The Plasma Curse : How Naboo's Massive Energy Reserves Doomed The Planet
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- When giant plasma reserves were found in the mantle outer core of Naboo, it was one of the richest energy deposits ever found in the galaxy. Naboo plasma was not only extremely potent and efficient it also produced relatively clean emissions. This energy survey promised to turn Naboo into a rich and powerful world, but it also attracted the attention of large galactic mega conglomerates like the Trade Federation who sought to control the plasma reserves for their portfolio.
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Can you cover the disaster at deepspace besh? It was the most crippling defeat for the Rebel alliance outside of Hoth.
I'd also like that. It's not covered well.
lol I've never heard of it. Hoth was a big L but at least everyone got away.
I’d like to see a video on this. Was reading the wiki page on it a few days ago
Please indeed
In an universe of finite resources & a Galactic civilization that’s one hell of a dead planet when done planetary mining can you hear the slurping sound
Question: The Gungans are already extracting and refining the plasma on a scale sufficient to be the basis of ALL their technology. It seems to me that the Naboo already have a domestic upscaled operation capable of developing the plasma for an interstellar market if they weren't so xenophobic to the species they shared the planet with. Correct?
The problem was that the humans and gungans were not on speaking terms. Most humans didn't even know about how proficient gungans were with plasma productions. Also the gungans were not really big on dealing with the humans to begin with.
As large as it is, it probably still wasn't capable of supplying much more than the considerable amount the Gungans were already using
@@trenchtierstudios554
What about after the Trade Federation crisis? Things definitely got better in terms of inter species relations. Hell, Jar Jar was made assistant to Pádme.
@@goroakechi6126 Afterwards; yes everything improved. Chances were that the Gungans helped the Naboo humans with farming and processing the plasma.
Not to mention that other carriers were more than happy to profit from the Trade Federations mistake.
Both sides gained so much from the victory.
@@goroakechi6126 and we all know how bad that turned out lol.
What if, after finishing her tenure as Queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala declined the invitation of being Senator for her planet in favor of a quiet life in Naboo's Lake Country? Would Palpatine still have the assination plots carried out? How would the relationship between her and Anakin play out differently? Who would be Senator in Padme's place to represent Naboo on Corasaunt?
if Amidala would have stayed on naboo thinks would have changed drasticly ----- but i am pretty sure it was palpetine who convinced her to be a senator ----
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i think that during the clone wars palpetine would have orderd doku to attack naboo and used his influence to send skywalker ther --- and he would arange for them to meat
--- with her having no power ther is no need for assassination attempts ---- (and they where probably just a distraction anyways -- to make people hate doku/the seperatist more)
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who would replace padme ?? ---- good question
She was a great senator though.
Yeah she was. No doubts there. What if scenarios are fun to speculate about.
tbh she was a good senator ---- but her influence was very limited -- in many cases her actions actully helped palpetine -- like when she uncoverd the coruption of the banking plan resulting that ALL banks are under the direct control of the chancelor
I know the later assassination attempts were because Padme became a thorn in his side, but wasn't the ones in Episode II just so the Jedi would investigate Jango Fett, leading them to Kamino to discover the clone army one of their missing Masters had apparently commissioned conveniently just in time for the Separatist Crisis?
This is why I love the Star Wars fandom. We somehow manage to come up with elaborate, even complex and semi-realistic explanations for such minor nagging questions left by the movies, like, "What the heck was with those giant bottomless-pit rooms with plasma-tubes and plot-force-fields under the Naboo capital that Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul fought in?"
Still doesn't explain why there were so many layers of force-fields protecting what was essentially just a bottomless pit of nothing and why those fields were turning on-and-off at regular intervals with no apparent switches or control panels nearby. Or why Maul didn't just Kylo Ren-lightsaber-tantrum the crap out of the field emitters to get to Qui-Gon faster.
Or how there could physically be water-filled tunnels running right through "The plaaaanet cooooore" without the gravity of the planet itself collapsing them (unless Boss Nass was hyperbolizing an the tunnels simply went deep into the crust like a hyperloop tunnel rather than literally through the molten iron core.)
