Star Wars Maps are Lying to You

This is the perfect place to once again ask you for a Star Wars Timelapse of the Imperial Civil War

This channel is exhibit A in how youtube prioritizes low-effort rage bait over high quality content. Corey is consistently putting out informative, high-production-quality videos that are as good or better than anything else on youtube. But his videos simply don't get recommended or seen by people. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be.

Not to mention that, assuming it's like the Milky Way, the Galaxy is something like a thousand lightyears deep. So you could have planets that look like they are right on top of each other on a 2D map, but are massively far apart.

Well Corey, you know what this means...Mapping breakdown videos!

So, instead of showing which faction controlled which sections of the galaxy with giant blobs of color, should we highlight the hyperspace routes that they controlled instead?

Wow as a former historian of frontiers in the Byzantine-Islamic area, I'm quite impressed by this video, well done

This is interesting. Kind of like in games such as Stronghold Crusaders (or any of the stronghold games really) most of the map could be controlled by enemies as long as I controlled the mountain areas. I would build tiny little outposts on the hills surrounding my keep as long as it was within the buildable area and I could use. The enemies could control whatever parts of the maps they wanted to but as long as I held the....inb4 the rush of Obi-wan fanatics...high ground they couldn't use their land so it doesn't matter very much if they "control" it. Same idea applies in star wars. If the enemy controls 1 end of the hyperplane. Then that hyperlane is essentially useless until they can gain control on the other end.

The Rakata Empire map told me there's a huge blimmin Togruta head right outside the "north east" edge of the galaxy, but I went and checked and it turns out there's nothing there.

This is one of the best videos you've done. I love the intersection between your personal interests outside Star Wars, a deconstruction of the concepts behind mapmaking as it applies to Star Wars, and outside of it. Great video, can't wait to see what you put out next.

And then there's stuff like political allegiance being less certain. Or errors like thr Atlas and Guide to Warfare confusing Zsinj's secret holdings on Corporate sector worlds with him owning thr worlds outright

"See more boring videos like this." Hey! This was neat and appreciated!

"Can you see any BORDERS from here? What has BORDERS given us?! We're going to start over from scratch. That's what V2 is for." "Too bad, Buddy. This twisted GAME needs to be RESET. We'll start over from "ZERO" with this V2 and entrust the future to the next generation!" (If anyone is confused, it's from Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War.)

What bothered me about Star Wars growing up was that I noticed there were 2 groups of Star Wars fans. The ones that believed the war ended in Return Of The Jedi due to the Death Star II, Emperor, and Vader dying along with the celebration dance. The others who were fans of the comics and books, said that the civil war lasted for another 20 years. That mismatch definitely caused issues concerning what actually counts as a victory. It makes more sense that the Galactic Empire would not have all its forces in one system (Endor) and then be all destroyed in one battle. I don't know what Geroge Lucas' vision of how big the Star Wars galaxy is, but outside the black and white fantasy of the Original trilogy there is so much that realistically was not accounted for. If Lucas continued making Star Wars films right after ROTJ, perspectives about the political landscape of the galactic map would be further explored. I love that the Prequels was heavy with political content, something that was only lightly mentioned in the Original Trilogy.

There was a map showing the population density of the galaxy in a legends' essential atlas or something, I'm surprised not to see it in this (great) video

Im appalled at the lack of views. You deserve hundreds of thousands more. Let’s get corey to million guys

The really interesting thing comes in when you look at groups like the Hapens who control a very dense but highly built-up area of the galaxy that might not even show up on most maps.

It’s kind of like French colonization of North America. For the most part it was just a few small settlements or trading posts along the major rivers

Easily my favorite star wars youtuber! You’re the man Corey

It's easier to explore planets within a secured "border" (how do you even establish a border in space, what, are they gonna put up fences?) than to expand that vague notion of territory, so it makes a lot of sense that the growth of these territories was one of planet density, rather than geographical expansion.

map painting goes brrr