Pentastar Alignment | Star Wars Legends

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The Pentastar Alignment was one of the last warlord states to survive the fall of the Galactic Empire. But any success it might have had, little to do with those at its highest levels.
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  • @TemplinInstitute
    @TemplinInstitute Жыл бұрын

    So we're the *_Pentastar_* Alignment right? Well I just got a great idea for our logo... a decagram! - Ardus Kaine probably.

  • @overlordminigun6346

    @overlordminigun6346

    Жыл бұрын

    Since Stellaris has had a couple major updates and dlcs released, will we possibly be getting Stellaris Invicta 3? Cus the first two were dope as hell and your world building was unreal and so good, if we are going to get more I can’t wait since I re-watched the entirety of both!

  • @traditional_anxiety2705

    @traditional_anxiety2705

    Жыл бұрын

    "You know what's cooler than 5? 5 _twice_ "

  • @chrismc410

    @chrismc410

    Жыл бұрын

    All I know is a certain Walter P. Chrysler would be proud.

  • @novakhin1642

    @novakhin1642

    Жыл бұрын

    Kaine lives in death! :P

  • @ronin3381

    @ronin3381

    Жыл бұрын

    They probably reasoned that a five pointed star wouldn't have looked Star Warsy enough

  • @HolyknightVader999
    @HolyknightVader999 Жыл бұрын

    That was actually the smartest thing an Imperial warlord can do. Making a beeline for Coruscant to take the throne or taking on the New Republic would be foolhardy, so preserving your power and playing neutral to trade and work with both sides is the best move one can make.

  • @UniversalChallenge4454

    @UniversalChallenge4454

    Жыл бұрын

    Until you were last one standing

  • @HolyknightVader999

    @HolyknightVader999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@UniversalChallenge4454 Then at that point, you can just make a deal with the NR.

  • @jakegrant5698

    @jakegrant5698

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@UniversalChallenge4454being the last one standing means you've done better than everyone else. As pointed out in this video, all of the Imperial remnants were destined for the chopping block

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    Жыл бұрын

    I always play with the idea of an scenario where the PA integrated the Imperial Ruling council with its territory after the death of Carnor Jax and also integrated the Corporate Sector Authority which shares the same interests of the Vulcar Zone.

  • @marty2129

    @marty2129

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HolyknightVader999 Well, the Imperial Remnant later actually did so.

  • @galenwrathweld
    @galenwrathweld Жыл бұрын

    The fact that the Pentastar Alignment was the only Warlord Faction to really survive the death of its leader is way too understated. Not even just here specifically but in general.

  • @dragontemplar4561
    @dragontemplar4561 Жыл бұрын

    Played this faction the most in Thrawns Revenge. The mix of Imperial, and Clone Wars era ships really set them apart from the other Imperial factions.

  • @RJALEXANDER777

    @RJALEXANDER777

    Жыл бұрын

    Aye, Venators launching high tier Imperial starfighters (such as Defenders and Cygnus Gunboats) is a formidable combo.

  • @brandnewguy906

    @brandnewguy906

    Жыл бұрын

    Playing against them on cruel ai is so annoying for me though. These damn secutors 😅

  • @JimGames11746

    @JimGames11746

    Жыл бұрын

    Is Thrawn's Revenge a difficult mod. Been playing Remake for a while now and was looking for another mod to try

  • @colinduran874

    @colinduran874

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@SovietAmerican Cat more difficult than remake but easier than Aotr

  • @realah3001

    @realah3001

    Жыл бұрын

    Kane is op

  • @airsoft6147
    @airsoft6147 Жыл бұрын

    This is why I think that legends did warlords better than canon. Though I do like what they've started showing us in Mandalorian season 3, it seems that everyone was desperately trying to figure out a way to explain how the rebellion, who almost lost everything at Endor, managed to overthrow a heavily militarized empire that spanned most of the known galaxy in only 1 year. Rather than having all the factions just throwing their fleets at each other over and over until they had nothing left, legends showed some actual competent warlords that focused on consolidating their forces and territory rather than wasting their resources.

  • @user-yq9im9dk9z

    @user-yq9im9dk9z

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, it mostly exists that way because they didn't want to make canon New Republic EVEN more incompetent by failing to stamp out the remaining warlords. I guess now that's out of the window with Mando and they've just given up on giving NR any credibility.

  • @Fulcrox

    @Fulcrox

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember, the new canon has the Empire literally destroying itself for literally no reason, thousands of ships, planets and Soldiers destroyed themselves for no gain or point, just gone in a year

  • @cowmoo5596

    @cowmoo5596

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Fulcrox As opposed to what? Do you think they would have remained loyal to the first order leadership as opposed to any of the other warlord factions led by governmental and military leaders with just as much credibility? Why leave all of those assets for other factions to use against you down the line, which also results in a more unified and powerful new republic military which they would need to fight these other warlords

  • @occam7382

    @occam7382

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cowmoo5596, nah, they would either fight each other and/or the Republicans for power, or would try to form separate states like Kaine. Although, I will agree that the idea that all of them would be gone within one year is kinda boring. I personally like the idea that even after the "main" Imperial forces under Rax got whooped at Jakku, the New Republic would have to spend years fighting or dealing with various warlords who refused to recognize the Galactic Concordance Treaty.

  • @Fulcrox

    @Fulcrox

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cowmoo5596 the first order poped way later, and yes, i think they would. Of course not all of them for logical reasons, but as we seen on the EU with Thrawn, Isard, Pelleon and Fel, the imperial Warlords pledge their loyalty to the strongest, or the quickest to act. Why leave all of those assets? Unless we don't question the First Order and Final Order magical abilities to spawn resources and credits out of thin air, they can totally took those resources again after resurfacing with a even stronger fleet.

  • @LibertyLocalizer
    @LibertyLocalizer Жыл бұрын

    By the end of the war, the Empire was stuck with pretty much just the Pentastar alignment territory. The fact that Kaine was able to keep all the alliance's members together, and create a system that didn't collapse immediately after his death, is something nobody else in the galaxy could have accomplished

  • @occultatumquaestio5226
    @occultatumquaestio5226 Жыл бұрын

    Cool to see more SW Legends videos. The Pentastar Alignment was indeed an interesting warlord faction.

  • @weldonwin

    @weldonwin

    Жыл бұрын

    I want to know more about Zinj, if only because he was kind of Ardus Kane's opposite, being this flamboyant bandit king

  • @chrissonofpear1384

    @chrissonofpear1384

    Жыл бұрын

    @@weldonwin He's a great villain figure in the X-Wing books, particularly Iron Fist and Solo Command. A bit more tepid in The Courtship of Princess Leia book (his debut novel) but still neat. Not in it much, though.

  • @josesanchezrodriguez1783
    @josesanchezrodriguez1783 Жыл бұрын

    Are you going to do more videos on the Warlord States from Legends? Because that would be so fucking awesome, the Imperial Civil War period is terribly underrated.

  • @grandadmiralzaarin4962

    @grandadmiralzaarin4962

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed! It's rich territory for videos.

  • @danielmcneally8001

    @danielmcneally8001

    Жыл бұрын

    Zinnj

  • @justsomeguy17199

    @justsomeguy17199

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, this is a great topic

  • @connorgolden4

    @connorgolden4

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen! Would love to see an imperial remnant video!

  • @bigbangrafa8435

    @bigbangrafa8435

    Жыл бұрын

    It still baffles me that the period was ignored by Disney's Cannon. Having the GCW end so soon after Endor (Jakku) was the most stupid idea of the Sequel era, they are trying to retcon It now with Mando and Ahsoka, but honestly the damage has already be done.

  • @Kubinda12345
    @Kubinda12345 Жыл бұрын

    Pentastar Alignment was in theory a good idea. Instead of trying to recreate the Empire and fight the New Republic and other warlords, consolidate a couple of sectors, make them stable and try to govern them. This would theoretically allow the Pentastar Alignment to behave as its own state and not to come conflict with the New Republic which could perhaps in the future lead to some non-agression pact and the state's future. However Kaine wasn't a good stable ruler and his loyalty to Palpatine became his and the state's undoing.

  • @sarpyasar5893

    @sarpyasar5893

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it was the end of kaine but not the pentastar since that territory become the new imperial remnant and then the fell empire

  • @90skidcultist

    @90skidcultist

    Жыл бұрын

    He followed the Emperor for pragmatic reasonings and fear. He thought he would actually win.

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    Жыл бұрын

    Not his fault that a cowardly grand admiral lured him into a trap.

  • @yomanyo327
    @yomanyo327 Жыл бұрын

    5:10 "Palpatine's second and final death" brave words.

  • @michaelman957
    @michaelman957 Жыл бұрын

    Always good to see some Legends stuff. Warlord Zsing is another interesting villain from that era. A mix of bombastic and pragmatic, he was clever, conniving, and as capable of guerilla warfare and hit-and-fade tactics as the Republic. Something of a role reversal for former Alliance personnel, and it took old school Rebels like Wedge Antilles using old Rebel tactics to outfox him.

