Holton Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Today I spent like 20 minutes loving star wars and dismissed the notion that the death star, or the executor, or the second death star, or any of them combined were anywhere close to superfluous spending on the part of the Empire. The GDP of Earth is estimated at a little over 100 trillion dollars with about 7 billion people living here. Coruscant's population alone is estimated around 2 trillion but we're not even going to look at that single-planet GDP. The death star cost "more than 1 trillion credits" to build and assuming standard naval salaries as compared to US Navy salaries - the total cost per year for salaries of the crew would be $55,147,830,000 even looking at the cost in terms of materials is trivial when you have literally immeasurable numbers of uninhabited worlds, asteroids, and mines to pull material from. Not only is the death star a trivial project for the empire to pursue it's a doable, in terms of money, project for Earth alone. Even if you consider my salary numbers conservative and double them - you're still looking at a project that Earth could support by itself and the Empire literally has 1.5 MILLION worlds, multiple ecumenopolises, and 69 MILLION colonies. That is almost an unimaginable economic scale for us but what that amounts to is basically infinite resources. So !@#$ the death star haters Quote Superbia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Revan Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) Today I spent like 20 minutes loving star wars and dismissed the notion that the death star, or the executor, or the second death star, or any of them combined were anywhere close to superfluous spending on the part of the Empire. The GDP of Earth is estimated at a little over 100 trillion dollars with about 7 billion people living here. Coruscant's population alone is estimated around 2 trillion but we're not even going to look at that single-planet GDP. The death star cost "more than 1 trillion credits" to build and assuming standard naval salaries as compared to US Navy salaries - the total cost per year for salaries of the crew would be $55,147,830,000 even looking at the cost in terms of materials is trivial when you have literally immeasurable numbers of uninhabited worlds, asteroids, and mines to pull material from. Not only is the death star a trivial project for the empire to pursue it's a doable, in terms of money, project for Earth alone. Even if you consider my salary numbers conservative and double them - you're still looking at a project that Earth could support by itself and the Empire literally has 1.5 MILLION worlds, multiple ecumenopolises, and 69 MILLION colonies. That is almost an unimaginable economic scale for us but what that amounts to is basically infinite resources. So !@#$ the death star haters The empire would of been better off spending all those resources on its navy instead of the death star. Edited April 13, 2017 by Darth Revan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holton Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) The empire would of been better off spending all those resources on its navy instead of the death star. When you have basically limitless GDP and a command economy - does it truly matter? The Empire was defeated by literal Force nonsense and nothing more. Edited April 13, 2017 by Pride Quote Superbia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 The Death Star is basically the Empire's WMD. You can destroy planets with a button and its a one punch blow to your enemies. Sending fleets against the rebels is expensive in terms of lives and resources since the Rebels would crush them anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khorne Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) The arguments that start with the premise that the Death Star involves an extremely high initial investment, and will continue to suck a gargantuan amount of funds implies that the Death Star was created for a strictly utilitarian (in relation to funds and efficiency) purpose. Why send fleets of imperial warships when you could threaten them with the idea, the simple mention of a weapon that sounded their inexorable demise? Fear is a weapon that Palpatine used in no small quantity, and imo it would make sense for him to morph that fear into one super-weapon, capable of terrifying entire worlds. Think of it as the Terminus Est (WH40K pls not Orbis) of the SW universe. Edited April 13, 2017 by Khorne Quote "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." ~ Prefontaine Pure Gold, ~KT chat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pylon69 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Today I spent like 20 minutes loving star wars and dismissed the notion that the death star, or the executor, or the second death star, or any of them combined were anywhere close to superfluous spending on the part of the Empire. No, your right. They weren't superfluous spending. The Death Stars were just the result of a lack of originality or imaginative talent, Jar.Jar. Abrams should be drag to the back of a shed and put down for 'reboot'ing a franchise with a sequel thats so blandly copied "glib facsimile" doesn't even begin to brooch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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