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[Elysium] What if someone on Earth successfully destroyed Elysium, and everyone on it?

Say, someone snuck onto the station, and before he could be deported, set off a suitcase nuke. Or, a criminal organization blasted the station apart with kinetic artillery.
gpt
That would be absolutely catastrophic from an economic standpoint. Elysium is an incredibly expensive investment, and just losing it means losing that income, losing hordes of rich and powerful people, and losing the investment. The economy would crash, and crash hard after that kind of loss.