  • @occam7382

    @occam7382

    Жыл бұрын

    It's also interesting because one of the systems that Zsinj claimed as part of his empire was Mandalore. Makes you wonder if he gave the greenlight for Gideon to uh... "pacify" the planet before getting killed over Dathomir.

  • @ZoomReverseFlash

    @ZoomReverseFlash

    10 ай бұрын

    @@occam7382 Different canons. In the old lore Mandalore was never punished on the scale of what Gideon did. By that point the planet was nearly anarchic, with families of Mandos working pretty much on-contract, with MandalMotors and Keldabe City administration being the prime representative in galactic politics, while pro-Rebel, Imperial, and independent governments pretty much co-existed. Only around the Yuuzhan Vong War did they start to rebuild as a galactic government force.

  • @occam7382

    @occam7382

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ZoomReverseFlash, yeah, I know, but it would still be cool if he was canonized as Gideon's old boss.

  • @chaosfire321
    @chaosfire321 Жыл бұрын

    "It's brief foray with interventionism consigned the Pentastar Alignment to the dustbin of history, the place where it had always been destined." Fucking ouch, that's a brutal way to end them.

  • @ZoomReverseFlash

    @ZoomReverseFlash

    10 ай бұрын

    Not really a fare conclusion, considering the Alignment survived the death of its leader, and later became the core part of the unified Imperial Remnant.

  • @tonyrusso9126
    @tonyrusso9126 Жыл бұрын

    I truly appreciate the effort that went into this video. It's been decades since I've seen this blip in the Star Wars lore mentioned. That's because I wrote "The Pentastar Alignment" for the Star Wars Adventure Journal, per editor's Peter Schweighofer's wish to include more warlord factions as opponents to the New Republic forces. I had 5,000 words to write the article, so I dug into the Imperial Sourcebook, The Corporate Sector Authority, and yanked out a quasi-political-corporate alliance to counter the New Republic. Like many of the articles I wrote for West End, The Alignment meshes with other Journal articles. I created an article about mercenary characters, the Red Moons, whom are based on Entralla and on other worlds I included with this small slice of the Galaxy. What is amazing is that the article was re-jiggered with The Official Star Wars Compendium and made a part of the bigger Star Wars universe (adding Admiral Palleon taking over as well as a mention that Count Dooku negotiated the "Treaty of Sevarcos".) Sevarcos is a spice mining world that is home to the first article I ever published with the Journal, "The Free Traders Guide to Servacos" which, a very long time ago, was intended to be about Kessel. Peter had to insist I change the planet's name and location because Kevin Anderson was writing a Kessel series. Some of the remainder of this Templin Institute video contains material I did not create, so it's great to see the whole story played out here. Thanks again!! T

  • @tonyrusso9126

    @tonyrusso9126

    Жыл бұрын

    And as an quirky aside, I created the horrible horrible logos using a drawing program called -- Arts & Letters

  • @user-yq9im9dk9z

    @user-yq9im9dk9z

    Жыл бұрын

    The name alone is so much better than just the "Imperial Remnant" in EU or whatever they have now. I think that's why the faction is so popular despite never having proper stories.

  • @olliesloane151

    @olliesloane151

    Ай бұрын

    You should give the "Thrawn's Revenge" mod for Empire at War a look. It makes the Pentastar Alignment a fully fleshed out and playable faction :)

  • @casbot71
    @casbot71 Жыл бұрын

    *Admiral Piett:* It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them. Shall I hold them? *Darth Vader:* Yes, tractor them in immediately. Make sure they don't jump into hyperspace Admiral… And jam their transmissions. I will meet them personally in the hold. ………

  • @MrSHADOWANGEL999
    @MrSHADOWANGEL999 Жыл бұрын

    Pentatstar Allignment is making the imperial system work and sustainable while also playing both sides

  • @tbotalpha8133

    @tbotalpha8133

    Жыл бұрын

    The video literally states that its government was always a dysfunctional, paranoid mess, that only held onto power because of the backing of an Imperial remnant fleet. And it only lasted 8 years in any case before it was conquered and absorbed by a different Imperial remnant.

  • @hafor2846

    @hafor2846

    Жыл бұрын

    It lasted not even a decade, that's hardly sustainable.

  • @viet_cong_momiji2324

    @viet_cong_momiji2324

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Haf Þór still better than most Warlords factions where they crumbled after the deaths of their leaders while Pentastar didn't.

  • @RJALEXANDER777
    @RJALEXANDER777 Жыл бұрын

    I don't think it's entirely fair to call the Pentastar Alignment a failure. The regime was oppressive and haphazard, and Kane's leadership was ultimately a failure, but the state lived on and reorganised itself into the Imperial Remnant, which continued to survive under Gillard Palleon, and the continued strategy of isolationism maintained it's existence.

