How the Death Star Destroyed the Imperial Economy
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When Luke Skywalker launched a proton torpedo down the reactor shaft of the Death Star, he destroyed one of the most expensive construction projects in Galactic History. Trillions upon trillions of credits were wiped out in second and the economic damage it caused would send the galactic economy in a downward spiral.
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Happy New Year!!
Best one in a long while, you look rested, voice is clear, looking forward, hat on straight..., and a rather interesting topic " the Quasi historical polices of mega weapons..." Context Matters"..(read Dreadnaught The Book"... (how Battleship's building led to WW1!)... Well done sir... Happy New Year, Looking forward to more like this.. Cheers, Allan
The first Death Star cost 1 trillion Imperial credits. (including the cost of all development and testing)
I love that you related this to our real world it is so nice to see Star Wars have some implications on our real world thank you.
Space station DS1 was a simple mining platform, it's designed to destroy asteroids and planetoids to aid in extracting minerals. Alderaan, Jedha and Scarif were simple mining accidents
Fun Fact: Alderaan fired first. don't believe the "Planet with no weapons" propaganda...
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Oops?
When America finds out Alderaan has oil 💀
A hundred years ago.. we took kids out of the mines. BUT.. what’s the most popular game today among kids.. MINECRAFT! The children yearn to return to the mine. So, I say we give them what they want.
*Fun fact:* Vader, despite not being a fan of the Death Star, wanted to see that superweapon destroy Tatooine, since he completely despised the desert planet because of how much it made him suffer in his youth. In fact, this dark thought even made him smile under his helmet
Was it in the novelization of A New Hope or a comic? I want to read that now😂
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It's from the 2007 novel "The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader". Pretty underrated
He really was a dark god to the tusken raiders wasnt he?
Some say they should have used Alderan instead of New planet naboo. I thought of that but think of how vader would have thought of it and the sybolism of palpatines jone planet being first to go
@@TetsuShimaNice thanks buddy
They should've financed the Thrawn' TIE Defender project, but superweapons were like an obsession for Palpatine
Superweapons were an obsession for all Sith.
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The First Order seemed to fix that by adding hyperdrives into their TIE fighters
If Palpatine knew about the Vong and their World Ships, it makes sense.
But that's fan theory as far as I know.
@@isaackim7675 And deflector shields
“Clones are too expensive!!”
Literally from the start of the Empire and during the Republic work on the Death Star which ends up being more expensive and useless than a Clone Army.
but thats how politicians work irl, so actually pretty realistic for fantasy sci-fi
Clones don't spend money. Buying Clones pumps money out of the economy.
The Death Star workers spend money, so paying them is a net gain. Imagine this: Palpatine pays an architect 1 million credits. The Architect spends all 1 million credits on materials from wholesalers. The wholesalers spend the 1 million paying workers. The workers spend the 1 million on food. That 1 million credits generated 3 million extra credits for the GDP.
@@jarradscarborough7915It's called the "velocity of money."
They needed to save money for the Death Star.
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Is that really so?
The comparison of the Death Star with vanity megaprojects funded by autocracies is an interesting one. I like the videos put up by this channel for the real life analogies and explanations used, instead of just reiterating the narrative points in lore.
Agreed!
That one Robot Chicken skit with Palpatine's phone call suddenly feels closer to canon than we realize
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?!"
“Just rebuild it!? Real original. Do you have any idea what it’s going to do to my credit? It wasn’t even paid off yet.”
You're acting like it wasn't?
He blew up what! His response when tarkin's blew up Alderaan
*Huh? What do you mean they blew up the Death Star?!*
After the destruction of the Death Star, the TIE-Defender program should be picked up as an alternative along with the idea of the personal massive fleet of Palpatine himself. Or at the very least, invest more into the TIE-Defender.
But at that time the head of the project gone missing, the planet where its hosted gone rebel and absolutely sure nothing about this project remained after Kanan blown up with the fuel silo at the factory.
