The Empire is broken... this shouldn't have happened

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    Vice Admiral Rampart is back and he looks a lot more worse for wear, if the Empire were functioning properly someone like him shouldn't be in jail.
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  • @GenerationTech
    @GenerationTech  5 месяцев назад +35

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    • @hesh_a_day9326
      @hesh_a_day9326 5 месяцев назад +3

      Where can I see the older Rampart ? I need the name of the series.
      Edit: I FOUND IT. DAMN DIDNT RECONIZED THERE IS A NEW SERIES OUT !!!
      Welp

    • @Greengoogaming
      @Greengoogaming 5 месяцев назад +2

      Did you shave your beard at some point?

    • @lukeulrich4560
      @lukeulrich4560 5 месяцев назад +1

      when does this deal end?

    • @IsaiahRichards692
      @IsaiahRichards692 4 месяца назад

      You don’t fix the Empire by making it more democratic! America has demonstrated for us that democracy doesn’t work; you replace the Tarkin’s with the Admiral Versio’s! You rule through fear, the right way!

  • @dirtydeesenpai
    @dirtydeesenpai 5 месяцев назад +162

    So in the Emperor’s Empire, you had Tarkin discarding the competent Imperial officers, meanwhile Darth Vader was choking the life out of incompetent officers, so the safest bet in the Empire, was to be a mid, extremely mediocre officer, I am sure in the officers’ break room “out of sight, out of mind” was their mantra to live another day 😅

    • @talscorner3696
      @talscorner3696 5 месяцев назад +6

      You are absolutely correct xD

    • @kenle2
      @kenle2 5 месяцев назад +13

      "If you are safe and content in a pile of (bleep) -
      For Pete's sake KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!"
      You saw this with the garrison in Andor - don't rock the boat and keep the locals distracted so nobody gets demoted or made an example of by the ISB.

    • @Vistico93
      @Vistico93 5 месяцев назад +11

      It's like the fable of the man with two wives, one older than him and the other, younger. The younger wife, not wanting to be married to an old man, plucked out every gray hair she saw and the older wife, not wishing to be reminded of youth long gone, would pluck out every brown hair she saw. In the end, the husband was left bald

    • @jackpotskirazor3142
      @jackpotskirazor3142 5 месяцев назад +8

      One of the only officers who escaped both Tarkin and Vader's purges was Thrawn, so essentially being an officer under Thrawn was a life preserver in the ocean of fratricide that was the Empire.

  • @giveld
    @giveld 5 месяцев назад +592

    Bro gave his beard to Rampart😭

    • @Thrawner234
      @Thrawner234 5 месяцев назад +15

      True lol

    • @horushacienda
      @horushacienda 5 месяцев назад +18

      Right! I’m like where’s Allen? 😂

    • @neofulcrum5013
      @neofulcrum5013 5 месяцев назад +7

      Lmao

    • @Reoh0z
      @Reoh0z 5 месяцев назад +6

      Best laugh I've had all day.

    • @nathandi_maggio8297
      @nathandi_maggio8297 5 месяцев назад +1

      That's what's different about him

  • @jhs2110
    @jhs2110 5 месяцев назад +41

    Palpatine after the creation of the Empire kind of reminds me of Plaguis in his book, where they both gain as much power in the mundane world as they possibly can before realizing that true power comes from unlocking the full potential of the dark side where they then abandon just about everything but their studies and leave the domination of the galaxy to their apprentice/underlings which ultimately leads to their downfall

    • @aaronmoten953
      @aaronmoten953 5 месяцев назад +8

      And Palpatine thought he was so much different and better than his master than he makes the exact same mistake.

  • @jeffreycarman2185
    @jeffreycarman2185 5 месяцев назад +50

    What’s most unbelievable about the imprisonment of Rampart js the Emperor didn’t need to actually imprison him. The Emperor could easily have gone through the motions of punishing Rampart only to have e him whisked into a secret team on any number of secret vault worlds or secret projects. In an Empire comprised of millions of inhabited worlds and, I assume, has many thousands of secret projects happening at any given time, the Emperor could have done it. But the other problem with being evil and narcissistic is you can’t be bothered to make that kind of effort.

    • @kenle2
      @kenle2 5 месяцев назад

      He was publicly exposed as a traitor to the Empire, the one who destroyed its biggest source of combat protection, right in front of the whole Senate.
      Palpatine doesn't have full control yet, so he has to be able to show Senators who might be curious about what happened to this galaxy-class traitor that his "Imperial Justice" is being delivered.

    • @DimoB8
      @DimoB8 5 месяцев назад +4

      There was also the fact that Rampart was overambitious and willing to go to extreme lengths to improve his position. Sending him elsewhere without punishing him could make things even worse

  • @TheWarmachine375
    @TheWarmachine375 5 месяцев назад +252

    0:04 Also Palpatine: "I love democracy. I love the Republic."

