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I think that however much the Beskar is worth, it's worth even more to the Mandalorian. He can actually get it made into stuff, so paying a Mandalorian in Beskar would be paying them a lot more than it would be for other bounty hunters.

You missed one important detail: the Armorer didn't use the entire ingot to make the pauldron. She mentions that the Mandalorian donated "the excess" to sponsor foundlings. You should try adjusting your estimate accordingly.

It’s worth much more since the head of the bounty hunters guild claims that he is now rich since he has 2 beskar ingots.

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So Nokia made their phones out of Beskar? Edit: so a galactic credit is roughly the same as a Euro lol

I think it’s worth a lot more than your estimates. For one, I don’t think the whole pauldron is pure Beskar steel. The one making the pauldron had said that the extra will go to support foundlings. So we don’t know how much is left over, but if that small amount can support what amounts to an orphanage...it’s got to be worth a lot more.

Its cool that we can see his development through the improvement of his armor set from what is likely durasteel to beskar.

The correct answer is the Beskar has no value, because it is priceless to a Mandalorian.

Noticed that beskar looks an awful lot like finely layered Damascus steel

You should do a series on how much each alien species would be worth as slaves in beskar.

Isn't it possible he was paying tribute or contributing to the clan when he gave the Calamari credits to the smith? That's what I thought at least. Especially considering he gave it before he even brought out the Beskar and on top of that let the Smith keep the leftover Beskar for "Foundlings" to use.

Honestly I think there's a far simpler way to go about it's true value, and I think it's worth far more than what you've estimated. In the scene where Djin comes in wearing his new suit of armor he meets with Greef Karga it's noted by Greef that he got paid in Beskar as well. He was given two bars and that was enough to make him say that he's rich now. I'm not sure how to exactly define rich but if each bar is only worth about $25,000 then that's definitely not enough to make Greef rich. I'd say they're worth 10 times as much as you've stated, making two of them worth $500,000 together. That qualifies as sort of rich to me

Best thing about that armor it renders Blaster, Sonic, ion, thermal, and cryo damage completely useless. It would take over 50 shots before the wearer actually starts to feel any damage

Everyone is talking about the Beskar Steel. Here I am wondering about the value of Calamari Flan.

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This was actually pretty cool dude, you ain’t no Alan, but you’re good lol

The plate he had makes more then 1 pualdron. Remember she said with this much baskar it will fund many foundlings. This means she didn't use all of it on his 1 piece of armor, however likely created an alloy.

To a mandalorian, beskar is priceless. This is the way.

"cute little sentient broccoli"

A little extra info I gathered on the internet, Clone Commando armor was roughly around 100,000 credits, a stock YT-1300 was also around 100,000 credits.

Makes sense. MatPat could figure it out

A Mandalorian's most prized physical possession is their armor (the most prized on any scale is their honor), making beskar entirely priceless

1:23 is where the video actually starts. You're welcome.

A few issues, to a Mandalorian it also takes on a quasi religious value, not only for their codes, but in that it comes from one system, one world and one moon, making it one of if not the most unique item in the entire Known Galaxy. Add to this that the Mandalor have been mining this for thousands of years it is a very finite resource also increasing value. I think you need to look at adding a factor of between 10 and 100 times your given estimate assuming the Mandolorian doesn't just kill an outsider for having it.

I love how the Empire Pay Mando over 25,000 big ones and he just mercilessly turns on them!

One small issue with your assessment (spoilers) After saying he would donate the excess Bescar the armorer who forged his pauldron (actually she CAST it from a mould) stated that his donation would help "many Foundlings", meaning she only used a portion of the original block. I think your estimate could easily be off by 10 times or more.

I'm honestly surprised that the clan wasted that much beskar on one suit. He's clearly not considered their best warrior since he hadn't earned his crest yet.

Full suit of Beskar'gam is listed as 33,000 credits (listed in Scum and Villainy Page 48) which is the same price for light, medium and heavy armors that to me doesn't make sense since heavy armor by nature would take more beskar than light armor. In the book, us dastardly Mando's can get it for 3,000 if the game master permits because it means a Mando Weapon/Armorsmith is available for forge it so the price can actually vary as well for making it into armor. Keep in mind that is Just The Arrmor, not any weapons added to it or modifications done to it. A full suit of contemporary newer style armor includes 19 pieces for a full suit which includes but is not limited to (this is all taken from: Bounty Hunters Code pages 142-143): buy'ce (or barbute, helmet), haalas (cuirass that might or might include beskad, kal'halcabure, karta beskar and shartas), ghet'bur (gorget which can include jatne ghet'bur or upper gorget, the part Jango Fett wasn't wearing when Mace Windu "topped" or decapitated him), nor'cabur (backplate), bes'marbure (spaulders which in older times included shun'bure or rear vambraces), kom'rk (vambrace or gauntlet which might or might not be included with the previous entry), ven'cabur (codpiece or groin protector which could include a hut'uun cabur, interesting note on that: hut'uun means Hutt. lol), motun'bure (cuissard, full or half style), bes'lovike (poleyns), and last but not least the tadun'bure (greaves or shin guards). So with the length of this response you can see how a full suit of beskar'gam can become quit expensive if it's made of beskar, lots and lots of parts to forge there, and is usually passed down from one generation to another instead of forging a whole new suit for each warrior.

