The Death Star has become a cultural icon and a widely recognized element of the Star Wars
franchise the first version which appears in the original 1977 film Star Wars is stated to be more
than 160 kilometers in diameter and is crewed by an estimated 1.7 million military personnel and
400 000 droids it inspired numerous similar superweapons in fiction as well as in other
star wars work. The second Death Star appears in return of the Jedi and is significantly larger at
900 kilometers in diameter and while unfinished is technologically more advanced than its predecessor
built by the galactic empire to strengthen its control over the galaxy
both Death Stars are armed with kyber crystal powered super lasers which can destroy entire
planets if you look at this comparison our moon is actually much larger than the original death star
measuring at 160 kilometers in diameter it's only about five percent the size of our moon
the second death star appears in return of the Jedi and is significantly larger at 900
kilometers in diameter and while unfinished is technologically more advanced than its predecessor
The Death Star was 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 wilhoff tarkin the station's equator
comprised numerous docking ports of various sizes all supported by the extraordinarily
powerful tractor beam generator tower which utilized several tractor beam projectors
Also near the equator is docking bay 327 also known as hangar bay 327 was a docking bay aboard
the Death Star it served as a cargo loading assembly area if the bay doors were opened
an atmosphere containment projector kept the station's internal atmosphere in
the most prominent weapon emplacement on the death star was its superlaser a large concave
dish in the northern hemisphere made up the superlaser emitter and the super laser focus lens
In addition to the death star's superlaser its surface was peppered
with 15,000 turbo laser batteries along with 768 tractor beam emplacements
as the station's defenses, these were installed in order to repel a large-scale fleet attack
rather than fend off individual starfighters
Let's take a look inside the Death Star
the Death Star has sub-light and hyper-drive engines
the sublight engines are what allow it to move within star systems
the hyperdrive lets it travel through hyperspace and travel between systems
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 forming one large
beam powerful enough to destroy a planet next to the superlaser are the firing field amplifier
the induction hyper phase generator and the targeting field generator which is used to
precisely align the firing chamber arrays this setup would prevent the crystals from burning
out and overloading sending dangerous levels of waste heat back into the death star's main reactor
above the firing field amplifier as the super laser power cell the power cell stored the energy
needed to fire the super laser the tractor beam power generator trench was one of seven
locations where tractor beam was connected to the death star reactor it was where obi-wan
Kenobi severed the connection allowing the millennium falcon to escape the entry area to
the corridor was guarded by two stormtroopers but Kenobi distracted them with the force
The Death Star featured an entirely man-made atmosphere a vast central
cylindrical atmosphere processing unit ensured the air inside the station was regulated
Next to the unit is the ion drive reactor and toward the center as the main power
generator used to provide most of the power for electric power grids inside the station
at the center of the Death Star is the hyper-matter reactor that fed energy into
various components of the Superlaser including the primary power amplifier the super laser
power cell the firing field amplifier and the induction hyperphase generators
further down is the water tanks and the power cell the power cell provided the
necessary voltage for the circuits to various weapons droids starships and space stations
all information collected by the Death Star's bridge sensor arrays communication centers and
space traffic control were routed through the station's central and sector computers as well
as displayed on banks of monitors and holla projectors situated throughout the overbridged
a thermal exhaust porter simply called an exhaust port was a small opening on
the Death Star that led to its reactor core which was deliberately designed
by galen erso as an act of sabotage to give the station a critical vulnerability
the target area is only two meters wide and is right below the main port
In 1977, the Death Star the ultimate weapon in the star wars space opera franchise was introduced as
an iconic moon-sized military space station that was the galactic empire's ultimate weapon of doom
the death star was to be an instrument of terror meant to count treasonous worlds with the threat
of annihilation, it had a formidable array of turbo lasers and tractor beam projectors giving it the
firepower of greater than half the imperial starflate i hope you enjoy this in-depth look
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