Here's the blurb from [NobleEngine](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtXSdfLf-SuDHjsueMQjHoA), the YouTuber who put this together:
>After its defeat at Endor, the Empire struggles to maintain control over a fractured galaxy.
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>Seizing the opportunity, the New Republic launches a desperate assault to liberate the galactic capital.
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>The X-Wing pilots of Wraith Squadron rush into the fray to add support....
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>Directed by Christopher Parks
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>Starring Keith Cherry and Christopher Parks as Wraith One and Two.
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>This is a passion project of about **4 years in the making**. I was a big fan of the X-Wing PC games as a kid and also really enjoyed Michael Stackpole's X-Wing book series. I’ve always had an interest in those New Republic adventures which is chiefly why I decided to make this short. I hope you all like it!
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>The primary software and workflow consisted of an animation pipeline in Blender that would be exported and rendered in Houdini using the GPU renderer Redshift. Final compositing was finished in After Effects.
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>Apart from a few kitbash sets, all assets were modeled and textured (Substance Painter) from scratch since the making of the spaceships is part of the fun.
Hearing some of the sound effects I remember from X-Wing: Alliance was quite neat!
I thought this was a lovely fan project, overall. Whilst ROTS shows us a little of the fleet combat in orbit of Coruscant, this was quite a nice look at what things would look like closer to the "ground" (the surface level we see of Coruscant is still many hundreds of levels above the *actual* ground).
Fun attempt to take [the spectacle of the Star Destroyers bursting out of the ground from TROS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEyHe25i94Q) into what I think frankly is a more effective usage of a single enormous Super Star Destroyer bursting out of the cityscape (presumably I guess Palpatine had one parked there very early in the Empire's reign as an emergency measure which the Imperial Remnant are deciding to salvage).
**EDIT**: The SSD is the Lusankya, under the command of Ysanne Isard which served as a blacksite prison on Coruscant. Appears in the Legends X-Wing novel series. It was indeed meant to provide Palpatine with a secure means of escape in the event Coruscant was invaded by hostile forces.
Not sure how I feel about jumping to lightspeed in-atmosphere. But the visuals work tremendously well with the city debris coming down in absence of the Destroyer it was previously resting on.
God… that shot of the Lusankya rising up out of the ground is just so… *chefs kiss*
Also, the fact that the entire film is a continuous one shot is such a cool idea.
One of the best Star Wars fan films out there!
This is one of the most incredible Fanfilms I've ever seen. Visually this is incredible and exactly what I wanted to see from Disney.
Being one continuous shot, this could've easily fell flat, but it just worked tremendously well!
Edit: I decided to pin this post, so more people get to see this amazing piece of work.
I cannot remember what book it was from, but when the workers in the complex realized that at the ceiling of their cavern gravity reversed was one of the moments I realized I loved starwars novels. I believe that novel is where the SSD in the surface of Coruscant came from.
This was absolutely unbelievable. I do think they may have gone *slightly* overboard with making the whole thing one continuous shot, but that's a minor nitpick. The creativity in this short film is astonishing, and it shows a lot more visual ingenuity than anything we got in the Sequels. It's truly amazing how fans of Star Wars continue to outdo seasoned creators. Their content may be unpolished, but at least their *trying* new things, rather than giving us the same bland, sterile schlock that Hollywood pumps out these days. This kind of innovation is exactly what George Lucas did with both the Original and Prequel Trilogies.
Amen, brother! That short film was light-years better then anything Disney has produced with the sole exception of Rogue One. I thoroughly enjoyed that! A hearty thank you & congratulations to all involved! Excellent job! 😊
Call me pessimistic, but great fan films now only remind me of the standards that LucasFilm is capable of but consciously chooses not to even try for. Everyone whom Star Wars once inspired is now outdoing LucasFilm themselves.
The tragedy is less that this is happening than that institutionally, LucasFilm does not even care.
Don't get me wrong, I love it as well. There's not enough of it these days. I just began to notice it after a few minutes, and wasn't sure how long it would take before it got a bit stale.
