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It’s always great when a Star Wars Channel promotes the “enemies” games. Sorry I had to pause your video from laughing so much and send a quick comment about it. 🤣😝
Also because all science fiction (at least that we know of) is written by humans for humans and most people want a story where the main characters look like them and they can project themselves into.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Once upon a time a man and a lion were journeying together and came at length to high words, which was the braver and stronger creature of the two. As the dispute waxed warmer they happened to pass by, on the roadside, a statue of a man strangling a lion. "See there," said the man; "what more undeniable proof can you have of our superiority than that?" "That," said the lion, "is your version of the story; let us be the sculptors, and for one lion under the feet of a man, you?ll have twenty men under the paw of a lion."
I remember in the Darth Plagueis novel Plagueis says that you can find humans in any occupation from bounty hunter to politician. Also he said that the reason why humans dominate the galaxy was because it seemed that the force either chose or greatly favors humanity to spread across the galaxy thus why they were the first to do so.
What always fascinates me about Star wars is who you consider human and alien. For instance, you have the mirakulans who are sometimes considered a separate species but are blind humans who have developed the way to see through the force 🤔 The way I see it if a species can breed with humans through the normal way than they're probably just a human race that's different than the races we have on Earth
I mean Chiss are humans that adapted to the extreme cold biome of their planet, which somehow turned their skin blue and their eyes red. Makes you think how many other humanoid species in the galaxy are actually a different variation of humans?
There's a selection of near human species which humans can cross breed with to produce viable offspring. This includes Twilek, Miraluka, Chiss, Zeltrons, Echani etc.
Hera Syndulla (a Twi'lek) and Kanan Jarus (a "standard" Human) were able to produce a son together. The long time scales in Star Wars and the many evolutionary pressures of living on different worlds seem to produce a great many Near Humans. Some have diverged enough for speciation while others remain interfertile with at least some other Human/Near Human species. The "aliens" are therefore variable based on the definition used. Some are actually Near Humans, despite appearances. Then you have species that are entirely separate from Humans and may even have Near "X" sub-species of their own (e.g. Duros and Neimoidians).
@@hackman669 Dolphins from this Galaxy aren't the problem. I'm referring to ones that live for, far away. Also, blame Asia, and don't forget Sharks. Sharks get a terrible reputation because of the movies.
Its believed one of the reasons Homo Sapiens out competed all the other hominid species such as Neanderthals was due to our willingness to create networks and trade with other communities openly. Neanderthals weren't technically inferior to our ancestors, we just happen to be more socially connected with other tribes of people, and as a result more capable of forming alliances and confederations to achieve greater goals. The same could apply to the Star Wars galaxy.
@@Plasmacore_VDogs may have helped in creating civilization. Thanks to cattle/sheep dogs we could split time between agriculture and animal husbandry. Which led to a surplus in food supplies and allowed free time to create and develop arts, science, and philosophy.
Would prefer to have multiple species living in peace. Perhaps we will use cloning and gene management to revive extinct humanoids. We are already in process of reviving extinct animals to fix environment. 😁
I feel like the fact that humans have relatively short lifespans is actually a net positive to our species. Yes, other sentient species in the galaxy such as Hutts, Wookies and Yoda's race can live for centuries, if not millennia, whereas human beings only have 100 years on average, and about 70 to 80 years before our bodies and faculties begin to waste away (assuming we are lucky enough to live for that long in the first place). It is because our lives are numbered in decades instead of centuries that forces many of us to make use of the short window of time we are given to achieve our dreams and fulfill our goals. This combined with our species innate drive and tenacity has pushed us to achieve more decades than more long lived species such as Wookies can achieve in a lifetime. Another thing to consider is that while getting to live a long life is undoubtedly a blessing, as a long life allows us to share our wisdom and experiences with the next generations. But if everybody was able to live for centuries, it has the potential to stunt the progress of the civilization we live in. Because older generations tend to be stuck in a mindset and culture that is different compared to their descendants. Already on Earth, older people have different values because they came from a different period in time and have trouble adapting to newer trends and technologies. Basically, because we are only able to live for several decades, that means while humans may die sooner than other species, we are at least able to cycle out the older generations more quickly. This means we will always have innovate young minds able to take the place of their seniors sooner than later, and this allows us as a species to build on the successes and achievements of previous generations more quickly as well.
I disagree with your second paragraph. "Because older generations tend to be stuck in a mindset and culture that is different compared to their descendants." This is the attitude of many people nowadays. However it didn't used to be. This is also why things are so unstable with, for, and around the current crop of young people. They are going through a lot more stress and labour than they need to be. The elder generation provides a more stable influence and considerable wisdom to the following generations. Many societies in this world value that highly. We used to as well. You can't learn what works and doesn't without people with a long enough memory available to consult. As we see around us now, history can be corrupted and massaged to fit agendas and political ambitions. If there are long enough memories around to refute this kind of thing, if those long memories are respected, in lieu of dismissed, the younger generations can be protected from predatory Corporations, Politicians, and would-be despots. However our institutions of learning have been working hard at divorcing the youth of this country from their families and elders. This is a way of making young people more malleable and easily directed by ambitious Politicians and social engineers. Obama spoke of this during the latter end of his second term of office. "the next generation will be more open to our policies." Yes, and they are demonstrating this. The poison from the fruit of their heavy labours in this direction is showing considerable results at present.
Also: at least on Earth some species have issues reproducing enough. Sure, our birthday rates also slow down while we advance and stuff like that, but I don’t think the general world population would heavily decline in the long run (if we can manage to thrive)
Humanity's greatest superpower is the ability to adapt to situations we might die in the cold but we're capable of understanding how to survive it I'm telling you adaptability is the biggest human superpower
Well the republic was ruled over by a religious cult for centuries called the Pius Dea which was essentially 40k lite with their warships that doubled as religious centers, humanocentric religious beliefs and exploratory campaigns intended to eliminate non humans whenever they were discovered (which further contributed to the prevalence of humans at the expense of non humans in the core and certain areas of the midrim).
