Star Wars music spot to start the weekend: a Jedi parody of Careless Whisper
Sheev Palpatine on the Saxophone accompanies Anakin Skywalker singing "I'm never gonna fight again" to the tune of "Careless Whisper." Brilliant.
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Joke of the wek
From X, posted today - and old exchange which is as funny today as it was during the pandemic ...
The Battle of North Cape how the Royal Navy sank the Scharnhorst
In the battle of North Cape, on Boxing day 1943, a British and Norwegian force defeated and sank Scharnhorst, a powerful and fast German capital ship. Scharnhorst was referred to by the British at the time as a battlecruiser because of her speed, but by the Germans as a battleship. Whichever word you use she was a powerful and dangerous unit. The video below refers particularly to the role of HMS Norfolk, a county class heavy cruiser a third Scharnhorst's size, which could never have defeated the German capital ship on her own but scored a critical hit which took out Scharnhost's forward radar. That hit was pivotal to the allied victory. However, this was a victory which would not have been won without teamwork and the contribution of several allied vessels were essential. The video below does also describe some of the other units which took part in the operation, including the battleship HMS Duke of York which did much of the damage to the German ship, and the cruiser HMS B...
How HMS Warspite won the battle of Calabria in 1940
HMS Warspite was in some ways the most successful battleship of the 20th century. This is the story of how "The old lady" pinned the ears f the Italian navy back off Calabria in 1940.
Thrawn explains the Tie Defender
In "Star Wars Rebels" and several of Timothy Zahn's books, the Grand Admiral was working to develop the Tie Defender, a fighter vastly superior to ordinary Tie Fighters (on any other fighter in space) which could have won th war for the Empire. In "Tales of the Empire" episode 2, "The Path of Anger" we learn that the brilliant engineer who designed this craft was Magistrate Morgan Elspeth, formerly a witch from Dathomir, and also how she became one of the then Admiral Thrawn's closest allies. In this fan faction video Grand Admiral Thrawn explains the Tie Defender and what it could have achieved for the Empire. Thrawn, Captain Pellaeon, and Colonel Tor Phennir dissect the failures of Imperial starfighter doctrine — and the starfighter that could have changed the entire Galactic Civil War.