How much to insure the Millennium Falcon?
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The final installment of the Star Wars Skywalker saga concludes this weekend. While most are eager to see whether the dark defeats the light in the end, insurance nerds have a more pressing question: What would it cost to insure the Millennium Falcon?
InsureTheGap.com, an Uxbridge, United Kingdom-based company, sought to do just. After thoroughly researching all of the movies for clues on cost and risk, the firm generated an algorithm to determine an annual insurance price by assuming one Galactic Credit was equal to about 50 cents.
Considering the age of Han Solo and Chewbacca’s freighter, the high risks associated with being a smuggler and a rebel leader, and the modifications that have been made to the ship (not to mention all of those repairs to the ever-faulty hyperdive), the site estimated that the Millennium Falcon would cost a staggering $540,000 a year to insure. It would take a lot of smuggling jobs to pay off that Jabba-sized bounty.
The site also estimated insurance prices for a Tie Fighter, an X-Wing Starfighter and Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder, with the latter being the least expensive to insure at about $700 a year. Unfortunately, no calculation was made for the beleaguered AT-AT — because no one would risk insuring one.
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