Interestingly enough it is a myth that humans have slower reaction speeds compared to most species. At least terrestrial ones anyway. We simply have lower BASE reaction speed. A well trained human's reflexes can actually exceed those of a striking snake by up to a factor of 4. But yeah, what makes humans dominant is that we are generalists. We aren't the fastest runners, but we can run. We aren't the best or fastsest swimmers, but we can swim. We aren't the best or fastest climbers but we can climb. We do have one advantage no other species, again terrestrial species anyway, has. We have nearly unlimited endurance. A fit human can quite literally run any other living creature on this planet to death. Humans can quite literally run until we die, not of exhaustion...but of sleep deprivation. So yeah. A himan can run for 11 days straight. That is just insane!
This is something I’ve thought about a lot. Human supremacy is seen as bad in Star Wars, but all the most powerful and important characters in the galaxy have mostly been human. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Human supremacism means treating the other races worse than humans. And while I can agree that there are _some_ species for which this might be justified (Trandoshans f.e.), most of the time, it's down to humans being arrogant, hateful b*stards.
Its funny because Wookies can live for centuries, are bigger and much stronger than the average human. Are able to rip the arms clean off a human being, and have as much intelligence to back up their incredible brute strength, so much so that they have proven to be excellent ship builders and space farers. Yet humans are somehow the 'superior' species?
@@barbiqueareathe bizarre part of the Wookies is their long history of being forced into slavery. To be fair, in Kashyyk, Wookie's are not the top of the food chain. They're like carnivorous squirrels in relation to the trees.
@@granatmofsame with a lot of alien species. Twi’leks for example are prized for their beauty and are often sold as sex slaves and prostitutes. Wookiees are prized for their brute strength and very long lives.
Wait, how the hell does Coruscant become an ecumonopolis (physically impossible in itself) _before_ having off-world colonies? You have to have farms. Plus, as I noted in another thread, 2 trillion humans would, even at the relatively mundane densities of modern-day Macau, only cover ~64% of Earth's _land area_ .
Yeah, I agree. It kind of stresses disbelief that they were able to get this far without figuring out interstellar travel. Hyperdrives are not the only method of doing it after all.
Not all of the planet is populated equally dense. There are large industrial sites and so on. What strikes me as odd is the lack of ocean. But this whole "the entire planet is this" that Star Wars has is kind of silly to begin with
I've always been a fan of the subtle human supremacy in a lot of stuff with aliens. The first couple that come to mind are Mass Effect and Invincible. In Mass Effect, despite being the newest species to the galactic community, we've developed technology and concepts that the other species all just completely missed or couldn't figure out, like quantum entanglement communication or fighter carriers in space combat. In Invincible, humans came up with the weird noise technology that can hurt or even kill Viltrumites, and in the show, they apparently invented "quantum bombs" that were able to kill Viltrumites. Both of these ideas proved incredibly effective against Viltrumites, and yet no other species that they'd ever conquered seemed to even really consider those ideas or they'd have developed them already.
Short answer: Rakatans. Watsonian answer: The Rakatans loved to use humans as slaves and imported them into multiple other worlds. Like the Goauld did. So when the Rakatans lost control of their empire, humans were well placed to take over. Doylist answer: The stories are written for humans, so having humans as main characters means the audience can better relate to them. And it saved money in make up, costuming, CGI, and puppetry to have more humans around than aliens.
Production Budget 🤣 But yeah, perhaps humans were like "all-rounders" and could thrive and out-compete anywhere, kind of like rodents or other infesting species. Other species may have been more interested in homeworld affairs. Another consideration is the hyperdrive tech being introduced to humans fairly early. Look what we humans did here on earth, spread everywhere as soon as the technology was barely sufficient.
In a novel series I've been reading, Galaxy of Fear, a Shi'ido shape shifter points out that his species constantly changes shape, but never personality. Humans change personality all the time, but never shape. I thought this was a really cool moment in the novels. Like this video kinda said, the advantage humans have is being adaptable. Social and mental shape shifters, you could say.
I think this is often why humans are often portrayed as quite xenophillic at times. Humans integrate fairly well with alien life forms. But at the same time we can also be extremely xenophobic and exploitative with aliens in some stories. Especially in Star Wars where discrimination and even outright slavery seems to be commonplace throughout the galaxy. But then again in some places humans are the ones who are slaves, and in the past most aliens, humans included, were all slaves to the Rakatans.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Yeah, I think humans (both in real life and in Star Wars) have greater social skills as both a strength and weakness. For example, humans that perpetuate slavery in Star Wars, do so because they have the ability to form complex societies and to "domesticate" Humans are also weak to manipulation both in real life and Star Wars, because our willingness to be lead means that we can be trapped by the same societies we form. Real cults work by basically convincing people they benefit from this thing, when it benefits from you. Sort of a stockholm syndrome situation. We're kind of like zombies, in a way. Very strong together, but also inevitably we tend to crush those beneath us in order to reach greater heights.
IDK if human supremacy is such a good idea, especially this early on. Assuming that one or multiple alien species know of our existence and is keeping an eye on us, they see our social problems where we are willing to fight and kill each other over frivolous concepts like nationality, ethnicity, religion, ideology, etc. In our current state, an advanced alien species or potential galactic community would want to keep us restricted to our solar system at *least* due to our species immaturity. We'd likely be a threat simply because we're so volatile by ourselves. A part of maturity, on an individual, and certainly species level, is getting over oneself.
This. I actually found many of the points given on this video to be quite a narcissistic. Especially considering the fact that a good amount of our "human ingenuity" exist and is expressed by many other species on earth. We also take inspiration from their adaptations and apply them in our technology too. So yeah a big NAH on this video for me.
