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  2. General Hux - Wikipedia

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    The episode takes place at the same time as The Force Awakens and depicts First Order troops watching a transmission of Hux give his speech and the subsequent firing of Starkiller Base. He appears, in person, in the eleventh episode "Station to Station" of the second season and in hologram in the finale of season two, "The Escape", along with ...

  3. Death Star - Wikipedia

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    The base draws its raw firepower by harnessing energy directly from a nearby star. 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 Hosnian Prime system, at that time the capital of the New Republic. [36]

  4. Battle of Yavin - Wikipedia

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    On board the space station, Grand Moff Tarkin learns that there is only an abandoned old base on Dantooine. He tortures the princess to make her confess the truth. At the same time, the Millennium Falcon exits hyperspace into an asteroid field. The crew realizes that the planet has been destroyed. They follow TIE fighters heading towards a moon ...

  5. List of fictional doomsday devices - Wikipedia

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    Starkiller Base: A First Order planet-converted superweapon capable of destroying an entire star system. Yo'gand's Core (EU): A Yuuzhan Vong tactic to destroy a planet, using a 'dovin basal' (an organism capable of manipulating a planet's gravity) deployed in the planet's surface to disrupt a moon 's orbit, causing it to crash into the planet.

  6. Galactic Empire (Star Wars) - Wikipedia

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    The First Order rises to power through the use of Starkiller Base, a planet-converted superweapon that later destroys the Hosnian system, the location of the New Republic's capital. Starkiller Base is destroyed by the Resistance in The Force Awakens.

  7. Star lifting - Wikipedia

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    In a way, Starkiller Base in the seventh canonical film star lifts in order to power its planet-destroying laser cannon, although it consumes the entire star to do so. The novel Star Trek: Voyager – The Murdered Sun featured a reptilian race using the material from a star to sustain the opening of a wormhole. However, the novel depicted the ...

  8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Wikipedia

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    At the Resistance base, BB-8 finds R2-D2, who had been in low-power mode since Luke's disappearance. As Starkiller Base prepares to fire again, the Resistance plans to destroy it by attacking its thermal oscillator. Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca, and Finn infiltrate the facility, find Rey, and plant explosives. Han confronts Kylo, calling ...

  9. First Order (Star Wars) - Wikipedia

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    The base commander of Starkiller is General Hux, a ruthless young officer dedicated to the First Order. [ 18 ] Snoke is a powerful figure in the dark side of the Force and has corrupted Ben , the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa who had been an apprentice to his uncle, the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker .