Old Republic headcanons: Vrook looks to be around his early-to-mid sixties by the time of KOTOR 2, so the reason why he's so staunchly against any Sith elements at that time is due to some trauma from the Great Sith War. He would've had to be a Jedi apprentice or young Jedi Knight when Exar Kun converted the other Jedi apprentices to slay their masters, one of them possibly being Vrook's own teacher. The trauma of his master's death and the easy seduction of those he called friends is what drove him to be so anti-dark side in his later life. The Jedi Council refusing to step into the Mandalorian Wars because of possible Sith influence is because of Nomi and Vima Sunrider's investigation as thought of in the scrapped Mandala novel. They found something out in Mandalorian space, which Revan would later track down in his own investigation shortly after. Sion is said to have been a Dark Jedi during the Great Sith War, but after its end, I believe he went into hiding to train on his own for decades, waiting for the right moment to strike back against the Jedi Order. When the Jedi Civil War began, Revan found Sion and conscripted him privately into his Sith Empire, setting him up to serve as an instructor/interrogator on Malachor V. Malak was unaware of this and left Malachor alone, allowing Sion to convert what acolytes at his disposal into Sith assassins from KOTOR II before Darth Traya came to Malachor V. Nihilus is one of the reasons Vitiate held off on invading the galaxy post-JCW; while he was confident in defeating the eldritch Sith abomination, he feared that its hunger would consume most of his Empire. Juhani died on Kavarr. Nomi would die on Kavarr to Darth Nihilus's purge, while Vima would survive and later take up position of Grandmaster after the defeat of the Sith Triumvirate. After some proper training, she would pass the title onto Bastila Shan before retiring to focus on teaching her own lineage. Lucien Draay's Jedi Covenant sheltered many of the Jedi Purge survivors during the Sith Triumvirate's campaign of terror, such as his former Padawan, Zayne Carrick. He would use his family estate's funds to help restore the Temple back to its former glory on Coruscant. Darth Nihilus's holocron (as seen in the Legacy comics) is nothing more than a cruel joke on Nihilus's behalf, passing it down to his acolytes to learn and consume traces of their life force to feed him. However, once he was destroyed, its life-draining essence became null and the holocron's guardian basically existed to tantalize any future Sith with his power to hide the fact it has no real knowledge or abilities. Post KOTOR II, the Jedi High Council comprised of: Vima Sunrider, Bastila Shan, Mical, Brianna, Lucien Draay, and Jolee Bindo. Their first action in the new Order is imprisoning Atris for her dark side corruption on Telos IV. Darth Desolous was considered to be the last warlord of Vitiate's Sith Empire before their destruction at the hands of the Jedi Order. The Zakuul Empire lasted for over a thousand years, entering into a tenuous peace with the Old Republic prior to the New Sith Wars. At some point in that thousand-year gap from Ruin's era to Kaan's, the Republic and Sith would covertly work side-by-side in order to take down the faction that almost destroyed them (or, in the case of the Sith Empire, did) in the past. Lord Kaan was inspired by the teachings of Exar Kun when establishing his Brotherhood of Darkness, from his mannerisms in addressing his acolytes to the Sith Order's organization. However, Kaan's biggest flaw was the change of having the Brotherhood believe 'We are all Sith' to make it so that everyone believes they're all equal in rank and doesn't turn on the Sith Master as is traditional Sith hood. This stagnated their progress, which Bane later exploited. Over a thousand years later, Darth Krayt would remodify Kaan's philosophy to 'All Sith is One Sith' in his own Sith Order.
