The executor looks like a mouse pointer that drags everything into the trash bin

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

Ohhh wow, THAT’S IT!!! For years there was always something tugging at my brain, and a mouse pointer is exactly what it was. Thnx man.

I feel Vader was one of the few who would be to fully utilize the SSD in battle. Love the ship, its only problem is that its main prey would be ships like the ISDs and larger of which the Rebels had few. There is a Legend's book called Bacta War where one SSD just completely disables an ISD in one volley of fire that I felt showed the ship's potential that we never saw on big screen. One fact people forget in Return of the Jedi is that it wasn't just the A-wing that took down the Executor but the whole Rebel fleet; her engines were on fire and multiple Rebel capital ships were sparing with the Old Lady. The loss of the bridge was just the last straw that broke her and caused it to fall to the Death Star's gravity well.

@SudrianTales

7 ай бұрын

The greatest misstep of episode VI or the remaster was not having the battle be redone to have hundreds of ships slugging it out. Imagine seeing Executor aflame as Rebel Venators and CIS ships battle and perish in a few shots. Then the A wing sneaks in catching the battered ship off guard and BAM!

@Dino-god69

6 ай бұрын

@@SudrianTalesI feel like that was Lucas original vision but just couldn’t execute it properly. It was probably frustrating as hell for him lol.

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

Amos, huh, I didn’t forget, I just didn’t realize! Thank you, that clears up one of the biggest irritations I had with the one-shot Rebels.

@Amoschp524

4 ай бұрын

@@ronjon7942 If you watch the scene when Nebula B Frigate is blasted away at an Imperial ship at close range, that is the SSD, it was the only model with blue lights.

Despite tactical and strategical shortcomings, the Executior just look so cool and terrifying - like a perfect predator.

@rambojack5606

5 ай бұрын

And that's what vader wants it to be

Funny how people mispronounce the name "Executor" like "executioner" rather than "executive".

@darkphoenix99

7 ай бұрын

I was just going to say that 😁 tbh for years as a kid I would say it wrong, until I realised I was mixing it up with executioner

@TheAutoexecbat

6 ай бұрын

This was driving me nuts the whole video. Ask a lawyer about picking an 'executor' for your will and count how many seconds it takes to be corrected

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

@@TheAutoexecbatya, same. I mean, I’m good with people having different pronunciations, so I could let it slide. But still…

@ImYourOverlord

2 ай бұрын

The narrator does this from time to time. I'm baffled as to why.

So I've been thoroughly enamored with Star Wars since I was about 5 years old. I loved all the ship designs, but I really loved Star Destroyers because well... they were triangles(lol). I distinctly remember getting little mini Star Destroyers, and the Executor as my first ever star wars toys. Seeing the sheer scale of the ships on screen blew my little kindergartener mind. This video's brought back some very fond memories

In legends continuity, there was an even bigger class of ship that was even more dangerous than the executor class star destroyer. Its name is the eclipse star destroyer, and this ship was taken command by the reborn emperor Palpatine, who came back to life in his clone bodies on the planet.

@trazyntheinfinite

7 ай бұрын

It was more powerful but a few kilometers shorter

@MasterDrood

7 ай бұрын

the eclipse is such master piece

@HamletTwin

6 ай бұрын

@@MasterDrood Would have loved to see the Eclipse on the big screen, but it never happened :(

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

Love the Eclipse. Screw the DS’s, the Empire got it right with that one. I hope they reopen the production line.

If Padme couldn't see all of them in this life, he'll send everything to the afterlife for her to admire

I have to admit, Darth Vader wasn't the only one to fall in love with this ship at first sight. The aesthetic was just that great, but as a practical weapon the Resurgence and Venator classes were far better.

@grandmyotismon

7 ай бұрын

Eh the venator was far too devoted as a carrier ship tbh. The reassurance class star destroyer however was a ship that took everything great about the star destroyer, improved it and practically solved all its weaknesses in one fell swoop.

