who was the richest man in the entire Star Wars known Galaxy I believe we can all agree that that would be the Supreme Chancellor turned Emperor she Palpatine greetings again acolytes of the force and welcome back to the archives one thing that we need to note about the rule of two era of Sith is that they would often recruit from the politically and financially powerful when seeking out an apprentice this was certainly the case for Darth pleus whose Alter Ego heo deam mask was a premier businessman who only interacted with the upper echelons of society
in the galaxy itself that would be where we would meet the young Palpatine on nabo a rebellious and misunderstood boy born of the Noble House of Palpatine from his very childhood shiv understood what it meant to be powerful in society and shiv would quickly learn from his father that money could eliminate problems so as he got older and More in tune with the high Galactic society and began making his own connections what did Palpatine do with his vast wealth and the vast wealth of his family not to mention the trillions of dollars he aced after
he became the emperor well today we will be explaining And discussing how Palpatine spent his fat stacks Palpatine's net worth is nearly impossible to calculate but there are many purchases that he has made throughout his entire life within both Canon and legends that we need to explore if we were to find and list everything of value that Palpatine did or possessed then this video May last the entirety of the rule of two so for this video we are going to hit his major purchases and try to calculate the cost of some of his most expensive
Ive excursions to get a taste of how wealthy the dark lord really was first though how did Palpatine get his money in the beginning it would be the treasury of his Noble house after brutally murdering his entire family with the force and then making them vanish Without a Trace she would be the sole inheritor of the Palpatine Fortune of course as one of the richest Noble houses of nabo at the time this would have likely included Millions if not billions of credits with Naboo being one of the more wealthy worlds again the this was his
beginning but once the Clone Wars broke out and Palpatine would be elected to the position of supreme Chancellor although we know he attempted to remain humble in the public we do have evidence of embezzlement in season 6 of The Clone Wars it is explored how Palpatine smuggled tiny amounts of money out of The Intergalactic banking Clan doing so in order to manipulate the Republic into seizing control of the banks and giving all of that control directly to the office of the chancellor this would of course give Palpatine access to all of the credits he needed
to begin destruction of the Empire and the Death Star but once he became emperor it almost goes without saying that he would essentially have control over all the money in the Galaxy giving him a bottomless pool of wealth to draw upon the Emperor as an absolute dictator no longer needed to pay for anything out of pocket but could just issue it be done with an imperial decree so what exactly did Palpatine do with his massive wealth starting large we would talk about Palpatine's many houses he would of course begin with his family's mansion on Abu
it was out of the way and quite a few miles outside of theed in fact hego damask would be kidnapped and taken there by cassinga Palpatine who would then attempt to bribe him and then threaten him to leave his family and his son alone during his first few years as a smalltime politician Palpatine would take control over his family's home and operate outside of it until he gained enough prestige on corusant to officially move to the capital world it is never revealed exactly what Palpatine did with his family's home home though we do know of
a retreat that Palpatine did have on Naboo that he used during the reign of the Empire it isn't stated though whether or not this is the same Mansion but it likely would not be the retreat that we know of was a multi-story Structure styled with domed roofs like many Naboo buildings guard towers surrounded the facility and security patrols kept watch outside the structure was made out of the finest Stone available in the entire galaxy not just Naboo and a WID Stone Concourse lying the backside of the building with a balcony overlooking the lake the retreat's
front was outfitted with a veranda and a road wide enough to accommodate a patrol of 8s of course once Palpatine moved to corusant during his time as a politician his new residence would be the penthouse of 500 Republica an apartment complex that Obi-Wan noted as being the most exclusive in all of corusant one had to be of an extremely high social status to even visit the Republica not to mention there were entire roads that were blocked off off to keep those lesser out we actually got a look at the Republic Penthouse in The Phantom Menace