  • @90skidcultist

    @90skidcultist

    Жыл бұрын

    And both paved the way for the Fel Empire. The PA was not a failure at all! The Remnant was.

  • @SirSpangler

    @SirSpangler

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, it was definitely a failure. As the video said, the only reason it survived as long as it did was because the New Republic was always focused elsewhere, and it catastrophically failed the moment it actually tried to do something. And as a result, it basically collapsed immediately when Kaine died, and only 'technically' survived because Pellaeon took it over. And even then, its telling that he reorganized, rolled back, and basically got rid of everything the Pentastar instituted. The state very much did not survive. The only parts of the Pentastar the Remnant bothered to keep were the policy of isolationism and the allowance of non-humans in the military. Every other institution, organization, or law the Pentastart had created was dismantled with little to no fanfare.

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    Жыл бұрын

    How was Kaines rule a failure ? It was successful until he got lured into a trap by a cowardly grand admiral and was murdered by the New Republic.

  • @jetstream5559
    @jetstream5559 Жыл бұрын

    The Pentastar Alignment is my favorite remnant faction and I’m so psyched to see you guys cover it!

  • @levongevorgyan6789
    @levongevorgyan6789 Жыл бұрын

    Oh lord, ya'll are getting into Legends. The Yuuzhan Vong have to be next.

  • @xionkuriyama5697
    @xionkuriyama5697 Жыл бұрын

    I read about these guys in a Star Wars D6 book and became enamored with them. Love to see them get attention.

  • @T-2856
    @T-2856 Жыл бұрын

    I had heard so much about the Pentastar Alignment for ages that I was honestly surprised at how little they factored into anything outside of sourcebooks when I started reading Legends in 2019. They're an interesting tidbit, certainly worth talking about, but they don't actually matter at all to any of the major novels like the Thrawn Trilogy , X-Wing novels etc set before Dark Empire. The X-Wing books by Michael A Stackpole and Aaron Allston released later and were set mostly before the Thrawn Trilogy. So they did a fair amount to fleshing out the minor factions from the sourcebooks or were mentioned in the other books/comics. They aren't my favourite Legends series (that is maybe The New Jedi Order) but they aren't bad and they are beloved by many.

  • @SeamusOCleirigh2002
    @SeamusOCleirigh2002 Жыл бұрын

    Such a slay to here about the Pentastar Alignment! Always thought it was one of the more interesting post-Endor imperial factions

  • @Linterna001

    @Linterna001

    Жыл бұрын

    I found quite funny that the narrator took a side in the ending and told the viewers they were a bunch dumbasses that just survived because of luck.

  • @thekingzhaul5914
    @thekingzhaul5914 Жыл бұрын

    Ah star wars legends... The things that were done to you...

  • @trekker105
    @trekker105 Жыл бұрын

    Finally some Legends content!

  • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
    @grandadmiralzaarin4962 Жыл бұрын

    Now we're talking. Let's get more Expanded Universe Lore videos on the Warlords like Zsinj, the Eriadu Authority, Greater Maldrood and the other holdouts.

  • @Astrid_Liligant
    @Astrid_Liligant Жыл бұрын

    Ayo, its been a while since ive heard anything about the Pentastar Alignment, Reminds me of the days of playing Star wars mods on Sins of a Solar Empire

  • @jeambeam3173
    @jeambeam3173 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you and Thrawns Revenge for keeping Legends alive

  • @wojciechagodzinski4886

    @wojciechagodzinski4886

    Жыл бұрын

    You meant to say Real Star Wars Canon, legends is term invented dy darth kennedy to justyfy her fanfic timeline with abomination trylogy.

  • @tTaseric

    @tTaseric

    9 ай бұрын

    @@wojciechagodzinski4886 "Legends" is a term created so that they can still keep selling Legends content so everyone can still experience those stories without being confused about which timeline it belongs to, unlike if it were just called a generic name like the EU.

  • @pendragon0905
    @pendragon0905 Жыл бұрын

    Sort of a different direction that Templin is going in with this investigation. Ordinarily, Templin studies factions that have a lasting impact on history and culture; this time, Templin covered a faction that is A VERY TINY BLIP on the historical radar.

  • @robland3253

    @robland3253

    Жыл бұрын

    Well it is the warlord state that lasted the longest

  • @space__idklmao

    @space__idklmao

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s the equivalent of Soissons- a very interesting but brief footnote

  • @Clumsy-vp3if

    @Clumsy-vp3if

    Жыл бұрын

    @@space__idklmao Soissons is so interesting, I wish we could know more, but sadly it's probably lost to history.

