Doesn't matter to where I am at personally with the star wars franchise if it's doing good or bad. Anything CIS related always gets me excited to hear about.

@buffalowt

7 ай бұрын

You might like the video “what if the Droid Army joined the rebel alliance” by Pente Patrol Star Wars

@benalor1973

7 ай бұрын

@@buffalowt , I have seen almost every single video regarding the CIS. It's just one of my favorite Science fiction factions. But thank you anyways.

@WuTugu999

7 ай бұрын

Same! I love learning about the CIS Droid armies. Their weapons are some of the most interesting things to me in Star Wars.

@reagangaitens7154

7 ай бұрын

​@benalor1973 1000% agreed. I've pretty much completely tuned out of Star Wars, both actual SW media as well as KZread. But I saw this video and immediately went to watch it. I love the CIS

@Utyug_

7 ай бұрын

Thats ong

I don't know why, but I like the fact that the Droid fighter craft walks around on its "legs" like a giant pterodactyl

@zenebean

7 ай бұрын

They are a really good design, nothing else really looks like them

@jaywerner8415

7 ай бұрын

The Vulture Droids, yeah they do that.

@jddj6747

7 ай бұрын

They're the magnum opus of a dedicated race of engineers

@DoctorX17

7 ай бұрын

It’s amusing and a fascinating design choice when landing gear and wheels/treds are tried and true options

@simpleviewer1334

5 ай бұрын

It makes sense too since if there is anti-air, the droid can land and still be useful (my only changes would be in weapon strength, a shield, and missiles still being able to be used when landed

The Lucrehulk is the best ship ever designed in Star Wars that doesn’t include super weapons or dreadnoughts. Prove me wrong

@Tacticalpotat0

7 ай бұрын

You can’t bro

@appo9357

7 ай бұрын

Harrower class battle cruiser.

@ryancarrell3186

7 ай бұрын

A decent argument could be made that it IS a dreadnaught, at least in spirit. I mean seriously, have you *SEEN* how big those fuckin things are? like, really thought about it? Because I tried to 3d print one once, only to realize it would take like 3 rolls of 1kg filament. Things are massive, literally massive.

@thalmoragent9344

7 ай бұрын

Venator and Imperial-Class Star Destroyers. The basic flagships are all dope tbh...

@elliottenglish2388

7 ай бұрын

Neither come close.@@thalmoragent9344

The day I found out that the Lucrehulk was a ship and not a space station was wild.

@sumukhvmrsat6347

7 ай бұрын

Yeah 😂 me too

@thebighurt2495

7 ай бұрын

@@sumukhvmrsat6347 It's so damned big it might as well be a station with engines bolted on

@sumukhvmrsat6347

7 ай бұрын

@@thebighurt2495 yup , it's in that secsy sweet spot between space station dreadnought and warship

A terrible ship for slugging matches, but a hauler refitted into a carrier? Magnificent.

@amarured

7 ай бұрын

Magnificent indeed! And if a hauler was refitted into a frigate it was ... ... munificent!

@joshuaraewa-ay9684

7 ай бұрын

​@@amarured*Slowly claps* Now the door is open.

@rockystudiogaming

7 ай бұрын

@@amaruredAh, a good star wars pun. *I SHALL ADD IT AS A FINE ADDITION TO MY MEME COLLECTION*

@ew7d

7 ай бұрын

The battleship variant was a beast comparable to kuat dreadnaughts

@user-do5zk6jh1k

7 ай бұрын

It's a great landing ship and carrier. Like an LHD. The guns for self defense are just a bonus.

"Doom donut on standby. Prepare to be glazed." -Lucrehulk battleship captain upon exiting hyperspace. Probably. Unironically though, the Lucrehulk battleship is one of the most powerful warships in the setting. It is closer in size and capability to a mobile Golan platform than a "traditional" battleship. It took to being a warship astoundingly well for a converted merchant vessel. Though, that may be in part because when it comes to star wars capital ships, bigger almost always equals better.

It never occurred to me that the Lucrehulk we saw in TPM was unique amongst the Trade Federation's fleet, I guess I always just assumed that the other Lucrehulks we see on screen were also filled droids and fighters, but it makes total sense that they would only have one ship like that at the time while the rest were all still configured to carry conventional cargo, and it explains why they didn't have a backup droid control ship when the main one was destroyed.

