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class="vector-toc-link" href="#DS-X_Prototype_Battle_Station"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.1</span> <span>DS-X Prototype Battle Station</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-DS-X_Prototype_Battle_Station-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death_Star_III" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death_Star_III"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.2</span> <span>Death Star III</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death_Star_III-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_superweapons" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_superweapons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.3</span> <span>Other superweapons</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_superweapons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cultural_influence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cultural_influence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Cultural influence</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Cultural_influence-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Cultural influence subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Cultural_influence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Astronomy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Astronomy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Astronomy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Astronomy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Merchandise" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Merchandise"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Merchandise</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Merchandise-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Political_campaigns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_campaigns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Political campaigns</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_campaigns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " 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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96l%C3%BCm_ulduzu" title="Ölüm ulduzu – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Ölüm ulduzu" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A5_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="ডেথ স্টার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডেথ স্টার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D1%96" title="Зорка смерці – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Зорка смерці" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D1%96" title="Зорка сьмерці – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Зорка сьмерці" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BC%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Звезда на смъртта – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Звезда на смъртта" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_de_la_Mort" title="Estrella de la Mort – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Estrella de la Mort" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hv%C4%9Bzda_smrti" title="Hvězda smrti – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hvězda smrti" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ny mw-list-item"><a href="https://ny.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star – Nyanja" lang="ny" hreflang="ny" data-title="Death Star" data-language-autonym="Chi-Chewa" data-language-local-name="Nyanja" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chi-Chewa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B8dsstjernen" title="Dødsstjernen – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Dødsstjernen" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesstern" title="Todesstern – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Todesstern" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surmat%C3%A4ht" title="Surmatäht – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Surmatäht" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrella_de_la_Muerte" title="Estrella de la Muerte – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Estrella de la Muerte" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izar_Hiltzailea" title="Izar Hiltzailea – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Izar Hiltzailea" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF" title="ستاره مرگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ستاره مرگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89toile_de_la_mort" title="Étoile de la mort – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Étoile de la mort" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadsstjer" title="Deadsstjer – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Deadsstjer" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrela_da_Morte" title="Estrela da Morte – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Estrela da Morte" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%8A%A4_%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80" title="데스 스타 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데스 스타" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0" title="डेथ स्टार – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डेथ स्टार" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvijezda_smrti" title="Zvijezda smrti – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zvijezda smrti" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morte_Nera" title="Morte Nera – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Morte Nera" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%91_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%95%D7%AA" title="כוכב המוות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="כוכב המוות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="სიკვდილის ვარსკვლავი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სიკვდილის ვარსკვლავი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ves_zvaigzne" title="Nāves zvaigzne – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Nāves zvaigzne" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%C3%A1lcsillag" title="Halálcsillag – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Halálcsillag" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Death Star" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC" title="デス・スター – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デス・スター" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B8dsstjernen" title="Dødsstjernen – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Dødsstjernen" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwiazda_%C5%9Amierci" title="Gwiazda Śmierci – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Gwiazda Śmierci" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrela_da_Morte" title="Estrela da Morte – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Estrela da Morte" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steaua_Mor%C8%9Bii" title="Steaua Morții – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Death_star1.png/250px-Death_star1.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Death_star1.png 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Original Death Star</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_From_the_Adventures_of_Luke_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker">Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker</a></i> (1976 novelization)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i> (1977 theatrical film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Cantwell" title="Colin Cantwell">Colin Cantwell</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DEDEE2;">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Galactic Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">n/a, constructed in space.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Combat vehicles</th><td class="infobox-data">TIE Fighters</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DEDEE2;">General characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Class</th><td class="infobox-data">Orbital Battle Station</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Armaments</th><td class="infobox-data">Superlaser</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defenses</th><td class="infobox-data">Turbolasers, Laser cannons, Tractor beams, and Ion cannons</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Maximum speed</th><td class="infobox-data">Faster than light speed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Propulsion</th><td class="infobox-data">Imperial Hyperdrive</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Power</th><td class="infobox-data">Able to destroy a <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planet</a> with one shot of the superlaser.