    • @nicolbolas2324
      @nicolbolas2324 5 месяцев назад +13

      What do you expect? he's a politician, he LIED.

    • @isaackim7675
      @isaackim7675 5 месяцев назад +3

      Then in Episode III: Nor the Republic, nor democracy don’t trust me

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 5 месяцев назад +6

      He really should've loved democrocy. It's what kept him on top of his game

  • @TheDownrankTrain
    @TheDownrankTrain 5 месяцев назад +70

    The empire really was a clusterfuck of donkeys leading lions (or in Thrawns case, lions leading donkeys). If Rampart had the good fortune to be placed under Thrawns command insead of Tarkins he would likely have become one of Thrawns most trusted officers, the guy he trusts to run things.

    • @talscorner3696
      @talscorner3696 5 месяцев назад +9

      And the good guys would've been *screwed*

    • @winslowa8317
      @winslowa8317 5 месяцев назад +4

      To be honest Vader would’ve probably liked Thrawn and asked him to overthrow the Emperor if he could’ve provided a way to do so. I’ve always believed that Vader would’ve made everything better if he ever became Emperor, while cruel and needlessly evil it wasn’t unprovoked.

    • @williamnixon3994
      @williamnixon3994 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@winslowa8317 Vader is not at all a political figure, and I think he knows that, contributing to why he never took advantage of moments he probably could've killed Palpatine and gotten away with it, until of course, the Return of the Jedi

    • @winslowa8317
      @winslowa8317 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@williamnixon3994 My point wasn’t him being political, my point was he had better traits than Palpatine in terms of administrative direction. Palpatine was a beautiful politician and a great visionary, he was without question the opposite of a beautiful ruler and a great leader.

  • @Jay2JayGaming
    @Jay2JayGaming 5 месяцев назад +39

    Palpatine's command over the darkside was such that he could draw on the hatred and suffering of others to empower himself. Whats more, he was in his late seventies by the time the Clone Wars ended. Combined you begin to understand why he was so mask off post republic even though the Empire was far from complete. He would either find a way to extend his lifespan through plundering the galaxy, or die with the satisfaction he got to spend his golden years being cartoonishly evil.
    Palpatine was the perfect Sith, so completely selfish he was willing to squander the thousand year old grand plan for no reason other than it didn't directly benefit him to execute it to completion.

    • @B1izzardHawk
      @B1izzardHawk 3 месяца назад

      Well, even then, in both legends and disney canon, it's clear he intended no one but himself to rule the galaxy and eventually the universe. He was constantly trying to cheat death through clone bodies and find a way to become immortal

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 5 месяцев назад +367

    Crosshair said it best: Loyalty to the empire doesn’t go both ways.
    You’re more of a cog to them that’s easily replaced.

    • @kenle2
      @kenle2 5 месяцев назад +16

      ​@bigbadcreoledaddy
      Yes, but there's a difference in "replacable" because someone else can do a better job or "replaceable" because you physically can't do the job anymore (which is just reality - not political oppression) and "replaceable" because it's just politically expedient to get rid of you.
      None of these are pleasant, but one is outright injustice.

    • @Silver77cyn
      @Silver77cyn 5 месяцев назад +4

      So basically like when you work for any corporate capitalist company.

    • @danieltobin4498
      @danieltobin4498 5 месяцев назад

      @bigbadcreoledaddy True but the New Republic won't pull a "You have failed me for the last time!" on you for failing to submit your paperwork on time. The Empire would, it's a collection of backstabbing selfish egotistical evil dudes. Rampart is your stereotypical Imperial.

  • @ubercow6611
    @ubercow6611 5 месяцев назад +88

    Rampart stole Alan's beard

  • @IceWolfLoki
    @IceWolfLoki 5 месяцев назад +21

    Vader had to kill so many incompetent officers because of people like Tarkin, but he can only be in so many places at once.

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 Месяц назад

      If Vader had killed Tarkin, the Empire might unironically have fared better. It probably would've still fallen eventually, but it would've bought them more time.

  • @MJC1891
    @MJC1891 5 месяцев назад +15

    5:49 the shitty part is that all these shows revolve around “some how palaptine returned”

    • @Saberrex1
      @Saberrex1 5 месяцев назад +4

      To put in in better terms, Palpatine's resurrection is based off the Dark Empire comics, where he continues to clone himself and transfers his spirit into new bodies that rapidly age faster as a result of his Dark side energies eating the clone bodies from the inside out. It doesn't help that in the comics, a royal guard named Carnor Jax also sabotaged the cloning process and made the Sith lord's supply of bodies genetically unstable, causing them to break down even faster.

    • @flaviomonteiro1414
      @flaviomonteiro1414 4 месяца назад +2

      To be fair, the concept is good, however it's badly executed in comics and in the movies.