Video Idea. US military is starting to use silent electric motorcycles and UTV side-by-sides for scouting. This would be a perfect use for ATRTs and ISP swamp speeders since they are relatively silent. Task and Purpose and Battle order both have posted videos recently on this concept.
Allen and The Generation Tech are the best online presence when it comes to in depth knowledge on Star Wars in my opinion. I checked out his Insta the other day and the guy is living life to the fullest!!! Keeping up brother. Definitely making a mark on the world!!!!
To be fair, there are other Human-Adjacent Species that contribute to this sentiment. Or I guess Sub-Species that are all Humans who have adapted to their new environments. Chiss ars humans who turned blue while underground, Umbarans are Humans who developed on a world with a Star who's rays of light often never touches their surface (visually), and etc. So, if you take the typical "Earth-looking" Humans, as well as the other races that are slight offshoots of the base model, then that only increases the wide range of accomplishments and expansions that Humanity has achieved.
I knew bits of why humans were everywhere in the Star Wars galaxy, but not the entire backstory. It's awesome. Mentioning how the Rakkatan's used humanity as slaves reminded me of the myth of the Anunnaki. The Anunnaki were much taller at about 8 - 10 feet or something. They blended their DNA with primitive humans. We were created to be a slave race to serve them. Humans are everything you mention in the video; very adaptable, inventive, stupid yet intelligent, willing to do new things, ect.They used humans to mine gold that they needed for their own planet of Nibiru. Nibiru only passes close enough to Earth every few thousand years. They left humanity, the Younger Dryas happened (the global flood - I'm still convinced the Eye of the Sarah is the location of Atlantis wiped out by it), and boom. You've got us - descendents of the survivors created to be slaves to giants who considered themselves gods. Conspiracy theorists call Planet X in the Kuiper Belt Nibiru. When it comes back around, the Anunnaki will come back. I love sci-fi, which is why find this story entertaining.
My personal theory is that human makeup is cheaper than bipedal dolphin prosthetics (the terrifying but ultimately logical conclusion to human dominance)
I don’t remember exactly where, but I read somewhere that humans made up 40% of the total galactic population. The second most populous species is the Twi’leks, accounting for 1% of the total galactic population. Such a large difference is a real testament to humanity and their abilities.
Video Idea: Similar to your dream-team videos make a series on redesigning the new republic. However we would have parameters on what the New Republic could reasonably do after the sequels. Would the citizens accept us using first order weapons and ships? Could we keep them as mothballed fleets? Maybe you invent new ships that fit our new doctrine. Do we use battle droids in our military or is that slavery? Is our navy carrier based? EP 1 Government Overview. Joining requirements, constitution, etc. Maybe include a NATO esque military alliance for neutral words (for instance allowing the new republic to have helped nevarro with the pirates). EP 2 Military and Policing. Explaining how planetary defense forces fit within a larger military, separate System Guard (coast guard) and police agencies (new republic marshals) from the military. Navy/ Marines and independent Starfighter Corps are the focus to quickly respond to member worlds acting up or being invaded. The Army is smaller to keep from being scary but can be bolstered by planetary defense forces and militia groups during war (National Guard?). Maybe also allow groups like the resistance to exist kind of like a space second amendment in addition to a standing army, this way it's another checks and balances against an empire. EP 3 Navy (carriers and interdictors?) EP 4 Starfighter Corps (cool new starfighters?) EP 5 System Guard and Policing (Lancer pursuit ships and E-wings?) EP 6 Army & Marine Vehicles (Combined Arms...clone ATTEs, first order ATSTs, and imperial marauder troop transports? ATRT/ Swamp speeders for scouting? ATRTs for old school cavalry charges?) EP 7 Army & Marine Soldiers and Weapons (Cool good guy armor? Arc trooper helmets that can open when not in combat so you don't look like an angry faceless stormtrooper, like Ezra's stolen stormtrooper cadet helmet?)
We shouldn't dismiss the Rakata, who conqered and enslaved most of the galaxy. In Star Wars Lore humans count to the most adaptive species, who live long enough to archieve something and brief enough to reproduce on a concideral scale. For an enslaving race, the Rakata must considered this very useful.
Since you talked about humanity here, Alan. How will the alien species in Star Wars reacted if the significant number of the humans in Star Wars can be transformed into Titans and possessed the ability to unleash the Rumbling on the galactic-wide scale? P.S: What do you think of Eren Yeager?
Hey Generation Tech can do you do a video about another Space Opera called Andromeda, alot of humanoid species in that universe are humans who have been genetically altered to survive on their newly colonized worlds, its also good to know that the Dominant faction of the time the "Commonwealth" was also dominated by humans even though it wasn't originally founded by humans and that it spanned 3 galaxies with the FTL system being a sort of telepathic link.
Humans in star wars evolved alongside the ORIGIONAL Mandalorian species known as ''the Taung''. that alone is a pretty big indicator to the successful nature of humans as a species.
How was there civilization powered by the force? How does the force power something? How much power does the force output? Is the force containable? Sorry for all the questions
Remember E.T.? His species is found in the "Star Wars" galaxy, giving it a distance from our own Milky Way of at least three million light years according to what definitive statements I've tracked down. (As is to be expected, there are conflicting figures.) That is roughly half again as far as the Andromeda galaxy, so it is a nice long drive but still extremely close in a cosmic sense. Now recall that E.T. was frightened to see Humans, but not a little Human dressed as whatever Yoda is. The simplest explanation is that while Humans were common in the era depicted in the movies, they are quite rare or even extinct in modern times. Humanity's extinction was likely related to the latent evil carried by Rey Palpatine.
Warfare an Technology... 2 things many humans usually show to be every bit the equal or superior species vs others is how many of Humans in SW stand out. Being the equal or superior to many. With rare exceptional individuals in many other things.
