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1. Could Earth survive a Xenomorph invasion?... Earth Wars style comics 2. Could Earth survive a real Alien Kaiju invasion war from Pacific Rim? = without Jaegers. 3. Could Earth survive a Zerg Invasion of Earth? = StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm 4. Could modern Earth survive a Zeon invasion of Earth? = Gundam UC universe 5. Could Earth survive a War of the Worlds 2005 invasion? = without the gems? 6. Could Earth survive a Mimic invasion? = Edge of Tomorrow movie 7. Could Earth survive a Halo Flood invasion = my answer: no. 8. Could Earth survive a Tyranid invasion from Warhammer 40K = hell no! 9. Could Earth survive the angels invading from Neon Genesis Evangelion? 10. Could Earth survive an invasion by Thanos = without all the Avengers?
Yes but what they forget to mention is bullets can not penetrate stormtrooper armor thats why sand people when using slugthrowers for example have to get a very lucky shot in the eye piece or a opening the of the armor which was not common also the E11 could fire full auto or semi and also be fully moded
@@cyberfux blaster bolts are higher tech than modern bullets and plastoid armor effectively nullifies any physical bullet, that we know of.(at any caliber) Thats why plastoid armor is used by the empire so yes it would Now say a tank shell were hit a stormtrooper the armor wouldnt be damaged but in saying that it would kill the human behind it do to shockwave or blunt force impact
The problem is if we convincingly beat the Empire's ground troops, they'd view us as a potential threat like the Mandalorians, and wipe us out from orbit (not that I think we'd win anyway).
nah bro i don’t care what your amour is if your a human and a 30-06 hits you your either dead or on the ground in pain besides once we know they’re coming we’ll have a nice little display of plutonium fireworks ready for them
@@Slavicplayer251I don’t think a nuclear bomb would really do much to a star destroyer honestly. The largest nuke ever detonated by humans, the tsar bomba, had around 50 megatons of force. A heavy Turbo laser in Star Wars can max out at 200 giga tons of force (which I do think is kind of stupid, it should be around like 5 megatons a shot realistically), and star destroyer shields can take barrages of thousands of shots from other ships for hours
Imagine invading a strange backwater planet not found on star charts that just so happens to have one of the largest pop culture followings of _The Entire History of Your Own Galaxy_
Imagine if they discovered us in the late republic or early empire or something and just wondered 'how tf do these backwater populations not only know the history of our whole galaxy but also know the next hundred years of the future of our whole galaxy'
Im just imagining that when earth and the empire go to war there is meeting room with some government officials, military generals/admirals, and then a bunch of star wars nerds discussing how to defeat the empire with the star wars nerds leading the whole conversation as they know nearly everything about the empire and then become internationally recognized heroes because their habits of watching every star wars movie, tv show, and reading every comic/book multiple times were the saving grace of our survival as a society.
And here's why you look back and are here's what we have done to aliens Yeah I don't think our trust would be that way like you're thinking it's in fact it's gonna be the military that will have the odds turned against the galactic Empire to where they will turn against the Galactic Empire I mean think about it this is not like the military will let themselves get stumped here I say the US military wins.
The empire most likely wouldn't even need to invade. An incredibly powerful and and technologically advanced power shows up one day and offers friendship and protection for any force allied with them? Planetary governments would be falling over themselves to ally themselves with the empire to get a leg up on their regional rivals.
Exactly. Earth would gain tech and Empire would get superior military personnel and better designs for using that tech. Win - win. No need for a bloody conflict.
Verrikan the thing is that I think the empire would try to assimilate the human population of earth until our cultural as a whole is completely gone. The majority of humanity would NOT be ok with that and would probably much rather have it’s independence.
I doubt that we would allow ourselves to be annexed. What government in history has let itself be annexed because someone showed up with a fancy toy. I also don't think the empire would even try to take Earth. To them we just some backwater planet. If they did want Earth they would just try walking in and taking it and considering the Empire's arrogance they would likely blunder into a nuke.
Imagine the confusion of the SW Galaxy by the sudden disappearance of the empire. Also by their terms of surrender as said in the video, is it referring to Coruscant surrendering????
You mean 'Planet of the Space Orks'. Honestly, it's just a different focus on the tech tree. They figured out how to get around in the most efficient way possible. We figured out how to kill each other in the most efficient way possible. I honestly believe that we already have the capability to create hyperdrives, it's just that the farmers don't want their cattle to run away from them.
Easy. Massive nuclear and hacking attacks. Decades laters every nation on the world has Star wars technology and now the United Nation is the only earth goverment bent on conquering the Empire.
Also something that would impress the Empire are the suicide soldiers. No Empire soldier would voluntarly comit suicide. But Kamikazes,Jihadist,Fanatics all over the world would harass and instill fear in any Empire soldier
The whole "once we get a single hyperdrive or intact battleship, humanity would just roll across the Empire" is genuinely a subplot in the Animorphs book series.
@@pooperdooper3576 a very good kid's book series from the late 90's. It's out of print now, but the author has given her full permission for people to share it for free, so there's pdfs very easily available online. Give the first few a read if you want, they're quite short books.
@@dillont8750 the main series takes place mostly on earth, but one of the main reasons for the plot to happen in the first place is that humanity is like ten years from creating hyperlight travel and less than two from discovering FTL-communication. Both major factions of the war (Yeerks and Andalites) reckon humanity would dominate the battlefield once they get advanced technology and are trying to control how, when, and from who humans get said technology.
@@Tracer_Krieg Hmm, their art is varied and complex, with many overarching themes that are later subverted once the work's details are studied. This indicates a sophisticated intelligence and pragmatic nature that in my estimation we would do well to not underestimate. I do not think that a military approach would be our best course of action, perhaps something more political such as befriending their more hardline elements. I suggest we make contact with one of their leaders, someone that commands great respect among a small but vocal subset of their culture for irrational reasons, and bolster his rule. We can then slowly subvert his authority and replace it with our own, thus imposing the Emperor's will, and I have the perfect candidate (revealing a picture of Donald Trump). -Grand Admiral Thrawn, probably
Empire: "Nooooo you can't just hide in every terrain and use slugthrowers that are prohibited by intergalactic treaties!!!" Earth: *fortunate son intensifies*
@@nicosd3017 "OOooooh Whatchu gonna do Empire? Cut off our supply lines? That's *cute*" **Fires ICBMs into orbit, the nuclear detonations obfuscating scanners and the EMPs possibly even disabling the fleet.
Alyss Mathrin that’s a fair point, but tbh, I don’t, they’re probably advanced past the point that anything but a direct hit is insignificant. Not that we couldn’t bombard them with the several thousand held in stores across the world.
The Empire's entire engineering and design philosophy seems to revolve around the Rule of Cool, which is effective in movies and not so much elsewhere.
Grand admiral Thrawn: please ignore these idiot's & accept our surrender, I'm embarrassed that Your soldiers are so much more disciplined than our Trooper's & more accurate.
Admiral Thrawn would be so impressed that he'd employ Earth forces as mercenary army in exchange for their Autonomy and tech, which Earth government would probably happily accept instead of an all out war.
Yeah we are a planet with different climates it a perfect place for training and military forces human government has different tactic skills and ways to fight
I honestly think Thrawn might bail on the Empire, he seems endlessly unhappy with how bumbling and terrible they are. Seeing a more cohesive, disciplined and tactical force, he might see the writing on the wall and realize that Earth would be a better ally to the Chiss than the Empire. I'm sure he'd be thrilled at what our engineers do with the tech salvaged off of all the Imperial junk that gets blasted out of the sky.
@@Redlionreal5649 You never know, despite how inane memes can seem at times each does have a story and deeper meaning behind it. It can be really engrossing to go down the rabbit hole on how a meme grew to what it is. Besides, every culture will have good and bad art, and much of that is in the eye of the beholder. Thrawn seems more interested in the art for what it can teach about the creator than any perceived inherent quality anyhow.
In Star Wars Rebels, an Imperial surveillance ship overloads and outright explodes from what's basically a DDOS attack. To say Imperial cybersecurity is lacking is an understatement.
I grant you that Canon Star Wars is laughably stupid in how underdeveloped Imperial technology is. Take literally any ship from Legends though, and it's a whole other story. Do you know the primary reason ships fight so close in Star Wars? A lot of people like to say it's because turbolasers have very short range, but they forget a very crucial detail. The reason turbolasers cannot fire at great distances is never specified. They always say "we're out of range" or "we're out of effective range", not "our turbolasers won't effect them at this range" or something similar. So, if we want the actual reason turbolasers aren't useful at long range, we have to look at the Legends Canon reason why battles are so close. It's because the energy shields of capital ships produce a sensor fog that jams tracking, transmissions, and other ECM capabilities of enemy ships due to how the energy field is structured. Due to this, the long range targeting software that gunners use to target ships is unable to get a lock on enemy ships. So, to counteract the lack of sensor capability, ships have to fight in visual range in order to actually have something they can hit. They can't use their FTL sensors to hit things that aren't within visual range due to the jamming, so instead they're forced to use visual targeting which can only work up close. That's why turbolasers are ineffective at long range, because the automatic effect if how energy shields in Star Wars works prohibit any kind of electronic warfare and sensor targeting. Against anything we have, however, they have no such restrictions. So they're free to shoot at us from orbit or wherever.
@Luke Sellers I cannot find an explanation in my copy, what are you talking about. They say the range, but not the actual reason behind it. There's nothing saying anything like "the magnetic fields can't hold the bolt together for longer" or anything along those lines like people like to say.
A bunch of disadvantages the Empire has come from the fear-philosophy. The Storm-Troopers are not designed to not be seen. They are supposed to be seen and feared. Another example of this looks-over-practicallity mentality is the Star Destroyer design were the put the bridge, one of the most vital stations, on top of everything else were it was visible to everyone and very attackable. Much of the Empire's design choices says: "You have to fear us. We don't have to fear you. We are right here and you can't do anything about it."
Those aren't disadvantages if they work. Which they do. The empire lasted for almost twenty years, and though never peacefully, it wouldn't have lasted at all if fear hadn't kept the absolute majority of the systems in line.
@@ertymexx They are still disadvantages. They are just not bad design. The fear inducing design gives them a disadvantage to gain a (at least from their point of view) greater advantage. Like when you switch out heavy armor for light armor in video games. You usually take more damage (disadvantage) but you are also (for example) faster (advantage).
@@Alresu any armor is good if the opponent can't hurt you. Which is the case here. The ISD has no disadvantages against earthlings, that at best can scrape up an old space shuttle against them.
@@ertymexx Ah, I see the problem. I am talking generally. You are talking about a fight against Earthlings. In that case you might be right about the Star Destroyers. Unless the come into range. Same goes for the Storm Troopers. Of course the disadvantage will never be an issue if they are not deployed. But that does not mean there are no disadvantages. It would just mean you can work around them or that this one specific enemy can not exploit them.
I think the problem with the imperial military is that it was originally conceptualized to be futuristic. *IN THE 70s* Of course they would be trash by modern standards
@@ofthecaribbean they could nuke the world in our orbit, they didn't even need to approach our missiles range, or they can tank it with their force shield
@@Shackospeare Galactic Empire (or any other faction featured in starwars universe) entirely lacks ANY BVR (beyond visual range) combat capabilities. Which is pethetic by modern earth military standards.
One thing the Empire has in its favor: cohesion. While on Earth, even in the face of alien invasion, we’d still continue to act as independent nations, all with individual battle plans and individual motives.
Well, if several nations that felt threatened by the USSR could form the NATO, I don't see why all nations in the world, threatened by an Alien invasion, could not form a Reb... eh, Resistance Alliance against the Empire.
Depends on how long we have to prepare. Before NATO, Warsaw Pact or before WW2, various militaries struggled to work together. But as these examples and many others in history show, competent professional militaries can combine forces efficiently. Especially given time
That is a theory. Facing doom unless subjugated would probably unite people. What is happening now is petty and powerstruggles. If we lose we lose all power. I highly doubt we would all lay down before we all stand. Earth is considered ours by everyone, the leaders might want it, but not because they deserve it.
I don't think you understand that when humanities backs are truly against the wall, humans know how to figure things out best. If a giant space ship came and said they were going to occupy the planet, I think that would be equal to America's 9/11 globally amd world leaders would put a pause on their bullshit and say fuck that.
@@lba_e_ross2152 lmao, did you not watch the video? The whole scenario was on the premise of no orbital bombardment and attempting to occupy. If this *were* a realistic scenario, why would the Empire devote that much force to take over a planet when they have the entire galaxy to hold at the same time. A complete waste of effort and they would lose hold over other planets over a single one. This video is also using the movies as reference. Stormtroopers killed by rocks thrown by slings, walkers crushed by logs, and incompetent troopers with the ability to aim worth shit. If it really were a ground war, I would have to agree they would likely get stomped.
The biggest issue with the infantry section is that you’re forgetting the entire Imperial Army. The Stormtrooper Corp is technically a part of the Imperial Navy, but functions much like modern marines, being deployed planetside. The Imperial Army is, well, the army, and consists of different units and divisions, such as an Engineering Corps, Army Air Corps, Assault Armor Division, Artillery Corps, etc. The Army is better suited for ground operations than the Stormtrooper Corps, so I don’t know why they would be doing anything much more than policing and holding captured areas. Also it’s worth mentioning that earth can only make so much ammunition, and faced against a galactic force it will eventually run out of resources without outside help. If the empire wanted to take earth they would likely hit key targets from orbit, like radar stations, air defence grids, naval bases, etc. then jam all communications. Then they’d take over the Middle East which produces almost all the world’s oil, and would offer much less resistance than a large nation with a massive modern military like the US or China. Then it’s just a matter of whittling down the other countries with its galaxy amount of reserve troops. If the Rebel Alliance doesn’t come in to help earth, or at least take advantage of the Empire’s situation to hit key targets to take pressure off earth, then earth will either run out of resources and be taken over without a real military threat or be carpet bombed when the Empire decides we aren’t worth a years-long campaign.
Agreed. I think the Empire would just fly a small fleet, including a couple of Star Destroyers, into orbit then proceed to annihilate a major city in a couple of minutes. The they might take out a few pieces of key infrastructure (like our satellite networks -which would be easy pickings for TIE fighters), and give the people of Earth an ultimatum. My guess is that the reason that space battles happen at such close range in Star Wars is that countermeasures are employed that make fighting at close range necessary. All the Empire would need to do, to greatly diminish our war fighting capabilities, would be destroy all of the artificial satellites around the Earth. My guess is TIE pilots would make quick work of those.
your also forgetting orbital night cloaks don't go by what you see in the movies alone get the imperial sourcebook the empire had quite a bit of nice weapons. also the empire had a thing of overwhelming odds, first they wouldn't launch a ground assault until they knew that most of our defenses were down ....so tie's and bombers and gunboats would rain down fire along with the destroyers, lancer frigates along with other weapons then they would launch heavy armor so no no the earth would fall pretty quick
Greater Terran Union: sees that the Star Destroyer has blatant flaws. Also Greater Terran Union: remakes the ISD to be better than its Imperial counterpart, adding hundreds of stronger weapons, thousands of space fighters, etc. Galactic Empire: you were not supposed to do that.
@@danielm.595 Not only does the GTU destroy worlds, they'll take the remains of it and use it to build up their massive war machine or they're ambitious building projects. (Dyson sphere that granted basically limitless power. Or a ring world, or Dyson beam, or other crazy constructs stellaris allows.)
Greater Terran Union: *rebuild the star destroyer like a Battlestar, improve every system and tech to fit with a real well prepared army, built dozen of ship, arm everyone with nuclear hyperspace counterpart of an ICBM and cruise missiles, play pigeon shooting with the imperial army, never try to get a fuck to the rebels"
@@bloq6758 Given that many IFVs have some form of anti-armor weapons on them, then they would still be able to fight walkers. They might be limited to mobility or functional, rather than critical kills. APCs don't have the direct fire capability needed for an armor fight, so they would dismount their infantrymen and then hide.
If the Galactic Empire attacked Earth, George Lucas would probably find himself in some CIA office explaining the specifics of every single piece of Imperial equipment 😂
@@angryirishman7474 the same Radom admiral: “sir the defence of mars has fallen all ground forces they have not been killed have been evacuated and now we have reports of powerful earth ships that have power-full weapons should we send in a super star destroyers with loads of other ships sir?”
The Empire in this situation seems to have what I like to call: “The Goa’uld problem”. The bad guys use weapons more designed for intimidation than actual practicality. The issue the Goa’uld in Stargate faced was worse, but you get the idea.
Well, not really; stormtroopers are actually extremely effective - the difference is their armor is designed to dissipate energy, not deal with straight up kinetic weapons like our current arsenal.
@@lba_e_ross2152 Star Wars sources are also contradictory, as they state Rebel SpecForce units used slugthrowers due to their effectiveness against Stormtrooper armor. It's much more resiliant when it comes to blaster fire, and while it's still resistent to kinetic projectiles, it's a lot more prone to failing to protect the wearer from a slugthrower.
@@lba_e_ross2152 idk what to tell you dude, canon information confirms that Rebel SpecForce used slugthrowers against Stormtroopers. I get it, you don't like being wrong, but canon sources > a fucking roleplaying game from 1998 that isn't canon anymore.
The only reason this even remotly works out for Earth is that George Lukas doesn't care about giving an acurate military picture a galactic empire would have. He wanted cowboys in space and that is what we got.
Warhammer 40k is ironically the most realistic with its numbers. Trillions of humans across the galaxy, sounds about right actually. Meanwhile: Oh no, my Betazoid senses tell me a colony the size of Manhattan was destroyed, killing hundreds!
@@power-armoured_german9856 It was 200,000 on Genosis. But the majority of battles involving clones usually had numbers that were nowhere near that large. Usually the number was around 50,000 or less. Unless the world was very strategically important.
@@manictiger bhahahahahah trillions?! That's realistic to you? If the Imperium of man were real it would have quintillions, sextillions, decillions citizens
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Though 40,000 years from now isn't enough time to get those numbers, you'd probably need a few hundred thousands to million years. Also with FTL, you can expand rather quickly even though your system can easily fit 100^15 people from here to the oort cloud. If there was no FTL then the astronomical populations in that range are very reachable. Since it would be impossible to govern a million systems across an entire galaxy.
I think the Empire could easily force the world’s governments to surrender with orbital bombardment, but as usual, they would have to figure out how to subdue the general populace and prevent constant rebellion.
They were in the hills man and if they weren’t in the hills. The cities filled the valleys with their concrete buildings. Every intersection became a firefight. -George, A stormtrooper deployed in Japan.
