versions that didn't even get out of production with labels, I mean it could be a HOTAS and/or the second joystick to control the turret.
I like how literally every corporate goon can pilot the thing, so I imagine it's just got an 'easy' button and it floats up to preset altitude and then pelts the ground pounders with blaster fire.
Yeah they were trained though. And that eas a security thign
"Light Gunship", maybe? For the gunship diplomacy. Perhaps the point is to fly around looking menacing and occasionally blasting a ground skimmer.
3:44
The flying Sith Holocron
"That's HEDLEY!!!" Also, I have these little launches all figured out. They were designed to bring in beer and snacks to garrisons working out of positions already established and provisioned on a planetary surface...because they are too goddamned small to be useful for anything else; it looked to me like one of them MIGHT be big enough to carry enough beer to satisfy a platoon of Marines on liberty. For a single night, anyway. And ONE canon? My old Yamaha ATV is better armed than that...um, please don't tell the ATF that I said that.
this is the company van with the tools taken out the back.
"tactile switches are fun!" Confirmed that the Dockmaster sits in the office messing with an unplugged console
Clicky clicky clicky.
This thing is definately NOT a combat drop ship, it's more akin to a airport parking lot courtesy van. Its only function is to get personnel from the ship to the surface (and hopefully back again) without too much fuss or finesse.
That cockpit kills me though, all it really needs is one joystick and about five or six buttons. All those toggle switches are there to make the pilot and crew feel better about their safety, labels would just confuse them and defeat that purpose. 😏
i heard dork-stop at one point :D its like the LAAT little discount etsie made cousin that isnt mentioned at family meetings
^^
You take that back, at least with Etsy when you scale down something the people usually don't omit details for scale models xD
I use a dual stick set up like that, one is three axis of rotation, the other is the three axis of thrust, think of it as being for RCS thrusters, while the main throttle is for the main engines.
"The gripping hand"- I got that, I know that one. I use it.
If the three things above the cockpit are not weapons, then sensor probes of some type? Maybe pushing outside the particle sheilds. Or maybe communications antenna? Probably should be retracted during reentry.
Me too, can't wait for those books to be butchered into a crap TV show.
I compare it to the infamous Hummer H2.
A flimsy, cheaply-made civilian vehicle made to (slightly) resemble a popular, well-known military vehicle. It's a Star Wars police van.
a lowest bidder build using recycled old parts really makes sense for the situation
No labels. Have you ever played Star Trek bridge crew VR? There’s was a mod where your given the original enterprise, NCC1701 from Captain Kirk’s time. There all the buttons were just flashing lights and blinking panels. It was kinda fun trying to learn when everything did through trial and error but hope that you didn’t set off the self destruct whilst trying to navigate to the next space station.
A line I actually used to my team mates during one mission.
“Guys. There’s a red thinggie here moving towards the green thinggie. I think we’re the green thinggie. “
Captain “evasive manoeuvres”
Me “How?” Then preceded to bang my head on the console
Thankfully later they added a button which showed what button did what. But sometimes it’s fun to have it turned off. Or at least people say it’s turned off for some sort of fake credit
The wings fold up so that you can see where you parked upon returning to the parking lot.
Reasonable.
OMG, those stromps look like frickin' mall cops!
The Empire: you can have stuff like ours, but it can't be as good as and definitely can't be better than what we have
Lorewise yes actually. A lot of used clonewar era equipment was supposedly used for thease things including Venerator republic cruisers.
@@michaelpettersson4919 look up the completely Imperial law compliant Pinook starfighter from Legends.
@@26th_Primarch I just did now. I noticed that it could have been a bit better if the manufacturer have had the good grace of Empire. Apperantly they didn't and, well, in the ninties I player a freeware game named "Mechforce" based on the Battletech universe and it included an editor where new mechs could be dedigned using a point build system. I for fun designed one to be dirt cheap and named it "Trabant" after the East German cardboard and plastic car that was avalible for it's citizens. It was amusing when I met an computer generated team outfitted with that junk mech.
a TNG shuttlepod is safer than these things. also the dropship looks like the Shuttle pods from Star Trek Enterprise. I would like to say the shuttles seen in Kotor and Swotor are better designed. the Republic one from Swotor is the good one as it is a space LAAT with hyperdrive and decent living space.
In Star Wars defense, the "lived in" aesthetic they go for makes ALL of their flying shoeboxes look rickety compared to the prop-department-just-finished-a-rebuild aesthetic of TNG. Also, SW has everybody in the Republic building and doing their own thing, so that galaxy has lots of janky equipment.
