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Death Star
A number of fictional mobile space stations and galactic superweapons
called Death Star featured in the Star Wars science-fiction franchise. The
Death Star
first Death Star was stated to be more than 100 km to 160 km in diameter, First appearance Star Wars: From
depending on source. It was crewed by an estimated 1.7 million military the Adventures
personnel and 400,000 droids.[1][2] Its superweapon delivered enough of Luke
energies on a scale equivalent to all the energy released by the Sun in an Skywalker
entire week. The second Death Star was significantly larger, between 200 km (novel, 1976)
to 400  km in diameter depending on source, and technologically more Affiliation Galactic Empire
advanced than its predecessor. Both versions of these dwarf planet-sized
fortresses were designed for massive power projection capabilities,
capable of destroying an entire planet with one blast from their
superlasers.[3]

Contents
Origin and design
Special effects
Depiction
Death Star-class
Similar super weapons of mass destruction
Death Stars in Star Wars Legends
Cultural influence
Science
Merchandise
White House petition
References
External links

Origin and design
Although details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between
different concept models during production of Star Wars, the notion of
The original and second Death Stars.
the Death Star being a large, spherical space station over 100 kilometers
in diameter was consistent in all of them.[4] George Lucas gave the
original task of designing a "Death Star" to concept artist and spaceship modeler Colin Cantwell,[5] who had collaborated
with Stanley Kubrick on the 1968 film 2001:  A  Space  Odyssey.[6] In a 2016 interview, Cantwell related that "I didn't
originally plan for the Death Star to have a trench, but when I was working with the mold, I noticed the two halves had
shrunk at the point where they met across the middle." As it "would have taken a week of work just to fill and sand and
refill this depression," Cantwell suggested a trench to Lucas to save the labor. Lucas liked the idea,[5][6] and the Death
Star model was created by John Stears.[7][8] The buzzing sound counting down to the Death Star firing its superlaser
comes from the Flash  Gordon serials.[9] Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for
Industrial Light & Magic's modelmakers for Return of the Jedi.[10] Only the front side of the 137-centimeter model was
completed, and the image was flipped horizontally for the final film.[10] Both Death Stars were depicted by a
combination of complete and sectional models and matte paintings.[4][10]

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Special effects
The Death Star explosions featured in the special edition of A New Hope and in
Return of the Jedi are rendered with a Praxis effect, wherein a flat ring of matter
erupts from the explosion.

The grid plan animations shown during the Rebel briefing for the attack on the
Death Star late in A  New  Hope were an actual computer graphics simulation
from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory made by Larry Cuba and Gary Imhoff as
The explosion special effect.
part of a CalArts project, and had been included during filming.[11]

Depiction
These are depictions of the Death Star and other similar weapons of mass
destruction within the Star Wars canon.

Death Star-class

DS-1 Platform - (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope)

The original Death Star's completed form appears in Star  Wars, known
Emperor Palpatine (left) and Darth officially as the DS­1  Orbital  Battle  Station, or Project  Stardust in
Vader (right) watch the original Rogue  One. Commanded by Governor Tarkin, it is the Galactic Empire's
Death Star's construction in Star "ultimate weapon",[12] a huge spherical space station over 100 kilometers in
Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the
diameter capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser. The
Sith.
film opens with Princess Leia transporting the station's schematics to the
Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star. Tarkin orders the
Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret
Rebel base; she gives them the false location of Dantooine, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway, as a
demonstration of the Death Star's firepower and the Empire's resolve. Later, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca,
Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 are pulled aboard the station by a tractor beam, where they discover and manage
to rescue Princess Leia. As they make their escape, Obi-Wan dies fighting Darth Vader, enabling the others to flee the
station. Later, Luke returns as part of a fighter force to attack its only weak point: a ray-shielded particle exhaust vent
leading straight from the surface directly into its reactor core. Luke was able to successfully launch his fighter's
torpedoes into the vent, impacting the core and triggering a catastrophic explosion, which completely destroyed the
station before it could use its superlaser weapon to annihilate its intended target, the rebel base on Yavin IV.

The  Clone  Wars Legacy story reel from the unfinished Crystal  Crisis  on  Utapau episodes revealed that the reason
General Grievous was on Utapau in Revenge of the Sith was to acquire enormous kyber crystals, which were required to
power the Death Star's superlaser.[13]

The first Death Star's schematics are visible in the scenes on Geonosis in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
showcasing the early development of the Death Star prototype, the Death Star plans were designed by Geonosians led by
Archduke Poggle the Lesser, a member of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and is shown early in construction
at the end of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The Death Star plans are a central plot-point in the 2016 film
Rogue One and the original 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

A hologram from the original Death Star is briefly visible in a scene at the Resistance base in Star Wars: Episode VII ­
The Force Awakens and used as a means of comparison with one from the First Order's own superweapon, Starkiller
Base.

