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
    @GenerationTech  5 місяців тому +46

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    • @peteryt2757
      @peteryt2757 5 місяців тому

      👁👄👁

    • @dalesnider8040
      @dalesnider8040 5 місяців тому

      Happy New Year!!

    • @reserva120
      @reserva120 5 місяців тому

      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
      @idreemyct7964 5 місяців тому

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

    • @aksmex2576
      @aksmex2576 5 місяців тому

      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
    @OptimusMaximusNero 5 місяців тому +1135

    *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
      @MinhVu-yz5rr 5 місяців тому +49

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

    • @OptimusMaximusNero
      @OptimusMaximusNero 5 місяців тому +121

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

    • @theliato3809
      @theliato3809 5 місяців тому +63

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

    • @motherteresa8418
      @motherteresa8418 5 місяців тому +27

      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
      @MinhVu-yz5rr 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@OptimusMaximusNeroNice thanks buddy

  • @picklerick4944
    @picklerick4944 5 місяців тому +717

    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
      @BryceByerley 5 місяців тому +1

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

    • @tiffanyannejocelyn6908
      @tiffanyannejocelyn6908 5 місяців тому +16

      🤣

    • @CortexNewsService
      @CortexNewsService 5 місяців тому +22

      Oops?

    • @asahearts1
      @asahearts1 5 місяців тому +59

      When America finds out Alderaan has oil 💀

    • @darthsilversith667
      @darthsilversith667 5 місяців тому +72

      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.

  • @Spud1189
    @Spud1189 5 місяців тому +190

    “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
      @jarradscarborough7915 5 місяців тому +30

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

    • @billybob7135
      @billybob7135 5 місяців тому

      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
      @billybob7135 5 місяців тому

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

    • @carloszapata847
      @carloszapata847 5 місяців тому +4

      They needed to save money for the Death Star.

    • @anthonyortiz350
      @anthonyortiz350 4 місяці тому

      ​@@jarradscarborough7915i
      Is that really so?

  • @ackbarfan5556
    @ackbarfan5556 5 місяців тому +332

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

    • @tylersoto7465
      @tylersoto7465 5 місяців тому +13

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

    • @ackbarfan5556
      @ackbarfan5556 5 місяців тому +33

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

    • @tylersoto7465
      @tylersoto7465 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ackbarfan5556 lol 🙃

    • @vardiganxpl1698
      @vardiganxpl1698 5 місяців тому +5

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

    • @patrickrada2923
      @patrickrada2923 5 місяців тому +8

      @@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. 😉

  • @Christmas_Joe
    @Christmas_Joe 5 місяців тому +463

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

    • @audiobeginners847
      @audiobeginners847 5 місяців тому +85

      Superweapons were an obsession for all Sith.

    • @Dev_Admiral
      @Dev_Admiral 5 місяців тому

      @@audiobeginners847 fr

    • @isaackim7675
      @isaackim7675 5 місяців тому +36

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

    • @shanehudson3995
      @shanehudson3995 5 місяців тому +57

      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
      @Christmas_Joe 5 місяців тому +6

      @@isaackim7675 And deflector shields

  • @gamerskater17
    @gamerskater17 5 місяців тому +146

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

    • @HamletTwin
      @HamletTwin 5 місяців тому +44

      "What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?!"

    • @somethingawesome1462
      @somethingawesome1462 5 місяців тому +29

      “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
      @Memelord1117 5 місяців тому +3

      You're acting like it wasn't?

    • @mikemcghin5394
      @mikemcghin5394 5 місяців тому +7

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

    • @Burning-Twilight
      @Burning-Twilight 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @alcatrazz.627
    @alcatrazz.627 5 місяців тому +120

    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.

  • @theimperialist2686
    @theimperialist2686 5 місяців тому +421

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

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 5 місяців тому +69

      I don’t blame them.

    • @Dev_Admiral
      @Dev_Admiral 5 місяців тому +31

      and grand general cassio tagge

    • @Era_yo_dio
      @Era_yo_dio 5 місяців тому

      Thrawn: It's the economy idiot

    • @Themayseffect
      @Themayseffect 5 місяців тому +49

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

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Themayseffect 👍

  • @OptimusMaximusNero
    @OptimusMaximusNero 5 місяців тому +200

    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
      @chasehedges6775 5 місяців тому +13

      💯💯💯. Exactly

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 5 місяців тому +68

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

    • @thanqualthehighseer
      @thanqualthehighseer 5 місяців тому +15

      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
      @funnelvortex7722 5 місяців тому +42

      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
      @chasehedges6775 5 місяців тому +2

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

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion 5 місяців тому +128

    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
      @superspies32 5 місяців тому +17

      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
      @andrewthorpe3219 5 місяців тому +8

      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.

