HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney were the only Roya Navy battleships to mount 16-inch guns. They were nicknamed the "Cherry tree" class - e.g. cut down by Washington - after their size and configuration was dramatically altered as a result of the Washington naval treaty. HMS Rodney was on her way to America when HMS Hood went down in the Denmark straight and the admiralty sent out the order to all ships, "Sink the Bismarck." It is possible - though it was never confirmed - that Rodney hit Bismarck with a torpedo. She had them, she fired them, Rodney's officers thought they got a hit. If so this was the only instance in the whole existence of dreadnaught battleships that one battleship hit another with a torpedo. What is not in doubt, however, is that Rodney's nine sixteen-inch guns quickly turned the Bismarck, one of the most formidable battleships in the world, into a blazing wreck. Here is her story.

Reposting the fan fiction film in which Grand Admiral Thrawn, Pellaeon, and Colonel Tor Phennir dissect the failures of Imperial starfighter doctrine — and the starfighter that could have changed the entire Galactic Civil War, the Tie Defender which Morgan Elspeth designed and Thrawn was putting into production.

In which the Grand Admiral speaks about his own people, the Chiss Ascendancy. This is a fan video, but draws heavily on the novels of Timothy Zahn.

It seems extraordinary now but back in the days of World War II, Radar was comparatively new, and not all of even the most modern and powerful warships carried it. This video tells the story of a night action between a powerful modern fleet with a battleship and eight heavy and light cruisers against a force of mostly much older ships with just three key advantages - unlike the Italians, the British had an aircraft carrier in their force, and HMS Valiant, one of the three elderly British battleships present, all laid down before World War one, had radar. The third key advantage was that the Italians were using the German "Enigma" system for their most secret transmissions, and a few days before the battle, Bletchley Park broke the Italian codes and warned the Royal Navy commander, Admiral Andrew Brown Cunningham (ABC) that the Italian fleet had sailed. To protect the biggest secret of the war, that Britain had broken the Enigma codes, the British sent a reconnaissance plane t...

A fan fiction video of a discussion between Grand Admiral Thrawn, Captain Pellaeon, and General Covell on the nature of command.