There is actually a Theory about that. They were chased from the 40k Galaxy by the Men of Iron. Hence their hatred for Machinery. That their Bioforms are pretty much Domesticated Tyranids cut off from the Hivemind. It does fit in the Star Wars Canon as they were canonically driven from their universe by a Sentient Machine Race.
@@zuephillips3450 if that's how you feel cool but that's not what I was hinting at personally. The tone and presentation of the Yuuzhan Vong just fit better in 40k imo
The Vong would be extremely controversial, if they came out today. 1. They are a deeply religious people, and that's not something Disney would want to touch. 2. The Vong are violent. Like deeply R rated. Slaughter and torture alike. 3. The Vong's social and political order is both fanatically hierarchical, and deeply severe. Eckhart really isn't going into the actual details here-the Vong are a passionate people that are on a religious crusade to conquer the galaxy SW, and replace its civilization with their own. They have a severe social hierarchy, and a religiosity I can only describe as passionate in its intensity and grandiosity. (Meaning they believe with deep sincerity their gods are real and have given them the universe as their domain). They are basically an alien Imperium of Man. The average Vong warrior is as fanatical about as a space marine.
I don't think they would be, at least not as controversial as you make them out to be. The Jedi and Sith are already religions, the Yuuzhan Vong would just be another one on the pile. You can definetely make them PG-13. Slaughter and torture can just be shown by implication. Remember how Han was tortured on Cloud City? And finally, you really don't need to spend that much time on them. Alien invasion movies don't really go into detail about the invaders in general, you just need to establish them as a threat. People are afraid of the unknown, after all. I don't see movies like Edge of Tomorrow or Battleship looking closely into the social structures of the invading force.
They would be controversial in that they don't fit in Star Wars, and completely ruin Palpatine/The Empire as characters. Get this 40k shit out of Star Wars
@@Eagle-mn9moExactly. I don't like Disney Star Wars either, but it's dumb for OP to claim they completely ignore religion. Me thinks OP has some political biases
#AskEck On the topic of the Yuuzhan Vong, I've always has this idea about them running into a location infested with the Sith technovirus. What would happen? Would the Vong just start crying "Heresy!!" at the idea of being forcefully turned into machines? What would the ensuing battle look like?
I don't think it would actually effect them. It's Force Based first of all, and second their BioTech is so Strong they don't seem to actually be effected by disease (until of course the New Republic makes a Superweapon based off their genetic material specifically).
The Vong are simply the perfect enemies for the Jedi, they are extremely strong beings with biotechnology, blaster-proof armor and completely invisible to the force Just the refreshment Star Wars needs
frankly they’re a bit TOO perfect of a counter for Jedi imo. we already have a whole galaxy to explore, adding extragalactic foes feels like a bridge too far for me.
Haha I thought the opposite. The Yuuzhan Vong never felt Star-Warsy to me. They're like Waroo from Crystal Star they just don't mix with the rest of the universe imo
People before you comment, acquaint yourself with the Unifying Force. The Yuuzhan Vong are still connected to the main galaxy. People have a lot of misconceptions as to where the Yuuzhan Vong "fit" into star wars. That book explains it, and then some
#AskEck Do you think that Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors will ever make their way into Canon? Or do you think that Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso have effectively replaced Kyle and Jan in the Canon timeline? And by extension, do you think that characters from the Jedi Knight games like Desann, Tavion and Rax Joris could exist in the new canon?
The garbage movie rogue one(I fell asleep in theaters when my friends invited me to watch it with them) is basically a gender swapped version of Dark Forces but worst in every way so no we won’t see Kyle Katarn or Jan Ors in canon and how can we? Since Kyle Katarn goes on from defecting to the Rebel faction then becoming a Jedi like his Father before him and goes on to become a Battlemaster in Luke’s NJO and in the sequel failogy Luke’s Jedi Order never prospered as it did in the superior Expanded Universe it exceeding Yoda’s Jedi Order from before and went on to thrive for a century until Darth Krayt initiated the third Galactic Jedi Purge so we will not see any NJO Jedi in canon thankfully and to be fair the mary sue character that is supposed to be a rip off of Kyle Katarn didn’t become a Jedi which is great. So with that no Inquisitor Jerec and his faction of Dark Jedi even though Jerec was a former Jedi Apprentice to the Librarian of the Jedi Archives from the Clones Wars whom died in Order 66 I don’t think he is canon the Jedi Knight games aren’t Disney “canon” because that version of Luke created the prospering NJO went on to fight the Yuuzhan Vong, the Kiliks, Lumiya(many times), Abeloth etc while the Disney Jake Skywalker failed in every way.
They deliberately remade those characters. They didn't even try to hide it with Jyn Erso being incredibly similar to Jan Ors and even casted someone that looked like she was cosplaying Jan Ors.
I could see there being a possibility on them making it into the canon, but it'd have to be changed a bit. For instance, Kyle could still be involved in getting the Death Star plans, but they've need to create some possible way for him to escape Scarif. It could be cool to see a modern day Kyle Katarn fighting the darktroopers prior to Mando season 2, or him as part of Luke's Jedi academy. The rest, I'd be a bit iffy on.
Who knows. Some day we might see them (or the Grysk) brought in via a show. They were nearly brought into Clone Wars before Disney bought Lucasfilm. I don't believe they were going to be as powerful, but there are some sketches of their ships and stuff leftover.
Guess am in the minority then, have always liked the Vong as a galactic enemy. Personally thought they were over the top to be the "space horde" of Star Wars, that enemy that unites other enemies to fight against them. Thou with disneys track record am glad that haven't included them in any of the movies .......... yet
You're not the minority,you're part of the majority who all agree that everything pre-Disney take over was far better then what Disney chose to do. The Vong is something we need,along with a complete retcon of the Disney crap.
@@NareshSinghOctagonThe problem is, NOBODY has the balls to do the Vong Right. They don't want a Villainous Race of...Space ISIS. It might offend the Muslims and we totally can't have that... No really, they tend to do mass murder events when they get offended.
@@NareshSinghOctagonHe's in the minority in hating the Vong, and I am too. The Vong is not what modern Star Wars needs. What modern Star Wars needs is more media like Andor and potentially KOTOR. The Vong completely subvert the core of the series by retconning Palpatine and the Empire into being the secret good guys. If they were adapted into the Sequel Trilogy by Disney or by Lucas, you all would think they're dumb villains too.
@@pancakes8670 ,they don't? No amount of Palpatine preparing for the Vong invasion changes the fact that he had the contingency plan to literally destroy every planet he could upon his death. Nor does it ever change blowing up an entire planet just to make a statement,the many,many tales of corrupt Imperials doing all kinds of nasty stuff,the enslavement of the Wookies alone to mine spice covers that,a ruthless ruling empire preparing to face off a bloodthirsty threat does not make the ruhtless ruling empire rule less ruthlessly. What modern Star Wars needs is the wipe off of the sequel trilogy,and the actual implementation of the lore that was actually made to cover that period that Disney refuses to cover.
@@pancakes8670 Factually false. Palpatine learned about the Vong after he was making his plans. The vong were a future threat to his Empire, but it was an Empire he planned for long before he knew about them. Stop getting lore from Tiktok
The show/movie story should have it be revealed that Thrawn is intending to usurp the New Republic as a means of protecting against the Grysks, so as a climax it becomes a three-way war
It should but won't, all of filonis use of the character directly contradict how he is in the books. Zhan himself has said he doesn't have involvement and doesn't see his input being used
@@TY-km8hjFiloni wanted an imperial admiral to act as his main antagonist. Instead of making his own he used one that already existed in the Star Wars Universe. Because why not? The character functionally already exists.
