Film Theory: Luke SHOULDN'T Destroy The Death Star (Star Wars)
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We all love to root for Luke while he's landing the crucial shots to destroy the Death Star...but what if we've been wrong all this time? What if destroying the Death Star is COMPLETELY wrong? This episode shows exactly why the destruction of the Death Star would have not only hurt the Rebel Alliance, but the entire galaxy...
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Darth Vader: "Luke, put the Death Star down right now! It was really expensive and I don't want you to break it."
Luke:haha death star goes boom
@@caustic5131 the humanity biggest enemy is a market force
Lol! This is amazing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So the New Republic will fail easily because of the debt.
@@caustic5131 imagine him being as a cat and death star is glass mug
Matpat: Plapatine's take over was smooth.
Plapatine: Engineers a war in order to take over
was thinking the same thing
Relatively smoother. Palpatine took over in the matter of 6 years. They did it in 9 montha
Plapatine?? Lol
Plap plap palpatines fleet got the slap
Well in palpatines war was droids and clones the gcw was all real non cloned people
So im watching this while doing my math home work and my mom walks into my room and i pause it on the part talking about all the money in the world and my mom was about to yell at me for not doing my math but then she saw the numbers on the screen and said "oh this is helping you never mind i thought you were watching videos about movies again." so i just wanted to say thanks mat pat for saving me from being yelled at.
Omg 😳😂
This is the most amazing thing over ever seen
Lol
The force will be with you :)
r/ThatHappened
I’d argue that Palpatine’s takeover was no where near as smooth as you’re saying. Don’t forget, he engineered a galactic war between the Seperatists and the Republic, funded the Clone Army and the Droid Army and I can’t imagine that war being all that healthy on the economy either. While it may not have been as damaging as the Rebellion’s hostile takeover, it was hardly a smooth and peaceful transition that hardly affected the livelihoods of the galactic population.
actually I would say it's dependant on the planet some probably benefit from the clone wars and were far enough away that they could produce/manufacture for the war without it ever affecting them versus places that get absolutely taken over with fighting
Yes, but that would've been smooth to get over, with a new reformed state You'd be able to just erase any economic problems with the funds of the Empire, as we know the Republic was using a partial amount of their GDP to fund the clone army.
I'm pretty sure it's explained in the clone wars how the clone army impacts the economy of the republic
@@Gaelic-Spirit Basically american debt lol
He still perpetuated the 2nd clones wars. Which had no jede to semper the clones
So you could call it...
A debt star?
***** By all means,it does its job.
well done
+Comrade Canary Hilarious! You win the internet today :)
+The Film Theorists Hiiii! You're Amazing!!!!
+Comrade Canary damnit someone beat me to it
Thanks for that Matt! Now I need to save up 193 Quintilion bucks, and the universe will be mine.
I already have 14 bucks
Filip Von Filbert Great, your contributions won’t be in vein.
you have to kill luke first
@@paxtondashnau8648 Dat's ok, I don't have any children to defeat me. No prob.
Begin a mining business.
So are we just going to ignore the U.S. government response to the petition, THIS IS NOT THE PETITION RESPONSE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
"this is not the petition response I am looking for" well, yeah, they kind of wanted a death star XD
Not to mention the place they directed people towards to petition for it... C3PO
DaiNoShoujoNoYami haha 😂 😂 😂
Only just realized this
Samuel Johnston omg the USA is run by nerds and I love it
A couple of things are being ignored here: 1. The destruction of the first Death Star would've been bad for the economy yes, but the blow would've been softened as more planets joined the Rebellion and led to both the Rebellion and the Empire pumping a lot more money into the economy and helping it to grow. 2. The Empire did not leave the galactic population alone. The Empire's policies would show that they were extremely oppressive to non-humans, for example committing genocide against the Lasat population and enslaving the Wookies.
also the death star was built in secret
3. the clone wars
The Empire also wiped out the Geonosians
If matpat was the director of Star Wars movies, this would be the most depressing series on earth
Realism tho. You need it.
Yes
How is this vid a theory, its a literal fact.
Warhammer 40k: Are you sure about that?
Dead Meat it would still be better than the Disney trilogy
Everyone: palpatine died in the deathstar.
Palpatine 36 years later: laughs.
*laughs in Sith lord
*laughs in sith lord
Yup
"I am.....inevitable"
You're about 35 years too late
Well, they can just borrow a small loan of 193 quintillion dollars.
+teh EPICATOR *republic credits
Considering that they are an empire with an unspecified number of worlds. They may just have to deny half of their military personel their new wage rise. And they may make up for it.
+Logan Barnett *imperial credits
+teh EPICATOR hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sounds legit
+teh EPICATOR Actually, Palpatine took over all the banks...so...it gets even more complicated.
Matpat: "Everyone else was able to live their lives unharmed."
Me: **laughs in Star Wars Rebels**
So uncivilized
Hello there
General Kenobi!
Your lightsaber will be a fine addition to my collection
Oh I don’t think so
"Palpatine died in the second one." lol, you thought
Hahahahahaha
Laughs in sith lord
@@psychicumbreon9564 *MY*
*LINE*
The sequels aren't cannon bro, legends are. He didn't lie he is just referring to the true star wars lore written by george lukas rather than the mouse.
@Just a guy that watches TH-cam videos yea....OUR
LINE
Star Wars The Stock Market Awakens
Star Wars: The Rebellion kills Economy.
+Tres Eberle star wars the drugs awaken
lel
all i can say is just G G
+Khalid Alnajjar i find your lack of economics disturbing. ( force chokes to death)
I'm really glad he out those brackets in the title, I wasn't sure if he was talking about the Death Star from Star Trek or not
xD
+Ranomas Lightbringer Personally I thought he meant the Death Star from Game of Thrones
+Hasheem Gul Nah, it's from 50 shades of grey.
+Ranomas Lightbringer badum-ts
+Ranomas Lightbringer *without
"But he pretty much left the galactic population alone in the process. Everyone else was able to live their lives with too much problem."
*The clone wars have entered the chat*
Jedi propaganda, revisionist history
“That thing wasn’t even fully paid of yet!”
Robot chicken
"Do you have *any* idea what this is gonna do to my credit?" 😀
So now that make so much sense now !! Good job
Missing the fact that the empire didn't pay for a whole lot. They just took what they wanted and blew up everything else.
It's still a lot of resources wasted in literally one minute
On a galactic scale; barely a dent in the imperial budget.
The Empire would have controlled the economy anyway, they produced everything, they bought everything. Mostly everything was nationalized. So it was a massive loop. The Empire didn't need to worry about the economy, because they controlled it.
thinking the same thing
Andrew Chapman l
" So after the death of Palpatine "
Yeah...
About that...
Palpatine: Don’t mind me. I’m just waiting for my granddaughter to show up so I can take over her body and rule the galaxy once again.
Please dislike your comment
@Krozma San. Expect for the fact that he did die. His physical body in ROS is a clone
I see we have a big brain here
Well Disney made the new trilogy non canon so he is dead
“When palpatine died”
Yea,well about that
“THE WORLD IS RUN BY NERDS!” yay
I wish 😂
I'm so happy lol
YEEEES!!!
and C 3po
That it is.
