At first, I thought that the "nose" was something like breathing apparatus, not the species' actual nose. I'm still wondering how that stormtrooper on Tatooine was able to communicate/understand what that imperial spy said.
Same way chewie and Han can communicate or r2 and Luke. The breakdown I saw was that since all beings are connected to the force, sometimes intent and message just gets accross via the will of the force. When two beings know eachother after a long period of interaction they naturally start being able to communicate outside the concept of normal translation, kind of like how if you grow up around Spanish speakers you can kind communicate on broad strokes even if you couldn't actually speak the language. So, I think in the lore, that agent had regular interactions with the patrol commander so their comradery allowed them to cross the language barriers Their are also bog stabdard implants that were super cheap that could be implanted that aided in communication, but actual conversation required a protocol droid or actual fluency
Never knew this species' name until this video. Always found them interesting, yet I never gave it some thought to look into them. So it's nice to see this video to learn about them.
I wasn't aware of what their species were called either. In true goofy genre form I had imagined the Cantina spy guy as "turd face" as his vocalizations kind of sounded like someone's butt.
honestly their culture is not that bad, especially the whole loving art work thing, except the eating sentient insectoid spiecies but they are basicly glorified anteaters so its understandable why they did that
Episode IV was on tv the other week and I love the first act of the film. When the Imperial Spy was on screen I thought "I hope MetaNerdz makes a video on the species. It's just such a cool character design." This isn't the first time this has happened. MetaNerdz is definitely force sensitive. He knows what species I want to see before I even know.
I've always found this species curious. I'm just a guy who likes learning new stuff about other species, especially when it's sentient species like the Kubaz
In SWTOR there's a special companion naked Altuur zok Adon, a Kubaz. He's a sniper type, and is a strong healer/Dps, equal to the story companions. Love him! Thanks for using a lot of SWTOR visuals for this too. Great video!
This is an example of what Star Wars writers seem to really struggle with: evolution of species. We really need someone with a background in speculative evolution to help on a Star Wars project
Agreed. Hell, just someone familiar with zoology and Earth species just to design them in the first place would help. I play SWTOR, and I know this is probably the fault of it being a video game so it has a small number of basically frames it can put the outward skins of bodies on, but most of the animals look alike and there body shapes are just insane and not very functional. Nearly all the quadrupedal predators are either build like lizards, which at least is realistic and functional, or like some version of a lizard-hyena hybrid with such dramatically shortened hindquarters that I'm not sure what their movement is like, legs somewhat out to the side so they have to expend more energy to support themselves and move, and a massive head for their frame and overly-large, wide, short mouths. The bipedal ones are even worse- just vorantikus with different skins all day long. Except maybe the actual rakghouls, and the flesh raiders depending on if you count them as predators or not. The quadrupedal herbivores are mostly okay except for often having horns that go in front of and/or below their mouths, which given their lack of trunks or opposable limbs leaves them no way to actually eat anything. Not saying they should have custom-designed every frame so make each creature truly unique, but having more of them have the limb-underneath-the-body thing that mammals have, have normal looking-heads and mouths at least sometimes, and either the prey animals sticking to horns on top like buffalo/bison and rhinos have or prehensile trunks like elephants so they have some way to eat efficiently would have been nice. It's hard to enjoy a game when most of the wildlife breaks your suspension of disbelief.
Great video! You are one of my favorite star wars youtubers! My other favourites are So Uncivilized and The Lore Master. Thanks for keeping my life interesting all these years!
Did the you-zan-vong(not trying to spell it right cause I don’t know how) attack a lot of planets after Endor? It would’ve been cool that instead of Rey and the typical light dark conflict we got a near-galaxy wide war between the “vong” and many other species with the Jedi/sith conflict still present but forced to deal with a greater evil
I remember in the older starwars gold collection when you exit the cantina to go where you see the mini kits you collected, in which if they were enemy's in the show/ movies they would attack each other but if it was this guy they would all kill him then kill each other
Very interesting to finally learn something about this mysterious species and the guy we all know from the Lego games. A harsh beginning to their history, but it seemed so full of hope and nice things eventually. Then of course, the Empire and later the Vong had to fuck em up. Always gotta be those unfortunate stories.