The TIE-Defender program also had opposition from Kuat Drive Yards and others in the Imperial Fleet who wanted big ships. Big ships were KDY's cash cow. And for fleet officers big ships equals big crews and lots of opportunity for promotion. This why the basic TIE fighter and TIE Interceptor didn't have hyperdrives (although they were retro-fitted later). No shields was petty cost-cutting.
On the upside, the Death Star did reduce unemployment on Alderaan to zero.
Which was stupid destroying the planet full of people and resources lol
@@tylersoto7465 "You're just upset at my outside the box thinking!"
@@ackbarfan5556 lol 🙃
It became zero when literally all of the other possible number were eliminated!
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*"Which was stupid destroying the planet full of people and resources"*
After Alderaan was nicely broken up into many small, easily minable chunks, the Empire was able to access resources much more efficiently.
There were no longer any residents who could demand ownership and a share of the profits.
Just how much time that saved because there were no lawsuits or court cases. 😉
Both Darth Vader and Thrawn weren't big fans of the Death Star for their own reasons.
I don’t blame them.
and grand general cassio tagge
Thrawn: It's the economy idiot
Well yeah. They both actually fought in the previous war and realized how fragile large clumsy technology was, regardless of the nonsensical cost.
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Tbh, the Empire doomed itself with the Death Star. When Tarkin destroyed Alderaan, the entire galaxy got so enraged, the Rebel Alliance's numbers increased by tens of thousands, allowing them to defeat Palpatine. If Tarkin had contained his ego a little, the Empire he so loved to defend would have survived.
💯💯💯. Exactly
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers .”
- Leia
no it wouldn't, it could have slowed it down but the fall was inevitable. blinded by ego and using constant fear and intimidation eventually the galaxy would have turned on them. it would have just been a lot longer and bloodier.
What the Empire SHOULD have done was properly oust and shame Tarkin for what he was: a rogue officer, and then further spin it into propaganda of how Tarkin was attempting a coup against Palpatine and how that made him a Rebel.
Instead they just went "Yep. We destroyed Alderaan. lol"
@@funnelvortex7722 Doubt that would have worked. It was a lose-lose situation.
One thing I really like about the Disney Canon is that, especially in comics, they make a big deal that losing the Death Star and rushing to build a second one absolutely CRUSHED the Imperial budget, to the point that Vader has to go beg Jabba the Hutt for money. Losing the DS-1 really, REALLY hurt the Canon Empire in a way that the Legends Empire seems to have just shrugged off, and that's much more interesting than Legends Palpatine's infinite money hack.
The fact you think the Empire shrugging off the loss of the DS1 is a old-canon exclusive phenomenon is deeply, deeply amusing, lmfao. So last I checked, ROTJ is a thing in ANY canon, as is the fact that the DS2, an exponentially, orders of magnitude larger and more powerful, was capable of being built in a fraction of the time, in total secrecy. Both of these being built on hidden black budgets, lmfao. The new canon comics can say whatever they so please (and I'm doubtful this is even true to begin with, given randoms propensity to make shit up as it suits them), it falters in the face of the movies. I suppose we are to believe the First Order, an Imperial splinter group that has the resources to hollow out planets and install an interstellar artillery gun, whilst simultaneously building a galaxy conquering armada and a 60 km flagship, all in total secrecy as well, have a sturdier economy than the entire rest of the galaxy? Fuck outta here.
@@papapalps2415 You forgot the Sith fleet which was separate from the first order and was built underground for some reason. Maybe that made them cheaper? 🤔
@@justinhammer3196The reason I hate the sequel trilogy is that all the s h i t that happens in the Sequels wouldn't be out of place in the Legends storyline.
To quote the emperor after getting the news from Darth Vader
"That thing was not even paid off yet! Do you have any idea what this will do to my credit score?" (from The Emperor's Phone Call, robot chicken).
This is how George Lucas intended the story to go.
Unlike the Death Star, the halo rings were actually useful for eliminating a huge threat to life itself, which was already way past the doorstep. Don’t be inspired by big, be inspired by clever designs with practical uses for the right reasons.
