Spice Capital of the Galaxy - Kessel Planet COMPLETE Lore (Canon)
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- Kessel. The Spice Capital of the Galaxy, the place that was like hell, and dragged billions of users into their own personal hells. See a complete breakdown of this Star Wars planet from the time in the Clone Wars, Imperial Era, and its rule under the Pike Syndicate, King Yaruba, and Crimson Dawn. Also see how it compares to other Star Wars planets, and some of the details you might have missed in Clone Wars, Rebels, or Solo movie.
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I love how dark the planetâs history is
Agreed
In some of the more "obscure" Legends lore, Kessel is actually a calcified fragment of Typhojem the Left-Handed God's skull. And as for the spice mineral on the planet, that is said among the darkest cults across the starts to be made of Typhojem's very own ancient blood. Another world made of the bodily remnants of this evil god is Korriban. That would explain why the Sith race became such a terribly violent people that seek dominion over all beings they deem "lesser" than their own...
Kessel: Is the *spice capital* of the galaxy
British Empire: *eyes glow red*
Hold up
Antonov A-40
British Empire: civilisation time!
The British already invaded and conquered the Galaxy. That's why theres so many humans with british accents.
Alex Porter big brain theory.
Dutch people: *Yoink*
"He who controls the spice controls the universe." "Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won't attract the worm. It will go to the thumper." If you get these references you win
Dune. Spice worm
The spice must flow.
The sleeper must awaken.
That sandworm movie thing with the giant worms?
Yes Muad'Dib.
But how many Dewbacks does it take to fill a spice freighter..?
Alternatively, how many dewbacks could fit on Kessel?
When the dewbacks are high you can have only 2 that won't murder each other
Dessicated dewnacks fit easier..but are expensive rehydrate on Tatooine..đ
R0T-N2 D-C0R4 at least ten or five that are tripping
R0T-N2 D-C0R4 is yr operating number just Corfour? Has ring to it.. đ
The Arakis of Star Wars.
The spice must flow...
In Jedi Search, the spice mined on Kessel, glitterstim, grants the user temporary telepathic abilities, and Han once used it to break a cult in a separate incident.
Spice is nice.
"First you get the spice, then you get the power, then you get the women..."
Star wars planets are so cool
@ MetaNerdz Lore I just came to realize that with me being ex-military and a truck driver like Han Solo I now know what I would've been doing in the Star Wars universe realistically, and it's alot better then working at that scrapyard in Fallen Order
Wasn't Kessel in Legends an asteroid. I could swear I have memories of fighting there in Empire at War.
Uberch01: it was a planet in legends too but it was literally stripped mined in half (half the world was dug away & it took the shape of a asteroid/planetoid..) Legends Kessel was a barren rock, but it was next to a planet called Little Kessel which was a lush paradise world, it looks like they just combined the two together for Canon & made half the spice mines & half the lush forest..
God damn that's alot of drugs
R0T-N2 D-C0R4 the closest thing to that in Canon is the Ring of Kafrene from Rogue One
I went to replay empire at war and I was researching this same thing just the other day wow
Antonov A-40 isnât that like a city/outpost built between/combining two asteroids in an asteroid field?
5:21 the Steps might be a reference to Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria, where among their other cruelties the Nazis forced Slave Laborers to carry granite blocks up a massive stairway, the "Stairway of Death."
7:40 the Slave inspectors are another Holocaust reference, the "Selection" made most infamous by Dr. Josef Mengele, where newly-arrived prisoners would be selected to either be sent to the work camp as a laborer or sent immediately to be executed. usually the latter were the elderly, infirm, very young children or pregnant women. horrifying stuff.
and for the manchildren among us, don't come at me with this "keep politics out of it" rubbish, the Empire took it's aesthetic straight from Nazi Germany. This isn't some "reading between the lines" stuff, Commentary from Lucas himself says he took inspiration from WWII.
Yep. The Empire was always supposed to be blatant space nazis. Kessel was always meant to be a horrifying place.
Your entire last paragraph is completely unnecessary and it's well known that the Empire was based off of Nazi Germany, and that many things in Star Wars take their inspiration from real life events.
Spice sounds like the star wars version of opioids.
