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"Both as an impregnable fortress and as a symbol of the Emperor's inviolable rule, the deep-space mobile battle station was an achievement on the order of any fashioned by the ancestral species that had unlocked the secret of hyperspace and opened the galaxy to exploration."

―Wilhuff Tarkin, in his posthumously published memoir[src]

The Death Star, known officially as the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, or the Ultimate Weapon in early development stages, and later referred to as the Death Star I and the First Death Star, was a moon-sized, deep-space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire. Designed to fire a single planet-destroying superlaser powered by massive kyber crystals, it was the pet project of Emperor Palpatine, Director Orson Callan Krennic, and its eventual commander Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to expound the military philosophy of the aptly named Tarkin Doctrine.

Some of the earliest plans for a mobile, planet-destroying superweapon dated back millennia to the ancient Sith. Thousands of years later, shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Geonosians, aligned with Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, designed the Ultimate Weapon in secret. After the fall of the Confederacy, construction of the Death Star was appropriated by the nascent Empire. It was built in orbit of Geonosis and supported by a complex logistical network of bases. The station, which took many years longer to complete than expected, was eventually moved from Geonosis to Scarif in its final stages of construction.[21]

When the Alliance to Restore the Republic learned of its existence, rogue operatives Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor led a mission to steal the Death Star plans, which the Rebellion against the Empire eventually joined, realizing it was essential for its survival. These plans were ultimately transmitted to Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan aboard the Tantive IV, before her capture and demonstration of the weapon's capabilities on her home planet. After a daring rescue, Organa got the plans to the Rebel base on Yavin 4, from which the Alliance launched the Battle of Yavin with a small squadron of starfighters. The original station was destroyed by a shot fired by Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker with the aid of the Force.

The destruction of the Death Star weakened the Imperial Military, and Rebel assaults on Imperial installations prompted the construction of a second Death Star, both as a sign of defiance and technological terror. Despite this, it, like its predecessor, was destroyed with all hands lost. Decades later, the Empire's successor state, the First Order, constructed Starkiller Base, a much larger planet-destroying superweapon considered to be an evolution of the Death Star project of the Old Empire.

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DescriptionEdit

"That's no moon. It's a space station."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi, upon seeing the Death Star for the first time — Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]

DesignEdit

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Schematics of the first Death Star

The station was spheroid, and measured 160 km (100 miles) in diameter[6] with 357 internal levels.[7] A large, concave dish in the northern hemisphere made up the superlaser emitter. The station's command bridge was located in the northern hemisphere above the dish of the station's superlaser.[12] The overbridge featured designated posts for Tarkin and other officers, a conference room featuring a circular table, a HoloNet booth for communicating with the Emperor and large banks of viewscreens.[8]

The station's equator comprised numerous docking ports of various sizes, all supported by the extraordinarily powerful[10] tractor beam generator tower,[22] which utilized several tractor-beam projectors and tractor-beam focusing shafts.[12] The station's equator housed docking and hangar bays; tractor-beam generators, projectors and emitter towers; turbolaser emplacements; and mooring platforms for ships of the fleet, including Imperial-class Star Destroyers.[15]

A habitable crust several kilometers thick was composed of command centers, armories, maintenance blocks, and other requirements for a fully operational space station.[4] Unused stories in the station's lower levels held backup weapons operators in the event of an emergency. Levels in the station's southern hemisphere extended downward through armories, deep storage, and a southern command sector. Massive girders provided grid-like support to the lower levels. Cranes and other abandoned construction material could still be found within the station by the time of its destruction in 0 BBY.[12] With the exception of the crust, the station's entire interior space was uninhabited, and housed the hypermatter reactor, hyperdrive, sublight engines, and the station's superweapon.[4] The station's outer hull was made of Quadanium steel plates.[8]

The Death Star featured an entirely man-made atmosphere. A vast, central cylindrical atmosphere-processing unit ensured the air inside the station was regulated.[22] Several modular artificial atmosphere stations and water-recycling tanks were dotted throughout the station's levels for the creation of air and humidity. Several large, cavernous airways served as means for circulation and as an emergency air dump in case of atmosphere contamination. A large, central airway existed for each sector.[12] Magnetic seals and an atmosphere-containment projector[12] kept the station's internal atmosphere in and the vacuum of space out if docking-bay doors were opened.[15]

Armaments and defensive systemsEdit

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"The weapon will prove to be our greatest challenge. The hypermatter reactor, the drives, all the rest, are merely elaborations of the armaments our finest engineering firms have been able to provide to Star Destroyers and other vessels. But the weapon...the weapon won't merely be a larger version of the turbolaser. It will be something that has yet to be seen."

―Dr. Gubacher, during a meeting of the Strategic Cell, 21 BBY[src]

The most prominent weapon emplacement on the Death Star was its superlaser —a weapon powered by a hypermatter reactor[22] and focused through giant kyber crystals[8] with sufficient firepower to destroy an entire planet.[10] The hypermatter reactor at the center of the station fed energy into the various components of the superlaser, including the primary power amplifier, the superlaser power cell, the firing field amplifier, and the induction hyperphase generators. When firing, the energy was redirected into eight tributary beam shafts located around the perimeter of the superlaser, producing lasers that were converged using focusing coils,[22] forming one large beam powerful enough to destroy a planet.[10] If the firing-chamber arrays were not precisely aligned, the crystals would burn out and overload, sending dangerous levels of waste heat back into the Death Star's main reactor.[12]

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Gun batteries attempt to defend against Alliance T-65B and BTL-A4 starfighters.

In addition to the Death Star's superlaser, its surface was peppered with 15,000 turbolaser batteries along with 768 tractor beam emplacements.[7] As the station's defenses, these were installed in order to repel a large-scale fleet attack, rather than fend off individual starfighters, which the Empire viewed as no real threat. Shield projectors and communications arrays were distributed across the armored surface, analogous to colonies.[4] A network of security stations were situated around the entire circumference and were equipped with holographic maps of the local region of space.[12]

ComplementEdit

For space-based offense and defense, the battle station contained numerous TIE fighters, which frequently patrolled the space surrounding the station.[10][15] Due to the Death Star's enormous size, it had a heavy gravitational pull, which forced TIE fighter pilots to adjust their ships' thrusters for the kind of takeoff more common within a planetary atmosphere than on a space station.[15] TIE staging areas had twenty TIE craft ready at any time for immediate takeoff.[12]

The battle station housed 342,953 members of the Imperial Army and Navy, 25,984 stormtroopers,[7] and nearly 2 million personnel of varying combat eligibility.[15] Furthermore, although there were communal barracks, there also were enough private bunks that most people could expect to receive one within three to six months after arrival.[15] While enlisted personnel used walkways or turbolifts that could move both vertically and horizontally, officers had access to a high-speed, officer-only shuttle system that orbited the station. Massive housing blocks for enlisted personnel featured a large atrium for off-duty personnel to walk in. Officers could expect their own exclusive accommodations.[12] Life-support modules inhabited by workers during the original construction of the Death Star could still be used in an emergency. The station featured several hospital wings. Several color-coded life-support modules existed in the station's lower levels: gray for workers, red for overseers.[12]

Meant to function as a world of its own, the Death Star had creature comforts most other Imperial Military postings did not: decent food, recreation areas, cantinas with latest-model bartender droids, and commissaries with selections of expensive treats and luxuries.[15] The Death Star had its own commissary[15] and bar.[19] Off-duty stormtroopers were known to clandestinely meet to play violent, prohibited ball games in the station's zero-gravity filtration system.[12]

The station's detention block, while large and formidable, was not intended to hold prisoners for extended periods of time. Instead, it served as a place for temporary detention and interrogation, pending transfer to planetary prisons, and execution.[9] Prisoners were kept on the Detention Level in complete darkness, then moved to bright interrogation rooms.[12]

PowerEdit

"The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations."

―C-3PO, translating for R2-D2 — Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]

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One of the seven tractor beam generator terminals on the Death Star.