Since George Lucas is a WWII buff and infused as many elements he could into Star Wars, I bet the Executor is a allusion to the German Bismarck and the Japanese Yamato class super battleships. Like the Executor, they were controversial for their time, too big to be practical, and ultimately came to anticlimactic ends from a couple of snub fighters. And the good guys with their smaller vessels [the Allies had to fit through the Panama canal] prove that big isn't always better.

@slimdiddyd

7 ай бұрын

The Musashi was sunk by over 400 aircraft and took 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes. The Bismarck wasn’t really much larger or more powerful than any of the other battleships of the era. The US Colorado class for instance, and the British Nelson class both had larger guns and similar displacement.

@Amoschp524

7 ай бұрын

The Yamato class suffered from being trophy pieces, the Japanese didn't use them until it was too late from fear of losing them. This led to them having less experience crews and being deployed too late to make a real difference. But they terrified the fleets that went against them.

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

@@slimdiddydYeah, the Bismarck was no Executor in fact, but when it went to sea, it really wound up the Royal Navy. And then when it sunk the Hood with, what…three survivors?…Britain was TERRIFIED and the Navy really got frazzled until it went into Winston’s vengeance mode. So, funkypunk’s not wrong about the Bismarck’s symbolic power.

I'd love to hear a breakdown of how all the super star destroyers we destroyed between canon and legends. Before this video, I thought the Empire only ever had 3 of them! Love your content! May the Force be with you!

@jayburn00

7 ай бұрын

In legends and Disney canon there were quite a few. I know more about the legends ones though: executor, lusayanka, iron fist(formerly called brawl), razor's kiss, knight hammer (modified with a stealth coating and built after the Battle of endor), terror (had a cloaking device), intimidator, annihilator, reaper, whelm, and I think there were two other named ones called Guardian and megador (or something like that). Also another called dominion. In Disney canon I only know of the executor and eclipse by name (I think they made the eclipse just another executor class star destroyer, though the original script for episode 9 (titled duel of the fates) had it being the eclipse that was in legends with the super laser.

@carnage0685

6 ай бұрын

you'd love to hear a breakdown of how all the super star destroyers between canon and legends what? why did you say 'how' and then never explained what you were asking 'how' of?

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

@@jayburn00oh damn, you’re on it! Thanks. I had no idea there were 12; I always thought it was a one hit wonder.

@jayburn00

4 ай бұрын

@@ronjon7942 those are just the executor class super star destroyers. There are probably at least five other proper super star destroyer classes, and even more star destroyer classes that are significantly larger than the imperial class star destroyer if being bigger than the imperial star destroyer is the criteria for being a super star destroyer. The more accurate categorizations are whatever the acclamator, victory, imperial, interdictor class (basically an imperial class with gravity well generators) and venator class fall under, whatever the tector is (slightly larger than imperial class, it had no hangar, appears in return of the Jedi), whatever the secutor is (bigger than an imperial class, had some similarities to the venator), battle cruisers (much bigger than an imperial star destroyer, but still significantly smaller than an executor class, includes the Allegiance class, possibly what the secutor is), and star dreadnoughts (executor class, vengeance class (an executor with anorexia), project sarlaac (literally a downscaled executor, was a test bed/prototype for the executor), the belator class, assertor class, mandator class (this is in both legends and Disney), eclipse class (first one had a super laser and both had gravity well generators), and sovereign class (basically a downscaled eclipse with gravity well generators and a super laser again)). Nearly all imperial cruisers excluding battle cruisers are smaller and less powerful than star destroyers, while rebel/new Republic cruisers vary in size and power with even some outclassing the imperial class star destroyer (mainly the Mon cal cruisers, which vary dramatically in size too). There are also more Mon cal "cruiser" classes than people realize.

Imagine the Executor gets sent back in time. It would be so mind-boggling huge compared to the Old Republic and Sith Empire ships.

Unreasonably massive and highly impractical ship, but hell if it doesn’t personify the rule of cool. Always loved that damn thing.