My takeaway is that a complete set of Beskar armour is probably worth somewhere in the range of a million credits - which means that anyone wearing it is going to be killed on sight. Which has happened pretty often, but then the Jawas traded almost a whole suit for some crystals.

As of today it’s been declared that more mineable beskar has been found deep within the caverns of mandalore symbolically this implies that the mandalorians are slowly bouncing back they just need a leader and he’s current on tattooine

You guys forget, the leader of the bounty hunter guild said he was rich and he only had 2 plates of Beskar

is impresive how when there is a man in the leading role, sundely it is impportant to make him fail and learn with his mistakes... like, he is a badass mandalorian with years of training, and still get his ass kicked... but marey su? nooo! she is a badass!

I think that block of beskar was probably worth more than that. When greef karga pulled 2 beskar blocks out of his shirt and said "even I'm rich", a guy in karga's position would hardly consider 42k credits a lot of money, let alone rich. To me, it sounded like each block was worth more like 100k credits for karga to be so giddy to boast about it.

We actually can't figure out what that block of beskar is worth yet. The entire block wasn't used to make the pauldron. The smith talks about the Mandalorian being generous since the rest will be used to sponsor foundlings and we don't have any idea as to how much foster care costs in a galaxy far far away 🤷‍♂️

To be fair though it's possible that beskar is on other planets it just hasn't been discovered yet. And also even someone did find some you would need to know how to use it get anything good out of it.

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This is what I don’t understand about Galactic Finance. I work in wealth management/investments and after reading several sources on galactic credits, the Galaxy seems to follow a pegged system where the InterGalactic Banking Clan would issue credits for any government since they had immense deposits of precious metals and rare gemstones like nova crystals found in Muunulist and Mygeeto which was in quantities of near inexhaustible amounts and enough to back the entire galactic credits which made the InterGalactic Banking Clan capable of being the guarantor in the first place. People could walk into the bank and request minerals in exchange for their credits and the Muuns had to honor it. Even with the fall of the Empire, Muunulist remained part of the Imperial Remnant according to some sources so they could still back the imperial credits even if people were not satisfied with it. What also didn’t make sense to me was Dac issuing their own currency the Mon Cala Flan since they were a member of the New Republic and I would assume they would instead use the New Republic Credit. Perhaps the Republic operated like the European Union where members had the option to opt in the unified currency or issue their own.

you’re assuming the metals value directly equates to to other bounties, which doesn’t work because of its subjective value to the mandelorian .

Something you missed - The economy of the Star Wars Galaxy is based on the US economy. But in 1977. A dollar, or a credit, went a lot farther in those days. About five times, to be exact. Also, despite the ups and downs of government and currency in the Star Wars universe, there doesn't seem to be any signs of the runaway inflation that we in the real world have suffered. So your estimate of 25,000 USD at todays prices, would probably equate to about 5,000 credits in the Galaxy. Their economy seems to be in MUCH better shape.

7:08 he didn't pay he just showed what he got from the bounties, since they belong to the same "clan"

Unfortunately I am not used to freedom units. Would be awesome if you would use some heretic metric units from time to time 🌚

A full suit of Beskar'gam essentially makes the wearer all but invulnerable. Beskar'gam is all but immune to even lightsabers and was the main advantage for the mandalorian crusaders during the great sith war since it let them enter from orbit on their basilisk war droids. It's priceless both as a form of protection and a link to their heritage.

The mandalorian iron heart/ heart of beskar is everywhere, can't believe I didn't notice it before.

How would Beskar hold up in the Marvel universe?

If you factor in that real plate armors were essentially as protective as a soda can, and there are many different metals available in the Star Wars universe, i’m willing to bet it’s worth more. Like a lot more.. A storm trooper’s armor would probably be the best equivalent to real world ancient plate armor,.

That ingot will be used to sponsor several foundlings, which means its going to make several helmets aswell as the pauldron.