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Width</th><td class="infobox-data">160 km (99 mi) (Death Star I); 200 km (120 mi) (Death Star II)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Death Star</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">fictional</a> <a href="/wiki/Space_station" title="Space station">space station</a> and <a href="/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction" title="Weapon of mass destruction">superweapon</a> featured in the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Space_opera" title="Space opera">space-opera</a> <a href="/wiki/Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">franchise</a>. Constructed by the autocratic <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Galactic Empire</a>, the Death Star is capable of obliterating entire planets, and serves to enforce the Empire's <a href="/wiki/State_terrorism" title="State terrorism">reign of terror</a>. Appearing in the original 1977 film <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)"><i>Star Wars</i></a>, the Death Star serves as the central plot point and setting for the film, and is destroyed in an assault by the <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a> during the climax of the film, with the 2016 prequel film <i><a href="/wiki/Rogue_One" title="Rogue One">Rogue One</a></i> and the 2022 television series <i><a href="/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)" title="Andor (TV series)">Andor</a></i> exploring its construction. A larger <a href="/wiki/Second_Death_Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Death Star">second Death Star</a> is being built in the events of the 1983 film <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i>, featuring substantially improved capabilities compared to its predecessor, before it is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance while under construction. </p><p>Since its first appearance, the Death Star has become a <a href="/wiki/Cultural_icon" title="Cultural icon">cultural icon</a> and a widely recognized element of the <i>Star Wars</i> franchise. It inspired numerous similar superweapons in fiction as well as in other <i>Star Wars</i> works. The 2015 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Force_Awakens" class="mw-redirect" title="The Force Awakens">The Force Awakens</a></i> introduces <a href="/wiki/Starkiller_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Starkiller Base">Starkiller Base</a>, a planet (<a href="/wiki/Ilum_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilum (Star Wars)">Ilum</a>) converted by the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a> into a Death Star-like superweapon. While more powerful and technologically advanced than both Death Stars, it is also destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/Resistance_(Star_Wars)" title="Resistance (Star Wars)">Resistance</a>. The 2019 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rise_of_Skywalker" class="mw-redirect" title="The Rise of Skywalker">The Rise of Skywalker</a></i> introduces the Final Order, a massive fleet of <i>Xyston</i>-class Star Destroyers built by the <a href="/wiki/Sith#Sith_Eternal" title="Sith">Sith Eternal</a>, individual warships each carrying "planet-killing" weapons; the film also features the remains of the second Death Star, on the ocean moon of Kef Bir. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_and_design">Origin and design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin and design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to franchise creator <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a>, his initial outline for the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> saga did not feature the Death Star in the portion that would be adapted as the first film. When he set to creating the first act of this outline as a feature, he borrowed the Death Star concept from the third act.<sup id="cite_ref-:23_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:23-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between different concept models during the production of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i> (1977),<sup id="cite_ref-EpIV_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EpIV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the notion of the Death Star being a large, spherical space station over 100 kilometres (62 mi) in diameter was consistent in all of them.<sup id="cite_ref-dsbts_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dsbts-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> George Lucas gave the original task of designing a "Death Star" to concept artist and spaceship modeler <a href="/wiki/Colin_Cantwell" title="Colin Cantwell">Colin Cantwell</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-cnetcantwell_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnetcantwell-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who had collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> on the 1968 film <i><a href="/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey" title="2001: A Space Odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-sfgate16_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgate16-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Empire of Dreams</i>, a documentary about the filming and production of <i>Star Wars,</i> Cantwell revealed that the <i>Death Star</i> was originally supposed to be a perfect sphere. The model was constructed in two separate pieces, however, and wasn't fitting together as planned. It was then decided that there could be a trench going around the equator of the space station. Lucas liked the idea,<sup id="cite_ref-cnetcantwell_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnetcantwell-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sfgate16_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgate16-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Death Star model was created by <a href="/wiki/John_Stears" title="John Stears">John Stears</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The buzzing sound counting down to the Death Star firing its superlaser comes from the <i><a href="/wiki/Flash_Gordon" title="Flash Gordon">Flash Gordon</a></i> serials.<sup id="cite_ref-sosw_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sosw-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic" title="Industrial Light & Magic">Industrial Light & Magic</a>'s modelmakers for <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ds2bts_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds2bts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only the front side of the 137-centimetre (54 in) model was completed, and the image was flipped horizontally for the final film.<sup id="cite_ref-ds2bts_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds2bts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Death Stars were depicted by a combination of complete and sectional models and <a href="/wiki/Matte_painting" title="Matte painting">matte paintings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dsbts_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dsbts-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ds2bts_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds2bts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Special_effects">Special effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Special effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Starwars_explosion.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Starwars_explosion.jpg/250px-Starwars_explosion.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Starwars_explosion.