I always thought that in normal context spice was bassicly fictional space oil.
Nah it sounds like a resource that you use to bend space
A lot of modern medicines are petrochemical in basis so kinda spot on
Spice was stolen from Dune (Desert Planet Arrakis) !!!
Do more CIS species
The continuing existence of the spice mines before the Clone Wars should be considered *_a blight upon the Jedi order_* and a sign that they were already stagnant, ancient and hidebound, frightened of any change to the point of indolence.
*[this is going to be long]*
Liberating the Kessel slaves and stopping the spice operations should've been a priority mission for the Order, not the occasional indulgence of a Jedi and their padawan.
The Jedi were uniquely qualified to bring down the entire operation: From a secrecy perspective they had no internal leaks or moles - any other government force had the risk of compromised individuals in their ranks.
From a legal perspective they had the authority to do so under their mandate, and wouldn't need to run the operation through official channels or justify it - who would've had someone in the chain who'd have tipped off the bad guys.
And as for the corruption of the Republic,⊠_that should've been a beacon for them to go investigate._ If the Jedi take down the entire operation and manage to capture strategic personnel (no one resist Jedi Mind tricks for too long) and files they could blow the entire lid off a lot of corruption in the Republic - it might have helped to reform and save it.
The misery it would prevent, just to slaves and to the victims of the drug trade would be a shining light upon the Force.
And the shake up of the Republic, with a lot of corrupt individuals and criminal elements being outed would have prevented the scenerio that Palpatine was able to exploit. They would almost transform the Republic into the New Republic in its governance and integrity, as well as giving the Jedi even more leeway to enforce honest governance.
As for the operation, they had the ability to do so with surgical strikes and infiltration, far superior to any other organisation. They could actually take down the criminal elements without blowing up the slaves *(and the evidence of official corruption and collusion)* that a straight out military assault risked.
And their operatives were the most deceptively formidable in the Galaxy.
A simple method would be to arrange for a number of Jedi to be sold as ordinary slaves to each individual mine, prepositioning them to stage simultaneous uprisings from inside - a Jedi could take the control room and deactivate the defenses, and kill most of the guards with their powers. A smuggled lightsaber inside a droid (also sold into slavery) would enable them to decimate the entire mine security - those would not be elite fighting forces.
They just needed a way to disable their tags, either Force telekinesis or a hidden disguised tool of some sort.
Meanwhile the Palace is also attacked by Jedi who are pretending to be slave traders or drug buyers there to discuss further business. They are inside the secure areas and the defences, so the firepower of the defense ships and emplacements is irrelevant when you're next to the actual commanders (although some judicious planting of explosives on the defence fleet and turrets/power generators beforehand wouldn't go astray).
The Palace Jedi can either attack first without warning when everything is calm and relaxed, thereby also preventing any coordinated response to the mine attacks. Or they can wait for the confusion of the reports of the uprisings to launch their attack.
Light Jedi snubfighters in hiding can take care of any ships that actually get off the ground or come in from orbit, and maybe the ships the Jedi "slavers" came in are modified and far tougher than they appear to be, and/or they had Jedi fighters hidden inside them.
It would take a combined operation of a significant number of the Order, with a lot of scouting and planning. But it could be done, the effect would change the Galaxy, and it would invigorate the Jedi Order and give it a new resolve to fix the issues that plague the Republic and the Galaxy at large.
But Yoda would be far too conservative to undertake such a dramatic action. If the Order never fell and the Empire never rose, then the next Grandmaster may do so, or it could've been done before Yoda ever became Grandmaster, and so old and obtuse.
As for after the Empire rose, it seems like a great target for the Rebels, and while they don't have the advantages of Jedi, they could still pull it off.
Instead they launch a sneak attack using their attack fleet, which is actually well suited for that with a preponderance of hyperspace capable snubfighters and light combat troop carriers, perfect for raiding.
The X-Wings and Y-Wings take out the defenses and the U-Wings and so forth drop in ground forces to storm the mines, with the control rooms being taken out by strafing runs and torpedoes/bombs in the first run.
The Palace and the Government facilities are just plain blasted by the Rebel fleet.