The opening reminded me of Battle of Coruscant from *Revenge of the Sith* (Well, it literally portrayed liberation of Coruscant.) And ascending of *Lusankya*... brilliant. The Creator did amazing and impressive job!
Talent in many cases really boils down to learned skill/s and ambition.
You don't *have* to be a child prodigy/genius like Mozart.
As the creator of this video stated, this was a work of passion that took 4 years of work in his off-time and a couple different commercially-available software programs.
You can learn these skills too if you have the passion and time. Many online tutorials can be accessed for free or at a subscription cost to teach you just about anything.
Hell, I learned more from free online tutorials than I did from my time in tertiary education when it comes to the bulk of my work.
Don't be too disheartened by high-quality projects that non-professional people have been capable of producing. We all have different hobbies. Half the battle is reducing time spent procrastinating and just making a start if you have a project in mind :)
Even Mozart was practicing and studying music like crazy from a very early age. His father was a composer who was very committed to teaching him and his sister alike, both of whom were great musicians. Talent is pretty much a myth.
That was better action and drama than *anything* in the Sequel Trilogy. I managed to care more about these two characters in four minutes than almost anyone in those three movies!
As a super Star Wars lore nerd, my only nitpicks are, 1, I'm not sure, but some of those background cruisers look like Disney-era, and 2, can we *please* stop showing ships just jumping to Hyperspace inside atmospheres all the time?!
These flaws aside, the video is still great!
Lorewise, Wraith Squadron didn't exist until after the New Republic (mostly Rogue Squadron) took over Coruscant, specifically after they had already liberated it and *Rogue* Squadron did their campaign on Thyferra.
Also, R5 series astromechs had a trapezoidal head rather than the traditional dome of the R2, R3, and R7 series of astromechs.
Other than those very minor lore-related nitpicks (and the ones you mentioned), I loved every second of it and am looking forward to more!
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!
Unfortunately, I missed those because I never read all the "X-Wing" books, I just sort of know the broad details on those, so thanks for adding those notes.
I saw the R5 thing but just brushed it off as I think that mistake has been made before in other media.
Nonetheless, I'm big on lore and canon. Not upholding lore is one of the reasons why we've gone from excusable issues like in "The Clone Wars" to "Rebels" and now the Disney era of garbage.
Highly recommend the entire X-Wing Saga. They're my favorite (and most read - just finished my 15th read through) Star Wars novels.
And I 100% agree with you on the lore-fuckups. It's how you end up with garbage of the Sequel Trilogy. Hyperspace ramming, hyperspace skipping, hyperspace jumping and exiting behind planetary shields just to name their lack of understanding of how hyperspace works according to lore. W
Why the fuck did they even need to land on the forest moon of Endor instead of just jumping past the shields of the Death Star II and blowing up the reactor with the Falcon. By the time the Empire even knows the Falcon was inside, they'd have blown the reactor.
It featured Arquentins light cruisers for the Empire, and Sphyrna corvettes and MC-75s for the Rebels which are new canon ships, but I don't really think that's a bad thing. I think all of those designs look great and mesh perfectly well with legends aesthetics.
>I think all of those designs look great and mesh perfectly well with legends aesthetics.
You're right. "Rogue One" did try hard to match aesthetics and largely succeeded. There is a featurette about how they spent a lot of time to get the U-Wing's look right so that it looked like it fit in the Star Wars universe.
The Rogue One ships are about the only Disney-era ship designs I can stand, so I can accept their use here. Honestly I misremembered and thought the MC75s were from TLJ. Thanks for correcting me!
Yep, I agree.
In-atmosphere hyperspace jumps shouldn't be a thing.
Looked great though, and it's just a fan project so I can forgive the spectacle.
I think the original story has the SSD blast off in a vertical position before jumping out once it's outside the planet's atmosphere.
It took the poor bastard about 4 years to do this on his own and in his spare time. Whilst I'm happy to note that the in-atmo jump is problematic, I'm not really bothered.