Empire: Oh, those Earth ruffians hacked our server again! If only we had some kind of cybersecurity! NordVPN: (Kicks open door) DID SOMEONE SAY CYBERSECURITY?!
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honestly the empires entire military reminds of of that scene from Stargate "this is a weapon of terror, it is mean to intimidat your enemies, this is a weapon of war, it is meant to kill your enemies"
Yeah the Galactic empire and the goauld empire have a ton of similarities. Although if they came into conflict I believe that the GE would win simply because they have more unity and any victories they had would erode the religious base for the entire goauld civilization.
One idea is that during the clone wars, the plastoid armor designed by the Kaminoans for the clones (the armor that Storm Trooper armor would inherit from) was camouflage - for the Kaminoans who could see ultraviolet light. To humans, it's plain white.
Kind of curious to know how the 20th century would fare against the empire….like let’s just say either during the Vietnam war or Cold War or WW 1 or 2, how would they fare?
@@adammartinez8061we don’t do a dam thing especially to star destroyers. At sts no problem a well placed shot from a tank will have them destroyed other than that however we can’t exactly do much damage to a at st. Their soldiers kinda have an advantage due to the armor we see plasma go through the armor easily cause it is mother fucking plasma shit is hot not like a fucking projectile we have. It would likely take 20 or more shots from a rifle. Air superiority depends on the amount of ties they send our way
@martinezseymore3007 When you're more likely to face energy weapons in combat. Why would you produce a combat armor specifically designed to defend against projectiles? You have it ass backward.
To borrow from a certain Colonel O'Neill: "The Imperial Walker is a weapon of terror--it's made to intimidate the enemy. The modern tank is a weapon of war--it's made to kill your enemy."
You. I like you. HOWEVER. What is unfortunate is that the ATAT is armored so heavily that nothing short of a battleship cannon with get through that armor. No AP tank round would EVER puncture that thing
@@ln7929 A joint or neck made out of a metal so strong that even a single MM could stop an Abram's round may be the weakest part of the walker, but still invulnerable to real life weapons fire. That's the point this video has overlooked. The technological disparity means that even if the weapon systems might normally be inferior, the sheer advances in tech means it doesn't even matter. Stormtrooper armor is entirely invulnerable to even 50 cal weapons. You could have rifleman shooting at the stormtroopers and, unless they hit the joints, they're doing zero to that stormtrooper. The same applies to every level of the imperial military save maybe tie fighters. Imagine fighting an enemy where their soldiers can just leisurely walk towards your squad, tanking every bullet you put down range where a single blaster bolt kills you. Imagine fighting a walker that shrugs off every tank round, artillery shell, and missile thrown at it and just effortlessly one-shots your tanks with a single blaster cannon bolt. There's a reason you never see projectile weapons used in SW and it's because they're so out-dated that even the most advanced projectile weapon is nigh worthless against armored soldiers.
Hat _ they tripped them, boarded them, and crushed them using big ass trees that probably weighed a couple hundred pounds each. But remember, the at-st is a scout vehicle, meaning it’s not suppose to be that strong
Palpatine: hey, guys, have you heard about those new Earthlings, their strange weaponry and approach to war? Well, I've decided to hire around 20 million of their soldiers for spare change. Earth enters Star Wars and basically ends up being Krogan mercenaries of the setting... or second coming of Mandalorians. Minus pointless rituals.
I wonder how the humans of both galaxies would react to each other’s existence. ADD: I like to think the SW humans would be confused while all the other races would be like “SERIOUSLY?! You just can’t get away from the Humans!”.
humans from the sw universe probably wouldnt really care much being used to so much species and planets theyd just go oh more humans cool alr but we'd be fucking terrified
@@whyyes6429 Humans of the star wars realm don't have an actual home planet. They were all plucked by the Celestials from who knows where, but they certainly don't remember. If they discovered that a planet with genuine, rootstock humans existed, they'd go wtf crazy. If we discovered that the star wars Galaxy existed, we'd probably go, "huh. Neat." While some of the power hungry world leaders make plans to make their tech our tech.
Us Earthlings would be scared and view them as alien's. The SW humans would view us as barbarians. Or a lost humans tribe that got separated from the wider galaxy.
@@imperialwyvern I'm pretty sure that finding a planet with rootstock, invented everything from scratch humans in a completely unknown galaxy would be pretty shocking
I don't think Storm Troopers where killed by the rocks themselves. They where certainly knocked over, no amount of armour is going to make you immune to the physics of a rock to the face. I'm sure most of them where killed while stunned as the ewoks capitalised on the shock factor.
Actually its stated that the Empire actually does still make and store Nukes themselves. But in Star Wars they are considered too dangerous to use in space warfare as they act like massive Ion bombs. Ya you just blew up a enemy ship with a direct hit and EMPed its allies....but the EMP also hit and disabled our ships too!
@@devan6935 Good question. Also, the EMP will probably fry our satelites so no GPS and possibly no internet for a (long) while. Everything else on the surface probably won't be affected so yeah... You can nuke 'em, but you'll also cause collateral damge to our communications.
Pre-invasion: "Recall our fleet? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!" Post-invasion: "YOU ARE FAILING! We stand on the brink of adding one more territory to our glorious Empire, yet we cannot proceed because YOU CAN'T BEAT A BUNCH OF PRIMITIVES WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE STARDRIVE!"
10 years post-war: We are stupid, we can no longer call them Primitive, as they are now the rulers of this Galaxy, they even managed to assassinate Lord Sidious, even with his powers. We overestimated ourselves, and died in our own shadow
I'd imagine that resistance groups would spring up like daisies. The sentiment of earth being enslaved and her people butchered harken back to the memories of many people. Russians, Poles, Chinese. Or people who have strong traditions or sense of independence and freedom. There's a lot of other countries, but I'd imagine that keeping a grip on earth is gonna be pretty tough
Imagine the empire trying to get a grip on the distinct mentalities of the Russians, Afghans, Finns, etc. Earth's humans overall seem to be much more adaptable and at times even scarier than the humans in Star Wars, even without the "magic" thing.
@@gustavoritter7321 Afghans especially, they have such a fascinating identity. There's an excellent lecture I heard on the identity of the Afghan peoples, tribes, and ethnic groups, I highly recommend it! I'll link it here!
What we're forgetting is that if the Galactic Empire tried to invade Earth, they'd find their entire intelligence database turned moot as Wookiepedia starts trending
Damn those primitive savages with their "tactics" and "well designed weapons, armor and transports" and their "competence". Look at those tanks! They have such a low, sleek profile that makes them more difficult to hit. Not like our glorious at at wich towers so high and large a blind man could hit it from 3 miles away and with a centre of gravity so high a child could push it over.
Empire: Why are you building such large ships? Earth: To colonise nearby stars. Empire: But we only sold you ion drives. It will take decades to get there. Earth: We know. Empire:
To those who don't get this joke, let me explain it in an oversimplified way: The joke points out about how Earth/Terran Humans can adapt very fast compared to other species as well as non Earth Humans. The reason why Earthlings can adapt so fast is because of our habit on copy and pasting inventions really fast. Examples are... - Europeans making better versions of China's gunpowder inventions - Japan being able to copy the drill from European countries - The US allowing exiled German Scientists to work on Nuclear weapons during ww2 - The US copying the *Blitzkrieg* tactic from N@zi Germany Welp, hope this explanation is good Edit: and i had nothing better else to do other than write this unnecessary explanation.
@@echidnanatsuki882 not to mention, even against new weaponry, we still manage to change the field of battle and adapt. With trench warfare we used chemical weapons. With the Enigma, we developed the first computer. With nuclear bombs, we developed MAD. With long range missiles, we developed CWIGs and other active defense mechanisms. With heat seeking missiles, we developed flares. Every time a new technology comes out, we come up with something to defend ourselves or counterattack. Its not just the copying and adapting to the new technology, but adapting counters to that technology. Also with the OP, it also shows how much will our species has. We're fully aware that it will take decades to go arrive and there will be no help, but we are so confident in our ability to survive on an alien planet with no information of the surroundings and likely no survivable atmosphere, it's frankly scary to go up against people with that much confidence and will power. That's the manifest destiny of the stars. No matter the odds, we just keep marching forward until we have our freedom. We are not free, we are tyrannized by gravity, so we make a massive ship to overcome it. To the empire: Do not take our freedom, or you will be the subject of our 'humanity' and you'll learn just how ruthless we are.
Now who where the real bad guys is the movies? Not the good guys when u look into more facts like this. The empire might not have been as evil as everyone thinks
In my mind I rationalize Endor like this: Imperial equipment was designed to deal with threats that were at a similar technological to their own. It never occurred to the Empire to make armor that withstood clubs and rocks, or walkers that would have to deal with getting smashed by logs. If that's the case, we might actually do pretty okay against them in a ground invasion, however my suspicion is that we'd surrender long before that became a problem. The empire doesn't *have* to invade. They have but to sit up there in their nice, safe, city-sized ships and say, "Surrender now please, we have you surrounded," and if we had any sense that's exactly what we'd do, lest they melt the whole planet down to the fossil record.
Well that's a problem when you're gonna go up against a gun that are on Earth that can Penetrate straight right through walls no matter what I'm sorry I'm picking the US military forces here No way around it I'm sorry but I'm just going to go with that the way I think about it I say when military puts you through all stuff that's a lot better than what storm troops I've been through that shows you that's a lot more impressive and a lot more feats of what they got And that power they got is a lot more on their side Then storm troops I don't think storm troops arctica would stand any of these guns there are too much for their armor and their armor might have limits to that at this point.
And that tells you how do you even top any of that with US military forces I mean that what military has done over the years has sharked me at this point. In fact I think storm troops would be a lot more afraid of the US military Other countries that were on Earth that it makes them think they don't have enough firepower here That are that big of a deal That are a lot tougher here Even if they do know it they know they are up against Them Is in a trap situation.
In fact US military and all these countries will make the galactic Empire look like as if they would suck Instead of them on Earth I say Earth Is with the US military and all of our countries wins On Earth and in space.
Or the empire could just destroy a big city and say surrender or all your city will be like this! Also the empire really dont care about civillians so they could just use a bioweapons and just send a bom that contains a deadly virus to earth and boommmm they will just sit and wait until everyone dies and send a million of stormtrooper to clear the dead bodies
@@Gmal51 The Empire very clearly has space superiority. They can park in an orbit that we can't reach and make us sorry we thought we had a chance. If they send troops to the surface it's our war to win but there's no reason for the Empire to ever do that before securing our unconditional surrender.
The problem with using only the data we can see onscreen is that the empire doesn’t have plot armor and their enemies usually do, so that’s why they usually suck in a battle on screen
But empire really is weak, that's why palpatine needed the death star You cannot defeat a real ass planet like earth or alderaan or coruscant not even with 25000 star destroyers , a planet is the ultimate bunker, i think he realized it after nAboo . Most " planets" in that universe are mere outposts or are so depending on space trade that they can be made to agree with anything but fhe systems of full grown planets like the mon calamari are not so easily threatened and we see how easily they built a fleet to challenge the empires might The empire could not invade even the hutts to their face
Imperial SD captain: Commodore, we have enemy fighters incoming. Commodore: What do you mean? They're miles away. Captain: You're new here, sir. That's close range for them. Commodore: Wtf
@@cnlbenmc you really think the Empire would care if we started killing prisoners? Because they wouldn't. And they have plenty of bodies to bury us in.
One thing you didn't consider is satellites. The empire would be able to destroy our satellite arrays with ease. This would destroy our ability to communicate and coordinate, which is the greatest strength of our modern military
Not really, modern advancements have created a new communication system in case the satellite network goes down from a cyberattack or is shot down by the anti-satellite missiles. It works from multiple warships or communication arrays that make an interlocking network that passes communication when orbital satellites are down. But it only works for the Western nations as being spread out needed cohesion from the military.
I personally feel that the empire and the civilisation in star wars is stagnating, technologically mainly. And its this factor that'll spell doom for the empire. Even if we'd get to their level we'd also push to beat them technologically as well. Seeing as how dominance over the enemy is our whole thing.
@@alphagamer9505 Yeah like why? I know that there was a war in the SW universe that lasted so long and was so devastating that it resulted in people fighting each other with primitive weapons but to say that they haven't advanced their technology centuries after the war is ridiculous. Maybe they didn't want a repeat, IDK
@@Brother_O4TS My theories on why technology in the Star Wars universe is "stagnating" are from points of view from inverse and real life. George Lucas wanted the Star Wars universe to look and feel like a futuristic WWII/Vietnam battleground. Have you seen the movie, "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow"? That's a weird movie from the perspective of how sci-fi/fantasy was envisioned from the 1930's of the future. In the real ever-expanding technology of Earth, close-quarter combat of aircraft is almost non-existent. Targets are hit with missiles hundreds of miles away without eye-contact. I think Lucas wanted Star Wars to have a particular feel of close-quarter combat which is awesome. Now onto why it appears technology in Star Wars is stagnating... I view the Star Wars "Universe" in the light of the God/Source/Force expansion of an earlier incarnation of time and space that is more limited than the Universe that includes Earth. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." implies to me that certain technological achievements are not able to be "unlocked". What would take thousands of years for some worlds to evolve into a "modern" technological era only took Earth 300 years. My view is a mix of evolutionary/philosophical/technological reasons why we see a "stagnated" technology. Think about it, the Death Star was the biggest technological device ever constructed in the galaxy and it was only the size of a small moon, but hyperspace technology has been around for thousands of years connecting thousands of star systems with access to the latest technologies. From how Earth is progressing from the last 300 years alone, we will be beyond that Star Wars technology 300 years from now. Our current incarnation has more "unlocked" features in every aspect. That's just my views of it all.
@@demonicaxeman7264 Your probably right. The stagnating technology is for story reasons. Realistically, we could go beyond the technology of Star Wars, as you said.
They would have advance warning, they would be able to pretty much nuke indiscriminately (SCP 2000), They would be able to make a deal with some Keters (tell 049 that he can have all the test subjects he needs, just make sure they're the guys in white armor, tell 682 that it can go loose, just put it on a star destroyer) and most importantly: *THEY WOULD HAVE DR. BRIGHT*
The Empires greatest advantage would be their ability to invade with massive amounts of resources and manpower and deliver them to battlefields nearly instantly from orbit.
It becomes a question similar to how another commenter phrased it: could the combined militaries of the Earth take over an ant hill? That's more along the lines of what it would be when Earth got turbolasered into oblivion or became a weapons testing site for the empire.
So I'll agree with the core premise, SW armies (as depicted on screen) are in most ways less effective at waging war than their modern terran counterparts, however I would argue they manage to look a hell of a lot cooler doing it.
A few points. Blasters have no stealth, which is likely why the Empire had forsaken camo. No use wasting credits that could go towards building the Death Star. I think a more interesting fight would be earth vs the Galactic Republic. Clone troopers are FAR more disciplined than storm troopers, and their weapons and gear are much higher quality. The Republic put more focus on Quality than quantity. That boils down to context though. The Republic was fighting a major galaxy spanning war, the Empire on the other hand already controlled the galaxy. So the Empire's shock and awe doctrine is better designed to keeping down an already pacified civilian populace. All while keeping the gear cheap, if the Empire loses a bucket head, pull in the next schmuck and equip him with more cheap gear. Anything past rioting civilians and disgruntled nerf herders with their varmint shooters, the Empire has it's logistical network spanning the galaxy, plenty of bodies to throw at a problem. We can start to see why they eventually lost out to the Rebels, who where they could, invested in higher quality gear and starfighters. Whether the Empire could win a war against earth depends on how much resources they could dedicate towards the invasion. But even in a "Victory" scenario, there would still be a guerrilla war going on all throughout the occupation, and would likely mirror their failures on Lothal. Cases in real wars show that a dedicated guerrilla army can match a technologically superior army. (See Vietnam and various Middle Eastern conflicts.) Ultimately, if I were tasked with occupying Earth, I would try to take the planet through diplomacy and propaganda. I would offer individual nations membership into the Empire with a simple deal, run things as you like, pay Imperial taxes, get Imperial technology. Those nations would be propped up by that technology against their neighbors in the event that the neighbors become hostile. But good chance they will sign on too to avoid being left behind by the countries that joined the Empire. What's more, I could directly recruit new soldiers from Earth very easily, many would jump at the chance to leave to explore the galaxy. Without even taking the planet I could provide the Empire with the Earth's superior military personnel. Just imagine how much they Empire could benefit from hiring a veteran from the Iraq war working as an adviser on how to put down some local insurrection on a distant alien planet. If it really came down to an actual conflict though, why should I waste a single drop of Imperial blood? To fight a Terran, you send a Terran. Either, your allies win, or if they ultimately lose, Earth will have spent much blood and treasure to have ousted them. At this point, they should be battered, weak, and war weary. Invade, hopefully with a force that has learned a thing or two from Terran military doctrine or perhaps composed of Terrans loyal to the Empire. Reinstall Empire friendly leadership, and leave a garrison composed of Terrans, with Imperial overseers. Rinse and repeat the process, always have Terrans do the fighting for you, waste naught, want naught. Start mining and build shipyards on Mars. I don't necessarily need full political control of Earth to exploit the star system's resources to feed the Imperial war machine. Yeah, this post was longer than I planned. XD
Your probably right especially about the recruitment thing like even thinking about it now if the empire offered me a chance to go to space and new planets for a couple of years of being a storm trooper I would happily accept and I could just dessert of things weren’t going to great
One thing that I always come back to about being technologically advanced is that you might not be advanced in what matters. Look at TIE Strikers for example. It's just so odd. Here you have a plane with laser weapons, shielding, and ion engines. Yet it's still technologically inferior to something such as a MiG-21 or Dassualt AlphaJet. Even a B-57B. An A-10 Warthog, an outdated plane not even meant for air-to-air combat, would still smack it because the technology gap is surreal.
Every scientist and politician that realises nukes lose their destructive power in vacuum and creates an EMP in the ground below: "that would be highly problematic!"
@@CoolMyron No, you just don't understand war. When taking a single planet (the equivalent of a city, country, whatever) takes more than a planet's worth of loss, it's not worth it. Why lose more than what you gain?
@@CoolMyron Okay but what happens when you lose more than you gain? And do you not realize we'd use the threat of making our planet unusable as leverage? If it's just about resources they could choose from any planet in our solar system anyways without conflict.
@@CoolMyron "Not every war is fought just to completely destroy the other faction. You gain everything on a planet when you conquer it." The Death Star says otherwise. The Empire doesn't care about planets themselves or their resources. They care about controlling the population and forcing it to submit to their will.
