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Originally Posted by sureLoss
So speculation is that the prisoners are making parts for the death star?
Also the engineer in me doesn't understand why the empire needs slave labour when droids would be much more efficient for the menial jobs they have them doing. Should be less overhead of the infrastructure to keep prisoners in line too and easier to keep secret.
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Even in mass production, Droids are more expensive to build and maintain. In terms of slaves, They're easy to aquire and in the case of alien species like Wookies better workers that are disposable.
If you look at the Clone Troopers (Really living droids) They were far more expensive then recruiting and conscription.
Plus Slave labor and xenophobia in the Empire just makes them look more evviiil.