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Originally Posted by sureLoss
I agree it makes sense to make the Empire look evil, but I don't think it makes sense from a cost and efficiency perspective.
Building a prison/factory facility with special floors and then having to pay the costs to keep guards and prisoners alive would probably cost more than having a bunch of droids working around the clock. Not to mention that eventually the families of the prisoners would lead to questions about where the prisoners end up.
Just need a relatively small maintenance crew to keep the droids running. The droids don't need life support, food, or rest. There should be a ton of droid parts available after the clone wars.
It would make sense if the Empire didn't have thousands of worlds of resources available to it.
Anyways just a small nitpick.
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In the legends EU, the Empire conquered the Wookies and took them as Slaves because their ability to work on massive projects, their craftsmen ship and their brute strength made them ideal slaves. They were highly valued on the first death star project, and in mining operations.
The Mon Calamari were really exceptional ship wrights so it was natural to enslave them and put them to work in ship yards with very little training.
In Ahsoka's book the Empire subjugated agricultural worlds with an established farm base and made them plant and grow food plants for soliders that grew quickly but after a couple of harvests had destroyed their soil base. But they were experienced workers.
Instead of bulding a ton of different droids and programming them with these skills. They just enslaved mostly alien species that were good at certain things, and the lower class humans that were good at certain things. In exchange they provided them with a way to contribute to the Empire as a whole.
Plus most Imperial Officers and senior bureaucrats didn't trust droids due to the Droid armies. There were very few droid soldiers in the empire such as the Dark Troopers and even the Emperor didn't trust the Clonetroopers (living droids) after order 66.