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="152" /></a><figcaption>The explosion special effect depicted in the 2004 Special Edition of <i>A New Hope</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The grid plan animation shown during the Rebel briefing before the Death Star attack in <i>A New Hope</i> was an actual computer-graphics simulation developed by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Cuba" title="Larry Cuba">Larry Cuba</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Chicago" title="University of Illinois Chicago">University of Illinois Chicago</a> alongside computer graphics researcher <a href="/wiki/Tom_DeFanti" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom DeFanti">Tom DeFanti</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> George Lucas had recruited Cuba for the project after becoming familiar with his and <a href="/wiki/Gary_Imhoff" title="Gary Imhoff">Gary Imhoff</a>'s work with <a href="/wiki/CalArts" class="mw-redirect" title="CalArts">CalArts</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After filming was complete, the original model, as well as one of the surface setpieces, were to be thrown out, but they were eventually salvaged.<sup id="cite_ref-saving-the-death-star_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-saving-the-death-star-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-screenrant-original-model_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-screenrant-original-model-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ThrownOut_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ThrownOut-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Death Star explosions featured in the Special Edition of <i>A New Hope</i> and in <i>Return of the Jedi</i> are rendered with a <a href="/wiki/Praxis_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Praxis Effect">Praxis Effect</a>, wherein a flat ring of matter erupts from the explosion.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Depiction">Depiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Depiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original Death Star was introduced in the original <i>Star Wars</i> film,<sup id="cite_ref-EpIV_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EpIV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which later had elements of its backstory explored in the prequel films <i><a href="/wiki/Attack_of_the_Clones" class="mw-redirect" title="Attack of the Clones">Attack of the Clones</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Sith" class="mw-redirect" title="Revenge of the Sith">Revenge of the Sith</a></i>, the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)" title="Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)">The Clone Wars</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels" title="Star Wars Rebels">Rebels</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Bad_Batch" title="Star Wars: The Bad Batch">The Bad Batch</a></i>, and the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars#Anthology_films" title="Star Wars">anthology film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Rogue_One" title="Rogue One">Rogue One</a></i>. The second Death Star appears in <i>Return of the Jedi</i>, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Force_Awakens" class="mw-redirect" title="The Force Awakens">The Force Awakens</a></i>. Both the original and second Death Star were <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">moon</a>-sized and designed for massive <a href="/wiki/Power_projection" title="Power projection">power-projection</a> capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2×10<sup>32</sup> J/s power output blast from their superlasers.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_Death_Star">Original Death Star</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Original Death Star"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original Death Star's completed form appears in the original <i>Star Wars</i> film, known as the <b><i>DS-1</i> Orbital Battle Station</b>, or <b>Project Stardust</b> in <i>Rogue One</i>; before learning the true name of the weapon, the Rebel Alliance referred to it as the "Planet Killer".<sup id="cite_ref-rogue-one-film_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogue-one-film-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Commanded by <a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Governor Tarkin</a>, it is the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Galactic Empire</a>'s "ultimate weapon",<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a huge spherical battle station 160 kilometres (99 mi) in diameter capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vaderrots.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Vaderrots.jpeg/250px-Vaderrots.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Vaderrots.jpeg/330px-Vaderrots.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Vaderrots.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="352" data-file-height="259" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Palpatine" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Palpatine">Emperor Palpatine</a> (left) and <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> (right) oversee the construction of the first Death Star in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The film opens with <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a> transporting the station's <a href="/wiki/Schematics" class="mw-redirect" title="Schematics">schematics</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a> to aid them in destroying the Death Star.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_4-quote_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_4-quote-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To mark the Death Star being fully operational, Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of <a href="/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan">Alderaan</a> in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel headquarters; she gives them the location of <a href="/wiki/Dantooine" class="mw-redirect" title="Dantooine">Dantooine</a>, which housed a now-deserted Rebel base, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway as a demonstration of the Empire's resolve. Later, <a href="/wiki/Luke_Skywalker" title="Luke Skywalker">Luke Skywalker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca" title="Chewbacca">Chewbacca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-3PO" title="C-3PO">C-3PO</a>, and <a href="/wiki/R2-D2" title="R2-D2">R2-D2</a> (who were intended to arrive at Alderaan on board the <i><a href="/wiki/Millennium_Falcon" title="Millennium Falcon">Millennium Falcon</a></i>) are pulled aboard the station by a <a href="/wiki/Tractor_beam" title="Tractor beam">tractor beam</a>, where they discover and manage to rescue Princess Leia. As they make their escape, Obi-Wan sacrifices himself whilst dueling <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a>, 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, discovered previously from the stolen schematics. Luke is able to successfully launch his <a href="/wiki/X-wing_fighter" title="X-wing fighter">X-wing fighter</a>'s torpedoes into the vent, impacting the core and triggering a catastrophic explosion, which destroys the station before it can annihilate the Rebel base on <a href="/wiki/Yavin_4" title="Yavin 4">Yavin 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_4_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_4-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Death Star's schematics are visible in the scenes on <a href="/wiki/Geonosis" class="mw-redirect" title="Geonosis">Geonosis</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_%E2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones" title="Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones">Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones</a></i>, evidently designed by <a href="/wiki/Geonosian" class="mw-redirect" title="Geonosian">Geonosians</a> led by Archduke <a href="/wiki/Poggle_the_Lesser" class="mw-redirect" title="Poggle the Lesser">Poggle the Lesser</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Confederacy_of_Independent_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederacy of Independent Systems">Confederacy of Independent Systems</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_2_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is shown early in construction at the end of <i>Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_3_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_3-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Clone Wars</i> Legacy story reel from the unfinished <i>Crystal Crisis on Utapau</i> episodes reveals that <a href="/wiki/General_Grievous" title="General Grievous">General Grievous</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Utapau_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Utapau (Star Wars)">Utapau</a> prior to <i>Revenge of the Sith</i> in order to acquire an enormous <a href="/wiki/Kyber_crystal" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyber crystal">kyber crystal</a> to power the Death Star's superlaser.