@intergalactic92 problem is he's using a fan favourite that he can't do justice cos he doesn't have the talent or understanding of the character for that sadly. If he wanted to use one established he could've used legit any grand admiral or imperial warlord from the EU but he chose thrawn cos it generates more interest. Imo the fact he didn't use an original character and is reliant on characters that are already made and established is telling to me, he's not the creative powerhouse ppl make him out to be
@WeaponizedAutism7 ehhh in terms of him being a straight up antagonist like in the OG thrawn trilogy sure, but that's about it. Later Zhan changed things and made thrawn more nuanced and outright went against what he originally created by saying he wasnt purely evil or selfish and thats the version that carried over into canon. Regardless of which depiction filoni wanted to adapt he still doesn't get the genius or strategy right in rebels or ahsoka to make ppl think hes a mastermind or great threat at all. On top of that the main issue is that from what we've seen this thrawn is nothing like the canon Timothy Zhan version in the books which is bad cos the whole point of canon was it being an connected universe no matter the medium. They don't gel at all. The viewers shouldn't have to do mental gymnastics cos ur depiction contradicts the other (that also came first from the acc creator).
#AskEck do we have an official name for the Star Wars galaxy, from any point in history? I was thinking about it the other day, and I can't recall a single mention of it. Not even from one species or faction.
The Galaxy is made up of planets. Those planets all have skies. The Galaxy is also made up of Rims. The Core, Mid Rim, and Outer Rim... The best possible name is Skyrim.
They really were. I'm conflicted about the Vong never really like them but always found interesting how diferent they were and how bold the narrative choices of that era of staw wars were. So I linda respect them...
Honestly...I like the Vong. Rebel Dream and Rebel Dawn are the Best Two Book Series in all of Star Wars. Nothing beats Wedge and Tycho happily skipping down the street on Borleias and telling Jaina Solo that they were so excited because today they were going to lose the base to the Vong...on purpose so they could hit them with a Lusankya SSD Orbital Bombardment. That Bromance between the two was classic. Traitor is probably hands down the Best Written Star Wars Book of all time in my opinion. The Breaking and Remaking of Jacen Solo under the tutelage of Vergere.
#AskEck What was the whole deal with the Pius Dea era of star wars lore, from what i've seen and heard it is more akin to warhammer 40k in tone and themes with cathedral ships and crusades against non human speices for some god
@@Bluepizza1684 you pretty much summed it up. A cult who worshipped "The Goddess" went on a rampage against non-humans. It wasn't as edgy as 40k with the whole "kill all xeno scum" thing, but it took the Jedi and Hutts to stop the Contispex dynasty.
Day thirty one of asking Eck my question: #AskEck Why do you think the pirates kept grogu, there was quite obviously a bounty on him considering all the hunters with tracking fobes and I doubt they wouldn't have known about it, so we're actually protecting him. My theory is that after he was saved after the purge, so senator or rebel group hired these pirates to protect him, but was eventually captured by the empire or forgot about grogu, (why he was never given to the new republic after the war), and the pirates not knowing he was a jedi just kept and raised him till mando showed up, killed them and stole their kid.
Honestly, the same thing happened to the Rakata at the height of their Infinite Empire. There is a precedent of the Force cutting off species that harm it too much.
#AskEck What is the fastest capital ship in each era, hyperspace wise? For instance Hammerhead cruiser size up to Eclipse super star destroyer. And a very brief of each one. Like a famous named ship, manufacturer, and era/time range of usage.
#AskEck Ive heard a lot about how good the revenge of the sith novelization is, but what about the books for phantom menace and aotc? Are they also worth reading? What about the OT? Are there novel versions of those movies too? Are they any good? Currently reading halo first strike but once i get through the halo novels id like to start reading the star wars books including all the legends stuff
The Revenge of the Sith novelization is the best Star Wars novel I've ever read. Yes, even above Lost Stars. I read the original trilogy novels around the time the Special Editions came out. That was over twenty five years ago now, so my memories are a bit fuzzy. The original, officially written by George Lucas (but not really) was satisfying, but didn't really add much. The Empire Strikes Back novel was quite strong, adding additional details to some scenes. The Return of the Jedi novel is one of the worst books I've ever read. Though it might be worth checking out for that reason alone, since it isn't all that long.
No real fan wants the Yuuzhan Vong to be part of Disney “canon” absolutely not especially me because the 19 NJO Novels are sacred to me as it’s easily the top 4 best era of SW it was something completely new original and chartering into Dark territories equally rivaling Order 66 and the fall of the Galactic Republic during the climax of the Prequel Era with more grotesque and violent themes characterizing the Yuuzhan Vong lots of characters sacrificing themselves this wasn’t going to be the happy ROTJ ending to say the least meanwhile all this happening you see lots of character arcs and development from your favorite characters and mine like Luke Skywalker, Kyp Durron, Kyle Katarn, Corran Horn, Mara Jade, the Solo children, Grand Admiral Pellaeon, Natasi Daala, Boba Fett and so on you got to see 2 opposing factions unite against this bigger threat and greater evil to the Galaxy so much so that these beings were cut off from The Force and in conclusion no one wants something so amazing in Story telling to get desecrated by cash shilling goyslop that is Disney.
At this point, I’d love to see Disney try their hand at the Vong just to watch all the EU fanboys scream bloody murder about it. Especially when a general audience sees them and calls them out for being the generic fanfiction Marysues they are. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are fundamentally part of the Expanded Universe, the Expanded Universe and Disney canon should remain separate. Filoniverse and Disney are one thing, Expanded Universe is another.
#AskEck regarding to ship designs in legends, how do they change over time. Like for example 100 years after the vong invasion, how do the ships look like during that time period?
My boi Justin back with another banger! Honestly I think bring the vong back into cannon would be great for the new trilogy. I think they could do NJO but with Rey since they killed off Luke. Edit: I think the Grysk are similar to the vong but they aren’t as good as the vong.
From my understanding the Yuuzhan Vong and the Grysk have next to the differences in technology one more major difference, that being their war doctrine. As far as I know (I never read The New Jedi Order) the Grysk conquer through force, strategies and violence, like many other evil factions. The Grysk however conquer not by themselves. They use vassals, beings who weaken their enemies for them, causing for example civil wars, so the Grysk can swoop in and take over the weekend nation. Or nfluence the government of a nation, where the population follows blindly, and take over the nation this way. They do not engage in violence if necessary, they stay back and observe, then strike at the right time. I think the true danger of the Grysk is the fact, that you never know, how far they already achieved this goal. With the Yuuzhan Vong, I'd say the danger was pretty obvious.
I always thought the Yuuzhan Vong were a bad direction for Star Wars, definitely one of my least favorite things about EU canon (but still better than Disney canon). Overpowered, too much death and chaos, too much change to the galaxy. Plus, their physical appearance was bad to the point of me considering it as anti-creative. A species hailing from another galaxy should not resemble Humans even remotely. However, I will agree with some of the other commenters in that they were at least not another Empire ripoff.
They're not technically from another galaxy; they were exiles from a long dead past version of the Living Planet Zonoma Sekot. I'd also argue that adding a species of death-focused zealots is the perfect enemy for Luke's Order. They required Luke to re-examine everything he thought he knew, and to actually address the problem of what the purpose of the Jedi was (although he failed to go far enough in his rethinking, and did absolutely no restructuring).
@@michaeljamesm The death star would make short work of the worldships, but the Empire's TIE fighter design wouldn't be sufficient to deal with coral skippers. The TIE-Advanced would, but getting Palps to buy enough of them wouldn't be easy.
#AskEck For some dumb unknown reason The Juggernaut isn't given a lot of screen time nor is it utilized well on screen even though it's an extremely awesome and useful vehicle so what's up with that? WHY EVEN ADD THIS VEHICLE TO STAR WARS WHEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN GONNA USE IT RIGHT!!!???
The grysk feel like something that actually fits into the star wars universe. The vong meanwhile feel like how some people depict 40k space marines killing whatever 3rd party property but instead of space marines they're amish dark eldar.