The halo rings did nothing in the actual games except be blown up by chief lmao, at least the death star destroyed a planet before being destroyed itself
@@Blanktester685 Uhh they literally wiped out almost all sentient life lol - chief came muuuch later
Well there's also the fact that was a completely different situation. The Forerunners could already produce a lot of megastructures already, so producing more wasn't as big an economic hurdle. But the biggest difference was that the Halo Array was a last ditch weapon, something made not to save themselves, but all life in the galaxy from the threat of the Flood. The Forerunners were essentially already dead at this point - imagine the final months of WWII for Germany. There was no economy to even worry about anymore, almost everyone was already dead.
The Ringworld that inspired Bungie is a far more practical investment in every way, made to solve legitimate problems the Pak were (or would be) facing, and it took the other species of the galaxy an evolutionary timescale to find it.
Those are pretty opposite comparisons but go for it, not even disagreeing about the death star but those have completely different reasons for being made
Thanks for the great content. I always liked Timothy Zahn's old canon explanation that the Death Star was useful for bringing the military under the Emperor's control even tighter as well as blowing up planets. Building a second one, even after the known weaknesses of the first, makes that explanation head-canon as well.
I love how you obviously take a great deal of effort to shoe-horn the limited images we have of the Star Wars universe into a comprehensive grounded "reality". You're the only one that does this, and it's greatly appreciated. I was 14 when I first saw E4 in the theatres (it was the only one, back then, and nobody knew there'd be sequels), and even as a kid I knew that this "future fantasy playground" had enough depth you could treat it as a living breathing alternate reality.
Yes, IF a mega wealthy Star Wars fan bought out the IP, Lucasfilm and Fox Studio and their IP from Disney, AND remade 7, 8 and 9, Allen would be a good consultant to ensure first 7, 8 and 9 were done correctly according to Star Wars EU lore and canon.
1 Trillion Credits to build, probably nearly the same amount in resources. Operational for less than a week before the Rebels blew it into space dust.
1 trillion credits? American GDP is 23 times that -.-
@@SupaSillyThyme I don’t mean to offend, but I believe that an Imperial Credit holds much more value than a standard U.S. dollar
@@snowyvasecrafting1726 I wouldn't take any, I am not one of the yankee's- that was based on a lore from I believe generation tech. Even if the conclusions drawn from said video were incorrect- or I am remembering them incorrectly, simply because a single unit of something holds similar value to another does not mean the two can be equated. There would need to be millions of trillions of credits in the galaxy, whereas the currency of the states is more finite in application.
Generation Tech, I really love how you tie in real world problems in these videos. Makes it more understandable! You sir, are one smart guy! Thanks for the videos.
Palpatine used rumors of the upcoming Yuuzhan Vong invasion as justification for the creation of his superweapons. Just imagine the real big egg on his face he would’ve got had he been alive to discover that the New Republic would eventually defeat them without the use of a Death Star.
To be honest, the Empire would have finished the vong off much quicker before they could cause all the damage that they did prior to the New Republic defeating them.
It took them a long longer then if the empire was still around
Yeah the NR won against the Vong… but at what cost tho?
bro he was talking about the other universe, the one before Lucas decided to milk someone else's ideas... xdd
😂😅"Twins, who don't know they're twins. So they end up hooking up, since he's an absent father" 😂😂😂
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The Death Star was the ultimate culmination of the Tarkin Doctrine. Euphemistically, it was about *Deterrence* above all else. The projection of your power was more important than how powerful you actually were.
Then the rebels popped that projection like a balloon
If it wasn't destroyed it could just rock up to any rebelling world or one thats harboring rebels and threaten to build a hyperspace bypass them unless they surrendered and handed over the rebels. Cant hide amongst a population if the population is vaporized. Itd be like the French resistance operating if the nazis could tsar bomba any town that had resistance activity
Again a beautifully executed twist into a real world comparison. A true educator!🙏🙌
"the power to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the darkside of the force"
"Aite, *Dick* we all worked really hard on this"
Matpat did an interesting video on this but Alan knows how to be funny with it differently and this is why we all subscribe to so many creators
The problem with huge projects isn't their size...it's their purpose.