I actually love this ship. Probably my favourite. It’s got great lore. Looks cool and impressive. And would love to know what a modernised version of it would look like.

@palladin1337

7 ай бұрын

...Thank you, now I'm imagining a Lucrehulk with the defensive systems of a Mon Calamari ship and the weapons of an ISD, and it's f*cking terrifying.

@guardiantree8879

7 ай бұрын

With all that cargo space… Interdiction bubbles on a ship that can actually take a hit?

@MonkeyJedi99

7 ай бұрын

I just realized. A corporation has a seat in the senate. Did the Republic have a Citizens United case before their high court?

@palladin1337

7 ай бұрын

@@MonkeyJedi99 More likely was that the Republic prior to the prequals was bending over backwards to get big corporations to develop the neglected territories for them, and seats in the government were one of the offers made to the largest ones. If nothing else, it does a wonderful job of highlighting just how broken their system is even before Palpatine started taking hammers to it during the Clone Wars.

I love how you're revisiting these vessels Eck. The first generation of Lucrehulk-class Battleship was only hampered with it's blindspots not covered by the arcs of the nasty quad-turbolasers across the equatorial and aft sections. In addition to the additional reactor systems linked to the main hypermatter reactor. Surprisingly, the Geonosians drew inspiration from the centerspheres of these freighters for the basic shape of the First Death Star. Another behind-the-scenes fact is that the Lucrehulk-class was intended to be a thematic predecessor to the Imperial-class Star Destroyers as denoted by Times Magazine.

I love the Lucrehulk, with its large reactor you can fit definetly fit heavy turbolasers on it and it has plenty anti starfighter defense. That and the ship just looks cool, imagine being on a bridge and comanding one.

The episode 1 & 2 cross-section books are some of my favorite, just to see a little bit of the insides of these massive ships was amazing, also helped me as GM for knowing the basic layouts of ships for campaigns

I think the Lucrehulk should've had a supersized version like the Providence had it's own supersized version.

@sumukhvmrsat6347

7 ай бұрын

It is a super sized ship man ,.... of the Munificients 😅

@jaywerner8415

7 ай бұрын

"By the Emperor, can these things get any bigger!" The Lucrehulk is HUGE already, it gets much bigger and it can probably give the Death Star a Hug.

@Bzhydack

7 ай бұрын

Technicaly, DeathStar was supersized version oc LH Coreship 😉

@Julian-pw5mv

7 ай бұрын

How huge do you want the damn thing? It's already by far the largest ship you'd actually run into during the clone wars. The only things larger were the malevolence/subjugator class heavy cruisers and the few republic dreadnoughts, which were exceedingly rare.

@MajinOthinus

7 ай бұрын

It's already a supersized ship on the level of a dreadnaught....

I just love how useful the ship can be. It makes a great work ship, a great carrier, and while not a fantastic front line fighter it's one of the few ships with the ability to project 360 fire with main and tertiary weapons. These ships are so big that entire smaller shipping companies could base their organizations out of one including just having everyone live on the ship. You jump into a system, release all your smaller freighters to different planets to drop off/pickup, they all fly back to the LH and you jump to the next destination with all your ships and cargo secured. Plus these ships are so vast that they can easily hide an ocean of weapons internally and externally and mount serious shields.

I used to buy into the myth that these things were a joke, until I played Republic Commando. Yeah you were in a crippled acclimator; but that entire mission is just you hanging on by a thread. Pretty much anything up to a late war venator struggled to go toe to toe with the thing. To be honest, RC gave a very realistic look at what the war was like for a non-superhero though, much like how stormtroopers are actually pretty terrifying.

@CloneCommanderCrater1102

7 ай бұрын

Seriously. I still love Sev "seeing" the Lucrehulk on the edge of the system, and then it just drops out of hyperspace. Now that I think about it, RC might be one of the only times we see a lucrehulk drop out of hyperspace.

@MrOiram46

7 ай бұрын

There’s a reason why it’s called a “battleship”

@richardched6085

7 ай бұрын

Idk.... 2 Acclamators (one of which was hanging by a thread as you said) taking out a Lucrehulk proved that it was extremely underpowered as the Acclamators themselves weren't particularly powerful.