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As depicted in <i><a href="/wiki/Rogue_One" title="Rogue One">Rogue One</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Catalyst:_A_Rogue_One_Novel" title="Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel">Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel</a></i> (2016), the Death Star was worked on by a team of scientists sequestered on the rainswept world of <a href="/wiki/Eadu" class="mw-redirect" title="Eadu">Eadu</a>, overseen by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Krennic" title="Orson Krennic">Orson Krennic</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Galen_Erso" class="mw-redirect" title="Galen Erso">Galen Erso</a> (the father of <a href="/wiki/Jyn_Erso" title="Jyn Erso">Jyn Erso</a>, the film's protagonist) to complete the design. The Death Star scientists sought to fuse <a href="/wiki/Kyber_crystal" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyber crystal">kyber crystal</a> shards into larger structures and used those crystals to amplify energy into a stable beam powerful enough to destroy an entire planet.<sup id="cite_ref-rogue-one-film_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogue-one-film-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rogue-one-catalyst-novel_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogue-one-catalyst-novel-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears (April 2019)">pages needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Disney%2B" title="Disney+">Disney+</a> series, <a href="/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)" title="Andor (TV series)"><i>Andor</i></a>, set after the novel but before the film, prisoners of the Imperial Prison Complex in Narkina 5, including <a href="/wiki/Cassian_Andor" title="Cassian Andor">Cassian Andor</a>, who got sent to the prison during his time as Keef Girgo, worked on Imperial equipment during their shifts, which was revealed in the post-credits scene of the series' final episode, <i>Rix Road</i>, to be parts built for the superlaser. </p><p>The 2014 book <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Tarkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars: Tarkin">Star Wars: Tarkin</a></i> details the life of Grand Moff Tarkin and prominently features the Death Star. <i>Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel</i> tells the story of the development of the Death Star's superweapon by Galen Erso and Krennic's deception of him. It also reveals how Poggle worked with Krennic on the project but then turned on him.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the animated series <i>Star Wars Rebels</i>, the two-part episode "Ghosts of Geonosis" hints that the Geonosians were nearly wiped out to extinction out of the Empire's need for secrecy. <a href="/wiki/Saw_Gerrera" title="Saw Gerrera">Saw Gerrera</a>, having been sent to Geonosis to investigate, deduces that the Empire possesses a superweapon and resolves to discover the Death Star as depicted in the two-part episode "In the Name of the Rebellion". Though it is a dead end, Saw learns that the weapon is powered by kyber crystals taken from the <a href="/wiki/Jedha" class="mw-redirect" title="Jedha">Jedha</a> system. </p><p><i>Rogue One</i> focuses on a band of Rebels stealing the Death Star plans just prior to the events of <i>A New Hope</i>. The Death Star 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. 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. After the Death Star plans are stolen from the Scarif vault, Tarkin fires the Death Star's superlaser on the base, killing Krennic, as well as Jyn Erso and her small band of rebels.<sup id="cite_ref-rogue-one-film_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogue-one-film-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Rogue One</i> also reveals that the Death Star's superlaser is powered by multiple reactors, allowing it to vary its destructive power depending on the target; both the attack on Jedha City and the Scarif base used a single reactor. </p><p>According to <i>Star Wars</i> reference books, the population of the Death Star was 1.7 million military personnel, 400,000 maintenance droids, and 250,000 civilians, associated contractors and catering staff.<sup id="cite_ref-Star_Wars:_Complete_Locations_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Star_Wars:_Complete_Locations-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Star_Wars:_Death_Star_Battles_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Star_Wars:_Death_Star_Battles-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Death Star was defended by thousands of turbolasers, ion cannons and laser cannons, plus a complement of seven to nine thousand TIE fighters, along with tens of thousands of support craft. It also had several massive docking bays, including dry docks capable of accommodating <a href="/wiki/Star_Destroyer" title="Star Destroyer">Star Destroyers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A hologram of the original Death Star is briefly visible in a scene at the Resistance base in <i>The Force Awakens</i> and used as a means of comparison with one from the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a>'s own superweapon, Starkiller Base.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_7_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_7-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Death_Star">Second Death Star</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Second Death Star"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DeathStar2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The second Death Star" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/DeathStar2.jpg/220px-DeathStar2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/DeathStar2.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="291" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>The second Death Star</figcaption></figure> <p>The 1983 film <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a></i> features the <i><b>DS-2 Orbital Battle Station</b></i> under construction as it orbits the forest moon <a href="/wiki/Endor_(Star_Wars)" title="Endor (Star Wars)">Endor</a>, which houses a shield generator protecting the station. The second Death Star is substantially more advanced and more powerful than its predecessor, and the critical weakness found in the first Death Star has been removed—the Rebel Alliance's only hope is to destroy it prior to its completion. <a href="/wiki/Palpatine" title="Palpatine">Darth Sidious</a> and Darth Vader <a href="/wiki/Counterintelligence" title="Counterintelligence">send the Rebels false information</a> that the station's weapons systems are not yet complete in order to lure the Alliance fleet into a trap, resulting in the decisive Battle of Endor. In fact, the station's superlaser is fully operational, and it begins firing on and destroying Rebel <a href="/wiki/Capital_ship" title="Capital ship">capital ships</a> during the battle. </p><p>A ground assault team led by <a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a> with the help of the Endor-native <a href="/wiki/Ewok" title="Ewok">Ewoks</a> successfully manages to disable the shield generator, allowing Rebel pilots <a href="/wiki/Wedge_Antilles" title="Wedge Antilles">Wedge Antilles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lando_Calrissian" title="Lando Calrissian">Lando Calrissian</a> to fly into the station (using Han's <i><a href="/wiki/Millennium_Falcon" title="Millennium Falcon">Millennium Falcon</a></i>) and fire on its reactor, destroying the station in another catastrophic explosion.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_6_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_6-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early draft of <i>Return of the Jedi</i> features two Death Stars at various stages of completion.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Encyclopedia" title="Star Wars Encyclopedia">Star Wars Encyclopedia</a></i>, the second Death Star had at its "north pole ... a heavily armored 100-story tower topped by the Emperor's private observation chamber."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The size of the second Death Star has not remained consistent among the various writers for the <i>Star Wars</i> franchise, with some stating it shared the first Death Star's 160-kilometre (99 mi) radius and others claiming it was much more massive with a 900-kilometre (560 mi) radius.