The Wookie may be a primitive species, but they are technologically advanced. In Legends, they even managed to make starfighters that were used during the second Galactic Civil War. The Owool interceptors is what they were called.
I wouldn't even call them primitive. While yes, they use wood for weapons and all, but since the Rakata terraformed Kashyyyk it makes sense that the wood to be in many ways superior to other natural resources
It's contradictory to say that they're primitive and advanced especially since primitive can have negative connotations to it as in it can be used as an insult. Nothing about the Wookies is primitive, they are an incredibly advanced species just like most others within the Star Wars universe.
@@senorbolainas2991 I find that when most folk say “primitive” what they mean is a culture spends too much time outside and doesn’t care enough about money or the bread and circuses of the “civilized” world. Basically a relic of British colonialism, their equivalent of the Roman’s calling everyone else barbarians.
Being primitive and being sophisticated are not mutually exclusive. Oftentimes primitive technology requires a higher level of individual skill to make and use. Woodworking, flint knapping, agriculture, weaving, hunting, and foraging are intensely technical. Many civilizations with access to metalworking did not prioritize its development due to a lack of convenient access to resources that allowed for long-term experimentation, unlike the coal and steel that made the British uniquely advantaged. In fact it was in part dependence on complex and vulnerable trade networks that facilitated the real life Bronze Age Collapse. The relatively scarce (for the technology of the time) metal tin, which when alloyed with copper makes bronze, had to travel vast distances to arrive in places like Greece and Egypt. There is bronze in Egypt whose tin can be traced back to Britain. That is how huge the demand for tin was. Entire tribes were supported in large part by their mining of tin for trade. It is that same large-scale trade vulnerability that makes similarly global markets so unstable even to this day. Just look at the petroleum trade. In comparison, there is a resiliency and stability in more primitive and localized technologies that cannot be ignored.
If I have one good yet imaginary way to praise them, it's that the Wookiee tech *should have had* the benefit of what is basically mystical access to the Force, thus making it ultra-successful magitek.
Wookiees are an extremely spiritual people, so that would certainly work for them, and the Rakata did experiment with Kassyk and made it damn near radiate the Force. So yeah, I love that concept! The Jedi even had Force infused swords that were basically enchanted weapons, so why not the Wookiees? Maybe the Wookies who were Force sensitive often took on the role of shamans and other spiritual leaders.
The Wookies should have just put in a _large_ order for MWC-35c "Staccato Lightning" repeating cannons [Baze's minigun from Rogue One]. Those would be SMG's with an attached fannypack for a Wookie. A bit of wood panelling, a few vines around the cable connection, and they're ready to go.
@@weldonwin That would be ridiculous firepower, especially indoors. But.... hear me out, a Gungang force shield held in the off hand. That Wookie is just hosing fire while from behind see through cover, that they can take with them.
And I thought things like the AT-ATs and Reciprocating Quad Blasters were OP. How the heck did the Empire take over this place in 19 BBY when the Wookies had stuff like this!?
If I remember correctly, the empire had to deal with multiple large scale rebellions and guerilla warfare on kashyyk. They really only kept trying due to the usefulness of wookies as slave labor due to their strength and mechanical skills
My guess would be the empire throwing cannon fodders after cannon fodders at the planet (the empire has shit tons of those to spare after all), wearing the wookies out until they can hardly even raise their bowcasters. in simpler terms, sheer numbers, in the order of somewhere between 1000 to 10,000 to 1.
@@CloneScavengerVulpin8389wookies are quick learners they could learn alot from the mon calamari and wookiee slaves were used to build the first death star....which explains they definitely can use acquired knowledge to build alot of things
I wish could have see these and the movie the wookiee weapons against the clones in the movie my question is if the weapons were that powerful they take down their enemies with a single blast why did the clones destroying the wookiee that quick. Should the wookiee win this battle what do you
could you explain any star wars lore about disruptors and how they are different from regular blasters in the GFFA? Usually we hear them mentioned in Trek, not Star Wars, so I'm curious to see how the lore, if any, stacks up.
From what I understand, Disruptors work on much the same principle as Blasters, using Tibana gas to form a bolt of energised plasma, but Disruptors dump a MASSIVE amount of energy into the target all at once, to absolutely rip apart the target at the molecular level and incinerate them instantly.
In Legends, or the EU, they made terrifying vehicles that could destroy AT-STs with ease and even damage AT-ATs. The Battle Scythe is what they called it. They also made use of the Kas Tank and the Sentinel.