The station was powered by a cavernous hypermatter reactor encased in radiation insulator plating located at the center of the station,[22] the destruction of which had the potential to be catastrophic to the station.[10] Doonium and dolovite were essential for shielding the hypermatter reactor core, focusing dish, and superlaser.[4] The reactor was connected to various components in the station, such as the superlaser, the power diversion solenoid, and the station's enormous power cells.[5] The Death Star's tractor beam generator was also coupled to the main reactor through seven power generator terminals located throughout the station.[10] Above the reactor were vast water tanks.[22] The power of the Death Star's superlaser could be controlled depending on how many reactor ignitions were used to power it. For example, a single reactor ignition was capable of destroying a large area of a world's surface instead of destroying the body entirely.[5]

HistoryEdit

"You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples. Dig a hole deep enough on any world and you'll find the skulls and bones of adults and children fractured by crude weapons. All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock...Violence is hardwired into most of us and there's no eliminating the impulse—not with an army of stormtroopers or a fleet of Star Destroyers. That's why we've embarked on a path to a different solution. We have a chance to forge a peace that will endure longer than the Republic was in existence."

―Lt. Cmdr. Orson Krennic, before the test-firing of the Death Star's superlaser at the Hero Twins, post-19 BBY[src]

OriginsEdit

"«The Jedi must not find our designs for the Ultimate Weapon. If they find out what we are planning to build, we're doomed.»"

"I will take the designs with me to Coruscant. They will be much safer there with my master."

―Archduke Poggle the Lesser and Count Dooku[src]

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The plans for the Ultimate Weapon

The idea of a massive planet-killing battle station dated back millennia, including to the old Sith Empire, when tyrants were enjoying the idea of such a superweapon. The project that would be the DS-1 originated on Geonosis, and plans for what the Geonosians dubbed as the Ultimate Weapon project were given to Dooku, publicly the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and secretly the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, by Archduke Poggle the Lesser for safekeeping during the Battle of Geonosis, in the waning decades of the Galactic Republic. Shortly after the battle, Dooku presented his Sith Master, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, and publicly Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic Sheev Palpatine, and used the ploy that the Separatists were building their own superweapon, frightening Republic officials and allowing Palpatine to direct full funding towards secretly creating the station.[11]

The massive project was funded by a conglomerate of factions, including the Trade Federation, Muunilist Banking Clan, the Techno Union, and covertly, the Republic itself.[12] During later Republic interrogation, Geonosian leader Poggle the Lesser claimed that the schematics were merely presented to them by Dooku and that the Geonosians had simply refined them. Furthermore, he admitted that the Stalgasin hive hadn't had time to design the station's main weapon before the Battle of Geonosis interrupted development.[4] Its design, centered on a superlaser array using massive kyber crystals, was inspired by technology developed by the ancient Sith.[23]

By 21 BBY, the Republic Special Weapons Group developed plans for both an automated battlemoon asteroid and a torpedo siege platform, neither of which made it past the design stage.[4]

Those privy to top-secret intel concluded that the plans for the Death Star must have fallen into Republic hands during or shortly after the Second Battle of Geonosis in the same year, with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine presenting the plans to the Republic Strategic Advisory Cell shortly after the battle in the cell's second briefing. The Strategic Advisory Cell planned the construction of the Death Star and regularly met at the summit of the Strategic Planning Amphitheater of the Republic Center for Military Operations on Coruscant. There, a mixed-species gathering of 150 beings from prestigious and influential positions met to discuss progress on the battle station. The meetings included select senators; representatives from Corellian Engineering, Kuat Drive Yards, and Rendili StarDrive; key advisers; the chief of naval intelligence; the director of COMPOR; high-ranking members of the military; members of the War Production Board; structural engineers; starship designers; theoretical and experimental physicists; Dr. Gubacher; Prof. Sahali; Lieutenant Commander Orson Krennic; Vice Chancellor Mas Amedda; and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. The Jedi were not invited to the meetings, nor did they even know about the project under construction over Geonosis.[4]

All members involved in the construction of the battle station were required to sign the Official Secrets Oath. Near-unlimited funding was provided to the project owing to Republic fears that the Separatists had their own battle station under construction, which intelligence surmised was the reason Count Dooku failed to attack the station over Geonosis. Geonosian Leader Poggle the Lesser maintained his position that the Separatists had no project of their own in the works. Despite this, most cell members refused to take Poggle at his word and scoured the galaxy to locate the presumed construction site. While the evidence was specious, rejecting the possibility would have jeopardized Republic funding for the project, regardless of the authority ceded to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine by the Emergency Powers Act. Thus, Republic effort into constructing the battle station was viewed as a priority in order to beat the Separatists at their supposed own.[4]

Funding for the project would have been viewed as spurious before the Clone Wars. However, as the war dragged on, more and more research firms were dragged into government contracts focusing on a different aspect of the space station, such as in shielding or power supply, and all unaware of what their research was ultimately for. Researchers involved in defense projects were required to sign the Official Secrets Oath.[4]

Initial construction on the Death Star had been carried out by newly designed machines, some of which were controlled by sentient operators stationed in orbital command habitats. A vast array of ships provided the station with metals, organic materials, and supplies of water. Viable asteroids were towed and tractor-beamed to the station from both around the planet and from fields surrounding the Geonosis system. Once mined, ores were sent to foundries in synchronous orbit for the production of durasteel and other metals. Cannibalized droid factories built by Baktoid Armor on Geonosis's surface allowed additional foundries to go online soon after the start of asteroid mining.[4]

In 21 BBY, after the Second Battle of Geonosis and before the first anniversary of the First Battle of Geonosis, the Strategic Advisory Cell announced the completion of phase one of the Death Star's construction. The supports for the station's superstructure at one hundred and sixty kilometers from pole to pole had been completed. The next phase of construction revolved around the fabrication of a temporary equator, along with a series of longitudinal bands to roughly form the sphere. As the bands were secured, construction of the hull commenced, along with the partitioning of individual interior sections. The cabin spaces were to be clad, sealed, and pressurized in order to permit the use of sentient laborers in addition to droids.[4]

Initial sentient labor estimates were in the millions. A Strategic Advisory Cell subcommittee considered providing the Kaminoans with a template to grow a labor force of clones adapted for deep-space work. Orson Krennic independently negotiated a deal with Poggle the Lesser: in return for his cooperation with the Republic, he would have his Geonosian workers begin construction on the facility. Instead of being punished, Krennic was given greater oversight over the project by Mas Amedda. After several months, workers had completed the station's false equator, with what Krennic described as looking like "an antique gyroscope" rather than an actual sphere. Following this achievement, several degrees of the upper hemisphere were outfitted with latitudinal structural members, and rudimentary layout work had begun on cladding a portion of the curved hull. Construction droids devoted themselves to fashioning the first interior spaces meant to serve as placeholders until actual cabin spaces could be bulkheaded. The Geonosians were the first organics planned to inhabit the life-support modules. In the wake of Poggle's announcement of the project to the Geonosians, tens of thousands of drones had been transferred to Orbital Foundry 7, the second-largest structure in view from the command habitat. The drones oversaw the construction of enormous pie-slice-shaped concavities that, when assembled, would form the battle station's focusing dish and power well. By this time, three slices had been completed, and another six were in various stages of completion. The drone laborers were overseen by winged soldiers, loyal to castes overseen by Poggle, who had a lavish suite linked by a series of tubular connectors to the foundry.[4]

The plan for assembling the station's dish called for assembling it in space and maneuvering it by tug and tractor beam into a gargantuan well that had been framed into the sphere's upper hemisphere—the dimple, as some called it. The parabolic dish was engineered to telescope away from the hull to facilitate aiming the early composite-beam proton superlaser design some of the Special Weapons Group scientists had proposed. Because design on the weapon had been incomplete by the time construction had started, most individuals involved in the project held the notion that function would have to follow form. Orson Krennic was placed in charge of the construction, assembly, and installation of the dish.[4]

As a result of his cooperation, Poggle was allowed a ship to travel between Geonosis and the station. Poggle's production philosophy revolved around forcing the drones to perform work that was beneath their skill or caste level as a means of increasing their final output. As a result, the drones were unhappy with their situation. Weeks later, the last of the pie-slice dish modules had been fabricated, but the dish itself was not fully assembled and the upper hemisphere still undergoing finishing touches. Droid work fashioning cabinspaces in the pole region had proceeded slower than expected. During this time, Geonosians began dying off en masse because they lacked work—a unique physiological trait of the Geonosian species. Poggle insisted that this provided competition and adequate motivation for the laborers to work harder. Marines were required to exterminate workers that refused to follow orders. By 19 BBY, the Geonosian labor force engaged in a full-scale riot, destroying three months of work in the process. During this time, the battle station's parabolic focusing dish was nearing assembly, hull cladding had been added, and interior spaces had been bulkheaded and made habitable. Living conditions for the drones had been improved, and every attempt made to limit overcrowding. In reality, the riot was a diversion to allow Archduke Poggle the Lesser to escape aboard his small craft, which had a hyperdrive secretly installed by his drones.[4]

Kyber crystals were scoured from across the galaxy in order to construct the station, with the Separatist Alliance doing so near the end of the Clone Wars. One such attempt ended in failure on the Outer Rim world of Utapau after interdiction by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker.[24]

In 19 BBY, the three-year Clone Wars came to an end. As the war ended, Darth Sidious got rid of his Confederacy puppets, including his own apprentice, and proclaimed the birth of a new, authoritarian Galactic Empire, anointing himself Emperor.

