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The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in The Force Awakens. Both the original and second Death Star were moon-sized and designed for massive power-projection capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2x10 32 J/s power output blast from their superlasers. [15]
The architecture of Star Wars may also have been influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. [3] The designs continued Lucas' work from his first feature film, THX 1138 , which featured a claustrophobic , Orwellian "subterranean world of black-and-white spaces" where the population is subdued with drugs and kept under constant ...
Chris Hind reviewed Death Star Technical Companion in White Wolf #30 (Feb., 1992), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "Death Star Technical Companion's strongest point is its completeness. It contains every important fact concerning the Death Star, without going into excessive detail.
The Death Star is the name of the render farm owned by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). It is a cluster computer originally built by SGI. Since then, it has been converted into a Linux system built by RackSaver (now Verari Systems) with AMD processors. [1] It is one of the largest render farms.
Saturn’s Moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star”, has revealed a new secret.. A “remarkably young” ocean appears to be hiding under the icy, cratered surface of the world that led to it ...
Death Star, a fictional giant military space station in the 1965 film Attack from Space; Deathstar a 1984 video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers "Death Star", a nickname of Ghroth, one of the fictional Ramsey Campbell deities of the Cthulhu Mythos
The ‘Death Star’ “Welcome to the Death Star, where our opponents’ dreams come to die,” Mark Davis proclaimed ahead of the team’s first scrimmage at the stadium back in 2020.
Introduced in the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Governor Tarkin is the Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and commander of the Death Star. [19] After Emperor Palpatine dissolves the Imperial Senate, Tarkin and Darth Vader (portrayed by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones) are charged with pursuing and destroying the Rebel Alliance.