  • @cptkilimanjaro3738
    @cptkilimanjaro3738 Жыл бұрын

    While not the Empire of the Hand or the Imperial Remnant, the Alignment is a really cool faction, and for the most part, worked for a while.

  • @occam7382

    @occam7382

    Жыл бұрын

    Only problem was both its leaders and populace had no reason to care about the state's success or failure, and the second it forayed into galactic politics, it got smashed and then swallowed up by its neighbors.

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@occam7382 It did not. It purposely united into the Imperial Remnant, because Kaine was dead and Pellaeon got the troops and ressources from the Deep Core warlords to convince them.

  • @mrsheev9131
    @mrsheev9131 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video! The Pentastar Alignment was always my favorite of the post-Endor Imperial remnant factions, so I'm really happy to see you guys covering them at last.

  • @ri3850
    @ri3850 Жыл бұрын

    glad to see sw legends is being talked about by the Templin Institute

  • @WilliamMosicki-Nystrom
    @WilliamMosicki-Nystrom Жыл бұрын

    Factions I would like to see next: 1. The Space Wolves | Warhammer: 40K 2. Team Aqua | Pokémon 3. The Authorities | Rage 4. The Locust Horde | Gears of War 5. The Fel Empire | Star Wars

  • @Fulcrox

    @Fulcrox

    Жыл бұрын

    I understand most, except Team Aqua, i think they are very straightforward on their goals and self description lmao

  • @imjustsam1745

    @imjustsam1745

    Жыл бұрын

    Fellow Wolf player, 🐺 cheers brother Russ lives.

  • @90skidcultist

    @90skidcultist

    Жыл бұрын

    Number 4 and 5 is most likely gonna happen.

  • @thehammer4607

    @thehammer4607

    Жыл бұрын

    FEL EMPIRE! LETS GOO!

  • @90skidcultist

    @90skidcultist

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thehammer4607 Imperial Knights need there own elaborated video! 😤💪😍🤓

  • @Komrad_Cybersyn
    @Komrad_Cybersyn Жыл бұрын

    Are admiral Palleon and the Empire remnant next ?

  • @QA-ut7dd
    @QA-ut7dd Жыл бұрын

    WOOOOOOOO! Love the SW Legends content!!

  • @CD-Freedom
    @CD-Freedom Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video. I very much hope you make one about the Empire of the Hand and the Chiss Ascendancy respectively.

  • @trivipesnipe
    @trivipesnipe Жыл бұрын

    Oh hell yeah. Legends content.

  • @user-Jay178
    @user-Jay178 Жыл бұрын

    Nice you are covering star wars legends. Love your content.

  • @TheTrueKingofKoopas
    @TheTrueKingofKoopas Жыл бұрын

    do the other major warlords like Zsinj and Maldrood and Eriadu Authority and such

  • @delb2192
    @delb2192 Жыл бұрын

    So happy to see a deep dive of Legends content, this is great

  • @alasiadarthe001actual9
    @alasiadarthe001actual9 Жыл бұрын

    Honestly would have liked to see a version of the sequel trilogy where there are multiple imperial remnants and some of them fight the first order. I imagine some kind of more progressive but still militant former imperial force with a new forms of storm troopers walkers and star destroyers but fighting the first order.

  • @rooster2268
    @rooster2268 Жыл бұрын

    I had to say I love the sounds the interface makes loading each video it's very relaxing actually

  • @cane6074
    @cane6074 Жыл бұрын

    The alignment was basically nothing more for Cain to maintain his survival call and claw what power he could in a uncertain political environment, he played the cards he was dealt and did them will. Not aligning yourself with any imperial faction and declaring oneself emperor or Waring with the new Republic was a very good survival strategy through hedging his bets.

  • @spectre0586
    @spectre0586 Жыл бұрын

    For a group that is so large and so relatively powerful, these guys get so few actual appearances in the Legends material. They're a pretty great example of just how disjointed and inconsistent Legends was before they tried pulling everything together in prep for NJO and the new films. Great video as usual!

  • @HolyknightVader999

    @HolyknightVader999

    Жыл бұрын

    I disagree. It's only right that a neutral group wouldn't attract much attention or do much. And the NJO novels were a complete mess. It relied upon the New Republic being portrayed as the kind of clowns that make the Empire look justified by comparison. I call the NJO and LOTF novels the "Palpatine was right" series. From the excessive incompetence of the New Republic to Alliance war heroes waging war against each other, all these books accomplished was prove that the Empire was right all along. Giving the galaxy freedom only allowed incompetent leaders and infighting between allied factions to arise.

  • @HaldorZX

    @HaldorZX

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean they're whole deal was keeping out of the mess going on in the rest of the galaxy so there relative absence makes sense.

