The Real Purpose of the Imperial Prison System 

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I don't say this casually - Andor is next-level Star Wars. The story-crafting, the character development, the attention to detail. I don't believe we've ever seen anything quite like it. And while I don't think that everything going forward in the franchise needs to be made in the same mold, this is really, really good.

It's a testament to the quality of both Andor and your channel that I can be completely engrossed in 10+ minute videos about bureaucracies and prison systems of a fictional universe. Can't wait for more content.

Fun detail for episode 7 of Andor - the last sound effect is a jail cell door slamming shut. The last two scenes are Cassian getting sentenced, and Syril stuck in the Bureau of Standards job. That final sound effect really nails home the parallel that Syril's crummy lifetime dead end government job is also a "prison".

"The Empire improves every system it touches. Judge by any metric. Safety, prosperity, trade, opportunity, peace. Compare Imperial rule to what is happening now. Look outside. Is the world more peaceful since the revolution? I see nothing but death and chaos." - The Client from The Mandalorian Season 1

That shoretrooper definitely only stopped Cass and screwed him just to make a quota

So the plan is basically to have a massive prison population to use as free labor. I think the room has a lot of empty space for the purpose of bigger equipment. Instead of bringing them to bigger rooms with the big equipment they use just one room and move the equipment the workers need in and out whenever.

When folks complain about Star Wars being “too political” I start and wonder if we are watching the same things. In our own real world penal labor is explicitly allowed by the 13th Amendment. Great video!

I love Andor, especially seeing how the Empire worked. The Empire's uniforms are bad ass!

Was judicial system explored? I LOVED that court scene.

The thing I love the most about Andor, is that it's not afraid to let important characters die, there's rarely plot armor, similar to rogue one but a bit less movie like

I've really been enjoying how Andor has taken Star Wars back to the core of what the Original Trilogy was. Lucas has stated many times that the Empire was meant to be a damning commentary on the US during the Vietnam Era. Even said Palpatine was based on Nixon. So seeing Andor continually go for the throat with commentary about the US, like with this, is great. While the US has done it for different reasons [Antebellum economy turning into our modern prison labor economy due to Southern sympathizers shafting Reconstruction], we do the same thing. Mass inarceration for profit, for slave labor, is how our economy thrives. If abolished, our economy would collapse. Andor really gets Star Wars, and what the themes and imagery of the OT really meant.

I've been watching a lot of your videos on Andor, and the show is amazing, but I love the passion for the videos on the show your making

Andor is assembling droids, which is how he knows how to reprogram K-2SO....Mic drop

From the prison aesthetic, I'm definitely getting THX 1138 vibes. Is a nice nod to it if so.

5:10 World Devastatorts in a nutshell. At least Dark Empire Palpatine knew how to attack with little to no real resources.

The prison walkways are 100% a callback to Kamino clone facilities.

Great analysis! I'm really glad I found your channel since I started watching Andor.

When you paused the assembly line, it looked like they where building droids like K2S0. could Andor reprograme a newly assembled droid, one without safety protocols in place to help break him out the prison???

i used/use prisons in Thrawn's Revenge to increase production by 10%, getting a galaxy ready for the Yuuzhan Vong in 25 years is hard work. those pesky Rebels and their New Republic complicate things even more than the various Imperial Warlords.

While I agree with you, there is one part of Palps plan that you might be missing. Suffering. Sith thrive of the suffering and pain. They derive strength and power from negative emotions and hate. Palpatine is intentionally increasing the misery of the galaxy. Perhaps it has to do with some Sith ritual or design he is trying to fufill... but it clearly an intentional choice to make as many people suffer as much as possible... it always seemed to be part of the imperial model, that no one except the guy at the top understands. One theory? By increasing suffering you make the emergence of a new jedi order less likely. The darker the galaxy, the more brightly the light of the Jedi will shine, making it easier to track them down. He has been obsessed with ending the order permanently so perhaps what seems like malfeasance by the emperor is part of that obsession?

Great video. The whole ‘human (& non-human) capital’ is lifted directly from Nazi Germany (like most of the Empire). Germany quickly outstripped its internal production capacity as wave after wave of able-bodied German men were sent off to the front lines, so they turned to slave labor from the conquered territories. Timeghost’s WW2 channel has some great episodes covering this in their War Against Humanity series. Also, because all sci-fi is derivative of itself the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40,000 is another fascist entity that spends human capital at an egregious rate.

It's to make examples of people in order to break others of even THINKING about resisting.

Looks like Andor will be working on Imperial security droids, which may be where he connects with K-2S0 and may be instrumental in his escape. On a side note, what the heck was Palpatine's end goal with all this? Just plain nihilism to destroy the galaxy and control everything to death?

