Is the Death Star possible?

Although generating enough metal to build a Death Star would be "bonkers," technically speaking, it would be possible, Peck said. But there would need to be a huge space industry infrastructure to support it, including the ability to launch many more rockets than we can today, and asteroid mining.
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Is the Death Star Laser possible?

Though it's not big enough or strong enough to destroy a planet, scientists have developed an amplified laser reminiscent of the Death Star from "Star Wars," according to a new study. The futuristic superweapon combines multiple laser beams into one destructive blast, the researchers said.
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How long would it take to build a real life Death Star?

Creating and transporting the steel required, they also note, could take as long as 860,000 years and would likely leave the planet so polluted that everyone on Earth would have no choice but to fight for a spot onboard the spacecraft.
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Can the US build a Death Star?

The statement, an official response a petition to begin building a real-life Death Star by 2016 on the White House's We the People website, said President Barack Obama's Administration cannot support building the science fiction weapon for several down-to-Earth reasons.
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How much would a real Death Star cost?

Together, construction and launch of a small death star to low Earth orbit would cost around $1,370,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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What If You Could Build the Death Star?



Can Death Star go into hyperspace?

Using linked banks of 123 hyperdrive field generators tied into a single navigational matrix, the Death Star could travel across the galaxy at superluminal velocities.
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Is there an Earth in Star Wars?

While it doesn't play a major part in the Star Wars universe, Earth has appeared in canon and non-canon material. Star Wars fans will be familiar with the phrase, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," which marks the beginning of each film in the Skywalker Saga.
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Why did the Death Star take 20 years?

Its construction was begun during that war. It would take over 20 years to complete the battlestation. Yet, the second–even bigger than the first–was built in a mere 4 years. That's 20% of the time they took to build the first, smaller one.
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Is Quadanium steel real?

In Star Wars lore, the 120km (75-mile) diameter space station was made from quadanium steel (a fictional metal alloy) and crewed by two million Imperial personnel, including officers, Stormtroopers, and TIE pilots.
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Would the Death Star have gravity?

The Death Star's gravity is so small that if it were to orbit the Earth where the Moon is, we'd hardly notice any difference. The Moon is 40,000 times more massive than the Death Star!
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Is Starkiller Base more powerful than the Death Star?

Starkiller Base had an advantage over the Death Star when it came to materials. It wasn't a space station constructed wholesale from the ground up, but a planet with a hollowed out core that provided the mechanism necessary for its firing apparatus.
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Was there a third Death Star?

The Death Star III, also known as the third Death Star, was a mock Death Star battle station created from an incomplete worldcraft by the Kaarenth Dissension.
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Can a laser destroy a planet?

But perhaps we don't need to vaporize it. Dr. Stuart Penn, senior research fellow at South Bank University in London, suggests another way a laser might destroy a planet: "The laser could vaporize a narrow tunnel to the core of the planet. Then heat the core so it expands and melts.
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Is there a Kyber crystal in the Death Star?

Each of the Empire's Death Stars was built around a terrifying weapon – a superlaser array capable of destroying a planet. According to legend, the ancient Sith used massive kyber crystals to create superweapons; during the Clone Wars, the Geonosians revived the superlaser design.
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How big was the Kyber crystal in the Death Star?

Assuming the larger crystals can be subdivided into individual crystals without losing much material, the answer is that a crystal that's 2.7 cubic meters could make around 1.8 million lightsabers. Multiplied by eight, you could make something like 14 million lightsabers from the crystals used in the Death Star I.
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Can Darth Vader destroy a planet?

A new canon story reveals Sith sabotage. It's no secret that Darth Vader was no fan of the Death Star. As he said in Star Wars: A New Hope: "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
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Who built the Death Star?

Affiliation(s) Bevel Lemelisk was an engineer and architect who designed, among other things, six superweapons with the power to destroy a planet: the Death Star prototype, the Death Star, the second Death Star, the Eclipse, the Tarkin, and the Darksaber.
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Why did the Death Star have a weakness?

The Death Star's thermal exhaust port was a significant flaw in the design that the Rebels were able to exploit during the Battle of Yavin. This led to the thermal exhaust ports to be removed for the Death Star II, although the Death Star III retained this weakness.
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Could the Star Wars galaxy exist?

To be rational, there are estimated over 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe alone so the chances of a galaxy existing somewhere in the universe, possibly outside the observable universe, just like the one we see in Star Wars is very likely.
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Is Star Wars in our galaxy?

Star Wars takes place in the Milky Way Galaxy. This can be noted by a few things. For one, we see in The Phantom Menace the Asogian's in the senate (Asogians). We all know them as the race of E.T.
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Is Star Wars the past or future?

Ultimately, this change in setting and time allowed Star Wars to separate itself from most sci-fi movies as they are usually set in the future as a way to imagine what it could bring, while Star Wars instead made a whole universe for itself by simply placing itself in the past and far away from what humans know.
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How do I get Death Star?

When the AT-ST runs out of health, talk to the Plans Pilferer and he'll give you the Death Star Plans. Now open up the Holoprojector Map and use it to return to the Great Temple on Yavin 4. Talk to the Rebel Engineer again, and you'll unlock the Death Star! The Death Star costs a hefty 5,000,000 Studs to purchase.
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What was Death Star made of?

Quadanium steel or Quadanium alloy was an extremely durable metallic substance. The surface of the first and second Death Stars were made of Quadanium steel. The planet Despayre was a source of Quadanium for the construction of the first Death Star.
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Would the Death Star have an atmosphere?

The Death Star is too small to maintain an atmosphere through gravity, much like a similarly sized moon.
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