Rebel ships are well suited to getting through the Kessel run, and some of their number would know of shortcuts and off the main road routes to avoid Imperial ships on station - a diversionary attack in a nearby system could draw any away, and just ion bombing a ISD near all those hazards might take it out.
For the Rebels the mission has a lot of merits, besides the feel good factor.
It would inconvenience the Empire.
It's a good hearts and minds operation.
They could potentially free a bunch of captured Rebels who were slaves (the Spice mines being a common punishment).
They could recruit a lot of enthusiastic former slaves, without worrying that imperial spies were amongst their number.
A biggy - they could liberate a lot of Wookies, thereby turning the Empires "two birds, one stone" plan against them. A large Wookie continent would be very useful, and the message would help with recruiting other downtrodden oppressed species.
Oh and they could also combine the operation with a big heist, netting themselves a *lot* of useful Coaxium, both as a fuel for really turbocharging their ships, and as a very powerful explosive for clandestine operations.
Kessel relied to much on bribing the right people and a treacherous moat, and not enough on having a battlefleet and standing army.
We all know Anakin would've volunteered to lead the liberation of the slaves on Kessel if offered the chance.
@@Kaden10 Wow, I just reread my post⊠I must've been really been insomniac that night.
But you're completely right about Anakin.
And of course that also leads into the obvious issue of his Mother, that the order also screwed up - and couldn't Padme have just gone back and bought her?
You are a wise and cunning strategist my friend. You give tactician a good name.
Jedi Search trip to Kessel is a mixed bag, but the caves are awesome and it has one of the best quotes: "Both Han and Chewbacca had been strapped into stun-cuffs, a restraining fixture across the wrists that sent paralyzing jolts of electricity directly into the nervous system, proportional in strength to the amount of struggle a prisoner exerted. Han controlled himself well enough and received only an unpleasant tingle along his forearms. As usual, Chewbacca could not keep his temper in check and managed to stun himself into a stupor."
If I were the (competent) leader of the new republic in canon I would show up to Kessel with a fleet of star hawks and liberate the place.
Also Base Delta Zero Zyygeria. First find a way to free all the slaves and get them all out of the planet then Blast the hell out of the planet from orbit. Make their cities uninhabitable. First warn the zyygerians to give up their slavery tradition. If they dont listen " Commence Orbital Bombardment Base Delta Zero at full power"
@@bradmorales4002 yeah they fucking deserve that
Iâm obsessed with the Dune references in the comments!
Omg why didn't that click in my head I was like what oh I thought it was from dune must have been wrong but nope lol
Or as it's called in the sports industry, Tom Brady's poop...
Thanks MetaNerdz for this one on Kessel. Needed some source material for a project I'm working on and this helped me out a great deal. Looking forward to the Legends version!
The spice must flow.
You know speaking of droids it's always kind of bothered me, why doesnt star wars have EMP proof tech? For example the Republic is known to use Ion grenades and weapons that are very effective against droids, but nobody ever bothers to insulate them from EMPs. Maybe there is a reason or was it just overlooked?
Because the CIS were cheapskate fascists who couldn't be bothered to install it (fun fact: the ATTE was EMP proof).
@@willangel2745 The AT-TEs did not survive that EMP bomb in Season Two of The Clone Wars
@@plushiesdx I might be wrong but I think it did. I am going to have to rewatch some youtube videos on it.
Great idea I can make you 10 of those or 1000 regular B1s which do you want?
At this point I already know everything about every planet.
What do you think about getting your own show MS tano?
Hey I have a request if you could, could you do a breakdown of The Mandalorianâs Razor Crest ship?
spicy video
WOW â€ïž
That is my favorite planet đ
Hell yes đđŸ
Great video
Really appreciate all the work you put into your videos man. So awesome that someone has put so much effort into making content that expands the lore and background for everything star wars. keep up the great work!
You don't want to sell me spice
You want to go home and rethink your life
I want to go home and rethink my life
If only this had been uploaded on 4/20
whoever designed these god awful mines FOR SURE had stumbled upon the work of Sebastiao Salgado at the Eldorado dos Carajas mine in Brazil, the exploitation in Kessel is actually toned down when compared to the real thing back here on Earth
When I saw the final Spice product in Dune it looked like Turkish Delight , still another winner for MetaNerdz great in depth going deeper than a Spice mine .