@Living_Target

7 ай бұрын

@@richardched6085 Your ship was literally coming apart at your feet, and the Luchrehulk was in prolonged sustained combat AND had sent half of it's troop complement at you. It couldn't afford another sustained combat partially because of damage, but mostly because they didn't have the troops to sustain anything against a boarding action. The Luchrehulk didn't lose because it was outgunned, it left because it's mission was a failure, there's literally nothing left to gain and no point in sustaining more damage. The other Acclimator have forced their hand OR would have destroyed our ship if they tried to force their way aboard the ghost ship again. Honestly the damage your ship did was negligible, it just convinced them you had more fight in you than you did.

@SaiIor_Moon

7 ай бұрын

​@@richardched6085Actually, I think Republic Commando shows the opposite. It shows how underrated the Acclamators are as capital ships in their own right. Twelve quad turbolaser batteries are nothing to sneeze at, and DOUBLE that number...that's a lot of guns on target. Of course we do have to assume the Lucrehulk chasing them was PRE-REFIT....

Lucrehulk was and always will be the most simple yet scary and powerful carrier/battle ship...saw ep 1 as a child and oh my lord I fell in love with the size of that ship, the powerful quad turbo lasers firing with immense fire power and carrying thousands of star fighters and planetary size invasion force

Honestly, the Lucrehulk is a good concept for a space station. I'd personally fill in the entire thing so theirs no middle gap. And 3 kilometers wide? There's a lot that can go on in there. From recreation to ship maintenance and even limited ship manufacturing

The Lucrehulk is honestly one of my favorite ships. Basically a super aircraft carrier in space.

Lucrehulk is the sole winner of the "best warship never purposed" award

I love reading the Death Star novel where the Fortressa attempts to solo the Death Star. We need more ex-CIS Rebel ships.

The Lucrehulk is, by-far, my favorite capital ship design in star wars. Evenly defended on all sides(at least the later versions), extremely durable, huge capacity, and it looks darn cool. They're basically a mobile battlestation, whereas other ships are weaker when pincered, the lucrehulk seems purpose-built for being surrounded. They're the perfect centerpiece to any fleet, meaning other ships can be more specialized and cost-effective destroyers. That's what I love most about CIS ships in general; they just seem a lot more practical.

A C-9979 landing craft measures 210 meters by 370 meters by 150 meters, which means it would take up a total of 11.6 million cubic meters. If you assume that a Tri-fighter droid would need a rectangular cube to be stored propertly (and not nested together) each Tri-fighter would take up 65 cubic feet of space. So if you could pack a tri-fighter droids with 80% efficiency (like taking up 80% of the space) into the same space as a C-9979 you would be able to 144,000 Tri-fighters. The Lucrehulk, with tons of extra space and other equipment and cargo, can fit 50 C-9979 landers. So you could _easily_ house 200,000 Tri-fighters inside of a Lucrehulk. If you were to replace all the C-9979 landers with Tri-fighters it would be well over 7,000,000. If the Lucrehulk were a dedicate starfighter carrier, then, it very easily fit 1,000,000 or so Tr-fighters in if you replace everything with Tri-fighters accept what you’d need to operate that many fighters (such as extra missiles and fuel). The problem then would be that it would take a very long time to deploy that many fighters.

Honestly, the Lucrehulk is still one of my top ships of all time still. The sheer size of it, the capacity of starfighters and/or ground forces it can carry. Plus how went from a cargo vessel to a battleship just oddly tickles my fancy. It was certainly a beast of its own time.

Not only is this a solid ship in its own right but it’s also almost as iconic as the Star Destroyers of the Republic and the Empire.

Might've used better Hangar placement. The ships coming off the donut hangars could've been pointing forwards relative to the ship's position, instead of having to make the sharp turn. Some fuel/power couplings and internal hangar blast doors to section off the hangar would be nice to have too, in case of fires.

It is the ultimate carrier it could carry almost 2k fighters with a crew of 150 to 350 people

@jeffreycarman2185

7 ай бұрын

It normally carried that many, along with an invasion and occupation force of droids. If you crammed in as many droids as _could_ fit, the number it could carry would be in the millions of vulture, hyena, and tri-fighter fighters.

@NorbertKasko

7 ай бұрын

*1500

I was always a fan of this ship. I can totally see it as a cargo ship converted into a massive carrier, and it is such a beast

Actually, many captured Lucrehulks were used by the Imperial Navy as flight schools.

