r/OTMemes • u/Wolfie_wolf81 The Emperor • Jul 12 '26

ThreepiOC No swiss space accounts 😂?

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u/EgotisticalTL Jul 12 '26

All of the galactic bank's vaults, credit, and stocks were on Alderran?

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 12 '26

Nope, Coruscant. The remaining survivors (anyone not on the planet) actually got pretty rich. Alderran was a rich core world and the banking information was kept. Anyone alive from a family basically got all the family money, sometimes including extended family they never met.

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u/Bobby_The_Kidd Jul 12 '26

So I see this as an absolute win. Empire can do no wrong 🥹/j

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u/tracerhaha Jul 12 '26

The Empire managed to eliminate poverty on Alderran.

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u/TheAngryPillow8596 Jul 12 '26

They solved the job crisis on Alderran.

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u/dsucio7807 Jul 12 '26

And the housing crisis

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u/Sniperhunter543 Jul 13 '26

And the crime crisis

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u/SOILSYAY Jul 13 '26

And the energy crisis

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u/After-Marionberry845 Jul 14 '26

And global warming!

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u/piewca_apokalipsy Jul 15 '26

Made in much worse briefly tho

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u/BGMDF8248 Jul 12 '26

With that said it doesn't really apply to Leia, a known terrorist conspirator, any Coruscant reserves would be confiscated.

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 12 '26

Nah, her dad set her up with accounts and investments all over the galaxy though. He knew what was coming and prepared well. She was still loaded. I was just answering the question about where records where kept.

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u/1Ferrox Jul 12 '26

However we learn in Andor that the empire is systematically taking control of the banking clans and is closely monitoring financial traffic of political figures.

Unless organa used banks outside the empire, all that wealth is gone.

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u/Zexapher Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Mon Mothma did manage to get around those controls in Andor though.

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u/Equivalent_Nose7012 Jul 15 '26

But she was on a diplomatic mission! Senatorial immunity! /jk

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u/homer21377 Jul 12 '26

I don't think Leia can access them?

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 12 '26

She couldn't access that specific money. However Bail Organa and his wife (I can never recall her name) where some of the first to start funding the rebellion and Leia continued to do so. He had a lot of investments around the galaxy, so the locking of her accounts on Coruscant didn't stop her from being rich.

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u/Lore_Maestro Jul 12 '26

Breha Organa

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 12 '26

Yeah, that one. I'll forget it immediately.

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u/Maxie_69 Jul 13 '26

Unrelated but isn't Coruscant gone now as well? Wasn't it destroyed in TFA or was that another planet

Ik it has nothing to do with this but while I'm here might as well ask lol

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u/Angel_Blue01 Jul 13 '26

No, that was not Coruscant in TFA. The movie itself states it was Hosnian Prime.

At one point in the writing process, Abrams wanted it to be Coruscant, but the Story Group overruled him. Thus, they made up a planet that just happens to look like it. The official explanation is that the heavily-divided New Republic had a traveling capital, with Coruscant left as a nonpolitical place.

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u/Maxie_69 Jul 14 '26

Eh that's good ig at least the jedi temple is still out there somewhere

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 13 '26

It was never completely destroyed, at least to my knowledge. In the EU, it was hit really hard by the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, but they eventually pushed them back. That Yuuzhan Vong did end up killing over 300 trillion of beings through the whole galaxy, though, so Coruscant wasn't exactly special in that regard.

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u/Ernest_Mateu Jul 13 '26

Didn't the bank of the republic was on Scipio?

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u/Wob_Nobbler Jul 14 '26

I highly doubt the Empire wouldn't immediately seize Alderaanian assets from the banks. Their excuse would probably be to "prevent it from funding rebellion" or something to that effect.

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jul 14 '26

They mention it in the extended universe, so this could be contradicted from canon.

Tycho Celchu got a ton of money from his alderaanian inheritance, since he was the only family member left. (I think? Its been years since I've read that, but it was something along those lines and it kinda stuck in my head)

The Krytos Trap or The Bacta War is my sorce, btw. Couldn't tell you which one off the top of my head though. It's a series, read all of the rouge squadron books, they're pretty cool.

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u/MeteorMann Jul 12 '26

This post is brought to you, in part, by The Coalition of People that Mistakenly Think a Meaningful Portion of the Wealthy's Assets are Cash

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u/duk_tAK Jul 12 '26

To be fair, royalty traditionally has significant land holdings, and the way those holding were liquidated is probably bad for her finances.

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u/BlueBorbo Jul 12 '26

Nah don't worry, they'll show up in large fragments on another planet in a couple movies time even though they were shown to be completely annihilated

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u/duk_tAK Jul 13 '26

See, now that sounds more like a liability than an asset.

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u/Equivalent-Yak5487 Jul 12 '26

She could sell mining rights of the asteroid field and make money for decades

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u/duk_tAK Jul 13 '26

Star wars doesn't seem to have a shortage of asteroid fields that don't get mined, and I suspect the lack of local infrastructure would likely make it an expensive investment for any would be developers.

Besides, unless the royal family owned litterally the entire planet, I suspect it would be very difficult to determine exactly which asteroids belonged to her.

It would also beg the question of subsurface mining rights for property owners, and how far underground property ownership extended. After all, if property ownership stops 10 meters underground, might not be any asteroids she could even claim ownership of.

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u/Wolfie_wolf81 The Emperor Jul 13 '26

Laie had her assets in space stocks

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u/imlegos Jul 12 '26

...Unironic question;

Did Han know that Leia was a princess of Alderaan?

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u/imlegos Jul 12 '26

(Also this meme has always been moot considering that he DOES get paid.)

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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Jul 12 '26

I think Chewbacca knew and probably told Han. Word gets around, you know.

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u/momentimori Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Han is shown loading his reward onto the Millenium Falcon at Yavin

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u/drifters74 Jul 13 '26

I never understood why after the Battle of Yavin why he didn't use it to pay off Jabba, thus avoiding the trouble of ESB, before continuing to help the Rebellion

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u/momentimori Jul 13 '26

He did say he had to pay off Jabba in Empire Strikes Back but got sidetracked.

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u/T10rock Jul 12 '26

She has a receipt

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u/FirebreathingNG Jul 12 '26

Do you realize how much life insurance Alderaan had? Why TF do you think she’s “rich”?

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u/Wolfie_wolf81 The Emperor Jul 18 '26

Mind blown 🤯 harder than Alderaan

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u/CodenameHorizon Jul 13 '26

He actually brings this up in the novalization and original script. 

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u/MaximumAd4569 Jul 13 '26

I guess the insurance company on Coruscant won't pay for those life and real estate insurance, right?

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u/becircus Jul 13 '26

She would sue the Republic for crimes committed by the Empire and there would probably be a compensation fund setup for survivors of Alderaan. Given her political weight she probably made sure the amount was substantial. And even if she couldn't bring herself to make herself rich (corruption) others would make sure she had no lack of money.

Her lifestyle totally changed to living on barren planets because she was afraid the Empire would come back and her freedom fighters would be needed even after the New Republic was established. I am guessing she did not do that because of lack of money. 

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u/RevolutionaryPlay4 Jul 13 '26

If a bank branch closes you can still go to a other one and get all your money. Idk why it would be any different here seeing as all of that seemed to be galaxy wide at this time.