This drives me crazy and I’ve thought about it a lot. After successive repressive human led governments, I’d love to see other species break away and try to move the centre of power away from Couracant and human control. Would be cool to see the Hutts separate Hutt controlled space away from Republic control and try to sway other species they can provide security better than the Republic. Or other species who aren’t openly hostile towards humans but still see a brighter future for themselves without human dominance
Hutt space is already separate from the Republic. That was why Qui-Gon being a Jedi Master didn't give him law enforcement authority on Tatooine (ruled by Jabba) and why Republic credits were not standard currency there.
“Some people would consider this a skill. Humans adapt. Got mountains? Build ridgecrawlers. Too much water? Build scub-subs. An ice planet? Use radiated igurts. People adapt." -Jyn Erso
Kind of hard to visit Alderaan these days, Alan. Thankfully, Star Wars never got into time travel or different universes and such. Those things make story telling far more messy, as well as kind of pointless, if in the multiverse, there is a different ending to each story. Marvel made that mistake and is paying for it now.
Marvel is just incompetent. It's possible to use time travel and multiverses well, just that you need some hard and fast rules with good implementation. If there are no restrictions on what can be done and you use it as a deus ex machina you get a Marvel situation. However in the case of the Sunrider series there are some hard and fast rules. The rules do have exceptions but they are extremely rare and can have consequences of their own. The main rules are that if you are to time travel you must go to a different universe and that both universes must be destroyed and replaced by a new one when the future is changed. This is because spacetime doesn't like it when you mess with things. You can't do time travel in the same universe as it would break spacetime and changing things causes a paradox meaning that the universes must be replaced with one that takes it into consideration. This makes it so that there has only been one thing where time travel actively happens to the player and it isn't even canon. I can't think of any other examples of time travel and multiverses having such consequences and limitations sadly. Again, there are exceptions but they are quite rare and can have consequences of their own.
This is an easy question to answer, humans move to an area and they multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way they can survive is to spread to another area
The near human races can't possibly be evolutionary given the tight (geologic) time frame this all happens in. I thought in Legends it mentioned somewhere that some higher power like the Celestials had manipulated a common ancestor to the humans and all these other races. Or maybe I'm combining Star Wars and other sci fi in my head.
There's only 3 types of aliens. 1st Humanoid, everything from Superman to Kilngons. A guy in a suit. 2. Then you got your Non Humanoids, your ETs and your Tribbles or Jabbas, basically just a puppet... 3rd. Then you got my favorite type of alien, and he Special Effects alien! You got your walking piles of Goo, your sentient fart clouds and living CGI monsters.. and that's how life works according to filmmaking
I know a bit off topic, but don't it seem like wokism would be a palpatine plan? Like regardless which way it goes everyone loses except those untouchable by the consequences of the issues they promote.
Quick question, 2.5 trillion people living on corascant he says it represents a chunk of the galaxy. I have a hard time believing that one planets pop can have most of the ppl in a galaxy
Bit more context to when humans were slaves: They weren't just used for labor, they were used for sex(against their will) and food. For real life context, we rarely ate slaves. Humanity's xenophobia in Star Wars doesn't come from nowhere.
Just popped into say that I am also not racist, but I am definitely a human supremacist too, I get mad when people try and say the world is 'over populated' as more people means more opportunities
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It’s always great when a Star Wars Channel promotes the “enemies” games. Sorry I had to pause your video from laughing so much and send a quick comment about it. 🤣😝
Well obviously cause humans wrote it and humans barely made it too moon.
It saves a fortune in prosthetics and CGI!
Yes. My exact thought when I read the title. The same goes for every other space opera in film or tv.
Also because all science fiction (at least that we know of) is written by humans for humans and most people want a story where the main characters look like them and they can project themselves into.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Once upon a time a man and a lion were journeying together and came at length to high words, which was the braver and stronger creature of the two. As the dispute waxed warmer they happened to pass by, on the roadside, a statue of a man strangling a lion. "See there," said the man; "what more undeniable proof can you have of our superiority than that?" "That," said the lion, "is your version of the story; let us be the sculptors, and for one lion under the feet of a man, you?ll have twenty men under the paw of a lion."
@@therealspeedwagon1451yep, our scifi needs more representation from more real non human writers and actors
I remember in the Darth Plagueis novel Plagueis says that you can find humans in any occupation from bounty hunter to politician. Also he said that the reason why humans dominate the galaxy was because it seemed that the force either chose or greatly favors humanity to spread across the galaxy thus why they were the first to do so.
What always fascinates me about Star wars is who you consider human and alien. For instance, you have the mirakulans who are sometimes considered a separate species but are blind humans who have developed the way to see through the force 🤔
The way I see it if a species can breed with humans through the normal way than they're probably just a human race that's different than the races we have on Earth
Indeed, specially when you learn that things work better if you breed with a twi'lek rather than like you said a Miraluka.
I mean Chiss are humans that adapted to the extreme cold biome of their planet, which somehow turned their skin blue and their eyes red. Makes you think how many other humanoid species in the galaxy are actually a different variation of humans?
There's a selection of near human species which humans can cross breed with to produce viable offspring. This includes Twilek, Miraluka, Chiss, Zeltrons, Echani etc.
What i meant is, that in KOTOR 2 it's mentioned that Miraluka and humans can procreate, just leads to birth complications.
Hera Syndulla (a Twi'lek) and Kanan Jarus (a "standard" Human) were able to produce a son together. The long time scales in Star Wars and the many evolutionary pressures of living on different worlds seem to produce a great many Near Humans. Some have diverged enough for speciation while others remain interfertile with at least some other Human/Near Human species. The "aliens" are therefore variable based on the definition used. Some are actually Near Humans, despite appearances. Then you have species that are entirely separate from Humans and may even have Near "X" sub-species of their own (e.g. Duros and Neimoidians).
Somebody has to protect the Galaxy from the vile plots of those Dolphins
Humanity First!
