How Palpatine Hid Death Star Construction From the Senate & Jedi - Star Wars Explained 

It’s not real bro.

@@BodybuildingNews You're an AI so you're not real.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@BodybuildingNewsoh god!!! It’s not real?!? Holy sht!!! My whole world view is shattered!! I TOTALLY thought I was gonna be able to join the empire and work on the Death Star!!!😂 some people just love unnecessarily stating the obvious in an attempt to undermine the imagination of others.

Our own government does this sort of thing. It is TOO real. It is what we call the "Deep State."

​@@BodybuildingNewstechnically none of star wars legends is either so are we not suppose to care about that? Since it's not real??

True 😂😂😂

It's Al Capone all over again

Isn't that how it always works?

"Money, you laggard. What else? It always comes down to credits!"

Always, follow the money.

Almost as if he learned from Darth Vectivus himself 😁

And yet his empire only lasted 20 years in comparison to the Roman Empire that lasted a thousand years just saying...

technically Palpatine just gave Tarkin permission to test it on anything he wanted; first Despayre, which wiped out most of the prisoners used in the construction, then Alderaan

Que the robot chicken skit where darth vader calls palpatine after the dethstar was destroyed..

​@@theblondesiouxsiesioux"You've been flying around for two weeks looking for a signal? You must smell like... feet wrapped in... leathery burnt bacon!"

“Vader almost died for that blunder…” -Mara Jade(the emperors hand)

@@TJDious That was one of my favorite lines. That and, "Ha, he's crying."

"Send a Droid" - Nute Gunray

Just build it in a place no one knows exists.

We don't know much wealth the Sith accrued over a 1000 years. Plagueis was a bigwig in the Banking Clan, Tenebrous created luxury starships and Vectivus was a successful businessman. Those three alone likely added millions if not billions of credits to the Sith hoard.

@@factfiend1000 - That assumes that Sith Lords are good-hearted enough to leave their wealth to their successors, who almost certainly killed them as per the Rule of Two. Given that Sith are generally spiteful, and the Rule of Two is all about proving strength, I would kind of expect them to hide their wealth from their apprentices so as not to make life too easy for them.

@@daniels7907The entire point of the Rule of Two, as established in canon, is that the apprentice kills their master and usurps all of their power, including whatever wealth they might have. Even if it wasn’t a common occurrence, Plagueis is known for oversharing with Sidious all his secrets and basically boosting his rise to power in all aspects. It’s not that unbelievable to assume that Sidious had at least billions of dollars that he inherited from Plagueis, on top of the GDP of a Republic/Empire which spans an entire *galaxy* with trillions of citizens (on Coruscant alone).

@@murdoxxed - I have never seen it stated anywhere that Sith Apprentices gain their Master's assets as part of the deal. Indeed, there are very good reasons for Masters to not allow that, as it could result in lazy Apprentices being too satisfied with vast wealth.

It's unfair!

Why give me a seat on the council and not make me a master?

Perhaps he hoarded the majority of the crystals in many different locations, and chances are that the Death Star Super Laser focusing lenses probably didn’t need that many crystals or massive crystals to fire the weapon. Remember that the engineering of the Death Star was to make a very effective super weapon, and maybe the crystal didn’t need to be huge for the continuing firing of the Death Star, but also remember that their were different setting of firing the weapon depending on the reactors used.

By the time of the second Death Star the Empire had been in exclusive control of kyber crystals for over 20 years. They would have amassed a significant inventory of them & their continued harvesting efforts would have become the status quo. I'm not sure it would have raised an eyebrow, for the most part.

He didn't send 100% of the crustals to the original Death Star and he was keeping thrm sonewhere secret.

If you watch rogue one the crystals they were grabbing weren't the giant ones saw found in rebels but rather trashcan sized ones but even that wasn't used Eadu the base was a kyber refinery that grinder (kyber cutting kyber) the crystals down at the end of andor you see the inner dish being constructed with the kyber in a solar type skin but not until rogue one do you see the actual outer grey non reflective shell dish being installed the dishes would focus the power from stars into the reactors and then out again into the individual rays. in order to blow up a planet all the reactors would have to be fired with 'primary ignition' but as seen in rogue one killing a city or base could be done with minimal reactor effort. The question of how it was hidden can be answered easily if you think about the whole things hyperspace travel capabilities and as far as how was there material left over for the second death star if these crystals were indeed the hearts of living stars at one point they would have densities that would make diamonds look like playdoh by comparison they would have easily survived the first death star explosion been recycled by droids and repackaged and then sent to the 2nd death star and it wouldn't surprise anyone that if the rebellion simply traced the recycled materials they would find the death star easily the death star & star killer base were never the end game the final order exegol and the unknown regions being too far for anyone to pay attention (anyone but the emperor and thrawn) was.