@zangalus2005

3 ай бұрын

thats pretty much what the imperial navys doctrine became. Bigger ships with lots of lasers = better.

"Their practicality was called into question." Kinda sums up 90% of what the Empire makes.

What aggravates me the most about 1 A wing pilot bringing down the super, is that rationally speaking, a ship that large would not be effected that way from a single ship. Shields or no, a ship that large would have multiple bridges and control rooms in the event of an emergency. It's like a person being killed instantly by a BB from a BB gun

@daanvos194

4 ай бұрын

It had damaged engines

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, another guy posted it was actually getting a good rebel clobber, which set things a bit better for me. That single A-wing knocking down the Executor was an irritant for YEARS.

Vader: Heated command chair.❤

I'd love to see a thorough breakdown of the Eclipse-Class Star Destroyers from the EU comics Dark Empire and Empires End. I think it dsnt get the recognition it deserves

@ronjon7942

4 ай бұрын

Yes. I’m new to all this lore stuff, but I think there were only two Eclipses built, shoulda been way more. As a kid, I was pretty whelmed at the Executor, but as a 55 year old, when I saw the Eclipse, I thought…”Nailed it!”

I mean, if *I* had a giant 19 kilometer ship that has guns everywhere you look, I think I would like it to.

This is so cool l love star destroyers included super star destroyers

I saw The Empire Strikes Back in the theaters opening day back in 1980 with my family on Long Island. I can remember the entire audience gasp and others say OH 💩 when the full view of the Executor came on screen. Then you see Vader’s helmet looking side to side. I was 7 and was awe struck with the scene and the powerful Imperial March music playing. One of the greatest scenes in the original trilogy.

Guess Vader found a new partner for love on Galactic Tinder, after he tried burying his love for Padmé deeper into his sorrowful soul.

Just wanted to say never stop posting vids we love you 💯

@Sp_acecowboy

7 ай бұрын

@mrl0wk3y33 you good dude?

As much as I give The Executor props for being a visual masterpiece on the silver screen and engineering, I'd still have to go with the Vengeance class star destroyer as my Imperial ship of choice.

Everytime I hear Tarkin's name I think of Fran Tarkenton. That's what stuck in my head in 77 and it'll always be there.

When I saw the Super Star Destroyer for the first time on The Empire Strikes Back… It took me by surprise on how massive it was. And I could see why it intimidate anyone in the Rebellion.

The Executer was just a nice ship. That's all there is to it.

I imagine Vader also prized the fact that the executer was inefficient from the perspective of an experienced tactician because Vader also didn't need strategy or even the ship to dominate the galaxy. Compared to Vader himself even the executor was nothing but a toy.

Finally someone pronounced the name properly!

I always liked the unique starships from the lore like Starstorm one! The empire had some truly massive ships. Thanks for going in depth on them !

Love your videos!

always loved imperial design, when I first time saw it I was really impressed

@LordFinite

7 ай бұрын

I agree with you. Was wowed by it when I first saw it. The Executor is my favorite ship from Star Wars. Just love how it looks.

@EilertAlemat

7 ай бұрын

@@LordFinite right? such much class! also when I was watching movie I was not that aware about everything Star Wars - so I just looked on the ship from Sci-Fi standpoint

It’s absolutely awesome

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

In the old EU continuity keeping even a regular star destroyer running took enormous effort and it was common for only half of their weapon systems to be functional at any given time. I shudder to think of the resources and effort it would take to keep one of the supers working.

Darth Vader hated the Death Star but was impressed with the Super Star Destroyer

The possession of these ships is what most warlord groups built around in Legends. Zsinj and Kaine in particular. Isard's Lusankya ends up in New Republic hands, as does at least one more named Guardian. The Empire had a several other classes of ships on this scale too, The Mandator and Bellator lines, Jerec had the Vengance and there was at least one more ship of its class too.

There’s a game I’d love to see if it doesn’t already exist. The ability to play as Imperial warships and the ability to glass a planet Covenant style if you’re in an especially foul mood. However doing that would have its consequences. I’ve been considering developing a game like that, especially since Disney has removed EA’s exclusivity deal.