Dolphins and whales may be extinct in near future if nothing is done. We must protect all major life on this planet if we are to survive. 😶
@@hackman669 Dolphins from this Galaxy aren't the problem. I'm referring to ones that live for, far away.
Also, blame Asia, and don't forget Sharks. Sharks get a terrible reputation because of the movies.
Its believed one of the reasons Homo Sapiens out competed all the other hominid species such as Neanderthals was due to our willingness to create networks and trade with other communities openly. Neanderthals weren't technically inferior to our ancestors, we just happen to be more socially connected with other tribes of people, and as a result more capable of forming alliances and confederations to achieve greater goals. The same could apply to the Star Wars galaxy.
Humanity's greatest alliance in history is with dogs.
@@Plasmacore_VDogs may have helped in creating civilization. Thanks to cattle/sheep dogs we could split time between agriculture and animal husbandry. Which led to a surplus in food supplies and allowed free time to create and develop arts, science, and philosophy.
Would prefer to have multiple species living in peace. Perhaps we will use cloning and gene management to revive extinct humanoids. We are already in process of reviving extinct animals to fix environment. 😁
Not to mention Homo sapiens and some Neanderthals also breed with another. We probably just out bred them
I feel like the fact that humans have relatively short lifespans is actually a net positive to our species. Yes, other sentient species in the galaxy such as Hutts, Wookies and Yoda's race can live for centuries, if not millennia, whereas human beings only have 100 years on average, and about 70 to 80 years before our bodies and faculties begin to waste away (assuming we are lucky enough to live for that long in the first place). It is because our lives are numbered in decades instead of centuries that forces many of us to make use of the short window of time we are given to achieve our dreams and fulfill our goals. This combined with our species innate drive and tenacity has pushed us to achieve more decades than more long lived species such as Wookies can achieve in a lifetime.
Another thing to consider is that while getting to live a long life is undoubtedly a blessing, as a long life allows us to share our wisdom and experiences with the next generations. But if everybody was able to live for centuries, it has the potential to stunt the progress of the civilization we live in. Because older generations tend to be stuck in a mindset and culture that is different compared to their descendants. Already on Earth, older people have different values because they came from a different period in time and have trouble adapting to newer trends and technologies. Basically, because we are only able to live for several decades, that means while humans may die sooner than other species, we are at least able to cycle out the older generations more quickly. This means we will always have innovate young minds able to take the place of their seniors sooner than later, and this allows us as a species to build on the successes and achievements of previous generations more quickly as well.
That's assuming every long live species would have that problem when they might not
I disagree with your second paragraph. "Because older generations tend to be stuck in a mindset and culture that is different compared to their descendants." This is the attitude of many people nowadays. However it didn't used to be. This is also why things are so unstable with, for, and around the current crop of young people. They are going through a lot more stress and labour than they need to be. The elder generation provides a more stable influence and considerable wisdom to the following generations. Many societies in this world value that highly. We used to as well. You can't learn what works and doesn't without people with a long enough memory available to consult. As we see around us now, history can be corrupted and massaged to fit agendas and political ambitions. If there are long enough memories around to refute this kind of thing, if those long memories are respected, in lieu of dismissed, the younger generations can be protected from predatory Corporations, Politicians, and would-be despots. However our institutions of learning have been working hard at divorcing the youth of this country from their families and elders. This is a way of making young people more malleable and easily directed by ambitious Politicians and social engineers. Obama spoke of this during the latter end of his second term of office. "the next generation will be more open to our policies." Yes, and they are demonstrating this. The poison from the fruit of their heavy labours in this direction is showing considerable results at present.
Also: at least on Earth some species have issues reproducing enough. Sure, our birthday rates also slow down while we advance and stuff like that, but I don’t think the general world population would heavily decline in the long run (if we can manage to thrive)
Humanity's greatest superpower is the ability to adapt to situations we might die in the cold but we're capable of understanding how to survive it I'm telling you adaptability is the biggest human superpower
Oh you know “Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.” Stuff
I mean, it's just the law of the universe that Humanity is inherently superior to vile, corrupt and degenerate Xenos. The Emperor Ordains it so
Well the republic was ruled over by a religious cult for centuries called the Pius Dea which was essentially 40k lite with their warships that doubled as religious centers, humanocentric religious beliefs and exploratory campaigns intended to eliminate non humans whenever they were discovered (which further contributed to the prevalence of humans at the expense of non humans in the core and certain areas of the midrim).
Interestingly enough it is a myth that humans have slower reaction speeds compared to most species. At least terrestrial ones anyway. We simply have lower BASE reaction speed. A well trained human's reflexes can actually exceed those of a striking snake by up to a factor of 4.
But yeah, what makes humans dominant is that we are generalists. We aren't the fastest runners, but we can run. We aren't the best or fastsest swimmers, but we can swim. We aren't the best or fastest climbers but we can climb.
We do have one advantage no other species, again terrestrial species anyway, has. We have nearly unlimited endurance. A fit human can quite literally run any other living creature on this planet to death. Humans can quite literally run until we die, not of exhaustion...but of sleep deprivation. So yeah. A himan can run for 11 days straight. That is just insane!
I love that there's a reasonable in-universe explination for the dominance of humans across the starwars galaxy. Thanks for sharing it!
TLDR:
We human
We stupid and weak.
We boink a lot
Humans together strong
We like make friends
Yeah. Fucking around and spawning friends in 😂
This is something I’ve thought about a lot. Human supremacy is seen as bad in Star Wars, but all the most powerful and important characters in the galaxy have mostly been human. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Human supremacism means treating the other races worse than humans. And while I can agree that there are _some_ species for which this might be justified (Trandoshans f.e.), most of the time, it's down to humans being arrogant, hateful b*stards.
Its funny because Wookies can live for centuries, are bigger and much stronger than the average human. Are able to rip the arms clean off a human being, and have as much intelligence to back up their incredible brute strength, so much so that they have proven to be excellent ship builders and space farers. Yet humans are somehow the 'superior' species?
