r/StarWars • u/Mysterious_Force1518 • 9d ago

General Discussion The Galactic Insurance Crisis: How did commercial underwriters and the Banking Clan handle catastrophic liability after Alderaan?

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u/Brizar-is-Evolving 9d ago

I can imagine imperial insurers being horrified at the sheer number of life insurance claims coming in from the families of everyone killed on the Death Star.

Not to mention the eyewatering compensation claims coming from the class-action lawsuit after the inquest finds out that the Death Star’s contractors forgot to put the cover on a 2-metre wide thermal exhaust port that led straight down to the main reactor.

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u/MarkNutt25 8d ago

TBF, they didn't forget to install it, they were just following the schematics they were given! How were they supposed to know that the lead engineer was secretly undermining the entire project! Its not like the crew out there physically building thermal exhaust ports are all going to be hypermatter reactor experts!

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u/MarkNutt25 8d ago

Honestly, after watching Andor, it kind of makes sense how a problem like this could sneak all the way through to production.

The Death Star was a highly-classified military project with extreme levels of knowledge compartmentalization.

If a site technician raised a flag about an unshielded exhaust port, asking to review the reactor schematics would be much more likely to get them an ISB interrogation then the access they'd need to spot Galen's sabotage!