Death Star IPO

An innovative way to finance your planet-killing space station. We’re going to assume the Empire built the first Death Star on credit and decided to raise some investor capital for the second one.

Right now, in a galaxy right right here, a Death Star IPO is one set to blow up Wall Street. Like a stock that shows a massive gain in its first day of public trading. Think: Google going public in 2004. Or Facebook in 2012.

And in case you've lived your whole life as the lone inhabitant of a monastery on a tiny windswept island off the coast of Scotland, the "Death Star" part of the "Death Star IPO" is a reference to Star Wars. And not the missile defense system. The movie.