Ok you are a large ape Yep And you live in a jungle Yup So you shoulf only be able to use large sticks Seems right to me Where did you get that op hand cannon which outdoes most known firearms Oh thats just basic engineering
I agree about the comment of the week mentioning the Protodekas, those things were MONSTROUS, capable of demolishing entire squadrons of IFT-X republic fighter tanks! 100% worth a video coverrage
I also love the designs of their lightsabers by Wookie force users such as Tyvokka, Gungi and Lowbacca. Particularly with Tyvokka's due to him possessing a curved hilt with a yellow blode. Which leads me to believe that he was either a user of form 2 or 5. Or a mix of both.
Curved-hilted blades in real life are used ONLY in fencing, & given that the ONLY fencing-styled counterpart in lightsaber combat is Form II, said wookie would definitely have a heavy preference for Form II, if not using it exclusively. curved-hilted blades are a particularly bad match for Form V, given that the form's emphasis on aggressive offense based almost exclusively on raw power, with little finesse to speak of.
@@rodgill9376 In Bane's case, it was more the exception than the norm. He was given the lightsaber instead of choosing to make his own in such a manner, & he kept using it because it worked FOR HIM, instead of because it fitted Form V itself.
7:24 Rocket Launcher: (twice the size of adult human) Random Clone Commando: (lifts it like it's nothing and spreads death and destruction on the clankers)
I give the force awakens credit for the one scene of Han trying Chewies weapon since we ALL waited to try it...but on the other hand you'd think he'd shot it before.
Yeah pretty farfetched to think in ALL the MANY years together even BEFORE the Original Trilogy SW movies Chewie never once grunted to Han in wookie "here try mine real quick yours doesn't have the firepower for that target" to even momentarily take out something.
@@hamishbartholomaeusI am both a Clone Wars fan Of Ashoka and of Togruta ,A hunter Species like Wookiee but with more civilisation and I have read the Original thrawn trilogy Hand of thrawn duology and the new thrawn books and ascendency trilogy , So yeah Togruta and Chiss are epic alongside the Wookies
Except for their bowcasters which ALSO make great heavy weapons apparently for normal sized races. An some of their melee weapons AREN'T TOO farfetched even for use by other races.... Like.. whom WOULDN'T use a wookie bowcaster as part of their primary arsenal if a wookie faction or even just 1 or 2 wookies gifted you one or had one made for you for any reason
if they didn't like living in the woods and a primitive lifestyle and their battle tactics were less individual and more unified no one would talk $|-|it about them and no one in their right mind would fawk with them ever
ok i admit im no fan of kanine spieces but you sir have made me rethink upon just turning the wookie homeworld into rocks. the wookies have an impressive arsenal that i had no idea about.
Wookie cultural conservatism severely hampers their species. The simplest example is they had claws that _by tradition_ they couldn't use against intelligent species, which was _stupid_ as that would be a one shot killing blow, a Wookie could be a whirlwind of death in close combat. Imagine if they got their claws cybernetically enhanced! while there's no adamantium, there are still some very useful materials and prehaps going for something non-conductive? Then just try finding a hold out blaster in a Wookies fur. They had so many advantages they squandered, they could have been a major power and not a ball to be kicked around, if they had played it smart. Urbane Wookies (wearing tatical kilts and a multipocket vest, with a grooming bot for their fur in one pocket) with a vox implant so they can vocalise the common Galactic languages. They leverage their 400+ year lifespan to move up the ladder in corporations, as well as become very skilled in various fields. Also being a 7 foot tall killing machine helps in office politics, even just by implication. Using your claws as a letter opener is a power move, as is just flashing them. Wookies could colonise planets that many other mainstream species find inhospitable, Chewie could walk around naked on Hoth, Endor and Tatooine. That's a very wide range of Biomes. They should have made a few bolthole colonies on the far end of secret hyperspace routes. And openly emigrated in groups to strategic worlds that had difficult environments, as they could adapt to and exploit them better than other species. Finally Wookies knew secret hyperspace routes and had their own class of Force Sensitive Pathfinders. Wookies could have started their own frieght companies and dominated their competition by the fact that not only could a individual Wookie be skilled in every position needed, but they could also be the forklift and powerloader during cargo transfers. And if the crew was all Wookie, they could take secret hyperspace shortcuts to really undercut their competition.... With a 400 year lifespan they could reproduce a lot if they wanted, and even used medical tech for IVF (a lesson Vulcans should learn, particularly in the Kelvin timeline). Then they would be a common species and could kick the Trandosians ass. There was a reason that Wookies were popular as slaves, and it wasn't the ease of control (it was very very risky). It was because they were very useful workers, a Wookie would never be hard up for a job on any multispecies planet. As long as they were a low population backwater species that lived a by choice traditional lifestyle, they will always be at the mercy of greater powers.