Considering how the Ewoks did against the empire with some stones and twigs I’d think we would have a pretty solid chance against them. Their armor is plastic and they can’t shoot straight
This is why I hate the "cannon" so much star wars legends shows stormtroopers as elite their training is ridiculous. They are motivated, etc the can't shoot straight is bullshit if they let them do that in the movie it would have ended in the first movie then boom star wars is over
@@ryanconnelly2405 Knowing a bit of star wars lore the largest battle the empire took part in was over the forest moon of Endor. The imperial fleet had a grand total of, 35 star destroyers a super star destroyer and the death star. The empire was so overstretched that they couldn't spare to send too many more without the rebellion noticing or occupied worlds starting uprisings. For our world in our level of technology compared to theirs, even getting 2 star destroyers over our world would be excessive. Most likely some old flotilla of no more than 1 Venator with smaller support ships would stumble here. And they have weaker shields and less weapons than a victory or imperial 1 or 2 star destroyer.
I agree with the video, I just want to add few specification: 1) AT-ST can reach 90km/h on flat terrain and similar speeds in terrains most Earth vehicles couldn´t reach. They´re not that well armored, but their mobility could be important. AT-AT is still good only for parades though. 2) Stormtrooper armor is made to withstand heat of blaster fire, not power of gunfire. That´s why any bullet is going to go through as if the armor wouldn´t be there. It´s kinda weird, given that bullet shooting guns exist in Star Wars. 3) The cyber attack depends on how Star Wars computer works in comparison to Earth one. It propably would be possible to hack Imperial computers, but Earth would need to understand the computers first.
Los AT-ST no alcanza velocidad de 90 km/h, se mueve muy lento pera tener tal velocidad, y mucho vehículos militares en la tierra, alcanza velocidades de 90 km/h y hasta más.
@@AlphaCarinae thick enough Kevlar would stop a crossbow bolt better than storm trooper armor could stop a .223 though haha. Not to mention troops also have both Kevlar and ceramic plates in most body armor. Storm trooper armor is basically just insulated plastic.
We need to seperate between pre-Disney Empire and Disney-Empire. The Disney Empire would ram half of their fleet into the moon first, blow up the other half on orders of Tarkin and then confuse vulcanos for command bases losing their whole invasion army as a result.
One thing about earth is we have truly mastered war. Something the Empire would certainly take into consideration. Not to mention our inability to surrender. An orbital bombardment may not be as effect when nukes and other missiles are involved. As soon as a fleet enters orbit we would certainly strike first. The Death Star is really the only option if a few thousand nukes don’t hit it first as soon as it’s in range.
Humans are just super violent and have relied on war throughout our existence so we’ve perfected it while in Star Wars there peaceful I don’t think they’ve needed a large military up into the clone wars so yea we probably could defend for a while but they would just get mad after we nuke there ships and then they would shoot us with Death Star because we’re so dangerous
You're over rating earth soooo much I reckon this is what the empire would need to conquer earth 2 Star Destroyers, multiple TIE fighter and some ground troops to use for occupation when it is over. First, destroy every satellite on earth, that gets instantly rid of any non-cable communication methods we have as well as GPS and, since it's in space, we can't do crap about it. Then, start the bombardment. Even if an ICBM manages to get into orbit and hit a destroyer (which I don't think would do anything because shields are a thing and ICBMS aren't precise to the meter, much less without GPS or other navigation methods) but, even IF it worked, and a destroyer was taken down... Then just give the order, screw it, this planet is too backwards, glass it, the destroyer would retreat into a higher orbit from were no weapons could touch it and give an ultimatum, surrender or face total surface annihilation. Imperial Win. Even if they decided for some reason to use conventional methods like ground troops and aerial dogfight they would still hold the edge over us. They have likely an army of millions with thousands of air fighters. Now, admittedly TIE fighters would go down rather quickly (tho they probably have some sort of long range radar to detect stuff like missiles so it is kinda dubious if our famous missiles would be able to hit them at all) but as soon as the units with shields get in, we're screwed. For ground units they can just use Russian tactics and flood us with men, men with good armour, canonically good aim (remember what Obi Wan said about Stormtroopers being great marksman? It's just that heroes often have meters thick plot armour that deflects blaster fire) and they have bacta and other solutions (so downed soldiers could be brought right back into action in a matter of minutes or hours rather than weeks or months) Overall their tech skill is way too high for us to overcome, especially in stuff like prosthetics and other methods, if a soldier loses a leg here on earth, that's it, he's no longer able to fight but if a stormtrooper loses it he can get a robot one and be back to the battlefield in a day. About hacking... Maybe? Except that, what you all seem to miss, is that they don't use USB, or standard computing, they're from a galaxy far far away, why the heck do we think they're gonna use normal computers?! We'll need to first study their tech and coding If we want any hope at all to defeat their cyberdefense and that takes time. Time that we'll not be given, because the empire will crush us. (As an example, the rebels can hack into imperial systems quite easily... Because compared to them they at least are on the same tech field, we're trying to compare our computers to those of an empire which has figured out FTL flight, galaxy-wide colonisation, cloning, etc...) So I ask again, what hope do we have? If I had to say, this will be looking less like an actual war and more like War of the Worlds, our entire military struggling against a vastly superior enemy and failing at it for a while (tho in this case we may actually be able to down their walkers and TIE fighters given how badly they seem to be designed) Or maybe the 7 hour war from Half Life? Something like that probably.
The empire better stay at Arms Lengths Because if hoomans get a single small starship the game is over, presumably we only need to hold the line till then and then the empire would be begging for mercy a few months after that
even if the main hull was armored on an AT-AT, joints are much weaker, and a shot to the knees would likely immobilize an AT-AT, while shooting the neck makes it explode
@@moo4boy the only weak point was its neck. you see it get shot in the knee by an AT Battery and it did nothing. The neck was the weakest part... but it was still strong, just not as armored as the rest.
@@CoolMyron Well, not exactly, AT-ATs have at best 200mm of protection on the top or sides, and the armor is likely some form of Rolled Homogenous armor. AGM-114 hellfires can penetrate over a meter of RHA at any angle, and have a maximum range of 8 kilometers. Guided by laser pointer into the head of an AT-AT, the crew is dead as doornails.
The only reason why Ewoks won was because they knew the weak points of the storm trooper armor, they’ve spent time studying them from the safety of the forest environment, that’s how they knew where their shield bunker was
I think even he would reconsider invading after watching what we consider as "Art". (the Simpsons, Family Guy, Austin Powers and the Sequel Trilogy) He might see a Picaso and just call it a day.
I am not so sure. Thrawn is a genius but all the different cultures of earth would probably throw him off as one of the things that gives him a advantage is his understanding of different cultures and their flaws. And places like the U.S are mixed between all kinds of cultures due to call the people of different ethnic backgrounds. But then again he is a genius and would figure something out.
He may be a tactical genius but that couldn’t save them from the fact that their tech is horribly obsolete on every front except the ships themselves. Their blasters move at like 75mph. Meaning at sufficient distance, normal people could dodge them. Their armor couldn’t stop actual bullets (in canon storm troopers lose to slug throwers e which are just bullets all the time)
No. He would destroy or control the nuclear plants and military factories. He then would try to recruit any country to try to replicate our technology, then he would collect art from all over the world. He then would make a note to keep us divided and to make preparation in case of massive suicidal attacks.
@@2000jalebi except their slug throwers are primitive. Seemingly worse than lots of lever action rifles we have. An in shape soldier has no issue carrying 4 30 round mags of 5.56. That’s 120 bullets being fired in bursts or full and slug thrower were outlawed due to how effective they were. 5.56 green tip ammo would shred storm troopers to pieces. Meanwhile, blasters have been proven to move extremely slow in comparison. As in less than 30m/s. At 200m we could kill a storm trooper in a blink of an eye but we would have roughly 8 seconds to dodge a blaster bolt we could see coming at us.
@@mr.p215 the trigger happy people don’t live in big cities lol. They live spread out in the country sides where isolation would be their key. The empire has ridiculously primitive scanning devices compared to real life. Whole rebel groups of hundreds of people armed with AR-15s could go unnoticed and seeing how much faster 5.56 green tip is compared to blaster bolts, our soldiers could literally take out an entire battalion of storm troopers before their blaster boots could even hit them. Blasters have been calculated on screen to move at roughly 30m/s. Which is so slow.
The practicalities of large scale war come down to logistics. The Star Destroyers could sit in orbit and strike factories, rail heads, sea ports and runways and they win. No matter the courage or POSSIBLE tactical advantage of Terran militaries, as soon as the Empire's ships hold the orbitals, there is no winning the war. :(
@@Explodingtntfan I genuinely don't think any Terran militaries have a developed capacity to take down large targets outside of very low Earth orbit. ICBMs don't actually have very powerful rockets, in space terms. And their targeting systems really aren't set up for orbital targets either (probably). To add to the problem, nukes aren't great as space weapons, they would have to detonate in contact with the hull to do real damage. Could Terrans develop that sort of anti-spaceship weaponry versus high-orbiting targets, absolutely. Could we do it while under observation of a hostile force, without that force destroying the necessarily-large rockets first, I don't really think so. :)
High altitude nuclear detonation. Could destroy a Star Destroyer and disable the shields or electronics, creating massive fields or hunks of space debris the orbital invaders must dodge and move around, decreasing their effectiveness
@@nathanramage1275 I am not an expert, by any means, but I don't think that the explosion from a nuke will be very effective in near vacuum, unless in pretty-much-direct contact. And I would assume that a space-faring warship is pretty well armored against small debris, even moving at orbital speeds. But, again, I think the real problem is primarily range. As I understand them, ICBMs really only have the power to loft their payloads into sub-orbital or very low earth orbit, as that is all they need to create the necessary range. Once there, the warheads are un powered and un guided, and simply wouldn't be in a high enough orbit to reach the Star Destroyers. *shrug* That's my guess, anyway.
@@mrdragon5142 One, look up anti-satellite weapons. Two, did you just call Humans "Terrans"? GTFO with that bullshit. As for the ICBMs you mentioned in your other comment, I'd imagine they very much do have the power to do so. ICBMs don't just launch their payload up, they travel sort-of horizontally, minimizing time in orbit as to avoid detection, while also heading directly to the target. If you pointed an ICBM straight up, you just saved a shit ton of fuel that you can now use to go straight up.
Joseph Stalin what are you talking about all Russians have to do is watch and laugh as they freeze as the Russia winter kills the stupid imperales trying to invade Russia
@@georgestefanou4250 I mean the empire is ad at many things but weather is never a issue to them. They operate on ice worlds and larva worlds there armor is able to handle seep space. So i think the Russians would have to role in.
there's an old video by E C Henry on how Stormtrooper shots are extremely more accurate than real life soldier's. they might be visible, but they don't waste rounds.
Stormtroopers: we have armor! Earth: Laughs in *.50 cal* *7.62 NATO AP* *IEDs* *noob tubing* In a serious note: I think the empire would try to use more subtle tactics to dominate earth, like using bribery, spies, information networks, give gifts to the people to make themselves look good, sabotage leaders of countries making them look bad
@@timyuusis3372 yes, at that point any major land conflict is pointless, whomever controls the space around a planet controls the planet. The Empire could easily wipe out the cities nearest to any sign of resistance from the safety of space, as well as reward loyalists to the Empire at the same time, we would hunt down the members of the resistance ourselves.
Yup...humans are insane enough to make earth skies and orbit glow red with nuclear explosions for a few minutes...if pushed against the wall...emp shockwaves disabling shields.. then afterwars Earth would have a nice ring from star destroyer leftovers...
There's a reason there is an Abundance of stories with us being basically the Space Orks, We're a Tenacious species that'll go the extra mile when needed to take you down even if it's for a petty thing
Except you don't actually have the ability to launch them high enough to hit SDs. Look up the actual orbital flight profile of an ICBM; most are estimated with reasonable accuracy. You're bragging about the size of a bullet in a jammed gun.
There's a couple problems with your arguments here. The main thing that I think you're missing is that the Empire would attempt to incentivize existing governments to join the Galactic Empire willingly. Essentially just show the kinds of technological advancements that could be achieved through sharing technology since in terms of space travel and artificial intelligence and energy production Earth is relatively incredibly backwards. Once they've gotten the most powerful Earth governments to agree to joining the Empire they would then slowly but surely let economics become the weapon that they use to bring the rest of the planet under control. They wouldn't need to launch a full scale invasion. Governments like in America, China and Russia would be tripping over themselves to destroy any dissenters in order to acquire that technology. Meanwhile the Empire is just using us to strip mine our own solar system for them.
Don't forget the military industrial complex that pretty much took over the U.S's checkbook. Give us a couple of TIE fighters and a light cruiser to research and Lockheed Martin would have a new fighter out as quick as possible and if the empire gave our government ships and mining equipment, we'd mine the entire solar system for materials and create our own fleet of star destroyers. Plus our spec ops teams could be used to train imperial troopers on guerilla warfare. Honestly, it would be a win win on both sides.
That is exactly what happened in some Star Wars side material. Empire incentivized the major governments of a world with huge economic leverage and give them an imperial garrison that recruits locally. Bam. Didn't even need to fire a single shot.
I guess it depends on how much plot armour the Earth forces have. In the films etc the imperial forces were designed to appear threatening but ultimately overcome by the heroes in dramatic fashion.
Yeah exactly this everyone is saying "but muhh nukes" entirely forgetting that, even if we kill one ISD, the empire could just send another, then another, and so on. Not only that, but after the second one, theyd send an entire battlefleet because guess what, they wouldnt be so happy about it. It also doesnt factor in that we'd fuck ourselves over SO BAD. Depending on where the ISD is located, the radiation would slowly kill us, and thats still a massive hull thatll come crashing down on earth (but now also emitting radiation). "Yeah well we have guns so empire takes an L" If slugs were so good, why didnt the rebels use them? Simple, because Blasters are way better. Blaster bolts are cheaper, more accurate, and ammo is basically not a problem. Blasters are also a massive pain in the ass to deal with when it comes to healing. Healing is also another area where the Empire has the upper hand. Bacta is crazy effective, compared to what we are able to use. For us, a gun wound may take months to heal. Bacta does it in a fraction of the time. "Stormtroopers are inaccurate!!" People have tallied it up, and they are by far more accurate than our modern militaries when it comes to Shots per Casualty. They are literally highly trained Soldiers. Dont even get me started with Dark Troopers, which would probably be involved in small numbers aswell. "Well, the TIE is ineffective against our modern fighters" Yes and no. The main issue here is that tie fighters are so incredibly maneuverable its astonishing. They are also used in massive numbers constantly, so theres not just going to be one on one fights, but an entire squadron of TIEs all flying together, covering each other etc. Their pilots are literally the best the entire GALAXY has to offer. "We'll just use information warfare" This is a point i will agree, we'd probably have them beat. Although spies would be ineffective and we'd be entirely reliant on hacking them, and who knows how we will do that. We'd first need to capture a HoloNet capable device. We cant just use the good old Internet for that sadly. Then its a question of figuring out how their code works. All of that needs to be figured out first, but once that is done, then we'd probably beat them consistently. And then, there is the final trump card of the empire, something we will absolutely lose against. Nothing we can do about it. Palpatine, Vader, and then all the inquistors. Realistically, after we kill 2 or 3 ISDs, Palps would send Vader to take care of it. What does that entail? Well for one, we go from fighting run of the mill Imperial Army and Navy, to fighting against the ELITE forces of the empire. Better trained, better equipped, and just better in every way. Ex Clone troopers, who fought in a massive Conventional war, mixed with the best Stormtroopers out there, you then also have some of the best fighters out there, and even worse: An imperial battlefleet. Enough ships to simply bombard us, and just to make it entirely unfair, a SISD. These things are fucking cities wide. 16km is no joke, and they have the power to match that size. I havent even touched on Vader himself yet, who can move ENTIRE FUCKING BLACK HOLES. Vader was so powerful he could kill people without being in the same room as them. He was a Veteran of the clone wars, one of the best duelists the galaxy ever saw, is extremely powerful in the force etc etc.
I can agree that the Empire's tactics are less than effective... But when it comes to firepower and protection, we have observed blaster bolts causing damage comparable to small grenades and Stormtrooper armor protecting against shrapnel, and everything being scaled up from there. The initial invasion would succeed, it's the guerilla following that, especially once the resistance acquires blasters of their own, that would give the Empire nightmares.
We've observed imperial vehicle armor crumbling under the impact of a log, and Stormtroopers being knocked out by a bolas thrown by a three foot creature without the arm length for a proper throw. We've seen unarmored rebels survive glancing hits from blaster rifles. We've also tracked the blaster bolt travel speed to less than 30m/s, meaning at the 200m effective range of modern rifles you have 8 seconds to duck the incoming fire (indeed we see storm-troopers being basically useless except in tight quarters in the movies too). Scale it up from there. More over, we've seen that what the Empire considers a strong invasion force is a couple dozen star destroyers. That sounds impressive until you realize that's less than 50,000 troops (out numbered 10 to 1 by the US Army alone) and only 2,500 fighters (half the US air force). Worse, it's only about 200 Lamda class shuttles to land those troops, meaning they need to establish a breachhead with only 4,000 troops. Given that the Lamda class can only do about 850km/h in atmosphere, it is vulnerable to even world war 2 era anti aircraft weapons. If the empire sent every star destroyer in their fleet along with support craft and some dedicated troop transport they might be able to match the shear military manpower available to the Earthlings. Unfortunately, because those troops are set up for fear, intimidation, and human wave tactics, they'd need a lot more troops than us to mount a successful attack. Also, keep in mind that one of the things Earth has that we don't often talk about is several arrays of defenses specifically built to shoot down swarms of vehicles reentrying the atmosphere. Defenses designed to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles will have no problem at all targeting landing craft instead.
@@gnaskar I think the Dozen ISDs is a bit generous. For planets like Lothal they had Light cruisers guarding it. People seem to forget the Empire had only 25,000 Star destroyers ranging from the Victory-I to the Imperial-II. Now while that sounds like a lot, those ships are needed to patrol hyperspace lanes and planets that have starships of their own and hunt down rebels in the Outer Rim. Them sending even ONE old clapped out Victory-I to Earth and a few Arquitens light cruisers plus a Raider corvette or 2 would be more likely and even then that Victory will probably be needed elsewhere so that leaves Earth vs a Few light cruisers and corvettes who are both gonna need to get down to Earth to support their troops who are going to be overrun and then they themselves will be hit by ICBMs once in range. Im my opinion; the Empire isn't going to even CARE about Earth. We have no resources they can't get on a dozen easier worlds. We have no Force sensitives. We have no Starships. And our industry can't be easily turned to make Blasters or TIEs. Earth is more trouble than it's worth given we are as irritable as a Mandalorian seeing a Jedi during the Crusades. Unless the Empire plans on recruiting from Earth or if Grand Admiral Thrawn's ISD crashed here after the end of Rebels, the Empire isn't gonna pay us the light of day. Not when they got the ever growing Rebellion breathing down their necks.