  • @brettpalmer1770
    @brettpalmer1770 5 месяцев назад +2

    A bit of the emperor's brain got fried when his face did.

  • @MrRedFoxorMrelzorrorojo
    @MrRedFoxorMrelzorrorojo 5 месяцев назад +37

    Great video but the opening title is a misnomer. The empire wasn't broken, it was functioning as Palpatine intended it to. It was an extension of his self serving will, a pyramid of power where he was at the top and everyone else below him.

    • @CaptainBigman
      @CaptainBigman 5 месяцев назад +10

      True but the empire could've reigned for hundreds of years if Palpatine put half the effort into the Empire that he did into the Republic. Its broken because its doomed; Palpatine's awareness of this fact (or whether or not that was by Palpatine's design) doesn't change the fact that The Empire as a whole (which is what the title of the video refers to) was broken because it was completely unsustainable. This led to Palpatine's demise at the end of the original trilogy which highlights one of the main themes of star wars; being a selfish leader and trampling on others will have a negative outcome in the end

    • @JayL-
      @JayL- 5 месяцев назад +5

      ​​@@CaptainBigman You are right, but it could never be any different. It is the way of the Sith. Literally the first tenet of the Sith Code says "Peace is a lie".
      They strenghten themselves through conflict and see peace as stagnation -- Palpatine wanted his empire to be a reflection of him. One should never be at ease under the Sith rule. Not even the Sith Master.
      It is a Sith Empire, even though it isn't officially called that.

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 5 месяцев назад

      The problem with government is that sooner or later administrations become lazy and corrupt and have to be replaced when the public finally get fed up. In a democracy this happens with a general election; in a dictatorship it happens through armed uprising, because there's no other option.

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 Месяц назад

      @@JayL- Yeah, the Sith are inherently self-destructive, no matter what method they employ or style, ultimately, a society can't run on Social Darnwinsim. Not even Nature runs on it.

  • @ryanartward
    @ryanartward 5 месяцев назад +5

    Im begining to think that deflected Sith lighting may have fried the Emperors brain a little..

  • @Zulu5-Gp
    @Zulu5-Gp 5 месяцев назад +5

    you always gotta squeeze that helldivers reference in there (6:30)

  • @allthatwecan
    @allthatwecan 5 месяцев назад +57

    🎶 somebody got a haircut 🎶

    • @torrom9207
      @torrom9207 5 месяцев назад +10

      Thanks for noticing, I had it cut yesterday

    • @johnshort5830
      @johnshort5830 5 месяцев назад +4

      The funniest thing is we all sang this in our heads with the following notes:
      A, A, A, F#, B, A, F#

  • @theghettogourmet6762
    @theghettogourmet6762 5 месяцев назад +4

    Praise be to sweet baby Yoda, the Star Wars channel has provided more factually accurate info than 90% of RUclips pointing out that the Aryans were Persians. Please for the love of the Great Father Skywalker, make a side channel on actual world history. I think you would do a better job than the vast majority of the current producers.

  • @JediLordNathan
    @JediLordNathan 5 месяцев назад +2

    Honestly I'm surprised Rampart was still alive at this point. Palpatine can be even more brutal to failures then Vader is, as terrifying and brutal as Vader force choking an Imperial Officer to death or impaling them with a lightsaber its tame in comparison to how Palpatine would treat Imperial officers that screwed up in a big way hell even non-officers just ask Beval Lemelisk the Death Star Archetect who Sidious executed by throwing him to flesh eating bettles, then cloned and essence-transfered him only to execute him a second time by dropping him into a vat of molten copper and repeat the process. That's just one example you need also take a look at the Crimson Protectors in how they the most elite of the Emperor's guards were trained he'd have trainees at the end of the class paired up and have to fight each other to the death for a position in the guard, very often the two guard trainees were good friends and the trainees previous had trained in teams. Also overpreformers risked having to fight Darth Vader when Sidous and Vader both showed up when that happened Palpatine would select the best in the class and have them fight Vader to the death in an arena called the Squall and well anyone knows what happens when they have to fight Darth Vader one vs one you are dead no matter what.
    But yeah given Palpatine's brutality towards anyone that draws his ire or hell even people that preform too good its surprising that Rampart was alive, albiet sent to waste the rest of his days in a labor camp and even more so considering Rampart was a loose end and Sidious doesn't like leaving loose ends alive just ask Lama Su and the Kaminoans as a whole; you'd think that he'd have used Rampart as a brutal example to any Imperial officers.
    Just saying Rampart being alive is something that bastard can count himself lucky for considering that Sidious has killed people for far less and well the guy is a psychopath who enjoys killing people in messed up fashion the guy's first act on becoming a Sith was to murder his entire family something that very few Sith Lords are attributed as doing, the only other Sith of note to have done that was Darth Vitiate who like Palpatine was also a cold-blooded psychopath.