The D’Astan Family of Nez Peron were older Serenno nobility that had been loyal to Coruscant during the Clone Wars. After the Clone Wars and Vader imposed Adan Dooku on the Serenno Lords and the Senator was to be arrested, many of the recovery grants and shopping licences were stripped from the Serenno Lords and given to the D’Astan family. Ragez owed his rise to Palpatine’s generosity and became his most ardent supporter. Palpatine rewarded his loyalty with a position in the Ruling Council. Nearly two hundred Lucrehulk battleships were placed in the care of the D’Astan family and organised into seven Imperial-style numbered fleets. The Dooku family was further supplanted by Imperial Intelligence, but the base conflict between the Imperial aligned Houses and those more independent minded remained. The D’Astan Family stayed loyal to Coruscant, viewing that warlords were traitors, but the in-fighting in the Core was more detrimental than not. Ragez wanted to manage both sides of the internal conflict in the Court. They were, by sheer cartography, caught up in the machinations of Grand Moff Zsinj, who took Serenno and not Nez Peron as his capital. They were not a party to the coup against Pestage, but when Zsinj seceded, Ragez was conscious that he would be cast as disloyal, and was also concerned that him heading to Orinda might allow Zsinj to supplant his fleets. He sent his daughter Feena to Orinda in his stead, maintaining loyalty to both Zsinj and Ars Dangor. When Zsinj died his sector immediately returned to the Empire, supporting Thrawn and committing to the Dark Empire. The D’Astan fleets were becoming increasingly important and Ragez became aware that he could do what he had always wanted now; dictate policy. Maintaining a seat on the Imperial Ruling Council from afar, with his shipping fleet as leverage, the machinations of Nom Anor and Black Sun saw the Baron secede from the Crimson Empire and strike out alone; and acquire a clone of his daughter along the way. Support for the D’Astan family had never been higher in the sector, as the Serenno Lords saw this as their chance at destiny following the Battle of Ord Cantrell. However Ragez D’Asta remained an Imperial loyalist, and intended to use his power and leverage to encourage Pellaeon to sue for peace. The Imperial Remnant offered as much, but the Restored Empire interfered and the war continued. Ragez was true to his word and rejoined the Empire, but the New Republic had lost its patience. Two whole New Republic fleets - designed to defeat an Imperial Oversector Fleet - advanced down the Perlemian on the Antemeridian Sector and across the Borderlands for the key D’Astan trade world of Celanon. The Moffs sent the Imperial Navy to halt the offensive, but the two fleets reached Celanon mostly intact. The D’Astan fleets were deployed - Separatist designs against modern Mon Calamari Star Cruisers. Only the arrival of Pellaeon and the Reaper saved the sector, but D’Astan power was broken; and the Reaper was scrapped to repair the Imperial Navy. Ragez D’Asta encouraged the Hydian Way worlds to pressure the Remnant into peace, but the war recommenced and the D’Astan sector was cut off from the remaining eight sectors. Forced to join the New Republic to stave off an economic recession, the D’Astan family was finished off when the Yuuzhan Vong cut across the sector and took Nez Peron - but not Serenno. Feena married Bron Dooku, bringing the two families together for initially political reasons, but securing the future of the sector. Bron dabbled in Separatism during the Confederation, but Feena managed to keep the sector out of the war - at the cost of her marriage, and then Bron’s life, who was assassinated for his great-uncles collection of Sith artefacts; including the lightsaber of Darth Tyranus and Holocron of Darth Andeddu.
I've been trying to headcanon-up an explanation (using "Fractalsponge-verse versions" of ships, in their most recent iterations) for the Nebula's being comparable to the ISD when (thanks to the addition of lots of extra guns in the "redux-version") the ISD-II is now over twice the firepower, instead of having comparable firepower. Original version (from fractalsponge's posts on SD.net): “I am using Remnant’s ‘calibres’ of 32 teratons/heavy shot for the heavies on an ISDII, getting ~170 teratons for an ISDI from the heavy guns.” “64×32 teraton heavies for an ISDII puts out 2.05 petatons” “I tried to rationalize the gun armament seen in the latest sourcebook illustrations of the Nebula with this. One super-heavy turbolaser turret (twin 320 teraton) in the center, backed by 4×3 70-teraton Venator-caliber guns and 8×2 32-teraton ISDII caliber weapons. Total throw weight ~2 petatons, vice an ISD’s 2.5.” Modern version of ISD-II - 91 40 teraton turbolasers (some of fractalsponge's later posts in various threads on his own site bump the ISD-II gun up to 40 TT by default), 8 70 teraton turbolasers, total - 4.2 petatons. At the moment my best rationale is that the New Republic were very good at miniaturisation, and that the originally 320 TT and 70 TT guns are more like 720 TT and 240 teratons respectively. Fractal did do a 3-barrelled 240 teraton turret once, and the 320 TT turret was at the low-end-estimate for its power: (the old picture is unavailable, so I've had to use a later pic - most of the turrets are in the same place but a few have been moved around).
