7 Safest Star Ship Designs | Star Wars

my friends welcome back to another episode of generation tank my name is Alan humans are not designed to live in vacuum we can't handle extremes and temperatures the lack of oxygen and the massive amounts of radiation and of course space whale semen which apparently makes up 25% of the mass of the universe the more you know this is why space travel is pretty terrifying if you think about it especially if your ship has no shields minimal life support on board and a very thin layer of transparent still protecting you from certain death but that's a TIE fighter what actual ships are well designed for space travel what ships do we recommend you purchasing of say you're a young family with young children and you want to keep them safe while traveling the very dangerous hyperspace lanes well today we're gonna be looking at the safest and best protected ships in each class air speeders are probably the most common type of vehicles in the entire Star Wars galaxy they usually don't run on thrusters but instead rely on anti-gravity devices known as repulsor lifts because these bodyguards don't rely on our dynamics and lift for flights and repulsor lifts are generally very reliable and work like magic there doesn't seem to be many safety standards in air speed or design an alarming amount of these vehicles actually seem to have open tops which can be a bad idea when you're flying thousands of feet off the ground so straightaway I would try to eliminate any open-top or convertible air speeders and unfortunately that also means speed or bikes as much as I love motorcycles I know that making motorcycles fly is probably going to increase the danger level for the operator so for safety I would look at some type of high performance air speeder like the t6 sky hopper or the t47 and even the very Milan storm for cloud car isn't a bad choice what separates these three speeders from say the one Anakin stole is that they all have backup engines I really like the t47 snowspeeders because they were essentially star fighters stripped down to function as in atmosphere fighters they had all the defensive and offensive measures ium might expect - some shielding of course and they also had some features like harness now seatbelts and a rear gunner with a harpoon gun in case any aquatic foes are chasing you of course the rebellion lost most of their t47 serving the Battle of Hoth but that's what happens when you fly straight into the guns of an eighty eighty even the best designs cannot defeat poor operators [Music] snow fighter is actually a slang term used to describe fighter models which usually carried a crew of one or two people each faction and corporation involved in manufacturing starships had their own design philosophies and styles when it came to making ships income corporation for instance focused on packing as many features as possible into every one of their fighters so that they could operate independently from a carrier or fleets ships like the ark 170 we're completely over designed they featured a three-man crew powerful shields a hyperdrive and oversized blaster cannons is definitely well protected but arguably too large and slow and fell victim very easily to more nimble Confederate droid fighters the x-wing series that followed sacrifice some weight and stripped some features including a co-pilot and gunner position it was better bouncing considered a pretty terrific all-around Starfighter but we are gonna choose the x-wing this time around on the opposite side of the Galactic Civil War you had seen our fleet systems they were known for mass producing single seater short-range fighters which were basically used on star destroyers to screen incoming fighters these were very cheap short ranged and nimble star fighters that generally lacked shields heavy weapons or armor plating even more advanced versions of their ship length it's high interceptor were under protected compared to their Rebel Alliance counterparts it took an outsider not an outsider to senior fleet systems but to the Galactic Empire to turn things around grant Amal thrown at its military leader assigned to the Imperial Navy quickly realized the Empire's need for a truce space superiority craft and designed the tide defender mark 1 and Tie defender elites the tide defenders saw very limited action but when they did they made easy work of their rebel counterparts not only were the holes of the tide defenders made of heavily reinforced titanium they were also protected by noble debts deflector shields rated higher than any other star fighter in his class on top of that the Thai defender had a large assortment of offensive armaments but still maintain that class-leading maneuverability we saw from the normal type fighters unfortunately neither the standard side defender or the elite version would see much combat because it was competing directly with a deaf star program for funds and grant animal thron would disappear in a space whale accident leaving the project leaderless transports aren't in between classes ships there are similar to freighters because they carry sentient cargo but at the same time they need to be well protected and well armed like a star fighter to make sure the cargo makes it to the location in one piece there are more luxurious shuttles like the land the class shuttle which was used by Imperial officials or more infantry focused ones like the LA 80 which could lift both tanks and a squad of clone troopers into battle the neither of those ships could really handle the transports biggest enemy which would be a wing of star fighters or anti-aircraft fire now I was originally going to choose the Ewing for my best transport but then I found something kind of similar to the Ewing but almost better in every way meet the comrade class fighter built by Mundell motors like everything the Mandalorians make prices oftentimes not an issue their main focus is making the deadliest vehicle or weapon possible well the comrade class is called a fighter it actually is quite a large vessel at around 52 metres an x-wing for comparison is just around twelve point five meters this Mandalorian fighter also has room for 24 passengers the Ewing only carries around eight for some reason despite its larger size the comrade could also handle dogfights pretty well and could even go up against much smaller fighters one unique feature on this craft is that the entire wing rotates around the fuselage which can make it quite confusing for enemies star fighters trying to log on to it one of the most dangerous parts of a transports job is inserting troops under heavy fire the event that a transport is damaged in atmosphere and the engines are taken entity it might lose the ability to fly since most star warships are not designed to be aerodynamically in any way dropships like the LA eighty become a flying crates once the repulsors and engines are turned off but something like the khamar class with its large flying wing design could