  • @cd5sircoupe
    @cd5sircoupe 5 месяцев назад +4

    Who is this man and what did he do to Alan?

  • @mehmeh1234
    @mehmeh1234 5 месяцев назад +2

    Oh well beard gone, carry on.

  • @K.C_Kreations
    @K.C_Kreations 5 месяцев назад

    1:14 Yo Alan’s bread just went into hyperspace and went to the unknown regions

  • @RepublicOfBridger
    @RepublicOfBridger 5 месяцев назад +1

    The Automatons are invading in the West. Super Earth needs you Gen Tech.

  • @supremefankai5480
    @supremefankai5480 5 месяцев назад +2

    It's almost as if Star Wars is showing us that dictatorships don't work as a lesson for IRL

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks Alan 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

  • @Finnl-qe5le
    @Finnl-qe5le 5 месяцев назад +1

    Yay Hell Diverse reference

  • @TheDragonOfWhi
    @TheDragonOfWhi 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ramparts problem was he got caught with something that was poltitically inconvenient at a time when the empire wasnt firmly entrench yet. If it had been 5 yeara later he'd have been fine.

  • @antifurryfoundation55
    @antifurryfoundation55 5 месяцев назад +1

    How the empire made it 20 years is a Down right miracle.

  • @patrickhannon4217
    @patrickhannon4217 5 месяцев назад

    0:18 AAAH! Unexpected baby Alan face again!

  • @GinoBtheman
    @GinoBtheman 5 месяцев назад +1

    Alan did you get glasses? Something seems different

  • @TheZamaron
    @TheZamaron 5 месяцев назад

    If you want to make a comparison, Hitler with Palpatine. Hitler despite being an idiot at times knew when to and where to garner support, he started off with with the economic issues Germany was facing, then in time when he and the Nazis got into enough of a position of power he then shifted to propaganda tactics, he played on people's fears making Jews and enemy to target, gettign worse and worse over time, even came up with the whole Aryan Race nonesense. He always had consistant "enemies" to put blame on, his undoing came from overextending Germany's military into a 2 front war with most of Europe, he succeeded well politically, but failed militarily, but still he propped up loyal but devoted followers but still took some of their advice and placated to the people to some degree.
    Palpatine on the other hand basically neglected the Empire, heck he was already laying the groundwork for his dark experiments during the Clone Wars, Mount Tantus and other secret locations like Byss in the old EU. He was rather egotistical. He'd have to be to willingly trust agents with these secret locations and clearly already had some of the Death Star starting construction. He propped up essentially yes men and didn't take long before placating the people wasn't important to him anymore. He constantly drove people and even military officers to despise him.

  • @maryevens4261
    @maryevens4261 5 месяцев назад

    Sorry this is off topic, but is that the Hudson River outside the window behind you?

  • @jaohonaxa
    @jaohonaxa 5 месяцев назад

    I've said it before and I'll say it again. Palpatine never intended for the empire to be a stable or even properly functioning government. If anything the more unstable, dysfunctional, and cutthroat it was the better it served his needs of being a smokescreen to his true agenda. Let's not forget that in Bad Batch he's currently promising all the resources of the empire to an unstable, sadistic scientist to work on his pet project right at a time when his empire is trying to expand and consolidate its position.

  • @Svnfold
    @Svnfold 4 месяца назад

    Looks so different 👀

  • @josermaiz
    @josermaiz 5 месяцев назад +1

    Rampart having beard look like dormir imperial officer

  • @abhinandanvasudevan6540
    @abhinandanvasudevan6540 5 месяцев назад

    This week's jumpscare is brought to you by beardless Alan

  • @alexyu2299
    @alexyu2299 5 месяцев назад

    please can you make a video about how the bad batch will brake omega out. I love your videos

  • @festusfive9157
    @festusfive9157 5 месяцев назад +1

    Holy fuck he went chin mode

  • @danielsisk2963
    @danielsisk2963 5 месяцев назад

    Like the new look Alan

  • @clayrodriguez_author
    @clayrodriguez_author 5 месяцев назад +1

    I will always say it. Absolutely no one did more damage to the empire then tarkin

    • @jamesbellefeuille2926
      @jamesbellefeuille2926 3 месяца назад +1

      Tarkin was the Rebellion's best recruiter after the destruction of Alderaan.

  • @cremeybrulee
    @cremeybrulee 5 месяцев назад

    Well said and I agree

  • @luisotero7096
    @luisotero7096 5 месяцев назад

    Waiting for Alan to blame tarkin for why stormtroopers have such bad aim

  • @bakes1324
    @bakes1324 5 месяцев назад

    Why was rampart not executed? Wouldn’t palpatine have been worried that betraying him would lead to him revealing secrets if he was ever captured or escaped? He could’ve done this under the guise of lawful execution as well given that he pinned the kamino thing on him and the entire galaxy saw it.