30 years later "HEY GUYS WE BUILT A NEW PLANET LOL"
+readyeddy It's probably not a new planet, they probably took an existing planet and put a giant underground base and superlaser inside of it.
+readyeddy I want to think that transforming a planet into a superweapon is cheaper than making a superweapon from scratch
+ruyman90 indeed
"Aaaaand it's gone."
+thelaughingrouge LOL!!!!
Now then, let's talk the Starkiller planet...
+TheSuperGamefreak Oh boy, that one is gonna be heavy.
No
+TheSuperGamefreak let's not talk about JJ's Mary Sue fanfiction
They'd probably just use tech to redistribute the planets own steel to form the shape of the canon. The rest is already their in the form of the canon. It's probably physically impossible while keeping the planet's life forms alive, which they did, but then this a universe with space wizards in it so it's best not to nitpick.
I know right killing the only planet with light saber crystals and replacing it with a star just imagine how much money and time went into that thing plus it was replaced BY A STAR that star system would be torn apart by gravity in less than 10 years, still a cool scene tho
Superweapon made by a tyrannical empire: *is destroyed*
Everyone: Oh no! This will surely be terrible for the economy
I'm not sure that's true either. Taxation stifles the economy, although projects like highways and bridges can help it because they make it easier to do business. The Death Star existed in order to bring all planets into the Empire. To increase their tax base. The Empire didn't actually make it easier to do business. They just made sure that people kept less of their earnings.
Empire was literally almost never tyrannical in the EU. Did a few people get offed by Sith? Sure. But the vast majority of the galaxy lived in a perfectly "normal" social structure, were well protected from pirates and others that would disrupt them and were financially stable. Some of the core worlds were tightly controlled but hundreds of others barely even knew the Empire existed beyond the taxes.
Well, blowing up billions of workers and taxpayers (on Alderaan) doesn't help the economy either...
@@MorliHolect That's just one planet. Though. And let's not forget the republic isn't really hands clean. Lots of bad stuff going on there, that has been culled under the empire, then again the empire brought other bad stuff to the table. The only reason we call the evil empire evil is cuz lucas wanted so. In reality the evil empire, might have just be just an empire.
@@Goldenkitten1 In the EU it was worse. In canon the empire is pretty chill
MatPat: Palpatine dies in the Death Star II.
Palpatine: *Laughs in Sith Lord*
Palpatine: laughs in murderous psychopath
Palpatine: *laughs in life support*
Somehow
@@madlad1741 Palpatine returned.
Next Star Wars Movie. Episode 8: The Search For More Money.
😂😂😂
lol
LOL SO DAMN TRUE
It's a quote from space balls guys
+animegx45 Episode 9: Bankers Empire.
"The world is run by nerds"
I'd be more worried if the world was run by jocks.
Wedgies and swerlies for everyone!
+Your Neighborhood seagull Haha, don't forget lunch money tax.. Also phrases like "Hello, how are you?" and "Nice day, isn't it?" ..are replaced with "Do u even lift bro?" and "Whats up, Butt-munch?"
It would be hell....
Yeag
+Rusty Shackleford We all would, we all would.
"everyone else was able to live their lives without much of a problem"
*Coughs in slave labor*
*Sneezes in oppression*
*Sniffles in planetary geonocide*
Ah yes crimes that their ancestors definetly not caused *coughs in clones and droids oppressing millions of people*
Rebelion wasn't much better, it became the new republic which literally had the same problems
@@EE-dj7et slavery was overlooked in the old republic. Illegal in the core and unable to be enforced in the outer rim. Under the empire slaves were actively used for labor for the empire. Wookies and many other sapient creatures. Just look at rebels and solo at the pull of the empire's use of slavery
*intense general grievous amounts of coughing* space Nazis *more grievous coughing*
Need some allergy medicine?
Or do you have a cold?
your reference to the emperor "he pretty much left the galactic population alone" is wrong. He was the master mind behind the clone wars so everything since Naboo to his rise as the empire should be considered his fault. While the rebels may seem as terrorist who put the galaxy in a huge recession, the emperor is the one who engulfed the galaxy in a war, destroyed the balance of power from the inside, created dozens of rebel factions and small civil wars and destroyed the jedi order who was tasked to bring peace thus allowing even more crime to rise. you said that people spend less when they are scared and thats one of the first things to happen when a recession hits, well im pretty sure people were really scared the entire time the emperor was in power. sorry matt patt, im unconvinced about this theory. the only reason why they were able to build the death star was due to slave labor not a strong economy.
+Biggs Pretty sure Jar Jar was actually behind all that.
if you look at history big wars actually help the economy look at ww2
+Ryan G. True, Batman knows all
+Biggs Ok, im gona be that guy.
The death star was not the star wars twin towers, it was a military base.
Yup. Im probolbly benig dumb here, but im that guy.
The Empire is basically the US.
Starting dozens of small wars, funding major military projects, creating rebel factions, and ignoring the constitution (jedi order) which was supposed to bring peace and liberty.
*One Punch Man Theory:* How much force is in one of Saitama's "casual" punches or even a "serious" punch?
Have not been seen yet.
+digimondudeify Its not impossible to know, you can estimate it based on the face that his serious punch literally splits the clouds apart across the equator.
digimondudeify It's just an attempt theory to be honest.
This is probably wrong just like his Kylo Ren theory
+Mario Hyrulia Infinity and infinity+1 respectively.
11:39 Even Starbucks want to grab the power... :p
Lol u saw that too
lol
+Victor Sung The funny thing is that he is right about the numerous factions trying to grab power. Everyone was happy that the Emperor died but the Empire did not collapse. While a new republic was formed it still had to contend with the remaining power structure of the Empire including top admirals and other military brass still in power across hundreds of worlds. If politics is messy here on Earth with just one planet and one species you have no idea the hell the Star Wars Galaxy went through because of this. Before Disney took over the accepted canon for events after the fall of the empire was an explosion of new threats and instability.
+Pandor25 beware
+Pandor25 So does Starfleet.
step one: build big thing
step two: destroy it
steep three: crash the economy
*I will finish..... What you started..... in easily manageable monthly payments"
LMAO
+SS Productions lol
+SS Productions All you need is a small loan of a million credits
DEAD RN
+SS Productions your name tho its kinda bad
"Palpatine took over relatively peaceful without hurting the galaxy"
Literally started a Galactic War that nearly bankrupt the galaxy and caused misery for nearly everyone
“Relatively peaceful?” He orchestrated a galaxy wide war to grab power.
Haha LOL 😂
@tsardean9192 Well, then you could say the same about the rebels, they were the ones who attacked first, and palpatine took action against the attack and initiated order 66.
@@fernandogray2811
Dear god you’re dumb. Do you have the FAINTEST idea about the order of events?!
