When they said "stealing the quarterly payroll of an entire Imperial sector", I thought they meant the personnel detail of the people who are on the payroll. You know so they may find out who's the mole and such and take them out.
Turns out it was actually just a cash reserve (What even was that, gold or some other precious metal?). Does the Empire pay their people with cash in Star Wars universe? How does that work and why was the money on some bumfrick mountain base with like 40 guards and not in a bank vault on some Imperial homeworld? Did anyone else find that really stupid or is it just me?
It’s Star Wars. It’s always stupid
It’s a show about magic and dragons, dude. Turn your brain off and chill out
I doubt the script originally had a Star Wars coat of paint.
this. they just pull out stock scripts and slap on whatever theme the show is about.
so much contemporary disney content is literally all the exact same beat-for-beat shit just dressed up differently
I wonder what the original idea was. Some Cold War spy thriller?
I think it was ww2 commando joint
How big is a sector?
How many sectors in the galaxy?
About 12 parsecs
in the EU i want to say there was ~1000 sectors but the answer in regards to disney wars is... they haven't put that much thought into it.
If you are trying to figure out the worth of a credit, I would advise against that.
1 credit = 1 dollar usd
How many planets in a sector?
another hard to answer question but from what we know a sector is probably made up in a core range of several dozen to maybe even a couple hundred primary worlds and tens of thousands of barely inhabited constituent worlds.
We honestly know more about the administrative makeup of Zhou Dynasty-era China than we do about the Empire under Disney.
Same, I was a bit confused when I saw them hauling gold bars. Maybe they're mining gold on that planet and then sending it elsewhere.
>bumfrick mountain base
They explained about how Aldhani was in strategic location and the cave system was ideal for storage.
" Aldhani has the unfortunate quality of being close to nothing and not far away from everything. It's the perfect hub for distribution."
―Vel Sartha
What's weird to me is they get a truckload of those bars but later all of Andor's money is stored in a briefcase he can fit on top of a cabinet.
"I didn't risk my ass for the Starpath unit. I came for you. [...] Five days. Big stakes, big danger. Prepped team, good plan. You survive and deliver, I'll give you 200,000 [credits]."
"What would we be stealing?"
"The quarterly payroll for an entire Imperial sector."
―Luthen Rael and Cassian Andor
Andors cut was 200,000 credits that all he took
Yeah, it struck me as stupid that they were stealing cash and not information, but Star Wars isn’t cyberpunk. It’s a space western, and robbing a federal reserve is a classic western trope. Andor still follows the the “Rule of Cool” they just didn’t use it as an excuse for lazy writing.
So what excuse did they end up using for Andor's lazy writing?
>it struck me as stupid that they were stealing cash and not information
Why? Part of Mon Mothma's plot was about being unable to shift around money to fund rebel efforts. Given Rogue One/New Hope it's clear they also steal information but they do need money to fund everything as well. I thought it was interesting they showed that instead of stealing information.
Guess the imperial credit is backed by the gold standard and store it in caves like fort knox.
Based Empire backing credits with gold
>Emperor Palpatine was based off Nixon
>Nixon took his country off the gold standard
>Palpatine keeps his galaxy on it
Interesting
Palpatine instead nationalized the banks, but because the republic wealth was backed by one planet(muunalist) those guys still have most power over it despite not even siding with the republic.
Palpatine is a /pmg/ poster
That's not money, it's blaster resistant alloy in an ingot.
That's a real silver bar, this is the other side. A tourist country licensed Star Wars to sell silver to tourists at moron prices.
It's not gold. It's salt.
I re-watched Andor S1 twice.
I very rarely re-watch shows.
It is that good.
And you think you are the arbiter to decide what's good or not? The authority with which you declared it, how did you earn it? Tell you what, it fricking sucked.
I really thought I was going to hate the prison arc but it ended up being literally Kino
ONE
WAY
OUT
I cant swim was kino
Another thing, why do the charcters keep saying "shedule" when they mean schedule? Some kind of Imperial posh dialect? Just makes them sound illiterate when they're supposed to be a senator or something idk they should fix that for season 2
They use bitcoins
Paper doesn't exist in Star Wars. Fricked up, right?
Han pays with paper money
Fricking Lucas lied to me.
>paper money
>he throws it
>it jingles
moron.
>What even was that, gold or some other precious metal?).
Imperial credits.
> A real human being and a real hero
Star wars is a western anon, so it's based on an old west styled us military payroll heist.
gold-pressed latinum
The Banking Clan was dissolved in the aftermath of the Clone War. The Empire used a series of sector banks to finance its system, using Imperial credits, which were the gold (it's actually aurodium) coins we saw in Andor.
>The Banking Clan was dissolved in the aftermath of the Clone War.
Yet coincidently the Muuns are in charge of the imperial banking system. Makes you think.
The Muuns had the infrastructure already in place, now they just have locktight oversight and their assets aren't kept on Muunilinst anymore. It's what enabled the Republic's bank system to become the Empire's overnight without a pause in service. They also lost their seats in the Senate and simply became an arm of the Imperial bureaucracy.
Why do you think the empire fell?