Not sure what Cracken's Threat Dossier said about it, but Wookieepedia cites it as the source for the Nebula having "over 20% more power than the ISD-I" (though it also says that the ISD-II has that same "20+% more than the ISD-I" power figure) and "built to be a match for the ISD-II". https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nebula-class_Star_Destroyer Also: It was designed to be able to defeat any one enemy Star Destroyer, two heavy cruisers, or an entire line of smaller Imperial support ships.[1] It mounted defenses strong enough to resist even some of the smaller Super Star Destroyers or analog warships.[3] So, ISD-II or two heavy cruisers. Fractal's ISD-I, which is in WIP stage as being basically the ISD-II but with the 4 big port and starboard turrets being different) actually has a higher "alpha strike" than the ISD-II does - though some of it will be ion cannons - whereas the ISD-II has no heavy ion cannons at all and its 8 octet turbolaser turrets are weaker - at most 320 TT per turret, using the high-end 40TT per barrel figure - instead of the 350 TT per big turret of the ISD-I. His Tector is a lot more powerful than any other Star Destroyer he's done - total alpha strike (every gun firing one shot at maximum power, simultaneously ) of 5.84 PT of turbolaser, 1.4 PT of ion. If the Nebula's "defeat any one Star Destroyer" applies to the Tector too (since it is a Star Destroyer and not a battlecruiser) then a 2 PT firepower Nebula is even more underpowered for that task than it is for beating an ISD-II. As the Nebula's shielding is characterised as enough to resist the firepower of a small SSD, and the Allegiance is the smallest ship we know of ever referred to as an SSD (it's specifically called one in Dark Empire) I think it's reasonable to suggest that the Nebula's shielding is comparable even if its firepower isn't (and so, its reactor should be comparable). The Allegiance-class's alpha strike is 11.96 PT of turbolaser, 2.1 PT of ion - 14.06 PT total.
Might depend on the heavy cruisers in question - small heavy cruisers like Vindicators may be much less pertinent to the situation than large ones like Victories, which straddle the line between Star Destroyer and Heavy Cruiser and are sometimes classed as Heavy Cruisers.
Hm. That follows I suppose. The ISD likely can handle three or four 600m heavy cruisers after all. But a Star Destroyer as a classification starts from, what, a kilometre?
Hmmmmm. I mean I personally classify anything 700m or larger as a ‘capital ship’ and anything smaller an escort. But even that gets blurry with the Rendilli Dreadnaught but what can you do. But the Victory-class is very much the bottom end of the Star Destroyer if it’s very much at the top of the Heavy Cruiser slot. Absent headcanon; the Remnant ended up on 105 Victory-class Star Destroyers and 95 Imperial-class Star Destroyers at the time of the Bastion Accords. Among the six Star Destroyers destroyed by the Rakehell were the two Advanced Star Destroyers the Black Fleet contributed. The two Interdictors that Getelles had at the Battle of Nam Chorios were the Aggregator and Emperor’s Net.
Oh, a new one; the Azure Imperium reached to Anaxes in the Mid Rim, and as the Imperium’s maximum extent was once upon Anaxes (Axum’s sister planet), they named their furthest planet after it. Little Anaxes (the little sister to Axum) became a major shipyard and was destroyed after the Clone Wars. The Azure Imperium was peacefully absorbed and Little Anaxes became relatively unknown for a time. The Azure Imperium thus included Perlemia.
