Who designed the Death Star?

Who designed the Death Star?

Colin Cantwell, who designed the Death Star for ‘Star Wars,’ dies at 90.

Can the Death Star be built in real life?

Brooks Peck, a curator at the EMP Museum in Seattle believes that creating enough metal to build the Death Star is also theoretically possible—but only if we already have an established space infrastructure to support it. We technically do, but it’s still in its infancy.

Did Galen ERSO design the Death Star?

The Death Star plans, codenamed “Stardust” by Galen Erso, were the blueprints of the first Death Star, an Imperial superweapon based on Geonosian designs.

Who controls Death Star?

Commanded by Governor Tarkin, it is the Galactic Empire’s “ultimate weapon”, a huge spherical battle station 120 kilometers in diameter capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser.

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.

Who built the 2nd Death Star?

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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.

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.

Can the Death Star destroy Earth?

Alderaan and Earth are very similar, so we’ll look at what it would take for the Death Star to destroy Earth. For that, the Death Star would have to overpower the forces that hold the planet together—in this case, gravity. The gravitational binding energy of Earth is 2.24*10^32 Joules (that’s 240 followed by 32 zeros).

Did the Bothans steal the Death Star plans?

Moreover, the Story Group’s Pablo Hidalgo clarifies that in the Canon timeline, Bothans did not assist in the theft of the plans as they did in the Legends universe.

Who stole the original Death Star plans?

The plans containing the Death Star’s entire design history, including the flaw introduced into its reactor system were stolen by Jyn Erso. The Bothans also offered some valuable information to the Rebel Coalition, such as the door code for the shield generator bunker on the Endor forest moon.

Why did Palpatine build the Death Star?

TL;DR: The Emperor destroyed the Republic and built Death Stars to fight off an extragalactic invasion.

Was the second 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.