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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[@GenerationTech]

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[@peteryt2757]

👁👄👁

[@dalesnider8040]

Happy New Year!!

[@reserva120]

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

[@idreemyct7964]

The first Death Star cost 1 trillion Imperial credits. (including the cost of all development and testing)

[@aksmex2576]

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.

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

*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

[@MinhVu-yz5rr]

Was it in the novelization of A New Hope or a comic? I want to read that now😂

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

​​@@MinhVu-yz5rr It's from the 2007 novel "The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader". Pretty underrated

[@theliato3809]

He really was a dark god to the tusken raiders wasnt he?

[@motherteresa8418]

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

[@MinhVu-yz5rr]

​@@OptimusMaximusNeroNice thanks buddy

[@picklerick4944]

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

[@BryceByerley]

Fun Fact: Alderaan fired first. don't believe the "Planet with no weapons" propaganda...

[@tiffanyannejocelyn6908]

🤣

[@CortexNewsService]

Oops?

[@asahearts1]

When America finds out Alderaan has oil 💀

[@darthsilversith667]

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.

[@Christmas_Joe]

They should've financed the Thrawn' TIE Defender project, but superweapons were like an obsession for Palpatine

[@audiobeginners847]

Superweapons were an obsession for all Sith.

[@Dev_Admiral]

@@audiobeginners847 fr

[@isaackim7675]

The First Order seemed to fix that by adding hyperdrives into their TIE fighters

[@shanehudson3995]

If Palpatine knew about the Vong and their World Ships, it makes sense. But that's fan theory as far as I know.

[@Christmas_Joe]

@@isaackim7675 And deflector shields

[@alcatrazz.627]

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.

[@jaychukwu4900]

Agreed!

[@Spud1189]

“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.

[@jarradscarborough7915]

but thats how politicians work irl, so actually pretty realistic for fantasy sci-fi

[@billybob7135]

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.

[@billybob7135]

​@@jarradscarborough7915It's called the "velocity of money."

[@carloszapata847]

They needed to save money for the Death Star.

[@anthonyortiz350]

​@@jarradscarborough7915i Is that really so?

[@ackbarfan5556]

On the upside, the Death Star did reduce unemployment on Alderaan to zero.

[@tylersoto7465]

Which was stupid destroying the planet full of people and resources lol

[@ackbarfan5556]

@@tylersoto7465 "You're just upset at my outside the box thinking!"

[@tylersoto7465]

@@ackbarfan5556 lol 🙃

[@vardiganxpl1698]

It became zero when literally all of the other possible number were eliminated!

[@patrickrada2923]

@@tylersoto7465 *"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. 😉

[@gamerskater17]

That one Robot Chicken skit with Palpatine's phone call suddenly feels closer to canon than we realize

[@HamletTwin]

"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?!"

[@somethingawesome1462]

“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.”

[@Memelord1117]

You're acting like it wasn't?

[@mikemcghin5394]

He blew up what! His response when tarkin's blew up Alderaan

[@Burning-Twilight]

*Huh? What do you mean they blew up the Death Star?!*

[@lerneanlion]

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.

[@superspies32]

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.

[@andrewthorpe3219]

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.

[@theimperialist2686]

Both Darth Vader and Thrawn weren't big fans of the Death Star for their own reasons.

[@chasehedges6775]

I don’t blame them.

[@Dev_Admiral]

and grand general cassio tagge

[@Era_yo_dio]

Thrawn: It's the economy idiot

[@Themayseffect]

Well yeah. They both actually fought in the previous war and realized how fragile large clumsy technology was, regardless of the nonsensical cost.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@Themayseffect 👍

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

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.

[@chasehedges6775]

💯💯💯. Exactly

[@chasehedges6775]

“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers .” - Leia

[@thanqualthehighseer]

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.

[@funnelvortex7722]

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"

[@chasehedges6775]

@@funnelvortex7722 Doubt that would have worked. It was a lose-lose situation.

[@jakeolenickii1349]

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.

[@Blanktester685]

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

[@stefdelev]

​@@Blanktester685 Uhh they literally wiped out almost all sentient life lol - chief came muuuch later

[@SSGTTailsJenkins]

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.