  • @merafirewing6591
    @merafirewing6591 5 месяцев назад

    I hope Alan regrows his beard back.

  • @AlexKaneROTN
    @AlexKaneROTN 4 месяца назад

    Kinda makes you wonder how the hell the Galactic Empire even lasted as long as it did. It's no wonder why it fell to the Rebel Alliance. 😂

  • @Fatherofheroesandheroines
    @Fatherofheroesandheroines 5 месяцев назад

    As with all Sith regimes, they do not understand that power is NOT the end all be all. It is a means to an end that never really is lasting.

  • @onje_berdy1590
    @onje_berdy1590 5 месяцев назад +2

    I was very surprised that Palpatine didn't order Rampart's murder - after all, he was a self-centered opportunist with access to top secret information.

    • @entilzha1283
      @entilzha1283 5 месяцев назад

      It was a message. F up not so badly, lifetime prison to think about your failure. If Tarkin had survived the Death Star's explosion, he wouldn't have survived his court martial for incompetence.

    • @onje_berdy1590
      @onje_berdy1590 5 месяцев назад

      @@entilzha1283 Thinking about things like "messages" to his minions is a sign of empathy, which Palpatine was organically incapable of.

  • @TheToymaker0
    @TheToymaker0 5 месяцев назад

    Why does rampart have diffrent eyes?

  • @oldered5663
    @oldered5663 5 месяцев назад

    Thrawn was successful because he bypassed the "Tarkin Pipeline of Incompetency"

  • @dominikreinhart3457
    @dominikreinhart3457 5 месяцев назад

    i'm not trying to sound mean or something, i love stra wars, but the i learn about the empire the more i think:
    HOW THE F*CK DID THEY LAST 20 F*CKING YEARS!!!
    i mean the amount of problems they had and even created, man sidious was a firefighter with how many fires he had to deal with.
    It's no wonder they (the empire) quickly fell apart after his death, he was the lynchpin keeping everything together.

  • @archhanny
    @archhanny 5 месяцев назад

    Where is Alan? Is my name Alan? Was the real Alan the Alan's we made all along? I'm confused... Who is Alan?

  • @Adam-un5bq
    @Adam-un5bq 5 месяцев назад

    Zilo Beast!!!!!!!!!

  • @harl3quinn
    @harl3quinn 5 месяцев назад

    Who are you and what have you done with Allen?

  • @joshbro8435
    @joshbro8435 5 месяцев назад

    No dude not the beard!!!

  • @luisemoralesfalcon4716
    @luisemoralesfalcon4716 5 месяцев назад

    Man, what letting drinks get to you.

  • @AnthonyLayfield
    @AnthonyLayfield 5 месяцев назад

    Alan Looking Fresh af 👌

  • @SchkuenteQoostewin
    @SchkuenteQoostewin 5 месяцев назад

    Wow....what does this sound like? If you do not know what I am meaning, open your eyes.

  • @fumarc4501
    @fumarc4501 5 месяцев назад

    The bureaucratic aristocracy.

  • @cladladd
    @cladladd 5 месяцев назад +1

    pre mewing post cooming

  • @Jepps_CTR
    @Jepps_CTR 5 месяцев назад

    Holy crap you shaved??

  • @Tericc1
    @Tericc1 5 месяцев назад

    wow this guy is already incorect on so many thiings. Hell even about the Emperor.. he needed the Empire to fight the outsiders. nope hes just a evil space wizerd. Should work for Disney

  • @nycaight
    @nycaight 5 месяцев назад +1

    Don’t shave 🪒 again I thought your cousin was standing in for you

  • @thearnorianruby4681
    @thearnorianruby4681 5 месяцев назад

    Oh, my Gosh! What happened to your face!?!

  • @markhurley3714
    @markhurley3714 5 месяцев назад

    Random comment for RUclips algorithm

  • @saladin3273
    @saladin3273 5 месяцев назад +3

    Democracy lost the moral argument after Gaza.

    • @black-uh1df
      @black-uh1df 5 месяцев назад +2

      *Looks at Ukraine, Syria, Xinjiang, Iran, the protests against the war in Gaza in the states itself and in Europe*
      Yea.... na.

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@black-uh1dfliberal democracy is blindly supporting the slaughter. The political class is entirely owned by the perpetrators.

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@black-uh1df looks at Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Serbia, Guatemala, Haiti, the DRC, Somalia, Yemen, Nicaragua, Iran, Vietnam, and Palestine.
      All atrocities committed by democracy.
      Mass slaughter of civilians, use of chemical weapons, violating national sovereignty, and exploitation.

