Why does the second Death Star look unfinished?

Before its destruction, the Death Star II's superstructure was still incomplete. Large sections of the outer hull were still missing, exposing the inner decks still under construction.
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Why was the second Death Star unfinished?

The second Death Star is destroyed by a direct attack on its main reactor, as its incomplete state allows ships to fly through its infrastructure. n/a, constructed in space.
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What happened after the second Death Star was destroyed?

The second Death Star has been destroyed. Rumors are flying that the Emperor and his enforcer, Darth Vader, are dead. A new government is forming to replace the Empire. But the galaxy is a big place, and the fallout of this cataclysm will affect different worlds in different ways.
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Was the 2nd Death Star bigger?

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 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 was the Death Star 2 built so fast?

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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Is Starkiller Base stronger 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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Is the Death Star used in rogue one?

The Death Star is brought into “Rogue One” near the beginning when an officer talks about a “planet killer” the Empire is building. Weitz said executives did not want to keep the Death Star plot a mystery since “Star Wars” fans already know what the Death Star is from George Lucas' original movie.
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Which Death Star did Luke destroy?

Proton torpedoes were used by Luke Skywalker to destroy the first Death Star. Proton torpedoes were a type of explosive ordnance used throughout the galaxy. Upon impact with a target, the proton warhead would release clouds of high-velocity proton particles in a focused explosion.
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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 built the second Death Star?

2, or simply the second Death Star, was a partially completed moon-sized battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire as the successor to the first Death Star.
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Why did Palpatine build the Death Star?

The Death Star was designed to allow Emperor Palpatine to more directly control the Galactic Empire through fear. In most instances, a Death Star was to be commanded by a Moff.
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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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How many died on the first Death Star?

More recent Star Wars canon material sets the Death Stars' death toll at “nearly one and a half million people” (according to Star Wars: Bloodline), with others going as far as saying the first Death Star alone killed “nearly two million” or “nearly a million” (both from Star Wars: Lost Stars).
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How did Leia get the Death Star plans?

Stolen during the Battle of Scarif by the Rogue One squad at the cost of heavy Rebel losses, the remaining copy of these blueprints was transmitted to Princess Leia Organa's starship and into the hands of members of the Rebel Alliance, stationed aboard the Tantive IV.
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Was Scarif destroyed?

The blast did not destroy Scarif itself but dissipated its planetary shield and obliterated the Citadel Tower as well as everyone in its vicinity. The Death Star's superlaser boiled the oceans of Scarif, burning a part of the planet's surface.
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Did Count Dooku have the Death Star plans?

As we know in Attack of the Clones, the Separatists — specifically Count Dooku — had the Death Star Plans at that point.
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Did the First Order destroy Coruscant?

When the First Order annihilated the New Republic in J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens (2015), Starkiller Base blew up the galactic capital Hosnian Prime rather than Coruscant.
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Why is Starkiller Lightsaber blue?

Afterward, he altered the color of the blades to blue when the Jedi General Rahm Kota presented him with two crystals—relics of the Clone Wars—to replace Starkiller's synthetic ones.
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What planet blew up Star Wars 7?

Starkiller Base's first shot obliterated the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime. The planet was then destroyed in a daring Resistance raid.
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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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Why did the first Death Star take so long to build?

The first one took so much longer because even though they had designed the superstructure, they had not designed the weapon. The laser portion of the Deathstar took almost 19 years to design and build: There's one specific part that took years to perfect. It's not like it took 19 years to build the whole thing.
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Is the Death Star flat?

However, the trench never curved down, only meaning the Death Star is flat! How does the Death Star receive its artificial gravity?
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Why did the Death Star have a hole?

The holes were purportedly for ventilation, so when Luke Skywalker was able to exploit them so catastrophically in the original “Star Wars,” fans speculated: Was there not a better way?
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