[@leandersearle5094]

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.

[@bluemutt9964]

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

[@Turnil321]

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).

[@Dawg347]

This is how George Lucas intended the story to go.

[@samalvey8168]

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.

[@ezraagboghoroma7283]

Now imagine how much Starkiller base would have cost Good thing it’s not canon

[@who-ny5oe]

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.

[@Dawg347]

@@who-ny5oeI don’t think it’s stupid to have an opinion

[@Tiananmen1989FreeTibetHK]

​@@who-ny5oeironic when you cared enough to comment lmao

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

You know it never crossed my mind where they got the credits to do that thing.

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

​@@who-ny5oe👍

[@michaelramon2411]

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.

[@papapalps2415]

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.

[@gregorybliss882]

😂😅"Twins, who don't know they're twins. So they end up hooking up, since he's an absent father" 😂😂😂

[@justincameron9661]

😂😂

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

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.

[@jamesblack5894]

Thats some Stellaris thinkin if Ive ever seen it.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

@@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.

[@artix0022]

​@@jamesblack5894 More like Orions Arm or Isaac arthur videos

[@SSGTTailsJenkins]

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.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

@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.

[@boredresearch3116]

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.

[@whafrog]

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.

[@NinjaMan47]

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.

[@justagecko]

Then the rebels popped that projection like a balloon

[@joeylindeman2842]

Again a beautifully executed twist into a real world comparison. A true educator!🙏🙌

[@FastTquick]

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.

[@funnelvortex7722]

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.

[@Godzillafan78]

It took them a long longer then if the empire was still around

[@zachanikwano]

Yeah the NR won against the Vong… but at what cost tho?

[@MMZERO9]

3:14 As another Liam Neeson character said best, “Over the years our weapons have become more sophisticated…we tried a new one: economics.”

[@H.J.Fleischmann]

What is this from?

[@MMZERO9]

@@H.J.Fleischmann Batman Begins.

[@TheZamaron]

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.

[@mtzuul7401]

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 😂

[@free4all5]

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

[@jacobhight3444]

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.

[@TailAbNormal]

"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.

[@jdlessl]

What we need is for Perun to do a defense economics video on the Galactic Empire.

[@darth_nihilus_]

A I see you are man of culture as well.

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

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!

[@Wiechcheu1925]

I love your videos on the political and economic aspects of the SW universe. I feel like a lot of SW KZbinrs 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.

[@jmace2424]

It’s hard to think of a more iconic evil base than the Death Star.

[@Dawg347]

Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated /////

[@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt]

True: destroying an entire planet is evil

[@Palemagpie]

"the power to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the darkside of the force" "Aite, *Dick* we all worked really hard on this"

[@richardwalker2881]

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

[@zeehero7280]

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.

[@isaackim7675]

0:42. Your sorcery doesn’t scare me, Lord Vader. Your heavy devotion to that ancient trickery costed you an arm and both legs

[@SudrianTales]

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

[@tunebeat3809]

Especially a sith that enjoyed being a tyrant.

[@macwade2755]

Happy New Year, Generation Tech! Great video!

[@simonthegun]

Hell yeah let's go baby whooo another star wars video from this majestic man

[@grissom2289]

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.

[@xxDARTHPAPIxx]

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!

[@adlockhungry304]

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.

[@simmyjester]

14:45, this whole Dubai bit, I'm thinking, *paging Adam Something!*

[@XaverisGaming]

This was way more informative than I was expecting, loved the video!

[@baystated]

Happy New Year and I'm so here to watch a video about scifi economics!

[@devo1977s]

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 😂😂

[@cmkruger1697]

you are the channel, I didn't know I needed.

[@Clone683]

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

[@onlypeaceindeath]

They already had one. The Imperial Starfleet was large and powerful enough to outgun the Death Star based on A New Hope.

[@papapalps2415]

​@@onlypeaceindeathOh, my fucking God, I love you.

[@michaelbattlejr2092]

Very good; particularly tying the economic disaster of the death star to economic disasters on earth.

[@OdariArt]

Great video! Very on point. Happy New Year, Allen!

[@MaraJadeSkky]

Happy new year, brother!