@@fernandogray2811 Except he initiated that after they tried to arrest him for treason. He was a scumbag and there's no getting away from that. He was the most corrupt of a corrupt government. And how do you work out they started it? They started out trying to do things peacefully; only when that didn't work did they resort to violence. Don't forget Palpatine got rid of all opposition and made himself emperor.
Me as a kid: The Rebels are the good guys
Me now: The Empire did nothing wrong
The Gaming Brit yeah what did the empire do?
Ryan Howard
Nothing wrong
The empire enslaved entire species and spent all of the galaxy’s money on the military it was also a absolutely monarchy not a democracy
Skull Face
It was not a monarchy, it was a dictatorship.
If it had been a monarchy, Palptine would have gotten the Empire by blood.
Not only that, but also monarchial rulers are expected to bear children as heirs.
Palpitate did no such thing.
As such the Empire is a Militaristic Dictatorship.
**------------------**
Also, the Empire is no more worse than either the Grand Republic or New Republic.
In fact in a lot of respects it was better than both Republics in its first 15 years of power.
just watch rebels tv show and you'll see what actually happened
This makes me realize how much I want to see multiple factions battle it out for control of a broken galaxy. Sequels, you could have been so much more...
Jordan Game of galaxy
reed the legends expanded universe books like hair to the empire witch take place post battle of Endor.
Legends is far better warlords era is the best to get up to date with I wont go on major spoilers ahead if I did so go check it out.
Jordan that would be badass
Mandalore according to Star Wars Lore is the most adequate to rule this broken political system after the Empire
Matpat, what if the Empire stole the iron?
+Freshbreeze Probably got it all from that Junkyard Planet you fight Kazdan Paratus on in The Force Unleashed. They even have a smelting factory there specifically for building warships, with a cannon to fire the ore up to the orbital shipyard.
Also. Aren't there planets made entirely out of iron in the galaxy.
+Cody Hines That is non-canon.
+Freshbreeze It would still need to come from somewhere. Whether the steel was bought or reclaimed from scrapped x-wings you're still looking at thousands of planets-worth of the stuff as well as transportation costs, labour costs, life support for workmen on the project etc. All of this takes money if even you're doing it secretly so the economic effects would still exist, they'd just be labelled as 'Coffee' or whatever else you label your fraud. Then there's the question of why a legitimate government would need to steal resources to work on a project (however secret).
+packman2321 Well, the Empire mostly used slaves and prisoners of war, so they didn't really care about workmen.
You do realize that the Death Star was primarily constructed via slave labor, yes? And that the Empire was extremely racist (speciesist?) and treated every alien species as second class citizens? Bullshit that the Empire didn't effect imperial citizens. And Darth Vader was feared throughout the entire galaxy. There is also the Base Delta Zero operations carried out as a result of the Tarkin Doctrine.
Another thing. Attacking a military target and attacking a civilian target are completely different things. Don't try to equate them. The Alliance to Restore the Republic were NOT terrorists. A terrorist attacks civilian targets to instill fear in the populace. If anything, the rebels were stopping attacks like this from happening by destroying the Death Star and opposing the Empire's tyranny.
EDIT: You also are ignoring that the Empire had complete control over the economy. They could have forced the economy not to react. Plus they used propaganda to reduce the spread of information, such as them losing their most powerful military asset.
+Hylia's Hero The people from Alderaan were Imperial citizens
MakiPcr Which the Empire blew up. Proving my point that the Empire did effect your average citizen on a day to day basis.
Someone's a bit of a Star Wars geek... 💩
+Septicduckiplier Okay? Is that an insult or an onservation? Either way it applies to you too considering you watched this video.
+Hylia's Hero he could came just to troll. Just because u watch star wars doesn't mean you're a geek. Not having a life and doing nothing but watching star wars would make you a geek. js
It's shown in the comics that the imperials were incredibly corrupt, and the fallout is shown
You also see how the empire got their funding
Plus the rebels needed to destroy the death start before they destroyed MORE planets!
Great video though!
The Death Star was more of a scare tactic more than anything. I mean, how many planets did you see them actually blow up with that thing?
Yeah, they blew up Alderaan... Which were harbouring terrorists.
Corrupt? I haven't seen the comics, but I'll look into it.
Yeeeeeah but here's a twist: they could just conquer the death star and recondition it to dont destroy planets. You know, to aboid recesion and stuff
@@franco-golpeador2435
Let me hit your twist with another twist.
War is gray! Even in Star Wars, their could be rebels who wouldn't mind using this thing to blow up imperial planets, innocents be damned! Plus there would be the possibility of the empire taking back the Death Star. Economy in a whole galaxy be damned! That thing needs to be destroyed!
Could've been scrapped for parts? Yes! But it's still a weapon people can take advantage of and use AS A WEAPON. You can remove the laser and it's still dangerous, cause now. Someone can pull a Mobile Suit Gundam and drop the thing on a world killing billions.
You can recover from dept and a lose of money, you CAN'T recover from the literal deaths of billions. Cause those lives are gone forever.
@@owenbernardo3026 Nukes are more of a scare tactic more than anything, I mean, how many cities did you see them actually blow up with that thing?
Yeah, they blew up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were in enemy territory.
Everyone hated the empire, and the transition wasn't smooth. They declared non-humans second class citizens, held the entire senate hostage until they signed a treaty, invaded Corroscant, and destroyed the Jedi Temple. Poverty rates were at an all time high, they forced certain species like Wookies into slavery. Basically, everyone hated these guys. The rebels WEREN'T terrorists just like the US Marine Corp isn't full of terrorists. These people declared a WAR, and they weren't committing acts of terror to scare people. That's what the EMPIRE was doing, they blew up a whole planet, and intended to blow up more. They used fear to keep people inline. The Alliance didn't kill innocents to state a message, but the Empire did.
The economy crashed with the empire, and under a new system of government, it could heal again.
EDIT: Yes I know the difference between the Sith Empire and Palpatine's Empire, yes I got them mixed up. I acknowledged that, please stop commenting about it.
+Xelipho Wow, you really have no fucking idea do you?
"held the entire senate hostage until they signed a treaty, invaded Corroscant, and destroyed the Jedi Temple."
YEAH. 3000 YEARS BEFORE EPISODE 1!
That is not even a little relevant to the discussion. What the fuck?
"The rebels WEREN'T terrorists just like the US Marine Corp isn't full of terrorists"
That doesn't even make sense. The US marine corps are a branch of the United states military whilst the rebels are a stateless political organization. What the fuck are you even talking about?
" and intended to blow up more."
You just made that up. There is a direct source that shows that the Empire did not intend to destroy any more planets than Aldeeran.
This is just pathetic.
You are just making stuff up.
"The Alliance didn't kill innocents to state a message, but the Empire did." So those 800,000 civilians aboard the death star didn't exist then?
Don't be an idiot (although you already act as one if your comment is anything to judge by) the Rebels killed millions of innocent people as well.
+Jen'Ari-Asha didn't Vader say "start with Alderon "?
Whoo! A true theorist, you are. MatPat overlooked a lot of things with this one, I wonder if he's baiting us... or if he was rushed. Also, ignore the troll, the comment is its own undoing. I think the intergalactic culture difference is one of the main things overlooked here.