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most recent figure established in 2017 by Ryder Windham gives the second Death Star a radius of 200 kilometres (120 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second Death Star is featured on the cover of the book <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Aftermath" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars: Aftermath">Star Wars: Aftermath</a></i> (2015), which also features many flashbacks to the destruction of the second Death Star, 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="Star Wars Aftermath novel (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The 2015 comic book <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Shattered_Empire" title="Star Wars: Shattered Empire">Star Wars: Shattered Empire</a></i> also explores the days following the destruction of the second Death Star from the perspective of <a href="/wiki/Poe_Dameron" title="Poe Dameron">Poe Dameron</a>'s parents, who were pilots during the event. The video game <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Uprising" title="Star Wars: Uprising">Star Wars: Uprising</a></i> 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Part of the wreckage of the second Death Star appears in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rise_of_Skywalker" class="mw-redirect" title="The Rise of Skywalker">The Rise of Skywalker</a></i> (2019), on the ocean moon <a href="/wiki/Kef_Bir" class="mw-redirect" title="Kef Bir">Kef Bir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rey_(Star_Wars)" title="Rey (Star Wars)">Rey</a> visits the wreckage to obtain the Emperor's wayfinder, a device that points the way to his hidden lair on <a href="/wiki/Exegol" class="mw-redirect" title="Exegol">Exegol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_9_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_9-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Similar_superweapons">Similar superweapons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Similar superweapons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 2019 comic <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(2015_comic_book)" title="Star Wars (2015 comic book)">Star Wars</a></i> #68 reveals that the Rebels considered creating their own version of a Death Star by luring Star Destroyers to a <a href="/wiki/Plate_tectonics" title="Plate tectonics">tectonically</a> unstable planet and setting it off with proton detonators.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Starkiller_Base">Starkiller Base</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Starkiller Base"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">The Force Awakens</a></i> features <b>Starkiller Base</b>, a Death Star-like superweapon built by the <a href="/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)" title="First Order (Star Wars)">First Order</a>, an autocratic regime considered to be the successor of the Empire. Significantly larger than both previous Death Stars, the superweapon was constructed out of an existing planet called <a href="/wiki/Ilum_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilum (Star Wars)">Ilum</a> instead of being assembled in deep space. The base draws its raw firepower by <a href="/wiki/Star_lifting" title="Star lifting">harnessing energy directly from a nearby star</a>. Unlike its predecessors, Starkiller Base is capable of firing on and destroying multiple planets at once from extreme range—in the film, the First Order obliterates the five planets in the <a href="/wiki/Hosnian_Prime" class="mw-redirect" title="Hosnian Prime">Hosnian Prime</a> system, at that time the <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_Republic_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Republic (Star Wars)">New Republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starkiller Base is protected by a defensive <a href="/wiki/Force_field_(technology)" title="Force field (technology)">shield</a> that blocks all objects traveling at slower-than-light speeds; <a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca" title="Chewbacca">Chewbacca</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Finn_(Star_Wars)" title="Finn (Star Wars)">Finn</a> exploit a vulnerability by bypassing the shield at <a href="/wiki/Hyperdrive_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperdrive (Star Wars)">faster-than-light</a> speeds, successfully infiltrating the base and sabotaging its shields. Subsequently, an <a href="/wiki/X-wing_fighter" title="X-wing fighter">X-wing</a> assault led by <a href="/wiki/Poe_Dameron" title="Poe Dameron">Poe Dameron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nien_Nunb" class="mw-redirect" title="Nien Nunb">Nien Nunb</a> destroys the superweapon by damaging the base's thermal oscillator and fuel cells, resulting in a catastrophic release of energy from the planet's core. As Resistance forces flee, the planet implodes and forms a star.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name Starkiller Base pays homage to the early drafts of the original <i>Star Wars</i> film, referring to Luke Skywalker's original surname.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coincidentally, the name "Starkiller" is an alias given to Galen Marek by Darth Vader in the 2008 game, <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Unleashed" title="Star Wars: The Force Unleashed">Star Wars: The Force Unleashed</a></i>. During early concept development, artist <a href="/wiki/Doug_Chiang" title="Doug Chiang">Doug Chiang</a> envisioned the superweapon's gun as set inside a volcano, which X-wings would have to enter in a maneuver similar to the trench run on the Death Star in the original film.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sith_Star_Destroyers">Sith Star Destroyers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sith Star Destroyers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i>The Rise of Skywalker</i>, the ninth installment in the series, the resurrected Darth Sidious is revealed to have constructed the <a href="/wiki/Sith#Sith_Eternal" title="Sith">Sith Eternal</a>'s fleet of <i>Xyston</i>-class Star Destroyers, the Final Order, over the Sith planet <a href="/wiki/Exegol" class="mw-redirect" title="Exegol">Exegol</a>. Each warship is armed with an axial superlaser capable of destroying planets; Sidious uses one of the Star Destroyers to destroy the planet <a href="/wiki/Kijimi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kijimi">Kijimi</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Show_of_force" title="Show of force">show of force</a>. At the end of the film, the Resistance launches an offensive against the Sith Eternal forces, including the Sith fleet. Aided by reinforcements from across the galaxy, the Resistance defeats the remaining Sith forces by destroying the onboard superlasers, which ignited the ships reactors and destroyed them one by one. The Resistance also destroyed the <i>Resurgent-</i>class Star Destroyer <i>Steadfast</i> and the navigation signal that the fleet needed to exit the planet due to the unstable nature of the atmosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-star_wars_9_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star_wars_9-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expanded_Universe">Expanded Universe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Expanded Universe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Both Death Stars and similar superweapons appear throughout the non-canonical <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_expanded_to_other_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars expanded to other media"><i>Star Wars</i> Legends</a> continuity. <a href="/wiki/National_Public_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="National Public Radio">National Public Radio</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio_series)" title="Star Wars (radio series)"><i>Star Wars</i> adaptation</a> (1981) portrays Leia (Ann Sachs) and <a href="/wiki/Bail_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail Organa">Bail Organa</a>'s (<a href="/wiki/Stephen_Elliott_(actor)" title="Stephen Elliott (actor)">Stephen Elliott</a>) discovery of the Death Star's existence and how Leia obtained its schematics. The <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)" title="Star Wars (1983 video game)">1983 <i>Star Wars</i> arcade game</a> and numerous <a href="/wiki/LucasArts" class="mw-redirect" title="LucasArts">LucasArts</a> titles recreate the films' attacks on the Death Stars. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Kevin_J._Anderson" title="Kevin J. Anderson">Kevin J. Anderson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jedi_Academy_trilogy" title="Jedi Academy trilogy"><i>Jedi Academy</i> trilogy</a> (1994) introduces the Maw Cluster of <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black holes</a> that protect a laboratory where the Death Star prototype was built (consisting of the superstructure, power core, and superlaser).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The first level of LucasArts' <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Forces">Dark Forces</a></i> (1995) gives mercenary <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Katarn" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyle Katarn">Kyle Katarn</a> the role of stealing the plans that are subsequently given to Leia. <a href="/wiki/Steve_Perry_(author)" title="Steve Perry (author)">Steve Perry</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadows of the Empire (novel)">Shadows of the Empire</a></i> (1996) describes a mission that leads to the Rebels learning of the second Death Star's existence, and that mission is playable in LucasArts' <i><a href="/wiki/X-Wing_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="X-Wing Alliance">X-Wing Alliance</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Space_flight_simulation_game" title="Space flight simulation game">space flight simulator</a> (1999). The Death Star itself is a controllable weapon for the Empire in the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Rebellion_(video_game)" title="Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)">Rebellion</a></i> (1998) and <i><a href="/wiki/Empire_at_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire at War">Empire at War</a></i> (2006) strategy game.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront_II_(2005_video_game)" title="Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005 video game)">Battlefront II</a></i> (2005), the player participates in a mission to secure crystals used in the Death Star's superlaser.<sup id="cite_ref-battlefront-ii-2005_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-battlefront-ii-2005-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another mission in the game tasks the player with acting as a <a href="/wiki/Imperial_stormtrooper" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial stormtrooper">stormtrooper</a> or Darth Vader in an attempt to recover the plans and capture Leia.<sup id="cite_ref-battlefront-ii-2005-leia_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-battlefront-ii-2005-leia-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first Death Star under construction acts as the final stage in the video game <i><a href="/wiki/The_Force_Unleashed" class="mw-redirect" title="The Force Unleashed">The Force Unleashed</a></i> (2008).<sup id="cite_ref-the-force-unleashed_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the-force-unleashed-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first Death Star's construction is the subject of <a href="/wiki/Michael_Reaves" title="Michael Reaves">Michael Reaves</a> and Steve Perry's novel <i>Death Star</i> (2007),<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which depicts the many politics and hidden agendas behind the massive project, from its construction up until its final destruction. </p><p>The first Death Star's hangars contain assault shuttles, blastboats, Strike cruisers, land vehicles, support ships, and 7,293 <a href="/wiki/TIE_fighter" title="TIE fighter">TIE fighters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dstc_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dstc-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also protected by 10,000 turbolaser batteries, 2,600 <a href="/wiki/Ion_cannon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ion cannon">ion cannons</a>, and at least 768 tractor beam projectors.<sup id="cite_ref-dstc_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dstc-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various sources state that the first Death Star has a <a href="/wiki/Diameter" title="Diameter">diameter</a> of between 140 and 160 kilometers.<sup id="cite_ref-dseu_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dseu-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a broader range of figures for the second Death Star's diameter, ranging from 160 to 900 kilometers.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="DS-X_Prototype_Battle_Station">DS-X Prototype Battle Station</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: DS-X Prototype Battle Station"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i>Legends</i> works <i>Death Star</i> (2007), <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Empire_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Empire II">Dark Empire II</a></i>, <i>Jedi Search</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Champions_of_the_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Champions of the Force">Champions of the Force</a></i>, an experimental Death Star prototype, <b>DS-X</b> (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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Death_Star_III">Death Star III</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Death Star III"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Disney attraction <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Tours_%E2%80%93_The_Adventures_Continue" title="Star Tours – The Adventures Continue">Star Tours – The Adventures Continue</a></i>, guests can travel inside an incomplete Death Star during one of the randomized ride sequences. In the original Star Tours, a <i><b>Death Star III</b></i> is seen and destroyed during the ride sequence by the New Republic. <a href="/wiki/Leland_Chee" class="mw-redirect" title="Leland Chee">Leland Chee</a> originally created the third Death Star to explain why a Death Star is present on the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Tours" title="Star Tours">Star Tours</a></i> ride when both of the stations in the film were destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The station being built near the Forest Moon of Endor like the second Death Star before. It is similar to an original concept for <i>Return of the Jedi</i>, where two Death Stars would have been built near Had Abbadon (then the Imperial capital world). The <i>Habitation</i> 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 <i>The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire</i>. In the Expanded Universe game <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Tiny_Death_Star" title="Star Wars: Tiny Death Star">Star Wars: Tiny Death Star</a></i>, 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_superweapons">Other superweapons</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other superweapons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A prototype version of the Death Star can be found in Kevin J. Anderson's novel <i>Jedi Search</i> (1994).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was kept at the Maw Installation, an Imperial research institute in a cluster of black holes, and later deployed by Tol Sivron after the Maw Installation was invaded by the New Republic. The prototype was ineffective, missing its target and instead destroying an Imperial garrison moon the sole time it was fired in combat. After this, the prototype was later destroyed when it was led into the black holes of the cluster. </p><p>In the original Marvel <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(1977_comic_book)" title="Star Wars (1977 comic book)"><i>Star Wars</i> comic series</a> (1977–1986), a superweapon called "The Tarkin" is built. It is described as being similar to the Death Star but with more energy. Darth Vader commands it and Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, <span class="nowrap">C-3PO</span>, and R2-D2 sabotage it with Lando's help. It is finally destroyed by an Imperial officer attempting to use an ionic weapon to both attack the escaping Rebels and assassinate Vader. Later in the series, a nihilistic group attempts to use a weapon to dislodge a planet from its orbit and cause others to do the same in a chain reaction, thereby destroying the entire universe.