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Alderaan destruction makes no sense

posted a year ago by avortac4 (3478)
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I have been thinking.. there are a couple of things (besides the about 800 major nonsensical things no one thought about before making these movies that I have found) that make me wonder if any of the 'Let's blow up Alderaan!' makes any sense whatsoever.

First, why would Han (by the way, why is his name pronounced in so many ways, and which is the correct way?) be seduced by the 'more than you can imagine'-amount of 'reward', when Han KNOWS Alderaan blew up and thus doesn't exist anymore?

Where does Han think 'princess' (should be EX-princess, since her kingdom, or should it be 'princessdom' doesn't EXIST ANYMORE) gets her money, wealth and resources? Does he think she keeps it all in her pocket? Do they use credit cards, and princesses have some kind of unlimited platinum card that can dish out reward-credits to Han's account?

Second, since 'bounty hunters' and all kinds of resource exchanges clearly exist, the Empire must also use some kind of money or exchange system or resources to that effect. This means, blowing up a planet BEFORE extracting all possible resources from it is a COLOSSAL waste!

Why would ANY emperor, empire, kingdom, king, queen or princess waste a WHOLE PLANETFUL of resources / money / gold / rewards / whatever might be valuable to the empire (or even just individuals making this kind of stupid decisions)?

Wouldn't it be just as effective to blow up an empty moon to show off your 'Death Star''s power? To think how ENORMOUS chunk of resources/money/wealth/etc. it must have necessarily taken to CONSTRUCT that massive machinery, why the heck would they waste a WHOLE PLANETFUL of money/gold/etc. by just blowing up a planet? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to 'conquer' the planet, thereby being able to at least TAX it, getting much needed revenue that way?

I mean, Death Star must NOT have been cheap to build, the Empire must have ran into financial problems with that one. It's like having a zillion dollar project, and then throwing billions of dollars into the trash bin and burning it all up.

IT MAKES NO SENSE!

I just have to mention also how stupid the whole 'lifesign scan' thing is - first they don't take into account that DROIDS EXIST, although they're VERY common - then they don't suddenly HAVE lifescan ability (why don't they have ability to scan for droidsigns?), and yet Darth 'feels a presence', but no one else even suspects anything fishy.. why can't their NEWEST ship (DS) scan for lifesigns, but an old destroyer can? Why are the darn smuggling compartment hatches SO FLIMSY and tiny, that anyone walking on them should hear a loud BOOM with every step, or even break them with stern enough a stomp?

It's like hollyweird people make movies just to piss of anyone expecting ANYTHING to make at least some kind of sense.. hard to watch these clueless, ignorant, Gen Z youtubers' reactions to these old movies and not even notice any of it, and then pointing at a 1998 CGI 'special edition' trash added to these, and say 'ooh, dinosaur!' without blinking an eye thinking they made those effects in 1977.. there are not enough walls or tables in the whole Star Wars universe to bang my head against in my frustration.

[–] DarthAckbar (839) a year ago

When the USA built the first two Atomic bombs, they used them on actual targets, they did not waste them on vacant cities.

[–] MAGolding (1096) 3 months ago

As for Leia's wealth, possibly the Royal family of Alderaan had the equivalent of offshore bank accounts. Which Leia is no the heir of. Possibly Lei can also access the Alderaan government's bank accounts in banks on other planets.

As for wasting the resources of Alderaan by blowing up the planet, that might have made the mineral resources at least easier to get out.

Earth and other planets have giant cores of metal thousands of miles deep. It is mostly iron, with some nickel. And it has traces of other metals. And though they are traces, on the scale of a planetary core, they are many, many times as much as can be mined from near the surface of a planet.

Alderaan was turned into an asteroid field, and of course on a small asteroid valuable metals can't be far below the surface because the asteroid is so small.

All the valuable metals in Alderaan's core were locked away forever out of reach thousands of miles below the surface of planet which would have to be taken apart to get at them. And then Alderaan was instantly taken apart, exposing the metals.