#AskEck Can you explain the corruptive nature of the dark side and why it seems some Sith are more effected than others, if not avoiding it all together? Or why Palpatine's' lightning did that to himself but nobody else? P.s. is it okay to ask more broad or open ended questions here in the future?
I'm sorry, but it's 2024. The decanonized everything besides the films and TCW back in 2012. If they were going to bring in any of that, they would have by now. So the chances are slim to none.
@@khora3845 They're also books, which Disney and Filoni have proven to not give a crap about ignoring and replacing with their animated and Live Action counterparts. So none of them matter.
I'd actually think that it'd be the perfect way to show some form of the Vong. We don't know where Peridia is other than some other galaxy. Could be possible that the Vong arrived there at some point. Given that they nearly made it into Clone Wars as well, there's always a small chance, or as Ahsoka said when they brought back elements of Legends "There's always a bit of truth in legend".
#AskEck if General Grievous had managed to escape Utapau what do you think would have happened to him? Would he join the empire and become similar to an inquisitor or would the empire hunt him down or do you think something else would happen.
Palpatine would have arranged for his demise soon after that. The Revenge of the Sith novel went into some detail on this. Palpatine was happy with Obi-Wan and Grievous facing off no matter who won, because he knew it was a virtual guarantee that at least one of them would die, and he wanted them both eliminated in any case.
#AskEck can’t remember if I’ve asked this or not so apologies if I’m repeating myself but what was the endgame for victory that the Rebel Alliance had for defeating the Empire (asides from the disastrous Operation Domino as well as the Battle of Endor)? Did they have one or was it just going to be perpetual guerrilla warfare? Plz cover both Legends and Canon Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut
what you said about the vong is everything i suspected about them, even just by first glance. they look like something cooked up during that particular time in the 90s and they should stay there
Buck Bumble theme song outro?! It's an old code, but it checks out. I'm gonna have to start sitting through the whole outro now. If you'd asked me a few years ago I'd say i didn’t want the Vong in the new canon because yeah some of their stuff was pretty goofy in their edgy for the sake of edginess and that fit in with Legends because Legends got kind of goofy. But now, i think with some adjustments they could make for an interesting looming threat villain. So, if they're well done I'd be willing to give them another shot, but I don't have faith that they would be well done with the amount of effort Disney seems willing to put into their shows lately. Tl;dr: if you give them the Andor treatment and do it right sure, but otherwise don't even try. Also the Buck Bumble theme slaps.
#askeck Considering trillions died under republic leadership during the yuuzhan vong invasion, do you think that it would have been overall better for the galaxy if someone like thrawn or palpatine emarged victorious out of their conflicts with the new republic?
Zahn was trying to set up an Unknown regions threat with Outbound Flight. The Vong were kind of a retcon connection. I'm okay with Vong staying gone or at least downplayed a lot. They were kind of boring and unpleasant.
#AskEck During the Clone Wars (if I remember right) The Acclamator was an assault vehicle to move thousands of troops. Pretty much almost like a Core Ship. Wasn’t it supposed to be a heavy brawler too with good armor? But in every case the Republic uses the Venator. Why? 😵💫
If some people don't like the Yuuzhan Vong, that's their loss. Some of the best EU books are in the NJO series - Star By Star & Traitor in particular. The other thing with NJO is that the authors reference so many other earlier EU books that to get the most out of NJO it's better if you've read a lot of the books that were published before it.
I wasn't impressed. Felt very pedestrian to me. Felt like someone else took their own sci-fi setting AZ nd sprinkled some Star Wars stuff into it. I honestly preferred the Galaxy of Terror books.
The Vong were 3 books of interesting stretched into 20. Star by Star wasn't badly written but it also killed off my favorite character, so I was done after that. I knew after Vector Prime it was gonna be a miserable slog, but they drained all the fun out of Star Wars and turned into one long war story. I appreciate the ambitiousness of the project and letting the story build chronologically. But fandom already had Death Star fatigue, so they trotted out biological super weapons like that was somehow better.
I think the Yuuzhan Vong would be a great villain for a miniseries. Cut out all the extra fluff of the New Jedi Order and just focus on the battles for several worlds on the march to conquer Coruscant. Show a little bit of the politics, logistics, and heartbreak of refugees, but don't beat us over the head with it like NJO did. Make the slave/worker heresy the main resolution rather than a sentient planet. Make Zonama Sekot a planet where all their biots just go feral, and they realize they've found the seed of Yuuzhan'Tar. Maybe the first act could show the death of Din Djarin when Grogu is an adolescent, and Grogu becomes a Mandalorian Jedi Knight in the fight against them.
I like the Yuuzhan Vong because they use different tech then everyday enemy the galaxy delt with they made the New Republic think differently how to deal with the issue.
I reckon starwars needs a droid rebellion, a sneaky one... the start of it being R2D2, and every computer system it had contact with is now spreading the rebellion
The problem with Thrawn introducing a species is you gotta really flesh out their culture. Do they worship taking rysks? Do they have gryzzly personalities? Do they eat gryts?
#AskEck Sometimes the difference in technology in Star Wars between the various time periods isn't always obvious, particularly with ships. How would some of the famous ships from the past fare against an Imperial Star Destroyer, or a 'modern' ship closer to their size?
#AskEck what kind of sports and other recreation was done in the Star Wars galaxy. We know about that weird football type game in Attack of the clones, and obviously there's pod racing too. but What else is there?
I enjoyed the Vong as an enemy...at first. I always thought that, with huge army battles, gigantic ships, and powerful space wizards, the eventual angle was going to have to be something anti-Force, but the Vong overstayed their welcome, if you will, and while I appreciated that they were in a time when important characters could actually die, the NJO era got expensive, if you will, and the Bong got silly. I was almost expecting them to vong-form some ysilimiri, and either build structures that could negate the Force on a while planet (did that in Stsr Wars RPG), or attach them to elite warriors, and go on Jedi-murdering sprees, where their anti-Force was even worse, and AoE. #AskEck Would you ever mention the Clone Masters? I know Star Wars is much different now than it was all those decades ago, and even before the Disney Descent, the story line had changed what the Clone Wars were, and who was fighting, but even if they, and their Spaarti cloning cylinders weren't making Commando Clones, and the CIS "clones" were robots, I feel like that might not mean they were totally retconned out, and things like them, and Arkanian genetics manipulation will always intrigue me! Anyway, thank you for the fun Vong video!
#AskEck are you willing to do a _Star Wars_ _Pokémon_ crossover narrative where each trilogy is essentially an eight gym & elite four journey? I can easily imagine that the first gym that Luke visits is Jabba’s Palace, but its closed, so Luke moves on & returns in _Return of the Jedi_ 😏 (the elite four in the end here would be during the Battle of Endor & such)…
I think my biggest hiccup with the Vong (with only having read one comic involving them by accident. seeing them rip people in half with bear hands is fun) is how they interact with the Force. To me, ANY force users should've been a giant threat to them. not really powerful users like Luke and Mara. the fact they can't be detected because "the Force abandoned them" makes zero sense. they don't have a personal "no Force" bubble like the Ysalamiri, but yet can't be detected and can't be directly affected by Force based attacks, like telekentic throws or shoves. but Lightning and thrown objects do work.... Plus their main communication to their ships are telepathic organisms. which if all Vong tech was also denied by the Force, shouldn't be able to work either
In a galaxy far far away... A young jedi misgenders a random activist on the infamous social media site X-Wing... Turns out... it was Yuuzhan Ma'am... And not Yuuzhan Sir. The coming battle will be ferocious... The Jedi temple has no hope of staying financially solvent under such an onslaught of lawsuits...
The Vong are weird if I had to be honest, they look and feel more like they belong in the Warhammer 40k universe than they do the Star Wars universe, and that franchise leans even MORE into fantasy than it does sci-fi. Like in Star Wars, the most fantastic thing you have is The Force (obviously) and stuff relating to it (the Mortis characters for instance), and while I understand that the Vong are supposed to be an outside alien force, they go WAY too far in those regards, and it starts to feel like fan-fiction. Even Abeloth feels more like a Star Wars entity than the Vong do.
