Yeah. There's no point in using real world principles of economics for a fictional spacecraft in a fictional universe.
That's why they had a entire galaxy paying for it and making steel for it.
Are we talking about the first or second Death Star?
What about labor costs? (see: Clerks, lol)
Its the empire....They use slave labor
Are we talking about the first or second Death Star?
What about labor costs? (see: Clerks, lol)
So that's why the laser operators didn't have railings.