Imperial EraEdit

"Wilhuff, are the rumors true?"

"What rumors? And why are you whispering?"

"About a mobile battle station. A weapon that will—"

"This is hardly the place for discussions of that sort."

―Nils Tenant and Wilhuff Tarkin outside the Imperial Palace[src]

Construction of the Death Star

The Emperor and Darth Vader observe the construction of the Death Star.

The nascent Empire immediately appropriated the Ultimate Weapon project.[25] Access to Geonosis was restricted to an inner circle of Imperial scientists and engineers, and very few members of the Imperial hierarchy even knew about the project.[13] A highly secure supply line with various false routes and outposts was developed to ensure further secrecy, and it was during that time that the battle station was given the official name of Death Star and given the hull designation of DS-1, though the early codename, Stardust was still used in design files.[11] Tiaan Jerjerrod, an architect and starship designer from Tinnel IV, was enlisted to help build the megaweapon.[26] As construction continued under the Empire, Palpatine gave responsibility for the project to the Imperial Navy and charged Wilhuff Tarkin and Orson Krennic responsible for the battle station.[11]

Despite construction moving ahead, not all Imperials believed in the viability of the project, with some voicing protest over what would later become known as "Tarkin's folly," and others not knowing of the project at all. General Jylia Shale was one of many who protested its development, only to result in her input being marginalized over the coming years.[27] Grand Admiral Balanhai Savit opined that the Death Star might be able to serve for five, ten or even fifty years until someone figured out a way to disable or destroy it.[28] Likewise, General Cassio Tagge believed that having the Death Star as the Empire's sole weapon was a mistake.[29]

The Tarkin Initiative, an Imperial think tank, was responsible for some of the ideas behind both the first and second Death Stars.[30] While many starship designers and engineers attempted to claim credit for the station's construction, none besides the Emperor knew the full history of the moon-sized project. While rumors within the Imperial ranks speculated that it was a Confederate weapon engineered by Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser's hive colony for Count Dooku, none could prove the story's validity. Some pointed out, however, that the plans must have fallen into Republic hands before the Clone Wars ended, owing to the station's shell and laser-focusing dish already in the works upon the war's conclusion.[8]

Shortly after the proclamation of the New Order, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader visited the station with Tarkin, arriving aboard a brand-new Imperial-class Star Destroyer. By this time, the focusing dish had been successfully installed. Orson Krennic believed that he was kept off the elite passenger list due to Poggle's recent escape under his supervision. Both Wilhuff Tarkin and Orson Krennic wished to attain control over the entire Death Star project. To further his interests, Krennic had been manipulating his longtime friend Galen Erso since the Clone Wars. By bringing him aboard Project Celestial Power, an Imperial research division dedicated to weaponizing Galen's kyber crystal research, Krennic believed he would be given oversight over the Death Star and promoted to rear admiral. During this time, Krennic began appropriating legacy worlds—worlds legally exempt from exploitation—by using independent contractor Has Obitt to drop off weapons and war materiél on the worlds of Samovar, Wadi Rafa, and others for their reserves of doonium and dolovite. After "discovering" the weapons on the planets, Krennic appropriated them to prevent "Separatist holdouts" from attaining them.[4]

Wilhuff Tarkin believed that Krennic's appropriation of planets without the Emperor's permission was a sign of his overreaching ambition, impulsiveness, and disdain for authority and the chain of command. Tarkin, like Krennic, believed that he should ultimately be made responsible for the Death Star project. Consequently, Tarkin planned to use Krennic as a convenient scapegoat for every construction delay and issue that was bound to plague the project, well aware that the Emperor was eyeing them both for a promotion. To avoid accepting the privilege prematurely, Tarkin continued to defer to Krennic until the proper time arose to oust him. Krennic also planned to keep Tarkin occupied. In 18 BBY, Krennic orchestrated an insurgency within the Salient system, aware that Tarkin, unable to retreat, would be caught in a weeks-long battle, lowering his favor with the Emperor.[4]

Early attempts at test-firing the Death Star's superlaser led to the destruction of an entire city on Malpaz. The first successful test firing occurred much later at an isolated black-hole binary known as the Hero Twins. Preliminary scans indicated that the energy released during the test-fire had the destructive fire of the combined batteries of a qaz-class Star Destroyer. The superlaser was fired by a kyber crystal-assisted twin laser array carefully assembled and calibrated on Hypori, and installed on an Imperial-class Star Destroyer appropriated by the Special Weapons Group. Grand Vizier Mas Amedda wished the test firing to occur closer to the Core, but Krennic urged caution, knowing that a misfire would most likely result in the destruction of the ship. As a result of the successful test firing, Krennic was promoted to full commander.[4]

For over a year, Galen Erso was employed in Project Celestial Power and was given nearly unlimited supplies of kyber crystals looted from Jedi Temples and lightsabers. Imperial research groups under Celestial Power were given codenames such as Pax Aurora, Mark Omega, and Stellar Sphere. Almost all research divisions relied on research conducted by Galen Erso, who had an intricate knowledge of crystallography. Galen believed that his research was intended to repair worlds devastated by the Clone Wars by providing inexpensive power to civilian populations. Eventually, Galen, suspicious at the lack of information provided to him by Krennic regarding the implementation of his research, discovered that his work was being weaponized without his knowledge. Angered, Galen, his wife, and daughter, Jyn Erso, escaped the Celestial Power facility on Coruscant with infamous rebel Saw Gerrera. The Erso family moved to Lah'mu, hopeful that Krennic, now demoted to lieutenant commander, would not find them. Tarkin was then given oversight of Sentinel Base and the Death Star project.[4]

Continued constructionEdit

"The Outer Rim is yours to oversee—and with it, Grand Moff Tarkin, the whole of the mobile battle station project."

"I will not fail you."

"It will be a momentous responsibility. For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy."

"I don't believe that will ever be the case, my lord."

―Emperor Palpatine and Wilhuff Tarkin[src]

The construction of the first Death Star continued for several years above Geonosis in utmost secrecy, under Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin's supervision.[9] The Empire utilized construction modules[31] operated by Wookiee slave laborers and various other species to complete the project.[27] Several manufacturing facilities, such as those on Riosa, were commandeered by the Empire, with their workers pushed to the brink to manufacture components for the battle station.[32] Most of the construction work on the station was done in micro-g, while omni-directional boosters supplied standard gravity to a large cabinspace near the surface of the station that would eventually become the overbridge. The epicenter of a throng of construction droids, the station was guarded by four Star Destroyers and twice as many frigates and hovered in a fixed orbit above the planet. The northern hemisphere focus lens frame for the superlaser was nothing more than a metallic crater five years after the station's appropriation by the Empire, and while some of the hyperdrive components had been installed, the station was far from being jump-ready.[8]