This draws heavily from the Telgorn Dx-9 Delta class Stormtrooper transportm
Reminds me of the escape pod from the Pillar of Autumn. 🤣🤣🤣
The baby LAAT with none of the advantages of the actual LAAT. In an era where the Empire likely was selling milsurp LAATs for dirt cheap.
Some procurement officals/C-suites made a killing.
Then again does it really need to be as well armed and high performance as the LAAT? It's private security companies that are using this for peacekeeping relatively passive locations.
It's like asking to use a nighthawk when a simple police helicopter will do.
They look like they took a Shuttle pod from Enterprise, and welded some wings and engines on top it
I think these ships would be best described as surplus modification of Laat frames. They are cargo ships used to transport objects with token defenses to deter enemies. The soldiers have to use them and get carried around. It seems to be a repurposed light to medium cargo transport and maybe a prisoner transport (carbonite) and you have a few troops to guard the cargo inside and mid transport. It’s not a military vessel it’s just a facade.
Given the size differences, I can't imagine they recycled actual LAATs into these little dorks, aside from maybe cutting off the LAAT cockpit area and starting there.
Imperial credits may have had an official Deflation policy as far as "Cost reduction."
I always thought they had palpatunes playing ride of the Valkyries as they made the drop in the clone trooper carriers.
Maybe the wings fold up when on the ground because ground clearance? They seem like they'd be barely touching the ground in ideal circumstances, let alone the rough terrain of a backwater colony. Or maybe it's so a bunch can be parked really close together, like on a pad, or acting as a barricade at a big enough door, just point them into the door, land them like a wall, and the security forces can have cover. Not very good for shooting past but potato tomato.
As far as I can tell wings in the SW universe mainly exist to serve two functions.
To provide attachment points for weapons that may be prone to exploding.
To house repulsorlift modules.
I'm not positive it's canon, but repulsorlifts only work within a certain depth of a planet's gravity well. Outside that you just truck them out of the way as we see when the doorstops dock. But apparently folding them upward helps stabilize your ship when landing on a planetary surface.
But yeah, the doorstops do look like LAAT knockoffs which I bet they are. After all IP protections can't be very strong in the Imperial era. An acquisitions officer from Pacman Corp sends out a spec to various shipbuilding companies and one submits a design that's a clear ripoff of another company's work but at a tenth the cost (and a nice kickback for the officer). What's the officer gonna do, report them?
They also have snowspeeder inspired cockpits and elements from thr Dx-9 Delta class "Stormtrooper" transport from Legends, mainly thr X-Wing and TIE-Fighter game.
@@DIEGhostfish So doorstops are five knockoffs in one? Sounds about right.
@@markfergerson2145 Eh just 3.
@@DIEGhostfish So the back door being a ripoff of a starfleet shuttle design doesn't count? 😁
@@markfergerson2145 Oh, O just saw that as the bacl ramp of a LAAT
Doorstop is the Minivan of LAAT
I forget whats it called but from the the library that I grew up and had a Star wars Lucas era lore Bible in it and it more or less confirmed that the reason why all of the flashbang looking things that the Stormtroopers had were covered in that white plastic because they basically didn't want the locals stealing and using their technology against them, so they just didn't label it and trusted in the specialized training of people who are supposed to use it to be good enough. I feel like that's what's happening here as well because the corporation probably was given certain qualities that these things had to have and most likely a shuttle that can easily connect to a hyperspace cable vehicle would have had that specification slapped on it by the empire
"On the _gripping hand_ " /geekgasm
The mother ship looks like a poor snakes Cheops class (from the original movie).
I can see one of the control sticks being for the ship, the other for the blaster...though how you'd have any clue where it's pointing is beyond me...and the toggle switches...idk maybe there was just a sale on toggle switches when this was designed, and they just said fudge and stuck as many as they could in per ship.
One person with a concussion missile tube could basically be the end of the TacPod and the security force.
Ah, finally a new design, the I.S.S Tolberone
That abomination is the Clapped-Out-Honda-Civic, of drop ships.
If I was a pilot in the empire, I would take my empire approved survival knife and scratch the Meiningen of every switch right under it into the console...
They can't label all the switches, because 1960s Batman has the trademark on labeling everything.
I assume the non-weapon, forward-pointing tube things are some sort of space Pitot tubes. How this makes sense (especially given the lack of any corresponding display) is left as an exercise for the student. Alternatively, since this is more or less a truck, they could be space horns.
HOOONK.
toggle switches -- no switch guards, some of the toggles operate left to right and some front to back. of course.
This feels like it was meant for stargate.
this thing is literally a space van that someone stuck a gun on.
8:50 its also got the two doors upfront
It's a cheap craft used to look scary regardless of how effective it is, like the A10 but without the high chance of a blue on blue.
