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Death Star

The Death Star is a fictional 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. Appearing in the original 1977 film Star Wars, the Death Star serves as the central plot point and setting for the movie, and is destroyed in an assault by the Rebel Alliance during the climax of the film, with the 2016 prequel film Rogue One and the 2022 television series Andor exploring its construction. A larger second Death Star is being built in the events of the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, featuring substantially improved capabilities compared to its predecessor, before it is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance while under construction.

For other uses, see Death Star (disambiguation).

Death Star

George Lucas

Colin Cantwell

Galactic Empire

n/a, constructed in space.

TIE Fighters

Orbital Battle Station

Superlaser

Turbolasers, Laser cannons, Tractor beams, and Ion cannons

Faster than light speed

Imperial Hyperdrive

Able to destroy a planet with one shot of the superlaser.

160 km (99 mi) (Death Star I); 200 km (120 mi) (Death Star II)

Since its first appearance, the Death Star has become a cultural icon and a widely recognized element of the Star Wars franchise. It inspired numerous similar superweapons in fiction as well as in other Star Wars works. The 2015 film The Force Awakens introduces Starkiller Base, a planet (Ilum) converted by the First Order into a Death Star-like superweapon. While more powerful and technologically advanced than both Death Stars, it is also destroyed by the Resistance. The 2019 film The Rise of Skywalker introduces the Final Order, a massive fleet of Xyston-class Star Destroyers built by the Sith Eternal, individual warships each carrying "planet-killing" weapons; the film also features the remains of the second Death Star, on the ocean moon of Kef Bir.

's logo, designed by Saul Bass and introduced in 1982, is informally referred to as the "Death Star".[57] Ars Technica referred to "the AT&T Death Star" in an article criticizing a company data policy.[58] Competitor T-Mobile mocked AT&T's "Death Star" logo and "Empire-like reputation" in a press release.[59]

AT&T Corporation

In 's first feature film, Clerks (1994), Randal Graves points out that many independent contractors would have been killed in the second Death Star's destruction.[60] In the DVD audio commentary for Attack of the Clones, George Lucas says that the inclusion of the holographic Death Star in the film implies that the Geonosians were the contractors discussed by "Jay and Silent Bob".[61]

Kevin Smith

(SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket) in Dallas were the first to use the term "Death Star" to describe the new mammoth Cowboys Stadium, now AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. The term has since spread to local media and is generally accepted as a nickname for the stadium.[62]

KTCK

The was the name Enron gave to one of their fraudulent business practices for manipulating California's energy market.[63]

Death Star strategy

In the novels of the , the San Francisco Police Department admonishes its officers to stop referring to their surveillance satellite as the "Death Star".

Bridge Trilogy

In the 1987 Star Wars parody film , the Spaceballs use a spacecraft called "Spaceball I", which can change shape into "Mega Maid", resembling a woman with a vacuum cleaner. A reference to the Death Star destroying Alderaan, the Mega Maid is used to drain Druidia's atmosphere of fresh air.[64]

Spaceballs

While mostly ground based, the from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and 1988 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics is based on the Death Star.[65]

Technodrome

The video game series features a parody of the Death Star known as the "Death Egg", a battle station created by Dr. Eggman that serves as a level in multiple games, as well as in the web series Super Mario Bros. Z.

Sonic the Hedgehog

was nicknamed the "Death Star" by some of its members.[66]

Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign

owner Mark Davis dubbed the nickname of the team's new Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada as the "Death Star".[67]

Las Vegas Raiders

The Social Sciences and Humanities Building at the is referred to by students as the "Death Star", due to its shiny metallic exterior and maze-like architecture.[68]

University of California, Davis

in the StarWars.com Databank

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on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki

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NASA Engineer Says It Would Be Easier To Build A Death Star On Asteroid