Partly to protect the station, as well as to provide several drop-off points to further confuse any attempt to trace the ultimate destination of materiél, outposts such as Desolation Station and Rampart Station were constructed during the Clone Wars, with Rampart acting as a marshaling depot for supplies heading to Geonosis. Such stations were overseen by Sentinel Base, an expansive garrison base initially deployed from a Victory-class Star Destroyer. Supervision of this clandestine project was entrusted to Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit. However, Wilhuff Tarkin replaced Rancit at some point following the Antar Atrocity, with Palpatine attempting to shield Tarkin from the political fallout exhumed by the operation. As such, Tarkin's three years commanding Sentinel Base and the hundreds of supply and sentry outposts constructed for the station were mired in bureaucratic inefficiency and complexity.[8]

Shipments from research sites were frequently postponed, asteroid mining above Geonosis proved unfeasible, failed meetings of construction-phase deadlines by the engineers and scientists supervising the project fueled frustration, and raids against convoys heading for the station spelled an administrative nightmare. In addition, with the Empire's strategy that no base commander—Moff, admiral or general—should have unrestricted access to all information regarding shipments, scheduling, or construction progress, no single person was in charge of the project unless one counted the Emperor—whose visits were few and far between. Relying on countless suppliers and tens of millions of beings galaxy-wide, the project's immense size and need for secrecy hampered any real efforts at its completion, with the Imperial Security Bureau and Naval Intelligence Agency continually repressing rumors and quashing information leaks. Furthermore, dissatisfied individuals from the former Republic abandoned the project with such regularity that COMPNOR compiled a most-wanted list of missing scientists and technicians with high-priority security clearances.[8]

Following a sophisticated attack against Sentinel Base by an organized cell of former Republic Intelligence operatives under the command of Berch Teller, Tarkin with the aid of Lord Vader was entrusted with the subsequent manhunt for those involved in the operation. The following investigation ultimately involved the highest echelons of Imperial power, who were worried about the attack's proximity to Geonosis, along with the attacker's ability to introduce a false real-time feed into the local HoloNet relay in an attempt to divert Sentinel's defenses to Rampart Station, which was falsely presumed to be under attack by remnant Confederacy Providence-, Recusant-, and Munificent-class warships. After a meeting in the Imperial Palace with several members of the Joint Chiefs and the Emperor himself, an engagement on Murkhana originally intended to investigate the former Separatist Shadowfeed operation saw Tarkin's personal starship, the Carrion Spike, hijacked by the dissidents. Using the stolen vessel to cast devastation across several Mid and Outer Rim worlds—which the dissidents transmitted through the local HoloNet before being shut down by the Empire—the conspirators were ultimately stopped after an attempt to destroy a supply shipment heading for the new Death Star project, with the Star Destroyers Executrix, Compliant and Enforcer arriving on scene. The rebels and their secret benefactor Vice Admiral Rancit were subsequently tortured and executed in secret by the Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) upon the discovery of Rancit's involvement in the scheme. In reality, Rancit had hoped to ultimately betray the insurgents above Carida, thus making it appear as if he had stopped their rampage, and thus secure support from the Emperor and receive a possible promotion.

To cover up the military embarrassment caused by Rancit's betrayal, the HoloNet made the attacks appear to be an elaborate attempt to draw out and destroy rebel cells. Thus, while many in the galaxy knew an Imperial construction project was underway over Geonosis, few knew of what it actually entailed. As a result of Tarkin's efforts, the Emperor decreed his ascension to the newly created title of Grand Moff and greater control over the Outer Systems, along with his oversight of the entirety of the battle station project. Roughly two weeks later, several of the station's sublight engines had been completed and were tested with Tarkin on board to oversee the operation as the station surpassed the speed of Geonosis's rotation.[8]

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The Death Star's superlaser is installed. By the time of the station's completion, it would exemplify the height of Imperial power over the known galaxy.

For years during the station's construction, numerous skirmishes with Imperial shipping delayed construction. When a band of Lothal rebels attacked and destroyed an Imperial supply convoy carrying kyber crystals five years before the Battle of Yavin, construction on the station was hampered.[33] At some point after these attacks, the station was moved from Geonosis to another base, and in order to keep the project a secret, the entire Geonosian species was wiped out. Three years before the Battle of Yavin, one of the modules used during construction was used by ISB Agent Kallus to ambush the same group of rebels previously responsible for ambushing the supply convoy of kyber crystals, who this time were on a mission to find out what the Empire was building above the planet. The Empire's attempt to capture the rebels ultimately failed.[31] During the station's construction, Saw Gerrera came close enough to discovering the Death Star that the Empire was prompted to move it[6] from Geonosis to Scarif[34] in 10 BBY,[35] where Director Orson Krennic oversaw the protection of the station with the aid of his personal detachment of death troopers.[21]

Completion and demonstrationEdit

"This station is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it."

―Admiral Conan Antonio Motti[src]

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The Death Star looms over the Scarif Imperial security complex

Having taken much longer than expected to develop,[36] the massive construction project was finally completed almost twenty years after its conception during the Clone Wars,[14] and at some point was rechristened as the Death Star. Imperial Navy pilots and military personnel were eventually assigned to the station shortly before it was revealed to the public, being new enough to still be labeled as classified.[15] After extracting the last of the kyber crystals from the ancient Temple of the Kyber, in Jedha City, Krennic told Tarkin that the station was ready and prepared to destroy a planet, but Tarkin wasn't confident in the power of the station yet, and ordered that only Jedha City be destroyed. Using minimal power of the superlaser, the order was carried out and Jedha City, along with miles of surrounding terrain were destroyed, including the hideout of Saw Gerrera's extremist group. However, Jyn Erso saw a message from her father, the scientist Galen Erso, that the Death Star had a fatal flaw which he installed, and she and her companions delivered the news to the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Unable to reach a consensus on how to respond to this new threat, the squad team, Rogue One, infiltrated Scarif to steal the plans, which were transferred before the Death Star was used to destroy the Imperial base.[5] With the mission a success, the technical readouts of the battle station were received by Imperial senator and rebel sympathizer Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, who intended to pass them along to her allies. However, before she could do so, the blockade runner she was aboard was intercepted by Imperial forces commanded by Darth Vader, and she was captured, but not before she passed the plans to the astromech droid R2-D2 and sent him in an escape pod to the planet below.[10]

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Alderaan is destroyed by the Death Star.

As a high-value prisoner, Organa was moved to Cell 2187 of Detention Block AA-23, sub-level five,[12] where she was interrogated in order to learn the location of the Rebellion's secret base. Faced with her considerable resistance to Imperial interrogation techniques, Tarkin opted to try a different approach: intimidation. In a move calculated to force Organa to reveal the Rebel base, Tarkin threatened to use the station's primary weapon to destroy her homeworld. Though she ostensibly relented and supplied the Rebel base's location as Dantooine, Tarkin ordered the attack to move forward in order to demonstrate the military power that the Empire now held. In a matter of moments, the Death Star destroyed the planet Alderaan, leaving no survivors.[10] Nearly all forces on the Death Star were ordered to witness the destruction, including Iden Versio, a Senior Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy.[37]

Immediately after the planet's destruction, the Star Destroyer Devastator left the station, and a small Imperial force was sent to investigate Leia's claim under the command of General Cassio Tagge.[38] Upon arrival in the system, however, it was discovered that the base was abandoned.[15] Angered by Leia's lie, Vader and Tarkin conspired to allow Organa to be rescued by a group of outlaws, in order to follow them back to the Rebel base themselves.[10]

DestructionEdit

Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Battle of Yavin

"Great shot, kid! That was one in a million!"

―Han Solo to Luke Skywalker[src]

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Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin reviews the battle plan on the command deck of the Death Star.

The Death Star pursued Organa and her allies to the Yavin system, where the Rebel base was located on Yavin 4. With R2-D2 having supplied them with the technical readouts of the Death Star, the Rebels identified a weakness in the station's design and prepared their starfighters for a desperate attempt to destroy the station before it could bring its weapon to bear on Yavin 4. The plan, as explained by Alliance tactician Jan Dodonna, called for the firing of proton torpedoes down a two-meter-wide thermal exhaust port in the station's meridian trench.[12] The shaft led straight to the station's main reactor, where the flaw left by Galen Erso would start a chain reaction that could destroy the station. Owing to the Death Star's design philosophy focusing on defense against large-scale attacks, the exhaust port was relatively unguarded.[10]

While the battle initially appeared in the Alliance's favor owing to the small size of the Rebel ships—granting them the ability to dodge turbolaser fire—the launch of numerous TIE fighters under the personal command of Lord Vader in his TIE Advanced x1 destroyed the majority of the Rebel vessels, but ultimately one proved successful. Piloted by Tatooine native Luke Skywalker, his T-65B X-wing starfighter managed to fire a pair of proton torpedoes down the thermal exhaust port. The torpedoes destroyed the Death Star's main reactor by causing a chain reaction as predicted, resulting in the destruction of the Empire's prestigious weapon.[10]

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The Death Star is destroyed at the Battle of Yavin.