#AskEck if they ever get around to that KOTOR remake will that end up making the game cannon? And if so what other stories would you want to see brought back from legends/EU?
I always took up issue with the Vong. I feel like if they had been the center focus of the Sequel Trilogy, everyone still would have hated them. The Vong completely undermine the core of Star Wars, retconning Palpatine and the Empire to be secret good guys. "Turns out Palpatine was completely right all along and we should have just listened to him". Star Wars is not that, it never at any point should give credit to the Imperialist faction because the whole point was Star Wars is anti-Imperialism. Lucas thinks the Empire are bad guys, so they should remain the bad guys. What about the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith, Palpatines entire motivation for doing the things he did? Nope, turns out his real motivation was to stop this even bigger scarier bad guy that we only just now learned about. Its sloppy and ruins one of the best characters in the series. One of the few spaces of the EU I'm glad got nuked by Disney (just to clarify so my positions are clear, I also hate the Disney Star Wars stuff. I just feel like if the EU was adapted as the sequel trilogy, you all would see how dumb it is too)
#askeck do planets have safety measures to prevent falling debris doing damage? Inspiration for this question came from battle of Kamino from Clone Wars when they were monitoring falling debris from Grievous’s fleet
As someone who had zero experience with Star Wars, and then spent a few weeks during downtime at work reading the Star Wars wiki, I can safely say that I understand them, I just don't respect them.
The biggest issue with the Vong, and why they will never appear is because the radically altered too much . People get pissed they killed off Chewie, but hoenstly at that point the main characters need to have their plot armour broken. But things like physically moving Coruscant is never going to fly because it forces everything happening after that to adapt to the changes. It's why in Episode 7 the new republic was conviently not on Coruscant when it was destroyed. If they were to appear their impact would be greatly reduced and at that point another species could fill in that rol.
And that's just bad writing,whatever came first and is within the scope of what happens next MUST take what happened before into account. Something Disney is clearly unable to do.
Coruscant was not destroyed in episode 7, that was Hosnian Prime. There is ONE reason they had the Capital on Hosnian Prime...and thats because Hosnian Prime was created for Rebels and Clone Wars stuff. It was a "Member Berries" Moment in a movie that was pretty much entirely made up of them.
Everyone hear has some stupid answers, Hosnian Prime exists because Lucasfilm wisely decided to spare Coruscant, not because JJ is some master storyteller. If Lucasfilm didn't stop him, he would have blown it up like Vulcan. Vong never moved Coruscant, it just got terraformed.
I agree with many criticism of the Vong, but SW DESPERATELY need new fresh threat, then re-hashing Sith/Empire over and over. I really hoped Peridia would lead to something like that
It's supposed to be an entire galaxy. Writers can't imagine stories somewhere in this entire galaxy that aren't rehashing the Sith/Empire conflict? Even the old original Han Solo novels managed to come up with something that didn't involve the Empire or Sith or Jedi.
As noted, the Vong are a subject of division for Star Wars fans. Personally, I hated them, probably because of the shoddy imagery and writing of the first book. I liked the author, but I don't feel his heart was in it, and the whole situation that led to Chewbacca's death seemed forced and unbelievable. A moon de-orbiting and no one tries to leave the place or call for help till the heroes show up? A race that counters the Jedi specifically (like we needed another jedi-led series)? Just not a page turner for me. My .02 credits on the matter.
I always loved the Vong. Probably related to reading so many NJO books at a formative age but I love when they show up in other stuff. Plus Nom Anor is a top 5 villain for me.
#AskEck Which starfighter model in Star Wars would bring out the best of Anakin's piloting skills in a starfighter battle? With & without Force abilities.
It's not that the Vong barely lost tho. From the start the war was just a race of how much damage they'd cause before their inevitable doom. They never had the numbers to even remotely threaten the existance of Galactic civilisation and the moment Coruscant was taken, they run out of steam. 368 trillion casulties was obviously huge, vut that's in fact less than 0,5% of the total galactic population.
I'm clearly not the first person to make this comment, but I'll elaborate even further, the Yuuzhan Vong, in retrospect feel like a 40K minor xenos faction, kind of like the Hrud, or before they were quasi retconned the Demiurg.
@AskEck -- Do you think Kylo Ren/Ben Solo would have been better recieved if the third Star Wars trilogy had been more about his fall to the Dark Side a la Jacen Solo? How could that have been done effecrively in a Canon without the Vong war?
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We need the Yuuzhang Vong War battle breakdown series to return.
The Yuuzhan Vong feel like 40k xenos that popped up in star wars by mistake
I feel like that is a comment of how much better the writing is in 40k than star wars.
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People were saying that about the Vong way back when they were new and 40K had very little narrative movement as a setting.
There is actually a Theory about that. They were chased from the 40k Galaxy by the Men of Iron. Hence their hatred for Machinery. That their Bioforms are pretty much Domesticated Tyranids cut off from the Hivemind. It does fit in the Star Wars Canon as they were canonically driven from their universe by a Sentient Machine Race.
@@zuephillips3450 if that's how you feel cool but that's not what I was hinting at personally. The tone and presentation of the Yuuzhan Vong just fit better in 40k imo
@@QbertquesoYeah, they always felt like something a kid would make in creative writing class back in the 80s.
The Vong would be extremely controversial, if they came out today.
1. They are a deeply religious people, and that's not something Disney would want to touch.
2. The Vong are violent. Like deeply R rated. Slaughter and torture alike.
3. The Vong's social and political order is both fanatically hierarchical, and deeply severe.
Eckhart really isn't going into the actual details here-the Vong are a passionate people that are on a religious crusade to conquer the galaxy SW, and replace its civilization with their own. They have a severe social hierarchy, and a religiosity I can only describe as passionate in its intensity and grandiosity. (Meaning they believe with deep sincerity their gods are real and have given them the universe as their domain).
They are basically an alien Imperium of Man.
The average Vong warrior is as fanatical about as a space marine.
You say that like they aren’t controversial now.
I don't think they would be, at least not as controversial as you make them out to be.
The Jedi and Sith are already religions, the Yuuzhan Vong would just be another one on the pile.
You can definetely make them PG-13. Slaughter and torture can just be shown by implication. Remember how Han was tortured on Cloud City?
And finally, you really don't need to spend that much time on them. Alien invasion movies don't really go into detail about the invaders in general, you just need to establish them as a threat. People are afraid of the unknown, after all. I don't see movies like Edge of Tomorrow or Battleship looking closely into the social structures of the invading force.
They would be controversial in that they don't fit in Star Wars, and completely ruin Palpatine/The Empire as characters. Get this 40k shit out of Star Wars
@@Eagle-mn9moExactly. I don't like Disney Star Wars either, but it's dumb for OP to claim they completely ignore religion. Me thinks OP has some political biases
@@pancakes8670If I remember the emperor's premonition of the vong is why his footsoldiers and military were primarily non-forcesensitives.
#AskEck On the topic of the Yuuzhan Vong, I've always has this idea about them running into a location infested with the Sith technovirus. What would happen? Would the Vong just start crying "Heresy!!" at the idea of being forcefully turned into machines? What would the ensuing battle look like?
Yeah that would be terrifying for them
I don't think it would actually effect them. It's Force Based first of all, and second their BioTech is so Strong they don't seem to actually be effected by disease (until of course the New Republic makes a Superweapon based off their genetic material specifically).
@@justinlast2lastharder749You mean the only when they get retconed and nerfed to give the heroes a chance at the end of the series?
been waiting for you to do more videos on the vong
The Vong are simply the perfect enemies for the Jedi, they are extremely strong beings with biotechnology, blaster-proof armor and completely invisible to the force Just the refreshment Star Wars needs
frankly they’re a bit TOO perfect of a counter for Jedi imo. we already have a whole galaxy to explore, adding extragalactic foes feels like a bridge too far for me.
