5 Early Threats to the Galactic Empire

hi friends welcome back to another episode of generation tech my name is alan we recently did a video about palpatine's first 100 days in office being emperor has quite a lot of responsibility attached to it emperor palpatine had to set up cop nor to ensure political stability would be maintained he developed a new currency an id system for imperial citizens and he also did some minor renovations to the jedi temple and tackled education reform by setting up the imperial academy system but what we didn't talk about were the dozens of military threats the empire still faced whether it was separatist holdouts or just systems that have never been tamed today we'll be taking a look at five major problem areas in the galaxy for emperor palpatine when anakin skywalker killed the last of the separatist leaders on mustafar and deactivated the separatist droid army the war against the confederacy of independent systems officially ended this signal however did not reach every corner of the galaxy there were still droids isolated in the far reaches of the outer rim that never got the order to stand down one separate holdout group that we know about was commanded by general kalani a st series military strategic analysis and tactical droid these super tactful droids were designed in response to the t-series tactical droid's inflexibility and predictability on the battlefield the super tactical droid's processing power and programming was far superior to any other tactical droid before it more importantly this kind of droid could operate on its own without any commanding officers at the same time it was also programmed with true belief in the separatist cause and the fight against republic tyranny general kalani had originally been posted on the world of onderon which the separatists controlled through their puppet king sanjay rash the republic had started a foreign internal defense campaign to train ontario and freedom fighters into a formidable resistance using guerrilla warfare these fighters were able to extract a huge amount of casualties against separatist forces on the world who are not designed for asymmetric warfare after separatist forces failed to dislodge the underonions from their main base count dooku ordered general kalani to retreat from the planet to agamar in the western reaches of the outer rim general kalani and his droids would remain on agamar for the rest of the war when anakin skywalker deactivates all of the droids with that signal kalani's droids also turn off but the super tactical droid suspected that this was a republic ploy to defeat the confederacy well it was technically right about that in some ways and so he manually reactivates its troops and would continue following count dooku's last directive for another 20 years before he was eventually found by rebel forces and the empire by that time most of his units were in severe need for upgrades and replacements still the presence of a super tactical droid like general kalani during these early days of the empire was incredibly dangerous there was still a massive separate destroyed army out there waiting to be reactivated as we saw in the last bad batch episode all it took was one tactical droid to turn an entire factory of deactivated droids into killing machines before the clone wars even started lola saoyu was a planet known for its super max republic prison named the citadel it was designed specifically to handle jedi who had fallen to the dark side this prison made normal lockups look like a daycare center the entire complex was built over a gigantic lake of sulfur the outside area is regarded by laser turrets and land mines when the separatist alliance took over the citadel at the beginning of the clone wars they would also bring along an elite group of commando droids to patrol the insides of the prison during the war the prison was used to keep high-ranking republic military leaders like willow tarkin and jedi general even peel in custody for interrogation republic task force was sent to free them and encountered a heavy amount of resistance when the clone wars ended the super tactical droid in charge of the citadel went haywire and continued following the last directive it was given during the clone wars which of course was to kidnap force sensitive children and hold them in the citadel this represented a direct threat to emperor palpatine who was desperately trying to make sure the jedi would not re-emerge and bring chaos to the galaxy he even had his own team of inquisitors scouring the empire for new force-sensitive children that he himself could control we're ultimately not really sure what happens to the citadel but hopefully new novels and comics will shed a little bit of light on this very famous prison [Music] with the end of any type of war you're going to have a large amount of refugees trying to escape war-torn areas to safer places hot space became a premier destination for people fleeing the conflict from all across the galaxy this autonomous region of the galaxy has always remained outside of the control of the republic and the empire would allow it to maintain its independence somewhat the end of the clone wars and the croatian the shadow collected by maul had killed off several hut leaders allowing jabba the hub to consolidate hut space's power on tatooine his criminal enterprise was involved in everything from piracy to slavery to smuggling all sorts of weapons spices and illicit materials job of the hutt would keep a low profile in the early years of the rise of the new order and the empire wouldn't refocus his attention towards the hutts until after the battle of yavin when they were in need for more raw resources to rebuild the death star because of hud space's neutrality it was a great place for criminal scum and enemies of the empire like the jedi to hide after order 66. the black market trade that had thrived there during the clone wars only became more robust during the imperial times as palpatine enforced strict controls of weapons in the galaxy so if you need anything that's very sketchy or highly illegal like a disruptor rifle look no further than the moon of narshadow after rylath was liberated from the separatist alliance forces champ simdullah one of the main figures in the three-like resistance was wary of the clone forces that were garrisoned on his planets even after the fighting had ended he was right to worry because after order 66 ended the clones would stay there and essentially became an occupying force officially speaking ryloth was an independent protectorate of the galactic empire in reality an imperial governor was assigned to the planet and the main population areas were turned into breeding grounds for slave labor even during the clone wars ryloth was relatively ignored by the rest of the galaxy it was located in the outer rim near hudspace and it didn't have any really viable economy its main exports were labor and unrefined spice now with the empire in charge things only got worse but ryloth was a wild and dangerous planet the weather patterns were extreme and the local fauna was deadly and controlled most of the wilderness areas there are actually entire tweed-like settlements that didn't even know about the existence of the empire and so ryloth was the perfect place for guerrilla fighters like the ones employed by champs and doula the empire could never really devote enough resources to take out the charismatic twilight and his band of fighters left unchecked the twilight resistance would pose a major threat to the empire when emperor palpatine and darth vader visited the planet champ sandula would carry out an audacious assassination attempt that took out their entire imperial star destroyer alderaan is one of the oldest members of the galactic republic it was only seen as a beacon of light in the galaxy this prosperous planet was shockingly beautiful in a natural sense and the people there developed a very liberated and open society based on democratic values alderaan was also known for its cultural richness throughout the entire galaxy it produced countless amounts of poets playwrights and musicians in times of war the iranians would generally advocate for peace and diplomacy and run relief missions to war-torn worlds and even accepted refugees and so naturally when emperor palpatine took apart the republic most all iranians were shocked emperor palpatine kept the galactic senate intact primarily so worlds like alderaan with their massive amount of influence would not protest but it was well known that senator bell organ of alderaan and many other high-ranking alderaanian officials were very critical of his policies alderaan would naturally become a safe location for future rebels to hide in stockpile weapons and resources the danger of alderaan falling to the rebellion was not just related to its prestige in the galaxy but because it was located in the heart of the galaxy right in the core so there you have it guys those are five locations in the galaxy where emperor palpatine is gonna have to focus a lot of attention on at least for the first year or two let me know in the comment section below if i'm missing any other uh you know major threats to the empire also don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification button down below so you don't miss out on the rest of our awesome content as usual thanks for joining us today if you're watching this you are generation tech

Channel: Generation Tech

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2021