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Empire" title="Dark Empire">Dark Empire</a></i> comic series (1991–95), the reborn Emperor Palpatine's flagships <i>Eclipse</i> and <i>Eclipse II</i> Super Star Destroyers (Star Dreadnoughts) have a miniaturized version of the Death Star superlaser.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first <i>Eclipse</i> was under construction at the time of the Emperor's death at Endor; shortly thereafter, it was briefly captured by pirates, who quickly abandoned it as an obvious target for the Rebels. The vessel was retrieved by remnants of the Empire and completed, and later served as the flagship of the resurrected Palpatine. It was destroyed by a Force storm enhanced by Luke and Leia, who had been brought aboard by the Emperor in hopes that they could be converted to the dark side. The <i>Eclipse II</i> was mostly identical to its predecessor save for a handful of visual changes, and fulfilled the same purpose. It was later destroyed when an errant projectile from the destroyed Galaxy Gun, another superweapon developed under the returned Palpatine, fell onto the ship and caused a massive explosion that destroyed not only the ship and its accompanying fleet, but also the nearby Imperial citadel of <a href="/wiki/Byss" class="mw-redirect" title="Byss">Byss</a>. </p><p>In Kevin J. Anderson's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Darksaber_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darksaber (novel)">Darksaber</a></i> (1995), Death Star designer Bevel Lemelisk is recruited by the Hutts to build a superlaser weapon. Due to their refusal to sufficiently fund and supply the project, the resultant 'superweapon' is quickly destroyed by a combination of the tumultuous Hoth asteroid field in which it was built and the efforts of the New Republic. Lemelisk is captured and incarcerated by the Republic, and is later executed for his hand in the design and construction of Imperial superweapons.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The novel <i><a href="/wiki/Children_of_the_Jedi" class="mw-redirect" title="Children of the Jedi">Children of the Jedi</a></i> (1995) involves the return of <i>Eye of Palpatine</i>, a "colossal, asteroid-shaped" super dreadnaught constructed at the behest of Emperor Palpatine during the second year of the Galactic Civil War. The Imperials lose control of the <i>Eye</i> when a Jedi uses the Force to hijack the main computer with their spirits. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_influence">Cultural influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Cultural influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Star_Wars" title="Cultural impact of Star Wars">Cultural impact of Star Wars</a></div> <p>The Death Star placed ninth in a 2008 <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> poll of the most popular film weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been referred to outside of the <i>Star Wars</i> context in such examples as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Corporation" title="AT&T Corporation">AT&T Corporation</a>'s logo, designed by <a href="/wiki/Saul_Bass" title="Saul Bass">Saul Bass</a> and introduced in 1982, is <a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Information_Systems#Logo" title="AT&T Information Systems">informally referred to as the "Death Star"</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a></i> referred to "the AT&T Death Star" in an article criticizing a company data policy.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Competitor <a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_US" title="T-Mobile US">T-Mobile</a> mocked AT&T's "Death Star" logo and "Empire-like reputation" in a press release.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Smith" title="Kevin Smith">Kevin Smith</a>'s first feature film, <i><a href="/wiki/Clerks_(1994_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clerks (1994 film)">Clerks</a></i> (1994), <a href="/wiki/List_of_View_Askewniverse_characters#Randal_Graves" title="List of View Askewniverse characters">Randal Graves</a> points out that many independent contractors would have been killed in the second Death Star's destruction.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the DVD <a href="/wiki/Audio_commentary" title="Audio commentary">audio commentary</a> for <i>Attack of the Clones</i>, George Lucas says that the inclusion of the holographic Death Star in the film implies that the Geonosians were the contractors discussed by "<a href="/wiki/Jay_and_Silent_Bob" title="Jay and Silent Bob">Jay and Silent Bob</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTCK_(AM)" title="KTCK (AM)">KTCK</a> (SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket) in Dallas were the first to use the term "Death Star" to describe the new mammoth Cowboys Stadium, now <a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Stadium" title="AT&T Stadium">AT&T Stadium</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Texas" title="Arlington, Texas">Arlington, Texas</a>. The term has since spread to local media and is generally accepted as a nickname for the stadium.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Death_Star_(business)" title="Death Star (business)">Death Star strategy</a> was the name <a href="/wiki/Enron" title="Enron">Enron</a> gave to one of their fraudulent business practices for manipulating California's <a href="/wiki/Energy_market" title="Energy market">energy market</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the novels of the <a href="/wiki/Bridge_Trilogy" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridge Trilogy">Bridge Trilogy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Police_Department" title="San Francisco Police Department">San Francisco Police Department</a> admonishes its officers to stop referring to their surveillance satellite as the "Death Star".</li> <li>In the 1987 <i>Star Wars</i> parody film <i><a href="/wiki/Spaceballs" title="Spaceballs">Spaceballs</a></i>, the Spaceballs use a spacecraft called "Spaceball I", which can change shape into "Mega Maid", resembling a woman with a vacuum cleaner. A reference to the Death Star destroying Alderaan, the Mega Maid is used to drain Druidia's atmosphere of fresh air.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>While mostly ground based, the <a href="/wiki/Technodrome" class="mw-redirect" title="Technodrome">Technodrome</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(1987_TV_series)" title="Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)">1987 <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> cartoon</a> and 1988 <i><a href="/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_Adventures" title="Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures</a></i> comics is based on the Death Star.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog" title="Sonic the Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</a></i> video game series features a parody of the Death Star known as the "Death Egg", a battle station created by <a href="/wiki/Dr._Eggman" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Eggman">Dr. Eggman</a> that serves as a level in multiple games, as well as in the web series <i><a href="/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Z" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Mario Bros. Z">Super Mario Bros. Z</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_2020_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign">Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign</a> was nicknamed the "Death Star" by some of its members.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Raiders" title="Las Vegas Raiders">Las Vegas Raiders</a> owner <a href="/wiki/Mark_Davis_(American_football)" title="Mark Davis (American football)">Mark Davis</a> dubbed the nickname of the team's new <a href="/wiki/Allegiant_Stadium" title="Allegiant Stadium">Allegiant Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada" title="Paradise, Nevada">Paradise, Nevada</a> as the "Death Star".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Social Sciences and Humanities Building at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a> is referred to by students as the "Death Star", due to its shiny metallic exterior and maze-like architecture.