Haha I thought the opposite. The Yuuzhan Vong never felt Star-Warsy to me. They're like Waroo from Crystal Star they just don't mix with the rest of the universe imo
@@AlexTekle I liked the Crystal Star. They had a force hunting monster and a force dampening monster that were great.
People before you comment, acquaint yourself with the Unifying Force. The Yuuzhan Vong are still connected to the main galaxy. People have a lot of misconceptions as to where the Yuuzhan Vong "fit" into star wars. That book explains it, and then some
Yuuzhann Vong,after the literal giant Earth insects,is far better anything Disney has ever come up with,and fits so much better.
the not-vong look like storm trooper helmet heads.
I hope to see their counter part, the Grysk in the upcoming film. But I’m probably asking for a miracle.
Me too, Zahn did an exellent job as always setting them up in his books
#AskEck Do you think that Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors will ever make their way into Canon? Or do you think that Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso have effectively replaced Kyle and Jan in the Canon timeline? And by extension, do you think that characters from the Jedi Knight games like Desann, Tavion and Rax Joris could exist in the new canon?
The garbage movie rogue one(I fell asleep in theaters when my friends invited me to watch it with them) is basically a gender swapped version of Dark Forces but worst in every way so no we won’t see Kyle Katarn or Jan Ors in canon and how can we? Since Kyle Katarn goes on from defecting to the Rebel faction then becoming a Jedi like his Father before him and goes on to become a Battlemaster in Luke’s NJO and in the sequel failogy Luke’s Jedi Order never prospered as it did in the superior Expanded Universe it exceeding Yoda’s Jedi Order from before and went on to thrive for a century until Darth Krayt initiated the third Galactic Jedi Purge so we will not see any NJO Jedi in canon thankfully and to be fair the mary sue character that is supposed to be a rip off of Kyle Katarn didn’t become a Jedi which is great. So with that no Inquisitor Jerec and his faction of Dark Jedi even though Jerec was a former Jedi Apprentice to the Librarian of the Jedi Archives from the Clones Wars whom died in Order 66 I don’t think he is canon the Jedi Knight games aren’t Disney “canon” because that version of Luke created the prospering NJO went on to fight the Yuuzhan Vong, the Kiliks, Lumiya(many times), Abeloth etc while the Disney Jake Skywalker failed in every way.
They deliberately remade those characters. They didn't even try to hide it with Jyn Erso being incredibly similar to Jan Ors and even casted someone that looked like she was cosplaying Jan Ors.
Considering that Disney decanonized everything outside of the films and TCW after they bought it, I would say they might as well not exist.
I could see there being a possibility on them making it into the canon, but it'd have to be changed a bit. For instance, Kyle could still be involved in getting the Death Star plans, but they've need to create some possible way for him to escape Scarif. It could be cool to see a modern day Kyle Katarn fighting the darktroopers prior to Mando season 2, or him as part of Luke's Jedi academy. The rest, I'd be a bit iffy on.
I could watch an entire movie on just them.
I wouldn't.
I’d rather watch a month of the history of Frick in Star Wars. Heck, I’d rather watch a month of Bananaman videos than the Vong.
Who knows. Some day we might see them (or the Grysk) brought in via a show. They were nearly brought into Clone Wars before Disney bought Lucasfilm. I don't believe they were going to be as powerful, but there are some sketches of their ships and stuff leftover.
ngl I think the Vong would have been the perfect villains for the sequel trilogy. maybe someday Disney will bring them back.
Vong are like a splinter fleet of Tyranids who rode the short bus to a different galaxy than the main arm of the hive.
Genuinely possible. Diverging evolutionary paths.
5:00 I mean, what would you expect from a species that HASN'T grown in and developed in the known starwars galaxy.
Something less like something I would have come up with as a kid?
Guess am in the minority then, have always liked the Vong as a galactic enemy. Personally thought they were over the top to be the "space horde" of Star Wars, that enemy that unites other enemies to fight against them. Thou with disneys track record am glad that haven't included them in any of the movies .......... yet
You're not the minority,you're part of the majority who all agree that everything pre-Disney take over was far better then what Disney chose to do.
The Vong is something we need,along with a complete retcon of the Disney crap.
@@NareshSinghOctagonThe problem is, NOBODY has the balls to do the Vong Right. They don't want a Villainous Race of...Space ISIS. It might offend the Muslims and we totally can't have that...
No really, they tend to do mass murder events when they get offended.
@@NareshSinghOctagonHe's in the minority in hating the Vong, and I am too. The Vong is not what modern Star Wars needs. What modern Star Wars needs is more media like Andor and potentially KOTOR.
The Vong completely subvert the core of the series by retconning Palpatine and the Empire into being the secret good guys. If they were adapted into the Sequel Trilogy by Disney or by Lucas, you all would think they're dumb villains too.
@@pancakes8670 ,they don't?
No amount of Palpatine preparing for the Vong invasion changes the fact that he had the contingency plan to literally destroy every planet he could upon his death.
Nor does it ever change blowing up an entire planet just to make a statement,the many,many tales of corrupt Imperials doing all kinds of nasty stuff,the enslavement of the Wookies alone to mine spice covers that,a ruthless ruling empire preparing to face off a bloodthirsty threat does not make the ruhtless ruling empire rule less ruthlessly.
What modern Star Wars needs is the wipe off of the sequel trilogy,and the actual implementation of the lore that was actually made to cover that period that Disney refuses to cover.
@@pancakes8670 Factually false. Palpatine learned about the Vong after he was making his plans. The vong were a future threat to his Empire, but it was an Empire he planned for long before he knew about them. Stop getting lore from Tiktok
The show/movie story should have it be revealed that Thrawn is intending to usurp the New Republic as a means of protecting against the Grysks, so as a climax it becomes a three-way war
It should but won't, all of filonis use of the character directly contradict how he is in the books. Zhan himself has said he doesn't have involvement and doesn't see his input being used
@@TY-km8hjFiloni wanted an imperial admiral to act as his main antagonist. Instead of making his own he used one that already existed in the Star Wars Universe. Because why not? The character functionally already exists.
@@TY-km8hj Filoni’s Thrawn is definitely more legends Thrawn but that would still mirror legends Thrawn’s motivations quite closely
@intergalactic92 problem is he's using a fan favourite that he can't do justice cos he doesn't have the talent or understanding of the character for that sadly. If he wanted to use one established he could've used legit any grand admiral or imperial warlord from the EU but he chose thrawn cos it generates more interest. Imo the fact he didn't use an original character and is reliant on characters that are already made and established is telling to me, he's not the creative powerhouse ppl make him out to be
@WeaponizedAutism7 ehhh in terms of him being a straight up antagonist like in the OG thrawn trilogy sure, but that's about it. Later Zhan changed things and made thrawn more nuanced and outright went against what he originally created by saying he wasnt purely evil or selfish and thats the version that carried over into canon. Regardless of which depiction filoni wanted to adapt he still doesn't get the genius or strategy right in rebels or ahsoka to make ppl think hes a mastermind or great threat at all. On top of that the main issue is that from what we've seen this thrawn is nothing like the canon Timothy Zhan version in the books which is bad cos the whole point of canon was it being an connected universe no matter the medium. They don't gel at all. The viewers shouldn't have to do mental gymnastics cos ur depiction contradicts the other (that also came first from the acc creator).
#AskEck Has Star Wars in canon or legends ever a had a multiverse and or other dimensions with alternate laws of reality?
Rebels and Ahsoka: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”
for Canon, it's "it's not Time travel, but it is." World between Worlds.
For Legends, technically hyperspace is, but there is Otherspace,
#AskEck do we have an official name for the Star Wars galaxy, from any point in history? I was thinking about it the other day, and I can't recall a single mention of it. Not even from one species or faction.