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In the animated series Star  Wars  Rebels, the two-part episode "Ghost of Geonosis" hinted that the Geonosians were
nearly wiped out to extinction out of the Empire's need for secrecy. Saw Gerrera, having been sent to Geonosis to
investigate, deduced the Empire possesses a superweapon and resolved to discover the Death Star as depicted in the
final season two-parter "In the Name of the Rebellion." Though it was a dead end, finding only scientists being abducted
by the Empire, Saw learned the weapon is powered by kyber crystals taken from the Jedha system.

The anthology film Rogue One focuses on a band of Rebels stealing the plans for the first Death Star prior to the events
of A New Hope. The Death Star project was overseen by Orson Krennic, the Director of Advanced Weapons Research for
the Imperial Military. Under Krennic's supervision, the project was beset by constant delays, and he forcibly recruited
weapons designer Galen Erso (the father of Jyn Erso, the movie's main protagonist) to complete the design;
nevertheless, it was another fifteen years before the Death Star was operational. The Death Star's primary laser was
powered by kyber crystals mined from the desert moon of Jedha, and is first used to destroy Jedha City both as a
response to a violent insurgency on the planet, and as a display of the Death Star's operational status to restore the
Empire's confidence in the project. Grand Moff Tarkin assumes control over the Death Star while Krennic investigates
security breaches in the design project. It is subsequently revealed that Galen discreetly sabotaged the design by
building a vulnerability into the reactor. This is the same vulnerability that Luke Skywalker takes advantage of during
the events of A New Hope. After the Death Star plans are stolen from the Scarif vault, Tarkin fires the Death Star laser
on the base killing Krennic, as well as Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor.

The canonical population of the first Death Star was 1.7 million military personnel, 400,000 maintenance droids, and
250,000 civilians/independent contractors.[1][2]

The 2014 book Star Wars: Tarkin detailed the life of Grand Moff Tarkin, and prominently featured the first Death Star.
The theme of the construction of the Death Star is continued in the 2016 book, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, which tells
the story of the development of the Death Star's superweapon by the scientist, Galen Erso and Krennic's deception of
him. It also reveals how Poggle worked with Krennic on the Project but then turned on him.[14]

In the film Rogue One, it is revealed that the Death Star's superlaser is powered by multiple reactors, allowing it to vary
its destructive power depending on the target. Skeptical of the station's power, Tarkin ordered that it first be tested on
Jedha City using a single reactor. Subsequently, a second single-reactor test would destroy their installation on Scarif,
along with the Rebel strike force who had successfully stolen the station's plans. The destruction of the planet Alderaan
would be the first time the Death Star was tested with all reactors employed.

DS-2 Platform - (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi)

Return  of  the  Jedi features a second Death Star still under construction in orbit around the second moon of Endor.
Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader send the Rebels false information that the station's weapons systems are not
operational in order to lure them into a trap. The station's main weapon was a dramatic improvement over its
predecessor: while the first Death Star fired only once every 24 hours, the second fired once every 3 minutes, and its
multi-targeting systems was capable of destroying at least two capital ships per shot. When the station's protective
shield is disabled by a ground assault team on the forest moon of the planet Endor (led by Han Solo) with the help of the
native Ewoks, rebel fighters flew into the unfinished station targeting its reactor core chamber and damaged the reactor
core itself, which eventually explodes and destroys the station. It was destroyed by Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrissian
(with Nien Nunb as his Millennium Falcon co-pilot), the former destroying a power regulator and the latter destroying
the main reactor.

The Death Star II is featured in the cover of the book Star Wars: Aftermath (2015), which also features many flashbacks
to the destruction of the Death Star II, as well as the events directly after its destruction. One of the main characters in
the story personally escaped the explosion of the Death Star. The destruction of the second Death Star was also shown in
holograms in the book. The 2015 comic book Star  Wars:  Shattered  Empire also explores the days following the
destruction of the Death Star II from the perspective of Poe Dameron's parents, who were pilots during the event. The
video game Star  Wars:  Uprising also takes place during the aftermath of the second Death Star's destruction, and
features a hologram of its description on multiple occasions in and out of cutscenes.