Where there were once thousands of communications streaming in endless waves from the Death Star, in a mere instant there were none. In the chaotic hours that followed the station's destruction, multiple rumors of the station's defeat circulated across the galaxy, while a Gozanti-class cruiser piloted by Ciena Ree and Berisse Sai was sent to the Yavin system to both confirm the Empire's worst fears and pick up Lord Vader, who was trapped inside his TIE Advanced x1.[15]

The Rebels, after a brief celebration,[10] immediately began evacuating their base to avoid the inevitable Imperial reprisal against the station's destruction.[39]

LegacyEdit

"I look at the state of the Empire and think, how many Super Star Destroyers could we have made with the resources we threw into Tarkin's folly?'"

―Grand General Cassio Tagge[src]

With the loss of Grand Moff Tarkin, numerous members of the Joint Chiefs and Imperial Military manpower, the Empire began to mobilize for a full-scale galactic war, while it also forged ahead and began construction on the Death Star II. The Imperial HoloNet subsequently downplayed the destruction of the Empire's ultimate weapon, referring to it only as an "unprecedented attack by the Rebel Alliance" while bringing attention to the fact that the Empire had the means to destroy an entire planet in order to strike fear into those who might question the Emperor's rule.[15][40] In addition, Lord Vader would send pieces of Alderaan as state gifts to seditious worlds needing to be disciplined.[41]

Despite attempts to devalue the Rebel victory, Imperial statisticians noted a predictable increase in pirate and dissident activity following the loss of such a prestigious weapon.[29] Seeking to punish those responsible for the station's destruction, the Emperor began a culling at the highest ranks of the Empire, executing officials such as Moff Coovern and Minister Khemt, believing that their incompetence was partly to blame for the station's annihilation.[42] As a result, General Cassio Tagge was promoted to the newly created rank of Grand General and given the majority of the powers Tarkin once held, mainly due to his ability to question the invulnerability of the battle station. To Tagge, the Death Star project had been misguided from the start. A strong proponent of the Imperial Navy, Tagge believed that future plans could not be based around an individual asset such as the Death Star, but should instead utilize those assets as a force multiplier, not as a be-all end-all solution to a problem. The Emperor placed his trust in Tagge's new strategy until the second Death Star could be completed.[29]

In 5 ABY,[43] debris from the Death Star that was collected by the New Republic was given to the Alderaan Flotilla as a gift from Princess Leia Organa to use to build a space station over the ruins of Alderaan. The former plan was to scrap the debris, but Leia used her political connections to see that it was put to good use.[19]

The design flaw leading to the destruction of the Death Star never became widely known to the public. Though some correctly speculated that the Emperor had been betrayed by someone on the inside, the public story remained that of Luke Skywalker's shot in a single starfighter.[32]

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Starkiller Base firing its planet-shattering beam

Over three decades later, the Empire's successor state, the First Order, constructed a similar weapon of planetary destruction dubbed Starkiller Base, which was considered an improvement on the Empire's Death Star design. Unlike the Death Stars of history, this planet-converted superweapon could fire its planet-shattering beam through sub-hyperspace, destroying multiple targets light-years away. It, like the Death Stars before it, was destroyed.[44]

In 34 ABY, during his self-imposed exile at Ahch-To, the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker had a dream about an alternate life where he ignored Organa's message and never joined the Rebellion, thus he never destroyed the Death Star. In his dream, the Death Star remained operative after his marriage to Camie Marstrap, and in addition to Alderaan, the Death Star destroyed Mon Cala and Chandrila.[45]

Behind the scenesEdit

The British energy supplier Ovo calculated that by real-world standards, it would cost 7.8 octillion dollars to run the Death Star for one day.[46] Forbes also estimated that it could cost 825 quadrillion dollars to actually build the Death Star.[47]

AppearancesEdit

Star Wars: Galactic Defense (Mentioned only)

5-Minute Star Wars Stories

5-Minute Star Wars Villain Stories (Appears in hologram)

Star Wars Battlefront II (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (Appears in hologram) (First identified as Ultimate Weapon)

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Ghosts of Mortis" (Superlaser only) (Vision to Anakin Skywalker)

Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 5 (Indirect mention only)

Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 13 (Indirect mention only)

Darth Vader Annual 2

Tarkin

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "Han Solo - From Smuggler to General"

Rebel Rising (Indirect mention only)

Thrawn (Mentioned only)

Thrawn 2 (Indirect mention only)

Thrawn 4 (Cover only)

Thrawn 6 (Appears through imagination)

Lost Stars

Lost Stars webcomic

Leia Organa: Ordeal of the Princess (Appears in flashback(s))

Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels – "The Honorable Ones" (Indirect mention only)

Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels – "Ghosts of Geonosis" (Appears in drawing)

Thrawn: Alliances (Mentioned only)

Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels – "In the Name of the Rebellion" (Indirect mention only)

Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels – "Jedi Night" (Indirect mention only)

Thrawn: Treason (Mentioned only)

Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle 2 (Appears in flashback(s))

Vader - Dark Visions 3

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization

Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel

Star Wars: Rogue One: Secret Mission

Star Wars: Rogue One Graphic Novel Adaptation (Mentioned only)

Rogue One Adaptation 1

Rogue One Adaptation 2

Rogue One Adaptation 3

Rogue One Adaptation 4 (Mentioned only)

Rogue One Adaptation 5

Rogue One Adaptation 6

Bounty Hunt

"Raymus"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

Age of Rebellion - Grand Moff Tarkin 1

Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "Chewie vs. Holochess - Let the Wookiee Win"

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "Princess Leia – The Rescue"

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "R2-D2 and C3PO – Trash Compactor Rescue"

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "Han Solo – Taking Flight for his Friends"

Galaxy of Adventures logo Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – "Luke vs. the Death Star - X-wing Assault"

A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy

A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy audiobook

Star Wars: A New Hope junior novelization

Episode IV: A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD

Escape from Darth Vader (Appears in final page illustration only)

Trapped in the Death Star!

Star Wars: Heroes Path

The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight

Star Wars: The Original Trilogy – A Graphic Novel

Star Wars LINE Webtoon

Star Wars Battlefront (DLC)

"Stories in the Sand"—From a Certain Point of View (Appears in hologram)

"Beru Whitesun Lars"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"An Incident Report"—From a Certain Point of View

"Change of Heart"—From a Certain Point of View

"Fully Operational"—From a Certain Point of View

"Verge of Greatness"—From a Certain Point of View

"The Trigger"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"Of MSE-6 and Men"—From a Certain Point of View

"Bump"—From a Certain Point of View

"End of Watch"—From a Certain Point of View

"The Baptist"—From a Certain Point of View

"Time of Death"—From a Certain Point of View

"Palpatine"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"Sparks"—From a Certain Point of View

"Duty Roster"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"Desert Son"—From a Certain Point of View

"Grounded"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"Contingency Plan"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

"The Angle"—From a Certain Point of View (Appears in hologram)

"By Whatever Sun"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

Battlefront II: Inferno Squad

Princess Leia 1 (Mentioned only)

Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure (Mentioned only)

Princess Leia 2 (Mentioned only)

Age of Rebellion - Han Solo 1 (Mentioned only)

Chewie and the Courageous Kid (Mentioned only)

IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller "The Trouble at Tibrin"—Star Wars Adventures 4 (Mentioned only)

IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller "Mind Your Manners"—Star Wars Adventures Annual 2018 (Mentioned only)

Heir to the Jedi (Mentioned only)

The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure (Mentioned only)

The Weapon of a Jedi (Appears in flashback(s))

Choose Your Destiny: A Luke & Leia Adventure (Mentioned only)

Star Wars Annual 4 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Han Solo 2 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 1 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 2 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 3 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 1 (Appears in flashback(s))