  • @user-yq9im9dk9z

    @user-yq9im9dk9z

    Жыл бұрын

    NJO messed up Zahn's Chiss Ascendancy pretty badly. So, no, they didn't pull it together there either.

  • @Hartzilla2007

    @Hartzilla2007

    Жыл бұрын

    @@HolyknightVader999 And then Legacy basically has the Empire take over the galaxy again decades later.

  • @HolyknightVader999

    @HolyknightVader999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Hartzilla2007 130 years later, after people's memory of the old Empire waned while the Galactic Alliance became unpopular.

  • @chheinrich8486
    @chheinrich8486 Жыл бұрын

    More star wars legends exklusive, like the old sith empire

  • @AmerikanSkull
    @AmerikanSkull Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. I'd love to see you cover the other imperial warlord states like Zsinj, the Greater Maldrood and the Eriadu Authority

  • @michaelbaumler8527
    @michaelbaumler8527 Жыл бұрын

    I am very happy that the Institute is doing investigations on both Canon Topics and Legends ones.

  • @johnnygyro2295

    @johnnygyro2295

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed. Both timelines have stuff to share.

  • @DeanmC261993
    @DeanmC261993 Жыл бұрын

    Yaaay legends stuff, i hope we see all the warlord states compared ❤️

  • @EggGuy461
    @EggGuy46121 сағат бұрын

    I really like the Pentastar Alignment. It's really interesting to me.

  • @thecommandant2831
    @thecommandant2831 Жыл бұрын

    The Pentastar Alignment is not by far a good faction, but they made a smart choice by remaining isolationist. It was a situation that showed something smart about the Empire. They were a faction of 14 Sectors in the Outer Rim until absorbed by the Imperial Remnant. The Alignment's former territory for decades was the center of Imperial Territory. I highly doubt if the Alignment continued, and the Imperial Remnant took other territory would have lasted still much longer than it did.

  • @jacklennox2358
    @jacklennox2358 Жыл бұрын

    Would love to see a video on Zakuul from Star Wars, arguably one of the most unique factions in Legends with unique aesthetics and motivations.

  • @nickolaiproblem

    @nickolaiproblem

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes bro I love valkorian and he came actually and totally conquered the galaxy. And even beat death through immortality

  • @GrandVizierPestage
    @GrandVizierPestage Жыл бұрын

    It’s really neat seeing you guys cover the less well known Star Wars factions. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

  • @gilbertjmarquez
    @gilbertjmarquez Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see the PA getting a little more attention. Its one of the more interesting remnants in Legends imo. My personal favorite ngl

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 Жыл бұрын

    Would love to see an imperial remnant or Fel Empire video! They’re interesting factions that are similar yet very different from the empire!

  • @MrTreefoz
    @MrTreefoz Жыл бұрын

    The Pentastar Alignment was always my favourite post-Empire faction. Not sure why. I never read any novels or comics with them in it.

  • @user-yq9im9dk9z

    @user-yq9im9dk9z

    Жыл бұрын

    It's the cool name. Way better than boring First Order or just "Imperial Remnant". How more uncreative can we get?

  • @doughilton6375

    @doughilton6375

    Жыл бұрын

    I recall them mainly as a background bad guy from Blaze of Glory out of Tales from the Empire.

  • @ryanhawe8234

    @ryanhawe8234

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@user-yq9im9dk9z "Imperial Remnant" is itself a New Republican term (possibly one used to bolster morale after the Orinda and Celanon campaigns, though this is conjectural). So far as is known, neither Daala, nor Pellaeon, nor any of the Moffs who rallied with them, ever referred to their revenant state as anything but "the Galactic Empire", even as the label was a double anachronism. Constitutional historians, of course, need something to separate the Empire founded in 16 GR at the end of the Clone Wars (lasting until 47 GR and a final brief parade of self-proclaimed Emperors) from its ex nihilo reconstruction using surviving armed forces elements and the nervous sector governors spinward of the Hydian. "Pellaeon's Empire", while not a title he would have sought, helps to keep it distinct from both Sidious' Empire (with which it shares iconography) and the Fel Dynasty that it would ultimately give rise to.

  • @chrissonofpear1384

    @chrissonofpear1384

    Жыл бұрын

    The Alignment mostly only pop up in RPG material, with gradual other mentions over time. Much of it got wrecked, politically at least, in the Dark Empire era, with Pellaeon and others picking up the pieces.

  • @MrTreefoz

    @MrTreefoz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrissonofpear1384 Yeah. I only knew about it because of the Star Wars Atlas.