Just watched A New Hope. Have some Yavin headcanons. Though Lieutenant Tanbris informed Darth Vader that the Imperials counted thirty ships, in truth there were 37 (24 X-wings, 10 Y-wings and 3 R-22 Spearheads -- 12 to Red, 8 to Gold, 8 to Green and 7 to Yellow). Only six would return -- two X-wings from Red, one Y-wing from Gold, one X-wing from Green and two R-22 from Yellow -- though the Green X-wing and Yellow R-22s had retreated back to Yavin 4 on their squadron leaders' orders after the rest were decimated. The three pilots were the three seen approaching Luke's X-wing in victory, Wedge's X-wing and the Gold Y-wing were behind the farmboy. Whilst Vader authorised Black Squadron to launch on his own authority (thus why it would be recorded), leading six (Black Four thru Black Nine) to launch ahead while the remaining half (Black One and Black Ten thru Twelve) followed as soon as they could launch even as Black Two and Black Three were grabbed by Vader as Black Leader. Only an additional nine TIE fighters did launch without authorisation - six members of Sigma Squadron under Commander Kela Nerrik (keen to upstage Vader's unit and indeed Iden Versio in Sigma Three taking down Lepira's Y-wing but the rest floundered and wiped out quickly) and three from Alpha Squadron that were actually on patrol and defied their flight leader to engage (taking down a Yellow R-22 and a couple of X-wings from Green but were also taken down). These weren't recorded as Versio's record was hushed up for her special forces assignment and the Alpha Squadron patrol flight weren't in range of either Black or Sigma.
I've been trying to headcanon up a turbolaser type for the Executor's main batteries, based on the newcanon's concept that it's more powerful than the Assertor. FFG: Lead By Example: Second only to the massive Executor-class dreadnought in size and power. The newcanon Executor has 5000 turbolasers, grouped into 750 twin heavy (1500 total), 1000 twin light (2000 total) and the remainder would be lighter still: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Executor-class_Star_Dreadnought The Executor-class Dreadnought boasted an armament of unimaginable firepower,[18] composed of over 5,000 turbolasers,[8] including 750 twin heavy turbolaser batteries, 1000 turret-mounted twin light turbolaser batteries. Fractal's biggest twin turbolaser turret in common use in the Empire was the .720 teraton one (seen on most of his biggest ships) and the next biggest really common one was the ISD-I's .175 teraton one (seen on both the ISD-I and the Tector). Using those as the heavy and light turbolasers (light only when compared to the heavy ones) on the Executor (1500 .720 teraton barrels and 2000 .175 teraton barrels) would give it a total primary turbolaser throw weight of 1430 petatons - for comparison, his Assertor had a total throw weight in turbolaser firepower, in the vicinity of 1000 petatons or so. It also had a 200 (at most) petaton superlaser. It's still less than 300 times the turbolaser firepower of a Fractalsponge Tector (same size as the ISD but more heavily armed - firing around 5.84 petatons of turbolaser energy at a time if all its heavy turbolasers fire at full power) despite the vessel being around 300x the volume.
Since this is Canon, it is Evaan Verlaine as Gold Three. If it were a Legends headcanon, well, Iden Versio and Sigma Squadron would be completely replaced with Alpha Squadron as a whole. My headcanon for Keyan Farlander in Canon is that whilst present at Yavin during the battle, he was with the Red Squadron extra pilots. * Since I just finished watching ESB, here's some ones for Hoth. Accompanying Zev out to find Luke were Wedge as Rogue Three, Hobbie as Rogue Four and Marrina Reynolds as Rogue Five (since Tycho Celchu doesn't seem to exist in the canon 'verse, like so many descent Legends characters). The two X-wings to accompany Quantum Storm were Blue Five and Six. Whilst Blue Six would continue to the first of the two necessary jumps to the rendezvous point with the transport, Blue Five would return after the first jump and would be instrumental in getting one of the six larger Kleeque-class transports through the blockade successfully. During the snow battle, the snowspeeder that was hit by enemy fire -- though not destroyed -- was Rogue Six flown by Samoc Farr and her gunner (unnamed yet in Canon, Vigrat Pomoner in Legends). The damage would ultimately slow her somewhat and inevitably it would lead to her crash thanks to fire from an AT-ST. The snowspeeder that was behind Luke and was then knocked out was Rogue Eight (flown by Vekozev Kabir and Stax Mullawny per Legends, pilots unnamed in Canon). The snowspeeder that made an attempted suicide run on Blizzard One would be Rogue Eleven (flown by Tenk Lenso and Jek Pugilio per Legends, pilots unnamed in Canon). A second suicide run by Hobbie and Ommis would be more successful.