Love the Frank Herbert and Maul shout-out at the end.
Start wars is such a reflection of human history and culture on earth. It's incredible.
You don't need art. We have enough star wars :)
Okay?
The Legends version of Kessel, the one that looks like a Huge Asteroid, It has inspired me to make a planet like it.
Holy Kessel! What a great video!
To me it looks like the explosives from solo where really an incendiary devices and there is no chain reaction. I believe the also call them thermal charges hinting at it being incendiary and not explosive.
Very interesting and informative!
Good stuff. Thank you.
Can't have a space themed epic without Space Crack
but where are the giant worms? lol
@Laltluangliana Sailop All hail the God Emperor of Mankind.
Amazing video kessel is one of favourite Star Wars planets you should do Bespin next
Anyone know the best deals for spice? I need them to fuel my addic- I mean to fuel the high demand for the hospitals on Coruscant!
Hehheehhe...
Step 1) Ask the Pykes. Theyâll give you all the spice you need if you take it to someone else.
Step 2) Whilst transporting the spice, âLoseâ some of the shipment.
Step 3) Deliver whatâs left, apologise / suck up profusely, collect whatever they give you, and leave.
Step 4) Refind your spice and -snort it to your heartâs content- give it to the Coruscanti hospitals
Lemme see your registration Mr. spice dealer
Ummmmmm, you, you donât have to see my registration trooper! *aggressively waves hand*
Cosmo 456 thanks for advice. Will do
Plz do Ylesia next. Also Majodomo is a Hutt title so Kessel is really ran by the Hutts.
reginald short like Bib Fortuna? I thought majordomo was English just like chef, or captain, or butler, or commander etc..is in dictionary đ
Any dislikes and you will be sent to Kessel to mine for my masters
Damm winnie the pooh
Spice looks almost like Cayenne pepper powder
If drugs in this universe are called spices, it would be funny if regular spices were literally called drugs.
Topic idea: the various plants of the SW universe.. from Felucia to Rodia, a guide to galactic botany!!?
Kessle is potato shaped loved that fact
I can't wait for the legends video.
but how many senates tall is the Kessal mining pit?
Itâs lit fam đ„đđ
That spice sounds like heroin.
Exactly đ
Thereâs actually a drug called spice in real life too
@@chinchillinguy9687 but were thođ€€
Basically, that's what it is if everything I know about it is accurate.
@Noato Kun it will burn holes in your brain manđ
Earth should be the capital of the galaxy with its diverse environments and beautiful citys
Star Wars isnât in the Milky Way bud
@@DaMasta981 i mean in the future when we expand
Again the legend is true , Solo has called the big one!
And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach (literally: the Shortening of the Way).
Now, who says 'This is the Way' and have a new vertically challenged Foundling?
Can you give me the link to the other video about the other routes from Kessel? Sounds pretty interesting. Thanks!
In Empire at War(+ its' DLC) Kessel is a very profitable location. A lot of battles were fought in its' skies against rebel scum during my sessions.
So the SW Spice is more akin to medicine - drugs?
Yeah u have the spice thatâs used as a flavor additive.. Spice thats used to make medicine & types of spice that make drugs.. SW spice is mainly based on Opium..
Solo flashbacks
Ah Kessel. The Columbia of Star Wars.đ
Mike Vasquez if Columbia also sporting thousands of slaves, but yeah pretty much unfortunately.
Me is the first person to take the pole in the upper right hand corner so I have the only vote and what I choose has 100% I am the Senate
this green Kesseline is where i always die on battlefront 2 đđ
The Galaxy is a strange world... Where thousands of mouths to feed are cheaper than a bucket-wheel excavator...
can you do kuat/kuat drive yards?
*whistles the Old Spice jingle*
Sounds like something you take to somewhat spice up your life. And yes its pun intended.
could you make a video about galaxy relationships? was it possible for different species to breed and have hybrid children?
renan oliveira Dryden Vos was described as "near human" so had some human, some alien characteristics..so looks possible..but in his case not sure what species was.. must be other examples?