Allan, like your analysis!!

Not to get too political... but this is a case of art imitating life. You might be surprised to know how many of your favorite brands of clothes, food, or tech use prison labor as part of their supply chain.

Absolutely wonderful to watch and explore - to be sure. To me, it’s like Blade Runner (original) meets Star Wars - and as a Sci-Fi fan - it is absolutely welcomed in this day “splash and go” - love it!

Speaking of Starship Troopers, one can elaborate that it was the Federation's militaristic regime that lead to war and not vice versa. Bugs just happened to be an ideal enemy. Remember that the Federation had already been at an undeclared war with the Bugs prior to the asteroid attack. Judging by the news reports from within the movie It seems this war was on Bugs' soil.

Holy cow I did watch the entire video on the Bureau, I think it was that it was so out of the normal that it became super interesting! Cool early 90's vibe with that lighting color/filter stuff. 🤣

Hi friends, have you ever think in the way out? I was thinking, with your plastic plate and your companion plate as well as the clothes, one can make a pair of improvised boots. Where the plates are the basis envolved in clothes that also are fixing your feet there... Perhaps the companions without shoes can stand over the working benches and do not get fried during the initial moves of a breaking out attempt. Another thing is, in case all levels try to escape at once, or to take control of their levels at once, then the guards cannot fired all levels at onces, they will blow the electric system, because a single level already stop the electricity general system, so all levels at once may fried the general electric circuit.

Definitely should put some Star Wars background on your tv would really set the mood and catch a good vibe but overall love u vids

Hugo Damask would be appalled by Palps spending habits

Andor is now warming to me (hot). It kinda like the sneaky Cold War/ French resistance feel to it.

Excellent transition to the ad

3:54 YOOO What the heck is this scene from? I need the rest of this pronto!

Your channel rocks!

From those trailer shots Iam pretty sure they are making those K-security droids, or parts for them. Would give him a chance to pick up his cool buddy. I mean, they did just shoved those droids in the show on screen to make everyone go 'ooh yeah he had one of those in the movie!', Iam sure they won't leave us hanging with that ;) xD

I'm curious about your pronunciation of Ilum. Having played SWTOR for almost 10 years I've always heard it pronounced "ILL-um" - with the accent on the first syllable. You said it as Ill -LUM (like the Illuminating company) with the accent on the second syllable. Any reason for this?

Andor is "Breaking Bad" in space they should have called it "Breaking Rebel".

Love all the andor worldbuilding and videos

Yo Allen, great job! Although alluded to, the old axiom should be emphasized: To the victor goes the spoils. Once Palp, took over a major city, country and then finally the entire planet or moon, All of its hard currency, whether held publicly or privately now belong to the Empire along with all existing Ships, machinery and of course slave labor.

I know bro didn’t edit in Mon Mothma sniffing Luthen 😂😂

To me the most messed up part was putting the prison in the middle of an ocean..like how cruel is that. To plan for slaves with no possible escape. Which is a dope idea, but idk how Andor escaped lol.

10:23 who else caught the 4Runner make a cameo 😂 luv it ❤❤

I’m getting really excited for the Star Wars version of The Shawshank Redemption

if they show Yularen i hope they show him as an imperial with good qualities. Even tho he serves the empire he is not a bad intentioned person, hope we see more of his character

Why at 0:44 someone is breathing through their nose hard af. LMAO

ANDOR is doing a great job explaining how the empire runs the galaxy.

You should do a video about all the different imperial sectors

Definitely a cool host. Your video on the most evil non-Sith people in Star Wars was mentioned in r/StarWars today

The lightsaber stuff makes me think, "What up, Flow Fam?" ... I expect no one else will get that reference.

1:27 ummmm remember the yuuzhan vong? There is a very good case to be made that Palpatine knew the YV was a massive threat and that only a military dictatorship would be able to defend the galaxy from them

Why did you have to go after Jackson Pollock like that?

I clicked on as the photo leading to this clip reminded me of the scene from the “Ice Pirates” prison. Wonder if that was just unintentional or since Ice Pirates is over 30 years old that they would hope no one would notice?

oovoo 4 and despayre are the legends prison worlds i am vaguely familiar with. the former is where live captives of bounty hunters were sent in the republic era and the latter is where the death star was first test fired to see if it was functional.

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Above all economic practicality, Palpatine, as a Sith Lord, feasts upon & thrives over the galaxy’s collective anger, hate & pain. His ultimate issue: being able to control all that suffering, halting it from becoming a legitimate reckoning. His & their hubris was his downfall.

