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one of the questions I recently got from
one of my weekly patron Q&A discussions
was from Noah Lopez who asked why the
Rebel Alliance or the New Republic
didn't make a Death Star of their own
considering they were in possession of
the Death Star plans a weapon of that
magnitude would have been useful
especially going up against something
like Starkiller base I thought that
question was interesting enough for its
own video because while there are
logistical reasons that I'll go into I
think the greater issue of building a
Death Star is an ethical one starting
with practical reasons the Empire simply
had the resources that the rebellion
didn't the Empire enslaved people
occupied worlds took control of
companies and ravaged planets for their
natural resources books like catalyst
bran a new dawn and ahsoka show us
examples of planets that were ripped
apart for materials like dunya or Kyber
crystals the Empire got away with this
because of power and strength in numbers
the rebellion was always the underdog in
terms of personnel there's no way they
could have industrialized planets like
that even if they wanted to after the
battle of jakku things may have changed
let's say mon mothma for whatever insane
reason wanted to build a Death Star
more and more systems were flocking to
the new government after the destruction
of the second Death Star so
theoretically the New Republic had a
stronger chance of getting the resources
necessary for a weapon of that scale but
now we get into the morality of it all
because if they overthrew the Empire
only to continue oppressing the worlds
under their control so they could build
another super weapon there is no way
they would have maintained control
people would have gone nuts but again
let's just go with the absurd assumption
that mon mothma wanted to build a super
weapon for their own protection what
they could have done is used the Death
Star plans to build something like the
dark saber from Legends which was just
the Death Star super laser in a shell it
would have taken far fewer resources in
terms of building materials so the New
Republic probably could have skipped all
that bad stuff like oppression and
slavery I guess it would have still
taken the same amount of Kyber crystals
but still something like that could have
been built much less conspicuously so no
I see what you're proposing having
something that
destructive would have solved the star
killer based problem pretty quickly I
don't think the rebellion could have
ever built something like that
logistically but it's possible the New
Republic could have I wouldn't even be
surprised if the idea was proposed at
some point but I don't think Mon Mothma
would have ever allowed something like
that to happen and she's absolutely
right power like that simply isn't safe
even if it's built for noble intentions
I'm reminded of Gandalf when Frodo
offers him the ring he would have wanted
to use the ring from a desire to do good
but through him he would wield a power
too terrible to imagine the rebels in
the New Republic are generally our
protagonists in Star Wars stories but
they aren't all like Mon Mothma
think about a Death Star super laser in
the hands of someone like sauger era the
planet of Khorasan and it's billions of
people would be in terrible danger and
sure saw wasn't on the best terms with
the rest of the Alliance but think about
general Draven the rogue one
novelization paints him as a guy willing
to do what Mon Mothma won't he hands out
orders without her permission because he
thinks they're necessary but he doesn't
want her to get blood on her hands
he'd probably find a use for a Death
Star type weapon sooner or later it's
that old adage if all you have is a
hammer everything starts to look like a
nail so that's the real reason I don't
think the rebels of the New Republic
would ever build a super weapon of their
own even if it was created under the
guise of security it would eventually be
used for evil power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely
hopefully that answers your question
Noel and thanks for asking it what do
you guys think should the New Republic
have built a Death Star to protect
themselves from other super weapons let
me know in the comments if you haven't
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