There’s a lot of talk about the empire stripping planets for resources etc…but like…why? An entire planet’s resources are almost unimaginably vast, let alone asteroids & uninhabitable planets. There never seem to be Roman-style building projects that need all that, they don’t build up colonies very well at all. Is it just money? If you can strip a planet for parts how meaningful is money actually?

And if you have all that money why do you need to force people to mine for you? Pay them better?

And before you say they’re an evil empire obviously they do evil—1. It was a Republic a minute ago (which timeline was always too short) & all this stuff has clearly been going on longer than 14 years

2nd, that’s my point. “Evil gonna max out evil” works for simple stories, but if we’re to take it seriously, then I gotta ask how this is the most efficient way to monetize planetary holdings. Rome did better, hell the CA gold rush did better.

No bread OR circuses? That’s how you get ants/rebels.

There also just seem to be relatively few people in the Andor universe. Everyone knows each other, across PLANETARY SYSTEMS, there’s only cities & crowds (sort of) on Coruscant, the rebellion seems to literally just have sticks & mud to fight with (only 4 eps in no spoils) and when there are populations indigenous to a planet, there’s only like 50 of them & they’re always at bows & arrows level technology. Despite a galaxy with tens of thousands of years of spacefaring history

It just feels odd

Seems like there should be indigenous cultures who could at least rival the Pueblos or other advanced cultures? We always see them fishing with their hands in streams & hand-dying their clothes the same color.

Where’s the grand settlements, the earth-moving projects, the advanced cultures, even if they hadn’t achieved space flight? Does the empire leave those alone & only crush hand-fishers with matching pants?

I AM WAY IN THE WEEDS ON THIS