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Question: The Gungans are already extracting and refining the plasma on a scale sufficient to be the basis of ALL their technology. It seems to me that the Naboo already have a domestic upscaled operation capable of developing the plasma for an interstellar market if they weren't so xenophobic to the species they shared the planet with. Correct?

You folks at Generation Tech never fail to make the Star Wars prequel trilogy more interesting than what I saw onscreen. 😅 "The [Plasma] MUST flow!"

Can you cover the disaster at deepspace besh? It was the most crippling defeat for the Rebel alliance outside of Hoth.

What if, after finishing her tenure as Queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala declined the invitation of being Senator for her planet in favor of a quiet life in Naboo's Lake Country? Would Palpatine still have the assination plots carried out? How would the relationship between her and Anakin play out differently? Who would be Senator in Padme's place to represent Naboo on Corasaunt?

This is why I love the Star Wars fandom. We somehow manage to come up with elaborate, even complex and semi-realistic explanations for such minor nagging questions left by the movies, like, "What the heck was with those giant bottomless-pit rooms with plasma-tubes and plot-force-fields under the Naboo capital that Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul fought in?" Still doesn't explain why there were so many layers of force-fields protecting what was essentially just a bottomless pit of nothing and why those fields were turning on-and-off at regular intervals with no apparent switches or control panels nearby. Or why Maul didn't just Kylo Ren-lightsaber-tantrum the crap out of the field emitters to get to Qui-Gon faster. Or how there could physically be water-filled tunnels running right through "The plaaaanet cooooore" without the gravity of the planet itself collapsing them (unless Boss Nass was hyperbolizing an the tunnels simply went deep into the crust like a hyperloop tunnel rather than literally through the molten iron core.)

The downfall of Naboo came from not using its rich plasma reserves to its fullest. With it they could have made a greater royal star fighter corps and Royal Guard to deal with such unfortunate situations

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Naboo religious belief was that the souls of their dead passed into the core of the planet that had sustained them in life. So, does that mean that in selling the plasma, they were selling the souls of their ancestors?

Random Senator: hey Palpatine what happened to your dad? Palpatine: *chuckles* he's been taken care of

I read in Legends that when Palpatine was around Padme’s age he visited the planet of Chandrilla which he quickly noticed was significantly wealthier than his home world of Naboo. Naboo’s location in the Galaxy made it a disadvantage for Naboo since it was not located near major hyperlanes that connected to wealthy core and colonies worlds.

The discovery of Naboo's resources reminds me of the oil companies who wanted to exploit Iran's oil resources until the 1953 coup there.

"...a gose mining company..." Fantastic Firefly reference! A+, and I'm here for all of it, :)

Interesting analysis, I didn't realize Naboo was that backwater, thought they had a more robust economy than that

2:27 Anti-gravity waterfall where water goes up? Damn Naboo, you be weird AF, dude.

I’m sure Naboo prospered post Trade Federation occupation! I read from Legends that the Embarrassment of Naboo allowed Queen Amidala to nullify the contracts with the Trade Federation giving Naboo fair market value price for their plasma. It was also discussed that some of the money was spent on enhancing their local defenses moving forward. Being the home world of Emperor Palpatine I am sure he pumped more money into his home world and probably made favorable conditions for the planet to attract money and opportunities, possibly spending imperial tax money to fund infrastructure projects or buy materials from Naboo for imperial projects. I read poor remote planets like Teth became very wealthy during imperial occupation so I’m sure the same thing happened to Naboo.

Its kind of weird how no one really talked to the gunkans on scaling up operations to exporting their plasma ? They just went with an outside force, weirder still is their not asking in negotiations for the establishment of an training academy on planet for their allowance to mine the power source.

LOL Darth Tenebrous, imagine being a Sith Lord, supposed to be the most cunning being in the galaxy second only to your apprentice, being murdered by a mining company that didn't even know you were a Sith Lord. Darth Bane must have been rolling in his grave from that.

Naboo is the West Virginia of Star Wars.

"You had good old-fashioned crude oil on Kashyyyk" >Crude oil on Kashyyyk >Crude oil *"Yes, Mr. President, we have found OIL on Kashyyyk."*

A slowly developed domestic market would have been the best thing overall. Yes you get slower and less cost effective plasma however in the end the long term success for the planet become massive. Heck you could offer individual experts from the energy secure lucrative deals to instruct your people in the best methods of extraction. Paying individuals larger sums then they'd get from the company wouldn't be that hard when you have the funding of a planet behind you.

Haven't been around I'm a while. I'm loving the real world comparisons and new vibe.

I didn't realise the gungan population was so large.

I like this video Alan. It did a great job of explaining what happened on Naboo in the prequel movies.

Excellent work. Very much hope you cover the Eradu Trade Summit too.

This video is very well done, Allen!