    • @saladin3273
      @saladin3273 5 месяцев назад

      @@black-uh1df you clearly haven't read into actual history.
      Read Confessions of An Economic Hitman.

    • @black-uh1df
      @black-uh1df 5 месяцев назад

      @@saladin3273 And you clearly haven't been paying attention. Why don't you scurry off to Russia or China, go leave us alone and indulge in your delusions

  • @talscorner3696
    @talscorner3696 5 месяцев назад

    Sir...? Uhm... Your face fell off?

  • @ninjalectualx
    @ninjalectualx 5 месяцев назад +1

    The guy who supports Israel is talking about genocide now? Bro, don't pretend to be against genocide. We all saw that flag in your background for months

  • @urmumisaho69
    @urmumisaho69 5 месяцев назад

    Getting communist vibes from “al”Len…

  • @malachiphoniex8501
    @malachiphoniex8501 5 месяцев назад +295

    First Tarkin throws Rampart underneath the bus; then he eliminates Krennic. Both were ruthless monsters but in the authoritarian Empire they were some of the best leaders in the system. And of course, let's not forget the massive idiocy that was destroying Alderaan: in a High Human Culture society, you go after the aliens first and quietly sweep up the humans suporting them; if Tarkin had destroyed Mon Cala or an Outer Rim world like Lothal, the backlash wouldn't have been so fierce.
    Then Tarkin backs the worst people possible: Pryce was an imbecile who climbed the ranks thanks to aiding Tarkin in his political manuvearing. Thrawn, while a strategic genuis, was forced to accommodate Pryce for the political leaverage she wielded and Tarkin did little to aid Thrawn on this front. Even in BB S3, he's quarreling with Hemlock over finances and trying to worm his way into Tantiss!

    • @xgcsurreal2608
      @xgcsurreal2608 5 месяцев назад +81

      He's is always looking for a way to make himself look like the genius who came up with all the Empire's good ideas. (Probably the reason he shafted Thrawn, so he wouldn't have effective competition)

    • @rubenvideo3188
      @rubenvideo3188 5 месяцев назад +34

      Vader also sick of that old fart so he probaly let the Deathstar got blown to soff him off for good

    • @rubenvideo3188
      @rubenvideo3188 5 месяцев назад +35

      @@xgcsurreal2608 A Good reason why Vader let the Deathstar got blown with Tarkin to prooft what pointless that base is

    • @gregorylumban-gaol3889
      @gregorylumban-gaol3889 5 месяцев назад +21

      @@xgcsurreal2608Thrawn’s gonna be so happy when he learns that Tarkin died.

    • @udhavbhatia6424
      @udhavbhatia6424 5 месяцев назад +30

      ​@@xgcsurreal2608 One of the reasons why I support Vader being the Emporer he would have been much more forgiving than Palpatine and removed flaws in the system like slavery(he is really against that one) and put competent people incharge like Thrawn and Pellion.

  • @DragonxFlutter
    @DragonxFlutter 5 месяцев назад +67

    "The Empire is Broken"
    You say that as if it wasn't intentionally made to be a pyramid scheme that only truly benefits Palpatine.

    • @darksidegryphon5393
      @darksidegryphon5393 4 месяца назад +1

      "Hey, hun! Would you like to be part of our glorious galactic empire?"

  • @MrSHADOWANGEL999
    @MrSHADOWANGEL999 5 месяцев назад +126

    Palpatine made the empire around himself and it fell with him

    • @Alte.Kameraden
      @Alte.Kameraden 5 месяцев назад

      Still doesn't make sense. No totalitarian system has died with their leader. Lenin died, Stalin took his place, Stalin died Khrushchev took his place. HItler died and Donetz took his place, issue was the Reich was pretty much occupied by that point so everything was in tatters. Issue is Hitler had a succession plan. And I reject the very idea Operation Cinder exist it's the stupid and most ret*rded plot point scifi history. There is no way the Empire would of not had something in place in case Palpatine died. Even Palpatine himself should know he wouldn't live forever, even as a force user. No man in such a position of power would want their legacy destroy/lost and would have made measures to preserve it.

    • @Francesco-gf1sv
      @Francesco-gf1sv 4 месяца назад

      Socialist Albania, N*zi Germany, cambodia only to name a few regimes that didnt even pass the power to a successor but died along its "leaders" in real life.

  • @cybersmith_videos
    @cybersmith_videos 5 месяцев назад +407

    Alan's face looks different...

  • @Seannessy
    @Seannessy 5 месяцев назад +65

    Clean shaven Alan will haunt my dreams like a creepypasta

  • @GenerationTech
    @GenerationTech  5 месяцев назад +44

    James Norrington vibes anyone?