You folks at Generation Tech never fail to make the Star Wars prequel trilogy more interesting than what I saw onscreen. 😅
"The [Plasma] MUST flow!"
The downfall of Naboo came from not using its rich plasma reserves to its fullest.
With it they could have made a greater royal star fighter corps and Royal Guard to deal with such unfortunate situations
They had one. They failed at their duty since their commander was an ally to to sidious.
@@patricianoftheplebs6015 they needed a bigger one. Even with that officer the NRSC was heavily outgunned and numbered as well as their ground forces
@@theliato3809 yeah. I mean, the US, a nation with a population of around 300 million, has a standing army hovering between 1 and 3 million, and an insanely large navy, great equipment and an insanely large airforce. Hell, even Russia or just the UK could prolly go toe-to-toe with the entire blockade force, at least on the ground and in the air.
@@theliato3809 agreed! They only had 15,000 max including its reserves. How ever I don’t believe that was the whole planets defense forces. Then again how big was Naboo’s population?
@@patricianoftheplebs6015 4.5B 72% Gungan 27% Human.
Random Senator: hey Palpatine what happened to your dad?
Palpatine: *chuckles* he's been taken care of
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Naboo religious belief was that the souls of their dead passed into the core of the planet that had sustained them in life. So, does that mean that in selling the plasma, they were selling the souls of their ancestors?
Kinda like the lifestream from ff7
I read in Legends that when Palpatine was around Padme’s age he visited the planet of Chandrilla which he quickly noticed was significantly wealthier than his home world of Naboo. Naboo’s location in the Galaxy made it a disadvantage for Naboo since it was not located near major hyperlanes that connected to wealthy core and colonies worlds.
The discovery of Naboo's resources reminds me of the oil companies who wanted to exploit Iran's oil resources until the 1953 coup there.
The Anglo Iranian oil company agreed a deal with them and it wasn’t very cash money of them to change their minds
The only difference is that Naboo hasn't had an uprising that turns the place into a Theocratic dictatorship... yet.
@@BungLer Exactly.
Naboo is also like the Kingdom of Norway.
LOL Darth Tenebrous, imagine being a Sith Lord, supposed to be the most cunning being in the galaxy second only to your apprentice, being murdered by a mining company that didn't even know you were a Sith Lord. Darth Bane must have been rolling in his grave from that.
He wasn’t killed by the mining company, plagueis killed him by taking advantage of the situation
"...a gose mining company..." Fantastic Firefly reference! A+, and I'm here for all of it, :)
2:27 Anti-gravity waterfall where water goes up? Damn Naboo, you be weird AF, dude.
I’m sure Naboo prospered post Trade Federation occupation! I read from Legends that the Embarrassment of Naboo allowed Queen Amidala to nullify the contracts with the Trade Federation giving Naboo fair market value price for their plasma. It was also discussed that some of the money was spent on enhancing their local defenses moving forward. Being the home world of Emperor Palpatine I am sure he pumped more money into his home world and probably made favorable conditions for the planet to attract money and opportunities, possibly spending imperial tax money to fund infrastructure projects or buy materials from Naboo for imperial projects. I read poor remote planets like Teth became very wealthy during imperial occupation so I’m sure the same thing happened to Naboo.
Interesting analysis, I didn't realize Naboo was that backwater, thought they had a more robust economy than that
In terms of galactic scale economics yes, it was practically a backwater, in terms of domestic trade, living standards and development, it was practically utopian when compared to many other planets though there was still substantial poverty, but more like being poor farmers and a lack of sufficient housing for urban centers, ironic considering the more affluent naboo people's humble origins.
Its kind of weird how no one really talked to the gunkans on scaling up operations to exporting their plasma ? They just went with an outside force, weirder still is their not asking in negotiations for the establishment of an training academy on planet for their allowance to mine the power source.
There was a bit of xenophobia involved.
Naboo is the West Virginia of Star Wars.