Star Wars 4 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 2 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 3 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Darth Vader 4 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars 5 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Darth Vader 5 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars 6 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Darth Vader 6 (Appears in flashback(s))

Star Wars 8 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars 9 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars 11 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 7 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 8 (Appears in hologram)

Darth Vader 9 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Darth Vader 10 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 11 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 12 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Darth Vader Annual 1 (Mentioned only)

Vader Down 1 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 13 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 14 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 15 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 18 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 20 (Mentioned only)

"The Misadventures of Triple-Zero and Beetee"—Darth Vader 20 (Mentioned only)

Darth Vader 21 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 23 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 25 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 26 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 1 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 3 (Mentioned only)

The Screaming Citadel 1 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 32 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 34 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 35 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra Annual 1 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 14 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 18 (Indirect mention only)

Doctor Aphra 21 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 22 (Picture only) (Appears in hologram)

"Shu-Torun Lives"—Star Wars 50 (Appears in flashback(s))

Star Wars 38 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 39 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 40 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars 41 (Indirect mention only)

Star Wars 42 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 43 (Mentioned only; in the opening crawl)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Storms of Crait 1 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 44 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 45 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 47 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 48 (Indirect mention only)

Star Wars 49 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 50 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 51 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 57 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 60 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 61 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 64 (Indirect mention only)

Star Wars 67 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 33 (Mentioned only)

Doctor Aphra 36 (Appears in flashback(s))

Star Wars 68 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Commander (Mentioned only)

SWInsider "Last Call at the Zero Angle"—Star Wars Insider 156 (Mentioned only) (First identified as DS-1 platform)

IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller "A Matter Of Perception"—Star Wars Adventures 22 (Mentioned only)

Battlefront: Twilight Company (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny—Leia (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (Mentioned only)

The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization (Mentioned only)

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Read-Along Storybook and CD (Mentioned only)

Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure (Mentioned only)

Age of Rebellion - Princess Leia 1 (Mentioned only)

TIE Fighter 1 (Indirect mention only)

Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (Mentioned only)

Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization (Mentioned only)

SWInsider "Blade Squadron"—Star Wars Insider 149–150 (Mentioned only)

"The Levers of Power"—The Rise of the Empire (Mentioned only)

Alphabet Squadron (Mentioned only)

Aftermath (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Uprising (Mentioned only)

Aftermath: Life Debt (Wreckage only)

"The Ghost Ship"—Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down (Mentioned only)

Aftermath: Empire's End (Mentioned only)

Last Shot (Mentioned only)

The Legends of Luke Skywalker (Mentioned only)

The Legends of Luke Skywalker audiobook (Mentioned only)

Bloodline (Mentioned only)

"All Creatures Great and Small"—Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens: Volume I (Mentioned only)

Poe Dameron 8 (Drawing only)

Poe Dameron 10 (Mentioned only)

Poe Dameron Annual 2 (Appears in flashback(s))

"Destroyer Down"—Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down (Mentioned only)

Age of Resistance - General Hux 1 (Mentioned only)

Force Collector (Vision to Karr Nuq Sin)

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (Appears in hologram)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization (Appears in hologram)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel (Appears in hologram)

The Force Awakens Adaptation 5 (Appears in hologram)

IDWStarWarsAdventuresLogoSmaller ""—Star Wars Adventures Ashcan (Appears in flashback(s))

The Last Jedi: Cobalt Squadron (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel (Mentioned only)

Poe Dameron 28 (Mentioned only)

Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (Indirect mention only)

"Whills"—From a Certain Point of View (Mentioned only)

Non-canon appearancesEdit

Disney Infinity 3.0

LEGO SW Microfighters - mini logo LEGO Star Wars: Microfighters – "Obstacle Course"

Rogue One: Recon A Star Wars 360 Experience

Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope

The Freemakers mini logo LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – "A Hero Discovered" (Appears in hologram)

The Freemakers mini logo LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – "Crossing Paths" (Mentioned only)

The Freemakers mini logo LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures – "Escape from Coruscant" (Appears in hologram)

Droid Tales mini logo LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales – "Mission to Mos Eisley" (Appears in flashback(s))

LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales Episodes I-III (Mentioned and appears as hologram in flashback)

Star Wars: Puzzle Droids

Star Wars: Battle Pod

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Manufacturer

Advanced Weapons Research[1]

Kuat Drive Yards[2]

Sienar Fleet Systems[2]

Designer

Geonosians[3]

Stalgasin hive[4]

Project Celestial Power[4]

Galen Walton Erso[5]

Model

DS-1 Orbital Battle Station[6]

Class

Space battle station[1]

Cost

Over 1 trillion galactic credits[7]

Technical specifications

Width

160 kilometers[6]

Engine unit(s)

Equipped[8]

Hyperdrive rating

Class 4[1]

Class 20 (backup)[1]

Power plant

Hypermatter reactor[7]

Armament

Superlaser[2]

Mk I Superlaser (1)[2]

Tractor beam emplacements (768)[9]

Turbolaser batteries (15,000)[9]

Super Blaster 920 laser cannons (2,500)[1]

Ion cannons (2,500)[1]

Complement

TIE/ln space superiority starfighters[10]

TIE Advanced x1[10]

Crew

1,186,295–1,206,293 total personnel (mission dependent)[6]

Death Star's Imperial Navy and Army garrisons (342,953)[7]

Stormtroopers (25,984)[7]

Passengers

750,000[11]

Cargo capacity

Over 1 million kilotons[1]

Consumables

4 standard years[11]

Communication systems

Equipped[8]

Other systems

High-speed, officer-use shuttle system[12]

Emergency-use Life support modules[12]

Location information

Planet

Geonosis[13]

Scarif[5]

Alderaan[10]

Yavin[10]

Moon

Jedha[5]

Usage

Role(s)

Planet-destroying battle station[10]

Affiliation

Confederacy of Independent Systems[3]

Galactic Republic[4]

Galactic Empire[10]

Death Star's fleet[11]

Constructed

Phase one completed[4] in 21 BBY[14]

Completed in[5] 0 BBY[14]

Destroyed

0 BBY,[14] during the Battle of Yavin[10]

Present for battles/events

Destruction of Jedha City[5]

Battle of Scarif[5]

The Disaster[10]

Rescue of Princess Leia[10]

Battle of Yavin[10]

Crewmembers

Shann Childsen[10]

Thane Kyrell[15]

Conan Antonio Motti[10]

MSE-6-G735Y[10]

Pamel Poul[16]

TK-421[10]

TK-450[17]

Darth Vader[10]

Wullf Yularen[10]

Commander(s)

Orson Callan Krennic[5]

Wilhuff Tarkin[7]

Aliases

DS-1 platform[18]

Sentinel Base[7]

Ultimate Weapon[10]

Points of interest

Death Star bar[19]

Death Star City[11]

Death Star conference room[10]

Detention Level[10]

Equatorial trench[20]

Garbage masher 3263827[10]

Meridian trench[9]

Mid-Hemisphere Trench[20]

Northern Polar Command Sector[11]

Overbridge[1]

"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness! You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!"

―Obi-Wan Kenobi, to the fallen Anakin Skywalker[src]

Anakin Skywalker was a Force-sensitive Human male who served the Galactic Republic as a Jedi Knight and later served the Galactic Empire as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Born to the slave Shmi Skywalker in 41.9 BBY, Anakin was conceived by midi-chlorians, the symbiotic organisms that allowed individuals to touch the Force, and he and his mother were brought to the desert planet of Tatooine to be the slaves of Gardulla the Hutt. They soon ended up as the property of the Toydarian Watto, and Skywalker exhibited exceptional piloting skills and a reputation for being able to build and repair anything even at a young age. In 32 BBY, Skywalker encountered the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Padmé Amidala, and he helped them secure the parts they needed for their starship by winning the Boonta Eve Classic podracing event—only to learn that he had also won his freedom in doing so.