The Executor would have survived in the battle of endor if there was tie fighters and star destroyers defended it. seeing this ship for the first time was amazing but for some reason i did not like it at first i think but today im in love with that dreadnought since the design is so cool and it made history in movies and sci-fi. keep up the amazing work on this channel. Long Live The Empire

Vader: i-its not like i like you or anything baka

I absolutely love the Super star destroyer class! I first saw it when I was a young kid back in the early 80's. A topic I have thought about often is how many Jedi (both in canon and non canon) went over to the Separatists side during the clone wars. Thanks for another awesome video!

This is amazing! I understand why Vader loved it so much. This is power,presence,amazing. It's about spectacle. A failure? What do you mean? Yes,Rebels won but at this ships. Super Star Destroyers. Amazing ships. Size matters.May the Force be with you too😊

The SSD was terrifying but even its commander was afraid of an opponent with 150 proton torpedoes as noted in the X-Wing novels. A vessel and complement worth over $2B credits could be taken down by an opponent using roughly $5M worth of resources; proof the Empire chose fear or logic.

@davidel9466

5 ай бұрын

Historically, the progress in the avionics technologies made the battleships’ fire power priority strategy outdated. Yeah, a lot of similarities here.

@reginaldshort8486

5 ай бұрын

@@davidel9466 exactly.

This was so good, I watched it a few times. I was blown away when I first saw the Super Star Destroyer (SSD). It was up there with that long sequence of when Kirk (Shatner) was shuttled to the Enterprise. I just wanted more and more of this ship. A few of questions: 1. Could the SSD have taken on the asteroid field, in search of the Falcon? It did for awhile - how long could it have lasted and how much damage did it take? 2. What was the impression of staff of all ranks deployed to the ship. It must've been pure awe? 3. After the war, were they repurposed, or deconstructed? 4. Was the SSD involved in the destruction of Mandalore?

First time I saw the Executer I was 9 years old when Empire came out in theaters. I was feeling both Awe and terror, and I still do every time I see it!! 😂. 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦🕊️

asside from the fact that this thing looks like a floating arrowhead in space I really love the polygonal look of that ship!

If Vader loves large cruise crushers. What puts a big grin on Papa Palpatine’s face?

@gamingchinchilla7323

7 ай бұрын

giant deadly planet destroying space balls?

@gavinjerome8385

7 ай бұрын

Immortality and uncrippled Skywalkers😂

@bloodknight7420

7 ай бұрын

@@gavinjerome8385 🤣 you right

@bloodknight7420

7 ай бұрын

@@gamingchinchilla7323 he likes those too 🤣

@bloodknight7420

7 ай бұрын

🧎‍♂️our Emperor he do love big sith holocrons and force knowledge…..and lady’s

If I owned that ship, I'd do stuff like: turn on the ships 'all hands ship announcement system' and fart into it, Hawaiian shirt night, curry cook-offs and so forth.

I love how you titles this video on how Vader loved and then the quote “the bigger, the better” 😆😂 jokes aside, I love your content and keep the awesome work up!!! Here’s an idea : FULL potential Luke Skywalker training Anakin Skywalker since a YOUNGLING!! That would be interesting

Imagine Executer in the sky of earth out of nowhere

@soularprimestudios5930

7 ай бұрын

Fuck......

@royadambrown3101

7 ай бұрын

I want a AR that shows that

Excellent ship

Just remember the Hoth planetary shield was strong enough to prevent any orbital bombardment. 7+ star destroyers and the Super Star Destroyer couldn't scratch Hoth's shield from orbit. This is why death stars were needed. Honestly a 'Torpedo Sphere' could have destroyed the shield. Not sure if it existed at the time of TESB.