@@barbiquearea let's don't forget about trandoshans, who's hobby is just hunting wookies and they're sucessful at that
@@barbiqueareathe bizarre part of the Wookies is their long history of being forced into slavery.
To be fair, in Kashyyk, Wookie's are not the top of the food chain. They're like carnivorous squirrels in relation to the trees.
@@granatmofsame with a lot of alien species. Twi’leks for example are prized for their beauty and are often sold as sex slaves and prostitutes. Wookiees are prized for their brute strength and very long lives.
Humanity First! ✊🏾
Wait, how the hell does Coruscant become an ecumonopolis (physically impossible in itself) _before_ having off-world colonies? You have to have farms. Plus, as I noted in another thread, 2 trillion humans would, even at the relatively mundane densities of modern-day Macau, only cover ~64% of Earth's _land area_ .
Ever heard of vertical gardens?
Yeah, I agree. It kind of stresses disbelief that they were able to get this far without figuring out interstellar travel. Hyperdrives are not the only method of doing it after all.
@@barbiquearea I have. And I know they're pretty energy-intensive to run.
Not all of the planet is populated equally dense. There are large industrial sites and so on. What strikes me as odd is the lack of ocean. But this whole "the entire planet is this" that Star Wars has is kind of silly to begin with
@@trillionbones89 There's also the issue of where you actually get the material to build all of that stuff.
I've always been a fan of the subtle human supremacy in a lot of stuff with aliens. The first couple that come to mind are Mass Effect and Invincible. In Mass Effect, despite being the newest species to the galactic community, we've developed technology and concepts that the other species all just completely missed or couldn't figure out, like quantum entanglement communication or fighter carriers in space combat. In Invincible, humans came up with the weird noise technology that can hurt or even kill Viltrumites, and in the show, they apparently invented "quantum bombs" that were able to kill Viltrumites. Both of these ideas proved incredibly effective against Viltrumites, and yet no other species that they'd ever conquered seemed to even really consider those ideas or they'd have developed them already.
Short answer: Rakatans.
Watsonian answer: The Rakatans loved to use humans as slaves and imported them into multiple other worlds. Like the Goauld did. So when the Rakatans lost control of their empire, humans were well placed to take over.
Doylist answer: The stories are written for humans, so having humans as main characters means the audience can better relate to them. And it saved money in make up, costuming, CGI, and puppetry to have more humans around than aliens.
Many dolphins died, for trying to prevent this information
Production Budget 🤣
But yeah, perhaps humans were like "all-rounders" and could thrive and out-compete anywhere, kind of like rodents or other infesting species.
Other species may have been more interested in homeworld affairs. Another consideration is the hyperdrive tech being introduced to humans fairly early.
Look what we humans did here on earth, spread everywhere as soon as the technology was barely sufficient.
In a novel series I've been reading, Galaxy of Fear, a Shi'ido shape shifter points out that his species constantly changes shape, but never personality. Humans change personality all the time, but never shape.
I thought this was a really cool moment in the novels. Like this video kinda said, the advantage humans have is being adaptable. Social and mental shape shifters, you could say.
I think this is often why humans are often portrayed as quite xenophillic at times. Humans integrate fairly well with alien life forms. But at the same time we can also be extremely xenophobic and exploitative with aliens in some stories. Especially in Star Wars where discrimination and even outright slavery seems to be commonplace throughout the galaxy. But then again in some places humans are the ones who are slaves, and in the past most aliens, humans included, were all slaves to the Rakatans.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Yeah, I think humans (both in real life and in Star Wars) have greater social skills as both a strength and weakness. For example, humans that perpetuate slavery in Star Wars, do so because they have the ability to form complex societies and to "domesticate"
Humans are also weak to manipulation both in real life and Star Wars, because our willingness to be lead means that we can be trapped by the same societies we form. Real cults work by basically convincing people they benefit from this thing, when it benefits from you. Sort of a stockholm syndrome situation.
We're kind of like zombies, in a way. Very strong together, but also inevitably we tend to crush those beneath us in order to reach greater heights.
IDK if human supremacy is such a good idea, especially this early on.
Assuming that one or multiple alien species know of our existence and is keeping an eye on us, they see our social problems where we are willing to fight and kill each other over frivolous concepts like nationality, ethnicity, religion, ideology, etc. In our current state, an advanced alien species or potential galactic community would want to keep us restricted to our solar system at *least* due to our species immaturity. We'd likely be a threat simply because we're so volatile by ourselves.
A part of maturity, on an individual, and certainly species level, is getting over oneself.
This. I actually found many of the points given on this video to be quite a narcissistic. Especially considering the fact that a good amount of our "human ingenuity" exist and is expressed by many other species on earth. We also take inspiration from their adaptations and apply them in our technology too. So yeah a big NAH on this video for me.
Star Wars channel got sponsored by a Star Trek game. A decades long war ended in one ad break.
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Video Idea. US military is starting to use silent electric motorcycles and UTV side-by-sides for scouting. This would be a perfect use for ATRTs and ISP swamp speeders since they are relatively silent. Task and Purpose and Battle order both have posted videos recently on this concept.
Allen and The Generation Tech are the best online presence when it comes to in depth knowledge on Star Wars in my opinion. I checked out his Insta the other day and the guy is living life to the fullest!!! Keeping up brother. Definitely making a mark on the world!!!!
Sadly only humans responded to the casting calls.
Thanks for bringing the Tuang origins to light.
To be fair, there are other Human-Adjacent Species that contribute to this sentiment. Or I guess Sub-Species that are all Humans who have adapted to their new environments.
Chiss ars humans who turned blue while underground, Umbarans are Humans who developed on a world with a Star who's rays of light often never touches their surface (visually), and etc.
So, if you take the typical "Earth-looking" Humans, as well as the other races that are slight offshoots of the base model, then that only increases the wide range of accomplishments and expansions that Humanity has achieved.