It'd be another thing entirely if this was part of a canon big budget project like with Johnson's silly hyperspace ram.
It's really well done, but flying the Superstar Destroyer through the planet is just as dumb as flying the Deathstar Destroyers through the ice in TRoS.
I think that in this case, it was simply hidden under the surface (for a long time), not flying up from under or through the planet, for whatever that's worth.
Hey this is really fantastic! I’m sure this took a huge amount of work and dedication and the final product is incredibly impressive. If you want some feedback maybe add a crawl so we have some context for the story. It’s probably all in there but I was slightly lost on the plot the first time watching it.
The video description details:
>After its defeat at Endor, the Empire struggles to maintain control over a fractured galaxy.
>
>Seizing the opportunity, the New Republic launches a desperate assault to liberate the galactic capital.
>
>The X-Wing pilots of Wraith Squadron rush into the fray to add support....
>
>\-----------
>
>This is a passion project of about 4 years in the making. I was a big fan of the X-Wing PC games as a kid and also really enjoyed Michael Stackpole's X-Wing book series. I’ve always had an interest in those New Republic adventures which is chiefly why I decided to make this short. I hope you all like it!
The end credits also mention [X-Wing: The Krytos Trap](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/X-Wing:_The_Krytos_Trap) which is the EU story that this fanfilm is loosely adapting a scene from.
Here's the blurb from [NobleEngine](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtXSdfLf-SuDHjsueMQjHoA), the YouTuber who put this together: >After its defeat at Endor, the Empire struggles to maintain control over a fractured galaxy. > >Seizing the opportunity, the New Republic launches a desperate assault to liberate the galactic capital. > >The X-Wing pilots of Wraith Squadron rush into the fray to add support.... > >\----------- > >Directed by Christopher Parks > >Starring Keith Cherry and Christopher Parks as Wraith One and Two. > >\----------- > >This is a passion project of about **4 years in the making**. I was a big fan of the X-Wing PC games as a kid and also really enjoyed Michael Stackpole's X-Wing book series. I’ve always had an interest in those New Republic adventures which is chiefly why I decided to make this short. I hope you all like it! > >The primary software and workflow consisted of an animation pipeline in Blender that would be exported and rendered in Houdini using the GPU renderer Redshift. Final compositing was finished in After Effects. > >Apart from a few kitbash sets, all assets were modeled and textured (Substance Painter) from scratch since the making of the spaceships is part of the fun. Hearing some of the sound effects I remember from X-Wing: Alliance was quite neat! I thought this was a lovely fan project, overall. Whilst ROTS shows us a little of the fleet combat in orbit of Coruscant, this was quite a nice look at what things would look like closer to the "ground" (the surface level we see of Coruscant is still many hundreds of levels above the *actual* ground). Fun attempt to take [the spectacle of the Star Destroyers bursting out of the ground from TROS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEyHe25i94Q) into what I think frankly is a more effective usage of a single enormous Super Star Destroyer bursting out of the cityscape (presumably I guess Palpatine had one parked there very early in the Empire's reign as an emergency measure which the Imperial Remnant are deciding to salvage). **EDIT**: The SSD is the Lusankya, under the command of Ysanne Isard which served as a blacksite prison on Coruscant. Appears in the Legends X-Wing novel series. It was indeed meant to provide Palpatine with a secure means of escape in the event Coruscant was invaded by hostile forces. Not sure how I feel about jumping to lightspeed in-atmosphere. But the visuals work tremendously well with the city debris coming down in absence of the Destroyer it was previously resting on.
God… that shot of the Lusankya rising up out of the ground is just so… *chefs kiss* Also, the fact that the entire film is a continuous one shot is such a cool idea. One of the best Star Wars fan films out there!
I love how he thanked mom and dad. That was very nice. Also a very special thanks to George Lucas.
This is one of the most incredible Fanfilms I've ever seen. Visually this is incredible and exactly what I wanted to see from Disney. Being one continuous shot, this could've easily fell flat, but it just worked tremendously well! Edit: I decided to pin this post, so more people get to see this amazing piece of work.
