Lit Construction in Star Wars

Had we ever seen anyone doing construction work ever? Do we know what materials are used for houses and skyscrapers?

 

Durasteel is steel in the GFFA so that is a for sure building material.

 

IIRC there were construction projects involved/mentioned in at least one, if not more, of the X-Wing books.

 

Those massive construction droids seem quite efficient at raising skyscrapers in no time flat. A little scary, if you think about it.

 

Wedge was briefly involved in oversight, back during the Jedi Academy Trilogy, for reasons only known to KJA.

 

There's also duracrete, because concrete wasn't sci-fi enough of an umbrella term. Transparisteel for windows, maybe.

If we're talking about people doing construction work, you kind of start wondering how they maintain anything even vaguely resembling full employment in the GFFA, what with all the high technology and droids around.

 

Not really people in the act of building, but the deus ex machina of machines:



The star forge was sort of silly when you think about it. Or take a moment from clobbering Darth Malak and look out the window to see what it's doing. It's just like... going to town constructing machines. Bazillions of machines. Even like, ground battle tanks. That wouldn't function in space. But it's spewing them out anyway.

EDIT: oh, I forgot to address the issue of "construction materials." Ha. Haha. Forging from the sun matter or some such.

 

It's star lifting!

 

Well, I think the Star Forge silliness comes back to the simple point that KOTOR wasn't a terribly well-written game. Call it the mood of the OT mixed with the intelligence and maturity of the PT, or something like that.

 

Wouldn't it vary a little from planet to planet? For example:

Coruscant - duracrete
Kashyyyk - trees
Hoth - igloos
Mon Calamari - bubbles, coral reefs
Alderaan - asteroid caves
Tatooine - compressed sand

 

All matter was initially hydrogen. With enough fusion energy and a limitless supply of hydrogen from a star you can make anything you want. The only unrealistic part is the energy demands.

This is a complex question, but yes it does seem that, at the lowest tier of labor are people who supervise droids, not anyone who actually does manual labor. Even on Tatooine, hardly a high-tech center Shmi Skywalker, the slave of a junkyard master, supervised droids. In the broadest conception, we can think of Star Wars as lacking more or less all traditional 'blue collar' positions of the labor force. How this actually works out...nobody really knows.

 

Reminds me of how it supposedly took them two decades to build Death Star 1, and about two years to get most of the (178x larger) Death Star 2 done. Should take them about a month to do Death Star 3.

 

The following compounds appear (according to Wookieepedia, caveats, etc.) to have been commonly used construction materials:

• ceramacrete (road paving, at least)
• concrete
• ferroconcrete (or ferrocrete)
• permacrete (or duracrete)
• plastcrete
• plasticrete (possibly the same thing?)
• steelcrete
• stresscrete
• synthcrete
• formex
• permaplex
• permex
• plastex
• permacite
• lockslab
• quickthrow
• durasteel
• laminasteel
• plasteel
• steel
• transparisteel
• foamcast
• permaplas
• certain sorts of plastic or plastoid
• glass
• permaglass
• silica

How widespread other materials' usage in construction was is less clear:

• cement
• spitcrete
• ceramasteel
• suprasteel
• turadium

Perhaps not construction materials in the bricks-and-mortar sense, but one might also include:

• brass
• b'sant
• stucco

Some other material that might have been used in construction:

• flexisteel
• link-steel
• nylasteel
• vardium steel
• durinium
• foamplas
• polyplast
• ceraglass
• flexiglass

Also: in Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games, Anakin, in observing Euceron City, refers to it as "a city built entirely of plastoid materials, since there was no native stone", from which we might infer that on worlds blessed with an abundance of the latter resource, stone buildings would be expected to make up at least a significant proportion of the total.

Well, there it is.

 

I can't wait until an author uses the following derivative:

synthduraplastitransparisteelcretepermaplex

 

Lord Nyax used a construction droid to get at the Force Nexus under the old Jedi Temple in Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand.

 

So, when the Death Star(s) were destroyed, I wonder if the GFFA version of Billy Joel penned the following lyrics...

Well we're living here in Coruscant town
And they're closing all the factories down

 

Core world girl,
She's been living on her Inner Core world,
I bet she never had a SoroSuub guy,
bet her pateessa never told her why.

I'm gonna try for a Core world girl,
She's been living on her durasteel world
as long as anyone without credits can,
and now she's looking for a Rimward man;
that's what I am!

 

When are we going to get a novel that explores the economic consequences of the destruction of the Death Stars?

 

If there is ever a novelization of Clerks, that should cover it!

 

It's not a novel, but "Galaxywide NewsNets" in the Star Wars Adventure Journal did touch upon the economic consequences of *building* the second Death Star ...

 

Yeah, duh. In which case it would be easier to just recycle if you've got that sort of tech. Stars are dangerous **** to mess around with.

 

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