Do they ? I don't see species... I guess that makes me just a little bit better than everybody else in this comment section.
If you sold a GoGort Grogu Shirt i'd buy it
I knew bits of why humans were everywhere in the Star Wars galaxy, but not the entire backstory. It's awesome.
Mentioning how the Rakkatan's used humanity as slaves reminded me of the myth of the Anunnaki.
The Anunnaki were much taller at about 8 - 10 feet or something. They blended their DNA with primitive humans. We were created to be a slave race to serve them. Humans are everything you mention in the video; very adaptable, inventive, stupid yet intelligent, willing to do new things, ect.They used humans to mine gold that they needed for their own planet of Nibiru. Nibiru only passes close enough to Earth every few thousand years. They left humanity, the Younger Dryas happened (the global flood - I'm still convinced the Eye of the Sarah is the location of Atlantis wiped out by it), and boom. You've got us - descendents of the survivors created to be slaves to giants who considered themselves gods.
Conspiracy theorists call Planet X in the Kuiper Belt Nibiru. When it comes back around, the Anunnaki will come back.
I love sci-fi, which is why find this story entertaining.
His name is Alan, reminding you that his allegiance is to the federation, to democracy...
Nice!
My personal theory is that human makeup is cheaper than bipedal dolphin prosthetics (the terrifying but ultimately logical conclusion to human dominance)
I don’t remember exactly where, but I read somewhere that humans made up 40% of the total galactic population. The second most populous species is the Twi’leks, accounting for 1% of the total galactic population. Such a large difference is a real testament to humanity and their abilities.
Monkey mind have two objectives: Survive at all costs and mate to allow species to survive. Combined those are pretty volatile cocktai.
Humanity first! Long live the Empire!
Adaptability, and saves on costumes.
your a wise man beyond your years Allen, is Star Wars to thank?
GASP! a start TREK ad in a star WARS show?!?!? its cats and dogs lying down together! its madness i say MADNESS!!! ;)
Humans are the roaches of the Star Wars Galaxy.
So kinda like real life
Skaven
Shut up heretic
Humans require less makeup time and prosthetics/CGI, that is the real reason they dominate Star Wars galaxy.
Video Idea: Similar to your dream-team videos make a series on redesigning the new republic. However we would have parameters on what the New Republic could reasonably do after the sequels. Would the citizens accept us using first order weapons and ships? Could we keep them as mothballed fleets? Maybe you invent new ships that fit our new doctrine. Do we use battle droids in our military or is that slavery? Is our navy carrier based?
EP 1 Government Overview. Joining requirements, constitution, etc. Maybe include a NATO esque military alliance for neutral words (for instance allowing the new republic to have helped nevarro with the pirates).
EP 2 Military and Policing. Explaining how planetary defense forces fit within a larger military, separate System Guard (coast guard) and police agencies (new republic marshals) from the military. Navy/ Marines and independent Starfighter Corps are the focus to quickly respond to member worlds acting up or being invaded. The Army is smaller to keep from being scary but can be bolstered by planetary defense forces and militia groups during war (National Guard?). Maybe also allow groups like the resistance to exist kind of like a space second amendment in addition to a standing army, this way it's another checks and balances against an empire.
EP 3 Navy (carriers and interdictors?)
EP 4 Starfighter Corps (cool new starfighters?)
EP 5 System Guard and Policing (Lancer pursuit ships and E-wings?)
EP 6 Army & Marine Vehicles (Combined Arms...clone ATTEs, first order ATSTs, and imperial marauder troop transports? ATRT/ Swamp speeders for scouting? ATRTs for old school cavalry charges?)
EP 7 Army & Marine Soldiers and Weapons (Cool good guy armor? Arc trooper helmets that can open when not in combat so you don't look like an angry faceless stormtrooper, like Ezra's stolen stormtrooper cadet helmet?)
We shouldn't dismiss the Rakata, who conqered and enslaved most of the galaxy. In Star Wars Lore humans count to the most adaptive species, who live long enough to archieve something and brief enough to reproduce on a concideral scale. For an enslaving race, the Rakata must considered this very useful.
Since you talked about humanity here, Alan. How will the alien species in Star Wars reacted if the significant number of the humans in Star Wars can be transformed into Titans and possessed the ability to unleash the Rumbling on the galactic-wide scale?
P.S: What do you think of Eren Yeager?
This video is the type of pick me up I needed for today. Thank you for all the content.
because there aren’t enough Wookiees irl
im laughing George, im laughing. took me forever to get your reference. thank you GenerationTech.
Hey Generation Tech can do you do a video about another Space Opera called Andromeda, alot of humanoid species in that universe are humans who have been genetically altered to survive on their newly colonized worlds, its also good to know that the Dominant faction of the time the "Commonwealth" was also dominated by humans even though it wasn't originally founded by humans and that it spanned 3 galaxies with the FTL system being a sort of telepathic link.
Because they are better than the dolphins, duh. Humanity first!
Humans in star wars evolved alongside the ORIGIONAL Mandalorian species known as ''the Taung''. that alone is a pretty big indicator to the successful nature of humans as a species.
How was there civilization powered by the force? How does the force power something? How much power does the force output? Is the force containable? Sorry for all the questions
I really appreciate these videos. You are a starie eyed missile man.
Humanity First
"Humans are like Bantha: they're everywhere. Get used to them."
I always thought it's because we mated out of season
Remember E.T.? His species is found in the "Star Wars" galaxy, giving it a distance from our own Milky Way of at least three million light years according to what definitive statements I've tracked down. (As is to be expected, there are conflicting figures.) That is roughly half again as far as the Andromeda galaxy, so it is a nice long drive but still extremely close in a cosmic sense. Now recall that E.T. was frightened to see Humans, but not a little Human dressed as whatever Yoda is. The simplest explanation is that while Humans were common in the era depicted in the movies, they are quite rare or even extinct in modern times. Humanity's extinction was likely related to the latent evil carried by Rey Palpatine.