The Death Star, as you said, was only good for blowing up planets, or maybe serving as a fully self-sufficient mobile fleet base.
Conversely, for about the same amount of resources as the DS and a good chunk of the Imperial fleet/army, you could instead build a Dyson's Shell around a star.
Give it a diameter equal to what would be about 1G of the star's gravity, and you can build a world on the outer surface that will hold an atmosphere and be protected from both cosmic rays AND the star's radiation, without requiring active systems to do so. Use the shell to get power from the star, and use a second inner shell to "starlift" material up out of the star itself to construct anything you'll ever need.
Nearly all of any star system's mass is found within the star itself, and in a high-metallicity star, that's a much better variety of materials than just hydrogen and helium (or whatever Star Wars calls them). That kind of resource output and the size of the structure would allow for ship construction that would make Kuat Drive Yards look like a hobby shop.
It's not even all that difficult to build. The real trick is preventing the star's heat from melting everything. Solve that, and building the actual structure is relatively simple. Weave a network of millions of orbital rings around the star, all intertwined to give each other stability and collective strength. Then build the "habitation" shell around the outside, and the "harvesting" shell along the inside.
Once the first ring is in place, the rest become successively easier to build, and the shells would be quite simple to build by comparison.
Use plasma vents across the shells to divert some of the star's light and heat to the outer surface to keep things around a permanent temperate twilight level of light and warmth. Like a perpetual spring sunset across the entire world.
You could use such projects to breathe life and considerable value into otherwise "worthless" uninhabitable systems. The payoff would be very long-term, but building just one would easily surpass the entirety of all the core worlds' total value and population, in the end.
It's all about what you DO with a huge project...not that it's a huge project in the first place.
Thats some Stellaris thinkin if Ive ever seen it.
@@jamesblack5894 Not really. Stellaris is just Star Wars with more megastructures...not better ones. Still the same primitive and ineffectual economic models. Still the same total lack of comprehension about living in space at all, and how resources would actually be acquired, utilized, and distributed.
Stellaris is shit. It had potential...once. Back when it started with three distinct types of FTL. Now it's just overpriced, generic, bloated content. And then there are all the bugs. After all the years, after all the time spent on wildly overpriced DLC...same bugs.
But hey...at least it's not that base-Stellaris clone with a Star Trek skin...Star Trek: Infinite.
@@jamesblack5894 More like Orions Arm or Isaac arthur videos
That sounds like playing with fire - literally. How much material can you pull from a star before you destabilize it enough that you risk a supernova or another stellar catastrophe? Stars are a delicate balance between gravity and fusion, interfering with that balance could end in disaster if done unwisely.
@SSGTTailsJenkins They're not nearly that delicate. If they were, there'd be almost no variation in their composition or size.
Besides that, you'd be able to build hundreds of death stars before you could really even measure the difference. You could yank dozens of Jupiters out of our star before finally making it go screwy.
And if you're at all careful about it, and use the shell also to keep it stable, it should never become a problem.
I love your videos on the political and economic aspects of the SW universe. I feel like a lot of SW RUclipsrs get so excited about the mythology of this world with regards to the Force and the ones who wield it, they sometimes gloss over what SW can also be about. SW is more than just the force, lightsabers and the Skywalker Saga even though the main films have those near the forefront of the story. And while I do love lightsabers and the force, it’s also cool to move away from that and see what else the universe has to offer that we can see in our world. A lot of people didn’t like Rogue One or Andor because those elements weren’t present in those projects, so they kinda miss what those stories are actually about. And I admit I wasn’t a big fan of Rogue One when it first came out, I’ve actually grown to appreciate what it’s trying to do. So it’s nice to see someone give their take on the economic and political systems of this galaxy far far away. Keep doing what you’re doing, and may we all keep our allegiance to the republic, to democracy.
What we need is for Perun to do a defense economics video on the Galactic Empire.
A I see you are man of culture as well.