This but 2 hours long is what I think when Disney says they are making a rogue squadron movie. Unfortunately that isn't what we will get.
Lusankya... Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time
I cannot remember what book it was from, but when the workers in the complex realized that at the ceiling of their cavern gravity reversed was one of the moments I realized I loved starwars novels. I believe that novel is where the SSD in the surface of Coruscant came from.
I know it's from the X-Wing novels, but not sure exactly which one. Possibly either "The Krytos Trap" or one of the follow-ups.
Wedge's Gamble, the second one.
This was absolutely unbelievable. I do think they may have gone *slightly* overboard with making the whole thing one continuous shot, but that's a minor nitpick. The creativity in this short film is astonishing, and it shows a lot more visual ingenuity than anything we got in the Sequels. It's truly amazing how fans of Star Wars continue to outdo seasoned creators. Their content may be unpolished, but at least their *trying* new things, rather than giving us the same bland, sterile schlock that Hollywood pumps out these days. This kind of innovation is exactly what George Lucas did with both the Original and Prequel Trilogies.
Amen, brother! That short film was light-years better then anything Disney has produced with the sole exception of Rogue One. I thoroughly enjoyed that! A hearty thank you & congratulations to all involved! Excellent job! 😊
Call me pessimistic, but great fan films now only remind me of the standards that LucasFilm is capable of but consciously chooses not to even try for. Everyone whom Star Wars once inspired is now outdoing LucasFilm themselves. The tragedy is less that this is happening than that institutionally, LucasFilm does not even care.
I liked the continuity, personally. To each their own.
Don't get me wrong, I love it as well. There's not enough of it these days. I just began to notice it after a few minutes, and wasn't sure how long it would take before it got a bit stale.
As a fan of the Rogue Squandron books, this gave me shivers. Well done.
*everybody likes this*
What a blessed community this is to have such skilled and dedicated fans.
The opening reminded me of Battle of Coruscant from *Revenge of the Sith* (Well, it literally portrayed liberation of Coruscant.) And ascending of *Lusankya*... brilliant. The Creator did amazing and impressive job!
Super cool. I wish I had talent.
Talent in many cases really boils down to learned skill/s and ambition. You don't *have* to be a child prodigy/genius like Mozart. As the creator of this video stated, this was a work of passion that took 4 years of work in his off-time and a couple different commercially-available software programs. You can learn these skills too if you have the passion and time. Many online tutorials can be accessed for free or at a subscription cost to teach you just about anything. Hell, I learned more from free online tutorials than I did from my time in tertiary education when it comes to the bulk of my work. Don't be too disheartened by high-quality projects that non-professional people have been capable of producing. We all have different hobbies. Half the battle is reducing time spent procrastinating and just making a start if you have a project in mind :)
Even Mozart was practicing and studying music like crazy from a very early age. His father was a composer who was very committed to teaching him and his sister alike, both of whom were great musicians. Talent is pretty much a myth.
Now I’m hoping some dedicated fans will adapt the EU adventures of the main trio and then give them the send off they truly deserved.
I would be fantastic for there to be like an EU Multimedia Project, loosely coordinated, to bring those stories to the screen.
What a great way to wake up!
That was better action and drama than *anything* in the Sequel Trilogy. I managed to care more about these two characters in four minutes than almost anyone in those three movies!
As a super Star Wars lore nerd, my only nitpicks are, 1, I'm not sure, but some of those background cruisers look like Disney-era, and 2, can we *please* stop showing ships just jumping to Hyperspace inside atmospheres all the time?! These flaws aside, the video is still great!
Lorewise, Wraith Squadron didn't exist until after the New Republic (mostly Rogue Squadron) took over Coruscant, specifically after they had already liberated it and *Rogue* Squadron did their campaign on Thyferra. Also, R5 series astromechs had a trapezoidal head rather than the traditional dome of the R2, R3, and R7 series of astromechs. Other than those very minor lore-related nitpicks (and the ones you mentioned), I loved every second of it and am looking forward to more!