During the Army of Light before the rise of the Galactic Republicâs prominence across most of the galaxy? There was this dude who was born from a Human and a Bothan. Despite Bothans appearing like capybara-dog-cat things, the dude had digitigrade hoof legs and horns and looked like a Satyr.
So the Kimberly diamond mines exist on other planets too? Hmmm.
For a galaxy teeming with droids there certainly is a lot of slave usage going around
I never really understood that. Logistically it make sense to use a droid labor force as droids require less resources than biological workers as well as requiring less or no rest.
Best i can figure is that owning slaves is more of a status of power. While anyone can buy and own a droid, breaking a living being to your will is something else. And to have a lot of these slaves to boot only goes on to prove the point. The more slaves a person owns, the more powerful and dangerous they are, which in the Star Wars galaxy is extremely useful.
Hey Meta, at 12:20, âpercentâ is misspelled. I do not intend any rudeness.
Lol no worries thanks
like planet history stuff u do could u do naboo? sometime
Wasn't the "Spice" called Glitterstem?
In the Original EU, in the new "Canon" it appears to be Sansanna spice.
So Anthony Daniels has been in every Star Wars movie
So are those little green needles what cal has in jedi fallen order are? Just refined Kessel spice?
How to connect the Kessel from Canon to Legends: Say that the planet eventually evolved into a small potato shaped form as eras went by.
Spice must flow
Raffa and Trace need to be kept on Kessel
For the crimes of wasting a good third of the new season
star wars planet dune spice is life
I think they should make a story on how spice can be good because all we see mostly is, spice bad, Bacta good.
get some bacta delta, AHhhHHhh
I CANT WAIT FOR LEGENDS!!! đđœ
I have a legitimate question, can you literally go there and ask " hey can I get some spice" give them the credits and be on your way?
Or do they make you buy it in bulk?
Didn't Jabba feed his paddyfrogs some granulated spice..that way when he ate em whole (and kicking) he'd get a hit off the spice!! And think was used to mix drinks in basement of Chalmun's Cantina..đ. I think Oola, Jabba's dancing girl used it too..as way of coping with being chained to him.. đŻ
The planetâs second main export better be hot dogs đ€Ł
Spice Capital of the Galaxy - Kessel Planet COMPLETE Lore (DisneyCanon*)
This happend in real life.
Opium wars. Look it up... very similar
MORE ON THIS , PLEASE ! And I wish they would think of a Organic way of making fuel. BUT ,I live here in Southwest Louisiana with refineries and the Government HAD to crack down on them for Pollution ! by the by, Do they Snort this or can this be Smoked ?
And now. also our dear Cad bane, works for them as well. Fun fact đââïžđââïž
I would be a spice junky no doubt !
This isn't arakis, anyhow anyone know what ashokas ship was going there?
3:40 Planet completely surrounded in some kind of dark nebula also has bright sunny days? Wut?
Droids have heart plugs!
"Spice"
Me: Can you put it to food?
I was today years old when I found out earth was bigger than coruscant
WOW! In legends Kessel was a big astroid with And atmospherical processor and now its just a normal planet
Spicy đ
central america: star wars edition
Just LatinoAmerica in general tbh
And Iâm South American, can confirme.
Be it Bananas, Raw Minerals, Cocaine or Spice, thereâs always thugs with weapons willing to savagely exploit resources and do the âdirty workâ for the powerful guys that will pay lip service and condemn them verbally... While keeping them empowered as long as âthe spice flowsâ.
Itâs like the Star Wars version of Mexico.
So the Coruscant underworld is just Space Detroit?
Can you PLEASE tell me how repulsorlifts can work continuously without EVER having to shut down, even when not in use or being repaired, the damned things NEVER ever sit on the ground
WHY?
dragonweyr44 space magic
@@Monarch_Crown_Security Hey, I'm still wondering why in Attack of the Clones, when Obi Wan and Anakin escaped from the Geonosian Arena in a LAAT/i they couldn't shoot down Dooku because they were out of missiles despite the fact that the LAAT/i has 11 guns mounted on it as well as the clones inside the ship armed with blaster rifles