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Similar super weapons of mass destruction

Malachor Sith Temple - (Star Wars Rebels)

The Star Wars Rebels episode Twilight  of  the  Apprentice features a forbidden planet called Malachor,[15] home of an
ancient Sith Temple.[16] This temple contained a Battle Station capable of destroying planets, and could only be
activated by placing a special Sith Holocron[17] in an obelisk at the summit of the pyramid inside the temple. Thousands
of years prior, a battle was waged on Malachor that resulted in the deaths of its inhabitants. Somewhere between the
events of his last appearance in The Clone Wars and this episode, Darth Maul had become stranded on Malachor. When
Ahsoka Tano, Kanan and Ezra arrived, Ezra was separated from them. He was discovered by a character who later
revealed himself to be Maul. Together, they solved a series of test chambers that required cooperation between two
Force wielders, and retrieved a Sith Holocron. With the help of Kanan and Ahsoka, they fought three Inquisitors, all of
whom were killed by Maul. Maul then betrayed his allies, blinding Kanan, and proceeded to activate the Battle Station.
Once Maul was defeated by a sightless Kanan, Darth Vader arrived with the intention of retrieving the holocron, but was
challenged by Ahsoka Tano, his former Padawan. While the station was preparing to fire, Kanan and Ezra retrieved the
holocron themselves and escaped, preventing this weapon of mass destruction from being used. Even though the temple
was destabilized, Ahsoka and Vader kept fighting to the death within the rapidly-crumbling building, until it eventually
exploded, wounding Darth Vader and almost killing Ahsoka.[18]

Starkiller Base - (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens features Starkiller Base, a planet turned into a battle station built by the First Order.
Significantly larger than either the first or second Death Star, and unlike either of those cost-prohibitive space stations,
this battle station cut-costs by terraforming an existing planet and draws its fire power directly from a sun, but it
requires time to draw enough energy. Once fired, it has the power to destroy up to five planets within the same star
system simultaneously, making it a far deadlier superweapon than the Death Star. General Hux gave an intense speech
while the Starkiller Base demonstrated its lethality by obliterating the five planets of the Hosnian Prime system (the
location of the Republic government, which rotates every few years), the cataclysm witnessed by Han Solo, Chewbacca,
Rey and Finn from Maz Kanata's castle. After Rey was captured by Kylo Ren, he interrogated her within the base. Han,
Chewbacca and Finn approached the base at light-speed because the base's shield kept out anything going under the
speed of light. They found Rey and successfully lowered the protective shields, enabling an X-wing assault led by Poe
Dameron and Nien Numb to destroy the planet-turned-base, with Poe firing the crucial, destructive shots.

Death Stars in Star Wars Legends

Both Death  Stars appear throughout the non-canonical Star  Wars Legends (formerly known as the Expanded
Universe).

The first Death Star's construction is the subject of Michael Reaves and Steve Perry's novel Death Star. In LucasArts's
Star Wars: Battlefront II, the player participates in a mission to secure crystals used in the Death Star's superlaser. The
first Death Star under construction acts as the final stage in the video game, The Force Unleashed. Kevin J. Anderson's
Jedi  Academy trilogy introduces the Maw Cluster of black holes that protect a laboratory where the Death  Star
prototype was built (consisting of the super structure, power core, and superlaser).

National Public Radio's A New Hope adaptation portrays Leia (Ann Sachs) and Bail Organa's (Stephen Elliott) discovery
of the Death Star's existence and Leia's mission to steal the space station's schematics. The first level of LucasArts' Dark
Forces gives the player a supporting role in Leia's mission, while a mission in Battlefront II tasks the player with acting
as a stormtrooper or Darth Vader in an attempt to recover the plans and capture Leia. Steve Perry's novel Shadows of
the Empire describes a mission that leads to the Rebels learning of the second Death Star's existence, and that mission
is playable in LucasArts' X­Wing  Alliance combat flight simulator. Numerous LucasArts titles recreate the movies'

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attacks on the Death Stars, and the Death Star itself is a controllable weapon for the Empire in the Rebellion and
Empire at War strategy game. A Death Star variation appears in Kevin J. Anderson's novel Darksaber (1995), and a
prototype version of the Death Star can be found in his novel Jedi Search (1994).

The first Death Star is depicted in various sources of having a crew of 265,675, as well as 52,276 gunners, 607,360
troops, 30,984 stormtroopers, 42,782 ship support staff, and 180,216 pilots and support crew.[19] Its hangars contain
assault shuttles, blastboats, Strike cruisers, land vehicles, support ships, and 7,293 TIE fighters.[20] It is also protected
by 10,000 turbolaser batteries, 2,600 ion cannons, and at least 768 tractor beam projectors.[20] Various sources state the
first Death Star has a diameter of between 140 and 160 kilometers.[19][21][22] There is a broader range of figures for the
second Death Star's diameter, ranging from 160 to 900 kilometers.[23][24]

DS-X Prototype Battle Station

In the Legends novels Death Star, Dark Empire II, Jedi Search and Champions  of  the  Force, an experimental Death
Star prototype, DS­X (a durasteel frame surrounding a reactor core, superlaser, engines and a control room) was
conceived by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin as a test bed for the first Death Star. It was constructed by Bevel Lemelisk and
his engineers at the Empire's secret Maw Installation. The prototype measured 120 kilometers in diameter. Its
superlaser was only powerful enough to destroy a planet's core, rendering it an uninhabitable "dead planet". The
targeting system on the prototype was never calibrated and the superlaser was inefficient, leaving the weapon's batteries
drained. The prototype had no interior except a slave-linked control room, hyperdrive engines and other components;
the station operated with skeleton-crew of 75 personnel.

