Death Star
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Key facts
- First appearance
- Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976 novelization) Star Wars (1977 film)
- Created by
- George Lucas
- Designed by
- Colin Cantwell
- Affiliation
- Galactic Empire
- Launched
- n/a, constructed in space.
- Combat vehicles
- TIE Fighters and TIE Bombers
- Class
- Orbital battle station, Weapon of mass destruction
- Armaments
- Superlaser
- Defenses
- Turbolasers, Laser cannons, Tractor beams, and Ion cannons
- Maximum speed
- Faster than light speed
- Propulsion
- Imperial Hyperdrive
- Power
- Able to destroy a planet with one shot of the superlaser
- Width
- 160 km (99 mi) (Death Star I); 200 km (120 mi) (Death Star II)
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The Death Star is a fictional massive space station and superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise. Constructed by the autocratic Galactic Empire, the Death Star is capable of obliterating entire planets, and serves to enforce the Empire's reign of terror. It appears as a hundreds of kilometers wide mobile space station that has the shape of a spherical moon or planetoid.
Appearing in the original film Star Wars (1977), the Death Star serves as the central plot point and setting for the film, and is destroyed in an assault by the Rebel Alliance during the climax of the film, with the prequel film Rogue One (2016) and the television series Andor (2022–2025) exploring its construction. A larger second Death Star is being built in the events of the film Return of the Jedi (1983), featuring substantially improved capabilities compared to its predecessor, before it is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance while under construction.