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The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in The Force Awakens. Both the original and second Death Star were moon-sized and designed for massive power-projection capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2×10 32 J/s power output blast from their superlasers. [15]
Introduced in the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Governor Tarkin is the Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and commander of the Death Star. [19] After Emperor Palpatine dissolves the Imperial Senate, Tarkin and Darth Vader (portrayed by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones) are charged with pursuing and destroying the Rebel Alliance.
The ships were designed to be as aesthetically different from the Imperial Star Destroyers as possible, although the filming crew disliked the "pickle ships" due to the models' unflattering angles. [11] Internal neon lights provided lighting, and detail was painted on by using the second Death Star model's exposed framework as a makeshift ...
Chris Hind reviewed Death Star Technical Companion in White Wolf #30 (Feb., 1992), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "Death Star Technical Companion's strongest point is its completeness. It contains every important fact concerning the Death Star, without going into excessive detail.
Death Star, a fictional giant military space station in the 1965 film Attack from Space; Deathstar a 1984 video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers "Death Star", a nickname of Ghroth, one of the fictional Ramsey Campbell deities of the Cthulhu Mythos
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Described in A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (1984) as being 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) long, Executor-class Super Star Destroyers were later described as being 19 kilometers (12 mi) long. [72] In addition to Vader's command ship Executor, Star Wars novels introduce the prison ship Lusankya and stealth-armored Knight Hammer as other in the class.
The ‘Death Star’ “Welcome to the Death Star, where our opponents’ dreams come to die,” Mark Davis proclaimed ahead of the team’s first scrimmage at the stadium back in 2020.