When you mentioned the Line project from Saudi Arabia, Adam Something's formula came to mind: "smooth-brained dictator + construction = dumb sh*t" and it's funny to see that exact same idea play out in the Star Wars Universe. Perhaps that Robot Chicken sketch of Palpatine finding out the Death Star was destroyed wasn't too far off from his canon reaction 😂
Palpatine: wanted superweapons
Thrawn: a very op line of starfighters meant to disrupt the rebels strategy
Vader: eyes thrawn's project to see if he can test it's limits, frustrating thrawn
0:42. Your sorcery doesn’t scare me, Lord Vader. Your heavy devotion to that ancient trickery costed you an arm and both legs
As shown in Rogue One, General Romodi was serving under Tarkin ...later in A New Hope, Admiral Motto just arrived on the DS and is assigned to serve Tarkin...which clearly made him egotistical before General Tagge and Vader himself!
Actually I think the reason the Jedi and Republic always eventually won was due to their better chance of unity then the Sith, the Sith even with a common enemy kept scheming and fighting against each other. The Jedi and Republic always fought with a goal of restoring some kind of galactic peace, this makes them the more righteous cause for people to throw their support behind no matter how much the Sith Empire outnumbered or outteched or outgunned them. It’s why the Rule Of Two used a new tactic through Sidious, turn the Republic AGAINST the Jedi, Palpatine did this by creating an army the Jedi needed and having it fight by their side, but at any time could trigger that army to turn on them, and by having an opposing faction led by a former Jedi made an easier scapegoat for Palpatine. That and doing little things to slowly erode public support and trust eventually made the Jedi easy to get rid of.
Hell yeah let's go baby whooo another star wars video from this majestic man
"Darth Vader is trying to justify the terrible decisions he made at the end of the clone wars."
I love this. It makes Vader sound like an regular military officer who's constantly wishing he just retired when he had the chance instead of signing up for a full career.
Nice! I actually got my wife(never seen SW) to watch the last 10 minutes of the video and she learned a lot about Dubai, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Saudi Arabia. Keep up the good work and keep them coming!
14:45, this whole Dubai bit, I'm thinking, *paging Adam Something!*
This space fantasy explainer turned into a surprisingly insightful take on real world mega-projects and their requisite economic and sociopolitical implications; and I’m here for it.
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As another Liam Neeson character said best, “Over the years our weapons have become more sophisticated…we tried a new one: economics.”
What is this from?
@@H.J.Fleischmann Batman Begins.
My buddies and I were doing a Star Wars roleplay set in the galactic civil war, taking place from 1bby to 3aby. Our team actually ended up helping Mon Mothma find the 2nd death star, working with some bothan spies. We had a bothan spy on our team, along with an ex-jedi, a renegade stormtrooper... and my char. Who used to be a Hutt's accountant (I was our 'contacts' guy). How did we track down the construction site of the 2nd death star? We followed the credits. Turns out, the Empire put high security around ISB installations... but they forgot to send commandos to secure the Bank records XD
I know it was just an RP, but I like to imagine that the Rebel's most useful spies weren't those reporting on troop movements... it was those who reported on what money was being spent on.
"Another call from the Banking Clan, My Emperor. They're saying something about collections?"
"I *am* collections......"
Imagine if Disney went a different route and actually had the Yuuzhan Vong invade, and we could have had Poe Dameron instead say somehow Palpatine was right 😂😂
you are the channel, I didn't know I needed.
Happy New Year, Generation Tech! Great video!
Now imagine how much Starkiller base would have cost
Good thing it’s not canon
I like the sequels and I don't care what you think. I even give you permission to say how much of an idiot I am.
@@who-ny5oeI don’t think it’s stupid to have an opinion
@@who-ny5oeironic when you cared enough to comment lmao
You know it never crossed my mind where they got the credits to do that thing.
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It’s hard to think of a more iconic evil base than the Death Star.
Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated /////
True: destroying an entire planet is evil
Alan , keep up the fantastic work, I love your work
Huh, guess Robot Chicken was right. The death star wasn't paid off yet when it was destroyed, and the joke about Vader having an ATM on his chest is now even funnier to me.