Venezuela
_Mountain Mama~!_
In our world, you have Norway who literally did everything right, in regards to their natural resources, or you become Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia etc,as a negative example.
you can also do an alaska or botswana ------
Not to mention Naboo was stupidly pacifist and relied on the bureaucratic nightmare that was the late republic for security which also lacked a standing military. This is where the independent spirit of Naboo makes no sense as you can't be independent if you are outsourcing your defense.
No, they're not stupidly pacifist. ALDERAAN is stupidly pacifist, but not Naboo. Naboo has pacifist goals, but they're more realistic than Alderaan. At least Naboo has their own self-defense force.
Interestingly, Naboo was a bit divided on the issue of defense: it seemed Captain Panaka was one of several that more or less quietly disapproved of the queen's pacifist policy and believed that Naboo needed a more serious army than a few starfighters and armed police and guards.
A slowly developed domestic market would have been the best thing overall. Yes you get slower and less cost effective plasma however in the end the long term success for the planet become massive.
Heck you could offer individual experts from the energy secure lucrative deals to instruct your people in the best methods of extraction. Paying individuals larger sums then they'd get from the company wouldn't be that hard when you have the funding of a planet behind you.
Yup and then start expanding to the local sector around you cut some deals with your neighbors.
@@GenerationTech no? are you dumb thats would be the worst way
Sounds like being conservative and having a small capitalist like market pays off. “Cough, cough”.
I didn't realise the gungan population was so large.
Dang
Fuel from kaashyk to life support systems
Radoniun from avafar to the regular thruster
Asteroid field fuel for hyperdrive engines
Kessel coaxion for non specified reason
Tibana gas for blaster and weapon systems onboard ships like dude is there anything that doesn’t require fuel?
Spears
@@CJ_Welch And Spice.
Britney and the gurls.
"You had good old-fashioned crude oil on Kashyyyk"
>Crude oil on Kashyyyk
>Crude oil
*"Yes, Mr. President, we have found OIL on Kashyyyk."*
It's freedom time
I love Naboo
The best SW lore anywhere!
Excellent work. Very much hope you cover the Eradu Trade Summit too.
Based on my country's experience, we split the mining region into several lots whereby the foreign companies have to bid in order to mine them. Then, we offer the winning party these JV terms: the state corporation has 40% equity in the mining operation and 5% royalty on the sales value to the state coffer. Let's just say the govt accumulated a lot of wealth from the dividend of that 40% equity... After having our own experts learn the tools of the trade, we start insisting on a local participation quota, either as employees or as vendors. See how having equity in the mining operations can enable such policies to happen?
Same story as Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.
There are a lot of parallels like that in Star Wars.
@@robertnelson9599 There certainly are, sadly.
that is done so on purpose ------ the original trillogy depicted ns germany --- the prequels the modern world
naboo is more of a 70s norway ----- only differance is they couldn´t blome up thanks to the clone wars
Well, if Venezuela had let the oil companies exploit it's oil then it would have been incredibly rich instead of the shit stain it is today.
The second I travel to a new system in my Executor, prices fuel prices double. And when I brought my whole fleet it went up 8 times
Fleet composition: 1 executor class SSD, 15 ISD II, 7 ISD I, 3 Tectors, 40 Arquitence light cruisers, 55 Raider Corvettes, 220 lambda and sentinel shuttles and most of the standard Ties are replaced with Tie defenders or upgraded with shields, torpedoes and a hyperdrive.
Fuel prices are gonna be higher than Palpatine's son on a good day
Crin
@@commandercruel8231 ?
If our planet have its own plasma reserves, what can we build and be powered by such energy? Obviously, aside from lightsabers and plasma-powered weapons, of course.
I guess Plasma can be used for fusion reactors, however currently it is very difficult to store/transport plasma so its much easier to generate it on the spot. In the future they could also be used for shields (though the same store/transport thing applies). Also it is pretty much impossible for plasma to be found on a planet, it is usually found in stars.
The exact same thing we use coal for now. Power is power. It doesn't matter WHERE it comes from, just what it's being used for.
@@aaronself2411 But plasma is limitless, right? Coal and oil have limits. And by that, I mean we will ran out of them one day. Plasma and electricity, on the other hand, are limitless. Is this right?
@@lerneanlion Plasma is not limitless.