Karl M I don't remember Vader saying that. However, what he said is irrelevant. Because we know exactly what the Empire would do with the death star.
And after Aldeeran they were not planning to destroy any more planets.
Honestly, read Star wars infinities: a new hope.
It is a book were the Empire defeats the Rebels.
It clearly shows what the Empire was planning to do.
Did they destroy more planets? Nope.
Did they use it to terrorize planets? Nope.
Did they use it as a weapon? Nope.
They renamed it "The Justice Star" and put it in orbit around Coruscant as a symbol of peace and justice.
The Justice Star quickly became the new Galactic Capital.
That was until R2-D2 and Yoda hijacked it and crashed it into Coruscant, killing billions of innocent people in the process.
That is exactly what the Empire was planning to do, as well as what the Rebels were planning to do if they lost.
They would kill billions of innocent people as long as they killed Palpatine in the process.
God damn religious fanatics.
+Jen'Ari-Asha last time i checked killing stormtroopers isn't killing innocent people
The empire probably just took all their resources without paying any credits.
+Hipster Spock I think it did.
The Empire used slaves and droids to build the Death Star and gather the resources to build it, and it was a secret project so barely anyone outside high ranking military knew about it, plus Stormtroopers don't get paid. So pretty much this entire video was a moot point. Of course only people who are obsessive Star Wars fans (such as moi) would know those points so I can forgive matpat.
+Nick J. If you can prove that anything you said is canon (which I guarantee you can't) it doesn't matter.
If it isn't in Star Wars Ep 1-7, Clone Wars, or Rebels it doesn't count.
So no, the entire video is not a moot point.
Lonelynightm That info comes from the EU, which is not part of the Disney Canon, true. But it can be assumed that if Disney does not contradict it, it can be considered ambiguous canon.
Nick J.
That is not how canon works. Is or is not. There is no sorta canon. It is as simple as that.
Death Star was an inside job, Vader was on his tie fighter when it went down.
Coincidence? I think not!
and dead on a shuttle while the second one blew up.
Actally it WAS A inside job thanks to the new movie rogue one... huh.
And after Luke burnt his father's body his son founds grandad and boom
Also is it me or does this family goes like...
First son becomes Jedai but then he becomes a Sith
*Here is the loop*
Son gets born becomes Jedai
The son of that son becomes Sith
And just like that this never stops!
Lol
I think that this is a good demonstration of the nature of Sith: acquire power, and then use it. If the thing they want to use it for isnt all that bad, then a Sith can actually make a pretty decent leader.
Don't forget Palpatine was enslaving entire races. Although to be fair the Galactic Republic and the later New Republic didn't do much to hinder the Hutt slave trade either, but still. At least they didn't promote it themselves.
@McFlyingFury eh, if they don't oppose it they *basically* promote it
@@hahafunnyname That's not a very complete way of looking at things. At first I almost replied "Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.", then realized that in this comment thread I was making a point that Sith can be not all that bad sometimes.
@Michael Cherokee I quess my way of looking at things is quite shallow because I am a rather silly goose
@@hahafunnyname Yeah I mean for tens of thousands of years nobody opposed the Hutts and their reign of slavery so....
We need to build a Death Star, and we're going to make the Martians pay for it!
lol
space Trump!
Your fired
+Baby Dragon
HELL NO!
thd death stump
''the steel is just the beginning''
and the next part is...
the plastic needed to make a LEGO death star
Both of the lego death stars because there are two of them
I feel better about the Lego choice I made, because there's less pieces for good old 75060. (From some of the prices I saw looking for that thing, you need to bring in quite a few bounties alive.)
wait star bucks wants to take the empires place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????
+Rage Mage Star Bucks...Star Wars...Coincidence? I think not!
+Saphiria TheBlueDragonKnight At first it took me a while to recognize what you were saying xD, I get it Star Bucks(money) for Star Wars
so does the Federation
+Rage Mage I think the money in Star Wars should be called Starbucks. Not only is it a great name, just think of the product placement dollars they'd be raking in!
+Saphiria TheBlueDragonKnight star BUCKS,what would be missing after destroying the death stars(money)
Palpatine when creating clones:
I'm never gonna financially recover from this expense.
Palpatine when creating 2 death stars, each costing 11000x the GDP of the ENTIRE EARTH:
INVEST.
* knock knock* do you wanna build a death star?
I want to build a debt star.
We can blow Alderaan away...
We will destroy Luke sky walker...
+VelstryoxDP fuck off
+HantalGazi YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!
Who will win:
A whole empire with dark magic that are protected by planet-destroying weapons,
Or a random boi with a glowy stick?
Desert boi
Meams!
Sand boi.
To be fair that random boi was son of the chosen one sooo understandable
Random girl with glowy stick.
"Empeor Palpatine was pretty harmless"
Also emperor Palpatine killing innocent members of the senate and having hostile takeovers on planets.
And that whole thing where, you know, he ALLOWED ONE OF HIS OFFICERS TO BLOW UP A HEAVILY POPULATED PLANET. You know. Harmless.
He himself was somewhat harmless. Tarkin, Vader, Veers, and all his main officers, however, were really dangerous men due to what he let them get away with.
@@benjaminfricke4791 which saved millions more than it killed (by scaring others so they don't fight) and only happened because the Jedi attacked.
Rhoda Swartz
Except the opposite happened. There was a massive backlash against the Destruction of Alderaan that made the Rebels a genuine threat.
He enslaved Wookiees
You say the emperor came to power while the normal people just lived out their life, but he literally created a galactic war to get his power.
Hey, good guy Palpatine, y'know he employed millions, and created a stable galactic government.
"Employed" lol the same way Americas food companies "employ" workers.
+Yamik They were even worse. Doesn't seem possible, but they were.
+John Sledge Was still a nazi.
+John Sledge Except they were enslaved.
Just go through the list of peoples enslaved by the empire or forced into work camps or all the various papers the empire treated non-humans like scum of the earth.
Vader letting on a robot, or trandoshan to the bounty hunters would have been considered extreme and bizarre which goes to show how backwards the emperor was
+John Sledge What about that time he ordered his military to blow up two planets? Good economy or no, that's pretty bad.
Great collaboration once again! Thanks MatPat and great video!
Yay collaboration s
secret rant, do i know you?
+Bianca Mary Grace Suhendro the ones that re hash their videos
+Screen Rant Make a Salad Fingers or a Don't Hug Me Im Scared !
+Screen Rant You're only happy because you have a new video to copy.
So if we can't build the death star then what about the star forge?
if you can find out the science behind it, ill make one for you
Ian Baker What if some one else finds out the science behind it. Does the credit for the idea still go to me?
+we'll bang okay gamer poop... haha
we'll bang okay no, but I'll make one regardless
Ian Baker Then what can I have
The empire was trying to keep the Death Star a secret, so not many normal people (non-imperials) knew that it even existed.
Even a lot of Imperials didn't know about it.