Greef: *slides credits to mando* Mando: Imperial credits? The empire is dead. Greef: *waves hand* Credits will do fine. Mando: Not this shit again.

For what it's worth, Spartans did wear armor. A more realistic depiction of spartan soldiers would be something akin to Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Can we shorten American Ben's name to just...AB? Hi AB, what's up?! AB got a haircut in between 0:27 and 1:15 sometime - the fastest hairstyle change in the history of KZfaq. At least you're washing your hair now, hah.

the Mandalorians in Rebels largely used Durasteel (which Boba Fett wears) rather than Beskar. The Mandalorian wears Durasteel chest plates in the first 2 episodes, but is seen wearing full Beskar in the trailers.

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given the banded appearance of the ingot of beskar, it may well be that Beskar is not a fancy isotope, but rather a specific alloy created when smelting natural ore found on mandalore. similar to wootz steel, which was produced from ore deposits in southern India during the middle ages. these ore deposits were rich in various other trace minerals, and the smelting process added additional carbon. combined this made it some of the strongest and must ductile steel on the planet at the time. imported wootz steel ingots were the secret to the famous Damascus steel swords. when the ore deposits ran out, that particular alloy was lost, requiring modern chemical analysis to rediscover. it would not be hard to imagine that mandalore had large deposits of metallic ore that formed similar natural alloys. also that one bar produced way more than a single pauldron, as the armorsmith states that "the excess with sponsor many foundlings", suggesting that the single bar is enough for multiple pieces of armor. it seems likely that the ingot was mixed with other metals in the making of the pauldron, or perhaps the pauldron has a foamed microstructure that reduced the metal use (which IRL is a technology that has recently been developed..it both reduces the weight and material use of the armor, but also greatly increases the durability of it, particularly in regards to thermal transfer and impacts.)

Is Beskar bar looks almost like Damascus steel because of the waves in the metal

Apologies for being gone so long

Beskar is a prestige material, that is especially prestigious to Mandolorians. If you were smart and dealing with a Mando you would pay them in Beskar regardless, knowing that you would get a better deal. I imagine that the material itself is a specific name for a relatively rare material. I doubt it is completely unique to one planet and it's moon, That would make it far more valuable. It would probably be completely mined out long before the New Republic. The same problem of scale that Starwars always has trouble with is present here. Rhodium is a good example, there is probably an asteroid on the far reaches of space that has some also. Maybe a moon in Frontier space, maybe a forgotten iceball in wild space. Beskar is just the Manolorian name for a rare material that probably has a hundred names outside of Basic.

Average wages for a stormtrooper is about 4k credits per month. That one ingot is worth about 100k credits.

You've left out that, to a Mandalorian, beskar steel is also intrinsically cultural in value.

It's so weird to hear Armstreet referenced in a non-SCA/non-LARP video. I giggled so hard. Known about them since about the time they came onto the reenactment scene. Good people - it's great to see them breaking out of the typical videos they're usually in.

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Due to how beskar works, I think that its real life equivalent would be platinum and it also would go with it's rarity and high price

Apollo Creed said he was rich now, showing just two of those lingots. So I guess your estimations are underestimating the value of it. Also It's not just a preciuos metal cause of its rarity and cultural value, but also cause it has way more utility over other metals cause it can deflect blaster shots (A war robot made of this metal would be crazy).

"full plate" ...."iron and sometimes steel"....you mean almost always steel?

Didn't generation films make a video about how much credit is in Star Wars

You were onto something by first finding out how much the actual alloy would cost but if your calculations 25k by todays standards for a block, I'd say that a damn bargain LOL. One of the rarest metals in the galaxies and has properties to stop blasters and lightsabers. he used like 20 of them to make the rest of his armor (I'm to lazy to rewatch) so around 500k for a full set seems REAL LOW. Idk random thoughts

Start at 1:22

Spartans used full “plate armor” as well or rather the spartan equivalent at the time, this along with their training was why Spartans were among the best soldiers at the time

Eh it's debatable if Boba Fett is/was a mandalorian. He isn't genetically, as Jango was sort of adopted by mandalorians. Neither is he culturally (which is likely more important) as he spend no time with them as a collective aside from the things he might have picked up from his father. Then again maybe that's enough to qualify? Still debatable though. Great video otherwise. Not sure the final estimation holds ground but until we have any official numbers this is a solid guess I'd say. Like from me!

These planets arent all the same size, so weight will fluctuate will it not?

Cute little sentient broccoli.

If the only place in the entire GALAXY where you can find Beskar is in the Mandalorian home world, and it has all those properties,, you bet is worth a lot more of credits than anything else in the galaxy.