  • @Turnil321
    @Turnil321 5 місяців тому +14

    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
      @Dawg347 4 місяці тому +1

      This is how George Lucas intended the story to go.

  • @jakeolenickii1349
    @jakeolenickii1349 5 місяців тому +91

    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
      @Blanktester685 5 місяців тому

      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
      @stefdelev 5 місяців тому +28

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

    • @SSGTTailsJenkins
      @SSGTTailsJenkins 5 місяців тому +12

      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
      @leandersearle5094 5 місяців тому +1

      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
      @bluemutt9964 5 місяців тому +2

      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

  • @samalvey8168
    @samalvey8168 5 місяців тому +27

    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.

  • @michaelramon2411
    @michaelramon2411 5 місяців тому +12

    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
      @papapalps2415 4 місяці тому +1

      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
    @gregorybliss882 5 місяців тому +24

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

  • @ezraagboghoroma7283
    @ezraagboghoroma7283 5 місяців тому +31

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

    • @who-ny5oe
      @who-ny5oe 5 місяців тому +2

      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
      @Dawg347 4 місяці тому +6

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

    • @Tiananmen1989FreeTibetHK
      @Tiananmen1989FreeTibetHK 3 місяці тому

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

    • @BaldianOfIbelin
      @BaldianOfIbelin 2 місяці тому

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

    • @BaldianOfIbelin
      @BaldianOfIbelin 2 місяці тому

      ​@@who-ny5oe👍

  • @NinjaMan47
    @NinjaMan47 5 місяців тому +17

    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
      @justagecko 5 місяців тому +4

      Then the rebels popped that projection like a balloon

  • @boredresearch3116
    @boredresearch3116 5 місяців тому +70

    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.

  • @FastTquick
    @FastTquick 5 місяців тому +30

    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
      @funnelvortex7722 5 місяців тому +9

      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
      @Godzillafan78 5 місяців тому +6

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

    • @zachanikwano
      @zachanikwano 5 місяців тому +3

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

  • @DoremiFasolatido1979
    @DoremiFasolatido1979 5 місяців тому +60

    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
      @jamesblack5894 5 місяців тому +7

      Thats some Stellaris thinkin if Ive ever seen it.

    • @DoremiFasolatido1979
      @DoremiFasolatido1979 5 місяців тому +3

      @@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
      @artix0022 5 місяців тому +2

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

    • @SSGTTailsJenkins
      @SSGTTailsJenkins 5 місяців тому +4

      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
      @DoremiFasolatido1979 5 місяців тому +3

      @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.

  • @whafrog
    @whafrog 5 місяців тому +23

    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.

  • @joeylindeman2842
    @joeylindeman2842 5 місяців тому +51

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

  • @TheZamaron
    @TheZamaron 5 місяців тому +16

    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.

  • @MMZERO9
    @MMZERO9 5 місяців тому +19

    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
      @H.J.Fleischmann 5 місяців тому +1

      What is this from?

    • @MMZERO9
      @MMZERO9 5 місяців тому +4

      @@H.J.Fleischmann Batman Begins.

  • @TailAbNormal
    @TailAbNormal 5 місяців тому +7

    "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.

  • @jacobhight3444
    @jacobhight3444 5 місяців тому +21

    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.

  • @jdlessl
    @jdlessl 5 місяців тому +11

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

    • @darth_nihilus_
      @darth_nihilus_ 5 місяців тому +2

      A I see you are man of culture as well.

  • @mtzuul7401
    @mtzuul7401 5 місяців тому +7

    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
    @free4all5 5 місяців тому +17

    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

  • @jmace2424
    @jmace2424 5 місяців тому +11

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

    • @Dawg347
      @Dawg347 4 місяці тому

      Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated /////

    • @AbdulSoomro-kj5lt
      @AbdulSoomro-kj5lt 25 днів тому

      True: destroying an entire planet is evil

  • @richardwalker2881
    @richardwalker2881 5 місяців тому +4

    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

  • @gabrieldjatienza6971
    @gabrieldjatienza6971 5 місяців тому +7

    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!

