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Death Stars Vs Star Wars

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Though a new Star Wars film is just around the corner, Professor Zachary Feinstein from the Washington University in St. Louis is still busy dissecting elements from the original trilogy. The academic recently published a study called "It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill," a project that attempts to model the economy of Star Wars' fictional universe and illustrate how the creation - and subsequent destruction of the two 'Death Star' superweapons in the original trilogy drove the Empire's banking system to the point of collapse. "In this paper we study the financial repercussions of the destruction of two fully armed and operational moon-sized battle stations ("Death Stars") in a 4-year period and the dissolution of the galactic government
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