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Because of its resemblance to the Death Star, the logo for the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Central_Railroad" title="Illinois Central Railroad">Illinois Central Railroad</a> that was adopted in 1988 is commonly referred to by railfans as the “Death Star”; this term also applies to the all-black paint scheme of the locomotives which the logo was found on. Some IC locomotives still use this logo, although they are slowly being repainted into <a href="/wiki/Canadian_National_Railway" title="Canadian National Railway">Canadian National Railway</a> colors following CN’s acquisition of the IC in 1998.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mimas_PIA06258.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Mimas_PIA06258.jpg/250px-Mimas_PIA06258.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Mimas_PIA06258.jpg/330px-Mimas_PIA06258.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Mimas_PIA06258.jpg/500px-Mimas_PIA06258.jpg 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="598" /></a><figcaption>The large crater <a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)" title="Herschel (Mimantean crater)">Herschel</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturnian</a> moon <a href="/wiki/Mimas_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mimas (moon)">Mimas</a> gives it a resemblance to the Death Star.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Astronomy">Astronomy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Astronomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1981, following the <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program">Voyager</a></i> spacecraft's flight past <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>, scientists noticed a resemblance between one of the planet's moons, <a href="/wiki/Mimas_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mimas (moon)">Mimas</a>, and the Death Star.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, some media outlets used the term "Death Star" to describe <a href="/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)" title="Nemesis (hypothetical star)">Nemesis</a>, a hypothetical <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">star</a> postulated in 1984 to be responsible for <a href="/wiki/Gravitation" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravitation">gravitationally</a> forcing <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Oort_cloud" title="Oort cloud">Oort cloud</a> toward the inner <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merchandise">Merchandise</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Merchandise"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kenner_Products" title="Kenner Products">Kenner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aluminum_Metal_Toys" class="mw-redirect" title="Aluminum Metal Toys">AMT</a> created a playset and a model, respectively, of the first Death Star.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005 and 2008, <a href="/wiki/Lego" title="Lego">Lego</a> released models of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Lego_Star_Wars_sets#Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lego Star Wars sets">Death Star II</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Lego_Star_Wars_sets#Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lego Star Wars sets">Death Star I</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thebricklife.com_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thebricklife.com-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fbtb.net_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fbtb.net-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1979, <a href="/wiki/Palitoy" title="Palitoy">Palitoy</a> created a heavy card version of the Death Star as a playset for the vintage range of action figures in the UK, Australia and Canada. Both Death Stars are part of different <a href="/wiki/Micro_Machines" title="Micro Machines">Micro Machines</a> three-packs.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Death Stars and locations in them are cards in <a href="/wiki/Decipher,_Inc." title="Decipher, Inc.">Decipher, Inc.</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Customizable_Card_Game" title="Star Wars Customizable Card Game">Star Wars Customizable Card Game</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Trading_Card_Game" title="Star Wars Trading Card Game">Star Wars Trading Card Game</a></i>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hasbro" title="Hasbro">Hasbro</a> released a Death Star model that <a href="/wiki/Transformers_(toy_line)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformers (toy line)">transforms</a> into a Darth Vader <a href="/wiki/Mecha" title="Mecha">mech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Estes_Industries" title="Estes Industries">Estes Industries</a> released a flying model rocket version.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Death Star trinket box was also released by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Selangor" title="Royal Selangor">Royal Selangor</a> in 2015, in conjunction with the December screening of <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> that year,<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2016, Plox released the official levitating Death Star Speaker<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in anticipation of that year's screening of <i>Rogue One</i>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Lego" title="Lego">Lego</a></i> released a gift with purchase for <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Day" title="Star Wars Day">Star Wars Day</a></i> 2023 of a mini Death Star II.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_campaigns">Political campaigns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Political campaigns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012–13, a (<a href="/wiki/Satirical" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirical">satirical</a>) proposal on the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>'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 (<a href="/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek" title="Tongue-in-cheek">tongue-in-cheek</a>) response was released in January 2013:<sup id="cite_ref-Wired-20130111_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-20130111-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the cost of building a real Death Star has been estimated in 2012 by a Centives economics blog of <a href="/wiki/Lehigh_University" title="Lehigh University">Lehigh University</a> to $850 quadrillion, or about 13,000 times the worldwide <a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">gross domestic product</a>, as well as at current rates of steel production, the Death Star would not be ready for more than 833,000 years.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The White House response also stated that "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.<sup id="cite_ref-Wired-20130111_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired-20130111-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-deathstar_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deathstar-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCdeathstar_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCdeathstar-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Luxembourgish magician Christian Lavey (born as Christian Kies) submitted a petition for the construction of a Death Star to the Luxembourgish parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview with a local radio station, however Lavey admitted that this petition was just a joke and some kind of protest against the space plans of the government. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Death_Star&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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title="Star Wars (film)">Later titled</a> <i>Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The space station is also called "Ultimate Weapon" by the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS), who commissioned the original designs.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In <i>Empire at War</i>, if the Imperial fleet defending the Death Star is defeated and the hero unit of Red Squadron is present, the Death Star will be destroyed.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><b>Citations</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:23-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:23_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">George Lucas commentary, <i>Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope</i>, dir. George Lucas, (DVD, 20th Century Fox, 2004). 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