  • @ender_slayer3
    @ender_slayer3 Жыл бұрын

    Playing the Imperial Civil War mod on Empire At War and AAAAAHHHHH! The Alignment has been a pain in my rear since day one! I'm playing as The Greater Maldrood and Kaine and his stupid Executor ALWAYS seem to worm their way through my defenses.

  • @Driftking305forlife
    @Driftking305forlife Жыл бұрын

    This is AWESOME if possible do Warlord Zsinj next.

  • @marty2129
    @marty2129 Жыл бұрын

    It is nice to see a video featuring Star Wars Legends lore :)

  • @jacksonmulville2200
    @jacksonmulville2200 Жыл бұрын

    Totally off topic but I started watching Silo and its amazing! So glad you did a video on it!

  • @THE_GUY_ONE
    @THE_GUY_ONE Жыл бұрын

    Good job, as always 🙂 Keep it up guys. The Empire of the Hand could be next.

  • @Tomreese130
    @Tomreese130 Жыл бұрын

    Such an underrated channel, I love the deep dive into Legends and obscure lore! Hope to see more Legends lore!

  • @devastater97
    @devastater97 Жыл бұрын

    More Imperial Remnant videos please. These are top tier.

  • @shantanuchaudhary9712
    @shantanuchaudhary9712 Жыл бұрын

    Can we get a video on Sith Empire of Swtor and characters like Darth Marr or Jadus

  • @henrywilson2136
    @henrywilson2136 Жыл бұрын

    Yuuzhan Vong War next please.

  • @MP-ji1jo
    @MP-ji1jo Жыл бұрын

    More legends videos are always a surprise but a welcome one

  • @michaelramon2411
    @michaelramon2411 Жыл бұрын

    As trivia, the manufacturer names on the First Order's star destroyers and TIEs are Kuat-Entralla Engineering and Sienar-Jaemus Fleet Systems, which seem to be corporate spin-offs based on Entralla and Jaemus, major planets in the Pentastar Alignment. So aspects of the Alignment are arguably canonized! (At least their corporate/manufacturing nature and links to Imperial remnants.)

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    Жыл бұрын

    Also Kaine was a co-founder of the New Order and got disappointed with the outcome of it. I wonder somebody like him would name his new ideology like ?

  • @Zamun
    @Zamun Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the holdout content. I like seeing some attention given the Legends content.

  • @ThePoliticrat
    @ThePoliticrat11 ай бұрын

    One of the most underrated imperial factions in the EU. If I were to have any brought back into canon, this would be it. Would have made a good ally of the resistance to fight against the first order.

  • @mingchoi8369
    @mingchoi8369 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not gonna lie. The only reason the Pentastar Alignment lasted that long was more like the New Republic wasn't that interested, especially since they had to deal with the likes of Warlord Zsinj. It was only after Palpatine returned from the dead that the Pentastar Alignment decided to help restore the Empire. We all know how that ultimately ended...with a final defeat that pushed the Remnants past the point of no return. I wonder how the Pentastar Alignment might fit in the years leading up to the rise of the First Order. I hope you'll do more videos on post-Endor Imperial factions from the old Legends EU soon, like Zsinj's Empire and Palpatine's Dark Empire.

  • @wedgeantillies66
    @wedgeantillies66 Жыл бұрын

    They may have been the most isolationist and least aggressive of the imperial successor states, however that worked in its favour, allowing it to build up its military strength and industrial base at will, while preserving its existing military. Meaning that when it was absorbed into the imperial remnant by Pelleaon, following operation shadow hand, it and its assets formed the backbone of the imperial remnant military and territory, that enabled the empire to drag out galactic civil war much longer than it would have been able to otherwise and allow them to achieve a negotiated peace with the new republic. .

  • @darkforge633
    @darkforge633 Жыл бұрын

    Disney dropped the ball when they didn't use any of the legends story lines other than Thrawn. Legends has so much great lore that could have been made into movies and TV series. So much potential, wasted.

  • @TheSorrowOfTheReaper
    @TheSorrowOfTheReaper Жыл бұрын

    That was very interesting! I'd love to hear some more from Star Wars Legends

  • @georgeleon1263
    @georgeleon1263 Жыл бұрын

    Favorite Faction in Thrawn's Revenge

  • @nathanielbables8652
    @nathanielbables8652 Жыл бұрын

    Next, you should do the GFA or Yuuzhan Vong

  • @JohnnyElRed
    @JohnnyElRed Жыл бұрын

    Of all other nations and factions, there was something positive, or at least of importance, to say about them. It seems this is not the case here.

