See what happens when you nationalise (empirise?) Death Star building? It takes twenty something years to finish and then your sidekick’s kids come along and destroy it.
Now if only Darth Sid had put it out to tender and trusted in the Free Market, it could have been finished before Luke or Leia reached rebelling age.
Of course, if there was the wrong sort of photon on the track……
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