Not that I am aware of.
@@EckhartsLadder Skyriver
The Galaxy is made up of planets. Those planets all have skies. The Galaxy is also made up of Rims. The Core, Mid Rim, and Outer Rim... The best possible name is Skyrim.
I get what you're saying about the Vong being a bit "edgy"... but at least they were different in a major way.
They really were. I'm conflicted about the Vong never really like them but always found interesting how diferent they were and how bold the narrative choices of that era of staw wars were. So I linda respect them...
Honestly...I like the Vong. Rebel Dream and Rebel Dawn are the Best Two Book Series in all of Star Wars. Nothing beats Wedge and Tycho happily skipping down the street on Borleias and telling Jaina Solo that they were so excited because today they were going to lose the base to the Vong...on purpose so they could hit them with a Lusankya SSD Orbital Bombardment. That Bromance between the two was classic.
Traitor is probably hands down the Best Written Star Wars Book of all time in my opinion. The Breaking and Remaking of Jacen Solo under the tutelage of Vergere.
@@galilea723Kind of like how different and bold the narrative choices are in the Disney era? 🤣
The Grysk look like First Order stormtroopers lol
Love this topic
They're just a rip off of the Cenobites from Hellraiser. Walking straight out of Clive Barker's imagination.
Hope we see more of the Grysk
#AskEck What was the whole deal with the Pius Dea era of star wars lore, from what i've seen and heard it is more akin to warhammer 40k in tone and themes with cathedral ships and crusades against non human speices for some god
@@Bluepizza1684 you pretty much summed it up. A cult who worshipped "The Goddess" went on a rampage against non-humans. It wasn't as edgy as 40k with the whole "kill all xeno scum" thing, but it took the Jedi and Hutts to stop the Contispex dynasty.
It's really just a couple pages in some reference books, there's not a ton there.
Day thirty one of asking Eck my question:
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Why do you think the pirates kept grogu, there was quite obviously a bounty on him considering all the hunters with tracking fobes and I doubt they wouldn't have known about it, so we're actually protecting him. My theory is that after he was saved after the purge, so senator or rebel group hired these pirates to protect him, but was eventually captured by the empire or forgot about grogu, (why he was never given to the new republic after the war), and the pirates not knowing he was a jedi just kept and raised him till mando showed up, killed them and stole their kid.
What do you think Kreia would think of the Vong considering that they did not voluntarily cut themselves off from the Force?
Kreia would throw herself into the Maw rather than share the universe with such low-tier fanfiction Mary Sues.
I know I would. 🦞🤷♂️
Honestly, the same thing happened to the Rakata at the height of their Infinite Empire. There is a precedent of the Force cutting off species that harm it too much.
@Eckhartsladder, why didn't you mention how deeply religious the Vong are?
#AskEck What is the fastest capital ship in each era, hyperspace wise? For instance Hammerhead cruiser size up to Eclipse super star destroyer. And a very brief of each one. Like a famous named ship, manufacturer, and era/time range of usage.
#AskEck Ive heard a lot about how good the revenge of the sith novelization is, but what about the books for phantom menace and aotc? Are they also worth reading? What about the OT? Are there novel versions of those movies too? Are they any good? Currently reading halo first strike but once i get through the halo novels id like to start reading the star wars books including all the legends stuff
The Revenge of the Sith novelization is the best Star Wars novel I've ever read. Yes, even above Lost Stars. I read the original trilogy novels around the time the Special Editions came out. That was over twenty five years ago now, so my memories are a bit fuzzy. The original, officially written by George Lucas (but not really) was satisfying, but didn't really add much. The Empire Strikes Back novel was quite strong, adding additional details to some scenes. The Return of the Jedi novel is one of the worst books I've ever read. Though it might be worth checking out for that reason alone, since it isn't all that long.
No real fan wants the Yuuzhan Vong to be part of Disney “canon” absolutely not especially me because the 19 NJO Novels are sacred to me as it’s easily the top 4 best era of SW it was something completely new original and chartering into Dark territories equally rivaling Order 66 and the fall of the Galactic Republic during the climax of the Prequel Era with more grotesque and violent themes characterizing the Yuuzhan Vong lots of characters sacrificing themselves this wasn’t going to be the happy ROTJ ending to say the least meanwhile all this happening you see lots of character arcs and development from your favorite characters and mine like Luke Skywalker, Kyp Durron, Kyle Katarn, Corran Horn, Mara Jade, the Solo children, Grand Admiral Pellaeon, Natasi Daala, Boba Fett and so on you got to see 2 opposing factions unite against this bigger threat and greater evil to the Galaxy so much so that these beings were cut off from The Force and in conclusion no one wants something so amazing in Story telling to get desecrated by cash shilling goyslop that is Disney.
At this point, I’d love to see Disney try their hand at the Vong just to watch all the EU fanboys scream bloody murder about it.
Especially when a general audience sees them and calls them out for being the generic fanfiction Marysues they are. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Space orcs. They’re just space orcs.
Don’t tell me u just brought a warhammer 40k reference…..💀☠️
@@azamutu1413 with their looks and how they relish pain, maybe it’d be more accurate to call them Drukhari
I thought they were Space Aztecs?
@@h4ogaming492WAAAAAGH!!!
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, Arachnids, Zerg, Rachni, Terminids.
They are fundamentally part of the Expanded Universe, the Expanded Universe and Disney canon should remain separate. Filoniverse and Disney are one thing, Expanded Universe is another.
#AskEck regarding to ship designs in legends, how do they change over time. Like for example 100 years after the vong invasion, how do the ships look like during that time period?
I haven’t listened to the outro in a while but I was not expecting BUCK BUMBLE FROM THE N64.
My boi Justin back with another banger! Honestly I think bring the vong back into cannon would be great for the new trilogy. I think they could do NJO but with Rey since they killed off Luke.
Edit: I think the Grysk are similar to the vong but they aren’t as good as the vong.
From my understanding the Yuuzhan Vong and the Grysk have next to the differences in technology one more major difference, that being their war doctrine. As far as I know (I never read The New Jedi Order) the Grysk conquer through force, strategies and violence, like many other evil factions.
The Grysk however conquer not by themselves. They use vassals, beings who weaken their enemies for them, causing for example civil wars, so the Grysk can swoop in and take over the weekend nation. Or nfluence the government of a nation, where the population follows blindly, and take over the nation this way. They do not engage in violence if necessary, they stay back and observe, then strike at the right time. I think the true danger of the Grysk is the fact, that you never know, how far they already achieved this goal. With the Yuuzhan Vong, I'd say the danger was pretty obvious.
I always thought the Yuuzhan Vong were a bad direction for Star Wars, definitely one of my least favorite things about EU canon (but still better than Disney canon). Overpowered, too much death and chaos, too much change to the galaxy. Plus, their physical appearance was bad to the point of me considering it as anti-creative. A species hailing from another galaxy should not resemble Humans even remotely. However, I will agree with some of the other commenters in that they were at least not another Empire ripoff.
They're not technically from another galaxy; they were exiles from a long dead past version of the Living Planet Zonoma Sekot. I'd also argue that adding a species of death-focused zealots is the perfect enemy for Luke's Order. They required Luke to re-examine everything he thought he knew, and to actually address the problem of what the purpose of the Jedi was (although he failed to go far enough in his rethinking, and did absolutely no restructuring).
I like the idea that the death star was proposed to be created to fight them
@@michaeljamesm The death star would make short work of the worldships, but the Empire's TIE fighter design wouldn't be sufficient to deal with coral skippers. The TIE-Advanced would, but getting Palps to buy enough of them wouldn't be easy.
Love the new jungle outro
#AskEck
For some dumb unknown reason The Juggernaut isn't given a lot of screen time nor is it utilized well on screen even though it's an extremely awesome and useful vehicle so what's up with that? WHY EVEN ADD THIS VEHICLE TO STAR WARS WHEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN GONNA USE IT RIGHT!!!???