The obvious fact is that during the events of A New Hope the Senate is disbanded. During A New Hope Leia had as much rights as a Roman might have under Augustus or Tiberius. The Republic was already legally gone but not citizenship or the Senate. Elites had rights. Destroying Alderaan revealed the Death Star existed. Some supported it and many others were afraid of it. Palpatine had gone beyond Emperor to announcing that the Senate had as many rights as the Jedi. Zero. Not everything in the Empire could be done quickly. Notice how the Death Star II has unfinished armor. But anyone who might have worried about historic or religious significance of kyber crystals, everyone was encouraged to shoot on site and the government would pay you a stimulus check. So the particular red tape around permits to harvest crystals well the Senator who would have vetoed that just got blown up by the megalaser that needed the crystals. So that's how that goes. Grand Moffs: 1 Senators: 0

yeah that was dumb, the amount of personnel alot to man all those ships it would have been impossible to keep secret

Not yet

He would have had to carry out order 66 and other plans earlier but he already had the military advantage at that time regardless so if anything it would have been an even more bloodthirsty coup and takeover followed by years of war against the separatists and pro Republic forces which would have joined forces to fight the bigger foe.

Our own government hides lots of things from the public. It is a big galaxy. Of course, Palpatine could hide stuff.

I'm pretty sure it was already under construction before the first one blew up. I'm not 100% sure so take that with a big grain of salt

Firstly they now had knowledge and experience of building a Death Star, secondly Palps didn’t have to hide the second one. He was already in control of the galaxy and had dissolved the senate so he had cart Blanche.

Palpatine used a plothole.

Palpatine was in complete control and answered to nobody, for starters. Additionally, they now had a fully formed and operationally proven set of plans. Lastly, it was the weapon itself that hindered the production time. The handful of years, or more, were largely due to getting the laser functional and sound. If it were to be installed prematurely and fail it could potentially destroy the entire station.

In Canon it was mostly built over Geonosis and later moved to Scarif

@@kylethompson3008 in Disney canon.

yeah, it's odd how little of the pre-Disney stuff was in this video since it was supposed to cover both. (Pre-Disney having the proof-of-concept model built at the Maw and then the full version built at Despayre)

New hope says it all

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force - Vader

Vader didn’t approve of the weapon as we saw in a New Hope. He thought it was a waste of money and time to develop and operate such technology while there was an even more powerful weapon they had access to: the force. Vader viewed the Death Star as weaker than the force. We see that Vader truly believes this because of the comics. Vader didn’t understand Palpatine’s true power from his control over the super weapon. Vader only actually understood Palpatine’s true power when he saw the force experiments he was conducting on Exegol.

In the _Rogue One_ movie, Vader basically tells Director Krennic that the Death Star caused more problems than it was worth. He sugarcoated his real feelings about it when he was in the presence of the military leaders, but he certainly believed that it was just a useless hunk of scrap metal.

​@@decepticonxhunter4850yeah he probably would have leaned more towards the tie defender project

We'll give him covid

Yeah Vader and Thrawn was smarter in that regard 😂😂

​@@TheSidewindingCobraWithout Plagues he was just running around like a loose chicken...He Hijacked someone else plans and made it his own...once he started having his own plans...took a farm boy to blow it up.

@@TwiceStruck I know he hijacked plaguis plan but in regards to the death star I was agree with the remark about sidious being a dumdum for giving the rebel a planet sized bullseye and that thrawn and Vader didn't hold the death star in high regards heck if the tie defender project hadn't been shot down after the factory was destroyed on lothal the rebellion wouldn't have had a chance and i believe if Vader was in charge he would have the tie defenders over the death star

@@TheSidewindingCobra After Raise of Skywalker it shows he's a dumdum, he had the entire Galaxy dead to rights and put all his eggs in one basket

@@TwiceStruck yeah a genocidal maniac and brilliant politician he may be but a overconfident dumdum he is lol

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