Highly underrated capital ship. Everything about it is perfect.

What would’ve happened if the Republic Judicial Forces fleet attacked the Trade Federation during the Battle of Naboo?

@ianmckee4726

7 ай бұрын

Or just the sector fleet of whatever sector Naboo is in. Either group would likely be too small to engsge full bsttleships though, espicslly if they are geared for antipiracy

@williammagoffin9324

7 ай бұрын

It becomes more of a standoff than a battle. The Judicial Forces might not be able to take the Trade Federation but the Trade Federation likely wouldn't be willing to risk starting a civil war in which they might be standing alone over one planet by firing on "federal" Republic forces. The only reason they destroyed that courier ship with the Jedi was that no one besides Naboo was watching so they had plausible deniability to the rest of the galaxy.

@macwelch8599

7 ай бұрын

@@williammagoffin9324 interesting analysis

There is something about this ship I have always loved. The simplicity in layout and it just looks so different. Always felt a squadron with one of these in command and paired with some Munificent Star Frigates would be devastating. Overwhelming fighters to overwhelm and keep enemy at a distance so large cannons on Frigates could snipe at enemies, when the enemy eventually go close the frigates could then advance to finish, and if they were lost it was not a big deal since they were almost entirely automated.

Im just in that mood where your video hits the spot, just need some Sci fi

Love this ship so much! And some interesting trivia: it was based on the design of the Cothon, the harbor of ancient Carthage.

7:40 This screenshot is the top half of a poster I've had since Christmas 1999. It's a bit beat up, but it's still on my wall.

Loved how you can just have a core ship as a separate detachable star ship

Oh so it's like an Indiaman ship from the age of sail.

#askeck Video idea/question for Eck: You are in charge of New Republic fleet strategy, you have access to designs for all ships from present to a few years pre-clone wars, and you are aware that the Imperial Remnant is a potential threat. What would you put into the New Republic navy? There’s everything the Rebel Alliance had, and whatever they captured, but I’m talking about fleet composition and strategy going forward. What would you build, and how would you use them in this semi-clean slate navy?

7:25 "Its a beast. Meant to sit in the middle of your formation, soak up firepower, dish out damage. It's not that fast, but it doesnt need to be." That pretty much fits all definitions of a battleship!

Nice Video, that MarMar editor must be one lucky gal

The Venator would have complimented this ship well if the army wanted to focus on carriers over true battleships, and even if you're not, it's still a great ship to act as a base more than anything, a command and capital ship, large, durable, and having enough to defend itself

its one of my favorite star wars ships, and it has real world inspiration. the first flat deck aircraft carriers to see military service were actually modified merchant vessels. i think it very likely that fact was the inspiration for the lucre hulks origins as a cargo hauler turned warship.

About time we had another Lucrehulk video

Imagine taking a Subjugator and putting the Lucrihulk arms where the ion canons would go. Supercarrier battleship.

Yo I am sure this is an amazing video, and I will watch it eventually, but for right now I can't get over the thumbnail, it's peak

It can literally take on anything the empire throws at it. And imagine if it was chock full of High quality starfighters

I’m now imagining Lucrehulks with Star Trek-style beam arrays across the exterior surface of the curved arms, amplifying its anti-missile/anti-fighter point-defense capabilities to extreme heights.

The vite roman add both looks epic in the space battle side, and also the vite roman looks delicious

I loved it enough where I made an Imperial variant in Empire at War. It has green lasers and carries Tie droids instead of vaulter droids.

Nothing made me smile more in Jedi Survivor than seeing the crashed Lucrehulk on the horizon from a vantage point early in the game and realising that at some point I'd be able to go there and explore it.

Every fleet I’ve made in my head has included 2 ships. The Lucrehulk and the Raider Corvette

I have always loved the lumbering Giants the idea of setting of thousands of droid Fighters to do my bidding has always been a dream

5:23 in the Battle of Geonosis, I thought the spherical landers were the core section of the Lukerhulks in orbit

Great video Eck!

I love this ship. Its an S-tier in logistics & supply management. And a robust impromptu warship/battle carrier too.