still be maneuverable in case of engine failure adding another feature which makes it the safest transport in Star Wars freighters are the backbone of the outer rim economy especially on planets that aren't populated enough to warm visits from large interstellar cargo ships freighters are kind of like the working van of our own world they usually come bare-bones from the factory and then each let's call them small business operators will modify their empty bands an assortment of weapons attachments hyperdrive upgrades additional thrust there's secret smuggling compartments heavy armor plating and of course some additional shielding it's really up to the user to decide what they want their ship to look like now popular opinion will most likely point towards the 1t 1300 as the safest or best ship in class but I actually believe the Millennium Falcon is an aberration it's kind of like when you see someone dump $50,000 in aftermarket parts into a leased Honda Civic he usually doesn't turn out great I like the idea of modifying my ship with a bunch of aftermarket parts but that's also what makes this class of ship so unreliable and the Millennium Falcon was the poster child of unreliable third-party components and it doesn't even have an escape pod anymore so - a point for safety instead of choosing the army ship in this case I want to look at another engineering marvel made by Karelian Engineering Corporation the vcx 100 and only forty three point nine meters it was on the smaller side when it came to this class of ships if you're going to fly around in civilian ship that is not designed for survival choosing a ship that's much smaller and more nimble is a good idea the vcx 100 also had two main engines into secondary engines for redundancy this is also the first ship we're going to be talking about that has a backup hyperdrive which is incredibly important in space travel being stranded in deep space without a hyperdrive is basically deaf sentence the vcx 100 also had several laser cannons onboard including several point defense turrets along with two torpedo launchers for larger ships it also added a all-important escape pod intact in case things go south and that was also a hyperdrive as well the aggressive looking spear in a class Corvette was designed for one thing only a frontal assault and a very bold design which included a massive hammerhead shaped bridge which was heavily armored and protected the more vulnerable generators and thrusters at the rear of the ship the hammerhead Corvette also had most of its weapons emplacements positioned in the forward area as well without laser turrets that could fire off for the pilot of this Corvette was almost forced to fly it like a Starfighter a hammerhead Corvettes design came from the Old Republic era when nests of space battles were quite common the Republic used hammerhead shaped designs for thousands of years and would carry out assaults with hundreds of these ships all oriented in a frontal attack it was a very intimidating tactic during the battles scare if the Rebel Alliance pick a chip light maker was heavily damaged and kept in reserved for most of the battle until it was called upon to ram my disabled Star Destroyer into another star destroyer this caused a massive collision and both ships were just miles above the planet and crashed onto its surface generally speaking Confederacy of Independent Systems ships are not designed for humans in this case that might be a good thing the munificent class star firket was quite large at 825 meters in length but like most sepi warships and required a very small and minimal crew because most of the ship was automated instead of devoting space for living beings like living quarters cargo space for supplies and other facilities the entire ship is filled with weapons and weapons emplacements which is why for a frigate that mean efficient class was extremely heavily armed and too heavy turbo laser cannons too long-range heavy ion cannons 26 2000 laser cannons 20 light turbo laser cannons a dozen flak cannons and 40 point defense light laser cannons and much much more this is why the munificent class often times exchanged broadsides with larger client ships like the republic venator class star destroyer because there were very few areas where sentient beings could actually walk around in the ship most of the ship was left unarmored and only the most critical areas were heavily armed with plating this would drastically decrease the weight of the entire vessel when it comes to the cruiser class you have to look no further than the Mon Calamari and underwater species known for their deep space exploration ships the Mon Calamari lived in massive underwater cities many of their buildings and structures were pressurized for comfort this means as a species they had a lot of experience the designing structures that were pressurized against crazy amounts of pressures that could be found deep in the ocean and they took those same high standards when it comes to building underwater structures and applied them to shipbuilding as a matter of fact it's rumored that during the Galactic Civil War some of the first ships to escape Imperial occupation we're actually Civic buildings that were modified to fly in space because these Mon Calamari ships were designed to function underwater their holes were much stronger than your conventional ships and that's because there's no pressure in space and usually most of the larger vessels in the galaxy are built in orbital shipyards which means that many designs don't technically need to be able to withstand the stresses of atmospheric flight this makes these more conventional designs a lot less durable MCAD class cruiser like all Mon Calas ships were known for it's amazing toughness although it was usually outgunned by its Imperial counterparts and the legendary armor on mon cala ships allow them to go toe-to-toe with Imperial class star destroyers the other thing that made the MCAD star cruiser extremely safe was the fact that it relied on a network of redundant shield generators that covered the entire ship thus meant that when one generator was overwhelmed a backup generator would immediately kick on leaving no gap in the protection plus because there were so many different generators when a generator went down only a small portion of the hole was exposed to enemy fire most larger ships in the Imperial Navy for instance had larger shield generators that weren't as quick when he came to recharging this meant that once they were taken down they were completely vulnerable to attack so there you have it guys those are seven ships that I believe lead their class when it comes to safety which is really important when you're looking for a new vessel to acquire for your fleet well I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification button and also stay inside and stay safe well thanks 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Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020