For those unaware of what im talking about, its the Robot Chicken Palpatine phone call sketch
Very good; particularly tying the economic disaster of the death star to economic disasters on earth.
I love this channel. Big brain Star Wars.
Giant skyscrapers work in a booming economy, in crowded cities in first world countries. We haven't had a real prospering world economy or even local to one nation, in many decades.
The biggest issue was the Imperial rule, Death star ir fleet, they were money pits. The TIE Defender especially, once thise technologies flooded the market, every Rebel group would be able to learn how to miniaturize various weapins making their shios stronger.
Ironically ruling benevolently and building up a strong set of planets with rich taxbases wouldve been better.
Then again, they had a sith ruling them
Especially a sith that enjoyed being a tyrant.
0:21 - Motti turned out to be dead wrong about the Death Star! 0:41 - VADER makes a good point regarding the FORCE being superior to the Death Star and ironically it was his own son Luke Skywalker who proved him right when he used the FORCE to hit the exhaust port which resulted in the destruction of the Death Star!
This was way more informative than I was expecting, loved the video!
I agree with most of this. Especially The Line project. It just shows how much research goes into one of your videos. And we appreciate you for it.
"That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet!"
What's even funnier is the death star was a waste of money, time, resources and manpower. You could essentially slap a lightspeed engine on a metal slug and achieve the same results using far less resources.😂
Don't mess with the Rakatans. I sure as shit won't. People trying to kills gods isn't a hornet nest you want to poke.
Love how he applied the Star Wars findings into real life
Happy new year, brother!
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Anyone who would have wanted some Arabic flair probably said the sky scrappers were trash then went back to a modest dwelling in the hinterlands.
I love how you Current events to teach lessons in Star Wars and in life it’s really cool
Ironically the expensive Clone Army and Fleet would have been more efficient at policing the galaxy than the massive boondoggle that Palpatine settled on.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 🎆 🎊 🎇
This turned out to be so much more interesting than I imagined.
My first thought was: "how is he gonna pull an economic analysis out of thin air, about a fictionnal world that has nothing to say about economy?" (nothing apart from : hey, rich people are disgusting, an idea largely embodied by the obese Jabba). Star Wars is essentially a critic of fascism, and you respected this critic to the core: congratulations.
Your critic against non-sensical Dubaï, the useless clown-dictator in North Korea, or the "hey, let's dismember a journalist" maniac that is currently head of state in Saudi Arabia, are welcome. And I respect you even more for including women's rights in the economic solution, a line that may confuse many incels in the comment section, but is simply common sense.
Happy New Year and I'm so here to watch a video about scifi economics!
One, maybe, good way a super structure like Death Star would work if it was made to be a space mining station, cleaning entire asteroid fields of its various materials
They did . The building of the first death star they mined genonosis astroids and moons for a rare metal to build it
@@tylersoto7465 not for it, but by it. But if they can do mass space mining already, then something like the DS is completely useless
"Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? And who's going to give me a loan, jack-hole? You? Yeah, you got an ATM on that torso litebright?"
Loved this video, the economy matters.
If I had been in Palpatine's position, the Death Star would have been a nice side effect - the shipyard that built it would have been my real goal. Yes, the "flex" would have value, but the real value would be in building the logistics capability to be able to feed a shipbuilding project of that scale.
Done right, it would even allow you to control your economy - the further down the "supply tree" you look, the more jobs a mega-project makes. With a massive project like a death star, or ring world, you're going to jump start the galactic economy from the raw resource gathering level, on up through processing, manufacturing, assembly and transportation - along with the "service sector" that is fed by those wages.
Incredible Humanistics
Great lessons
Good work
Vader's biggest problem is that the Empire used slaves to build it.
I think the emperor did this to keep Vader angry and unstable to control him.
Also because it was cheep.
Your best video yet buddy 🎉
Don't forget there wasn't just one Deathstar.
There was something like ten of them in various stages of construction in the Maw. Many left in abandoned conditions once they decided to build the Deathstar Mark II.
