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[Star Wars] I remember reading in a novel that a lot of the members of the Imperial Navy thought the Death Star was an expensive boondoggle and that the money and resources poured into it could be used to construct Imperial Star Destroyers. How many Star Destroyers is the Death Star worth?
gpt
They spent upwards of a trillion credits on the first Death Star, but an exact cost hasn't been given. An Imperial-1 class Star Destroyer, like the *Devastator* that chases down the *Tantive IV* over Tatooine at the beginning of ANH, costs about 150 million credits.

150 million goes into 1 trillion 6,666 and change times. The Imperial fleet was about 25,000 ISDs all told. In other words, for the equivalent cost of the DS-1 alone, they could have fielded a 25% increase in ISDs over what they already had.