@@lerneanlion Plasma, is just the fourth state of matter. Stars for example are made up of plasma, and while there's a LOT of it in a star, it does get used up until a star destabilizes and either explodes, and creates a nebula, OR it implodes, and creates a black hole. But plasma is just a state of matter no different than how coal is a solid state of matter. Plasma is just what happens to combustible material when subjected to the extreme environments of things like stars. We actually use plasma right now. It's called a plasma welder. They're used for things that need extreme heat like tungsten, or underwater welding.
I like this video Alan. It did a great job of explaining what happened on Naboo in the prequel movies.
Haven't been around I'm a while. I'm loving the real world comparisons and new vibe.
You actually made good points on what the Naboo could have done to improve the standard of living for it’s citizens with their new found plasma wealth! Naboo didn’t have much strong local industry that were competitive and comparable to the economies of the core worlds worth investing in! This shows that the Naboo were not very good negotiators at all! According to Legends, the Trade Federation was a publicly traded mega corporation so the Naboo should have negotiated a reasonable stake in the company or discounted stock shares in exchange for their plasma! This would be more of a win win situation since the trade federation would spend money on infrastructure projects to extract and export the plasma, but Naboo would benefit from the profits of the trade federation since it owned shares in the company. If this arrangement didn’t work out, the Naboo could have followed the same model Norway did by creating a sovereign wealth fund and investing the plasma profits into shares of off-world companies that were more promising and profitable than their local industries! I do agree that spending the money on local education or enhancing the local security and defense force of the planet was an inefficient way of spending the plasma wealth! It also proves that the Naboo were not very good when it came to budget decisions. Naboo in comparison to our world would resemble more of the economies in the Mediterranean such as Malta, Cyprus or Portugal and at best Spain but were spending like Dubai and the oil rich middle eastern countries on lavish things used by the government. For a modest planet I felt the Royal house of Naboo overspent on the luxury Star ships that the royal dignitaries and even public workers used! If anything it was fine for Queen Amidala to have a luxury Star ship to use since she is the ruler of the planet but it was unnecessary for the local pilot security force to use luxurious Naboo N-1 Star fighters which would be the equivalent of the lambourgini or Ferraris used by the police force in Dubai! The Naboo were not very good pilots either in using these luxury N-1 Star fighters! We must remember it was not a Nabooan who successfully used this luxury N-1 to destroy the trade federation blockade control ship but a former slave boy from the dirt poor planet of Tatooine that did the job in the end!
This video is very well done, Allen!
I love this more serious kind of videos.
Thanks for putting the aurebesh with titles and great content, thank you for your effort, Kudos Sir.
It would seem that your takes have become more nuanced recently. I think this is a good thing.
Awesome Video! I learned somthing I had no Idea about Naboo!
Reading the Plagueis book now ☆ I saw "Naboo" and "Plasma" in the title of your vid and got excited 😊
Excellent video!
Excellent. Thank you.
I wonder what happened on Naboo after the Clone wars.
Nothing that could have been as bad as Alderaan.
it was an ok planet ---- it lived mostly peaceful and made no trouble so the imperials mostly left it alone
It's space venice/Italy. So it probably din't do half bad. The people live in lime stone cities with marble clad walls. They aren't doing bad at all.
Brilliant video 👏
Getting that thumbs-up within the first 20 seconds 🖤 love your narration.
I hoped to see Peragus in that introduction
I really love the way you stepped up your thumbnail game
Well one,alternative to the Trade confederation would have been to do like Botswana : state capitalism.
Naboo could have taken a loan from the banking clan or something, to cover 51% of the cost of the plasma infrastructure on the planet in order to get a share of 51% of the subsidiary of the Trae corporation on the planet charged to exploit its ressource. This would have allowed some manner of control other this new economic sector while still letting the private actors to benefit from it. It would also have given Naboo the liquidités necessary to repay the loan. And with the rest of the money to teach slowly locals how to get the job done on the infrastructures and take the place of the off-world workers in time... With cheaper salaries. ^^
A win-win situation which the Trade fédération could have accepted whole also putting in safety Naboo independence.
