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*Beam hits the Covenant Carrier*
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Hey guys, this is Eckhart's Ladder hello and welcome to another episode of star wars battle breakdown today
We'll be examining the battle of Coruscant and I want to get right into it
But before we do just a couple of things. First of all, I've changed how I colour ships in this video
I used to just use black for all of them
Let me know if you think that this looks better and if it's easier to see second
There's no way I can really illustrate the scale of the battle of Coruscant without some sort of supercomputer
So when you see one ship here, imagine several hundred finally as I did for my video on the Battle of Earth
This is less a look at the actual minute tactics of the battle of Coruscant because it was a prolonged campaign
But rather a chronology of important events and an examination of strategy
So let's get started the CIS planned their attack
During a major republic event where much of the government's political elite would be on
Planet this obviously left Coruscant as a major target, but there was no serious worry for one
the planet was always a target during the Clone Wars and the massive chorus on home fleet was stationed in orbit ready to protect the
Republic's capital course that was also deep in the galactic core and it was believed that if any
Separatists moved towards the planet because of the presence of republic stations among major hyperspace lanes
They would be identified. However in a very Palpatine Ian move the Confederacy struck using a previously unknown hyper route
They collected much of their fleet in the deep core and launched a surprise attack on
The Republic before we go into the actual attack. Let's take a second to look at the home defense fleet
I've analyzed fleet composition during the battle of Khorasan in Prior videos
Mostly in reference to various works like the Republic Commando series if you're interested in how I get the numbers I use today
Owing to that video above anyway, although depleted due to the need for ships in the Outer Rim
the home defense fleet would have still included thousands of vessels primarily ventures, Carrick's and
Dreadknots striking with surprise a massive separatist fleet made up largely of munificent frigates Rekha's and destroyers
But also with some providence dreadknots Luke or Hulk battleships was able to catch the Republic fleet unprepared
Destroying a large portion of the defense force before they could activate their shields or weapons as the fighting continued in space the separatists launched
A raid against the planet proper moving their fleet under the not yet activated planetary shield while the surviving Republic ships
Attempted to form a defensive screen in order to prevent more separatist forces from reaching the planet's surface
the CIS BN targeting orbital assets
Well also aware that Republic reinforcements were almost certainly on their way planted interdictor mines in an effort to slow down
Responding ships scramblers were also used to mess up communication. Although the Republic would eventually bypass these technologies at this point
It's important to mention that the separatist Navy was being led by General Grievous
Who unlike Dooku was not aware of Sidious as motivations or that the CIS was ultimately
designed to lose the war so he along with basically everyone other than
Palpatine was probably surprised when the first wave of her public
Reinforcements arrived as we learned in the order 66 novel the ships here were brand new some never-before-seen
I'd imagine that this is where some of the first Imperial ships including the impurity or tech door in victory to Star Destroyers
Made their official debut on the surface. Grievous was successful in capturing Palpatine and escaped to space
However, the fighting was very heavy at this point and the CIS were no longer dominating fleeing to his command ship
Grievous was pursued by several Jedi
however
A large group of buzz droids launched from a nearby lucre Hulk was able to stop the pursuers safely at the invisible hand Grievous
Broadcasted Palpatine's capture to the Republic causing massive demoralization across the galaxy. However
Any sense of a separatist victory would be short-lived
Almost immediately after the tide of battle was turned as the various open circle fleets
Arrived before Grievous was able to flee with this
The core Asante planetary shields were activated
Preventing a separatist retreat the CIS were now on the defensive and moved to protect Grievous's flagship the invisible hand
With the open circle fleet came famed Jedi Anakin Skywalker and obi-wan
Kenobi with the help of the five-o first the two heroes moved towards Grievous's cruiser evading droid fighters on their way as they
boarded the GAR lara a Venator Star Destroyer believing that Palpatine was already rescued and off ship broke through the CIS screen and
engaged the invisible hand at point-blank range
Seriously damaging the flagship on board the Jedi defeated Dooku who's killed in?
Grievous who retreats however home fleet Strike Group 5 led by none other than future Imperial laureth Nita
Launches another attack on the invisible hand damaging it and causing it to fall to the planet's surface with Palpatine rescued and the invisible hand
Destroyed the Confederacy have failed all of their primary mission objectives. They collect Grievous
The planetary shield is either destroyed or lowered and the fleet escapes through hyperspace
This spells the beginning of the end for the Confederacy of Independent Systems
They gambled with a lightning attack on Coruscant and lost
however
If we're being honest the Confederacy really had no chance they were designed to fail
The Battle of Khorasan was supposed to scare the citizens of the galaxy and move the Republic towards further militarization
puppeting second goal was to move Anakin further towards the dark side and
Prepare the young Jedi to replace Dooku as his apprentice
I'd say he was pretty successful in that respect the Confederacy's major mistake
And you can hardly call it a mistake because there's no way they could have prepared for this was under estimating how long it would?
Take the Republic Navy to respond to the attack
Obviously Palpatine secret fleet slowed down CIA's progress then with the open circle fleets
The numbers were just overwhelming, but that's just my perspective and how I see the battle. Let me know what you think
I've definitely made some
Assumptions here, and I want to hear if you think differently
Than me all of that as well as any ideas you guys have for future videos down in the comments
Thank you so much for watching as always. This has been at carte slaughter. May the force be with you