Pentastar Alignment | Star Wars Legends

So we're the Pentastar Alignment right? Well I just got a great idea for our logo... a decagram! - Ardus Kaine probably.

That was actually the smartest thing an Imperial warlord can do. Making a beeline for Coruscant to take the throne or taking on the New Republic would be foolhardy, so preserving your power and playing neutral to trade and work with both sides is the best move one can make.

Played this faction the most in Thrawns Revenge. The mix of Imperial, and Clone Wars era ships really set them apart from the other Imperial factions.

The fact that the Pentastar Alignment was the only Warlord Faction to really survive the death of its leader is way too understated. Not even just here specifically but in general.

This is why I think that legends did warlords better than canon. Though I do like what they've started showing us in Mandalorian season 3, it seems that everyone was desperately trying to figure out a way to explain how the rebellion, who almost lost everything at Endor, managed to overthrow a heavily militarized empire that spanned most of the known galaxy in only 1 year. Rather than having all the factions just throwing their fleets at each other over and over until they had nothing left, legends showed some actual competent warlords that focused on consolidating their forces and territory rather than wasting their resources.

Are you going to do more videos on the Warlord States from Legends? Because that would be so fucking awesome, the Imperial Civil War period is terribly underrated.

By the end of the war, the Empire was stuck with pretty much just the Pentastar alignment territory. The fact that Kaine was able to keep all the alliance's members together, and create a system that didn't collapse immediately after his death, is something nobody else in the galaxy could have accomplished

Cool to see more SW Legends videos. The Pentastar Alignment was indeed an interesting warlord faction.

Pentastar Alignment was in theory a good idea. Instead of trying to recreate the Empire and fight the New Republic and other warlords, consolidate a couple of sectors, make them stable and try to govern them. This would theoretically allow the Pentastar Alignment to behave as its own state and not to come conflict with the New Republic which could perhaps in the future lead to some non-agression pact and the state's future. However Kaine wasn't a good stable ruler and his loyalty to Palpatine became his and the state's undoing.

Always good to see some Legends stuff. Warlord Zsing is another interesting villain from that era. A mix of bombastic and pragmatic, he was clever, conniving, and as capable of guerilla warfare and hit-and-fade tactics as the Republic. Something of a role reversal for former Alliance personnel, and it took old school Rebels like Wedge Antilles using old Rebel tactics to outfox him.

I don't think it's entirely fair to call the Pentastar Alignment a failure. The regime was oppressive and haphazard, and Kane's leadership was ultimately a failure, but the state lived on and reorganised itself into the Imperial Remnant, which continued to survive under Gillard Palleon, and the continued strategy of isolationism maintained it's existence.

"It's brief foray with interventionism consigned the Pentastar Alignment to the dustbin of history, the place where it had always been destined." Fucking ouch, that's a brutal way to end them.

I truly appreciate the effort that went into this video. It's been decades since I've seen this blip in the Star Wars lore mentioned. That's because I wrote "The Pentastar Alignment" for the Star Wars Adventure Journal, per editor's Peter Schweighofer's wish to include more warlord factions as opponents to the New Republic forces. I had 5,000 words to write the article, so I dug into the Imperial Sourcebook, The Corporate Sector Authority, and yanked out a quasi-political-corporate alliance to counter the New Republic. Like many of the articles I wrote for West End, The Alignment meshes with other Journal articles. I created an article about mercenary characters, the Red Moons, whom are based on Entralla and on other worlds I included with this small slice of the Galaxy. What is amazing is that the article was re-jiggered with The Official Star Wars Compendium and made a part of the bigger Star Wars universe (adding Admiral Palleon taking over as well as a mention that Count Dooku negotiated the "Treaty of Sevarcos".) Sevarcos is a spice mining world that is home to the first article I ever published with the Journal, "The Free Traders Guide to Servacos" which, a very long time ago, was intended to be about Kessel. Peter had to insist I change the planet's name and location because Kevin Anderson was writing a Kessel series. Some of the remainder of this Templin Institute video contains material I did not create, so it's great to see the whole story played out here. Thanks again!! T

Pentatstar Allignment is making the imperial system work and sustainable while also playing both sides

5:10 "Palpatine's second and final death" brave words.

The Pentastar Alignment is my favorite remnant faction and I’m so psyched to see you guys cover it!

Admiral Piett: It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them. Shall I hold them? Darth Vader: Yes, tractor them in immediately. Make sure they don't jump into hyperspace Admiral… And jam their transmissions. I will meet them personally in the hold. ………

I read about these guys in a Star Wars D6 book and became enamored with them. Love to see them get attention.

Such a slay to here about the Pentastar Alignment! Always thought it was one of the more interesting post-Endor imperial factions

Ah star wars legends... The things that were done to you...