@rambojack5606

5 ай бұрын

Or arm the super star destroyer with planet killer gun like the death star it's portable than of the death star

@QuantumNova

5 ай бұрын

@@rambojack5606 Yeah they did that much later. The 'Eclipse' Super Star Destroyer Has a mini super laser. It couldn't destroy a planet completely, but Hoth would be transformed into a Lava planet. 😀

thankyou

@iamdenis4735

6 ай бұрын

i enjoy ur vocabulary..

That's a pretty nice ship within A-Wing distance.

I'm with Vader, look at her she's so beautiful! Could you please do some full breakdowns on schematics of various Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers?

I wonder what would've happened had a lot more Imperial Star Destroyers had been converted into Fighter Carriers.

Solid LEGO set

A monster for a monster.

rip A-wing bro 😂

Gloriana class battleship from 40k: that’s so precious. Don’t worry kid, you’ll grow up one day

I cannot believe such a monument to military might was brought low by a used Toyota corolla with lapsed insurance. That was too cool of a ship to get took out like a punk. That beast took asteroid belts on the chin and then talked on the phone about it.

“Bigger is always better” 😂

I first seen it I was like wow that’s cool but now that I know the true size outstanding

I can just image Darth Vader stepping foot on the ship and taking a few deep breaths before saying, "Ah, yes! I love that new ship smell!"

Nitpick - it's ex-EC-u-tor, not "execute-er." (Yes, it was driving me up the wall hearing that.) An Executor is someone who carries out someone else's orders. (These days typically the provisions of someone's will.)

Kinda pronouncing executor wrong. As though it were executioner, but it is executor, like a ceo of a company or a person that administers a will.

My first inpression was, damn ! That onces big but it looks somehow Compressed in the Movie.

Palpatine: so, howd the date go? Darth Vader: glorious, absolutely amazing very good....nice.

I would like a video on what you would have made if you had control of the sequeal triology?

"a few pilots watching have not signed up for recruitment." Only because I have to stay home for another season to help with the harvest. Maybe next year, they say. It's been 'next year' for the past 7 years! Anyone know a good smuggler and a grandfatherly figure who could help me out here?

I like to joke that the Executor is my favorite Star Wars character. She is just so glorious, beautiful, and overwhelming. When they added her to the Armada miniatures game, my brain exploded. The “miniature” is 61 cm long, dwarfing everything else on the table. In my novelette “Omega Fleet” these things are fittingly the final bosses of the war

Egg-zek-you-tor. Not executer.

Tbh the Executor is pretty sweet-looking & badass capital ship within the Star Wars universe.

Unless you've done one in the past, I think you should do a video about Lira Wessex. I've seen plenty of videos of ships designed by Wessex, but never one about the life and history of Wessex herself.

3:20 The SSD has always been 5 Miles long. Not more than that. You might be thinking of the Eclipse?

Way off topic, but when he talked about production getting fast tracked after the loss of the DS, it reminded me to ask: How did the Death Star cruise around the galaxy? I just learned it was capable of entering into hyperspace, but where are all the engines?? What makes it go zoom?

In all fairness. If you had command of an SSD, never mind an Executor, who wouldn't love it?

I always thought the 12 TIE fighter squadrons was a very low number, unless this was the fighter numbers that were on active duty at the time and the real amount on board could be three or four times that.

I just thought that the Empire always had this ship after the 4th movie was done. I didn’t know that the 12 super star destroyers were made after the battle of Yavin

Definitely my all favorite ship in Star Wars SAGA 😃👍

Disney "Cannon" is fan fiction. "Legends" is the only real cannon.

Aw shucks. Glad you liked it Big V.

Not called execute-er, called exec-uter. It’s part of cannon.

@torqueranch4396

4 ай бұрын

When star wars begun. it was execute er this new crap is simply disney making it woke like they are trying to do with slave 1

THEY MADE 11 OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS!? Holy balls! I thought there was only the Executor and the Lusankya. And how could you not fall in love with such an amazing ship? The only one more awesome is the Eclipse class Star Destroyers. Plus their introduction is just amazing. EP IV wows you with the opening shot of a Star Destroyer. Then to one up it, they show you that same Star Destroyer being dwarfed by the Executor. And Rogue One then compares a Star Destroyer to the Death Star. So awesome.