  • @felps_4500

    @felps_4500

    Жыл бұрын

    It was the only faction that survived after it's "leader's" death, and it's territory was later used by Pellaeon to create the Fel Empire (arguably the best empire... Until another dumb Sith took over again 👀)

  • @flyingfoamtv2169
    @flyingfoamtv216910 ай бұрын

    Interesting mixture of military dictatorship and corporatocracy.

  • @justokproductions222
    @justokproductions222 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video on one of the best forgotten IP’s out there

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 Жыл бұрын

    Love a video legend about legends! Hope to see more from legends!

  • @blagojpejov4155
    @blagojpejov4155 Жыл бұрын

    Nice work Templin Institute

  • @kavirajselvam5148
    @kavirajselvam5148 Жыл бұрын

    Finally some star wars legends content

  • @andrewlim9345
    @andrewlim9345 Жыл бұрын

    Learnt a good deal about the Pentastar Alignment and Moff Kaine.

  • @kirk7528
    @kirk7528 Жыл бұрын

    Love the more obscure legends content!

  • @billyreeves5549
    @billyreeves5549 Жыл бұрын

    Long have I waited for this video!!!

  • @darthbane1109
    @darthbane1109 Жыл бұрын

    Upvoted because it was legends content. 👍

  • @revan4638
    @revan46382 ай бұрын

    Legends Never Die

  • @lightspeedvictory
    @lightspeedvictory Жыл бұрын

    More explorations of Star Wars Legends over Disney Canon plz

  • @loganw1232
    @loganw1232 Жыл бұрын

    These imperial factions make much more sense than the first order.

  • @jakegrant5698
    @jakegrant5698 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting negative assessment and very well done. I like your voice for narration

  • @talekoers9536
    @talekoers9536 Жыл бұрын

    Man this voice is so good.

  • @reap8661
    @reap8661 Жыл бұрын

    I was watching someone play thrawn revenge and this pop up. What are the odds 😂

  • @stars9084
    @stars9084 Жыл бұрын

    I’d love to hear your take on more of the SW Legends governments. Maybe the New Republic?

  • @thehammer4607
    @thehammer4607 Жыл бұрын

    Best faction, eventually became the Imperial Remnant led by my man Pellaeon, Best Imperial

  • @papallegatepoope3010
    @papallegatepoope3010 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Grand Admiral Octavian Grant: a Tapani noble of house Mecetti was the chief naval officer of this alignment. Kinda neat.

  • @TheKingofbrooklin

    @TheKingofbrooklin

    10 ай бұрын

    And he was the one who cowardly lured Kaine into his death to buy himself asylum at the New Republic.

  • @brettmcclatchie7311
    @brettmcclatchie7311 Жыл бұрын

    Sad to see nothing about the dark jedi Jerec and his quest for the Valley of the Jedi

  • @Ray-yv7kn
    @Ray-yv7kn Жыл бұрын

    More Legends!!!

  • @cbtenthusiast7133
    @cbtenthusiast7133 Жыл бұрын

    imagine if they never joined palatine and instead sat back and reformed while everyone was to busy fighting each other. they would becomes a confederacy-empire hybrid.

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 Жыл бұрын

    There were too many damn imperial warlords in legends that its a wonder they didn’t fall into civil war before endor. Though it’s likely it would’ve happened regardless of the outcome with the way the empire was structured.

  • @user-yq9im9dk9z

    @user-yq9im9dk9z

    Жыл бұрын

    Legends just properly scaled the galaxy unlike the movies. It's a pretty small number for a galaxy-wide Empire.

  • @Ocelot835

    @Ocelot835

    Жыл бұрын

    For the Civil War among them to happen at least half of moffs should work together AGAINST the Emperor. Yet the repressive system Palpatine created insured that not a single one of them could conspired with each other without fear of being betrayed and left alone against Empire's wrath.

  • @TheGoodOne1998

    @TheGoodOne1998

    Жыл бұрын

    Because they were loyal to the Emperor, but when he died the role passed to Sate Pestage, but he was never as popular as the Emperor so the Warlords, Grand Admirals and Generals began to create their own states either for their own personal power or to better defend their territory either from the New Republic or other Warlords who had the same idea as them.

  • @jayburn00
    @jayburn00 Жыл бұрын

    Nice, legends.

  • @georgehilty3561
    @georgehilty3561 Жыл бұрын

    Hope they do zsing soon. He was interesting.

  • @TheWaltercovington
    @TheWaltercovington Жыл бұрын

    More Legend please!😊

  • @IAmTheAce5
    @IAmTheAce5 Жыл бұрын

    I’m getting Succession vibes from this faction

  • @ShadowJedi527
    @ShadowJedi527 Жыл бұрын

    The Pentastar Alignment > the first order

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