The Wookie may be a primitive species, but they are technologically advanced. In Legends, they even managed to make starfighters that were used during the second Galactic Civil War. The Owool interceptors is what they were called.
I wouldn't even call them primitive. While yes, they use wood for weapons and all, but since the Rakata terraformed Kashyyyk it makes sense that the wood to be in many ways superior to other natural resources
It's contradictory to say that they're primitive and advanced especially since primitive can have negative connotations to it as in it can be used as an insult. Nothing about the Wookies is primitive, they are an incredibly advanced species just like most others within the Star Wars universe.
They might APPEAR primitive but they cleraly aren't
@@senorbolainas2991 I find that when most folk say “primitive” what they mean is a culture spends too much time outside and doesn’t care enough about money or the bread and circuses of the “civilized” world.
Basically a relic of British colonialism, their equivalent of the Roman’s calling everyone else barbarians.
Being primitive and being sophisticated are not mutually exclusive. Oftentimes primitive technology requires a higher level of individual skill to make and use. Woodworking, flint knapping, agriculture, weaving, hunting, and foraging are intensely technical. Many civilizations with access to metalworking did not prioritize its development due to a lack of convenient access to resources that allowed for long-term experimentation, unlike the coal and steel that made the British uniquely advantaged.
In fact it was in part dependence on complex and vulnerable trade networks that facilitated the real life Bronze Age Collapse. The relatively scarce (for the technology of the time) metal tin, which when alloyed with copper makes bronze, had to travel vast distances to arrive in places like Greece and Egypt. There is bronze in Egypt whose tin can be traced back to Britain. That is how huge the demand for tin was. Entire tribes were supported in large part by their mining of tin for trade.
It is that same large-scale trade vulnerability that makes similarly global markets so unstable even to this day. Just look at the petroleum trade.
In comparison, there is a resiliency and stability in more primitive and localized technologies that cannot be ignored.
Last time I was this early, Palp wasn't even the Senate yet
Impossible
He’s always been the senate
@@NasTalkznot yet
If I have one good yet imaginary way to praise them, it's that the Wookiee tech *should have had* the benefit of what is basically mystical access to the Force, thus making it ultra-successful magitek.
Wookiees are an extremely spiritual people, so that would certainly work for them, and the Rakata did experiment with Kassyk and made it damn near radiate the Force.
So yeah, I love that concept! The Jedi even had Force infused swords that were basically enchanted weapons, so why not the Wookiees?
Maybe the Wookies who were Force sensitive often took on the role of shamans and other spiritual leaders.
Wookie weapons engineering is truly frightening.
I love the design of the Bowcaster
The Wookies should have just put in a _large_ order for MWC-35c "Staccato Lightning" repeating cannons [Baze's minigun from Rogue One].
Those would be SMG's with an attached fannypack for a Wookie.
A bit of wood panelling, a few vines around the cable connection, and they're ready to go.
Now imagine a Wookie *Duel-Wielding* them!
I fucking Loved that gun! Yeah it should’ve been mass produced, and put in the field, would’ve been Devestating!
@@weldonwin That would be ridiculous firepower, especially indoors.
But.... hear me out, a Gungang force shield held in the off hand.
That Wookie is just hosing fire while from behind see through cover, that they can take with them.
And I thought things like the AT-ATs and Reciprocating Quad Blasters were OP. How the heck did the Empire take over this place in 19 BBY when the Wookies had stuff like this!?
Threats of orbital bombardment I'm sure.
If I remember correctly, the empire had to deal with multiple large scale rebellions and guerilla warfare on kashyyk. They really only kept trying due to the usefulness of wookies as slave labor due to their strength and mechanical skills
@@russellpesek7903 So I guess even after The Clone Wars ended, Sector 12 was still giving the Empire the most trouble.
Probably by Glassing a couple of cities from orbit and demanding they surrender before they glass a few more
My guess would be the empire throwing cannon fodders after cannon fodders at the planet (the empire has shit tons of those to spare after all), wearing the wookies out until they can hardly even raise their bowcasters. in simpler terms, sheer numbers, in the order of somewhere between 1000 to 10,000 to 1.
What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?
Love their weapons! Some of the coolest and most unique looking in Star Wars. The republic commando game did a nice job emphasizing their power💯
I like that your using alot of pictures from Star wars galaxies! Loved that game, especially the Kashyyk expansion
I think my favorite is the Bladestick, it just looks both awesome and practical.
Han Solo must have been lifting in his old age to fire Chewies bow chaster to only say I like this thing
Let's see, han solo used chewy's bow caster?