Overly curious anteater type aliens with an extremely bizarre home planet covered in blue light and even more bizarre silver trees with giant dark side nightmare spiders. Why is it always giant nightmare spiders?
Is there a reason why I now need to join your channel as a member in order to access your older videos??? I was about to watch a video from like 5 years ago but it appears I have to become a member in order to do this, which I dont want to do, nor should I have to just to watch a video which 5 years ago would of been free to watch. Not locked behind a paywall.
Love your videos. But maybe some more complete life’s about some more important characters? Just wandering, keep up the great work. May the force be with you.
WOW! Because of the goggles, I thought the guy was wearing a breathing mask because he could not breathe the atmosphere. Many thanks for the fascinating lore.
I wonder if you are going to do a video about the Ithorian species. I really enjoyed seeing an Ithorian as a jedi on the Clone Wars drawn cartoon, his name was Roron Corobb, and when he used the force to amplify his vocal chords, it was awesome!!
@@toomanyaccounts Nope, I already checked his main video page and they are not among the videos listed there, so thanks for answering a question directed to MetaNerds.
Great video! Thank you! Can I put in a request for a video about the Amanin? There was a time when I would devour all "Star Wars" material eagerly and try to add it to my brain, but the "New Jedi Order" books killed that desire, and the Disney movies haven't helped, either. Thankfully, there's still plenty of cool stuff to wade through, and anything I don't like, like the Vong, I just ignore.
This is such a dumb nitpick from me but I can't stop myself. When you referred to Kubindi's sun as a "blue giant" that's not really a thing. A "giant" is a super specific thing in astronomy, and stars that are large enough and hot enough to give off predominantly blue light don't qualify as giants. I know, nobody cares but I had to.
I was thinking about the sponsor (i would love to sign but i lieve in Brazil) and i was like... dude... the Jedi realy need some terapy... fuck imagine if Anakin or Revan reve terapists?
I don’t know if there’s enough information on the ship but gorian shards ship might just be one of my favorite flag ships I’ve seen those retractable ball turrets are just mmm b29 bomber kiss
Sounds like civilizations on this planet, living underground and mapping the caverns. Bet there are maps on earth that u can't see cuz it not in the club, Bro
Watched a few of your race SW lore videos now. Straight up , you cover everything from their biological origins , evolutions ,to society systems, sciences , arts and traditions. Attitudes, politics, quirks , everything. Learn so much from one video. Well done, good job 👍
Great and informative video. I always love to learn more about the various species of the Star Wars galaxy. But you might want to cut the Better Help sponsor section. This is based on the revelations about them selling customer data.
I'm guessing you can play as these guys in SWTOR? My favorite irl animal is the giant anteater so I think it'd be neat to play as one in a star wars mmo.
Nope, you can't. You can play as human, cyborg, and Zabrak as a starting F2P player. You can also unlock Twi'lek, Chiss, Mirialan, Miraluka, Rattaki, and Sith pure blood, if you sub at least for a month, possibly with some class related restrictions if you stop subbing, as well as Sith/Pub ones. Play the right character class to 50, though, and you can typically unlock the race to play on either side. And then there's Cathar, Togruta, and Nuatolan (Kit Fisto's race), which you have to buy to unlock. There are more species available amongst the various companions, you can get, and there is one Kubaz among them, Altuur zok Adon. However, he's from the first Galactic Season, and hasn't been "retired" yet, so you currently can't get him. Yeah, it makes no sense that you can get a character once they are retired, but not when they aren't. So sadly, you can't even make him a new character's companion of choice if you weren't playing back then. Kind of a shame, because he'd make a fitting compatriot for an Imperial Agent.