@@deloreanrc No thats not true at all, the one thing the earth does have that not many other planets do have is the fact that we are able to grow so much food. IF you removed all humans from the planet and turned all the land on earth that could support it into farms you could support about 1 trillion people in terms of food by using the most calorically dense foods per acre.
@@vanguard5718 Un ISD no es suficiente para acabar con continentes enteros, solo mide 1.600 de largo y 900 de ancho, algo haci no podría acabar con un continente.
To be completely honest, our world is primitive enough by star wars standards that I don't think we would get the luxury of actual storm troopers... I think we would just get an invasion force of imperial normal troopers, like we saw in that one bit of Solo... Still a really good video though.
Probably. Of course, those poor imperial army troops would dig their trenches only to discover that we have fully mechanized armored brigades with mobile artillery support.
I would actually love to see this play out in a show. The idea of the Galactic Empire trying to invade and occupy earth would be such an interesting concept. Basically just Independence Day: Star Wars Edition lol As for how it would even work, why not the ever so popular trope of "wormhole" XD Holy crap, I actually wanna write that now
@@bloq6758 if a packet of ionised gas can pierce it Then a jet of Copper excited to the state of Plasma will simply ignore it’s existence Think before you open your mouth
Everyone talking about "oh, the Empire can call upon the resources of an entire Galaxy" or "they'll destroy us with a superweapon if we make too much trouble" are forgetting the twin problems of the Empire having commitments *all over the galaxy* constraining how much force they can allocate to any one planet, and their superweapons often don't last long before the Rebellion blows them up. Now, could the local Imperial commander decide to ragequit and have the planet reduced to ashes via orbital bombardment? Certainly, but that would require Earth's militaries not capturing enough ships to stop him.
I mean,sure if we ignore the fact the prequels showed they have whole factory planets while we haven't even mined ONE asteroid from our local asteroid belt and if you ignore the technical manuals where the smallest gun on most imperial ships is equivalent to small nukes and all craft have either advanced fusion reactors(tie fighters) or hypermatter reactors, I'm sure we can easily capture many of their wimpy ships. Actually, we'd be lucky to even be able to invade ONE Star Destroyer, even getting to it would be problematic, esp if it stayed out of our orbit. I mean, crap, the US just regained the capability to put a few astronauts into Low Earth Orbit last year, but let's pretend we'd have a chance against a Galactic Empire thousands of years in advance of us on every level of technology. Let's not forget cloning and battle droids (still science fiction for us) and pretend the Empire would be 'resource constrained' against Earth.
@@remo27 You're not comprehending the sheer SCALE of the galaxy, or how uncommon those factory worlds are. Even with every known shipyard running, one figure I read (I forget if it's Legends or Canon) stated that a Sector Fleet had 25 Star Destroyers, to cover a Sector that had well over a thousand inhabited worlds. In a scenario where the Empire doesn't decide to simply flatten the planet and move on, we theoretically COULD fight them on relatively equal terms on the ground. Plus, since we can be argued to actually be BETTER at infiltration, a commando unit could theoretically board and capture an Imperial starship, especially if they use covert means to gain access, such as either capturing a shuttle, or simply bribing a shuttle pilot to not look too closely at the "stormtroopers" they're supposed to be bringing back to the ship. Plus, defectors and simple bribery could help supply the specialists they need to complete the capture. Also, those "small nuke" yield figures are garbage anyway, and should be ignored because sci-fi writers have no sense of scale for how monstrously BIG the figures they casually throw around are. There's a good reason biggatons is a semi-derisive nickname for the official yields on turbolasers and other starship weapons.
@@bradycryer3276 The guy who wrote those 'small nuke yield' figures into the technical manuals was an astrophysicist and was going by what he saw on the screen. People like you who have no idea just how powerful a 'laser' would have to be to blow up a planet and fling its pieces about at thousands or more miles per hour (Hint: You couldn't do that with a death star sized antimatter laser, hence the invention of 'hypermatter' to explain the above E=MC2 energy production of the Empire) don't get to talk about how an astrophysicists figures are garbage. And you still haven't explained how anyone is going to get more than 5 to 7 people to low Earth Orbit let alone a commando squad to something much higher up. It takes us years to design the primitive rockets we have now. Much as I love Musk's vision for Starship that's the very beginning of INTERPLANETARY colonization and here we are dealing with an Empire that has Hyperdrive technology tens of thousands of years old.
@@remo27 Take one look at the trinity test footage so you know what a small nuke looks like. Now take a look at the space battles in star wars. They are not the same. FYI, astrophysicists study single pixels of light and how they vary in intensity by a few present over a period of months. It takes an amazing amount of scientific knowhow to tease out things like the composition of the atmospheres of alien worlds from that type of data, but it doesn't make them any better than a layperson at estimating impact yields. You want to know how much power a ship needs or the yield of an explosion, you talk to an engineer, not an astrophysicist. And I guaranty you you'll never find a single engineer who'll agree with the figures in the technical manuals. They simply don't match what we see.
Because of the lack of cybersecurity, they'd get rekt. Speaking of which, THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY NORDVPN (I so expected him to say that in that part that I was actually sad that there wasn't a sponsor plug, for once)
You forgot the fact that, although it is not clear how large the empire‘s army was, they at least hat around 1.75 billion stormtroopers and millions of star destroyers. The entire earth has like maybe a few million soldiers, which means that every single soldier would have to face at least a few hundred stormtroopers and at least 1 star destroyer. Yeah guys we definitely gonna win this
Yeah but i dont think that they're gonna use every single soldier and destroyer for 1 planet,also,recruiting will boom due to the fact that they are fighting for their home planet
Some key things I wanted to point out was (assuming the Empire already decided on an invasion before we knew they were there) that shock and awe is a hell of a drug, as well as orbital supremacy. Most of our modern communication across the globe is handled by satellites as well as other critical pieces of hardware floating above our little orb; the moment the Empire shows up they can blow it all to smithereens and cripple us from the outside. From Space it's also impossible for us to hide many of our key assets like airfields, factories, power plants, places of government, etc. They can literally drop to anywhere from any angle at any time, it's a lot easier to fight a battle when you choose the terrain and time. Oil is already a precious resource for us and fuels an enormous amount of our global economies and military industrial complex, and we have absolutely no way to defend all of it from an enemy raining from the skies. While we did discount obliterating us from above, there's nothing to stop the empire from using surgical strikes of precise orbital bombardment, most likely guided by strike forces sent to the ground straight from a capital ship. While walkers are a big part of the Imperial armored corps, they also use more grounded vehicles like the clone wars era Juggernaut or the Sabertank, they also have their own mobile anti aircraft walkers (much lower profile) with potential missile jamming technology. Dark troopers would be a nightmare on the battlefield (assuming phase 2/3), while i do feel they'd struggle to hold earth; i feel you really undersold a faction who held an entire galaxy in its grip for over a decade.
Well... Destroying the whole world economy wouldn't be a smart move for post war occupation. Moreoever, our nowadays military are prepared, or at least have plans in the box, to how to work without satellite communications. And finally, i don't think the Empire would do great against rebels movements on Earth. I mean.... We litteraly have a shit-ton of manuals of insurection and counter insurection. And military units made to work this way. Go get us Palpatine. Try to get the Usa, or some others countries where potentially every human have a gun in his house, or made military service, as in Switzerland or both Koreas. ^^
@@marseldagistani1989 And i'd rather too... Or make him believe it. Copy the technology.... Then launch a galactic insurrection with decent training and tactics, while taking Coruscant on the run. And establishing the First Galactic ~~Empire~~ Confederation.
@@devan6935 the imperial army is far larger. They are the guys you see in black clothes, wear those weird helmets and tend to carry a rifle and pistol.
@@devan6935 because one plot, two you do see them just not very often e.g. solo, three they are usually delagated to more menial tasks such as garrisoning inner worlds, being boots on the ground for protracted conflicts like Mimbam.
I imagine the Empire would see our planet as extremely resource-rich, and therefore wouldn't want to destroy such a wealthy planet. And they're cocky: they'd try an invasion.
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What if the CIS droid army/mandalorian attack earth? Who would win?
Do more of these versus vids!
What if the empire of man invaded 21st century earth?
I believe Earth could take on the Empire and win.
1. Could Earth survive a Xenomorph invasion?... Earth Wars style comics
2. Could Earth survive a real Alien Kaiju invasion war from Pacific Rim? = without Jaegers.
3. Could Earth survive a Zerg Invasion of Earth? = StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm
4. Could modern Earth survive a Zeon invasion of Earth? = Gundam UC universe
5. Could Earth survive a War of the Worlds 2005 invasion? = without the gems?
6. Could Earth survive a Mimic invasion? = Edge of Tomorrow movie
7. Could Earth survive a Halo Flood invasion = my answer: no.
8. Could Earth survive a Tyranid invasion from Warhammer 40K = hell no!
9. Could Earth survive the angels invading from Neon Genesis Evangelion?
10. Could Earth survive an invasion by Thanos = without all the Avengers?
To quote Generation Tech:
Storm Trooper armor only works as camouflage in the Arctic or in an Apple store.
Mood
So you are saying they are safe from inuit, penguins and hipsters?
Yes but what they forget to mention is bullets can not penetrate stormtrooper armor thats why sand people when using slugthrowers for example have to get a very lucky shot in the eye piece or a opening the of the armor which was not common also the E11 could fire full auto or semi and also be fully moded
@@nathancook8426 I wanna see that bodyarmour that can withstand depleted uranium ammo...
@@cyberfux blaster bolts are higher tech than modern bullets and plastoid armor effectively nullifies any physical bullet, that we know of.(at any caliber) Thats why plastoid armor is used by the empire so yes it would Now say a tank shell were hit a stormtrooper the armor wouldnt be damaged but in saying that it would kill the human behind it do to shockwave or blunt force impact
Just make our stand in the Redwoods and the Stormtroopers wouldn't stand a chance.
try the swamps of Georgia, mountains of Alaska, and deserts of Arizona.
Utinni!
yub nub
And mountains of Caucaus and lands of Siberia.
And a bunch of small people in bear costumes
The problem is if we convincingly beat the Empire's ground troops, they'd view us as a potential threat like the Mandalorians, and wipe us out from orbit (not that I think we'd win anyway).
nah bro i don’t care what your amour is if your a human and a 30-06 hits you your either dead or on the ground in pain
besides once we know they’re coming we’ll have a nice little display of plutonium fireworks ready for them
@@Slavicplayer251I don’t think a nuclear bomb would really do much to a star destroyer honestly. The largest nuke ever detonated by humans, the tsar bomba, had around 50 megatons of force. A heavy Turbo laser in Star Wars can max out at 200 giga tons of force (which I do think is kind of stupid, it should be around like 5 megatons a shot realistically), and star destroyer shields can take barrages of thousands of shots from other ships for hours
You forget biological attacks. Hacking attacks. And freaking rifles that shoot over 10 km away
Also the trees speak vietnamese /ewok. France would surrender and make the storm troopers speak french. They have experience doing that.
@@Discount_Jesushear me out, what happens if we just build a bigass mirror to reflect the laser?
Imagine invading a strange backwater planet not found on star charts that just so happens to have one of the largest pop culture followings of _The Entire History of Your Own Galaxy_
Incredible
Imagine if they discovered us in the late republic or early empire or something and just wondered
'how tf do these backwater populations not only know the history of our whole galaxy but also know the next hundred years of the future of our whole galaxy'
Im just imagining that when earth and the empire go to war there is meeting room with some government officials, military generals/admirals, and then a bunch of star wars nerds discussing how to defeat the empire with the star wars nerds leading the whole conversation as they know nearly everything about the empire and then become internationally recognized heroes because their habits of watching every star wars movie, tv show, and reading every comic/book multiple times were the saving grace of our survival as a society.
@@Voleia Palpatine circa early empire era when he finds out about episodes 4 5 and 6: *nervous sweating*
@@properlyy6115 So basically a better version of the Pixels movie, but Star Wars and no Adam Sandler
I think the real question is "could the galactic empire take over earth without accidently destroying us"
No
And here's why you look back and are here's what we have done to aliens Yeah I don't think our trust would be that way like you're thinking it's in fact it's gonna be the military that will have the odds turned against the galactic Empire to where they will turn against the Galactic Empire I mean think about it this is not like the military will let themselves get stumped here I say the US military wins.
And the US military's and our countries will just turn against the It's galactic Empire too as well
Exactly, if they got sick of our shit they'd just pull a Mandalore.
@@Spudtron98 yeah lol
Remember kids, the Galactic Empire didn't sign the geniva convention
Wait Hans we can gas them now?
@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 alvays culd hav
warcrime go brrrrr
pow mistreatment go brrrr
Yes we can
Finally
The empire most likely wouldn't even need to invade. An incredibly powerful and and technologically advanced power shows up one day and offers friendship and protection for any force allied with them? Planetary governments would be falling over themselves to ally themselves with the empire to get a leg up on their regional rivals.
Exactly. Earth would gain tech and Empire would get superior military personnel and better designs for using that tech. Win - win. No need for a bloody conflict.
Verrikan the thing is that I think the empire would try to assimilate the human population of earth until our cultural as a whole is completely gone. The majority of humanity would NOT be ok with that and would probably much rather have it’s independence.
Once a treat like that shows up regional rivalry would be meaningless ...
I doubt that we would allow ourselves to be annexed. What government in history has let itself be annexed because someone showed up with a fancy toy. I also don't think the empire would even try to take Earth. To them we just some backwater planet. If they did want Earth they would just try walking in and taking it and considering the Empire's arrogance they would likely blunder into a nuke.
Long Live the Empire then !
Imagine having a highly technological space empire with the most terrifying equipment in the galaxy only to be defeated by some backwater planet.
Imagine the confusion of the SW Galaxy by the sudden disappearance of the empire.
Also by their terms of surrender as said in the video, is it referring to Coruscant surrendering????
You mean 'Planet of the Space Orks'. Honestly, it's just a different focus on the tech tree. They figured out how to get around in the most efficient way possible. We figured out how to kill each other in the most efficient way possible. I honestly believe that we already have the capability to create hyperdrives, it's just that the farmers don't want their cattle to run away from them.
Easy. Massive nuclear and hacking attacks. Decades laters every nation on the world has Star wars technology and now the United Nation is the only earth goverment bent on conquering the Empire.
White Troopers vs invisible marines that can shoot poison,flames, or electricity at distance
Also something that would impress the Empire are the suicide soldiers. No Empire soldier would voluntarly comit suicide. But Kamikazes,Jihadist,Fanatics all over the world would harass and instill fear in any Empire soldier
The whole "once we get a single hyperdrive or intact battleship, humanity would just roll across the Empire" is genuinely a subplot in the Animorphs book series.
What's that?
@@pooperdooper3576 a very good kid's book series from the late 90's.
It's out of print now, but the author has given her full permission for people to share it for free, so there's pdfs very easily available online. Give the first few a read if you want, they're quite short books.
wait when and how does animorphs become a space novel (never read it)
@@dillont8750 the main series takes place mostly on earth, but one of the main reasons for the plot to happen in the first place is that humanity is like ten years from creating hyperlight travel and less than two from discovering FTL-communication. Both major factions of the war (Yeerks and Andalites) reckon humanity would dominate the battlefield once they get advanced technology and are trying to control how, when, and from who humans get said technology.
@@AlphaCarinae I mean, scene two of the book is a flying saucer crash landing. How'd you think they got those shapeshifting powers?
"To defeat an enemy you must know them. Not just simply their battle tactics, but their history, philosophy,.....art"
Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn.
I dare him to try and understand a Jackson Pollock painting.
@@Tracer_Krieg Hmm, their art is varied and complex, with many overarching themes that are later subverted once the work's details are studied. This indicates a sophisticated intelligence and pragmatic nature that in my estimation we would do well to not underestimate. I do not think that a military approach would be our best course of action, perhaps something more political such as befriending their more hardline elements. I suggest we make contact with one of their leaders, someone that commands great respect among a small but vocal subset of their culture for irrational reasons, and bolster his rule. We can then slowly subvert his authority and replace it with our own, thus imposing the Emperor's will, and I have the perfect candidate (revealing a picture of Donald Trump).
-Grand Admiral Thrawn, probably
21st century Human: What is art?
imagine him interested in the philosophy of Sun Tzu
@@dwaugh2215 He probably would be. it’s right up his alley.
Empire: "Nooooo you can't just hide in every terrain and use slugthrowers that are prohibited by intergalactic treaties!!!"
Earth: *fortunate son intensifies*
Haha, slugthrowers go brrrrrrrrrr
@Stefan RemundBrits: no no GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
@@nicosd3017 "OOooooh Whatchu gonna do Empire? Cut off our supply lines? That's *cute*" **Fires ICBMs into orbit, the nuclear detonations obfuscating scanners and the EMPs possibly even disabling the fleet.
Haha GAU-8 go brrrrt
Alyss Mathrin that’s a fair point, but tbh, I don’t, they’re probably advanced past the point that anything but a direct hit is insignificant. Not that we couldn’t bombard them with the several thousand held in stores across the world.
The Empire's entire engineering and design philosophy seems to revolve around the Rule of Cool, which is effective in movies and not so much elsewhere.
But it's not actually effective in the movies either... xD
. . . . A single star destroyer is all they would need to put the fear of god into earth. The destructive force of their turbo lasers are enough.
Stormtroopers were designed by the empire for fear. It wasn't meant to be practical, the whole point was that it screamed "I don't need to hide"
They got ships that can be in orbit for technically years . Enough said
Grand admiral Thrawn: please ignore these idiot's & accept our surrender, I'm embarrassed that Your soldiers are so much more disciplined than our Trooper's & more accurate.
Admiral Thrawn would be so impressed that he'd employ Earth forces as mercenary army in exchange for their Autonomy and tech, which Earth government would probably happily accept instead of an all out war.
Yeah we are a planet with different climates it a perfect place for training and military forces human government has different tactic skills and ways to fight
I honestly think Thrawn might bail on the Empire, he seems endlessly unhappy with how bumbling and terrible they are. Seeing a more cohesive, disciplined and tactical force, he might see the writing on the wall and realize that Earth would be a better ally to the Chiss than the Empire. I'm sure he'd be thrilled at what our engineers do with the tech salvaged off of all the Imperial junk that gets blasted out of the sky.
Why would he do that. He could just take their weapons. Even tho there not very effective.