Myth debonked
The lesson here is don't mess with or enslave wookiees because you will regret it in the long run.
Nothing glassing a city or two from orbit can't fix. It's remarkable what threat of Exterminatus can do to force a surrender
@@weldonwin I'm willing to bet the wookiees can build a planetary shield to protect themselves from bombardment.
@@CloneScavengerVulpin8389wookies are quick learners they could learn alot from the mon calamari and wookiee slaves were used to build the first death star....which explains they definitely can use acquired knowledge to build alot of things
@@mashfiqhossainalvi4935 very true.
Wookiees are an interesting species.
I wish could have see these and the movie the wookiee weapons against the clones in the movie my question is if the weapons were that powerful they take down their enemies with a single blast why did the clones destroying the wookiee that quick. Should the wookiee win this battle what do you
Heyo Geetsly's team, y'all play Star Wars Legion ? Because I see a lot of illustrations from that game in your vids
War Blade
could you explain any star wars lore about disruptors and how they are different from regular blasters in the GFFA? Usually we hear them mentioned in Trek, not Star Wars, so I'm curious to see how the lore, if any, stacks up.
From what I understand, Disruptors work on much the same principle as Blasters, using Tibana gas to form a bolt of energised plasma, but Disruptors dump a MASSIVE amount of energy into the target all at once, to absolutely rip apart the target at the molecular level and incinerate them instantly.
They are wookie weapons they are all cool
Armless dejarik player: Let the Wookiee win.
Just another reason not to upset a wookie!
could you imagine what would have happened to palps if he attempted to use the death star against kashyk and failed hahahahaha Chewie rip his arms off
Imagine a version of far cry primal set on kashyyyk before any outsider came
In Legends, or the EU, they made terrifying vehicles that could destroy AT-STs with ease and even damage AT-ATs. The Battle Scythe is what they called it. They also made use of the Kas Tank and the Sentinel.
Cool
Deutsche Laufteppiche.
Ok you are a large ape
Yep
And you live in a jungle
Yup
So you shoulf only be able to use large sticks
Seems right to me
Where did you get that op hand cannon which outdoes most known firearms
Oh thats just basic engineering
I agree about the comment of the week mentioning the Protodekas, those things were MONSTROUS, capable of demolishing entire squadrons of IFT-X republic fighter tanks! 100% worth a video coverrage
What about the Geonosians? Their sonic blasters are uniquely dangerous in their own ways too.
I also love the designs of their lightsabers by Wookie force users such as Tyvokka, Gungi and Lowbacca.
Particularly with Tyvokka's due to him possessing a curved hilt with a yellow blode. Which leads me to believe that he was either a user of form 2 or 5. Or a mix of both.
Curved-hilted blades in real life are used ONLY in fencing, & given that the ONLY fencing-styled counterpart in lightsaber combat is Form II, said wookie would definitely have a heavy preference for Form II, if not using it exclusively. curved-hilted blades are a particularly bad match for Form V, given that the form's emphasis on aggressive offense based almost exclusively on raw power, with little finesse to speak of.
@@FalconWindblader thing is: Darth Bane used such a weapon despite being a user of form 5 and had knowledge for form 3 as well.
@@rodgill9376 In Bane's case, it was more the exception than the norm. He was given the lightsaber instead of choosing to make his own in such a manner, & he kept using it because it worked FOR HIM, instead of because it fitted Form V itself.
imagine losing a capital ship to a handful of ground turrets manned by a single monkey man. How did the CIS not just give up after that embarrasment?
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Rocket Launcher: (twice the size of adult human)
Random Clone Commando: (lifts it like it's nothing and spreads death and destruction on the clankers)
Clone Commandos are bad-asses and I may be wrong, but I think their armour is powered
@@weldonwin it is since you have shields that recharge in game.
The Empire: "We have very powerful experimental weapons!"
The Wookies: "Hold my Elba beer."
Sad you didn't cover wookie arsenal from star wars galactic battlegrounds. They had so much cool stuff in there.
Just another reason to love the Wookies.
If yove played swgb you know the pain of dealing with wookie ground and air vehicles
I give the force awakens credit for the one scene of Han trying Chewies weapon since we ALL waited to try it...but on the other hand you'd think he'd shot it before.
Yeah that scene was pretty stupid. Along with everything else in that movie.
Yeah pretty farfetched to think in ALL the MANY years together even BEFORE the Original Trilogy SW movies Chewie never once grunted to Han in wookie "here try mine real quick yours doesn't have the firepower for that target" to even momentarily take out something.
@@robertagu5533 yeah! True!
5 of the most iconic non-human species in following order.