Dock Master I saw you quote/retweet something from the AK guy. I don't think yall will be collaborating anytime soon but I do hold out hope for LazerPig and maybe even Drachinifel.
I never even tried to watch Andor. I just couldn't care less. Disney doesn't care what people want, they just want to grind out as much cash as possible from something till it's dead and broken. Then they'll flog the dead property for eons. Disney buying Starwars was basically Order 66....we should have seen it coming. But we were blinded and foolish.
And thus the result is a number of designs trying to ape vehicles but in the end look terrible and dont inspire anything except comparison to better vehicles. I could point to any number of obscure EU ships that could be doing the job of this crappy shuttle and that terrible transport before even bothering with scrounging up a new design. And the CSA has several known vessels from the old lore that could have been used to fill the role of these dumb little ships.
@@lba_e_ross2152 the EU is beloved and treasured. The Vong War would have made an amazing couple of movies and some TV shows too.
@@admiraltiberius1989 Meh, would prefer properly told Imperial stories myself
@@lba_e_ross2152 with a properly ran franchise you could do that easily.
Never know what the future holds.
It honestly reminds me a lot of the Pinook Starfighter from Star Wars Legends.
Which I hold as the LITERAL WORST starfighter in Star Wars.
I bet the red joystick is the gun and the green is the flight. They haze the newbie pilots by not telling them what the controls do and watching the laser show from the confused pilots as they make their first drop in one.
They haze the new security officers by pairing them with the newbie pilot.
Welcome to Star Wars, the show where every wing's made up, and the orientations don't matter
Those look like a runabout from Ds9 could slap a full wing of those out of the sky before the runabout cru stop laughing
The big toblerone is meant to be cheap and the smaller ones are basically scifi police cars/swat vans as like funny cow man said "they aren't combat anythings"
(im paraphrasing sue me)
They purchased the design of that ship from the Goa'uld God king Dressoo'din the hero'e.
Also at 8:30 seconds in that 1 guy is looking sideways at the other people in that ship with him and you can see in his mind what hes thinking. "WTF are we doing in this flying coffin!"
Dude deserves multiple awards for that performance.
@@SacredCowShipyards Yes he does.
Ehh the little mini pod ship in rebels has a hyperdrive, and that was tiny and mostly passenger space, so I think size and hyperspace capability don't machbup well anymore
You had me at the Fortunate Son reference! 🤣
First haha, and this ship does seem to be the thing a corporate entity would create. Barley functional and confusing.
Lucky bastard! ;)
8:09 what are you talking about SCS? This saves on production they don't have to build a big life size prop for a platoon of soldiers and then they don't have to pay for that platoon of extra's and thecostumes for them! Win Win!
12:20 red for bang, green for go.
Nonono... it's Yellow for Bang, Green for Go, and Red for Go Faster.
@@26th_Primarch but there is no yellow lighted stick for bang.
If there's one thing I know for a purdee fact, it's that you never touch red switches. Or red buttons. *Especially *the buttons. Either people will die, or stuff, usually important stuff, will blow up. And then people will die.
Remember, people, "Switch is red, you end up dead."
Actually, parents should look into red light switches in the home. Maybe they would keep the kids from turning on all the damn lights.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always boom tomorrow.
It’s a police helicopter, not a gunship
And the “caution” sign is a reference to the stormtrooper in a new hope that bumped its head on a door
I suppose it'll take someone accidentally overspooling the drives to get the controls labeled.
So, just pointing this out, I asked what is the best insertion/ exfil vehicle in scifi, and three episodes later and this comes up. Funny.
"This is not it."
@@SacredCowShipyards But it is the Blue Light Special version of one that is in the running.
I know exactly what it is. It’s a Northern Irish armoured police Land Rover. It’s armoured and slow and can’t do much but look a little intimidating.
Wait 5:46 "On the gripping hand..." - is that a reference to Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven?
I would have loved to see them use old surplus LAATC...
Built be the cheapest bidder.
And the TimeLord of my acquaintance is looking into violations of the local codes. For the dock.
I just find it funny that the creativity is so dead that they're making a prequel tv series for a prequel movie that became a prequel to the most up-to-date movie in the timeline.
If that sentence confuses you, that's the point :D
More confusing is those switches are for the electrical management panel. In which case red good, green bad. But that's not warning lights, that's the colour the button is painted. So good luck keeping track of that mid crash.
Dammit, admiral, im an engineer not an accountant!
11:54 In Earth aircraft, the port wing has a red light at its tip, and the starboard wing has a green light at its tip. Why it is on the control columns is beyond me. I think that it is a regulation that made sense once, and might make sense again, someday. My we not live to see such a dark day.