Dang Fuel from kaashyk to life support systems Radoniun from avafar to the regular thruster Asteroid field fuel for hyperdrive engines Kessel coaxion for non specified reason Tibana gas for blaster and weapon systems onboard ships like dude is there anything that doesn’t require fuel?

Thanks for putting the aurebesh with titles and great content, thank you for your effort, Kudos Sir.

In our world, you have Norway who literally did everything right, in regards to their natural resources, or you become Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia etc,as a negative example.

If our planet have its own plasma reserves, what can we build and be powered by such energy? Obviously, aside from lightsabers and plasma-powered weapons, of course.

Based on my country's experience, we split the mining region into several lots whereby the foreign companies have to bid in order to mine them. Then, we offer the winning party these JV terms: the state corporation has 40% equity in the mining operation and 5% royalty on the sales value to the state coffer. Let's just say the govt accumulated a lot of wealth from the dividend of that 40% equity... After having our own experts learn the tools of the trade, we start insisting on a local participation quota, either as employees or as vendors. See how having equity in the mining operations can enable such policies to happen?

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You actually made good points on what the Naboo could have done to improve the standard of living for it’s citizens with their new found plasma wealth! Naboo didn’t have much strong local industry that were competitive and comparable to the economies of the core worlds worth investing in! This shows that the Naboo were not very good negotiators at all! According to Legends, the Trade Federation was a publicly traded mega corporation so the Naboo should have negotiated a reasonable stake in the company or discounted stock shares in exchange for their plasma! This would be more of a win win situation since the trade federation would spend money on infrastructure projects to extract and export the plasma, but Naboo would benefit from the profits of the trade federation since it owned shares in the company. If this arrangement didn’t work out, the Naboo could have followed the same model Norway did by creating a sovereign wealth fund and investing the plasma profits into shares of off-world companies that were more promising and profitable than their local industries! I do agree that spending the money on local education or enhancing the local security and defense force of the planet was an inefficient way of spending the plasma wealth! It also proves that the Naboo were not very good when it came to budget decisions. Naboo in comparison to our world would resemble more of the economies in the Mediterranean such as Malta, Cyprus or Portugal and at best Spain but were spending like Dubai and the oil rich middle eastern countries on lavish things used by the government. For a modest planet I felt the Royal house of Naboo overspent on the luxury Star ships that the royal dignitaries and even public workers used! If anything it was fine for Queen Amidala to have a luxury Star ship to use since she is the ruler of the planet but it was unnecessary for the local pilot security force to use luxurious Naboo N-1 Star fighters which would be the equivalent of the lambourgini or Ferraris used by the police force in Dubai! The Naboo were not very good pilots either in using these luxury N-1 Star fighters! We must remember it was not a Nabooan who successfully used this luxury N-1 to destroy the trade federation blockade control ship but a former slave boy from the dirt poor planet of Tatooine that did the job in the end!

Getting that thumbs-up within the first 20 seconds 🖤 love your narration.

The second I travel to a new system in my Executor, prices fuel prices double. And when I brought my whole fleet it went up 8 times Fleet composition: 1 executor class SSD, 15 ISD II, 7 ISD I, 3 Tectors, 40 Arquitence light cruisers, 55 Raider Corvettes, 220 lambda and sentinel shuttles and most of the standard Ties are replaced with Tie defenders or upgraded with shields, torpedoes and a hyperdrive.

Awesome Video! I learned somthing I had no Idea about Naboo!

Not to mention Naboo was stupidly pacifist and relied on the bureaucratic nightmare that was the late republic for security which also lacked a standing military. This is where the independent spirit of Naboo makes no sense as you can't be independent if you are outsourcing your defense.

Excellent video!

Same story as Saudi Arabia or Venezuela.

Reading the Plagueis book now ☆ I saw "Naboo" and "Plasma" in the title of your vid and got excited 😊

I love this more serious kind of videos.

Brilliant video 👏

Excellent. Thank you.

I really love the way you stepped up your thumbnail game

I wonder what happened on Naboo after the Clone wars.

It would seem that your takes have become more nuanced recently. I think this is a good thing.

I love Naboo

I love you videos ❤️

I love your blue over yellow background.

The ending for the Obi Wan Kenobi Series was leaked yesterday let's see if it's true

I really enjoyed your opening.

Why didn't Palpatine used Plasma to power the Death Star?

Hey alan i have a cool idea for a video: make your own fleet of any ships in the star wars galaxy. You must have 1 capital ship, at least 2 different types of starfighters, 1 kind of medical ship, and 1 iconic star wars ship. Dont have to use this idea and you can adapt it if you wish. Love your videos keep up the good work 🙌

Darth Plagueius is such a great book! Love this video

Love does Intros

I hoped to see Peragus in that introduction

Well one,alternative to the Trade confederation would have been to do like Botswana : state capitalism. Naboo could have taken a loan from the banking clan or something, to cover 51% of the cost of the plasma infrastructure on the planet in order to get a share of 51% of the subsidiary of the Trae corporation on the planet charged to exploit its ressource. This would have allowed some manner of control other this new economic sector while still letting the private actors to benefit from it. It would also have given Naboo the liquidités necessary to repay the loan. And with the rest of the money to teach slowly locals how to get the job done on the infrastructures and take the place of the off-world workers in time... With cheaper salaries. ^^ A win-win situation which the Trade fédération could have accepted whole also putting in safety Naboo independence. But oh well. Who cares? We only went to the show to see lights abers duels and lazers flying everywhere. :person_shruging:

Great vid, need more like this....fascinating to learn all about Naboo. God I wish this was our reality...but may take thousands of years for humans to get there.

