The Empire could have have – under the guise of a peace accord! – entered into a single currency pact with the rebelling parties, including the Alliance. Imperial officials could have invited the dissenting parties to a breakfast meeting in a lofty office tower on Coruscant with bagels and coffee served on silver trays. There, in a 15 minute Powerpoint presentation (set lasers to ‘point’), they might have persuaded attendees of their ability – being technocrats, first and foremost – to manage a single Galactic currency in ways which would simultaneously maximize growth and lower unemployment for all. “We have reached a point,” black-uniformed Empire bankers would say (and so the pitch always begins), gazing out into a sky full of technological wonders, “where the management of such things, indeed the conquest of want, is within our grasp.”
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