Star Wars is bad at military tactics
@Hello-bi1pm I bet they don't have an actual excuse to justify as well.
The grysk feel like something that actually fits into the star wars universe. The vong meanwhile feel like how some people depict 40k space marines killing whatever 3rd party property but instead of space marines they're amish dark eldar.
#AskEck Can you explain the corruptive nature of the dark side and why it seems some Sith are more effected than others, if not avoiding it all together? Or why Palpatine's' lightning did that to himself but nobody else?
P.s. is it okay to ask more broad or open ended questions here in the future?
I was really hoping the Ahsoka series was going to at least namedrop the Grysk
I'm sorry, but it's 2024. The decanonized everything besides the films and TCW back in 2012.
If they were going to bring in any of that, they would have by now. So the chances are slim to none.
@@Lobsterwithinternet The Grysk and new Thrawn trilogy are part of current canon
@@khora3845 They're also books, which Disney and Filoni have proven to not give a crap about ignoring and replacing with their animated and Live Action counterparts.
So none of them matter.
I'd actually think that it'd be the perfect way to show some form of the Vong. We don't know where Peridia is other than some other galaxy. Could be possible that the Vong arrived there at some point. Given that they nearly made it into Clone Wars as well, there's always a small chance, or as Ahsoka said when they brought back elements of Legends "There's always a bit of truth in legend".
#AskEck if General Grievous had managed to escape Utapau what do you think would have happened to him? Would he join the empire and become similar to an inquisitor or would the empire hunt him down or do you think something else would happen.
I like to think he would go into hiding, and eventually find out that Dooku was behind his crash, injuries, and rebuilding into what he is now.
Palpatine would have arranged for his demise soon after that. The Revenge of the Sith novel went into some detail on this. Palpatine was happy with Obi-Wan and Grievous facing off no matter who won, because he knew it was a virtual guarantee that at least one of them would die, and he wanted them both eliminated in any case.
@@davidlundquist1979 well, he didn't manage to kill obiwan either so I figure Grievous would have gotten away.
#AskEck can’t remember if I’ve asked this or not so apologies if I’m repeating myself but what was the endgame for victory that the Rebel Alliance had for defeating the Empire (asides from the disastrous Operation Domino as well as the Battle of Endor)? Did they have one or was it just going to be perpetual guerrilla warfare? Plz cover both Legends and Canon
Lore ship Versus video request:
Resurgent vs. Starhawk
Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing
World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship
Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail
Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version)
Keldabe vs. ISD II
MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer
Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class
Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser
EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator
Praetor vs. Subjugator
Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III
Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut
what you said about the vong is everything i suspected about them, even just by first glance. they look like something cooked up during that particular time in the 90s and they should stay there
Buck Bumble theme song outro?! It's an old code, but it checks out. I'm gonna have to start sitting through the whole outro now.
If you'd asked me a few years ago I'd say i didn’t want the Vong in the new canon because yeah some of their stuff was pretty goofy in their edgy for the sake of edginess and that fit in with Legends because Legends got kind of goofy. But now, i think with some adjustments they could make for an interesting looming threat villain. So, if they're well done I'd be willing to give them another shot, but I don't have faith that they would be well done with the amount of effort Disney seems willing to put into their shows lately.
Tl;dr: if you give them the Andor treatment and do it right sure, but otherwise don't even try. Also the Buck Bumble theme slaps.
#askeck
Considering trillions died under republic leadership during the yuuzhan vong invasion, do you think that it would have been overall better for the galaxy if someone like thrawn or palpatine emarged victorious out of their conflicts with the new republic?
Zahn was trying to set up an Unknown regions threat with Outbound Flight. The Vong were kind of a retcon connection.
I'm okay with Vong staying gone or at least downplayed a lot. They were kind of boring and unpleasant.
#AskEck During the Clone Wars (if I remember right) The Acclamator was an assault vehicle to move thousands of troops. Pretty much almost like a Core Ship. Wasn’t it supposed to be a heavy brawler too with good armor? But in every case the Republic uses the Venator. Why? 😵💫
Always found how the Vong get this attitude but no one gives the Mandalorian the same attitude when they are very similar.
If some people don't like the Yuuzhan Vong, that's their loss. Some of the best EU books are in the NJO series - Star By Star & Traitor in particular. The other thing with NJO is that the authors reference so many other earlier EU books that to get the most out of NJO it's better if you've read a lot of the books that were published before it.
I wasn't impressed. Felt very pedestrian to me.
Felt like someone else took their own sci-fi setting AZ nd sprinkled some Star Wars stuff into it.
I honestly preferred the Galaxy of Terror books.
The Vong were 3 books of interesting stretched into 20. Star by Star wasn't badly written but it also killed off my favorite character, so I was done after that. I knew after Vector Prime it was gonna be a miserable slog, but they drained all the fun out of Star Wars and turned into one long war story.
I appreciate the ambitiousness of the project and letting the story build chronologically. But fandom already had Death Star fatigue, so they trotted out biological super weapons like that was somehow better.
@@TheChristianPsychopath Yeah, felt the same.
They're an interesting idea in theory but fails in execution and was dragged out for way too long.
Hey Eck, what if Jude Law was stealth cast as C'baoth in Skeleton Crew? It could all tie into Ashoka and the Mando movie....
Having not read the novels, I admit to knowing little about them.
I understand them. I understand they suck Space Balls. Now bring on the Star Wars version of the Tau! Let the Greater Good face off against The Force.
The YV just wanted to make the galaxy great again!
I think the Yuuzhan Vong would be a great villain for a miniseries. Cut out all the extra fluff of the New Jedi Order and just focus on the battles for several worlds on the march to conquer Coruscant. Show a little bit of the politics, logistics, and heartbreak of refugees, but don't beat us over the head with it like NJO did. Make the slave/worker heresy the main resolution rather than a sentient planet. Make Zonama Sekot a planet where all their biots just go feral, and they realize they've found the seed of Yuuzhan'Tar. Maybe the first act could show the death of Din Djarin when Grogu is an adolescent, and Grogu becomes a Mandalorian Jedi Knight in the fight against them.
Every time you say Grysk I keeping thinking of the food Grits
I like the Yuuzhan Vong because they use different tech then everyday enemy the galaxy delt with they made the New Republic think differently how to deal with the issue.
#AskEck
Could a Clone Legion (with/without a Jedi general) successfully siege Earth and terminate Skynet??
#askeck can you break down some chiss capital ships????
I reckon starwars needs a droid rebellion, a sneaky one... the start of it being R2D2, and every computer system it had contact with is now spreading the rebellion
That happened in the comics. It's called Dark Droids
The problem with Thrawn introducing a species is you gotta really flesh out their culture. Do they worship taking rysks? Do they have gryzzly personalities? Do they eat gryts?
I just don't like the idea of the enemy being an external force. For this reason I have never been interested to learn more about them.
I LOVE Lore videos
How would Spartans do against yuuzhan vong
Considering how many full-fledged Jedi the Vong managed to take down, I'm guessing not well.
I can relate, people don't understand me either 😢😢....
#AskEck Sometimes the difference in technology in Star Wars between the various time periods isn't always obvious, particularly with ships. How would some of the famous ships from the past fare against an Imperial Star Destroyer, or a 'modern' ship closer to their size?
#AskEck what kind of sports and other recreation was done in the Star Wars galaxy. We know about that weird football type game in Attack of the clones, and obviously there's pod racing too. but What else is there?
I always thought the Grysks looked like elves. I guess I took an exaggerated take on Thrawn's description.
I enjoyed the Vong as an enemy...at first. I always thought that, with huge army battles, gigantic ships, and powerful space wizards, the eventual angle was going to have to be something anti-Force, but the Vong overstayed their welcome, if you will, and while I appreciated that they were in a time when important characters could actually die, the NJO era got expensive, if you will, and the Bong got silly. I was almost expecting them to vong-form some ysilimiri, and either build structures that could negate the Force on a while planet (did that in Stsr Wars RPG), or attach them to elite warriors, and go on Jedi-murdering sprees, where their anti-Force was even worse, and AoE.
