Why This Capital Ship is CRUCIAL to the New Republic's Naval Strategy

This is the first ship in Star Wars that has me drooling over how beautifully designed it is since I saw the Venator Class Star Destroyer for the first time.

The Mon cala may be in league with the dolphins

Someone using a jedi code does not mean they are a jedi or even force sensitive. My guess is: the captain assumed someone without any ability to use the force stumbled over that old code and tried to use it in order to swindle the republic. Which (considering how rare trained force users are in that period) probably would have been correct at least 9 out of 10 times. The security detail would have been sufficient to detain any imposters pretending to be jedi.

the ship feels like the kind of ship you drop into a sector to deter pirates by sending out squadrons of fighters on patrol who appear above a world with little warning from a mobile base

This vessel reminds me of the MC30c frigate. The design looks heavily similar in appearance.

I confess the New Republic's behavior in this show and in the last season of The Mandolorian really burned my biscuits. Partly because it's such a contrast to what the Rebellion was, and partly because I have this feeling like we're barreling towards the Sequel Trilogy and that is kind of hard to take.

8:10 Did you just say “For the porpoise of this war…” just after the underwater scene? I salute you.

On tie fighters, my theory was that the Empire did not trust its pilots. If they had warp capable ships, then they could steal the ships. If you deploy the tie fighters, you know they will defend the Star Destroyer with their life, as it is there only trip home. Also, being a big corporation, the Empire went for quantity over quality.

One thing that occurs to me about New Republic demilitarization is that this would be very bad for major shipyard systems (Corellia, Kuat, etc.) and the Senate might have had to agree to acquiring new ships or else face a collapse of their shipbuilding industry. But, not wanting to get sucked into the expense black hole of the ISDs and MC-80's, they came up with a smaller design that would have the additional advantage of visually distinguishing the NR fleet from the Imperial fleet. Smaller, friendlier, warships.

I really like this ship design. I think it looks like the opposite of a Star Destroyer: instead of being aggressive and sharp, it's peaceful and round.

All these ship and fleet shots that they show in this series gives me hope of seeing a Nebula class star destroyer one day

I can totally see the New Republic going from a battle hardened military power to a limp one. Most of Europe quickly made that transformation after the end of the cold war. The military was cut down in manpower, material and training. Old personnel and leaders either adapted or were replaced. The doctrine was changed from being ready for battle to just maintaining the little force that remained, representative and policing duties.

Star Destroyers were 1600 meters in length, not 600. Still smaller by the Starhawk, but not exactly dwarfed by it.

I've always been fascinated by Star Wars spacecraft. This vessel seemed to be a much smarter choice when it comes to patrol duties. This would allow the new republic to spread out in ways the Empire couldn't imagine to do. That said, the Republic would still need to possess heavier hitters to help deal with rogue star destroyers. They would also need smaller patrol vessels in order to spread their peace keeping roles. Kind of like the fan made B wing patrol ship.

For me I loved that moment with the arrogant captain (and all the moments that show the mentality of the new republic), as it ties in well into that "head-canon" me and some of my friends use regarding the recay of the New Republic. The eagerness of the Republic to believe that they have moved on from the war and Imperial rule, but in reality we see that the New Republic seems to be set-up to fail despite the rebellion against the Empire was succesfull. It brings a very interesting dynamic to the Star Wars world that we see new content in at the moment as the types of stories it helps facilitate. I look forward to seeing the "core" of the Rebellion to be branded warmongers and criminals by the New Republic, as they are treated as "the boy who cried wolf" too many times. Also, thanks for making your content, I truly enjoy all you put out there!

Dude, they were being hailed by an old DIPLOMATIC shuttle with two people on board. With almost all of the Jedi gone (trillions of beings never having seen one or heard anything other than legends about them) the Captain made a completely rational assumption that his entire frigate's crew could handle a couple of Imperial hold-outs. "No one expects the Spanish Inquistion!" Or Dark Jedi who could take on hundreds of guys with blasters with their glowsticks.

Brother your channel is killing it right now. Has been for a while. Glad you are here to enlighten us with your insights. FYI I'm 51 years old been a fan since I was 5 years old in 1977. Loving Star Wars right now.

I definitely liked the Vesper. Something about it reminded me of both the Venator and Mon Cala ships of the Old Republic and Rebel Alliance.

Mon motha is basically Neville Chamberlin and we all know what happened with him

It looks nice, just sucks that they never got to fight the first order and got blown up. Great video