"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil"
Heh, how it should have ended reference
+Azitock yes. Took me 15 years of aging to realise it.
Yes! Anakin Skywalker is my favorite character in Star Wars he is why I would rather be on the Dark side
How bout you watch the originals
+thegalaxy2012 I will do what I must
11:40 Starbucks is a *REBEL CONSPIRACY!*
Eishaaya yeah and Star Trek
NANI?!?!?!?!?!
Destroying Alderann pretty much ruined any chances of anyone showing sympathy for the Empire. In the books the Empire destroying a planet caused massive defections and support for the Rebellion. Think about the economic impact the annihilation of one of the core worlds would have.
The First Order blew up a whole system of core worlds think about the impact of THAT
Alverant that would have a big debt ,but what if the amount of money and resources in the star wars galaxy for the company's that supplied and made the death star at least was large enough that they could have just blinked it off like a new sting
or what if only two or three planets that where already making that much steel on their own where the only ones who put money into the death star and where somewhat cutoff from the rest of the galaxy
also you could have just said the galactic great depression and been done
or at least mark at could have
I'm a Gaming Dragon The bad English is strong in this one...
Also there is Jedha, Scraif and the NEW REPUBLIC SYSTEM!!!
For some reason the film theory intro feels more nostalgic than the game theory intro
11:39
I never knew Starbucks is a galactic power-hungry faction which have a gigantic military force and proves to be a threat to the Empire
*The More You Know*
Luke i have coffee
Starbucks intensifies
The Star Trek federation was also there, and that universe isn't even connected!
*KNEW IT*
Wow, That would actually make a much better story than what was actually in Episode VII. Imagine the galaxy being in economic ruins while the new republic struggles to maintain order and rebuild. Meanwhile Grand Admiral Thrawn gathers and organizes the imperial remnant forces to strike at the New Republic during their weakest moment.
I vote we scrap episode 7, 8 and 9 and work with this plot line.
Pretty sure that each like is a vote. I voted.
Agreed
Yeah, it kinda needs to be said, after the destruction of Alderan The Empire's public support freaking PLUMMETED and a ton of people started supporting the Rebels, and that's not even getting into the fact that in the time between episodes 3 and 4 the Empire had put forth a number of policies that had already made it VERY unpopular.
Basically, while no one liked the economic impact, the people shedding tears for the destruction of the Death Star were a vast minority.
+magmos Popular. Yeah, no. Mothma, made a note on the complement of the Executor SSD, which has a crew of more than 280,000. She explicitly wrote, "A dilemna. If the Alliance were to capture one of these behemoths, we wouldn't have enough personnel to crew it." This was written shortly after the Battle of Endor. In a galaxy that numbers quadrillions of beings, I don't think a tiny group that can't even crew a vessel of 280,000 would be considered big, or popular. All-in-all, the Empire was actually quite popular with much of the galaxy. Don't believe rebel propaganda and lies.
Wh40kFinatic
Does the word "conscription" mean anything to you?
+magmos yeah there was a lot of dissent and rioting, but they were brutally put down. with no senate the governors could cut through the red tape and just start shooting.
+Wh40kFinatic most of the core was in favor of it and a lot of the outer rim was ignored by the empire. the former separatist worlds hated it but they were bombed into the stone age so they dont really factor in.
the empire was popular because the galaxy was desperate for law and order after the carnage of the clone wars (several planets were scorched in addition to the standard collateral damage) and the empire brought plenty of it. jedi were blamed for the war, the separatists were scapegoated and punished and the empire used pirates, separatist holdouts, and rebels as boogymen to keep the people scared (which wasnt a lie, a branch of the rebellion became extreme with the idea of using the imperial tactics of brutality against them)
+magmos Yes, but that 'vast minority' is the one using brains, not emotions.
Watching this from 7 years later, I'm starting to thinking MatPat shouldn't have ever let go of that original opening theme song.
So the Jedi are ISIS minus the beards, robes and swinging swords around.
It all makes sense now.
Muhammad skywalker confirmed
Osama Care
Lol,
Praise be upon him, and may the halal meat be with you.
+Osama Care Osama bin Skywalker.
+Maddinhpws Obama bin skywalker
+Julianus Maximianus Well, except that the Jedi didn't have organized rape camps for any female civilians they captured. But aside from that.......no, ISIS still aren't Jedi sorry.
[SPOILER]
The Death Star is Kylo Ren.
Called it
SPOILER
your mom is the moon of endor. I am sorry if I offended anyone.
+Artur Araújo Snoke is also jar jar binks
+Lord Helix how did you know lol
noooooooooo
I'm pretty sure that the literal explosion of planets is also bad for the economy
Chicken Fate, some planets can be a liability and only strain unnecessary resources from the Empire, this can be due to many reasons like constant unrest for example on a planet would require constant military intervention but abandoning the planet may be worse. But having a death star can solve that problem and considering the Empire has millions if planets blowing up a handful of the worst ones would rather strengthen the economy and public order.
Hellenistic Ruler Wow, awesome reply. I love you.
True, true.
ohh...
you don't say
I was thinking of that
When Palpatine died in death star 2. Oh boy, you are in for a
Great story matpat
Wait.... So destroying the Death Star has a heavy impact on the economy.... BUT DESTROYING ALDERAAN WONT?!
the death star is a galaxy wide peoject. a single planet is small in comparison.
+Robert Harris So, let's, just change up the scale a little bit here. SO, if Galaxy = Nation, then planet must = City, right?
Now, imagine how FUCKED a nation's economy would be if one of its major cities was leveled in a single afternoon. We could probably see something similar in the aftermath of the bombings on Hiroshima. I'm almost certain that blowing up alderaan would have made the economy tank just as hard as blowing up the death star, if not even harder.
+ilovethelegend that comparison is not good, it's more the galaxy=A Nation, and Aldaraan=A upper class suburban neighborhood.
ilovethelegend ya. Aldaraan is a planet of rich senetors and the such with mansions.
Judging by the context clues alderan is most likely a resource planet or a political planet.
Any place can have a king or queen regardless of its purpose.
Since we don't see or hear much of any political matters being settled on the planet it would most likely be for resources.
Losing one resource output out of hundreds of thousands I think it's safe to assume the galaxy would have just thought it as a small bombing or terrorist attack
Luke didn't destroy it though! The Death Star was an inside job!
SupremeEdgeLord YES HE DID, DID YOU EVEN SEE THE MOVIE. HE SHOT A MISSLE INTO THE DEATH STAR SO HE DESTROYED IT
The hedgehog God can't tell if joking or serious
The Force can't melt Quadanium steel.
How was it inside job, the empire would have known the economy factor, why waster the resources to just to make the rebalance feel like they won a important battle. I'm curious why
Random Master Is it a coincidence they invaded Hoth after? They wanted that precious oil!
You're still salty about being wrong about Star Wars 7's plot, aren't you...
Lolz
+Kevin Xie probably about a certain scene on a bridge :P
+Kevin Xie what will happen to the economy/star systems when star killer destroyed multiple planets of the new republic and most of their fleet? The New republic capital was destroyed Hosnian system
+Fangirly Basil he's wrong ...
