Was this Super-Yacht turned Warship any good? | Dauntless-class Heavy Cruiser Complete Breakdown

dauntless Heavy Cruiser reporting what's up many Nerds this video will be a complete breakdown of the luxury yacht turned warship The marshime Dauntless class Heavy Cruiser looking at its size complement Armament and comparing it to other Capital ships seeing how it fought off the Empire and its Remnant forces but first I want to thank established titles for sponsoring this video and making me a true Lord my aisles ancestors are surely looking on with pride especially since established titles works as a fun way to preserve the natural Woodlands of eddleston Scotland and restoration efforts all around the world planting a tree with every order how it works is that you purchase a title pack for at least one square foot of dedicated land coming with a unique plot Number and works through a Scottish custom where landowners are referred to as lairds or Lords and Ladies in English and so you can use your new title on credit cards plane tickets or throw it on your dating profile you get this 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comlinks to repair droids Fighters and land Speeders and larger vessels like the luxury 3000 space yacht Quasar fire carrier and their largest Creation The Dauntless class at a length of around 1200 meters or three-fourths of a mile it was close to a venator and about half a secular it was around the venator in height at about 250 meters and at 350 meters wide it was about 64 percent the width of the Republic Cruiser what's really unique about this Heavy Cruiser is that it was intended to be a luxury vessel that sorosub converted into a warship during the Galactic Civil War and it would actually see Frontline combat during several battles after the destruction of the first Death Star in that year The Celestine resistance was finally able to take control of sirosa since this company controlled all economic action on world the board of advisors was essentially their government so when leader of The Celestine resistance sign tev became the CEO he was essentially the global leader and he would play nice with the Imperial overlords to not draw a planetary Invasion hiding his allegiance to the rebels making it seem like the Takeover of serosub was more like a worker's Rebellion not a general Rebellion against the emperor though secretly he made sure that leaks made it to mon mothma so that movements of ship deliveries could be stolen a tactic that was practiced by an ever-increasing number of companies the later you went into imperial Reign this is why the stats of this ship are so odd as it is essentially a super yacht or cruise ship turned into a battleship not purpose made within period real standards like Hua Drive yard products these hangers on the side here and possibly towards the bow would have been intended for smaller shuttles to travel to your PlanetSide Mansion or favorite Spaceport with room for smaller support vehicles for security and your entourage but when this was repurposed this space was able to accommodate four Starfighter squadrons or 48 fighters in total which are said to be various combos of x-wings y-wings a-wings and b-wings though that number is far less than the ludicrous stats for the venator it isn't that far off from the ISD and could carry more than twice the troops of the Republic's cruiser with two regiments or 5296 Rebels even if that is just half the ISD hopefully those troops would be better rested and with greater morale with some luxury cabin touches still left over not the drab industrial gray bunk beds that the bucketheads were sleeping in another hint at its luxury Origins is this odd fin it's not a Rudder but similar to these structures on the Providence class Dreadnought which were packed full of state-of-the-art sensor equipment allowing it to stay in contact with allies wherever it found itself providing excellent encryption and hollowave comms so that the original owners wouldn't have to miss the big pod race broadcast and be able to stay private when talking to their tax Haven Bankers this was one of the most useful features when the marshime was converted into a warship another helpful feature already built in were the incredibly powerful reactors and ion engines that you would expect in a luxury vessel of this size being a nice base to plug in other things like weapon systems and upgraded shielding keep in mind that any craft of this size would be durable enough to handle Starfighter combat even when it wasn't meant for war there was always the thought of pirates and just building something this large required the structure to be durable enough to survive the chaos of long-distance space travel everything from asteroids solar flares and diverse and turbulent planetary atmospheres think about how a large ship on Earth may be able to survive heavy caliber fire or even some explosions just by virtue of how it needed to be built to survive the Seas like this oil tanker that was hit by three RPGs and just Shrugged it off and similarly just like how of some parts were compromised with water flowing in you'd have measures in place to try and seal and contain that leak just like how a civilian space yacht would have the ability to seal off bulkheads to stop an air leak which of course is what you'd also want to have in a warship they would add to what would have already been a thick hole sorosubs slapping on additional layers of dura steel armor and they upped The Shield generator power before packing on a still classified number of Turbo lasers and ion cannons though the number of these weapon emplacements is unknown we do get a description of quote excellent countermeasure systems so I think it's reasonable to think that it had a similar Armament to the mc80 which also did not rely on missiles or Torpedoes for Firepower so around 30 heavy turbo laser batteries 30 heavy ion cannons and to make up for the lack of relative