FYI the music is too loud in the beginning.

yeah and that standards video was fascinating too...lol so yeah we watched

Somehow Palpatine returned!

Other than the Plaguis book that shows Palpatine training and learning, they never showed him in a light where you could relate to him or anything. But reading about him and his absolute hunt for power, his plans within plans, within plans.

Been on a roll

The prisoner transport looked a bit like a Federation shuttle craft to me.

what the hell is that sniff at 0:44?

12:33 In a way it sort of is. In star wars human and humanoid characters are almost always seen wearing shoes. (Actually almost always boots.) Only certain alien species are seen not wearing shoes because of culture, their feet aren't compatible/are resilient enough not to need them, or they don't have feet.

Kinda puts facilities like the star forge and simular automated mass production facilities into a new perspektiv

That's what makes android such a awesome show the fact that it's about the the way the Empire works and/or at least parts of it the way the people have been slowly transforming from the Republic to the Empire and didn't just happen all at once it gives you insight into the life in Star Wars itself that's not focused on the main trilogy characters like that's what makes it awesome isn't just good it's awesome

Don't forget that Palpatine is a Sith. Part of the reason for the intentional oppression and corruption, even at the expense of efficiency and detriment of the Empire itself, is the actual oppression and corruption. Such cruelty and brutality strengthens the Dark Side, which in turn strengthens Palpatine. Unlike many villains, Palpatine is well aware that he's evil, and revels in it. He's not an inept leader. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Am wondering if Andor's prison stay might link us to Ephraim & Mira Bridger prison revolt in 3BBY. That would be a nice little shoutout.

While all other youtubers have given up covering Andor due to the lack of easily weaponised hate based on ruined childhoods, perceived disrespect of legacy characters and whatever else they can make a quick buck off, Generation Tech is going fully down the rabbit hole with all the glorious world building we are getting and damn fine character development and story telling

A prediction. I suspect that Luthen Rael keep's handling will be put to use at some point, probably violently. I think this because of the amount of scenes that it keeps appearing in.

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Comparing the Empire to Amazon right before an Amazon recruitment commercial, LOL.

11:50 I think it was because she made a reference to one specific prosthetic part... and I'm not referring to his limbs... if you know what I mean lol

Andor has became one of my favorites.

I'm with you man. I love seeing all the minutiae of Imperial life.

Can you please continue the separatist alliance vs earth series please

The guy they got to play Colonel Yularen played a historic British general from the Irish Revolutionary Period so he’s quite experienced

Wish for POW prisons videos soon.

Looked like a K2 droid arm on those tables

For a second there I thought this was gonna be a critique of the actual prison system. lol

What those prison shots in Andor look like is THX-1138.

Sgt. Moss didn’t change his name. XD

You always assume that Palpatine is in the business of running an empire. He is not. He's in the business of spreading as much fear, pain and misery as he can because he's an Emperor second, but an evil Space Wizard first. The fear and misery translates to power in the Dark Side, and that is what he's talking about when he refers to ultimate power. A dark being he is; not that frail flesh.

Are they ever going to make the victory star destroyer model? Or are they going to reuse the star destroyer model.

1:27 Don't you remember the Yuuzhan Vong?

I just started Death Troopers 😁

Death Troopers was an AWESOME book. Legit.

It's gonna be awesome, I'm actually excited to see a starwars version of Shawshank Redemption 😂🤣

Fear and intimidation is the absolute worst method to motivate people and inspire them, in fact it often inspires the opposite reaction of rebellion!

Wow, creation of automated systems to generate more machines hits too close to home in our own reality.

Replace PORD with GULAG and you have a nice analogue for real world political systems. That's the real value of Star Wars since its creation: A good way to explore the complexities of political systems taken to the nth degree. The real genius of Lucas' construct is that it explores both side of the ideological divide: Capitalism and Socialism are equally scrutinised - thus exposing the real sources of tyranny... Monopoly, authoritarianism, political-detachment by the masses, ineffective regulation and government over reach, control of media and historical narrative. ... ANDOR is the best SW series since the clone wars.

Hello there friends welcome back to another episode of Generation Tech, my name is Allen

I guess everyone forgot Palpy was preparing for an extra Galactic invasion where Death Star Fleets are necessary.

What's with the Toyota 4X4 at video Time Index 10:23???😀

It's almost like Palpatine's goal is to increase the fear, anger, hate and suffering in the galaxy regardless of the consequences - OH WAIT

Where the footages of illum carrier are from ?

maybe it's too late but I keep hoping word of mouth gets more people to view this great show, its deserving of it.

Everytime i hear you say mobile infantry i instinctively think of starship troopers

I think andor is making droids were he will modify a ks2 droid to help him escape.