The beauty of these ships is that you could easily refit the damn things into mobile stations. Imagine a mobile foundry, asteroid miner, colony ship, and the list goes on. Frontline combat? Probably not the best idea, but with some reworking of the internals and weapons you could probably make it work. Have one act as the immovable center of your fleet.

Great job mar mar!

And far as i know this thing is like the only "super carrier" that exists, at least till after the galactic civil war. Not to mention its a Merchant ship turned warship which just adds to the cool factor.

NGL though. The Lucrehulk is a massive and great Carrier.

Man I’m loving these video titles and thumbnails 🤣

A battle carrier that works is a dangerous one indeed.

imagine if the post clone wars early revenge of the sith the trade federation stuck miniature death star lasers on the control sphere of the lucrehulk, so that a v formation of blockading lucrehulks could snipe through that little corridor that exposes the hangar's exit/entry way and the control sphere proper at whatever fleet of isd's, venators, unsolicited blockade runners, etc.

The Lucrehulk is kind of a mobile Space Station, wich is why I love it so much

Along with the Gozanti, the Lukrahulk is one of my all time favorite SW ships. If building a fleet, I'd quite possibly use one (or 20) as the key support craft. They'd act both as my fleet supply ships and my carriers. I'd very likely actually use one as the flag command ship. Setting one up as a command ship to head a large fleet from the second line and command on the startegic level rather than the chaos of the first line would be relatively easy. Add to that utility for invasion, planetary defense, area command ships, etc, they are extremely versatile. I'm also the type who might watch a battle for an opportunity to pull an "Admiral Spoor Maneuver" i.e. disrupt an enemies formation by unexpectedly rushing my supply fleet directly into a pitched large scale fleet action seemingly unnecessarily with the goal not to actually join the fight or reach any actual goal but rather just punch directly through the enemies forces and out the other side purely to cause confusion amongst their forces enough to create a window for the actual fleet to exploit the disorder. To do that my supply force would have to have ships robust enough to 1: engage the battle line, 2: survive to the other side of the formation, 3: still present enough threat after punching through as to make an ememy feel there must have been an actual goal other than just to punch through, and 4: survive while the actual battle fleet exploits the confusion and breaks the enemy. Few but the Lukrahulk could pull that off and even then it would be several of them.

This ship to me is perfect for intergalactic travel to another galaxy. For its cargo capacity and ability to carry thousands of people/droids

since it is a vessel made with automated crew in mind, the thing is just hollow, it has a massive amount vacant space inside, the 70% of "donut" section is just massive hangars, you can actually believe that it was meant to be a cargo ship, thing can probably fit enough produce/food in it to feed an entire planet for months and months it is no wonder that the clone wars was so messy, a single lucrehulk could have a big enough droid army inside to conquer an entire planet

Shoutout to the Battle of Teyr, where a Lucrehulk landed to act as a base.

I had a toy model of this as a kid when EP I was out in theaters. Best spaceship toy I ever had next to my vulture droid and N1. I love space battles that involve a lucrehulk.

CIS is basically the Dutch VOC (east india company) in space ;) and the lucrehulks are the space opera equivalent of a 17th century east-india-man armed for war, as they often were.

Part way through building the lego verison of this atm as its one of my fave ships. Would Love to see variants built of it like the nebula modernisation for fighting Vong.

1) Take the biggest freighter you've got. Since you're the Trade Federation, that's going to be pretty darn big. 2) Design droid fighters that are basically Transformers that don't require any actual modifications to the cargo bay to use it as a hanger space. 3) Victory without breaking the bank. Since you're the Trade Federation, that's going to be pretty darn important.

Still wonder where all these vessel were at the battle of naboo. When the blockade started, there were loads of these and at the end there was only one.

My personal absolute favourite ship in Star Wars. Whenever i look for a new mod for EAW, i always first look if this ship is in the mod somewhere where you can buy/build it. If not, no thanks.

Could use some more point defense systems around the hanger bags but otherwise fairly OP.

Sometimes I wish we could see lore accurate capital ships in action, that would be some sights to see

Lucrehulk is all time great name for a spaceship, especially one that is a mass cargo hauler.

It’s probably the best fighter/troop carrier ever made in Star Wars. Sure they would need an escort and it’s kinda slow but it does what it was made for very well.