#AskEck Would you ever mention the Clone Masters? I know Star Wars is much different now than it was all those decades ago, and even before the Disney Descent, the story line had changed what the Clone Wars were, and who was fighting, but even if they, and their Spaarti cloning cylinders weren't making Commando Clones, and the CIS "clones" were robots, I feel like that might not mean they were totally retconned out, and things like them, and Arkanian genetics manipulation will always intrigue me! Anyway, thank you for the fun Vong video!
#AskEck are you willing to do a _Star Wars_ _Pokémon_ crossover narrative where each trilogy is essentially an eight gym & elite four journey? I can easily imagine that the first gym that Luke visits is Jabba’s Palace, but its closed, so Luke moves on & returns in _Return of the Jedi_ 😏 (the elite four in the end here would be during the Battle of Endor & such)…
I think my biggest hiccup with the Vong (with only having read one comic involving them by accident. seeing them rip people in half with bear hands is fun) is how they interact with the Force. To me, ANY force users should've been a giant threat to them. not really powerful users like Luke and Mara. the fact they can't be detected because "the Force abandoned them" makes zero sense. they don't have a personal "no Force" bubble like the Ysalamiri, but yet can't be detected and can't be directly affected by Force based attacks, like telekentic throws or shoves. but Lightning and thrown objects do work.... Plus their main communication to their ships are telepathic organisms. which if all Vong tech was also denied by the Force, shouldn't be able to work either
#askeck Can you do a vid explaining the Hapen Consortium? I’ve always found them interesting but don’t know much about them
In a galaxy far far away...
A young jedi misgenders a random activist on the infamous social media site X-Wing...
Turns out... it was Yuuzhan Ma'am... And not Yuuzhan Sir.
The coming battle will be ferocious...
The Jedi temple has no hope of staying financially solvent under such an onslaught of lawsuits...
The Vong are weird if I had to be honest, they look and feel more like they belong in the Warhammer 40k universe than they do the Star Wars universe, and that franchise leans even MORE into fantasy than it does sci-fi. Like in Star Wars, the most fantastic thing you have is The Force (obviously) and stuff relating to it (the Mortis characters for instance), and while I understand that the Vong are supposed to be an outside alien force, they go WAY too far in those regards, and it starts to feel like fan-fiction. Even Abeloth feels more like a Star Wars entity than the Vong do.
Can you talk abt the most terrifying thing In sw again the gnall gnall?
Edit:I meant the mnggal-mnggal
Kinda surprised u aren’t doing any vids on Skeleton Crew.
It's not out yet
Me: (comprehending easily) space guys
#AskEck if they ever get around to that KOTOR remake will that end up making the game cannon? And if so what other stories would you want to see brought back from legends/EU?
what i would like to see is the vong vs the tyranids.
6:55 That art of Luke reminds me of Chris Pine. Could he have been cast as Luke effectively? Asking for the audience.
Post Watch Edit: *B U C K*
I always took up issue with the Vong. I feel like if they had been the center focus of the Sequel Trilogy, everyone still would have hated them. The Vong completely undermine the core of Star Wars, retconning Palpatine and the Empire to be secret good guys. "Turns out Palpatine was completely right all along and we should have just listened to him". Star Wars is not that, it never at any point should give credit to the Imperialist faction because the whole point was Star Wars is anti-Imperialism. Lucas thinks the Empire are bad guys, so they should remain the bad guys.
What about the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith, Palpatines entire motivation for doing the things he did? Nope, turns out his real motivation was to stop this even bigger scarier bad guy that we only just now learned about. Its sloppy and ruins one of the best characters in the series. One of the few spaces of the EU I'm glad got nuked by Disney (just to clarify so my positions are clear, I also hate the Disney Star Wars stuff. I just feel like if the EU was adapted as the sequel trilogy, you all would see how dumb it is too)
I wonder if the unsc could survive during all times of the galactic history if they were in the unknown region
The thumbnail looks like he's in a political debate.
#askeck do planets have safety measures to prevent falling debris doing damage? Inspiration for this question came from battle of Kamino from Clone Wars when they were monitoring falling debris from Grievous’s fleet
As someone who had zero experience with Star Wars, and then spent a few weeks during downtime at work reading the Star Wars wiki, I can safely say that I understand them, I just don't respect them.
The biggest issue with the Vong, and why they will never appear is because the radically altered too much . People get pissed they killed off Chewie, but hoenstly at that point the main characters need to have their plot armour broken. But things like physically moving Coruscant is never going to fly because it forces everything happening after that to adapt to the changes. It's why in Episode 7 the new republic was conviently not on Coruscant when it was destroyed. If they were to appear their impact would be greatly reduced and at that point another species could fill in that rol.
And that's just bad writing,whatever came first and is within the scope of what happens next MUST take what happened before into account.
Something Disney is clearly unable to do.
Coruscant was not destroyed in episode 7, that was Hosnian Prime. There is ONE reason they had the Capital on Hosnian Prime...and thats because Hosnian Prime was created for Rebels and Clone Wars stuff. It was a "Member Berries" Moment in a movie that was pretty much entirely made up of them.
Everyone hear has some stupid answers, Hosnian Prime exists because Lucasfilm wisely decided to spare Coruscant, not because JJ is some master storyteller. If Lucasfilm didn't stop him, he would have blown it up like Vulcan. Vong never moved Coruscant, it just got terraformed.
I agree with many criticism of the Vong, but SW DESPERATELY need new fresh threat, then re-hashing Sith/Empire over and over. I really hoped Peridia would lead to something like that
It's supposed to be an entire galaxy. Writers can't imagine stories somewhere in this entire galaxy that aren't rehashing the Sith/Empire conflict? Even the old original Han Solo novels managed to come up with something that didn't involve the Empire or Sith or Jedi.
As noted, the Vong are a subject of division for Star Wars fans. Personally, I hated them, probably because of the shoddy imagery and writing of the first book. I liked the author, but I don't feel his heart was in it, and the whole situation that led to Chewbacca's death seemed forced and unbelievable. A moon de-orbiting and no one tries to leave the place or call for help till the heroes show up? A race that counters the Jedi specifically (like we needed another jedi-led series)? Just not a page turner for me. My .02 credits on the matter.
The Yuuzhan Vong are what you get when you mix the Death Guard with Tyranids and put them in Star Wars
#askeck What is the space battle game that you sometimes show in videos?
#AskEck, where is a good source on the period between Endor and the period of Battlefront 2?
I always loved the Vong. Probably related to reading so many NJO books at a formative age but I love when they show up in other stuff. Plus Nom Anor is a top 5 villain for me.
#AskEck
Which starfighter model in Star Wars would bring out the best of Anakin's piloting skills in a starfighter battle? With & without Force abilities.
It's not that the Vong barely lost tho. From the start the war was just a race of how much damage they'd cause before their inevitable doom. They never had the numbers to even remotely threaten the existance of Galactic civilisation and the moment Coruscant was taken, they run out of steam. 368 trillion casulties was obviously huge, vut that's in fact less than 0,5% of the total galactic population.
I'm clearly not the first person to make this comment, but I'll elaborate even further, the Yuuzhan Vong, in retrospect feel like a 40K minor xenos faction, kind of like the Hrud, or before they were quasi retconned the Demiurg.
@AskEck -- Do you think Kylo Ren/Ben Solo would have been better recieved if the third Star Wars trilogy had been more about his fall to the Dark Side a la Jacen Solo? How could that have been done effecrively in a Canon without the Vong war?
#AskEck is there a time period in star wars legends that you consistently dont like?
#AskEck why was the CIS shut down switch on Mustafar and not on Raxus? Furthermore, why was it centralized to one place?