Reluctantly leaving his mother behind, Skywalker accompanied Jinn and his group to the Republic's capital of Coruscant and participated in the Battle of Naboo, helping to free Amidala's homeworld from the armies of the Trade Federation. While Jinn was killed during the battle, Jinn's student Obi-Wan Kenobi followed Jinn's wishes and took on Skywalker as his Padawan, and much of the Jedi Council believed that Skywalker was the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy: one who would bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith Order. Skywalker and Kenobi had a number of adventures during the Padawan's decade of training to become a Jedi, but as the Separatist Crisis threatened to tear the Republic apart in 22 BBY, Skywalker was reunited with Amidala when he was assigned to protect her from assassins. The two grew close during the course of the assignment, though they were caught up in the Battle of Geonosis and the beginning of the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Losing an arm during the fighting, Skywalker received a cybernetic replacement, and he and Amidala were secretly married in the days after the battle, despite the Jedi Code's restrictions on romantic attachments.

During the Clone Wars, which raged for the next three years, Skywalker was granted the rank of Jedi Knight and became known to the public as the "Hero with No Fear." Taking on the Togruta Ahsoka Tano as his apprentice, Skywalker fought alongside Kenobi and his fellow Jedi in scores of battles, and his friendship with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine deepened despite the Jedi Order's wariness of Palpatine's rapid acquisition of further powers during the course of the war. Throughout the Clone Wars, Skywalker's anger and sense of loss pushed him ever closer to the dark side of the Force, and his visions of Amidala dying in childbirth in 19 BBY made him desperate to find a way to save his wife. Palpatine, who was in fact the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, manipulated Skywalker into becoming his apprentice with the promise of saving Amidala, and Skywalker became the Sith Lord Darth Vader as Palpatine transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and eradicated the Jedi Order.

Vader and Kenobi clashed on Mustafar after Vader attacked his wife in the belief that she had betrayed him, and the newly christened Sith Lord was left limbless and ravaged by fire at the end of their battle. Encased in a suit of life-sustaining black armor and believing his wife to be dead, Vader embraced his role as the Emperor's right hand and enforcer, hunting down Jedi survivors and enforcing the will of the Empire for years to come. The Sith Lord trained a number of secret apprentices and Dark Jedi, though his plans to overthrow his master had not advanced far when the Galactic Civil War erupted between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic in 2 BBY. In 0 BBY, the Death Star—the Empire's greatest superweapon—was destroyed by a young Rebel pilot despite Vader's efforts, and Vader became obsessed with discovering the pilot's identity, only to learn that it was Luke Skywalker: his own son, born before Amidala's death.

Vader continued to pursue both Skywalker and the Alliance over the next three years, finally luring his son into a trap on the mining colony of Cloud City in 3 ABY where the two dueled. Vader revealed his identity to Skywalker, though his son refused to join him and escaped. When Darth Sidious learned of Skywalker's existence, he set in motion his own plans to recruit Skywalker and thereby replace Vader, but Skywalker surrendered himself to Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor in 4 ABY in hopes of redeeming his father and turning him back to the light side. In a final duel on the second Death Star as the Battle of Endor raged around them, Skywalker and Vader fought each other, and Vader refused his son's attempts to redeem him, learning that Skywalker had a twin sister named Leia in the process. Skywalker defeated his father but refused to kill him, and when Sidious attempted to kill the young man, Vader—moved by his son's love—abandoned the dark side and sacrificed himself to destroy the Emperor, fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One. Mortally wounded, Anakin made peace with his son and became one with the Force, though his reputation, his legacy, and his family endured for decades afterwards.

Anakin Skywalker

Biographical information

Homeworld

Tatooine[1]

Born

41.9 BBY (7:4 BrS)[2]

Died

4 ABY (39:3)[3] Death Star II over Endor[4]

Physical description

Species

Human[1]

Gender

Male[1]

Height

1.88 meters (6'2),[5] later 2.02 in (6'7) armor[6]

Mass

84 kilograms,[7] later 136 in armor[8]

Hair color

Blond[9] to brown,[5] later none[4]

Eye color

Blue,[9] yellow (dark side)[10]

Skin color

Fair,[9] later pale[4]

Cybernetics

Cybernetic right arm,[11] later prosthetic arms and legs, and a life-support system[10]

Chronological and political information

Affiliation(s)

Jedi Order (as Anakin)[9]

Galactic Republic (as Anakin and Vader)[9]

Order of the Sith Lords (as Vader)[10]

Galactic Empire (as Vader)[10]

Masters

Qui-Gon Jinn (informal Jedi Master)[9]

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Master)[9]

Ki-Adi-Mundi (briefly)[12]

Darth Sidious (Sith Master)[10]

Apprentices

Ahsoka Tano (Padawan)[13]

Antinnis Tremayne (Dark Jedi)[14]

Halmere (Dark Jedi)[14]

Lanu Pasiq (Dark Jedi)[14]

Gwellib Ap-Llewff (Dark Jedi)[14]

Galen Marek (secret Sith apprentice)[15]

Dark Apprentice (secret Sith apprentice)[16]

Kharys (Dark Jedi)[17]

Vost Tyne (Dark Jedi)[18]

Hethrir (Dark Jedi)[19]

Rillao (Dark Jedi)[19]

Lumiya (secret Sith apprentice)[20]

Flint (secret Sith apprentice)[21]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Episode 9.

Directed by J. J. Abrams

Produced by

Kathleen Kennedy

J. J. Abrams

Michelle Rejwan

Written by

J. J. Abrams

Chris Terrio

Based on Characters

by George Lucas

Starring

Carrie Fisher

Mark Hamill

Adam Driver

Daisy Ridley

John Boyega

Oscar Isaac

Anthony Daniels

Naomi Ackie

Domhnall Gleeson

Richard E. Grant

Lupita Nyong'o

Keri Russell

Joonas Suotamo

Kelly Marie Tran

Ian McDiarmid

Billy Dee Williams

Music by John Williams

Cinematography Dan Mindel[1]

Edited by

Maryann Brandon[1]

Stefan Grube[1]

Production

company

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Bad Robot Productions

Distributed by Walt Disney Studios

Motion Pictures

Release date

December 20, 2019 (United States)

Running time

155 minutes[2]

Country United States

Language English

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (also known as Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker) is an upcoming American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. J. Abrams. It will be the third installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), and the final episode of the nine-part "Skywalker saga".[a] The film is being produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions, and will be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Its ensemble cast includes Carrie Fisher,[b] Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong'o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, and Billy Dee Williams.

The Rise of Skywalker will see the Resistance face the First Order once more, and the end of the ancient conflict between the Jedi and the Sith. Principal photography began in August 2018 at Pinewood Studios in England, and wrapped in February 2019. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 20, 2019.

Premise

A year after the events of The Last Jedi,[5] the remnants of the Resistance face the First Order once again—while reckoning with the past and their own inner turmoil.[6] Meanwhile, the ancient conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its climax,[7] bringing the Skywalker saga to a definitive end.[8]

Cast

See also: List of Star Wars characters and List of Star Wars cast members

Carrie Fisher[1] as Leia Organa, the Force-sensitive leading general of the Resistance and Luke's sister. Fisher, who died in late 2016, will appear through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.[4][9]

Mark Hamill[1] as Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi Master, who became one with the Force in The Last Jedi.[10]

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, the Supreme Leader of the First Order after overthrowing Snoke[11] and master of the Knights of Ren.[7] Born Ben Solo, he is the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo, the nephew of Luke Skywalker, and grandson of Darth Vader.