For it is the destiny of humanity to rule the stars! FOR THE EMPEROR!
Warfare an Technology... 2 things many humans usually show to be every bit the equal or superior species vs others is how many of Humans in SW stand out. Being the equal or superior to many. With rare exceptional individuals in many other things.
Hell ya brother
HUMAN POWER!!!!!
LOL
Hey now!
This drives me crazy and I’ve thought about it a lot. After successive repressive human led governments, I’d love to see other species break away and try to move the centre of power away from Couracant and human control. Would be cool to see the Hutts separate Hutt controlled space away from Republic control and try to sway other species they can provide security better than the Republic. Or other species who aren’t openly hostile towards humans but still see a brighter future for themselves without human dominance
Hutt space is already separate from the Republic. That was why Qui-Gon being a Jedi Master didn't give him law enforcement authority on Tatooine (ruled by Jabba) and why Republic credits were not standard currency there.
No, human empire it is, *always*
Just have to listen to the song Europa Globus, need no other explanation why Humans dominate Star Wars Galaxy.
“Some people would consider this a skill. Humans adapt. Got mountains? Build ridgecrawlers. Too much water? Build scub-subs. An ice planet? Use radiated igurts. People adapt."
-Jyn Erso
Coruscant must have WAY more than 2 trillion people
Kind of hard to visit Alderaan these days, Alan. Thankfully, Star Wars never got into time travel or different universes and such. Those things make story telling far more messy, as well as kind of pointless, if in the multiverse, there is a different ending to each story. Marvel made that mistake and is paying for it now.
Marvel is just incompetent. It's possible to use time travel and multiverses well, just that you need some hard and fast rules with good implementation. If there are no restrictions on what can be done and you use it as a deus ex machina you get a Marvel situation. However in the case of the Sunrider series there are some hard and fast rules. The rules do have exceptions but they are extremely rare and can have consequences of their own. The main rules are that if you are to time travel you must go to a different universe and that both universes must be destroyed and replaced by a new one when the future is changed. This is because spacetime doesn't like it when you mess with things. You can't do time travel in the same universe as it would break spacetime and changing things causes a paradox meaning that the universes must be replaced with one that takes it into consideration. This makes it so that there has only been one thing where time travel actively happens to the player and it isn't even canon. I can't think of any other examples of time travel and multiverses having such consequences and limitations sadly. Again, there are exceptions but they are quite rare and can have consequences of their own.
This is an easy question to answer, humans move to an area and they multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way they can survive is to spread to another area
I always figured it was because it’s easier to get human or near human actors
Who wants to see a Klingon vs Mando fight video?
Why was the fire nation inside of it
The near human races can't possibly be evolutionary given the tight (geologic) time frame this all happens in. I thought in Legends it mentioned somewhere that some higher power like the Celestials had manipulated a common ancestor to the humans and all these other races. Or maybe I'm combining Star Wars and other sci fi in my head.
Production
I read the title of the video before watching and my first thought was "you mean aside from the obvious?"
I assume because we are adaptable enough to live anywhere
See thisbis a great place to make a show. No jedi or Skywalkers to encroach on lore.
I dont know...we might have evolved from Dolphins
because "The Emperor Protects"™
A video on why humans dominate Star Wars?
A surprise. But a welcome one, to be sure.
Make Humans great again!
There's only 3 types of aliens.
1st Humanoid, everything from Superman to Kilngons. A guy in a suit.
2. Then you got your Non Humanoids, your ETs and your Tribbles or Jabbas, basically just a puppet...
3rd. Then you got my favorite type of alien, and he Special Effects alien! You got your walking piles of Goo, your sentient fart clouds and living CGI monsters.. and that's how life works according to filmmaking
Because humans are fucking sick, dude. 😎
That´s easy to explain. Dolphins weren´t smart enough. Otherwise they would rule the star wars galaxy.
I know a bit off topic, but don't it seem like wokism would be a palpatine plan? Like regardless which way it goes everyone loses except those untouchable by the consequences of the issues they promote.
But this Is mainly only in legends
Andor name dropped the infinite empire
@@mikeross4664 I know, but we still don't knowthe exact events in canon
Because its cost efficient for the movie
The Emperor protects...
Because we're the bestest
Xenos suck!
Wait i looked online...i dont see where itsays mandalorians were originaly from coruscana
look up tuang
I just chalk it up to behavioral regulation, and multiplication.
Humans writing how humans are the most common species in the Star Wars galaxy is one of those "Obama awarding himself" memes
Quick question, 2.5 trillion people living on corascant he says it represents a chunk of the galaxy. I have a hard time believing that one planets pop can have most of the ppl in a galaxy
*edit
Pop means population and yes I'm aware he could mean it could represent other places bc of the high population, I'm just double checking
The Empire was also human supremacist
Bit more context to when humans were slaves: They weren't just used for labor, they were used for sex(against their will) and food. For real life context, we rarely ate slaves.
Humanity's xenophobia in Star Wars doesn't come from nowhere.
It's because humans write the stories.
It's also just cheaper to film scenes with humans.
Anyways, "Humanity First" and exterminate the zenos.
It's just cheaper - have you seen the going rate for hiring Rhodians?!
Twi'leks are the second most prominent species in the galaxy.
THE INDOMINABLE HUMAN SPIRIT RAAAAAAAAA
Budget reasons.
because yk theres not a lot of alien actors
Just popped into say that I am also not racist, but I am definitely a human supremacist too, I get mad when people try and say the world is 'over populated' as more people means more opportunities
Day 294 (wow, ive been at this for a while)
PLEASE DO MORE TACTICS VIDEOS AND STRUCTURES LIKE THE CIS NAVY STRUCTURE AND RANKS
Budget
Here I was thinking that humans just breed like rabbits