George Lucas himself confirmed that the plans featured in Attack of the Clones and the under-construction facility in
Revenge of the Sith was indeed the original Death Star. The Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology retconned the
DS­X prototype into being built alongside the main Death Star.

Death Star III - (Star Tours: The Adventures Continue)

In the Disney attraction Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, guests can travel inside an incomplete Death Star during
one of the randomized ride sequences. In the original Star Tours, a Death Star III is seen and destroyed during the
ride sequence by the New Republic. Leland Chee originally created the third Death Star to explain why a Death Star is
present on the Star Tours ride when both of the stations in the movies were destroyed.[25] The station being built near
the Forest Moon of Endor like the second Death Star before it is similar to an original concept for Return of the Jedi,
where two Death Stars would have been built near Had Abbadon (then the Imperial capital world). The Habitation
spheres, based on the Imperials' suspicious claims that they were designed strictly for peaceful purposes, were suggested
by some fans to have been the origin for the Death Star III. This was later revealed to be the case in Part 2 of the
StarWars.com Blog series The  Imperial  Warlords:  Despoilers  of  an  Empire. In the Star  Wars  Legends game Tiny
Death Star, a random HoloNet entry states that one of the residents of the Death Star is simply staying there until he
can afford to stay at the third Death Star.

Cultural influence
The Death Star placed ninth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular movie weapons.[26] It is also referred
to outside of the Star Wars context.

KTCK (SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket) in Dallas were the first to use the term "Death Star" to describe the new mammoth
Cowboys Stadium, now AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. The term has since spread to local media and is generally
accepted as a proper nickname for the stadium.[27]

The Death Star strategy was the name Enron gave to one of their fraudulent business practices for manipulating
California's energy market.[28]

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AT&T Corporation's logo introduced in 1982 is informally referred to as the "Death Star".[29] Ars Technica referred to
"the AT&T Death Star" in an article criticizing a company data policy.[30] Competitor T-Mobile mocked AT&T's "Death
Star" logo and "Empire-like reputation" in a press release.[31]

Science
In 1981, following the Voyager spacecraft's flight past Saturn, scientists noticed a
resemblance between one of the planet's moons, Mimas, and the Death Star.[32]
Additionally, a few astronomers sometimes use the term "Death Star" to describe
Nemesis, a hypothetical star postulated in 1984 to be responsible for gravitationally
forcing comets and asteroids from the Oort cloud toward Earth.[33]

Merchandise
Kenner and AMT created a playset and a model, respectively, of the first Death
Star.[34][35] In 2005 and 2008, Lego released models of Death Star II and Death Star The Saturnian moon
I, respectively.[36][37] In 1979, Palitoy created a heavy card version of the Death Star Mimas, photographed by
as a playset for the vintage range of action figures in the UK, Australia and Canada. the Cassini probe in 2005.
The large crater in the
Both Death Stars are part of different Micro Machines three-packs.[38][39] The Death
upper right (Herschel) gives
Stars and locations in them are cards in Decipher, Inc.'s and Wizards of the Coast's it a resemblance to the
Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, Death Star.
respectively.[40] Hasbro released a Death Star model that transforms into a Darth
Vader mech.[41] Estes Industries released a flying model rocket version.[42]

A Death Star trinket box was also released by Royal Selangor in 2015, in conjunction with the upcoming December
screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[43] In 2016, Plox released the official levitating Death Star Speaker[44] in
anticipation of the upcoming screening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

White House petition

In 2012–13, a proposal on the White House's website urging the United States government to build a real Death Star as
an economic stimulus and job creation measure gained more than 30,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official
response. The official (tongue-in-cheek) response was released in January 2013:[45] the cost of building a real Death Star
has been estimated at $850 quadrillion by the Lehigh University, or about 13,000 times the amount of mineable
resources on Earth, while the International Business Times cited a Centives economics blog calculation that, at current
rates of steel production, the Death Star would not be ready for more than 833,000 years.[46] The White House response
also stated "the Administration does not support blowing up planets," and questioned funding a weapon "with a
fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship" as reasons for denying the petition.[45][47][48]

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External links
Death Star (http://www.starwars.com/databank/death-star/) in the StarWars.com Databank
Death Star (http://www.wikia.com/wiki/c:starwars:Death_Star) on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki

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