Yes, fine, kaadu egg on my face—I unwittingly designed a planet-destroying, fully armed, and operational battle station. But put yourself in my shoes: you’re a mid-tier, ambitious architect, and you get singled out of your whole firm, Coruscant Skyline Legacy, to design the biggest, baddest, bestest galactic RESORT FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL ever conceived… I don’t think you’d be asking too many questions either. Soldiers deserve respite!
You would have said yes too. The Emperor paid 100,000,000 credits. That paid off my mortgage, a winter home on Tatooine (I’m a snowbird, I know), future Galactic Upper Education tuition for the little ones, and an absurdly cozy retirement. I could have spent my life designing block condominiums. Big bantha yawn. Instead, I took the opportunity of a lifetime.