  • @simonthegun
    @simonthegun 5 місяців тому +4

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

  • @grissom2289
    @grissom2289 5 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @Palemagpie
    @Palemagpie 4 місяці тому +4

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

  • @adlockhungry304
    @adlockhungry304 2 місяці тому

    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.

  • @xxDARTHPAPIxx
    @xxDARTHPAPIxx 22 дні тому

    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!

  • @Wiechcheu1925
    @Wiechcheu1925 5 місяців тому +10

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

  • @zeehero7280
    @zeehero7280 5 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @XaverisGaming
    @XaverisGaming 5 місяців тому

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

  • @baystated
    @baystated 5 місяців тому

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

  • @cmkruger1697
    @cmkruger1697 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @macwade2755
    @macwade2755 5 місяців тому +1

    Happy New Year, Generation Tech! Great video!

  • @gizmogearloose3391
    @gizmogearloose3391 5 місяців тому

    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!!!

  • @michaelbattlejr2092
    @michaelbattlejr2092 5 місяців тому +5

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

  • @OdariArt
    @OdariArt 5 місяців тому

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

  • @Starwarslegorob
    @Starwarslegorob 5 місяців тому +2

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

  • @isaackim7675
    @isaackim7675 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @IIIC3YLOCO
    @IIIC3YLOCO 4 місяці тому

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

  • @CalledTurnAGundam
    @CalledTurnAGundam 5 місяців тому +6

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

  • @Yacovo
    @Yacovo 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for the video.

  • @timothyjacks1788
    @timothyjacks1788 5 місяців тому

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

  • @devo1977s
    @devo1977s 5 місяців тому +2

    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 😂😂

  • @marcusholbert2525
    @marcusholbert2525 5 місяців тому +1

    I love this channel. Big brain Star Wars.

  • @ABadassDragon
    @ABadassDragon 5 місяців тому +3

    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
      @tylersoto7465 5 місяців тому

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

    • @ABadassDragon
      @ABadassDragon 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @MaraJadeSkky
    @MaraJadeSkky 5 місяців тому

    Happy new year, brother!

  • @wardbjerregaard5155
    @wardbjerregaard5155 5 місяців тому

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

  • @PlutoniumDG
    @PlutoniumDG 5 місяців тому +6

    Love how he applied the Star Wars findings into real life

  • @jessewilliams9195
    @jessewilliams9195 2 місяці тому

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @Clone683
    @Clone683 5 місяців тому +7

    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
      @onlypeaceindeath 5 місяців тому +2

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

    • @papapalps2415
      @papapalps2415 4 місяці тому

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

  • @jonathanflugge3557
    @jonathanflugge3557 5 місяців тому +1

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 🎆 🎊 🎇

  • @andrewvazquez7802
    @andrewvazquez7802 5 місяців тому

    Love the connection of concept

  • @KantolanceDragonenthusiast
    @KantolanceDragonenthusiast 5 місяців тому

    Your best video yet buddy 🎉

  • @SudrianTales
    @SudrianTales 5 місяців тому +5

    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
      @tunebeat3809 4 місяці тому

      Especially a sith that enjoyed being a tyrant.

  • @calasiajohn1988
    @calasiajohn1988 5 місяців тому

    Brilliant dissetation.

  • @ConradPino
    @ConradPino 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @user-bk7ok2gj4g
    @user-bk7ok2gj4g 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @sergh8605
    @sergh8605 5 місяців тому

    Aweawesome video. Thank you

  • @thegreatcollector4548
    @thegreatcollector4548 5 місяців тому

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

  • @CloneScavengerVulpin8389
    @CloneScavengerVulpin8389 5 місяців тому

    Happy new year alan.

  • @tiffanyannejocelyn6908
    @tiffanyannejocelyn6908 5 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @dalekrenegade2596
    @dalekrenegade2596 5 місяців тому

    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?

  • @lucasbosier6808
    @lucasbosier6808 5 місяців тому

    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".

  • @Dev_Admiral
    @Dev_Admiral 5 місяців тому

    W video as always alan keep it up!