+Kevin Xie
I think he was surprised the movie was so mediocre.
btw, I'm still feeling that Luke is behind things somehow. As a matter of fact, I think he's behind Rey being so skilled from the outset.
“Huge Power Struggle after the Emporers Death” well yeah, that exactly happend. Independent warlords who worked for the Empure attempted to take over the Galaxy, eead yiur books MATPAT *uncontrollable sobbing*
And there even Starbbucks in the video.
And you're telling me after this they went and made a SECOND one?!?
"Emperor, the Death Star has been destroyed!"
"Huh? Oh, no biggie. We can just extrapolate the universe and make another."
Maybe they already had another in production and when the first blew up the second was already near completion.
The second one was built onto the remains of the first death star.
But the first one completely exploded... what was left?
Sophie the Jedi Knight It was blown up yes, but the film only shows the blast. Not what was left behind. It was likely large portions like the inner frame scattered in size ably large pieces.
Ah. That makes sense. Thanks.
A slight problem with the start of your theory - it's an Empire building the Death Star, not a democracy, and a galaxy-wide Empire capable of extracting materials from multiple planets and teleporting them and not paying for anything because he's in charge, so....yeah.
You still have to feed and house your workers. Even slave labor isn't free, because slaves cost resources to maintain.
@@andrewpatton5114 Slavery is damagin to any economy
You would want to incorporate people and make them join your economy not enslave them
@@_NeoImperia_ Slavery does not damage an economy, it's actually extremely lucrative. The issue is human rights which is why slavery is bad. If you read the first Darth Bane book you see an example of how these people are forced to work on planets just to get basic sustenance and in such massive debt they can never leave, so the companies that hire/own these workers make a huge profit by barely paying anything for the workers.
actually the emperor seemed to want to kickstart the economy and make the galaxy flourish so although I'm sure he bought at steep discount prices I feel like he would pay something at least
Dam u Luke, u ruined everything, no wonder u went into hiding for 30 years after all this! The only good Jedi is a DEAD Jedi!
BANDIT! :D
Still my favorite youtuber
+BanditIncorporated Don't you know? He tried to disappear to get out of debt
+BanditIncorporated So, taking the Film Theorist's advice, Luke and/or Leia should've joined Vader, been named Palpatine's heirs, then conducted a palace coup to preserve the continuity of government.
Great movie there. If Episodes 4-6 were rebooted to be more like the prequels.
Not to mention the countless billions inside the Death Star.
About this theory: The frankly amazing Aftermath series agrees (yes, it's canon). It covers the events after the second death star and shows how the galaxy, particularly the empire, has gone to crap. They're great books and I would recommend reading them if you're interested.
I've heard that they aren't that good, but the lore they add is definitely good.
“There’s a force in the galaxy more dangerous than the dark side”. I know, it’s rough coarse and gets everywhere. SAND
We ARE the Empire!
I fear sand more than anything else in the universe.
I love the old intro.
We will miss you matpat
just wanted to mention that non-human planets were discriminated and strip-mined for resources, in the canon books of rogue one and the aftermath series, the empire going all apartheid was a recurring theme.
11:40 there's the starbucks symbol
STARbucks
dont forget the federation symbol just before it. at least Starbucks has decent products. What has star trek ever provided outside of a few good movies?
saw that too
lol 😝
BnL should have been on there
This is mentioned often in Star Wars Legends, and the moral problem is easily rectified if one remembers that the Emperor would have likely destroyed the Entire Galaxy if it suited his lust for power.
The Seeker of Ancient Truth old vid, but noe that the last jedi has been out for a few weeks, and we know what happened between ROTJ and FTA, the emperor literally had plans in place for if/when he died that would DESTORY entire planets' populations just to keep fear towards what would be left of the empire (operation: Cinder). That and another point made by someone else is the death stars weren't paid for... they were built by wookie slaves, and all resources were forcefully taken to build it.
Matpat: The Death Star is needed for the economy
Also Matpat: Oh yeah that's right, they blew up a planet...oh, well...
you don't have to pay countless number of currencies to make a planet unlike the ds.
@@cr90captain89 True, but
1) consider the currency on the planet when it is blown up and
2) think about all of the industries on that planet when it is blown up. The division of labor has most likely advanced with technology, so there may be an entire field of industry crippled.
3) Most importantly, think of the economic disaster when people see the government blowing up it's own planets. There will be a scramble to get out of whatever investments seem risky, causing an absolute mess of an economy.
In canon, the death star officially costs 1 trillion credits
Yeah, but Star Wars economics is egregiously nonsensical. A Imperial I-class Star Destroyer is priced at 150 million credits, according to Wookiepedia. To put that into perspective a "gartro egg omelet" at "Dex's Diner" costs7.5 credits, and Coruscant has over 1 trillion citizens. In other words, if 100 billion loyal Imperial Citizens (less that 1/10 of Coruscant's population, though one must consider that crime and poverty was rampant) would be willing to give up the value of a omelet each, the Empire could build 5000 Star Destroyers, or cover 75% of the Death Star's cost.
...
That also means that the Empire could have built 6666 Star Destroyers instead of the Death Star. I'd love to see what 6666 Star Destroyers would do to the Resistance's meagre forces. (Or they could have just said "Fuck it, if you want Starfighters, we'll give you bloody Starfighter" and built ≈3.3 million Tie Defenders... which reminds me, Tie Defenders are only five times more expensive that the many times less effective standard TIE/LN, which makes their decison to focus on these inferior models all the more inexplicable, especially considering the fact that they faced mostly guerilla attacks, which advanced fighters with Hyperdrives would be far more adept at countering than Star Destroyers.)
that sounds really low. I guess canon is canon but still.
@@deadcurze The Empire had a great interest in intimidation. Hence Star Destroyers and Death Stars instead of TIE Defenders. Yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense but Palpatine wasn't exactly the poster boy for Sanity Fair.
If the Death Star cost 193 quintillion dollars and also cost 1 trillion credits, we can assume that a (presumably American) dollar is worth around 193,000 credits. Which means that the aforementioned 'Garto Egg Omelette' would cost around 0.0000389 dollars, or around 0.00389 cents.
Film Theory: How much money is Dex's Diner losing?
Edit: I'm an idiot and got the exchange ratio wrong. 193,000 dollars to 1 credit is the correct exchange, and therefore the 'Garto Egg Omelette' should be worth $1,447,500 dollars.
Film Theory: How much is Dex's Diner gaining?
What about the fact that it was primarily built out of slave labor? Reduces the cost quite a bit.
I see some faults with what you said in this video:
1. The Death Star is not a landmark, it is a battle station. It cannot be compared to the World Trade Center, but to a military base, and since the Death Star was about to attack the rebels main base, it was pretty much a military base in Afghanistan. Taliban destroying a military base in Afghanistan is not an act of terror, but war. Or as the Joker put it: "No one bats an eye."