    • @Tutt318
      @Tutt318 5 месяцев назад +5

      James Norrington do you fear death

    • @stewlew8449
      @stewlew8449 5 месяцев назад

      I was thinking Bel Riose from Foundation series. Someone clearly capable but is sent to a penal colony for getting on the wrong side of the emporer

    • @shadowfox009x
      @shadowfox009x 5 месяцев назад

      More Ernst Röhm. And maybe, Erwin Rommel. Although Rommel was never a true believer, just a supporter of Hitler.

    • @raphaellee9481
      @raphaellee9481 5 месяцев назад

      Definitely mate

  • @HerbtasticHerbdaddy
    @HerbtasticHerbdaddy 5 месяцев назад +24

    Admiral Rampart grew a beard, Alan shaves his. Hmmm, conspiracy?

  • @TheWarmachine375
    @TheWarmachine375 5 месяцев назад +83

    *thumbnail*
    How the mighty have fallen on Admiral Rampart.

  • @tyseliger7712
    @tyseliger7712 5 месяцев назад +41

    Its also sad to see people that served the republic and the empire see this chaos around them and either did nothing or decided to instead add more fuel to the fire by joining it knowing full well that it could've led to the destruction of the empire.

    • @purpledragons1146
      @purpledragons1146 5 месяцев назад

      The Republic during the prequel era really wasn't any better than the Empire. It was extremely corrupt and only valued the wealthy core worlds. The outer rim was left to fend for itself. The Empire brought order to a fractured Galaxy.

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 5 месяцев назад +3

      That's not entirely fair - the Empire was established as a multinational police force guarding against the corruption and warfare that had preceded it. As soon as many Imperial personnel realised that the Empire really stood for widespread abuse of government power at the expense of civilian populations they jumped ship and joined resistance groups.

  • @thedarkknight727
    @thedarkknight727 5 месяцев назад +55

    I like how recently in Star Wars Media, they been actually showing “WHY” exactly The Galactic Empire are the “BAD GUYS.” 😉

    • @Golems_victory
      @Golems_victory 5 месяцев назад +7

      Why the quotation marks? The empire is bad.... XD

    • @Slayer398
      @Slayer398 5 месяцев назад +5

      Since when was that in question? Did people have a massive brain fart over this?

    • @thedarkknight727
      @thedarkknight727 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@Slayer398: Actually YES, before the Animated Series, and Live-Action Shows, they never really showed The Empire do actual Evil Stuff other than The Death Star. All until now in recent Star Wars Media that has gone further in depth into The Empire’s Cruelty, and how the Real World could relate.

    • @Slayer398
      @Slayer398 5 месяцев назад

      @@thedarkknight727 LOL. Because that's NOT "EVIL Enough?!" Seriously?! They blew a bloody planet up for shits and giggles, tortured a woman for information, and people need to have it rubbed in their faces continuously that the GALACTIC EMPIRE are not a bunch of fluffy bunnies?

    • @Slayer398
      @Slayer398 5 месяцев назад

      @@thedarkknight727 So blowing up an entire PLANET for shits and giggles wasn't EVIL? Burning people alive wasn't EVIL? Slaughtering aliens "because" wasn't EVIL? (Jawas)
      What exactly do you need to fill your bill to define as Evil then if those aren't good examples because that's beyond sad. Is this more of 'if we aren't hit in the face every 5 seconds that the empire is bad, they are good?" ala Palpatine who is every 5 seconds in SW news as doing something else MOAR EVIL!!!!

  • @Primordial_Synapse
    @Primordial_Synapse 5 месяцев назад +16

    An excellent analysis of the Empire and its intrinsic deficiencies.
    With respect to idealistic people like Rampart, you have two possible scenarios: first, the more they learn about how the system they support actually works, the more disillusioned they become and the more likely they are to ultimately betray it and defect, which is essentially what happened with Agent Callus in Rebels. Alternatively, they maintain their loyalty but come to see its leadership as the ultimate source of imperfection and conspire with like-minded people to overthrow it. A perfect example of this in real life was Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators in the July Plot. Whatever the case, it's only a matter of time before they become a threat to those in power.
    Thus, his face turn (assuming that's what the writers of the show intend) doesn't come as a complete shock.

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 5 месяцев назад +3

      So basically an authoritarian police state is ideal, but Palpatine is too much of a megalomaniac to make it work, so replace him with a meritocracy with Grand Admiral Thrawn in charge instead.

    • @Francesco-gf1sv
      @Francesco-gf1sv 4 месяца назад

      You have two options, actually become a good and efficient ruler, or get rid of good efficient people around you.

  • @QuatroAtYale
    @QuatroAtYale 5 месяцев назад +12

    "And run by a bunch of chaotic..." Good analysis. There are several authoritarian leaders available currently for comparison. I'd like to see your analysis of their organizations versus the Empire, as you started with Hitler's.

  • @Smolavian
    @Smolavian 5 месяцев назад +13

    Alan, what do you consider to be the star wars equivalent to the Mazda Miata?

