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In draft scripts for the film that would become Star Wars, the term "Stardestroyer" refers to two-man fighters flown by what would become the Galactic Empire. [1] The film's second draft features four Star Destroyers chasing a single Rebel ship, [7] but the tremendous costs incurred by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) when production began helped lead Lucas to use a single "terrifyingly large ...
Vader's Star Destroyer, the Executor, [153] was 6 feet (1.8 m) long, had between 150,000 and 250,000 lights installed, and cost around $42,000. [154] The quantity of lights required a long exposure per frame shot, and the footage had to be reshot after review because it had illuminated the sawdust floating in the air. [155]
The ships were designed to be as aesthetically different from the Imperial Star Destroyers as possible, although the filming crew disliked the "pickle ships" due to the models' unflattering angles. [11] Internal neon lights provided lighting, and detail was painted on by using the second Death Star model's exposed framework as a makeshift ...
The official (tongue-in-cheek) response was released in January 2013: [85] the cost of building a real Death Star has been estimated in 2012 by a Centives economics blog of Lehigh University to $850 quadrillion, or about 13,000 times the worldwide gross domestic product, as well as at current rates of steel production, the Death Star would not ...
Credits are used to research technology, build defenses and vehicles, and train troops. Each planet confers different advantages to its owner, even though some bonuses are specific to each faction (for example, controlling Kuat reduces the price of Imperial Star Destroyers by 25 percent).
The Imperial Power-up Pack (IPuP) come in three versions, all with exclusive ships and a 30 card Imperial-themed deck. The units exclusive to the IPuP are: Devastator Imperial-class Star Destroyer; Darth Vader's Lambda-class Shuttle; Talon Squadron X-wing; Ebon Squadron TIE Fighter; Spear Squadron TIE Fighter; 2 Dice (Red or Black)
Each of the destroyers costs around $8 billion. The new USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier's development was hamstrung by changing requirements and the integration of dozens of new technologies.
In the Star Wars comics, the Rebellion wins numerous victories against the Empire after the destruction of the Death Star, destroying its major weapons factory on Cymoon 1, breaking an Imperial blockade around the Rebel world of Tureen VII by stealing the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Harbinger and recruiting the Mon Calamari trading fleet to ...