The parallels between the Ruusan Reformation and the London Naval Conference and certain factions cheating on the treaties to get more tonnage out of their war fleets is just *chef's kiss*

So happy that the Lucrehulk is getting the love it deserves.

Hey Eck! Possible Video Idea, I'd love to hear about the different diseases we know of in Star Wars. There's a lot of info on bioweapons and things like Rakghouls, but not much on the everyday stuff citizens of the galaxy might see. For instance, I'm pretty sure niemodians are famous for having all types of diseases in their skinfolds. Does Bacta Help with disease? Are some Species not in contact with one another because one has a chance to nuke their society with pathogens? Idk, love your current stuff, I think there's a idea there lol. Keep killin it Eck!

Video suggestion; go over the lesser known “cruiser grade” Star Destroyers from the Imperial Era ie the Vindicator, Gladiator, and Immobilizer 418 class cruisers, since the only smaller SD that tends to get a lot of video traction are the Victory-class (even though they REALLY need to be brought into canon on the big screen).

I genuinely didn’t know about disney removing huge amounts of behind the scenes footage, etc. I can’t think of any way for them to justify that

The Lucrehulk is literally the perfect flagship of a carrier task force. It is the ideal centrepiece. It is my precious, beloved baby.

The Lucrehulk is a perfect example of a doing a ship design thats outside the design standards of an average ship, and by that Im referring to its unique shape.

I love retrofitted vessels, so this has always been in my top favorites as far as SW ships go.

I've always loved the design of the lucrehulk. I feel like the empire could have kept a few for various planet defense stations. Like imaging Scarif having 2 Lucrehulks instead of those star destroyers above the planetary shield base. I'm sure the rebels would have struggled getting those plans for sure. Plus that many more tie fighters and even bombers would have caused the rebels to lose. Even the empire could have used them to protect secret projects. Also, having them as screening various vessels off and on planets would be a way to control what and who goes on and off planets.

You could argue that the hanger exit spaces are rather restrictive vs the total volume and thus if caught unaware it can not sorte fast. This factor is often not seen to be very important in StarWars, but it was a BIG factor in WW2 Carrier operation and is still a major factor in modern Carrier doctrine. You can effectivly think of it as the time for a boxer to wind up a punch.

Star viper class and the virago! That’s what I want to see!

considering the size of the whole ship, it would be interesting how many fighters it can hold at most

The lucerhulk is one of my favorite ships its so good looking and very usefull

Yeah I want you to cover why Soa the Infernal One from SWTOR was able to his their force powers along with the rest of the Rakata in the Eternity Vault.

According to the Star Wars Eclipse trailer that thing has been around since the High Republic.

Personally, I firmly believe the _Lucrehulk_ is inspired by the great _Cothon_ of Carthage. Itt would be quite fitting, considering Carthage was quite the savvy merchant-empire, and also main rival to "the Republic".

I think the general design, even if not the Lucrehulk itself, has amazing potential as a heavy battle-carrier. Give it all-around good systems (shields, armor, weapons, engines, hyperdrive, sensors, etc.), fill it up with solid fighters, bombers, & interceptors, and give it a skilled crew to staff it and pilot the fighters. That's a force to be reckoned with right there, especially as part of a diverse and well-rounded fleet.

I'm a huge fan of the Lucrehulk, good as a battleship, a freighter and a carrier! And not so exposed like a star destroyer. I always wondered how good a Lucrehulk would be as a flying spaceport/shadowport like the Errant Venture!

I want you to know man I appreciate your content and about this video specifically I agree wholeheartedly I run a Star wars universe piracy tabletop game and one of these ships is a difficult thing to go without. it's effectively used as a staging area for a heist 20 years pre battle of nabou. As a result you can understand I definitely agree. So keep up the good content man.

Looks like someone bit a donut and spit it out

my favorite thing about the luchrehulk is that it's a centralized place where you can remote control an army of battle droids. slap a cloaking device on the thing, make it untargetable.

I love the design of this ship. It’s very interesting, effective, and under-appreciated.

It is the best designed capital ship in star wars in my personal opinion. it fits every role it has been given perfectly.

the Lucerhulk is the best ship in star wars bar none. This is a _beast_ of force protection. one ship is capable of blockading a planet. _ONE SHIP_ and these things are avalable in relatively huge numbers for its weight class.

The perfect ship. Just by looks!