@@kauske if he is our side, I think he will be happy but other things that he isn’t happy is our weirds art and memes, he will go insane
@@Redlionreal5649 You never know, despite how inane memes can seem at times each does have a story and deeper meaning behind it. It can be really engrossing to go down the rabbit hole on how a meme grew to what it is.
Besides, every culture will have good and bad art, and much of that is in the eye of the beholder. Thrawn seems more interested in the art for what it can teach about the creator than any perceived inherent quality anyhow.
In Star Wars Rebels, an Imperial surveillance ship overloads and outright explodes from what's basically a DDOS attack. To say Imperial cybersecurity is lacking is an understatement.
God damn, the Empire really needs a vpn.
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I grant you that Canon Star Wars is laughably stupid in how underdeveloped Imperial technology is. Take literally any ship from Legends though, and it's a whole other story. Do you know the primary reason ships fight so close in Star Wars? A lot of people like to say it's because turbolasers have very short range, but they forget a very crucial detail. The reason turbolasers cannot fire at great distances is never specified. They always say "we're out of range" or "we're out of effective range", not "our turbolasers won't effect them at this range" or something similar. So, if we want the actual reason turbolasers aren't useful at long range, we have to look at the Legends Canon reason why battles are so close. It's because the energy shields of capital ships produce a sensor fog that jams tracking, transmissions, and other ECM capabilities of enemy ships due to how the energy field is structured. Due to this, the long range targeting software that gunners use to target ships is unable to get a lock on enemy ships. So, to counteract the lack of sensor capability, ships have to fight in visual range in order to actually have something they can hit. They can't use their FTL sensors to hit things that aren't within visual range due to the jamming, so instead they're forced to use visual targeting which can only work up close. That's why turbolasers are ineffective at long range, because the automatic effect if how energy shields in Star Wars works prohibit any kind of electronic warfare and sensor targeting. Against anything we have, however, they have no such restrictions. So they're free to shoot at us from orbit or wherever.
not mariolevi I will smash a vpn
@Luke Sellers I cannot find an explanation in my copy, what are you talking about. They say the range, but not the actual reason behind it. There's nothing saying anything like "the magnetic fields can't hold the bolt together for longer" or anything along those lines like people like to say.
A bunch of disadvantages the Empire has come from the fear-philosophy. The Storm-Troopers are not designed to not be seen. They are supposed to be seen and feared. Another example of this looks-over-practicallity mentality is the Star Destroyer design were the put the bridge, one of the most vital stations, on top of everything else were it was visible to everyone and very attackable. Much of the Empire's design choices says: "You have to fear us. We don't have to fear you. We are right here and you can't do anything about it."
Those aren't disadvantages if they work. Which they do. The empire lasted for almost twenty years, and though never peacefully, it wouldn't have lasted at all if fear hadn't kept the absolute majority of the systems in line.
@@ertymexx They are still disadvantages. They are just not bad design. The fear inducing design gives them a disadvantage to gain a (at least from their point of view) greater advantage.
Like when you switch out heavy armor for light armor in video games. You usually take more damage (disadvantage) but you are also (for example) faster (advantage).
@@Alresu any armor is good if the opponent can't hurt you. Which is the case here. The ISD has no disadvantages against earthlings, that at best can scrape up an old space shuttle against them.
@@ertymexx Ah, I see the problem. I am talking generally. You are talking about a fight against Earthlings. In that case you might be right about the Star Destroyers. Unless the come into range. Same goes for the Storm Troopers. Of course the disadvantage will never be an issue if they are not deployed.
But that does not mean there are no disadvantages. It would just mean you can work around them or that this one specific enemy can not exploit them.
Their equipment philosophy is just like German equipment in WW2
In regards to the Battle of Endor, Mythbusters did prove that those tree traps would've been enough to cush a modern armored car.
Its a armored car not a tank
@@gianttacogod and the walker was a scout, so pretty much the imperial armored car.
So basically, Space Magic vs. physics
Only Darth Vader and Palpatine even use the force
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 Space Magic isn't referring to the force, it's referring to Star Wars Technology.
I think the problem with the imperial military is that it was originally conceptualized to be futuristic. *IN THE 70s*
Of course they would be trash by modern standards
@@ofthecaribbean they could nuke the world in our orbit, they didn't even need to approach our missiles range, or they can tank it with their force shield
@@Shackospeare Galactic Empire (or any other faction featured in starwars universe) entirely lacks ANY BVR (beyond visual range) combat capabilities. Which is pethetic by modern earth military standards.
One thing the Empire has in its favor: cohesion. While on Earth, even in the face of alien invasion, we’d still continue to act as independent nations, all with individual battle plans and individual motives.
Well, if several nations that felt threatened by the USSR could form the NATO, I don't see why all nations in the world, threatened by an Alien invasion, could not form a Reb... eh, Resistance Alliance against the Empire.
Depends on how long we have to prepare. Before NATO, Warsaw Pact or before WW2, various militaries struggled to work together. But as these examples and many others in history show, competent professional militaries can combine forces efficiently. Especially given time
That is a theory. Facing doom unless subjugated would probably unite people. What is happening now is petty and powerstruggles. If we lose we lose all power. I highly doubt we would all lay down before we all stand. Earth is considered ours by everyone, the leaders might want it, but not because they deserve it.
I don't think you understand that when humanities backs are truly against the wall, humans know how to figure things out best.
If a giant space ship came and said they were going to occupy the planet, I think that would be equal to America's 9/11 globally amd world leaders would put a pause on their bullshit and say fuck that.
@@lba_e_ross2152 lmao, did you not watch the video? The whole scenario was on the premise of no orbital bombardment and attempting to occupy.
If this *were* a realistic scenario, why would the Empire devote that much force to take over a planet when they have the entire galaxy to hold at the same time. A complete waste of effort and they would lose hold over other planets over a single one.
This video is also using the movies as reference. Stormtroopers killed by rocks thrown by slings, walkers crushed by logs, and incompetent troopers with the ability to aim worth shit.
If it really were a ground war, I would have to agree they would likely get stomped.
Don’t forget that map blasters projectile speed is only around 75mph, so from long distances, soldiers could dodge Stormtroopers shots.
When the battlefield became dogdeball field for our soldiers lmao
How much is 75mph ? Around 110 km/h ?
Meanwhile, an Ancient Greek ballista fires sharpened telephone poles at roughly 100 miles per hour. That’s from a few thousand years ago.
@@phil2160 Slower than a baseball thrown by a high school student
*Superhot music intensifies*
The biggest issue with the infantry section is that you’re forgetting the entire Imperial Army. The Stormtrooper Corp is technically a part of the Imperial Navy, but functions much like modern marines, being deployed planetside. The Imperial Army is, well, the army, and consists of different units and divisions, such as an Engineering Corps, Army Air Corps, Assault Armor Division, Artillery Corps, etc. The Army is better suited for ground operations than the Stormtrooper Corps, so I don’t know why they would be doing anything much more than policing and holding captured areas.
Also it’s worth mentioning that earth can only make so much ammunition, and faced against a galactic force it will eventually run out of resources without outside help.
If the empire wanted to take earth they would likely hit key targets from orbit, like radar stations, air defence grids, naval bases, etc. then jam all communications. Then they’d take over the Middle East which produces almost all the world’s oil, and would offer much less resistance than a large nation with a massive modern military like the US or China. Then it’s just a matter of whittling down the other countries with its galaxy amount of reserve troops.
If the Rebel Alliance doesn’t come in to help earth, or at least take advantage of the Empire’s situation to hit key targets to take pressure off earth, then earth will either run out of resources and be taken over without a real military threat or be carpet bombed when the Empire decides we aren’t worth a years-long campaign.
If the Empire wants to take earth, they would not invade but come as friends and slowly install puppet regimes.
Agreed. I think the Empire would just fly a small fleet, including a couple of Star Destroyers, into orbit then proceed to annihilate a major city in a couple of minutes. The they might take out a few pieces of key infrastructure (like our satellite networks -which would be easy pickings for TIE fighters), and give the people of Earth an ultimatum. My guess is that the reason that space battles happen at such close range in Star Wars is that countermeasures are employed that make fighting at close range necessary. All the Empire would need to do, to greatly diminish our war fighting capabilities, would be destroy all of the artificial satellites around the Earth. My guess is TIE pilots would make quick work of those.
This one should be the pinned comment.
Just about
your also forgetting orbital night cloaks don't go by what you see in the movies alone get the imperial sourcebook the empire had quite a bit of nice weapons. also the empire had a thing of overwhelming odds, first they wouldn't launch a ground assault until they knew that most of our defenses were down ....so tie's and bombers and gunboats would rain down fire along with the destroyers, lancer frigates along with other weapons then they would launch heavy armor so no no the earth would fall pretty quick
Switzerland be like: Let me introduce you to my two friends, superbly hidden reinforced defensive positions and overlapping fields of fire.
I thought you were gonna say neutrality
@@JK-it4eu it's easier to be neutral when being unfriendly is so bloody.
@@Argosh Very true.
You forgot the third friend
Switzerland is nuetral
@@bruh-yq2qx that's the joke...
Earth forces: **capture a Star Destroyer**
Greater Terran Union: "Cowabunga it is!"
Greater Terran Union: sees that the Star Destroyer has blatant flaws.
Also Greater Terran Union: remakes the ISD to be better than its Imperial counterpart, adding hundreds of stronger weapons, thousands of space fighters, etc.
Galactic Empire: you were not supposed to do that.
@@danielm.595 The GTU would mop the floor with the empire
@@danielm.595
Not only does the GTU destroy worlds, they'll take the remains of it and use it to build up their massive war machine or they're ambitious building projects. (Dyson sphere that granted basically limitless power. Or a ring world, or Dyson beam, or other crazy constructs stellaris allows.)
So Earth starts building Nebulas then?
Greater Terran Union: *rebuild the star destroyer like a Battlestar, improve every system and tech to fit with a real well prepared army, built dozen of ship, arm everyone with nuclear hyperspace counterpart of an ICBM and cruise missiles, play pigeon shooting with the imperial army, never try to get a fuck to the rebels"
Those walkers on endor were crushed by logs imagine if they took a direct hit from depleted uranium sabot shell
In one side and out the other, with two well done and Swiss cheesed imperial crew members inside.
@@bloq6758 20mm, maybe but how about 120mm depleted uranium SABOT rounds.
@@bloq6758 Given that many IFVs have some form of anti-armor weapons on them, then they would still be able to fight walkers. They might be limited to mobility or functional, rather than critical kills. APCs don't have the direct fire capability needed for an armor fight, so they would dismount their infantrymen and then hide.
@@danielhaire6677 yes your talking about atgm
@@bloq6758 on things like the Bradley, or alternatively the 100mm gun on the Russian BMPs (Some of which also have an ATGM)
If the Galactic Empire attacked Earth, George Lucas would probably find himself in some CIA office explaining the specifics of every single piece of Imperial equipment 😂
dont forget about storm trooper aim
Earth: creates a clone army and takes the name of grand army of the United Nations
Palpatine: “How’s the occupation of earth going?”
Random admiral: “Oh the defence of mars? Pretty well all things considered”
Sheev: “The *W H A T ?”*
palpatine: “wait what do you mean by the defence of mars?”
Oh you know every sense they captured a few star destroyers and made their own it's been hard to stop them.
@@angryirishman7474 sheev: “oh hell well admiral how is the defence of mars handling?”
Well sir we might have lost nearly all our ties and over half the fleet but we stopped them from landing......probably.
@@angryirishman7474 the same Radom admiral: “sir the defence of mars has fallen all ground forces they have not been killed have been evacuated and now we have reports of powerful earth ships that have power-full weapons should we send in a super star destroyers with loads of other ships sir?”
The Empire in this situation seems to have what I like to call: “The Goa’uld problem”. The bad guys use weapons more designed for intimidation than actual practicality. The issue the Goa’uld in Stargate faced was worse, but you get the idea.
They state this in the SG-1 almost every episode.
I also thought about the same thing.
Plus the P90 uses an anti armour round... good against Goauld AND storm trooper armour!
Well, not really; stormtroopers are actually extremely effective - the difference is their armor is designed to dissipate energy, not deal with straight up kinetic weapons like our current arsenal.
@@lba_e_ross2152 Star Wars sources are also contradictory, as they state Rebel SpecForce units used slugthrowers due to their effectiveness against Stormtrooper armor.
It's much more resiliant when it comes to blaster fire, and while it's still resistent to kinetic projectiles, it's a lot more prone to failing to protect the wearer from a slugthrower.
@@lba_e_ross2152 idk what to tell you dude, canon information confirms that Rebel SpecForce used slugthrowers against Stormtroopers.
I get it, you don't like being wrong, but canon sources > a fucking roleplaying game from 1998 that isn't canon anymore.
The only reason this even remotly works out for Earth is that George Lukas doesn't care about giving an acurate military picture a galactic empire would have. He wanted cowboys in space and that is what we got.
Agreed. For another example we just need to take a look at episode 2, where 100,000 clones were apparently enough for a planetary invasion
Warhammer 40k is ironically the most realistic with its numbers. Trillions of humans across the galaxy, sounds about right actually.
Meanwhile: Oh no, my Betazoid senses tell me a colony the size of Manhattan was destroyed, killing hundreds!
@@power-armoured_german9856
It was 200,000 on Genosis.
But the majority of battles involving clones usually had numbers that were nowhere near that large. Usually the number was around 50,000 or less. Unless the world was very strategically important.
@@manictiger bhahahahahah trillions?! That's realistic to you? If the Imperium of man were real it would have quintillions, sextillions, decillions citizens
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231
Though 40,000 years from now isn't enough time to get those numbers, you'd probably need a few hundred thousands to million years. Also with FTL, you can expand rather quickly even though your system can easily fit 100^15 people from here to the oort cloud. If there was no FTL then the astronomical populations in that range are very reachable. Since it would be impossible to govern a million systems across an entire galaxy.
I think the Empire could easily force the world’s governments to surrender with orbital bombardment, but as usual, they would have to figure out how to subdue the general populace and prevent constant rebellion.
Mashallah the Imperial dogs will know Fear.
@@Peter_Turbo48946 64p quality videos of a star destroyer blowing up from 3000 different angles.
Traumatized Storm Trooper after the battle of Earth: Kevin! The Gurkhas are in the Trees!
Haha nice
the few stormtroopers that survived Russia: TOM, THEYRE IN THE RUBBLE!
@@workingjoe5599 Gopnik squatting intensifies.
This would make a splendid fan fic.
They were in the hills man and if they weren’t in the hills. The cities filled the valleys with their concrete buildings. Every intersection became a firefight.
-George, A stormtrooper deployed in Japan.
Empire: Oh, those Earth ruffians hacked our server again! If only we had some kind of cybersecurity!
NordVPN: (Kicks open door) DID SOMEONE SAY CYBERSECURITY?!
I should not have laughed so hard at this
TerribleWritingAdvice anyone?
hahahahah
You have been charged for the death of a viewer by making him laugh so much his head blew up. What is your defence?
@@BL-bg1fj , Sammy Cool inc. is not responsible for the damage or death of person or property caused by products of its actions. For emotional or economic support, please go cry in a corner.
honestly the empires entire military reminds of of that scene from Stargate
"this is a weapon of terror, it is mean to intimidat your enemies, this is a weapon of war, it is meant to kill your enemies"
Yeah the Galactic empire and the goauld empire have a ton of similarities. Although if they came into conflict I believe that the GE would win simply because they have more unity and any victories they had would erode the religious base for the entire goauld civilization.
I always loved that line. Hahaha
@@thoughtfulinsanity3050 And also Hataks are useless.
God bless General Jack O'Neil
Send a couple of daedalus class cruisers and we have the upper hand in space
Stargate was made as a take down of the tropes commonly seen in sci fi
One idea is that during the clone wars, the plastoid armor designed by the Kaminoans for the clones (the armor that Storm Trooper armor would inherit from) was camouflage - for the Kaminoans who could see ultraviolet light. To humans, it's plain white.
Kind of curious to know how the 20th century would fare against the empire….like let’s just say either during the Vietnam war or Cold War or WW 1 or 2, how would they fare?
@@adammartinez8061we don’t do a dam thing especially to star destroyers. At sts no problem a well placed shot from a tank will have them destroyed other than that however we can’t exactly do much damage to a at st. Their soldiers kinda have an advantage due to the armor we see plasma go through the armor easily cause it is mother fucking plasma shit is hot not like a fucking projectile we have. It would likely take 20 or more shots from a rifle. Air superiority depends on the amount of ties they send our way
@martinezseymore3007 When you're more likely to face energy weapons in combat. Why would you produce a combat armor specifically designed to defend against projectiles?
You have it ass backward.
@@name8715 I don’t know but thats what they did
@@name8715 also you do realize that the vehicle would still need to be sturdy
To borrow from a certain Colonel O'Neill:
"The Imperial Walker is a weapon of terror--it's made to intimidate the enemy. The modern tank is a weapon of war--it's made to kill your enemy."
You. I like you. HOWEVER. What is unfortunate is that the ATAT is armored so heavily that nothing short of a battleship cannon with get through that armor. No AP tank round would EVER puncture that thing
@@melromarcdubois3448 joints and neck is still a weakness and trying to hit a tank going 30mph isn't going to be easy
@@ln7929 A joint or neck made out of a metal so strong that even a single MM could stop an Abram's round may be the weakest part of the walker, but still invulnerable to real life weapons fire.
That's the point this video has overlooked. The technological disparity means that even if the weapon systems might normally be inferior, the sheer advances in tech means it doesn't even matter. Stormtrooper armor is entirely invulnerable to even 50 cal weapons. You could have rifleman shooting at the stormtroopers and, unless they hit the joints, they're doing zero to that stormtrooper. The same applies to every level of the imperial military save maybe tie fighters.
Imagine fighting an enemy where their soldiers can just leisurely walk towards your squad, tanking every bullet you put down range where a single blaster bolt kills you. Imagine fighting a walker that shrugs off every tank round, artillery shell, and missile thrown at it and just effortlessly one-shots your tanks with a single blaster cannon bolt.
There's a reason you never see projectile weapons used in SW and it's because they're so out-dated that even the most advanced projectile weapon is nigh worthless against armored soldiers.
@@War450 What about that scene were a bunch of Ewoks somehow able to destroy an at st with a bunch of logs?
Hat _ they tripped them, boarded them, and crushed them using big ass trees that probably weighed a couple hundred pounds each. But remember, the at-st is a scout vehicle, meaning it’s not suppose to be that strong
Empire: Shock and Awe
Earth: Practical tactics that don't stop working after a few days or hours.
Empire: Shock and Awe
Earth: Shock and Awe but also practical tactics that don't stop working after a few days or hours.
Also Helghan Forever
shock and awe?
Same tstrategy the US uses.