But oh well. Who cares? We only went to the show to see lights abers duels and lazers flying everywhere. :person_shruging:
Igbc is still armed with fine print, ig series security droids and those munificent Star frigates.
@@GenerationTech biggest surprise of this video was a Sith Lord not killed by his apprentice
The trade federation would only see to reason if reasoning would benefit them in the long run. Which in this situation, just siezing control of naboo was more profitable. They only lost due to anakin skywalker and his jedi friends. Had anakin never been involved im certain that naboo would have fallen.
@@GenerationTech defo keep the new intros
Just engeneer "accidents" for trade federation. On many worlds, and once rhey get pushed from all sides by competition simply take over their assets.
The ending for the Obi Wan Kenobi Series was leaked yesterday let's see if it's true
I love your blue over yellow background.
Darth Plagueius is such a great book! Love this video
I love you videos ❤️
Why didn't Palpatine used Plasma to power the Death Star?
Kyber is much more powerful
@@animeman8203 but less abundant.
@@animeman8203 Kyber isn’t a power source. It’s a power amplifier. It’s like Naquadha from Stargate.
@@Gothic7876 Its what ever they build Light Sabre's out out of, Ullium hint hint became StarKiller Base and Jeda was a Jedi Strong hold was strip mined to build Death Stars
I really enjoyed your opening.
Love does Intros
Hey alan i have a cool idea for a video: make your own fleet of any ships in the star wars galaxy. You must have 1 capital ship, at least 2 different types of starfighters, 1 kind of medical ship, and 1 iconic star wars ship. Dont have to use this idea and you can adapt it if you wish. Love your videos keep up the good work 🙌
What about the Droid attacks on the wookies?
Smart energy sector nations use the influx to diversify though they usually need a domestic in order to do so. It's the difference between Norway and Russia. This is a decent video overall but I might have gone into the real world examples to form a contrast.
Was there a planet in Star Wars which used its natural resources the same way Norway did with its oil?
Wow alan. You would think that you live here in Appalachia and understand what's going on with all of the gas and oil drilling. I'm coming to you straight from West by God Virginia and can tell you that there are a lot of wealthy people around here....none of them are native. On a plus note we have the advantage of tax breaks for the big energy companies....our roads aren't worth a shit, and cost of living is thru the roof Thanks for being there... May the force be with
Cool
Great vid, need more like this....fascinating to learn all about Naboo. God I wish this was our reality...but may take thousands of years for humans to get there.
Was there a lower class on Naboo?
Just because the plasma was mined on Naboo doesn't mean that it belonged to Naboo , it truly belonged to whoever was able to make the most profit from it .
also the naboo got 5% of the revenue ---- revenue not profit --- witch is actully a good deal
So, if you can make more profit off my house (perhaps by selling it) than I can (since I'm living in it), you own my house?
Come and take it.
Where is the footage from @12:05 that shows the room with the vertical plasma beams?
Love the image for ‘fine arts’😂
If I were the Naboo leaders I'd just let my top scholars study on other planets with the existing knowledge and technology for plasma extraction and when they return I'd order them to share the knowledge they got to the universities. once enough specialist workers graduated from the university only then I'd form a government own mining industry and began extracting energy. The process is indeed slow AF but it guarantees self sustainability. This is also what the Japanese did after they open up their borders, acquire knowledge and lift their economy to industrialization.
Or the gov't can just hand out the money to the population like Alaska did.
Alaska hand only ~1/3 of the money they get from companys to the people ----- but still a good deal they´v got --- same as naboo 5% of revenue is a good deal
THIS is Very informative. I’m s~o glad you’re THIS political about everything…
This video made me want to base a small campaign in a star wars ttrpg centered on Naboo and having the players explore the lore rich planet just to force them to interact with gungans and find out about the plasma as a source of fuel
Yousa think they go for it??
@@weelzneal4768 Meesa think they enslave Gungans!