Starfighter support I would think less Laser cannon batteries and more Point defense systems perhaps 40 Laser cannon batteries and 60 point defense since those would require less energy and even the venator with its huge complement of starfighters still had 64 pdlcs though it does seem to lack one of my favorite features of ship the tractor beam projectors it probably had something minimal for moving small debris and guiding ships to dock but nothing military-grade as they are not listed their first reported use on a Battlefront was in the service of the Ishita planetary defense Fleet the kalikidan a spiritual leader and head of these people decided to join the rebels after Luke and Leia personally traveled to tibrin in order to plead the case for a unified Alliance they posed as diplomats from naboo's house barenko under the guise of talking trade deals but Luke was captured and brought aboard the ISD the stormbringer Leia was able to save him but under a hail of blaster fire they were able to sneak into an escape pod and fire off away from the ship but were helpless and just moments away from a free space cremation when the tibrin Navy intervened three Martian class heavy Cruisers were sent on the direct orders of the calicudin to save his new off-world friends and they quickly raced out from behind the Dark Side of to Bryn's Moon unloading on the ISD before it was able to get its Shields up the mile long kuwa craft was melted through by the heavy turbo laser cannons before these rounds struck some critical systems like fuel reserves weapon systems or the reactor causing a massive chain reaction that vaporized the 10 000 plus lives on board without the marshime trio suffering any damage with this quick closing speed and ability to rapidly deliver overwhelming fire makes it a real shame that we don't see it in action more often and we just get vague mentions of Frontline use and the fact that tibrin was even allowed to retain a Navy was proof of more of the Empire's close allies these worlds seen as so obedient they were taken for granted like sorosub were the ones that provided the greatest threat to Imperial rule after the battle of Yavin when mon mothma was able to prove her idea of a rebel alliance that could deliver an unthinkable Victory exposing that the empire was building a Planet Killer battle station and that if there was ever a time to fight back it was now after the battle of Endor these dauntless slash machine ships would help keep the Imperial Remnant on the run a mission objective that never seemed to be truly completed by 13 ABY the new Republic defense Fleet deployed a single dauntless named Endor to patrol near a remote planetoid rz-76113-23 in the bridge we see that its design was unlike those of Kua or Mancala with a Sleek open three level design having a command pit and Second Story with viewing windows while all the data from those complex sensor arrays were displayed on these screens allowing them to pick up on a single Thai Sr or Scout variant which did have a hyperdrive but was so far out in the middle of nowhere that the captain of the Endor suspected that a mother ship or base must be hidden nearby as they pursued at a distance they saw the craft accelerate towards the planetoid which the sensors were still saying was completely devoid of life but attack does shout out that he found a large energy presence on the surface this must be the base and the captain starts to think how foolish it was for the tie to fly into its sensor range and then immediately run home to give up the hidden base but in a split second he realizes that he was the fool ordering an immediate reverse a text says that they were now being targeted he realizes it was a trap a single massive bolt is fired by a gun that seems to be on a scale of a v150 planet Defender like seen on Hoth but instead of an ion blast this odd Imperial Remnant Cannon was a capital ship killer and just as those marshime had once taken out an IST before it could get its Shields up now this dauntless was hopeless the bridge crew sent their last few seconds watching this Fireball race towards them a direct hit to the battle that set off a chain reaction that consumed the Endor these Imperial holdouts called themselves the restored Empire and this dauntless was just an early casualty in their War to destroy the new Republic and unify the Imperial Remnant forces while the final use of this ship was at least as late as 29 ABY where almost every available ship was pressed into service to defend the Galaxy from the invading yuzon vong so that's it for its history and breakdown as for behind the scenes facts the background of this ship seems to be based on the Timeless tradition of converting Merchant ships into warships which is pretty straightforward as you can always add weaponry and anything can act as a Troop Carrier if you wanted to the practice that is probably as early as Warfare itself stretching back to the ancient world and some of the most notable examples being the English Fleet that fought off the Spanish Armada and in World War II with civilian Craft on all sides being converted at different stages of the war The Dauntless class was first introduced in the PC game Star Wars rebellion in 1998 and expanded on in the comic Crimson Empire 3 Empire lost one as well as the new Jedi Order Source book while it was brought into Canon and synchronized that the marshime class Heavy Cruiser and Star Wars Adventures 2017 issue 5. if you made it this far please hit that like button leave a comment on any thoughts or suggestions for future videos subscribe if you want to see more and check out our membership there's tons of other ships in this playlist but most important of all remember if you can invent an always-on Shield generator you'll be the richest person in the galaxy and the force will be with you always

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Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 22 2022