Remember that we are talking about an entire Galaxy. The destruction of one single Deathstar was barely a pebbles ripple in an ocean. The Banks and Financial Institutions are spread out over billions of planets worth of currency. The amount of money that the Empire had tapped into has no known word to describe, but it was also nothing compared to the overall industry.
The real danger was to the Manufacturers and Builders of the Fleets who were seeking out money. They came and went like any other business. Kuat Yards though seemed to have an immunity due to their pandering to the Empire.
The death star was just stupid overall. Its a textbook example of putting all your eggs in one basket. They'd have been better off making a massive fleet
They already had one. The Imperial Starfleet was large and powerful enough to outgun the Death Star based on A New Hope.
@@onlypeaceindeathOh, my fucking God, I love you.
Happy new year alan.
"That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! Do you hav- Do you have ANY idea what this is going to do to my credit?" Palpatine to Vader after learning of the Death Star's destruction
Maybe due to the stability in the banking clan that Plagueis controlled naturally Palpatine thought he had unlimited funds. He could embezzle any amount he needed from the Mun Banks🎉
Economics; My Beloved
Incredible Vibey work
"Unless you are trying to save your planet from some sort of crazy threat". Well-said!
Some might call the ending off topic. I call it, astute, timely, and well done.
Uh, no it didn't. The first Death Star was made through slush funds that the Emperor managed to keep from the Senate. It wasn't some big economic burden seeing as how it was totally funded by money the Emperor kept from the prying eyes of the senators. The second Death Star was even bigger than the first, and yet, building it was no big hassle for the Empire since they were able to maintain a healthy war economy while the space station was being built. In fact, when Palpatine died on Endor, the Imperial economy was fine, it was the brutal civil war between Imperial leaders that destroyed the economy and the fleet.
This
Great video! But I think the Death Star is more akin to like the silly skyscappers you were talking about. What I mean is the death star is a drag on the galatic economy but it's still a galatic economy! You have to even if the setting is not always doing it think of the scale of space based civilization let alone a ancient galactic one like the star wars galaxy. 100's of Trillions of people, access to near limtless resoruces etc etc.
I got taught about a dictator tool but generation tech, nice!
As of late, every time Alan talks, he bridges the space between the Star Wars world, and our own...which I think is fantastic! THIS posting is a great example, and I feel it's like reading a Science Fiction novel, and finding parallel here on Planet Earth...which I feel, is the point! Thanks Alan, and Gen Tech!!!
Hello, I really like your work. Very informative content.
The twins hooking up is funny as hell🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like someone has been watching Adam Something lately - great video
Thanks for the video.
Didn't expect this to turn into a Adam Something video. What's next explaining the hell that would be the logistics of hover cars on Corusant?
I gotta say looking at things like this it really seems like Palpatine's electroshock therapy he gave Windu that Windu then turned on him fried the really fried the parts of Palpatine's brain that were able to think about things longer term!
Also happy new year, we did make it.
Death Star 1 and 2 crippled the Empires Economy
Jar Jar Abrams: "SO they made a bigger planet size one without any Economy and A clone hermit Emperor made 1000 Star Destroyers"
W video as always alan keep it up!
I love watching your videos compared to other Star Wars creators. It feels like I'm watching political geography videos but in Star Wars lol.
The Line=The Death Star. Love it!
This is like an Adam Something video. The only thing missing is a podracer based hyperspace loop to the unknown region.
Reminds me of that joke "We The People" petition calling for the US Government to build a Death Star. While they obviously dismissed it as a mere joke, they noted that such a project would be a serious drain on the economy.
if they did, starting it on a asteroid and building out from that might make sense. especially if that asteroid is made of iron and other metals.
I think you got it wrong. The moment that DeathStar was finished to its destruction was less than 1 month. Hardly enough time to substitute construction staff with military.
Proof that the number of Tie fighters used to defend it was so small, that Vader felt the need to go out and fight personally. A fully armed Death Star would have been undefeated in war.
🎇🎆Happy New Year🎆🎇
Very interesting. Thank you.
Well said, Alan