Now we only need to figure out the price of beskar to mudhorn eggs

I feel like it would be worth a little more because not all of the beskar was used to make the pauldron and the remainder of the block was donated to the Mandalorian so its true value would be more like $27,000-$30,000

Calamari is squid and flan is a mexican egg custard so every time i watch a review or a breakdown of the first episode and someone mentions 'Calamare Flan' or however the crap its spelled i always imagine something stupid like jello with squid parts in it

“Credits” seem to be made out of metal, just like our coins today. Even appears they use metals similar to gold, silver and copper if not those exact metals. So, I don’t understand why it would matter if they were imperial credits or not lol

you would think that small brick would weigh more than an iphone? solid metal..?

"How Much is Beskar Worth?" Enough that everyone and their Bantha is trying to either barter with Mando to get it, or kill him for it.

I don't think there was ever Wroght iron armor.

STAR WARS DIDN'T DIE ! The Last Johnson didn't kill this universe because Lucas put his vision into the heads of Filloni and Favreau and they get a galaxy far far away better than Iger, Kennedy or Rian ever would. Also unlike Abrams they are brave enough to make stories that ride on the wings of Lucas yet still seem new and fresh . This Mandalorian score has made me very happy as well . You want to sell a space story that feels like gritty spaghetti westerns of yesteryear make the score sounds like it does in the Mandalorian ! The two men who are now producing these live action TV shows need to be running Disney Star Wars from the top !

For Mandos....Beskar is basically Priceless. It's a cultural icon.

Don't forget the Jawas wanted to trade all of his ship parts for 2 beskar armor pieces

Has there ever been a droid made of beskar?

Should mention Boba Fett is not Mandalorian, nor is his armor made from Beskar.

If only mandolorian blacksmith can forge beskar steel how did the empire stamp there log into it?

You underestimate the power of the shield

*Okay no. I don't get where you get your math but no.* 1 imperial credit is not 1.20$ Han Solo charges 10.000 credits to Luke to take them to Alderaan. Luke Protests and says he could almost buy his own ship for that money. I doubt you could buy a ship for $12.000 actual dollars. Also official build cost of some ships: Victory-1 class: 57m credits Venator class: 59m credits. TIE fighter: 60k credits. So no, I doubt you can build a Victory class destroyer for around 70m actual US dollars. Also: 10:41 LMAO. What will americans do to not use metric system XD

So a gram of beskar is worth about 6d in old British money. That's worth knowing ! That disgusting creature in the cantina ripped me of good style.

But does it get taxed at capital gains rate or salary?

I think it's safe to say that the Mandalorian is walking around with millions of dollars worth of armor. Bobba Fett was one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy and he couldn't seem to afford the real deal armor. Essentially, it should have made the Mandalorian enough cash for him to retire or semi retire. I'd estimate his payment was in the $10 to $20 mill range. About what a high end athlete would get for a contract.

Bascar is only as valuable with a bascar smith otherwise it is like carrying a chunk of gold. Good for money and maybe a block covering ur heart. In the star wars RPG I'm in atm I will only be getting bascar for the breastplate, helmet and my main weapon

So it’s like Vibranium

So a galactic credit is more like a Euro than a Dollar...

baskar is likely a tungsten alloy which should make it more than $30,300.00 a metric ton or $13.74 a pound. being the stuff that makes the filiment of ye olde light bulbs it can defiantly take a hit or 2 from a lightsaber.

So a galactic credit is worth about the same a a pound Stirling. I thin you might be off on your estimate though. the only reason I say this is because of the scene after he collects the bucket baskar he meets with greef karga and greef karga pulls 3 bars of Beskar and say's "im rich". if its only 60k's worth of credits that's hardly rich.

Well technically the beskar is just 1050 Damascus Steele so it would be worth a lot irl

God damn dude. Sick video must have taken abit to calculate it out hahaha

I think you’re undervaluing it. You compare it to Rodium which is rare on earth, but still is being mined, albeit slowly. It doesn’t take into account how much might be out in space, possibly an infinite amount which would make it very common. Also, it doesn’t take any advanced technology or techniques to manipulate or forge Rodium. If we can do it, then Star Wars technically can easily do it. So Beskar, which can only be found in one place in the entire galaxy and has specialized properties is insanely valuable. You think that imperial guy would have kept something only worth $25k in that fancy little cloth? I think you’re way off on valuations there, but that’s just my opinion.

What was Boba spending his cash on then? He got paid so much and yet he never bothered to get himself any beskar?

Jeebus. Great research and excellent way to tie the fantasy to reality.

I have to wonder if Beskar Metal-smiths might be a secret Force Order? For some reason it reminded me of the original/Legends Jedi Katana.