For some reason I always assumed that it wasn’t a species but rather just the individual nicknamed “Imperial Spy” from the Lego games
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one
Same here
@@gdsgoat7877 Same hahaha
Still sad he wasn't the new skywalker saga game
Same
At first, I thought that the "nose" was something like breathing apparatus, not the species' actual nose. I'm still wondering how that stormtrooper on Tatooine was able to communicate/understand what that imperial spy said.
the stormtrooper helmets have electronic auditory sensors in them.
It pointed in the direction
That's odd 🤔 I always understood him perfectly. He said "They went that way! If you hurry you could catch them"
Subtitles
Same way chewie and Han can communicate or r2 and Luke. The breakdown I saw was that since all beings are connected to the force, sometimes intent and message just gets accross via the will of the force. When two beings know eachother after a long period of interaction they naturally start being able to communicate outside the concept of normal translation, kind of like how if you grow up around Spanish speakers you can kind communicate on broad strokes even if you couldn't actually speak the language.
So, I think in the lore, that agent had regular interactions with the patrol commander so their comradery allowed them to cross the language barriers
Their are also bog stabdard implants that were super cheap that could be implanted that aided in communication, but actual conversation required a protocol droid or actual fluency
Never knew this species' name until this video. Always found them interesting, yet I never gave it some thought to look into them. So it's nice to see this video to learn about them.
thanks hope u like it
That's the same with me! One of those species you notice but don't really think about.
same
I wasn't aware of what their species were called either. In true goofy genre form I had imagined the Cantina spy guy as "turd face" as his vocalizations kind of sounded like someone's butt.
honestly their culture is not that bad, especially the whole loving art work thing, except the eating sentient insectoid spiecies but they are basicly glorified anteaters so its understandable why they did that
Geonosis would be an all you can eat buffet for them 😂
@@zachduperron8543 and the Geonosians will be like "Oh Hell No!"
@@zachduperron8543imagine if one of the geonosians tried to hire a kubaz as a seperarist spy
Episode IV was on tv the other week and I love the first act of the film. When the Imperial Spy was on screen I thought "I hope MetaNerdz makes a video on the species. It's just such a cool character design." This isn't the first time this has happened. MetaNerdz is definitely force sensitive. He knows what species I want to see before I even know.
Lol it binds us
@@MetaNerdzLoreIt also surrounds and penetrates us.
The Kubaz would probably view geonosis as an all you can eat buffet 😂
Edit: I sacrificed my heart just to fix a small grammatical error
That's how the empire should have genocided them, just let the Kubaz at them.
@@Awesoman66 I agree 100%
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Perfection often carries a heavy price.
"You’re either perfect or you’re not me." Mr.Perfect Cell
_(Known for eating sentient insectoid species)_
The Kalee: Excuse me, have any of you heard of the Yam'rii?
The General Grievous we know from the movies wouldn’t have existed had he known about the kubaz
I've always found this species curious. I'm just a guy who likes learning new stuff about other species, especially when it's sentient species like the Kubaz
"You will eat the bugs and you will be cultured"
Klaubaz Schwab from the Galactic Economic Forum.
HAH
You will live in the cave!
Eat ze bugs and live in pods.
In SWTOR there's a special companion naked Altuur zok Adon, a Kubaz. He's a sniper type, and is a strong healer/Dps, equal to the story companions. Love him! Thanks for using a lot of SWTOR visuals for this too. Great video!
Naked
Their appetite for bugs, INSATIABLE.
I always wanted these guys to be a playable race in SWTOR so I could pretend to be a member of the 6th house
Arcann, thinking his fleet is unstoppable.
*faint Dagothwave coming from the Gravestone getting louder and louder*
Dagoth Ur welcomes you my sweet persistent friend
The kubez looks like plague doctors
I don't know why, but the Kubaz remind me of the Death Korps of Kreig.
Makes sense. They both got cloaks, soulless eye goggles, and a form of hose petruding from their face.