1: Wookies
2: Twi'liek
3: Huts
4: Chiss
5: Ewok
Do you think this list is accurate?
Chiss for old school EU types, and togruta for those who cut their teeth on TCW rather than the Thrawn books.
Solid list!
@@hamishbartholomaeus---thanks. And thanks for responding.
@@hamishbartholomaeusI am both a Clone Wars fan Of Ashoka and of Togruta ,A hunter Species like Wookiee but with more civilisation and I have read the Original thrawn trilogy Hand of thrawn duology and the new thrawn books and ascendency trilogy , So yeah Togruta and Chiss are epic alongside the Wookies
@@sumukhvmrsat6347---Ashoka is my number one favorite character in Star Wars. Can't wait for her series to come.
@@sumukhvmrsat6347---I do like the Torgruta's a lot.
As a certain protocol droid said: "Let the wookiee win".
Except for their bowcasters which ALSO make great heavy weapons apparently for normal sized races. An some of their melee weapons AREN'T TOO farfetched even for use by other races.... Like.. whom WOULDN'T use a wookie bowcaster as part of their primary arsenal if a wookie faction or even just 1 or 2 wookies gifted you one or had one made for you for any reason
I love the wookiees there weapons are so cool trandoshan be gone mancannons
The Virgin Mandalorian.
The Chad Wookiee.
A video like this reminds one to not mock life day when in a public space.
0:05 For a Second, I thought that was Zeus from God of War
And we're still waiting for the rest of that series to get a rerelease. GoW 2018 just feels incomplete on the PC, you know.
If the empire had half a brain they would’ve recruit Wookiee’s as mercenaries instead of slave labour.
If you gave a Wookiee power armor, you basically would have a hairy spartan.
I'd probably be able to use the ryyk blade. Maybe the war blade for my dual blade training
if they didn't like living in the woods and a primitive lifestyle
and their battle tactics were less individual and more unified
no one would talk $|-|it about them and no one in their right mind would fawk with them
ever
Hope you do a video on more wookie weapons and vehicles like the ones in "galactic battlegrounds"
for a race that gets most of its tech from salvaging down ships, they are exceptionally creative and inventive with what they find.
ok i admit im no fan of kanine spieces but you sir have made me rethink upon just turning the wookie homeworld into rocks. the wookies have an impressive arsenal that i had no idea about.
Did you already do about crab droid?
Broken…in such an off the chain kind of way!!😁⚔️💪🏼🔥
Wookie cultural conservatism severely hampers their species. The simplest example is they had claws that _by tradition_ they couldn't use against intelligent species, which was _stupid_ as that would be a one shot killing blow, a Wookie could be a whirlwind of death in close combat.
Imagine if they got their claws cybernetically enhanced! while there's no adamantium, there are still some very useful materials and prehaps going for something non-conductive?
Then just try finding a hold out blaster in a Wookies fur.
They had so many advantages they squandered, they could have been a major power and not a ball to be kicked around, if they had played it smart.
Urbane Wookies (wearing tatical kilts and a multipocket vest, with a grooming bot for their fur in one pocket) with a vox implant so they can vocalise the common Galactic languages. They leverage their 400+ year lifespan to move up the ladder in corporations, as well as become very skilled in various fields.
Also being a 7 foot tall killing machine helps in office politics, even just by implication. Using your claws as a letter opener is a power move, as is just flashing them.
Wookies could colonise planets that many other mainstream species find inhospitable, Chewie could walk around naked on Hoth, Endor and Tatooine. That's a very wide range of Biomes.
They should have made a few bolthole colonies on the far end of secret hyperspace routes.
And openly emigrated in groups to strategic worlds that had difficult environments, as they could adapt to and exploit them better than other species.
Finally Wookies knew secret hyperspace routes and had their own class of Force Sensitive Pathfinders.
Wookies could have started their own frieght companies and dominated their competition by the fact that not only could a individual Wookie be skilled in every position needed, but they could also be the forklift and powerloader during cargo transfers.
And if the crew was all Wookie, they could take secret hyperspace shortcuts to really undercut their competition....
With a 400 year lifespan they could reproduce a lot if they wanted, and even used medical tech for IVF (a lesson Vulcans should learn, particularly in the Kelvin timeline). Then they would be a common species and could kick the Trandosians ass.
There was a reason that Wookies were popular as slaves, and it wasn't the ease of control (it was very very risky). It was because they were very useful workers, a Wookie would never be hard up for a job on any multispecies planet.
As long as they were a low population backwater species that lived a by choice traditional lifestyle, they will always be at the mercy of greater powers.
so true 😢
Nice episode, good work.