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[Star Wars] Why did the Empire sterilize Geonosis?
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Geonosians built and designed the Death Star. Better to wipe the whole species out than to risk them leaking the plans to sympathizers. The Death Star was built by enslaved geonosians after all.  (Also wookiees but that's not related to the question.)