23 Facts About Death Star

Death Star is a fictional mobile space station and galactic superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise.

The first version, which appears in the original 1977 film Death Star Wars, is stated to be more than 160 kilometers in diameter, and is crewed by an estimated 1.

The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi, and is significantly larger at 200 kilometres in diameter and, although unfinished, is technologically more advanced than its predecessor.

The first Death Star requires significant time to fully recharge its superlaser, and it is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance by taking advantage of its one weakness: an exhaust port which, when hit with a precise shot, triggers a chain reaction throughout the station's entire infrastructure.

The second Death Star is destroyed by a direct attack on its main reactor by rebel fighter ships, including X-wings, A-wings and the Millennium Falcon, as its incomplete state allows ships to fly through its infrastructure.

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Since its first appearance, the Death Star has become a cultural icon and a widely recognized element of the Star Wars franchise.

The buzzing sound counting down to the Death Star firing its superlaser comes from the Flash Gordon serials.

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

The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in The Force Awakens.

Original Death Star's completed form appears in the original Star Wars film, known as the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, or Project Stardust in Rogue One; before learning the true name of the weapon, the Rebel Alliance referred to it as the "Planet Killer".

The Death Star scientists sought to fuse kyber crystal shards into larger structures and used those crystals to amplify energy into a stable beam powerful enough to destroy an entire planet.

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.

Rogue One 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.

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.

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

Second Death Star is featured on the cover of the book Star Wars: Aftermath, which features many flashbacks to the destruction of the second Death Star, as well as the events directly after its destruction.

Kevin J Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy introduces the Maw Cluster of black holes that protect a laboratory where the Death Star prototype was built (consisting of the superstructure, power core, and superlaser).

The Death Star itself is a controllable weapon for the Empire in the Rebellion and Empire at War (2006) strategy game.

Leland Chee originally created the third Death Star to explain why a Death Star is present on the Star Tours ride when both of the stations in the movies were destroyed.

Prototype version of the Death Star can be found in Kevin J Anderson's novel Jedi Search.

Death Star placed ninth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular movie weapons.

Additionally, a few astronomers sometimes use the term "Death Star" to describe Nemesis, a hypothetical star postulated in 1984 to be responsible for gravitationally forcing comets and asteroids from the Oort cloud toward Earth.

The official response was released in January 2013: the cost of building a real Death Star has been estimated in 2012 by a Centives economics blog of Lehigh University to $850 quadrillion, or about 13, 000 times the gross domestic product on Earth, as well as at current rates of steel production, the Death Star would not be ready for more than 833, 000 years.