Guess that's why they keep picking wars with tiny counties with no defenses most of the time.
@@Nerdiness1985 oh yeah I forgot we literally just invade every single small country on earth, oops
you fuckin moron
Palpatine: hey, guys, have you heard about those new Earthlings, their strange weaponry and approach to war? Well, I've decided to hire around 20 million of their soldiers for spare change.
Earth enters Star Wars and basically ends up being Krogan mercenaries of the setting... or second coming of Mandalorians. Minus pointless rituals.
We also have Florida Man, Polish Man, Russian Man, Mujihadeen, Palestinian resistance fighters, the IRA, and Australia
I wonder how the humans of both galaxies would react to each other’s existence.
ADD: I like to think the SW humans would be confused while all the other races would be like “SERIOUSLY?! You just can’t get away from the Humans!”.
After all that happend the last Years... we wouldn't be really surprised.
humans from the sw universe probably wouldnt really care much being used to so much species and planets theyd just go oh more humans cool alr but we'd be fucking terrified
@@whyyes6429 Humans of the star wars realm don't have an actual home planet. They were all plucked by the Celestials from who knows where, but they certainly don't remember. If they discovered that a planet with genuine, rootstock humans existed, they'd go wtf crazy. If we discovered that the star wars Galaxy existed, we'd probably go, "huh. Neat." While some of the power hungry world leaders make plans to make their tech our tech.
Us Earthlings would be scared and view them as alien's. The SW humans would view us as barbarians. Or a lost humans tribe that got separated from the wider galaxy.
@@imperialwyvern I'm pretty sure that finding a planet with rootstock, invented everything from scratch humans in a completely unknown galaxy would be pretty shocking
I don't think Storm Troopers where killed by the rocks themselves. They where certainly knocked over, no amount of armour is going to make you immune to the physics of a rock to the face. I'm sure most of them where killed while stunned as the ewoks capitalised on the shock factor.
Also, people greatly underestimate the strength of ewoks
@@123Juniiorr agreed
In mando a lady breaks their helmets with just a hammer. It’s not strong
@@jphansen5299A big hammer to the head will kill any man in any armour.
@@appa609Tell that to the Bulldozers from Payday.
And even if a nuclear weapon doesn’t take out a star destroyer, usually what follows after the nuke is an EMP.
Actually its stated that the Empire actually does still make and store Nukes themselves. But in Star Wars they are considered too dangerous to use in space warfare as they act like massive Ion bombs. Ya you just blew up a enemy ship with a direct hit and EMPed its allies....but the EMP also hit and disabled our ships too!
@@deloreanrc Where is this stated?
@@devan6935 Good question. Also, the EMP will probably fry our satelites so no GPS and possibly no internet for a (long) while. Everything else on the surface probably won't be affected so yeah... You can nuke 'em, but you'll also cause collateral damge to our communications.
@@ExieNguyen not exactly. A nuke was launched in space and it made a huge explosion but I don’t know if it disabled any satellites
@@BL-bg1fj one satellite was disabled due to the starfish prime experiment
Pre-invasion: "Recall our fleet? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"
Post-invasion: "YOU ARE FAILING! We stand on the brink of adding one more territory to our glorious Empire, yet we cannot proceed because YOU CAN'T BEAT A BUNCH OF PRIMITIVES WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE STARDRIVE!"
Ah, a man of culture. Nice to see someone remember The First Avenger.
10 years post-war: We are stupid, we can no longer call them Primitive, as they are now the rulers of this Galaxy, they even managed to assassinate Lord Sidious, even with his powers. We overestimated ourselves, and died in our own shadow
"Correction, Sir, they didn't have star drives. Until we invaded that is."
@@TMHedgehog Dude, way to rub it in.
@@TMHedgehog imagien earth warships armed with Casaba Howizers (aka nuclear shaped charge concept from the 60s)
I'd imagine that resistance groups would spring up like daisies. The sentiment of earth being enslaved and her people butchered harken back to the memories of many people. Russians, Poles, Chinese. Or people who have strong traditions or sense of independence and freedom. There's a lot of other countries, but I'd imagine that keeping a grip on earth is gonna be pretty tough
Imagine the empire trying to get a grip on the distinct mentalities of the Russians, Afghans, Finns, etc. Earth's humans overall seem to be much more adaptable and at times even scarier than the humans in Star Wars, even without the "magic" thing.
@@gustavoritter7321 Afghans especially, they have such a fascinating identity. There's an excellent lecture I heard on the identity of the Afghan peoples, tribes, and ethnic groups, I highly recommend it! I'll link it here!
@@thomastheawesome4822 Yes, I would love to see it.
@@gustavoritter7321 I linked it above
@@thomastheawesome4822 I see no link
What we're forgetting is that if the Galactic Empire tried to invade Earth, they'd find their entire intelligence database turned moot as Wookiepedia starts trending
Damn those primitive savages with their "tactics" and "well designed weapons, armor and transports" and their "competence". Look at those tanks! They have such a low, sleek profile that makes them more difficult to hit. Not like our glorious at at wich towers so high and large a blind man could hit it from 3 miles away and with a centre of gravity so high a child could push it over.
Their weapons don't look as amazing like ours
The truth has been spoken
@@piotrwisniewski70 ugh!!! these damn primitive humans with their ballistic missiles, poweful tactics, actual competence
@@VeeTOHFan Well if a bunch of teddie bears with spears and rocks can take on the Imperials, what we could do to them is scary.
@@OwleLeg Not really.
Empire: Why are you building such large ships?
Earth: To colonise nearby stars.
Empire: But we only sold you ion drives. It will take decades to get there.
Earth: We know.
Empire:
To those who don't get this joke, let me explain it in an oversimplified way:
The joke points out about how Earth/Terran Humans can adapt very fast compared to other species as well as non Earth Humans. The reason why Earthlings can adapt so fast is because of our habit on copy and pasting inventions really fast.
Examples are...
- Europeans making better versions of China's gunpowder inventions
- Japan being able to copy the drill from European countries
- The US allowing exiled German Scientists to work on Nuclear weapons during ww2
- The US copying the *Blitzkrieg* tactic from N@zi Germany
Welp, hope this explanation is good
Edit: and i had nothing better else to do other than write this unnecessary explanation.
@@echidnanatsuki882 thanks you for the explanation my good Sir
@@plusmega4364 your welcome
@@echidnanatsuki882 not to mention, even against new weaponry, we still manage to change the field of battle and adapt.
With trench warfare we used chemical weapons.
With the Enigma, we developed the first computer.
With nuclear bombs, we developed MAD.
With long range missiles, we developed CWIGs and other active defense mechanisms.
With heat seeking missiles, we developed flares.
Every time a new technology comes out, we come up with something to defend ourselves or counterattack.
Its not just the copying and adapting to the new technology, but adapting counters to that technology.
Also with the OP, it also shows how much will our species has. We're fully aware that it will take decades to go arrive and there will be no help, but we are so confident in our ability to survive on an alien planet with no information of the surroundings and likely no survivable atmosphere, it's frankly scary to go up against people with that much confidence and will power. That's the manifest destiny of the stars. No matter the odds, we just keep marching forward until we have our freedom. We are not free, we are tyrannized by gravity, so we make a massive ship to overcome it. To the empire: Do not take our freedom, or you will be the subject of our 'humanity' and you'll learn just how ruthless we are.
@@boggless2771 Yes.
*TERRA INVICTA*
Empire: where are going to invade earth
CIA: oh look at this very revealing photo of palpati..
Empire:RETREAT
Empire: We're going to invade Earth.
CIA: /starts Operation "Organa"/
Empire: Wtf, how are we in a civil war all of a sudden?
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They wouldn't just retreat the would build the death star to destroy all evidence
Re-watching this video made me realize the Imperial walkers are meant to oppress rebellions not fight in actual military to military combat.
Now who where the real bad guys is the movies? Not the good guys when u look into more facts like this. The empire might not have been as evil as everyone thinks
@@zeno6654 The lack of a population in geonosis says other wise. And the debris field known as aldaran
Indeed , there is no reality where a police force suppresses a pissed off earth not even stardestroyers much less storm troopers😂
In my mind I rationalize Endor like this: Imperial equipment was designed to deal with threats that were at a similar technological to their own. It never occurred to the Empire to make armor that withstood clubs and rocks, or walkers that would have to deal with getting smashed by logs. If that's the case, we might actually do pretty okay against them in a ground invasion, however my suspicion is that we'd surrender long before that became a problem. The empire doesn't *have* to invade. They have but to sit up there in their nice, safe, city-sized ships and say, "Surrender now please, we have you surrounded," and if we had any sense that's exactly what we'd do, lest they melt the whole planet down to the fossil record.
Well that's a problem when you're gonna go up against a gun that are on Earth that can Penetrate straight right through walls no matter what I'm sorry I'm picking the US military forces here No way around it I'm sorry but I'm just going to go with that the way I think about it I say when military puts you through all stuff that's a lot better than what storm troops I've been through that shows you that's a lot more impressive and a lot more feats of what they got And that power they got is a lot more on their side Then storm troops I don't think storm troops arctica would stand any of these guns there are too much for their armor and their armor might have limits to that at this point.
And that tells you how do you even top any of that with US military forces I mean that what military has done over the years has sharked me at this point. In fact I think storm troops would be a lot more afraid of the US military Other countries that were on Earth that it makes them think they don't have enough firepower here That are that big of a deal That are a lot tougher here Even if they do know it they know they are up against Them Is in a trap situation.
In fact US military and all these countries will make the galactic Empire look like as if they would suck Instead of them on Earth I say Earth Is with the US military and all of our countries wins On Earth and in space.
Or the empire could just destroy a big city and say surrender or all your city will be like this! Also the empire really dont care about civillians so they could just use a bioweapons and just send a bom that contains a deadly virus to earth and boommmm they will just sit and wait until everyone dies and send a million of stormtrooper to clear the dead bodies
@@Gmal51 The Empire very clearly has space superiority. They can park in an orbit that we can't reach and make us sorry we thought we had a chance. If they send troops to the surface it's our war to win but there's no reason for the Empire to ever do that before securing our unconditional surrender.
June 2020: COVID "it can't get any worse right?"
July 2020: Galactic Empire Invades Earth
August 2020: Earth Invades Galactic Empire.
you just had to say it
a surprise to be sure
but a welcomed one
July 2020: Galactic Empire comes to put us out of our misery
You say it like it's a bad thing?
The Empire: Invades
The Spokesman: Commander, the Council has seen it necessary to reactivate the XCOM project.
I need this as a mod.
@@lukasprazak7362 There is actually a mod for that in XCOM 2.
The problem with using only the data we can see onscreen is that the empire doesn’t have plot armor and their enemies usually do, so that’s why they usually suck in a battle on screen
But empire really is weak, that's why palpatine needed the death star
You cannot defeat a real ass planet like earth or alderaan or coruscant not even with 25000 star destroyers , a planet is the ultimate bunker, i think he realized it after nAboo .
Most " planets" in that universe are mere outposts or are so depending on space trade that they can be made to agree with anything but fhe systems of full grown planets like the mon calamari are not so easily threatened and we see how easily they built a fleet to challenge the empires might
The empire could not invade even the hutts to their face
“Eventually it will be a matter of time before we grasp the ability of hyperspace”.
The UNSC has joined the chat
I read UNSC as United Nations Security Council because I have yet to play Halo, eitherway, it works for both definitions because of America and Russia
I heard Master Cheifs theme play in my head when i read this commet
lol
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Knowing that it is possible is half the battle when it comes to inventing new tech.
Imperial SD captain: Commodore, we have enemy fighters incoming.
Commodore: What do you mean? They're miles away.
Captain: You're new here, sir. That's close range for them.
Commodore: Wtf
I love this
@@und3rcov3ryeti73 The Empire didn't.
I did not understand this
Somebody explain please😅
@@jerrybi8400 It was a joke about how Earth fighters far outstrip TIE fighters and often strike from long distances.
Yes
Earth would be the Empire's Vietnam.
The truth has been spoken.
@@cnlbenmc @Sora Rioku No it wouldn't be, they can blow us up from orbit and we couldn't touch them.
@@cnlbenmc they don't have to glass the planet, just whatever cties or towns cause them issues. or ones nearby. Look up the term 'reprisals' as well.
@@cnlbenmc you really think the Empire would care if we started killing prisoners? Because they wouldn't. And they have plenty of bodies to bury us in.
@@Bronasaxon and the US could have done the same to Vietnam
One thing you didn't consider is satellites. The empire would be able to destroy our satellite arrays with ease. This would destroy our ability to communicate and coordinate, which is the greatest strength of our modern military
Not really, modern advancements have created a new communication system in case the satellite network goes down from a cyberattack or is shot down by the anti-satellite missiles. It works from multiple warships or communication arrays that make an interlocking network that passes communication when orbital satellites are down. But it only works for the Western nations as being spread out needed cohesion from the military.
I personally feel that the empire and the civilisation in star wars is stagnating, technologically mainly. And its this factor that'll spell doom for the empire. Even if we'd get to their level we'd also push to beat them technologically as well. Seeing as how dominance over the enemy is our whole thing.
They have the same tech for thousands of years
@@alphagamer9505 Yeah like why? I know that there was a war in the SW universe that lasted so long and was so devastating that it resulted in people fighting each other with primitive weapons but to say that they haven't advanced their technology centuries after the war is ridiculous. Maybe they didn't want a repeat, IDK
@@Brother_O4TS My theories on why technology in the Star Wars universe is "stagnating" are from points of view from inverse and real life. George Lucas wanted the Star Wars universe to look and feel like a futuristic WWII/Vietnam battleground. Have you seen the movie, "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow"? That's a weird movie from the perspective of how sci-fi/fantasy was envisioned from the 1930's of the future. In the real ever-expanding technology of Earth, close-quarter combat of aircraft is almost non-existent. Targets are hit with missiles hundreds of miles away without eye-contact. I think Lucas wanted Star Wars to have a particular feel of close-quarter combat which is awesome. Now onto why it appears technology in Star Wars is stagnating... I view the Star Wars "Universe" in the light of the God/Source/Force expansion of an earlier incarnation of time and space that is more limited than the Universe that includes Earth. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." implies to me that certain technological achievements are not able to be "unlocked". What would take thousands of years for some worlds to evolve into a "modern" technological era only took Earth 300 years. My view is a mix of evolutionary/philosophical/technological reasons why we see a "stagnated" technology. Think about it, the Death Star was the biggest technological device ever constructed in the galaxy and it was only the size of a small moon, but hyperspace technology has been around for thousands of years connecting thousands of star systems with access to the latest technologies. From how Earth is progressing from the last 300 years alone, we will be beyond that Star Wars technology 300 years from now. Our current incarnation has more "unlocked" features in every aspect. That's just my views of it all.
@@demonicaxeman7264 Your probably right. The stagnating technology is for story reasons. Realistically, we could go beyond the technology of Star Wars, as you said.
@@demonicaxeman7264 so what you're saying is that we're the luckiest beings in existence because we live here
SCP Foundation: hippity hoppity, *release the Anomaly*
"I'll throw you into the Rancor pit."
"I'll throw you into SCP 682's contaiment pen."
“I’ll release Dr. bright, I swear on me mum!!”
They would have advance warning, they would be able to pretty much nuke indiscriminately (SCP 2000), They would be able to make a deal with some Keters (tell 049 that he can have all the test subjects he needs, just make sure they're the guys in white armor, tell 682 that it can go loose, just put it on a star destroyer) and most importantly:
*THEY WOULD HAVE DR. BRIGHT*
It's all fun and games until the SCP foundation releases scp-096 on the imperials
@@nelsonquiroz8692 the stormtroopers: shoot it
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I literally watch it third time, it is how good you guys manage to present the topic, even if I know and understeand it, I still watch your videos.
The Empires greatest advantage would be their ability to invade with massive amounts of resources and manpower and deliver them to battlefields nearly instantly from orbit.
It becomes a question similar to how another commenter phrased it: could the combined militaries of the Earth take over an ant hill? That's more along the lines of what it would be when Earth got turbolasered into oblivion or became a weapons testing site for the empire.
ICBMs think not.
@@polls. nah one tie fighter could intercept an ICBM solo
@@nPcDronereally? ICBMs are real fast and Star wars starships go as fast as your average ww2 aircraft
@@nPcDrone lacking fire control systems
So I'll agree with the core premise, SW armies (as depicted on screen) are in most ways less effective at waging war than their modern terran counterparts, however I would argue they manage to look a hell of a lot cooler doing it.
of course, Star Wars is nothing more than the rule of cool.
How cool can you look with several large holes in your chest? sm
Honestly, I don't think Star Wars looks that cool. It's a unique aesthetic and I love it, and it's really cinematic, but realism and coolness..
Eh
@@failandia Warhammer 40k: "I beg to differ."
@@gaspardduclos5203 40k =/= cool
A few points. Blasters have no stealth, which is likely why the Empire had forsaken camo. No use wasting credits that could go towards building the Death Star. I think a more interesting fight would be earth vs the Galactic Republic. Clone troopers are FAR more disciplined than storm troopers, and their weapons and gear are much higher quality. The Republic put more focus on Quality than quantity. That boils down to context though. The Republic was fighting a major galaxy spanning war, the Empire on the other hand already controlled the galaxy.
So the Empire's shock and awe doctrine is better designed to keeping down an already pacified civilian populace. All while keeping the gear cheap, if the Empire loses a bucket head, pull in the next schmuck and equip him with more cheap gear. Anything past rioting civilians and disgruntled nerf herders with their varmint shooters, the Empire has it's logistical network spanning the galaxy, plenty of bodies to throw at a problem. We can start to see why they eventually lost out to the Rebels, who where they could, invested in higher quality gear and starfighters.
Whether the Empire could win a war against earth depends on how much resources they could dedicate towards the invasion. But even in a "Victory" scenario, there would still be a guerrilla war going on all throughout the occupation, and would likely mirror their failures on Lothal. Cases in real wars show that a dedicated guerrilla army can match a technologically superior army. (See Vietnam and various Middle Eastern conflicts.)
Ultimately, if I were tasked with occupying Earth, I would try to take the planet through diplomacy and propaganda. I would offer individual nations membership into the Empire with a simple deal, run things as you like, pay Imperial taxes, get Imperial technology. Those nations would be propped up by that technology against their neighbors in the event that the neighbors become hostile. But good chance they will sign on too to avoid being left behind by the countries that joined the Empire. What's more, I could directly recruit new soldiers from Earth very easily, many would jump at the chance to leave to explore the galaxy. Without even taking the planet I could provide the Empire with the Earth's superior military personnel.
Just imagine how much they Empire could benefit from hiring a veteran from the Iraq war working as an adviser on how to put down some local insurrection on a distant alien planet.