Trying to piece together the 501st Legion's location during the Outer Rim Sieges. They were split into at least three divisions. The main group fought at Tythe, Yerbana, Nelvaan, Coruscant, and Operation Knightfall. Led by Commander Appo and General Skywalker. A regiment that toured various fronts in the Outer Rim Sieges, led by Commander Vill. They fought at Mygeeto, briefly reunited with the main force at Coruscant, moving on to Felucia, Kashyyyk, and Utapau, before finally remerging for Knightfall. The Essential Guide to Warfare identifies this unit as a battalion and a "full assault brigade". However, the Clone Wars Campaign Guide and the EGTW itself make it clear that brigades and legions are the same. Therefore, I feel fine assuming this group was a regiment, and we know Vill's regiment was used for independent operations. A battalion led by Commander Rex that fought in the Siege of Mandalore. This unit split off before the battle of Coruscant, and was mostly wiped out by Darth Maul shortly after retaking Mandalore. This battalion included Captain Vaughn's 332nd Company, Lieutenant Jesse's Torrent Company. In Rebels, Rex identifies his unit as the "501st Battalion", so I think that at least clears up Rex's command. This unit was supported by two companies from Commander Jenks' unit.
Serenno fell to the Sith Empire and was abandoned by the native nobility, who fled Coreward. To the end of the New Sith Wars, the Dooku family took it back.
There's a page in Dark Times #1 that has Pestage and Amedda making status reports to the Emperor, with Vader present. The final part is, verbatim: " Per your orders, a brigade from the 501st has been dispatched to New Plympto to end fighting there." We later see that it's Commander Vill's unit. By the setting of the story, and how they still have the blue streaks on their armored vehicles and their Phase II armor, we know that they haven't likely seen any action in between them and the Jedi Temple attack. We know that Vill's unit was dispatched from Coruscant, as a later Issue mentions, and why else would Pestage be reporting it to the Emperor unless it was a large part of the most elite Stormtrooper unit being detached from Imperial Center? The whole scene has stuck with me over the years, because of the oddness of a "Brigade from a Legion", one that also as its own armor section attached. It would seem that the 501st was a lot larger than its officially designated unit size of a single Legion. There's an additional oddity in a follow-up Issue, where Vill's unit apparently did not have their own dedicated transport, and the one that had delivered them to New Plympto was re-tasked for slave transport duties. For your purposes, though, we can be sure that Vill's unit/brigade with assigned Juggernaut and tank armor units were on Coruscant in the immediate aftermath of Order 66, and undoubtedly part of those that part in the Temple attack.
The "pirate nests" that Thrawn destroyed to gain the confidence of the various Moffs and Warlords upon his return in 8 ABY was none other than the Zann Consortium. This explains their disappearance from the galactic stage at this point as well as tying up a loose end. PLUS, brownie points! Thrawn and Zann already know each other, so Thrawn being the one to have a rematch against Zann is only fitting.
I skimmed through the story arc, and Vill identifies his unit as a regiment later on. I'd guess the "brigade" line was just an error on Pestage's part. As for the armoured component, I don't feel like the GAR's doctrine on the matter has ever been explained in-depth. There are plenty of sources going back to the WEG RPG that break down the organization of the Imperial Army and Stormtrooper Corps. But I don't think the GAR has gotten much technical detail beyond Karen Traviss' numbers. Theoretically an infantry legion could have an armoured regiment or some other armoured subunit. On a similar note, the Special Operations Brigade would become a subunit of the 501st under the Empire. Regardless of its size during the Clone Wars, the merging with the SO BDE would provide another 5000 troops plus support personnel. However, the 501st's status as Vader's Fist likely freed it from any conventional military standards.
Absolutely yes. Zann was likely a supporter of Zsinj, too. His fleet may even have been present at Kuat.
