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Thrawn's assessment of Endor

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This is another "Chris Talks" fan fiction video, set in the "Heir to the empire" legends timeline (not the Disney Canon.) Grand Admiral Thrawn takes Captain Pellaeon and Colonel Phenir to the site of the Shield Generator at Endor, nine years after the battle at which the Emperor and Darth Vader died. In this timeline Thrawn himself had been sent to the Unknown Regions by the Emperor at the time of the battle of Endor rather than being rather than trapped in another galaxy having been carried there by space whales. The interesting thing about Thrawn's analysis of what went wrong for the Empire in a version with no Operation Cinder is that he produces very well argued evidence which strongly points towards the conclusion that the version of Emperor Palpatine in that universe was nearly as destructive in his attitude to what should happen to his own supporters after his death, as the Emperor who DID order operation Cinder was in the Disney Canon timeline. In this t...
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The story of the Avro Lancaster - and the deisions which made it better than anything the Luftwaffe had

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Thrawn on why the Emperor closed down the Senate - and what it cost him.

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Another "Chris Talks" fan fiction video in which Grand Admiral Thrawn discusses the reasons the Emperor closed down the Imperial Senate. And the consequences. This is set in the "Heir to the Empire" Star Wars Legends timeline, not in the Disney canon one, but most of what Thraswn argues applies equally to both.
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Thomas Lord Cochrane: the man who was vindicated two centuries after the event.

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Thomas Cochrane was a British naval officer who had a brilliant career fighting the French during the Napoleonic wars, then became an admiral in the navies of various Latin American independence movements and had an equally successful record fighting for them. His exploits helped to inspire a number of great works of naval fiction, almost certainly including some of the events of both C.S. Forester's "Hornblower" books and Patrick O'Brien's "Master and Commander" series.  As I write this post, a reproduction of Montagu Dawson's painting " The smoke of battle - the gallant Speedy " hangs on the wall of the room, depicting the capture in 1801 by HMS Speedy under Cochrane's command of the Spanish frigate El Gamo . The battle shown in the painting was an extraordinary victory by Lord Cochrane. The disparity between the two vessels was staggering: • HMS Speedy : A small 14-gun brig with a severely depleted crew of just 54 men. • El Gamo : ...
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How a wireless operator's one second pause in transmission cost his submarine and her crew their lives.

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In the early hours of February 11th 1943, a British Wren, Marjorie Elphinstone, who was listening for Nazi radio signals, noticed that a German transmission she was monitoring paused pause for a second, as though the Wireless operator she was listening to had been interrupted or given some different information.  Marjorie Elphinstone recorded the message and the pause, and flagged it to her superiors. This is the story of how that act of sharp attention resulted in the destruction of an enemy submarine, even though at this stage of the war the British code-breakers at Bletchley Park had temporarily lost the ability to decode Kriegsmarine (German navy) Enigma transmissions.
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Thrawn argues that neither the Jedi nor the Sith believed their own teachings

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Another "Chris Talks" fan fiction video set in the "Heir to the Empire" legends timeline, (not the Disney canon) and in this one Grand Admiral Thrawn argues to Captain Pellaeon and Jedi Master Joruus C'Baoth that neither the Jedi nor the Sith actually believed their own teachings ...
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Thrawn on Coruscant

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 A "Chris Talks" fan fiction video in which Grand Admiral Thrawn discusses the former Imperial capital planet of Coruscant. This is set in the "Heir to the Empire" timeline, part of Star Wars legends, and is not part of the Disney canon.   
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