Sometimes I feel like Metanerdz is force sensitive cause I swear I was wondering what the lore behind these guys were after rewatching ANH recently
Who would’ve thought the freaky elephant trunk lookin dude had so much backstory. Awesome video!
This is an example of what Star Wars writers seem to really struggle with: evolution of species. We really need someone with a background in speculative evolution to help on a Star Wars project
super agree, makes me do all sorts of gymnastics
Agreed. Hell, just someone familiar with zoology and Earth species just to design them in the first place would help. I play SWTOR, and I know this is probably the fault of it being a video game so it has a small number of basically frames it can put the outward skins of bodies on, but most of the animals look alike and there body shapes are just insane and not very functional. Nearly all the quadrupedal predators are either build like lizards, which at least is realistic and functional, or like some version of a lizard-hyena hybrid with such dramatically shortened hindquarters that I'm not sure what their movement is like, legs somewhat out to the side so they have to expend more energy to support themselves and move, and a massive head for their frame and overly-large, wide, short mouths. The bipedal ones are even worse- just vorantikus with different skins all day long. Except maybe the actual rakghouls, and the flesh raiders depending on if you count them as predators or not. The quadrupedal herbivores are mostly okay except for often having horns that go in front of and/or below their mouths, which given their lack of trunks or opposable limbs leaves them no way to actually eat anything. Not saying they should have custom-designed every frame so make each creature truly unique, but having more of them have the limb-underneath-the-body thing that mammals have, have normal looking-heads and mouths at least sometimes, and either the prey animals sticking to horns on top like buffalo/bison and rhinos have or prehensile trunks like elephants so they have some way to eat efficiently would have been nice. It's hard to enjoy a game when most of the wildlife breaks your suspension of disbelief.
So this is the species that gave Yoda his lifetime of Ketamine...
Huh I had no clue they were an actual species, and not just other aliens in a mask, let alone essentially bipedal space shrews!
The "Giant Bug of Hive Street" pic goes hard
I want to see a show about the history of the species. It would be so cool.
Great video! You are one of my favorite star wars youtubers! My other favourites are So Uncivilized and The Lore Master. Thanks for keeping my life interesting all these years!
This is the most autistic RUclips comment I’ve ever read
Your species videos are always a welcome dive into lore. Answering the question "what kind of species is that?"
That guy always gave me the creeps as a kid, probably because they look like alien plague doctors.
wow that‘s actually so interesting, it‘s a shame the kubaz didn‘t get as much spotlight as they and their story imo deserves.
great video💜
Did the you-zan-vong(not trying to spell it right cause I don’t know how) attack a lot of planets after Endor? It would’ve been cool that instead of Rey and the typical light dark conflict we got a near-galaxy wide war between the “vong” and many other species with the Jedi/sith conflict still present but forced to deal with a greater evil
I would love to do a podcast collaboration with you one day Metanerdz, quality and informative video as usual. Would love to see one on the Verpine :)
Ditto, I’d love the Verpine
Kubaz talking like: "Could the world's greatest fry cook do this?!"
I love your species videos can you do the umbaran species when you have the time
As much as I appreciate the ship and misc star wars lately I am thrilled for another timeline video hope for more in the series to cone
a spy who doesn’t believe in secrets. now this is podracing!
I knew about the Kubaz from playing KOTOR II and am glad this neat looking and rare species is finally getting covered.
They got a cute snoot
I remember in the older starwars gold collection when you exit the cantina to go where you see the mini kits you collected, in which if they were enemy's in the show/ movies they would attack each other but if it was this guy they would all kill him then kill each other
Not gonna lie I thought this entire time what I was seein was just a mask, I never knew until now that it's their face that I'm seein.
Very interesting to finally learn something about this mysterious species and the guy we all know from the Lego games. A harsh beginning to their history, but it seemed so full of hope and nice things eventually. Then of course, the Empire and later the Vong had to fuck em up. Always gotta be those unfortunate stories.
Great video, brother. Thank you!
