Who built the first Death Star?

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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Did Geonosians build the Death Star?

The Geonosians maintain large factories for the production of droids and weapons for the Separatist cause in the Clone Wars. After the Clone Wars, the Empire chose Geonosis as the construction site of the first Death Star, restricting travel to the system and sterilizing the planet's surface.
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Who built the second Death Star?

The Death Star II was the second Death Star battlestation to be constructed by the Galactic Empire. It was significantly larger than its predecessor, measuring over 160 kilometers in diameter, and was built after the destruction of the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin.
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Who blows up the first Death Star?

The first Death Star was destroyed at the end of that film, due to the Rebel Alliance capitalizing on a structural weakness. It was replaced by a second Death Star, which was destroyed at the end of 1983's Return Of The Jedi after the Rebel Alliance capitalized on a structural weakness.
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Who destroyed the 2nd Death Star?

This improvisation gave Rebel ground forces more time, and Han was eventually able to destroy Death Star II's shield generator. Lando and Wedge Antilles (in an X-wing) both flew inside the superstructure, knocking out its main reactor and finally destroying Death Star II.
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Did Darth Vader build the Death Star?

Wilhuff Tarkin with Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader in 19 BBY overlooking the construction of the first Death Star. Nevertheless, the project nearly ended before it began. Because much of the technology of the Death Star was impressive, actually building it proved to be more difficult than anyone imagined.
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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 destroyed the Third Death Star?

While the Kaarenth Dissension's sophisticated feint was a successful distraction, this so-called Death Star III was ultimately destroyed by Red Squadron when Red Leader made a direct hit to its unprotected thermal exhaust port.
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How much would a Death Star cost?

At $2.2 billion in 1945 dollars for the WW2 super project, Feinstein estimates the 20-year cost to complete the Death Star at more than $192 quintillion (that's 18 zeros).
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How did First Order build Starkiller?

Mining operations were conducted in order to harvest the planet's kyber crystal deposits for use in the First Order's war machine, and after sufficient excavation was completed, the Order converted Starkiller Base into a mobile superweapon platform, with the colossal superlaser array embedded in the massive trench in ...
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Is Starkiller Base stronger than the Death Star?

The 2015 film The Force Awakens introduced Starkiller Base, a planet converted by the First Order into a superweapon. While more powerful and technologically advanced than both Death Stars, being capable of destroying entire planetary systems, it is destroyed by the Resistance.
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How many Death Stars were there?

So let's start with the simple fact that over the years, there have been not two Death Stars, but a total of four, and some of them have some wonky history.
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Who stole the original Death Star plans?

The Hutt threat

Following the fall of the Empire, the Death Star Plans were kept by the New Republic in a secure computer system on Coruscant. However, in 12 ABY, a team of Taurill commandos broke in during a diplomatic reception for Durga the Hutt and stole a copy of the plans.
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Was Klik-Klak drawing the Death Star?

When Ezra asked him what the Empire was doing on Geonosis, Klik-Klak drew two circles in the ground in reference to the Empire's planned space station known as the Death Star, however, none of the group understood the message, instead interpreting it as the rings of Geonosis and other objects.
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Who came up with the Death Star plans?

The Death Star was designed by Geonosians led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser, a member of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the First Battle of Geonosis, he gave the plans to Count Dooku, who decided to ferry them to his master Darth Sidious, who would keep them safe.
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Can the Death Star jump to hyperspace?

So, the Death Star didn't jump to hyperspace because Tarkin and others in charge still didn't think the Rebel fighters were a threat, even once they figured out what the Rebels were trying to do in the trench.
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How was the second Death Star built so quickly?

The Imps literally carved a tunnel through hyperspace, from the Core to Endor. Whilst it took hours or even days to transport building materials through hyperspace to get to Geonosis, it took far less time with the direct route made by the Empire.
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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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Who is the most powerful Sith of all time?

1. Darth Sidious (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace) Truly, the most powerful Sith Lord was Darth Sidious, better known in his public persona of Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine. Through cunning and manipulation, Sidious killed his master to claim the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.
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How many kyber crystals were used for the Death Star?

First Death Star

Powered by eight kyber crystals, laser beams generated from these crystals were focused and combined into a single blast.
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Did the Death Star use kyber crystals?

The Death Star is directly powered by Kyber crystals. With the Sith Lord Palpatine in charge of the Empire, planets that were rich in crystals were mined for everything they had, and this included Ilum, where Ahsoka Tano took a group of Jedi younglings to find their first crystals.
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Why did Vader dislike the Death Star?

As Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader viewed the Death Star with an element of disdain. "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force," he insisted in A New Hope. Disney's new Star Wars canon has already suggested that Vader's relationship with the Death Star was a complex one.
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Who is Darth Vader's father?

He was the son of Shmi Skywalker, a slave who conceived a child without a father. His blood contained over twenty-thousand midi-chlorians, surpassing that of Grand Master Yoda and all other Jedi in the galaxy.
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