2. Palpatines revolution from within didn't go smooth at all. First there where the clone wars, a galaxy wide total war many people in the galaxy suffered under. Then he killed all the Jedi, the greatest paragons of the Republic. Then, after he declared his empire, he enslaved many species like the Wookies or the Geonosians and declared pretty much all non-human species second class citisens.
So even if the empire tries to pass off the destruction of the Death Star as a terrorist attack, most of the galaxy wouldn't listen.
3. It is even questionable how much the overall populus of the galaxy knows about the Death Star. In the movie, many of the high ranking Imperials discuss that even having the Death Star is making many systems turn to the Rebels. Tarkin argues that fear will keep them in line, but with nothing to be afraid of, the Empire would be better off denying the Death Star ever existed in the first place.
+Tactical Strategist no they didn't, Thrawn made his way up the ranks because of his skill,but it was still an uphill battle fighting prejudices
The rebels were a terrorist group. A well armed one, with good intentions, but a terror group nonetheless. Second, the Death Star was a massive military project. It would be more like ISIS destroying the Pentagon than the Taliban destroying an Afghan base. Third, remember all of Palpatine's evil dealings were done behind the scenes. To the public, the Jedi were a religious cult attempting to destroy democracy by assassinating the Supreme Chancellor, so when Order 66 was issued and the 501st marched on the Jedi Temple, in the eyes of the public they were defending peace and justice. This also applies to the attacks on Kashykk and other planets - they were huge reactions to small involvement, just like Bush with Iraq. Palpatine's speech abolishing the Republic and ushering in the Empire was applauded massively. The Galaxy willingly transformed from Republic to Empire. In comparison, the Galactic Civil War ended with a terror attack on a huge military celebration, followed swiftly by an invasion of the Mid Rim, then the Inner Rim, then The Core Worlds. The rebels were like every other terrorist revolutionary group - after winning, they loot and force people to fight for them.
+PhilisOzup by that logic, the American founders were terrorists too. Terrorists are not just anyone fighting the government. The Rebellion had openly declared war on the Empire, had it's own planets and bases and uniforms. It was an open, declared war, which makes it not a terrorist operation. The Rebellion is never seen murdering civilians to invoke terror.
PhilisOzup A terrorist group has the goal of creating fear. Thats why they are called terrorists. A terrorist is someone who doesn't target military bases or strategic points, but innocent people. Killing soldiers in an open battle is war, killing civilians to intimidate their people is terrorism. Rebels are not terrorists.
The Death Star was a military base in enemy territory manned by combatant forces. So no, its not like the pentagon.
And finally, Bush never openly enslaved whole peoples or declared certain ethnic groups second class citisens. And people still hated him.
Everyone's worst nightmare is recession? I would've thought it would be FNAF Five
+Tad Decker Luckily it wont happen, Scott surely will stop after humiliating himself with FNaF World
+Lord Trippy you know he signed a movie deal with a big film crew right?
Yeah, f course I know! It's all anyone's been talking about! I mean an actual game.
Tad Decker tbh a movie is an even bigger nightmare because there's a slight possibility that it might be ...
Good
+Mike Marks owh mah goosh nnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Vader to Luke: This is why we can’t have nice things
Ok, except calling it a terrorist attack doesn't make it a terrorist attack. It wasn't just a military base, the Death Star itself was a weapon of mass destruction. Metal Gear on steroids. It blew up planets with impunity, and would have done much more damage in the long run than the short-term shock that the rebels caused by blowing it up.
+McBehrer Yes I can't help but feel he was ignoring the point of the death stars to kill tillions of people and plant resource, that can't be great for the economy. They could have tested it on a uninhabited patient if they didn't want to harm anyone, but that wasn't the point it was build.
If you really think about it, destroying planets is useless. Purification (The Starcraft Protoss was of destroying worlds) is a better alternative because a) the ships get there faster; b) the natural resources are still available; c) more ships required for the operation means that it's harder to stop; d) you still kill everything.
What would we call it if rebels blew up the USA's nuclear stockpile? They were weapons that were used to kill tens of thousands of people.
I imagine it would be called terrorism.
What? No it wasn't. They never mentioned that in the entire movie. The entire theory is based around the information presented in the movies, and no invasion was ever mentioned. It was made purely as a weapon, and tested on the innocent planet of Alderaan, as a show of force.
+McBehrer It wasn't so much a terrorist attack as a military strike. It would be like calling Pearl Harbor an act of terrorism instead of an act of war.
It was a valid military target.
10:28
Fans: Were you killed!?
Palpatine:sadly yes..
also Palpatine: But I Lived!
this is very accurate since he did die and his clone took over
So u put a star trek logo on here and think we won't notice
my thoughts exactly :D
Also StarBucks.
And a star bucks logo
+Emily Beranek I, for one, welcome our new coffee-fueled overlords.
Matpat: *gives pure FACTS and LOGIC*
Also Matpat: "But heeeeey! That's just a theory!"
Because it isn't even a theory, it's merely conjecture! When a warship is at your shore, you do not think about how it's destruction will harm the enemy's economy, you order its destruction without a second thought to the lives on board or the cost to make it, or the armaments present on it.
Multiple planets were actually enslaved by the Empire, and the Empire is very well known for being *EXTREMELY* racist, so I doubt the majority of the galaxy "doesn't realize how evil the Emperor and Vader are". Just sayin' :P.
+wishbone346 The galaxy was indoctrinated by them. All media was controlled by the government. People basically considered them Gods.
The Rebels were looked upon the same way we look upon Al-Qaeda.
+wishbone346 not canon. also the correct term would be speciesist, not racist. The empire didn't care what race of human you were int he now noncanon EU.
Jen'Ari-Asha Not really. If you watch Rebels, which is canon, you see that most people honestly didn't like Imperial rule. The Empire ruled with an iron fist. They would kill any who did not fall in line in the streets, or send them off to prisons. The majority of alien races don't seem to like them at all, and even among humans there's a decent amount of dissension. People forget that the Empire only ruled for about 3 or 4 decades too. They didn't exactly have time to indoctrinate everyone. There are plenty of people who would have lived through all of the events leading up to the Empire's creation. Luke was born the same year the Empire was founded and he's not even in his 20's by the time of A New Hope. The Empire would have one, maybe two generations of kids that would be completely indoctrinated, and even they would likely have some older people in their lives trying to sway them. Hell, we see quite a few people (kids included) that turn on the Empire with little effort or proof just because someone tells them of the evils going on. If the Empire wasn't known for that sort of thing people probably wouldn't be so quick to believe the "lies" of rebels.
wishbone346 Rebels can go fall in a sarlaac pit. It is an unrealistic kids show where a single B wing took out an entire Imperial fleet.
Rebels can go fuck itself, its horrendous.
Several books state that the Core Worlds (Where most of the galactic population lives) is completely indoctrinated by the Empire and have a fanatical loyalty to Palpatine.
Pretty much 100% of people there considered the Empire a symbol of peace and order, and the Rebels terrorists.