It's easy. It is a machine, just like him.

Hey, if someone gave me a god darn star destroyer, you best believe Imma take care of it the hell out of it.

Another sweet thumbnail! 😍

@TheStupendousWave

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like it! The artist is in the description.

@eaphantom9214

7 ай бұрын

​​@@TheStupendousWave Alright! 👍🏻 Greetings to you from the UK 🇬🇧 - again - Master KZread Narrator of the force 😏

Bigger isn’t necessarily better, a SSD was destroyed by a kamikaze A-wing. Similar to a modern day US navy nimitz class aircraft carrier, it can kick ass with its fighters but a single aircraft carrier VS 20 small speed boats and 4 destroyers could take it down without a escort group to protect it.

@The_Desert_Tiger

7 ай бұрын

It wasn't just an A-wing, Admiral Ackbar did command the Rebel fleet to focus fire on it, and it only went down because backup systems didn't kick in fast enough to fight off the gravitational pull of the Death Star.

The Executor Class is certainly a Magnificent looking vessel. Imagine a ship like the Executor Class, but it’s 1000km long, and it’s equipped with a Super Laser that has the Godly Power of Eliminating an Entire Universe off the map of the Multiverse. This ship is The Eliminator Class Hyper-Star Dreadnought, an Incredibly Massive Super Weapon Ship that is the Largest ship in the Most Evil Faction in the Multiverse: The Void Empire. The Void Empire is ruled by The Demon lord of Villainy, Wickedness, and Destruction, who wields the Multiversal Staff of Villainy, Wickedness, and Destruction. He is known by Many Names, but in General, his name is GothDum (in the Zarvanian lore), Monkilador (by some of the Zephoan Races), & Zod Illkilmord (in the Atari Zephoan Races), but in General, he is Shadow Zero. His Opposite is Illuminar Solaristar, or just Luminar Solaris (Wielder of the Staff of Heroism and Purity), and his Ship, the Liberator Class Super-Star Defender, is similar in appearance to a MC 80 Liberty cruiser, but also at 1000km long, and though it doesn’t have a Super Weapon, it has the most Powerful Shields of All Star ships in Multiversal Existence, able to create a Barrier that Shadow Zero’s ships cannot pass through. This shield is even able to block the Universe Destroying Beam of the Eliminartor Class.

I feel like Thrawn would have been able to use these things to their full capability. Rebellion is lucky Thrawn wasn’t behind Endor.

Thing was a beast in empire at war forces of corruption

What about the Governator?

Please, analyze everything and make holocrons about everything there is! Anything at all! Thank you!

These ships, while powerful, still have that fatal flaw all the Empire's superweapons have. Hit the sweet spot and the whole thing goes up. Also thought the SSD was the prototype for the Eclipse Class SSD.

lightsaber

Impossibly gigantic and brought down by an Awing

Even as a kid i thought it was stupid that the Executor was lost due to a fighter crashing into the bridge. An XO could have taken command and carried on the fight.

Just imagine if star wars had replicator tech. It would have solved alot of the empire's supply problems on ships.

Seems like this ship would have had a lot more than 144 TIE fighters.

Sadly this is the wrong pronunciation for the SSD. While I prefer this one, it is actually supposed to be like executive rather than execution.

Big and impressive, sure, and an offensive powerhouse, but you can't exactly scale your defenses directly to match. Makes putting all those eggs in one basket a pretty risky move.

@mickeyconnor830

7 ай бұрын

Isn't that what the accompanying contingent of Imperial Class Star Destroyers is for?

@LetholdusKaspyr

7 ай бұрын

@@mickeyconnor830 Yeah, but imagine if you had invested all those resources into more ships, not a ridiculously huge one. The same amount of firepower, but destroying a single ship wouldn't reshape your entire naval map.

As a kid:Wow. As an adult... big ass ship.