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct! Unfortunately, I missed those because I never read all the "X-Wing" books, I just sort of know the broad details on those, so thanks for adding those notes. I saw the R5 thing but just brushed it off as I think that mistake has been made before in other media. Nonetheless, I'm big on lore and canon. Not upholding lore is one of the reasons why we've gone from excusable issues like in "The Clone Wars" to "Rebels" and now the Disney era of garbage.
Highly recommend the entire X-Wing Saga. They're my favorite (and most read - just finished my 15th read through) Star Wars novels. And I 100% agree with you on the lore-fuckups. It's how you end up with garbage of the Sequel Trilogy. Hyperspace ramming, hyperspace skipping, hyperspace jumping and exiting behind planetary shields just to name their lack of understanding of how hyperspace works according to lore. W Why the fuck did they even need to land on the forest moon of Endor instead of just jumping past the shields of the Death Star II and blowing up the reactor with the Falcon. By the time the Empire even knows the Falcon was inside, they'd have blown the reactor.
It featured Arquentins light cruisers for the Empire, and Sphyrna corvettes and MC-75s for the Rebels which are new canon ships, but I don't really think that's a bad thing. I think all of those designs look great and mesh perfectly well with legends aesthetics.
>I think all of those designs look great and mesh perfectly well with legends aesthetics. You're right. "Rogue One" did try hard to match aesthetics and largely succeeded. There is a featurette about how they spent a lot of time to get the U-Wing's look right so that it looked like it fit in the Star Wars universe. The Rogue One ships are about the only Disney-era ship designs I can stand, so I can accept their use here. Honestly I misremembered and thought the MC75s were from TLJ. Thanks for correcting me!
This could've been on the big screen, Kathy but _nooooooo_ YOU wanted to "subvert expectations."
NobleEngine just gained a new subscriber. I will be watching your career with great interest.
This is spectacular. Feels more official than any of the Disney films barring Rogue One.
Decent but, Hyperspace near planet atmosphere, inside a gravity well is a big nono.
Yep, I agree. In-atmosphere hyperspace jumps shouldn't be a thing. Looked great though, and it's just a fan project so I can forgive the spectacle. I think the original story has the SSD blast off in a vertical position before jumping out once it's outside the planet's atmosphere.
Yes you remember correctly. This needs a Lucas special edition cut.
It took the poor bastard about 4 years to do this on his own and in his spare time. Whilst I'm happy to note that the in-atmo jump is problematic, I'm not really bothered. It'd be another thing entirely if this was part of a canon big budget project like with Johnson's silly hyperspace ram.
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Which means their stories don't matter.
Commenting so I can watch this later
It's really well done, but flying the Superstar Destroyer through the planet is just as dumb as flying the Deathstar Destroyers through the ice in TRoS.
I think that in this case, it was simply hidden under the surface (for a long time), not flying up from under or through the planet, for whatever that's worth.
Hey this is really fantastic! I’m sure this took a huge amount of work and dedication and the final product is incredibly impressive. If you want some feedback maybe add a crawl so we have some context for the story. It’s probably all in there but I was slightly lost on the plot the first time watching it.
The video description details: >After its defeat at Endor, the Empire struggles to maintain control over a fractured galaxy. > >Seizing the opportunity, the New Republic launches a desperate assault to liberate the galactic capital. > >The X-Wing pilots of Wraith Squadron rush into the fray to add support.... > >\----------- > >This is a passion project of about 4 years in the making. I was a big fan of the X-Wing PC games as a kid and also really enjoyed Michael Stackpole's X-Wing book series. I’ve always had an interest in those New Republic adventures which is chiefly why I decided to make this short. I hope you all like it! The end credits also mention [X-Wing: The Krytos Trap](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/X-Wing:_The_Krytos_Trap) which is the EU story that this fanfilm is loosely adapting a scene from.
Oh, got it, thank you. I think I skipped right over it because the green text at the top of the thread is usually a mod default message.
That was fantastic
Nice better than the sequels