If it really came down to an actual conflict though, why should I waste a single drop of Imperial blood? To fight a Terran, you send a Terran. Either, your allies win, or if they ultimately lose, Earth will have spent much blood and treasure to have ousted them. At this point, they should be battered, weak, and war weary. Invade, hopefully with a force that has learned a thing or two from Terran military doctrine or perhaps composed of Terrans loyal to the Empire. Reinstall Empire friendly leadership, and leave a garrison composed of Terrans, with Imperial overseers. Rinse and repeat the process, always have Terrans do the fighting for you, waste naught, want naught.
Start mining and build shipyards on Mars. I don't necessarily need full political control of Earth to exploit the star system's resources to feed the Imperial war machine.
Yeah, this post was longer than I planned. XD
Your probably right especially about the recruitment thing like even thinking about it now if the empire offered me a chance to go to space and new planets for a couple of years of being a storm trooper I would happily accept and I could just dessert of things weren’t going to great
Hmmm.
I think this would make a good movie with your idea as plot
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@@whimbur u ok brover?
@@g.o.paciong3015 That would be an interesting movie
One thing that I always come back to about being technologically advanced is that you might not be advanced in what matters. Look at TIE Strikers for example. It's just so odd. Here you have a plane with laser weapons, shielding, and ion engines.
Yet it's still technologically inferior to something such as a MiG-21 or Dassualt AlphaJet. Even a B-57B. An A-10 Warthog, an outdated plane not even meant for air-to-air combat, would still smack it because the technology gap is surreal.
"The Galactic Empire lacks spine."
That sir, is a burn on a magnitude never seen before.
Vader has.
*The Empire arrives*
Every nation with a nuclear arsenal: "How many nukes do we launch sir?"
*"Yes"*
"Да"
Every scientist and politician that realises nukes lose their destructive power in vacuum and creates an EMP in the ground below: "that would be highly problematic!"
@@noobsaibot8780 oui
@@TheSpearkan explosives still work in a vacuum, specifically in star wars the outside of ships commonly blew up.
*the empire* incoming things!
It’s as if the imperial military were designed by filmmakers instead of military theorists.
But the EMpire would win pretty easily. He greatly underestimates the Empire in this video.
@@CoolMyron No, you just don't understand war. When taking a single planet (the equivalent of a city, country, whatever) takes more than a planet's worth of loss, it's not worth it. Why lose more than what you gain?
@@Espartanica You gain everything on a planet. That is more then enough. Not every war is fought just to completely destroy the other faction
@@CoolMyron Okay but what happens when you lose more than you gain? And do you not realize we'd use the threat of making our planet unusable as leverage? If it's just about resources they could choose from any planet in our solar system anyways without conflict.
@@CoolMyron "Not every war is fought just to completely destroy the other faction. You gain everything on a planet when you conquer it."
The Death Star says otherwise. The Empire doesn't care about planets themselves or their resources. They care about controlling the population and forcing it to submit to their will.
Considering how the Ewoks did against the empire with some stones and twigs I’d think we would have a pretty solid chance against them. Their armor is plastic and they can’t shoot straight
Yea during an occupation, not the initial invasion/ attack
It is not plastic 🐳💀
This is why I hate the "cannon" so much star wars legends shows stormtroopers as elite their training is ridiculous. They are motivated, etc the can't shoot straight is bullshit if they let them do that in the movie it would have ended in the first movie then boom star wars is over
@@byEmiBF29 it definitely looks like plastic
@@noahtherussian if we don’t have cannon we have nothing
I like how I could pretty much distinguish who has watched the entire video and who hasn't
It's embarrassing and it's quite honestly silly it's as if they're assuming its up against the entire empire rather than a task force
Ryan Connelly that’s the internet for ya
Modern human attention span is proven to last for only 5 seconds.
@@ryanconnelly2405
Knowing a bit of star wars lore the largest battle the empire took part in was over the forest moon of Endor. The imperial fleet had a grand total of, 35 star destroyers a super star destroyer and the death star. The empire was so overstretched that they couldn't spare to send too many more without the rebellion noticing or occupied worlds starting uprisings. For our world in our level of technology compared to theirs, even getting 2 star destroyers over our world would be excessive. Most likely some old flotilla of no more than 1 Venator with smaller support ships would stumble here. And they have weaker shields and less weapons than a victory or imperial 1 or 2 star destroyer.
How?
I agree with the video, I just want to add few specification:
1) AT-ST can reach 90km/h on flat terrain and similar speeds in terrains most Earth vehicles couldn´t reach. They´re not that well armored, but their mobility could be important. AT-AT is still good only for parades though.
2) Stormtrooper armor is made to withstand heat of blaster fire, not power of gunfire. That´s why any bullet is going to go through as if the armor wouldn´t be there. It´s kinda weird, given that bullet shooting guns exist in Star Wars.
3) The cyber attack depends on how Star Wars computer works in comparison to Earth one. It propably would be possible to hack Imperial computers, but Earth would need to understand the computers first.
Lol “your armor stops the bullet, not the energy”
Los AT-ST no alcanza velocidad de 90 km/h, se mueve muy lento pera tener tal velocidad, y mucho vehículos militares en la tierra, alcanza velocidades de 90 km/h y hasta más.
@@AlphaCarinae thick enough Kevlar would stop a crossbow bolt better than storm trooper armor could stop a .223 though haha. Not to mention troops also have both Kevlar and ceramic plates in most body armor.
Storm trooper armor is basically just insulated plastic.
Slugthrowers in the star wars universe probably use dull ammunition like those used for the Musket or like a shitty version of a 9mm round
@@AlphaCarinae when there is no armor yes
We need to seperate between pre-Disney Empire and Disney-Empire. The Disney Empire would ram half of their fleet into the moon first, blow up the other half on orders of Tarkin and then confuse vulcanos for command bases losing their whole invasion army as a result.
Lol
Yup
Destroying the moon would fuck us up as well btw
i am guessing that the pre-disney empire is smarter.
Luckily, it seems that the Templin Intitute used mostly Original Trilogy content for their analysis of Imperial capabilities.
One thing about earth is we have truly mastered war. Something the Empire would certainly take into consideration. Not to mention our inability to surrender. An orbital bombardment may not be as effect when nukes and other missiles are involved. As soon as a fleet enters orbit we would certainly strike first. The Death Star is really the only option if a few thousand nukes don’t hit it first as soon as it’s in range.
Humans are just super violent and have relied on war throughout our existence so we’ve perfected it while in Star Wars there peaceful I don’t think they’ve needed a large military up into the clone wars so yea we probably could defend for a while but they would just get mad after we nuke there ships and then they would shoot us with Death Star because we’re so dangerous
You're over rating earth soooo much
I reckon this is what the empire would need to conquer earth
2 Star Destroyers, multiple TIE fighter and some ground troops to use for occupation when it is over.
First, destroy every satellite on earth, that gets instantly rid of any non-cable communication methods we have as well as GPS and, since it's in space, we can't do crap about it.
Then, start the bombardment.
Even if an ICBM manages to get into orbit and hit a destroyer (which I don't think would do anything because shields are a thing and ICBMS aren't precise to the meter, much less without GPS or other navigation methods) but, even IF it worked, and a destroyer was taken down...
Then just give the order, screw it, this planet is too backwards, glass it, the destroyer would retreat into a higher orbit from were no weapons could touch it and give an ultimatum, surrender or face total surface annihilation.
Imperial Win.
Even if they decided for some reason to use conventional methods like ground troops and aerial dogfight they would still hold the edge over us.
They have likely an army of millions with thousands of air fighters. Now, admittedly TIE fighters would go down rather quickly (tho they probably have some sort of long range radar to detect stuff like missiles so it is kinda dubious if our famous missiles would be able to hit them at all) but as soon as the units with shields get in, we're screwed.
For ground units they can just use Russian tactics and flood us with men, men with good armour, canonically good aim (remember what Obi Wan said about Stormtroopers being great marksman? It's just that heroes often have meters thick plot armour that deflects blaster fire) and they have bacta and other solutions (so downed soldiers could be brought right back into action in a matter of minutes or hours rather than weeks or months)
Overall their tech skill is way too high for us to overcome, especially in stuff like prosthetics and other methods, if a soldier loses a leg here on earth, that's it, he's no longer able to fight but if a stormtrooper loses it he can get a robot one and be back to the battlefield in a day.
About hacking... Maybe?
Except that, what you all seem to miss, is that they don't use USB, or standard computing, they're from a galaxy far far away, why the heck do we think they're gonna use normal computers?!
We'll need to first study their tech and coding If we want any hope at all to defeat their cyberdefense and that takes time.
Time that we'll not be given, because the empire will crush us.
(As an example, the rebels can hack into imperial systems quite easily... Because compared to them they at least are on the same tech field, we're trying to compare our computers to those of an empire which has figured out FTL flight, galaxy-wide colonisation, cloning, etc...)
So I ask again, what hope do we have?
If I had to say, this will be looking less like an actual war and more like War of the Worlds, our entire military struggling against a vastly superior enemy and failing at it for a while (tho in this case we may actually be able to down their walkers and TIE fighters given how badly they seem to be designed)
Or maybe the 7 hour war from Half Life? Something like that probably.
The empire better stay at Arms Lengths Because if hoomans get a single small starship the game is over, presumably we only need to hold the line till then and then the empire would be begging for mercy a few months after that
AT-AT: “I have thick, impenetrable armour”
Apache: well yes but actually no
Apache: ...well maybe you do... RUN!
even if the main hull was armored on an AT-AT, joints are much weaker, and a shot to the knees would likely immobilize an AT-AT, while shooting the neck makes it explode
@@moo4boy the only weak point was its neck. you see it get shot in the knee by an AT Battery and it did nothing. The neck was the weakest part... but it was still strong, just not as armored as the rest.
@@CoolMyron Well, not exactly, AT-ATs have at best 200mm of protection on the top or sides, and the armor is likely some form of Rolled Homogenous armor. AGM-114 hellfires can penetrate over a meter of RHA at any angle, and have a maximum range of 8 kilometers. Guided by laser pointer into the head of an AT-AT, the crew is dead as doornails.
@@CoolMyron Haha Hesh go brbabrbarbarbarbbrarrrrlsg
Empire: Invades Earth
Star Wars Cosplayers: "My Time has come"
The art of fucking up the enemy from the inside
literally
The Spy
I can only imagine the amount of star wars fans turning into spies for their government
I mean I would probably do that
Video:if "The Galactic Empire took over earth."
2020: interesting
DONT SAY IT TO LOUD!
@@antaresplays10 THE GALACTIC EMPIRE TOOK OVER EARTH
ANAKIN HII 😭🥺
shhh, that's a spoiler for 2020!
If it ever happens I’m joining the empire
The only reason why Ewoks won was because they knew the weak points of the storm trooper armor, they’ve spent time studying them from the safety of the forest environment, that’s how they knew where their shield bunker was
When cyber security was mentioned I was certain an ad for a vpn was incoming.
Same
Lol I skipped ahead anticipating it... nope, surprise!
@@reyhanjoger2512 yep
I’m afraid we would be absolutely screwed if Thrawn is commanding the invasion force.
I think even he would reconsider invading after watching what we consider as "Art". (the Simpsons, Family Guy, Austin Powers and the Sequel Trilogy) He might see a Picaso and just call it a day.
I am not so sure. Thrawn is a genius but all the different cultures of earth would probably throw him off as one of the things that gives him a advantage is his understanding of different cultures and their flaws. And places like the U.S are mixed between all kinds of cultures due to call the people of different ethnic backgrounds. But then again he is a genius and would figure something out.
He may be a tactical genius but that couldn’t save them from the fact that their tech is horribly obsolete on every front except the ships themselves. Their blasters move at like 75mph. Meaning at sufficient distance, normal people could dodge them.
Their armor couldn’t stop actual bullets (in canon storm troopers lose to slug throwers e which are just bullets all the time)
@@RiceCubeTech perhaps Thrawn would simply enlist the use of a superpower here on Earth as an alternative then.
No. He would destroy or control the nuclear plants and military factories. He then would try to recruit any country to try to replicate our technology, then he would collect art from all over the world. He then would make a note to keep us divided and to make preparation in case of massive suicidal attacks.
Did the Empire ever have to invade an area where all of the civilians had assault rifles?
No need, destroy a big city to show what happens to trigger happy people.
The tuskin raiders use rifles. Rifles exist in Star Wars. The main con was ammo and bulkiness, hence most use blasters.
Texas huh?
@@2000jalebi except their slug throwers are primitive. Seemingly worse than lots of lever action rifles we have. An in shape soldier has no issue carrying 4 30 round mags of 5.56. That’s 120 bullets being fired in bursts or full and slug thrower were outlawed due to how effective they were. 5.56 green tip ammo would shred storm troopers to pieces. Meanwhile, blasters have been proven to move extremely slow in comparison. As in less than 30m/s. At 200m we could kill a storm trooper in a blink of an eye but we would have roughly 8 seconds to dodge a blaster bolt we could see coming at us.
@@mr.p215 the trigger happy people don’t live in big cities lol. They live spread out in the country sides where isolation would be their key. The empire has ridiculously primitive scanning devices compared to real life. Whole rebel groups of hundreds of people armed with AR-15s could go unnoticed and seeing how much faster 5.56 green tip is compared to blaster bolts, our soldiers could literally take out an entire battalion of storm troopers before their blaster boots could even hit them. Blasters have been calculated on screen to move at roughly 30m/s. Which is so slow.
Your forgot that regular bullets can actually pass through lightsabers, making siths almost ineffective unless using the force.
That's is basically all Siths do. I'm sure Vader would be able to dodge gunfire form infantry-- shortly before getting taken out by an airstrike.
The moment when he mentioned the cyber-security was the most sponsor-segue-like thing that wasn't a sponsor-segue to have ever existed.
The practicalities of large scale war come down to logistics. The Star Destroyers could sit in orbit and strike factories, rail heads, sea ports and runways and they win. No matter the courage or POSSIBLE tactical advantage of Terran militaries, as soon as the Empire's ships hold the orbitals, there is no winning the war. :(
and we TOTALLY dont have missiles that could get them. totally.
@@Explodingtntfan I genuinely don't think any Terran militaries have a developed capacity to take down large targets outside of very low Earth orbit. ICBMs don't actually have very powerful rockets, in space terms. And their targeting systems really aren't set up for orbital targets either (probably). To add to the problem, nukes aren't great as space weapons, they would have to detonate in contact with the hull to do real damage. Could Terrans develop that sort of anti-spaceship weaponry versus high-orbiting targets, absolutely. Could we do it while under observation of a hostile force, without that force destroying the necessarily-large rockets first, I don't really think so. :)
High altitude nuclear detonation. Could destroy a Star Destroyer and disable the shields or electronics, creating massive fields or hunks of space debris the orbital invaders must dodge and move around, decreasing their effectiveness
@@nathanramage1275 I am not an expert, by any means, but I don't think that the explosion from a nuke will be very effective in near vacuum, unless in pretty-much-direct contact. And I would assume that a space-faring warship is pretty well armored against small debris, even moving at orbital speeds. But, again, I think the real problem is primarily range. As I understand them, ICBMs really only have the power to loft their payloads into sub-orbital or very low earth orbit, as that is all they need to create the necessary range. Once there, the warheads are un powered and un guided, and simply wouldn't be in a high enough orbit to reach the Star Destroyers. *shrug* That's my guess, anyway.
@@mrdragon5142 One, look up anti-satellite weapons. Two, did you just call Humans "Terrans"? GTFO with that bullshit. As for the ICBMs you mentioned in your other comment, I'd imagine they very much do have the power to do so. ICBMs don't just launch their payload up, they travel sort-of horizontally, minimizing time in orbit as to avoid detection, while also heading directly to the target. If you pointed an ICBM straight up, you just saved a shit ton of fuel that you can now use to go straight up.
Stormtroopers: We will charge to Moscow
Russian Tankist: Hold my vodka
Joseph Stalin what are you talking about all Russians have to do is watch and laugh as they freeze as the Russia winter kills the stupid imperales trying to invade Russia
@@georgestefanou4250 I mean the empire is ad at many things but weather is never a issue to them. They operate on ice worlds and larva worlds there armor is able to handle seep space. So i think the Russians would have to role in.
@@georgestefanou4250 Damn... if only theres a special group of trooper that could deal with this type of enviroment
@@georgestefanou4250 Not really ever heard of the battle of hoth even russia wouldn't be able handle the galactic empire
*Katyusha starts playing
there's an old video by E C Henry on how Stormtrooper shots are extremely more accurate than real life soldier's. they might be visible, but they don't waste rounds.
Stomtrooper : I have composite plastic armor
5.56 : Ime ruin this mans whole career
*laughs in green tip rounds*
Laughs in literally any type of ammo
I'm about to have a panic attack from pure happiness
My trigger happy finger is about to explode
One of the reasons blasters are used is because stormtrooper armor is said to be extremely effective against projectile weapons
Stormtrooper armour is imprevious to bullet
2345: Earth becomes an ecumenopolis
3456 CE: The Greater Terran Union uses the sword of terra on coruscant :3
*1+ trillion inhabitants dead*
@@generalfred9426 2 trillion dead also goc is from scp universe
@@generalfred9426 You should mind shredding chairs more carefully, yer mess is painful to contain.
@@chh2010 no that's 3 trillion saved who the heck even thinks that the Foundation will save the human race I mean look at scp 5000
@@NPCNo-xm2li actually some idiot thought it was better to shred it than burn it
Stormtroopers: we have armor!
Earth: Laughs in
*.50 cal*
*7.62 NATO AP*
*IEDs*
*noob tubing*
In a serious note: I think the empire would try to use more subtle tactics to dominate earth, like using bribery, spies, information networks, give gifts to the people to make themselves look good, sabotage leaders of countries making them look bad
Dont forget the soviet 7.62 and anti material riffles.
Orbital bombardment. All capitols, largest cities and military bases all lost in a matter of minutes
@@timyuusis3372 yes, at that point any major land conflict is pointless, whomever controls the space around a planet controls the planet.
The Empire could easily wipe out the cities nearest to any sign of resistance from the safety of space, as well as reward loyalists to the Empire at the same time, we would hunt down the members of the resistance ourselves.
@@timyuusis3372 they wouldnt do that if they want to occupy earth. Whats there to occupy if its all dust.
nah they just need two star destroyer and say: submit
I think just detonating a nuke in any battle may just scare them away from any attempt at a ground assault
"You can't just detonate nuclear weapons in your own biosphere!"
"WRONG!" *Flash*
"Hhahahahaha!"