[@Starwarslegorob]

Alan , keep up the fantastic work, I love your work

[@ABadassDragon]

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

[@tylersoto7465]

They did . The building of the first death star they mined genonosis astroids and moons for a rare metal to build it

[@ABadassDragon]

@@tylersoto7465 not for it, but by it. But if they can do mass space mining already, then something like the DS is completely useless

[@IIIC3YLOCO]

I love how you Current events to teach lessons in Star Wars and in life it’s really cool

[@gizmogearloose3391]

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!!!

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@byronjefferson1697]

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

[@jessewilliams9195]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@timothyjacks1788]

Happy New Year. I love your content the best out of the few SW channels I follow

[@marcusholbert2525]

I love this channel. Big brain Star Wars.

[@dalekrenegade2596]

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?

[@andrewvazquez7802]

Love the connection of concept

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Happy new year alan.

[@iainballas]

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.

[@calasiajohn1988]

Brilliant dissetation.

[@biglawngnome]

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🎉

[@jonathanflugge3557]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 🎆 🎊 🎇

[@enoughothis]

Ironically the expensive Clone Army and Fleet would have been more efficient at policing the galaxy than the massive boondoggle that Palpatine settled on.

[@tiffanyannejocelyn6908]

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.

[@PlutoniumDG]

Love how he applied the Star Wars findings into real life

[@user-bk7ok2gj4g]

Hello, I really like your work. Very informative content.

[@KantolanceDragonenthusiast]

Your best video yet buddy 🎉

[@thegreatcollector4548]

I got taught about a dictator tool but generation tech, nice!

[@Dev_Admiral]

W video as always alan keep it up!

[@sergh8605]

Aweawesome video. Thank you

[@DrHotWarLove]

"That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet!"

[@ConradPino]

Some might call the ending off topic. I call it, astute, timely, and well done.

[@CalledTurnAGundam]

"Another call from the Banking Clan, My Emperor. They're saying something about collections?" "I *am* collections......"

[@wardbjerregaard5155]

I love watching everyone of your videos Allen and laugh an enjoy them so well much.❤

[@alanhyland5697]

Well said, Alan

[@RealEnerjak]

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.😂

[@marcosmercedesn]

Loved this video, the economy matters.

[@loloverlord1664]

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.

[@theliato3809]

[14:20] 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.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

Wow!!! How did you manage to find all this information? 😳😳😳

[@lucasbosier6808]

That was a very interesting video. I've never really thought how small economy made decisions can really be the difference between loving you're dictator and wanting them to die falling down a reactor shaft. Even the guys student wanted him dead, he probably told Vader that 34% interest rate on his Tie Advance was "really good".

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

🎇🎆Happy New Year🎆🎇

[@tayetrotman]

I think rather than “the force has its limits” it would be more accurate to say that “force-wielders have their limits”. The power of the force is infinite, it’s just that those who use that power are only capable of so much with it. In order to wield the force you have to understand it, whether you let it guide you or bend it to your will, and not even the force gods are omniscient, so even they, but especially your average force-sensitive is limited in what they can do with it.

[@michaelhorn6029]

"Unless you are trying to save your planet from some sort of crazy threat". Well-said!

[@smartass0124]

What about a real warp drive it would have be huge space station to handle the amount of energy required and have to be at least to create a warp space curtent . The first warp space will be a hug infilstucture program . In snd starwars first hyperspace lanes would have been Just that

[@edgartheman5140]

I have a question who is the richest person in the Star Wars universe?

[@themastermason1]

This is like an Adam Something video. The only thing missing is a podracer based hyperspace loop to the unknown region.

[@comentnine1574]

Say Allen could do a video one the Frontlines series of books by Mark Kloos? I would really like to hear your thoughts on the many books of the series.

[@skyblueo]

The Line=The Death Star. Love it!

[@jdub6909]

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.

[@Bigdeathy]

Sounds like someone has been watching Adam Something lately - great video

[@cowcow0506]

I like how the last third of this video is just an analysis of the Saudi economy

[@MrNoobed]

Ibwish episode 7 or 8 was about luke dealing with his ptsd from the deathstar

[@rikhenry9701]

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.