Was there a planet in Star Wars which used its natural resources the same way Norway did with its oil?

What about the Droid attacks on the wookies?

Smart energy sector nations use the influx to diversify though they usually need a domestic in order to do so. It's the difference between Norway and Russia. This is a decent video overall but I might have gone into the real world examples to form a contrast.

Wow alan. You would think that you live here in Appalachia and understand what's going on with all of the gas and oil drilling. I'm coming to you straight from West by God Virginia and can tell you that there are a lot of wealthy people around here....none of them are native. On a plus note we have the advantage of tax breaks for the big energy companies....our roads aren't worth a shit, and cost of living is thru the roof Thanks for being there... May the force be with

Cool

Love the image for ‘fine arts’😂

Where is the footage from @12:05 that shows the room with the vertical plasma beams?

Was there a lower class on Naboo?

This video made me want to base a small campaign in a star wars ttrpg centered on Naboo and having the players explore the lore rich planet just to force them to interact with gungans and find out about the plasma as a source of fuel

THIS is Very informative. I’m s~o glad you’re THIS political about everything…

Wow

Just finished writing a Star Wars short story on this very topic, crazy that I just saw this video.

Or the gov't can just hand out the money to the population like Alaska did.

If I were the Naboo leaders I'd just let my top scholars study on other planets with the existing knowledge and technology for plasma extraction and when they return I'd order them to share the knowledge they got to the universities. once enough specialist workers graduated from the university only then I'd form a government own mining industry and began extracting energy. The process is indeed slow AF but it guarantees self sustainability. This is also what the Japanese did after they open up their borders, acquire knowledge and lift their economy to industrialization.

Just because the plasma was mined on Naboo doesn't mean that it belonged to Naboo , it truly belonged to whoever was able to make the most profit from it .

naboo got 5% of the revenue for nothing ------ that is actully a ok deal

Yes,but what about their strategic sand reserves?

In the book "Darth Plagueis" Plagueis kills his master by causing a cave-in inside an underground tunnel they were in and it crushes and traps tenebrous, I thought this was how darth tenebrous died?

How does a planet generate plasma in the first place?

Great video but the music sounds like it belongs in a funeral home.

What did the schizophrenic woman say to her chest when it was telling her to do bad things? Naboob

Surly Vader himself would put his foot down on strip mining Naboo. It's the home world of his love, and her final resting place. It's hard to.imagine Vader, of all people, simply wouldn't stand for it to be desecrated. Surely Palps is smart enough to know, seriously, let Vader have this one.

The workers should’ve seized the means of production

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In short, Naboo is Koweït

Naboo it seems the space Venezuela: an Heaven on heart ruined by oil.

Starts as a good investment and ends in disaster.

You forgot tax breaks people love the tax breaks

This is Litteraly Scotland (Naboo) v London (Sith).... More oil than Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman combined....still given pocket money to keep the slums freshly painted.

Naboo = renneisance firenza

damn

So Naboo is the Star Wars Middle East. No wonder everyone is fighting over it.

Notes: creating your own industry is slow and expensive so hard to compet in the market, also the foren entity needs to bring in there own specialists and workers so your own citizens won't get more jobs like they could for a donestic product but could get a boost in things like hotels, taxies ect, Then this forren entery can sell the plasma they exstarct at a high price getting profits well only the government is given a small amount in tax needing to be distributed to the people or in the pockets of corrupt politicians

the only thing i dont get is: if naboo had all these fiscal problems, aswell as knowing that with the plasma it is helpless to the federation, why did it buy fancy starfighters that cant pack a punch and luxury yachts for its royalty instead of funding a professional army/militia or surface to space weaponry?

"How Naboo's Massive Energy Reserves Doomed The Planet" Is it like having oil on earth?

Oil wars with Ahmed best as funny frog for kids

Can you please continue the sepratist alliance call earth series please

This was a plot point in the Plagueis book.

I've been away from the channel for a while, but wasn't Alan pro empire and all about humanity first? I find it funny hearing him say I support the republic. It's almost ludicrous to the point of being absurd.

I only watch these for the intros

Super rich world puts little girl in charge. Cries poor when they find out it was a bad deal.

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Being rich in natural resources don't need skilled labor. You just need to know who to outsource it to. Same problem on earth. That's why so many countries rich in oil, or diamonds, or any other valuable material have so much poverty.