Yup...humans are insane enough to make earth skies and orbit glow red with nuclear explosions for a few minutes...if pushed against the wall...emp shockwaves disabling shields.. then afterwars Earth would have a nice ring from star destroyer leftovers...
@@DreamskyDance Blooming time for the salvage industry ^^
There's a reason there is an Abundance of stories with us being basically the Space Orks, We're a Tenacious species that'll go the extra mile when needed to take you down even if it's for a petty thing
@@Voron_Aggrav not only that we, for some reason, nailed a man of peace and god to a stick
Except you don't actually have the ability to launch them high enough to hit SDs. Look up the actual orbital flight profile of an ICBM; most are estimated with reasonable accuracy. You're bragging about the size of a bullet in a jammed gun.
There's a couple problems with your arguments here. The main thing that I think you're missing is that the Empire would attempt to incentivize existing governments to join the Galactic Empire willingly. Essentially just show the kinds of technological advancements that could be achieved through sharing technology since in terms of space travel and artificial intelligence and energy production Earth is relatively incredibly backwards. Once they've gotten the most powerful Earth governments to agree to joining the Empire they would then slowly but surely let economics become the weapon that they use to bring the rest of the planet under control. They wouldn't need to launch a full scale invasion. Governments like in America, China and Russia would be tripping over themselves to destroy any dissenters in order to acquire that technology. Meanwhile the Empire is just using us to strip mine our own solar system for them.
Don't forget the military industrial complex that pretty much took over the U.S's checkbook. Give us a couple of TIE fighters and a light cruiser to research and Lockheed Martin would have a new fighter out as quick as possible and if the empire gave our government ships and mining equipment, we'd mine the entire solar system for materials and create our own fleet of star destroyers. Plus our spec ops teams could be used to train imperial troopers on guerilla warfare. Honestly, it would be a win win on both sides.
That is exactly what happened in some Star Wars side material. Empire incentivized the major governments of a world with huge economic leverage and give them an imperial garrison that recruits locally. Bam. Didn't even need to fire a single shot.
Damn, now I really want someone to write a series about the Empire invading Earth.
Yay me too
i'm sure someone has written a fanfic about it
@@TheSpearkan link to the fanfiction please
@@TheSpearkan me too plz
I think someone write a fan fiction where Earth join the Empire
I guess it depends on how much plot armour the Earth forces have. In the films etc the imperial forces were designed to appear threatening but ultimately overcome by the heroes in dramatic fashion.
It's actually how much plot armor Earth has. Every time the empire fought regular rebel forces, aka. not the heroes, they usually won.
Yeah exactly this
everyone is saying "but muhh nukes" entirely forgetting that, even if we kill one ISD, the empire could just send another, then another, and so on. Not only that, but after the second one, theyd send an entire battlefleet because guess what, they wouldnt be so happy about it.
It also doesnt factor in that we'd fuck ourselves over SO BAD. Depending on where the ISD is located, the radiation would slowly kill us, and thats still a massive hull thatll come crashing down on earth (but now also emitting radiation).
"Yeah well we have guns so empire takes an L"
If slugs were so good, why didnt the rebels use them? Simple, because Blasters are way better.
Blaster bolts are cheaper, more accurate, and ammo is basically not a problem. Blasters are also a massive pain in the ass to deal with when it comes to healing.
Healing is also another area where the Empire has the upper hand. Bacta is crazy effective, compared to what we are able to use. For us, a gun wound may take months to heal. Bacta does it in a fraction of the time.
"Stormtroopers are inaccurate!!" People have tallied it up, and they are by far more accurate than our modern militaries when it comes to Shots per Casualty. They are literally highly trained Soldiers. Dont even get me started with Dark Troopers, which would probably be involved in small numbers aswell.
"Well, the TIE is ineffective against our modern fighters" Yes and no. The main issue here is that tie fighters are so incredibly maneuverable its astonishing. They are also used in massive numbers constantly, so theres not just going to be one on one fights, but an entire squadron of TIEs all flying together, covering each other etc. Their pilots are literally the best the entire GALAXY has to offer.
"We'll just use information warfare" This is a point i will agree, we'd probably have them beat. Although spies would be ineffective and we'd be entirely reliant on hacking them, and who knows how we will do that. We'd first need to capture a HoloNet capable device. We cant just use the good old Internet for that sadly. Then its a question of figuring out how their code works. All of that needs to be figured out first, but once that is done, then we'd probably beat them consistently.
And then, there is the final trump card of the empire, something we will absolutely lose against. Nothing we can do about it.
Palpatine, Vader, and then all the inquistors.
Realistically, after we kill 2 or 3 ISDs, Palps would send Vader to take care of it. What does that entail? Well for one, we go from fighting run of the mill Imperial Army and Navy, to fighting against the ELITE forces of the empire.
Better trained, better equipped, and just better in every way. Ex Clone troopers, who fought in a massive Conventional war, mixed with the best Stormtroopers out there, you then also have some of the best fighters out there, and even worse: An imperial battlefleet. Enough ships to simply bombard us, and just to make it entirely unfair, a SISD. These things are fucking cities wide. 16km is no joke, and they have the power to match that size.
I havent even touched on Vader himself yet, who can move ENTIRE FUCKING BLACK HOLES. Vader was so powerful he could kill people without being in the same room as them. He was a Veteran of the clone wars, one of the best duelists the galaxy ever saw, is extremely powerful in the force etc etc.
@@historyman9436"Vader, please settle this resistance swiftly".
I can agree that the Empire's tactics are less than effective... But when it comes to firepower and protection, we have observed blaster bolts causing damage comparable to small grenades and Stormtrooper armor protecting against shrapnel, and everything being scaled up from there. The initial invasion would succeed, it's the guerilla following that, especially once the resistance acquires blasters of their own, that would give the Empire nightmares.
We've observed imperial vehicle armor crumbling under the impact of a log, and Stormtroopers being knocked out by a bolas thrown by a three foot creature without the arm length for a proper throw. We've seen unarmored rebels survive glancing hits from blaster rifles. We've also tracked the blaster bolt travel speed to less than 30m/s, meaning at the 200m effective range of modern rifles you have 8 seconds to duck the incoming fire (indeed we see storm-troopers being basically useless except in tight quarters in the movies too). Scale it up from there.
More over, we've seen that what the Empire considers a strong invasion force is a couple dozen star destroyers. That sounds impressive until you realize that's less than 50,000 troops (out numbered 10 to 1 by the US Army alone) and only 2,500 fighters (half the US air force).
Worse, it's only about 200 Lamda class shuttles to land those troops, meaning they need to establish a breachhead with only 4,000 troops. Given that the Lamda class can only do about 850km/h in atmosphere, it is vulnerable to even world war 2 era anti aircraft weapons.
If the empire sent every star destroyer in their fleet along with support craft and some dedicated troop transport they might be able to match the shear military manpower available to the Earthlings. Unfortunately, because those troops are set up for fear, intimidation, and human wave tactics, they'd need a lot more troops than us to mount a successful attack.
Also, keep in mind that one of the things Earth has that we don't often talk about is several arrays of defenses specifically built to shoot down swarms of vehicles reentrying the atmosphere. Defenses designed to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles will have no problem at all targeting landing craft instead.
@@gnaskar I think the Dozen ISDs is a bit generous. For planets like Lothal they had Light cruisers guarding it. People seem to forget the Empire had only 25,000 Star destroyers ranging from the Victory-I to the Imperial-II. Now while that sounds like a lot, those ships are needed to patrol hyperspace lanes and planets that have starships of their own and hunt down rebels in the Outer Rim. Them sending even ONE old clapped out Victory-I to Earth and a few Arquitens light cruisers plus a Raider corvette or 2 would be more likely and even then that Victory will probably be needed elsewhere so that leaves Earth vs a Few light cruisers and corvettes who are both gonna need to get down to Earth to support their troops who are going to be overrun and then they themselves will be hit by ICBMs once in range.
Im my opinion; the Empire isn't going to even CARE about Earth. We have no resources they can't get on a dozen easier worlds. We have no Force sensitives. We have no Starships. And our industry can't be easily turned to make Blasters or TIEs. Earth is more trouble than it's worth given we are as irritable as a Mandalorian seeing a Jedi during the Crusades. Unless the Empire plans on recruiting from Earth or if Grand Admiral Thrawn's ISD crashed here after the end of Rebels, the Empire isn't gonna pay us the light of day. Not when they got the ever growing Rebellion breathing down their necks.
@@gnaskar one ISD is enough to wipe out entire continents in a single barrage especially since we have no actual defense against orbital bombardment
@@deloreanrc No thats not true at all, the one thing the earth does have that not many other planets do have is the fact that we are able to grow so much food. IF you removed all humans from the planet and turned all the land on earth that could support it into farms you could support about 1 trillion people in terms of food by using the most calorically dense foods per acre.
@@vanguard5718 Un ISD no es suficiente para acabar con continentes enteros, solo mide 1.600 de largo y 900 de ancho, algo haci no podría acabar con un continente.
To be completely honest, our world is primitive enough by star wars standards that I don't think we would get the luxury of actual storm troopers... I think we would just get an invasion force of imperial normal troopers, like we saw in that one bit of Solo... Still a really good video though.
Probably. Of course, those poor imperial army troops would dig their trenches only to discover that we have fully mechanized armored brigades with mobile artillery support.
earth military in a nutshell : *"haha missile go brrrr"*
Imperials: Nooooooooooo! We're a interstellar civilization you primitive cannot fight us and win.
Earth: haha Modern warfare go brrrr
Starfighter Pilots: *Haha Electronic countermeasures go wrrrr*
@@TheGoodOne1998 just space bomb earth and call it a day
Don't even need guided missiles to hit an AT-AT. Infantry with dumbfire rockets would work just fine.
@@marczhu7473 *Humanity:Makes Laser Anti-Bomb*
I would actually love to see this play out in a show. The idea of the Galactic Empire trying to invade and occupy earth would be such an interesting concept. Basically just Independence Day: Star Wars Edition lol
As for how it would even work, why not the ever so popular trope of "wormhole"
XD
Holy crap, I actually wanna write that now
Disney plus needs to get a series going. Vader has to be in it of course. But for it to work we’d need Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie
Would be a very short and boring show. Would just end up like mandalore. Just being realistic
@@rogueparagon9952 Fair enough
How many millions of backwater low tech planets has the empire occupied and subjugated? Earth would be no different.
Greater Terran Union vs Galactic Empire
I want to see THAT.
I really wanna see how a faction in stellaris could do against the sci-fi big wigs.
Marrqi7 wini if people say Empire wins because Death Star, I point to the Sword of Terra.
@@xavi-kun Not only that; the culture and industry of the GTU is dedicated to war. The GE is fucked - slowly. But surely.
The Imperial walkers are designed with the philosophy of 'I will get shot and it will do nothing'. Source: Battle of Hoth.
*[gets slapped with a shaped charge]*
@@Peter_Turbo4
*Slaps roof of AT-AT* This bad boy can take so -much- little punishment
US Army 13M: Finally i have a point.
@@bloq6758 “thick” is not how I would describe 2 inches of plastic-steel alloy
@@bloq6758 if a packet of ionised gas can pierce it
Then a jet of Copper excited to the state of Plasma will simply ignore it’s existence
Think before you open your mouth
Everyone talking about "oh, the Empire can call upon the resources of an entire Galaxy" or "they'll destroy us with a superweapon if we make too much trouble" are forgetting the twin problems of the Empire having commitments *all over the galaxy* constraining how much force they can allocate to any one planet, and their superweapons often don't last long before the Rebellion blows them up. Now, could the local Imperial commander decide to ragequit and have the planet reduced to ashes via orbital bombardment? Certainly, but that would require Earth's militaries not capturing enough ships to stop him.
I mean,sure if we ignore the fact the prequels showed they have whole factory planets while we haven't even mined ONE asteroid from our local asteroid belt and if you ignore the technical manuals where the smallest gun on most imperial ships is equivalent to small nukes and all craft have either advanced fusion reactors(tie fighters) or hypermatter reactors, I'm sure we can easily capture many of their wimpy ships. Actually, we'd be lucky to even be able to invade ONE Star Destroyer, even getting to it would be problematic, esp if it stayed out of our orbit. I mean, crap, the US just regained the capability to put a few astronauts into Low Earth Orbit last year, but let's pretend we'd have a chance against a Galactic Empire thousands of years in advance of us on every level of technology. Let's not forget cloning and battle droids (still science fiction for us) and pretend the Empire would be 'resource constrained' against Earth.
@@remo27 You're not comprehending the sheer SCALE of the galaxy, or how uncommon those factory worlds are. Even with every known shipyard running, one figure I read (I forget if it's Legends or Canon) stated that a Sector Fleet had 25 Star Destroyers, to cover a Sector that had well over a thousand inhabited worlds. In a scenario where the Empire doesn't decide to simply flatten the planet and move on, we theoretically COULD fight them on relatively equal terms on the ground.
Plus, since we can be argued to actually be BETTER at infiltration, a commando unit could theoretically board and capture an Imperial starship, especially if they use covert means to gain access, such as either capturing a shuttle, or simply bribing a shuttle pilot to not look too closely at the "stormtroopers" they're supposed to be bringing back to the ship. Plus, defectors and simple bribery could help supply the specialists they need to complete the capture.
Also, those "small nuke" yield figures are garbage anyway, and should be ignored because sci-fi writers have no sense of scale for how monstrously BIG the figures they casually throw around are. There's a good reason biggatons is a semi-derisive nickname for the official yields on turbolasers and other starship weapons.
@@bradycryer3276 The guy who wrote those 'small nuke yield' figures into the technical manuals was an astrophysicist and was going by what he saw on the screen. People like you who have no idea just how powerful a 'laser' would have to be to blow up a planet and fling its pieces about at thousands or more miles per hour (Hint: You couldn't do that with a death star sized antimatter laser, hence the invention of 'hypermatter' to explain the above E=MC2 energy production of the Empire) don't get to talk about how an astrophysicists figures are garbage. And you still haven't explained how anyone is going to get more than 5 to 7 people to low Earth Orbit let alone a commando squad to something much higher up. It takes us years to design the primitive rockets we have now. Much as I love Musk's vision for Starship that's the very beginning of INTERPLANETARY colonization and here we are dealing with an Empire that has Hyperdrive technology tens of thousands of years old.
@@remo27 Take one look at the trinity test footage so you know what a small nuke looks like. Now take a look at the space battles in star wars. They are not the same.
FYI, astrophysicists study single pixels of light and how they vary in intensity by a few present over a period of months. It takes an amazing amount of scientific knowhow to tease out things like the composition of the atmospheres of alien worlds from that type of data, but it doesn't make them any better than a layperson at estimating impact yields. You want to know how much power a ship needs or the yield of an explosion, you talk to an engineer, not an astrophysicist. And I guaranty you you'll never find a single engineer who'll agree with the figures in the technical manuals. They simply don't match what we see.
Because of the lack of cybersecurity, they'd get rekt. Speaking of which, THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY NORDVPN (I so expected him to say that in that part that I was actually sad that there wasn't a sponsor plug, for once)
You forgot the fact that, although it is not clear how large the empire‘s army was, they at least hat around 1.75 billion stormtroopers and millions of star destroyers. The entire earth has like maybe a few million soldiers, which means that every single soldier would have to face at least a few hundred stormtroopers and at least 1 star destroyer. Yeah guys we definitely gonna win this
Broooooo...yeah, we toast, like Vader on Mustafar! Dont mention that though, weve already got it bad enough. We dont need Vaders wrath too!
Yeah but i dont think that they're gonna use every single soldier and destroyer for 1 planet,also,recruiting will boom due to the fact that they are fighting for their home planet
@@antoniothegunexpert5955 true. But, if Vader realizes just how much we know of him(basically his whole life), how screwed are we when he shows up?
Some key things I wanted to point out was (assuming the Empire already decided on an invasion before we knew they were there) that shock and awe is a hell of a drug, as well as orbital supremacy. Most of our modern communication across the globe is handled by satellites as well as other critical pieces of hardware floating above our little orb; the moment the Empire shows up they can blow it all to smithereens and cripple us from the outside. From Space it's also impossible for us to hide many of our key assets like airfields, factories, power plants, places of government, etc.
They can literally drop to anywhere from any angle at any time, it's a lot easier to fight a battle when you choose the terrain and time. Oil is already a precious resource for us and fuels an enormous amount of our global economies and military industrial complex, and we have absolutely no way to defend all of it from an enemy raining from the skies. While we did discount obliterating us from above, there's nothing to stop the empire from using surgical strikes of precise orbital bombardment, most likely guided by strike forces sent to the ground straight from a capital ship.
While walkers are a big part of the Imperial armored corps, they also use more grounded vehicles like the clone wars era Juggernaut or the Sabertank, they also have their own mobile anti aircraft walkers (much lower profile) with potential missile jamming technology. Dark troopers would be a nightmare on the battlefield (assuming phase 2/3), while i do feel they'd struggle to hold earth; i feel you really undersold a faction who held an entire galaxy in its grip for over a decade.
Well... Destroying the whole world economy wouldn't be a smart move for post war occupation. Moreoever, our nowadays military are prepared, or at least have plans in the box, to how to work without satellite communications.
And finally, i don't think the Empire would do great against rebels movements on Earth. I mean.... We litteraly have a shit-ton of manuals of insurection and counter insurection. And military units made to work this way.
Go get us Palpatine. Try to get the Usa, or some others countries where potentially every human have a gun in his house, or made military service, as in Switzerland or both Koreas. ^^
Yeah we would be destory us hahah
@@Komrad_Cybersyn I'd rather join Palps and the Empire
@@marseldagistani1989 And i'd rather too... Or make him believe it. Copy the technology.... Then launch a galactic insurrection with decent training and tactics, while taking Coruscant on the run. And establishing the First Galactic ~~Empire~~ Confederation.
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Video: *Talks mostly about the Stormtrooper Corps*
Imperial Army: Am I a joke to you?
Imperial Army its far more incompetent than their stormtroopers, at least on movies and tv series.
@@xXFlameHaze92Xx I do believe stormtroopers *are* the Imperial army's largest unit, non?
@@devan6935 the imperial army is far larger. They are the guys you see in black clothes, wear those weird helmets and tend to carry a rifle and pistol.
@@thescottishanimeguy9946 I know *who* they are.
And I have a question
Why is it always the stormtroopers we see.
@@devan6935 because one plot, two you do see them just not very often e.g. solo, three they are usually delagated to more menial tasks such as garrisoning inner worlds, being boots on the ground for protracted conflicts like Mimbam.
I imagine the Empire would see our planet as extremely resource-rich, and therefore wouldn't want to destroy such a wealthy planet. And they're cocky: they'd try an invasion.