A strangely tragic story for these people
As always, the Yuuzhan vong is worse than the empire
Thumbnail looks great. :D
Lol thanks was gonna scrap it, it is odd
@@MetaNerdzLore its from a mod a buddy and I made. Been searching for gameplay of others enjoying it. But I'm glad to see it on a history video.
Overly curious anteater type aliens with an extremely bizarre home planet covered in blue light and even more bizarre silver trees with giant dark side nightmare spiders. Why is it always giant nightmare spiders?
Dude, I was trying to eat lunch! Thanks for helping me to lose weight. 😂 Really cool video on a rare topic. 🔥
Is there a reason why I now need to join your channel as a member in order to access your older videos???
I was about to watch a video from like 5 years ago but it appears I have to become a member in order to do this, which I dont want to do, nor should I have to just to watch a video which 5 years ago would of been free to watch. Not locked behind a paywall.
When u click join u see the intro video explaining why
the species series are my favorite videos of sw lore
Better Help, based on what I've heard, is highly flawd at best.
We can make a lifelong tv series of Star Wars lore at this point 😂
Love your videos. But maybe some more complete life’s about some more important characters? Just wandering, keep up the great work. May the force be with you.
thanks, and i agree got plo koon coming next, but also finishing some older series like Kenobi, Tarkin and Saw
@@MetaNerdzLore Oh sweet that’s awesome I can’t wait to see them!😁👍
WOW!
Because of the goggles, I thought the guy was wearing a breathing mask because he could not breathe the atmosphere.
Many thanks for the fascinating lore.
I wonder if you are going to do a video about the Ithorian species. I really enjoyed seeing an Ithorian as a jedi on the Clone Wars drawn cartoon, his name was Roron Corobb, and when he used the force to amplify his vocal chords, it was awesome!!
pretty sure it has already been done
@@toomanyaccounts Nope, I already checked his main video page and they are not among the videos listed there, so thanks for answering a question directed to MetaNerds.
@@michaelkantner6420 other channels have done them.
sentient = feeling
sapient = thinking
Much like with the Aristotlean conception of 3 kinds of soul
I never knew much about this species. Very interesting race!!! They look like a cross between an anteater and a plague doctor.
All this for a guy that only appears on screen for 15 seconds.
Always love when someone does this
They ate Geonosians and Neimoidians? Oh gee, oh no. How terrible. Whatever will the galaxy do without such illustrious species?
Great video! Thank you! Can I put in a request for a video about the Amanin?
There was a time when I would devour all "Star Wars" material eagerly and try to add it to my brain, but the "New Jedi Order" books killed that desire, and the Disney movies haven't helped, either. Thankfully, there's still plenty of cool stuff to wade through, and anything I don't like, like the Vong, I just ignore.
Schön auf Kubindi, aber waren sie schon mal in Baden-württemberg?
Could you please do a video on the Nalvaanian spices 😢
The Nalvaanian spices are a race in the Star Wars universe they made there day debut in the 2005 2D animated series Star Wars CloneWars
I love the fact that this was played by John Wayne or so I think that’s what I remember. It made watching A New Hope so much better growing up
When I saw this character I thought it was Gonzo from Sesame Street
NGL, if I met Pizza the Hut's people I'd probably eat them too.
This series is so awesome! The attention tou put into the detail and presentation really shows. Keep up the good work.
This is such a dumb nitpick from me but I can't stop myself. When you referred to Kubindi's sun as a "blue giant" that's not really a thing. A "giant" is a super specific thing in astronomy, and stars that are large enough and hot enough to give off predominantly blue light don't qualify as giants.
I know, nobody cares but I had to.
Ok,
Spy war:
Kubaz v Bothans
Snitch moles against sneaky lions
You should credit Hammie for the thumbnail renders of his Battlefront II 2017 Imperial Spy mod.
Gonna do that now
Thanks for the comment
My brain is so dumb that thought the comercial was part of the history of the kubaz for a second
I played a kubaz assassin in the old star wars table top rpg. He was a beast!