  • @enoughothis
    @enoughothis 5 місяців тому +3

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

  • @alanhyland5697
    @alanhyland5697 5 місяців тому

    Well said, Alan

  • @RealEnerjak
    @RealEnerjak 4 місяці тому +2

    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
    @marcosmercedesn 5 місяців тому +3

    Loved this video, the economy matters.

  • @byronjefferson1697
    @byronjefferson1697 5 місяців тому +2

    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

  • @skyblueo
    @skyblueo 5 місяців тому

    The Line=The Death Star. Love it!

  • @DrHotWarLove
    @DrHotWarLove 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 5 місяців тому

    🎇🎆Happy New Year🎆🎇

  • @biglawngnome
    @biglawngnome 5 місяців тому +5

    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🎉

  • @michaelhorn6029
    @michaelhorn6029 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @simmyjester
    @simmyjester 5 місяців тому +2

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

  • @Bigdeathy
    @Bigdeathy 5 місяців тому

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

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas 5 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @WestKosBias
    @WestKosBias 4 місяці тому

    The twins hooking up is funny as hell🤣🤣🤣

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 5 місяців тому +17

    I always liked the idea that the Emperor built the Death Star because he knew the Yuuzhan Vong were coming, and he knew the galaxy would need absurd firepower to fight them off. It made all his ridiculous expenditures actually make sense, instead of just being impractical mismanagement for the sake of projecting power. Shame all the Legends stuff got retconned.

    • @SammyWhiteley
      @SammyWhiteley 5 місяців тому +4

      I agree with this assessment and think it's probably what Sheevie was thinking. Even then it was a dumb idea. the Executor class can do everything the Death Star needed to do, albeit just glassing the entire surface of the planet in a day or so as opposed to turning it into an asteroid field in a few seconds, at the fraction of the cost and with infinitely higher scalability. Mass producing hundreds of Executors and thousands of Imperials along with building up a better logistical train for those, not to mention actually following up on advanced starfighter programs like Thrawn was always suggesting would be more effective against the Vong than a superweapon that can only be in one place at a time. Not to mention that putting military spending into the above would make dealing with the Rebs a piece of cake.

    • @bluehero-96
      @bluehero-96 5 місяців тому +5

      Naw, that would be contrived revisionism, and make the galaxy and wider universe seem smaller.
      It's also just a dumb meme by people who took "the Empire did nothing wrong" too seriously.

    • @SammyWhiteley
      @SammyWhiteley 5 місяців тому +3

      @@bluehero-96 I see it both ways, my headcanon is that Palps saw the Vong invasion as his next crisis to exploit to further build his power. He thought he'd "unite" the galaxy under the pretense of fighting them, while also using it as a way of eliminating his rivals either for "national security" reasons, or by sending them on suicide missions where they "died heroically in defense of the galaxy" by the end of it his grip on the galaxy would be even tighter, maybe by the end of it he could have justification for using some sith magic mumbo jumbo that would make him immortal or give him godlike powers or something. I suspect more realistically he'd screw it up horribly and sign the death warrants of trillions of sentients out of sheer hubris and the galaxy would be no better off, worse even, than the new republic's atrocious handling of the Vong war

    • @Blanktester685
      @Blanktester685 5 місяців тому +1

      I don't think you understand what revision means lmao, giving palp an actually good reason to build a weapon like the death star is called world building

    • @memecliparchives2254
      @memecliparchives2254 5 місяців тому +1

      That only makes Palpatine a sympathetic villain when never needed to be. He just sucked as a living being.

  • @edgartheman5140
    @edgartheman5140 5 місяців тому +5

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

  • @paulsmith-ll9vg
    @paulsmith-ll9vg 5 місяців тому

    who knew that an economy lesson could be fun.

  • @jdub6909
    @jdub6909 5 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @theliato3809
    @theliato3809 5 місяців тому +2

    [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.

  • @themastermason1
    @themastermason1 5 місяців тому

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

  • @darkstorm6654
    @darkstorm6654 5 місяців тому

    A great video

  • @blakegriplingph
    @blakegriplingph 5 місяців тому +1

    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.

    • @destronger5313
      @destronger5313 5 місяців тому

      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.

  • @chrisjenkins9978
    @chrisjenkins9978 4 місяці тому

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

  • @alecwise4383
    @alecwise4383 5 місяців тому

    Bridging Star Wars into real life events is what adult Star Wars fans need. Love it.

  • @rikhenry9701
    @rikhenry9701 5 місяців тому

    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.