@@Ninosai mannn when i was a new DM i had these 2 kids idk if they wanted to freak me out or were just wannabe edgy but had hags kidnap kid & they saved the kid just to enslave them. Joke would have been (they didn't come back to the shop) they would get a surprise attack from the kid who turned hag
@@Ninosai weird what players will do huh
naboo got 5% of the revenue for nothing ------ that is actully a ok deal
Wow
Just finished writing a Star Wars short story on this very topic, crazy that I just saw this video.
In the book "Darth Plagueis" Plagueis kills his master by causing a cave-in inside an underground tunnel they were in and it crushes and traps tenebrous, I thought this was how darth tenebrous died?
What did the schizophrenic woman say to her chest when it was telling her to do bad things?
Naboob
😂
Surly Vader himself would put his foot down on strip mining Naboo. It's the home world of his love, and her final resting place. It's hard to.imagine Vader, of all people, simply wouldn't stand for it to be desecrated. Surely Palps is smart enough to know, seriously, let Vader have this one.
Naboo it seems the space Venezuela: an Heaven on heart ruined by oil.
Yes,but what about their strategic sand reserves?
Great video but the music sounds like it belongs in a funeral home.
This is Litteraly Scotland (Naboo) v London (Sith).... More oil than Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman combined....still given pocket money to keep the slums freshly painted.
😊👍
How does a planet generate plasma in the first place?
The workers should’ve seized the means of production
So Naboo is the Star Wars Middle East.
No wonder everyone is fighting over it.
so Palpatine is America in this?
@@Dutchwheelchair *DO IT!*
@@poolhall9632 ok, Darth Hall
the only thing i dont get is: if naboo had all these fiscal problems, aswell as knowing that with the plasma it is helpless to the federation,
why did it buy fancy starfighters that cant pack a punch and luxury yachts for its royalty instead of funding a professional army/militia or surface to space weaponry?
"How Naboo's Massive Energy Reserves Doomed The Planet"
Is it like having oil on earth?
In short, Naboo is Koweït
Naboo = renneisance firenza
Starts as a good investment and ends in disaster.
Being rich in natural resources don't need skilled labor. You just need to know who to outsource it to. Same problem on earth. That's why so many countries rich in oil, or diamonds, or any other valuable material have so much poverty.
You forgot tax breaks people love the tax breaks
Notes: creating your own industry is slow and expensive so hard to compet in the market, also the foren entity needs to bring in there own specialists and workers so your own citizens won't get more jobs like they could for a donestic product but could get a boost in things like hotels, taxies ect,
Then this forren entery can sell the plasma they exstarct at a high price getting profits well only the government is given a small amount in tax needing to be distributed to the people or in the pockets of corrupt politicians
Can you please continue the sepratist alliance call earth series please
This was a plot point in the Plagueis book.
I've been away from the channel for a while, but wasn't Alan pro empire and all about humanity first? I find it funny hearing him say I support the republic. It's almost ludicrous to the point of being absurd.
Probably what’s happening on earth 🌍
I believe that the redistribution of massive wealth through the government is much better than just having some highly skilled individuals or certain jobs profit from it. This makes society more equal and helps prevent a part of your population getting left/ feeling behind by progress.
i mean the local govenment got 5% of revenue witch is still a good deal -----
damn
Oil wars with Ahmed best as funny frog for kids
So I have a very flawed fan calculation I use for some stuff for fuel / time / liters needed
FOR THINGS BELOW 80m (using exact measurements for CU) Find cubic meters and multiply by
-80 = CU X 0.064= __ = How many Hours of fuel X 95liters per hour= maximum fuel capacity
80-200 =CU X 0.006=__ =How many Hours of fuel X 178lts Per hour = maximum fuel capacity
200-400= CU X 0.002=__= How many hours of fuel X 356lts per hours= maximum fuel capacity
400-600= CU X 0.0003=__=How many hours of fuel X 712lt per hour= maximum fuel capacity
600-1,000= CU X 0.00036=__How many hours of fuel X 1,424lt per hour = maximum fuel capacity
1,000-2,000 CU X 0.00003692=__How many hours of fuel X 2,872lt per hour =maximum fuel capacity
I’m still working on this right now if anyone had campaign notes-
But my idea is fighters essentially have the fuel and run time of cars and everything bigger than that is built up from there in mass