The biggest snitches in the galaxy, you always see them telling on somebody
I was thinking about the sponsor (i would love to sign but i lieve in Brazil) and i was like... dude... the Jedi realy need some terapy... fuck imagine if Anakin or Revan reve terapists?
Do the Yuuzhan Vong.
I don’t know if there’s enough information on the ship but gorian shards ship might just be one of my favorite flag ships I’ve seen those retractable ball turrets are just mmm b29 bomber kiss
"officially annoyed by the none stop barrage" typical republic XD
Lol private ownership breeding innovation that's funny
on god i thought that was just some goofy mask. That's their face.
hand and nose wiggles dont seem very practical in pitch black caves
Klaus Schwab is salivating while watching this video.
Question for the community, what is the most accomplished insectoid species in the Star Wars universe?
No way the species with the biggest schnoz would be 'nosy'
So the Imperial Kubaz are essentially the version of a Star Wars Daredevil?
Sounds like civilizations on this planet, living underground and mapping the caverns. Bet there are maps on earth that u can't see cuz it not in the club, Bro
You're not*
I feel oddly sympathetic towards them
I never knew what they were. Cool.
Plz do a history of the genoians species
Now if only they targeted the Huck, then there may not be to much of an issue.
THAT'S what these things are called? Interesting.
The Spy has a name?!
I'm kinda curious as to why you unlisted so many of your videos. Do you plan to redo them in future?
Yeah working through them already, want to find a balance of updated ones and new ones I never even did
my favourite also one of the best species in Star Wars
4:06 all animals are sentient. i think you meant "sapient".
most people mean "sapient" when they say "sentient".
Including star wars, that is the term they will use in every lore book
This world looks like it could be a dark twin world to Pandora from Avatar
Oh jeez i suddenly had a nostalgia flash of Lego star wars 2 seeing this guy pop up everywhere
I always thought it was a mask
fascinating
Possibly the one alien species I would be in Star Wars
Watched a few of your race SW lore videos now.
Straight up , you cover everything from their biological origins , evolutions ,to society systems, sciences , arts and traditions. Attitudes, politics, quirks , everything. Learn so much from one video. Well done, good job 👍
Ugh, "BetterHelp" ad read. Gross. You RUclipsrs will promote just about anything, even something as obviously stupid as that.
Great and informative video. I always love to learn more about the various species of the Star Wars galaxy. But you might want to cut the Better Help sponsor section. This is based on the revelations about them selling customer data.
Finally my favorite alien spieces getting a lore break down
These guys have fascinated me since I first saw them in the first movie. Thank you for posting!
THATS a kubaz?!? Huh, learn something new everyday.
I'm guessing you can play as these guys in SWTOR? My favorite irl animal is the giant anteater so I think it'd be neat to play as one in a star wars mmo.
Nope, you can't. You can play as human, cyborg, and Zabrak as a starting F2P player. You can also unlock Twi'lek, Chiss, Mirialan, Miraluka, Rattaki, and Sith pure blood, if you sub at least for a month, possibly with some class related restrictions if you stop subbing, as well as Sith/Pub ones. Play the right character class to 50, though, and you can typically unlock the race to play on either side. And then there's Cathar, Togruta, and Nuatolan (Kit Fisto's race), which you have to buy to unlock.
There are more species available amongst the various companions, you can get, and there is one Kubaz among them, Altuur zok Adon. However, he's from the first Galactic Season, and hasn't been "retired" yet, so you currently can't get him. Yeah, it makes no sense that you can get a character once they are retired, but not when they aren't. So sadly, you can't even make him a new character's companion of choice if you weren't playing back then. Kind of a shame, because he'd make a fitting compatriot for an Imperial Agent.
Request: Umbarans please make this a thing we know very little like why the need space suits on their own planet but everyone else doesn’t need them
Seeing Foos Gone Wild in a star wars video was wild af. I had to subscribe