Daisy Ridley as Rey,[11] an orphan from Jakku and a member of the Resistance. She is the last known Jedi and apprentice of Luke Skywalker.[7]

John Boyega as Finn,[11] a member of the Resistance and a former stormtrooper who defected from the First Order

Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron,[11] a high-ranking X-wing fighter pilot and commander of the Resistance

Anthony Daniels[1] as C-3PO, a humanoid protocol droid in the service of General Leia Organa. Daniels is the only actor to have appeared in all of the episodic films in the series.[12]

Naomi Ackie as Jannah,[13] an ally of the Resistance

Domhnall Gleeson[1] as General Hux, the First Order's second-in-command

Richard E. Grant[1] as Allegiant General Pryde, a high-ranking general in the First Order[5]

Lupita Nyong'o[1] as Maz Kanata, a former space pirate and ally of the Resistance

Keri Russell as Zorii Bliss,[14][15] a "criminal and old friend of Poe's"[16]

Joonas Suotamo[1] as Chewbacca, a Wookiee and first mate of the Millennium Falcon

Kelly Marie Tran[1] as Rose Tico, a mechanic in the Resistance

Ian McDiarmid[17] as Palpatine / Darth Sidious, the dark lord of the Sith and former emperor of the galaxy, who seemingly died in Return of the Jedi[c]

Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian,[1] a veteran of the Rebel Alliance and old friend of Chewbacca and Leia. Williams returns to the Star Wars franchise onscreen for the first time since 1983's Return of the Jedi.[19]

Additionally, Dominic Monaghan portrays a Resistance trooper,[20][21] Brian Herring returns as the puppeteer of BB-8,[22] and Billie Lourd, Jimmy Vee, and Greg Grunberg reprise their roles as Lieutenant Connix, R2-D2, and Temmin "Snap" Wexley, respectively.[1][23][24] Jeff Garlin will have a role in the film,[25] and Denis Lawson will reportedly reprise his role as Wedge Antilles from the original trilogy.[26]

Production

Development

J. J. Abrams returns to direct.

In October 2012, Star Wars creator George Lucas sold his production company Lucasfilm, and with it the Star Wars franchise, to The Walt Disney Company.[27] Disney subsequently announced the Star Wars sequel trilogy.[28] In June 2014, it was announced that Rian Johnson, writer and director of The Last Jedi, would write a story treatment for Episode IX.[29] In August 2015, Colin Trevorrow was announced as the director of the film;[30] he was to write the script with frequent collaborator Derek Connolly.[30][31] In April 2017, Johnson stated that he was not involved in writing the film.[32] In February 2016, Disney chief executive officer Bob Iger confirmed that pre-production on Episode IX had begun.[33] In late April 2017, Disney announced that the film would be released on May 24, 2019.[34] A month later, filming was expected to begin in January 2018,[35][36] but this was later pushed back to August.

In August 2017, it was announced that Jack Thorne would rewrite the script.[37] On September 5, 2017, Lucasfilm stated that Trevorrow had left the production following creative differences.[38] The Hollywood Reporter reported that his working relationship with Kathleen Kennedy had become unmanageable after failing to deliver a satisfactory script, despite writing several drafts.[39] Johnson was rumored as the top choice to replace Trevorrow as director,[40] but stated "it was never in the plan for me to direct Episode IX."[41] The next day, it was announced that J. J. Abrams, the director of The Force Awakens, would return to direct the film,[42] and that the film's release date would be moved to December 20, 2019.[43] The story team met with George Lucas before writing the new script,[44] which Abrams co-wrote with Chris Terrio;[45] Trevorrow and Connolly retain story credits for the film. The story was rewritten to some extent before filming was completed.[46] The film is being produced by Abrams's company Bad Robot Productions, Kathleen Kennedy, and Michelle Rejwan.[45]

Before filming, Episode IX was initially given the working title Black Diamond, which was then changed to Trixie for unknown reasons.[47] The title, The Rise of Skywalker, was announced at April 2019's Star Wars Celebration in Chicago.[48]

Casting

Billy Dee Williams returns to the franchise as Lando Calrissian onscreen for the first time since Return of the Jedi.

Carrie Fisher, who played Leia Organa, died in December 2016. Variety and Reuters reported that she had been planned for a key role in The Rise of Skywalker.[49] In January 2017, Lucasfilm stated that there were no plans to digitally generate Fisher's performance as they had for Rogue One.[50] The following April, Fisher's brother Todd revealed that Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, had granted Disney the rights to use recent footage of Fisher.[51] However, a week later, Kathleen Kennedy stated that Fisher would not appear in the film.[52][53] In July 2018, J. J. Abrams announced that unused footage of Fisher from The Force Awakens would be used to help complete the story.[54] A week later, it was revealed that unseen footage from The Last Jedi would also be used.[4][9] According to Todd Fisher,

There's a lot of minutes of footage. I don't mean just outtakes. This is unused, new content that could be woven into the storyline. ... It's going to look like it was meant to be. Like it was shot yesterday.[9]

In July 2018, Keri Russell was in talks to play a part with some "action-heavy fight scenes",[55] and it was confirmed that Billy Dee Williams will return as Lando Calrissian,[56] onscreen for the first time since 1983's Return of the Jedi—marking one of the longest intervals between portrayals of a character by the same actor in American film history.[19] At the end of July, Russell was confirmed to have been cast,[57] and there was an announcement of returning and additional new cast members.[1] In late August, Deadline Hollywood announced that Dominic Monaghan and Matt Smith had been cast in unspecified roles,[58][59] but Smith later denied his involvement.[60] In April 2019, Disney's British website also listed Smith as being in the film,[61] but removed his and Monaghan's name the following month.[62] Jimmy Vee and Greg Grunberg reprise their roles as R2-D2 and Temmin "Snap" Wexley, respectively.[63][24] Brian Herring returns to puppeteer BB-8.[64]

At Star Wars Celebration in April 2019, it was revealed that Ian McDiarmid will return to portray Palpatine.[17] Since the event was held after principal photography wrapped, Abrams was thrilled that news of McDiarmid on the set never leaked.[65]

Filming

Principal photography began on August 1, 2018, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.[1] Filming also took place in Wadi Rum, Jordan.[66] Oscar Isaac stated that Abrams was allowing more improvised acting than in the previous two films.[67] Due to the tight schedule, some editing took place on set.[68] On January 28, 2019, Anthony Daniels finished filming for his role as C-3PO in the film.[69] Principal photography wrapped on February 15, 2019.[70] Footage from the film was shown at The Walt Disney Company's annual shareholders meeting on March 7, 2019.[71] Reshoots took place at Bad Robot Productions between late September and mid-October.[72]

Visual effects

The visual effects will be provided by Industrial Light & Magic and supervised by Roger Guyett.[73]

Music

In July 2013, Kennedy announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe that John Williams would return to score the Star Wars sequel trilogy.[74] On January 10, 2018, it was confirmed that Williams would return to compose and conduct The Rise of Skywalker.[75][76] The next month, Williams announced that it would be the last Star Wars film for which he would compose the score.[77] In August 2019, it was revealed that Williams had written about 35 of an expected 135 minutes of music for the film, which according to Williams's brother Don, will incorporate all of the major themes of the Skywalker saga.[78]

Marketing

Though Abrams has stayed silent about many details of the film, he has expressed his hopes that audiences will be "satisfied."[79] He headed a panel dedicated to the film on April 12, 2019, during Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, Illinois,[80] where the film's title was revealed via the first trailer, and new images were shown.[48] The trailer was viewed 111 million times in the first 24 hours of its release, which was 20 million more views than the teaser for The Last Jedi and more than double that of The Force Awakens.[81]

A publishing campaign titled "Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" was announced on May 4, 2019 (Star Wars Day). It will include the novel Resistance Reborn, set between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, and various other titles.[82] Additionally, the story events of the Disneyland themed area Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge precede the film, including the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run motion simulator, which features Chewbacca.[83] On August 24, a new poster and "sizzle reel" was released at D23;[16] the latter was released to the public two days later. The footage includes a montage of the Skywalker saga so far, as well as several new shots from the film.[84]

The final trailer was released on October 21, 2019 during Monday Night Football (the anniversary of Carrie Fisher's birthday). Pre-sale tickets went on sale the same day, and the film sold more tickets in their first hour of availability on Atom Tickets than the previous record-holder for ticket sales, Avengers: Endgame. It became Atom Tickets' second-best first-day seller of all-time behind Endgame, selling more than twice the number of tickets than The Last Jedi sold in that same timeframe, while Fandango reported it outsold all previous Star Wars films.[85][86]

Release

The Rise of Skywalker will be released on December 20, 2019 in the United States.[43] It was originally planned to be released on May 24 before being pushed back.[34]

The film will also be released on Disney+ in 2020.[87]

See also

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

References

Footnotes

 The "Skywalker saga" refers to the main Star Wars film franchise, which is a trilogy of trilogies.[3]

 Fisher, who died in late 2016, will appear through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.[4]

 According to McDiarmid, Star Wars creator George Lucas told him that the character is definitely dead before the events of Episode IX.[18]

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