where the walls are all draped in a deep red color one that is reminiscent of The Emperor's future royal guard it would also be within this very apartment on the couch that Queen amadala sat upon that cidus would eventually slay his master in his sleep torturing him with Force lightning and then choking him to death during the latter days of the Clone Wars Palpatine almost got himself caught when he got a little sloppy and the Jedi were able to to trace cyas movements through an underground tunnel leading right to 500 Republica but this would not
be his permanent residence on corant after proclaiming himself Emperor cyas would move out of his Penthouse and into the Jedi Temple turning it into the Imperial Palace we have a video coming soon which will detail all of the changes that Palpatine made to the temple in order to morph it into his new home so be sure to be on the lookout for that but it was within this Palace that cyas gloated over the Fallen order and would draw on the natural Dark Side energies from the Sith Shrine buried beneath the floors of the temple he
would carry out secret excavations of the shrine and performed many rituals that he kept secret from his Apprentice Vader but speaking of secret let's talk about the emperor Citadel on bis Palpatine had an entire city built in luxury on the tropical world of bis we released a video talking all about the horrors that truly lied on this beautiful world and the depraved things that Palpatine secretly did there Palpatine advertised this paradig I as a refuge for all those in the Empire that lost their homes on their original worlds including those of alderon this was a
place for the people to live lost in pleasures of the world in order to keep them distracted Palpatine was draining their life Essence out of them in secret in order to fuel his many Dark Side experiments keeping them happy and distracted it would also be in this Citadel where he Invader would kill and torture four sensitive children in order to turn them to inquisitors Beyond B there were several for foress worlds that Palpatine owned such as his Observatory on Pio which was infiltrated by Luke Skywalker following the Battle of Endor but now that we've discussed
his homes what's another indicator of great wealth in Star Wars well Palpatine's massive personal Fleet and the many ships that he owned Palpatine has bought several in his lifetime with ships it's much easier to calculate the actual cost in the tangible figures during the age of the Republic Palpatine wrode around on corusant in the luxury 3000 space yacht which was reserved for highclass individuals as it was priced around 250,000 credits making it often associated with diplomatic meetings and travel Palpatine's yacht was fitted with a small jet stream meditation pool in the interior as well as
was surrounded with several conform couches the main deck offered a dining area a large private suite and a five visitor cabin one of the other ships Palpatine privately had designed for himself was a transport known as the imperialist we are entirely sure of the price of this one as it was a custom job done by wraith sair who owned Republic sair systems a ship building company that was specifically created to build ships exclusively for Palpatine an entire company just for him the imperialist was fast maneuverable and capable of outrunning Imperial Star Destroyers the massive yacht
was equipped with Advanced defensive systems in its wings that were capable of blasting gravity mines but within the ship held a great Vault that was filled top to bottom with Tre Treasures it would be in this ship that Palpatine would deliver the mask of Lord M to Darth Vader and apparently Palpatine didn't just own one imperialist but several all of which were kept dock in the hanger of his Palace along with these ships Sinar also constructed the ship known as the skimmar the skimmar was a Sith ship commissioned by Palpatine to give to his Apprentice
Darth Maul the skimmar was specifically modeled after the Sith transport ships of the Old Republic era heavily similar to the ship that Darth Bane would often travel in the biggest selling point of the schar was its cloaking device a bit of a prototype at the time the cloaking device used a crystal called the stigum crystal which of course couldn't be bought on the regular Market the Empire would actually enforce laws controlling the trade of these crystals for this purpose the skiar in its entirety is said to be valued at 55 million credits this is likely
because of the cloaking device alone which is said to cost millions of credits without an exact price point another one of Palpatine ships that featured Advanced cloaking systems was his personal Imperial shuttle he flew in a heavily modified Lambda Class t4a Shuttle which was at base rate valued at around 500,000 credits again though with Palpatine's personal and confidential modifications and the cloaking device which is said to be able to bypass any and all known scanning systems it's likely that the shuttle was worth millions more than even the skiar was its weapons and flight systems were
Advanced as well to to the point where it didn't even fly like a standard shuttle all in an effort to protect his Royal Majesty in fact no Pilots were allowed to fly Palpatine shuttle except for his red Royal Guards who were all fanatically loyal to the emperor and specially trained to fight in this shuttle but now let's move on to Trinkets and items there are truly too many to count in Palpatine's possession but among some of his most expensive effects would of course be his vast array of Sith artifacts Palpatine would collect artifacts with various
collectors and black market Traders just as a hobby money was never an object to him and all he cared about was securing those items for his massive Personal Collection we've talked at length before about Palpatine's Vault and all the artifacts that he had contained within and it's possible that Palpatine could have spent billions of dollars on rare Sith artifacts on the black market Alone by the time of the Clone Wars we know that lightsabers were extremely expensive and could be sold for around 30,000 credits because of the enforcement Jedi placed on the trade of Lights
Sabers or any Jedi or Sith artifacts most of that price came from the sellers issues trying to skirt under the watchful eye of the Jedi Order this means that each and every item Palpatine would buy on the black market would easily start at 10,000 credits as a baseline but when he wasn't indulging in Sith curiosity he was collecting items as gifts for his adoring Senators as an example senator tickus of mon kelari gave him three large pearls from the Seas of his home world with the pearls held in a cup like ends of polished fossilized
trumpet weed other Senators like senator bascol of malair gifted Palpatine ornate ceremonial Grand win drums drums constructed from an ancient spiritual era the triffin senator elen Lee gave Palpatine a near prehistoric Stone carving from one of her species Palpatine of course likely didn't care for any of these expensive items since he held no value or power to him but he did display them in his apartment in 500 Republica for nothing else but status speaking that of which is on display though Palpatine of course owned a collection of Brum statues the statues depicting the four sages
politicians that lived during the beginning days of the Republic and all of them who had publicly sworn to the Sith religion many of them even imposed Dark Side doctrines and the laws that they were passing not only did Palpatine have large Brum statues of the sages in his office but he also carried with him four smaller statues whenever he traveled one of the more expensive pieces palpa carried with him was his own lightsaber built specifically out of the precious metals to insult Jedi cyas his two lightsabers were made completely of the metal known as Frick
a lightsaber resistant metal that was only found on gromis and Tatooine this rendered his Sabers nearly indestructible and as a reference point to how durable frick was a crate of it was able to survive the destruction of alderon the emitters were made of aurodium a metal rarer than gold which was rumored to only be attained through Al iCal processes found in the forges of osus and medal that had to undergo a certain ritual and the finish of both the Sabers were of electrum which interestingly enough was a feature shared of Mace Wu's lightsaber in the
Jedi Order electrum was provided to Masters upon attaining the rank as a congratulations for purely cosmetic reasons it seems that cyas decided also to mock Mace Windu and the entire Council of Masters by also making his lightsaber with an electrum finish beyond the physical items that Palpatine was able to buy with all of his cash we can also look to his other Financial exploits and get an idea of his wealth here we shouldn't forget that he was able to fund his own political campaign and that he kept the entire Trade Federation financially afloat during the
blockade of nabo and something that people rarely talk about Palpatine personally funded the camans for the creation of the Clone Army 10 years prior to the war completely out of his pocket he had secret Laboratories and outpost set up on countless worlds such as one we see on Mustafar during the Clone Wars and he constantly was bribing many influential figures in the Senate and do we even need to calculate how many expensive bounty hunters Palpatine paid for over his long life the wealth of this Sith Lord likely outclasses just about any in history besides those
of marar ragnos the emperor of the Golden Age Sith but even still We Believe Palpatine had more but anyway my friends what do you think of our detailed video on Palpatine luxurious lifestyle did you ever wonder what the emperor did with all of his vast wealth and also which of these do you wish you had in your own possession what did you think of this video and what other sort of out there ideas would you like to see us explore and research in the Star Wars Galaxy thank you so much for your constant support my
friends and May the force be with you