    • @GenerationTech
      @GenerationTech  5 месяцев назад +18

      looks like an a-wing flies like a droid trifighter?

    • @Smolavian
      @Smolavian 5 месяцев назад +2

      I'm here for this answer.

    • @FATMAN_tactical
      @FATMAN_tactical 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@GenerationTech you sure its not lukes speeder? open top ground vehicle, not a fighter

  • @tomcopple7633
    @tomcopple7633 5 месяцев назад +21

    I was under the impression that Rampart overestimated his own importance to the Empire.
    He got perks, even believed in the New Order, but lacked the clout of someone like Tarkin or Mass Ameda, so when the Senate found out it his Star Destroyers that destroyed Tipoca City, he was the one left holding the bag. And the Emperor was able to put everything on him.

  • @Cowboycomando54
    @Cowboycomando54 5 месяцев назад +7

    Damn dude, going with the clean look.

  • @torrom9207
    @torrom9207 5 месяцев назад +6

    I like the new look Alan

  • @Vulcan2405
    @Vulcan2405 5 месяцев назад +2

    Could you avoid putting spoilers in the thumbnail when a new episode releases? At least give 48 hours. It's not a huge spoiler to see Admiral Rampart is going to be in the episode but it would be nice to learn about it while watching the episode instead of on my recommended page

  • @JDMatesic
    @JDMatesic 5 месяцев назад +3

    Seeing your bald face is kinda' freaking me out...

  • @rickjames5998
    @rickjames5998 5 месяцев назад +2

    oh bro I totally forgot this dude. Looks way different.

  • @ravenniwolvarious8801
    @ravenniwolvarious8801 5 месяцев назад +2

    Great video sir. Love the detail and passion you have for it. Not sure it's a video you would want to make but if you were Palatines second instead of Tarkin in the beginning after the clone wars how would you have made the Empire work. What initiatives, reforms, focus would you champion and how would you have dealt with the insurgency?

  • @isaackim7675
    @isaackim7675 5 месяцев назад +2

    Who else was expecting Rampart was going to be Tarkin’s protege?

  • @Reoh0z
    @Reoh0z 5 месяцев назад +2

    The Emperor's Work Husband Tarkin was who sewed the seeds of the Emipre's fall.

  • @LizzyARTING
    @LizzyARTING 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thrawn's story is a perfect example of this. If the Empire hadnt been so focused a culture on glory, pretisige, and personal achievement, they would have been far more likely to see the wisdom in Thrawns tactics and projects (like the TIE fighter initiative) and apply them. The talent and quality were all stamped on by the power hungry, and thats what made the empire fall. So poetic considering that' quite literally what the dark side does to an individual.

  • @vgmaster1318
    @vgmaster1318 5 месяцев назад +1

    If Rampart just reassigned Howzer’s unit and had another stationed on Ryloth, he would have gotten away with it.

  • @schitflowsdwnhil
    @schitflowsdwnhil 5 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting that you bring up Hitler as an example of terrible authoritarians but not mention Stalin nor Mao
    🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @ChrisPierce-y1r
    @ChrisPierce-y1r 5 месяцев назад +1

    i shudder any time u bring up somthing from the sequls as if they where more then horible fan fiction 😂😂😂

  • @scarlettwoman7880
    @scarlettwoman7880 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love this channel! Where you give great insight and wonderful content on motives and politics, going through Star Wars with a fine comb other channels that say they are fans like ‘Thor Skywalker’ just give a barebones explanation as “I hope the Rampart situation doesn’t turn him into a rebel because that story has been told before” never mind the bad batch series show you great character development over three seasons. Those content creators that called this episode boring is simply because they could not be bothered to make their own connections for this character and his place in the wider story.

  • @yumallah
    @yumallah 5 месяцев назад +2

    Where is Allen's beard? Is it safe? Is it alright?

    • @GenerationTech
      @GenerationTech  5 месяцев назад +2

      I used a new trimmer attachment... i'm an idiot

    • @yumallah
      @yumallah 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@GenerationTech Ohh so it wasn't exactly a voluntary change of style, I see lol

  •  5 месяцев назад +1

    Do you make history videos?

  • @lucasrodillo6739
    @lucasrodillo6739 5 месяцев назад +1

    Who are you and what did you do to our host?

  • @DrankenDune
    @DrankenDune 5 месяцев назад +2

    I never really understand why slavery is so huge in Star Wars. I know you can make the argument against droids for the empire. It was right after the clone wars and anti droid sentiment, all that. But a droid workforce is so much less resource intensive. You’d think the pros would out way the cons just from a practical standpoint. That’s not even mentioning the moral implications that go along with slavery.

  • @josermaiz
    @josermaiz 5 месяцев назад +2

    Alan look young