Source. Imperial handbook (can probably find more if you want)
GayWeedDad420YOLO Actually it's not the EU that states this, it's all from the canon. Watch Rebels and read the Tarkin book. They both show slavery quite blatantly. In the Tarkin book they flat out say that the Death Star was built using Geonosian slave labor. They most certainly did care what species you were, even in the canon.
The Empire also had hundreds of planets of slaves, effectively stole and pillaged, and were about to start destroying planets left and right. The galaxy didn't have much of a choice.
+BladeLigerV they destroyed 1!!! planet
after what over a decade of rebellions
and remember they were the ELECTED goverment ^^
+drizzt7dourden7 They destroyed a planet that may or may not have supported the rebellion to prove that they can destroy a planet.because the rebellbase is too unknown for their big terror show
Null Rakata Channel
wait you are blaming a politican for using manipulation?? O.o
also hes NOT a dictator. hes an elected monarch (or in this case due to the size of his state an emperor ^^)
also in your real world example you forgot to mention that the oficial represent from NY together with her entire staff was part of a revolutios movement trying to kill the president and destroy importend military areas...
also fullscale war is not required for rebellions to cause problems for the goverment usually befor that comes years of sabotageing, gurillia attacks and the like...
+Null Rakata Channel there is no accurate comparison to destroying a planet. We could at least rebuild New York, but I get your pinto. Destroying a planet is one of the worst things any thing can do. Not only have they destroyed all life there, they eliminated any chance of any new life forming or inhabiting it. Destroying even one inhabited planet is unacceptable, and the Death Star had to be destroyed. This theory holds no merit to me
Well it depends on the type of nuke and how high it detonates. The nukes in the US arsenal are air burst with multiple nukes in one that split apart to destroy multiple cities at once. Fallout wouldn't be an issue. Even if it was, it would eventually decontaminate. A planet isn't going to reform.
Oh, and another thing, in perspective of the Empire, the Death Star is no more expensive than a carrier would be for the US. The destruction of Alderaan on the other hand is the equivalent of nuking a city, and worse, the city belonging to the country that nuked it.
N.
how is the destruction of a planet equal to nuking a city?
I said in comparison of us to the Empire. If the Galactic Empire was actually only a planetary government, then the destruction of Alderaan would be the equivalent of destroying a city like say, Paris. It was nothing more than a cultural center. Supportive of the Alliance yes, but never actually taking an active role in it.
Yeah, kinda irrational btw. I mean, would isn't Empire supposed to be about conquering and controlling?
"Citizens, we killed everyone in Paris. Because people in local government were actually terrorists. We decided not to replace it - too much work when you can build DeathStar"
Also they forgot the fact that when the 2nd death star was blown up that most of the galaxy was supporting the rebels so Palpatines death meant nothing cause the new republic formed, and that the empire didn't have debt with the first death star cause if they needed money they'd just tax the hell out of a planet.
Palpatine dies you say?
Palpatine: double it and give it to someone else
This is what happened to France after the Revolution.
Exactly this
Which revolution
Traitor!!!!
+TR-8R THE STORMTROOPER THAT SAYS TRAITOR! haha this is a great novelty account xD
+TR-8R THE STORMTROOPER THAT SAYS TRAITOR! traitor
Nice job identifying the traitors, TR-8R. You have now been promoted to captain.
Oh hey.... Haha
Master chief is a traitor!! Oh wait, that was just the marketing
Actually, at 9:28-9:35 when you talked about major world leaders being killed not stimulating the economy, I give you one Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in the early 1900's and whose death was the impetus for a world war, severely boosting the economy.
Further, the industries involved were pre-paid for their services, not paid on debts. Still further, you're presuming that the Empire was a massive state market-style economy on a galaxy-wide level, rather than having that for only a very limited number of planets that were under the Emperor's direct control- those being the planets that fed Coruscant and Coruscant itself, which continued to operate just fine on switchover because the industrial complex of the Empire is and was, for the most part, autonomous from the government. Certainly there were taxes involved with licit trading arrangements, but removing those taxes only makes things easier to move things around, *stimulating* the economy. That's not even touching on the more draconian laws that Palpatine was instating, far different from his original methods of rule when he was originally nominated of, again, autonomy.
You sir, win a virtual noble prize.
But after world war 1, the world suffered a pretty bad economic drop, and then the wall street crash is kind of a result of WW1, so maybe not such a good example
+Kain Yusanagi as for your Franz Ferdinand argument, Broken Window Fallacy
*****
It suffered a pretty bad economic drop because it dragged on too long so a lot of trade restrictions really kicked people in the ass, while various nations with relatively autonomous economies did rather well, actually. For example, look at Canada over the last recession.
As for your usage of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, you'd be wrong, actually. The economy was still going very strong- so strong, in fact, that it actually caused a market glut because consumption was reduced (since, y'know, no longer wartime). People still acted like it wasn't and built a bubble around it with speculative stock, and fucked everything over by being greedy about it- just like the Dot Com Bubble and the Housing Market Bubble.
Thoughtful Insanity Not at all, because it IS a lot of lost productivity and resources that have just gone to waste, which is a pretty big negative- but it's all been paid for already, and there isn't any design to produce more than the one (until, well, after the first was blown up...) so it wouldn't be a continuous source of economic stimulus aside from the issue of supplies (which would be relatively minor). That, again, doesn't even touch upon the aspects of how Palpatine being dead positively affects the planets formerly within the Empire, so as such it would be an overall net positive gain, even with that negative involved. There were two concepts being addressed there, the first about the Death Star and the second about the Emperor himself. Thus why two paragraphs.
+Elliot Poole not quite, roaring 20s were based mostly on Europe buying stuff from America to repair themselves. It's after the repairs were complete and the stockpiling began, that the drop started (mostly famously Black Friday)
To be fair, the Empire did put all it's eggs into one basket... Twice...
11:40 *Star Bucks Would have taken it all if the First Order Wasnt there.
More like Order of the Amazon lead by Darth Bezos
"Star Wars Episode 8: The rise of the Donald Trump" "Build a wall around the Rebels!"
This made my day. Someone get this man a cookie!
Agent 46.5 *Noms on cookie*
It makes all sense. Donald Trump is part of the republic, which is the original glory of America, and when he said he's going to bring the old freedom and glory to America, he meant the sith, that's why he must be part of the illuminati, the grey original siths, and he hired Isis, the first order siths. Hillary Clinton is Rey,Obama is Finn, John f Kennedy is Han, John's wife is Leia, George Washington is Luke, John's assassin is Ben Solo, Hitler is Darth Vader, his wife is Pademe,Boba Fett is the leader of Isis, and finally, Chewbacca is of course John Cena
The Regades The truth... I see it now. It's all so clear...
AND HIS NAME IS CHEWBACCA *Do do do dooooooo*
And make the wookies pay for it!
They managed to build 3 DeathStars...I'm pretty sure the Empire's economy is fine.
The Average Gatsby I thought it was two?
3?
they actually built more then the two in the movie and the prototype.
Like he said, building it doesn't hurt the economy at all! Terrorist attacks hurt the economy a lot!
The Average Gatsby the empire actually only built 2 the third was actually built by the first order