Death Star III A fake Death Star III was built by the warlord Ennix Devian of the Galactic Empire after he acquired an unfinished worldcraft being built in orbit of the planet Coruscant . In 4 . 3 ABY , Devian used the bogus battlestation to create a diversion while his men were hijacking warships from nearby Alliance of Free Planets shipyards . Characteristics . The exact measurements and capabilities of the station are not completely known , except that it was armed with a superlaser similar to the other stations in the series and had a relatively heavier defense network of turbolasers dotting the surface . The station was never completed and at the time of its destruction , scaffolding was still present in the trench leading to its weak spot , creating obstacles for would - be attackers . Nonetheless , the station had been nearing finalization , evidenced by its looking more whole compared to the Death Star II . Despite it being created either during or after the Death Star II , which had removed various design flaws that doomed the first Death Star , it still shared the same design flaw as the first Death Star : a thermal exhaust port located within one of the trenches . History . During the reign of its founder Palpatine , the Galactic Empire manufactured a select number of Worldcraft s , a large type of habitation sphere s that resembled natural planetoids and could travel through both realspace and hyperspace . Those exceptional starships were all commissioned by the Emperor himself as a gift to his most devoted servants . Two of those Worldcrafts , which had been intended to be supplied to Moff Ardus Kaine and the Emperor ' s personal hitman Ennix Devian , were being built in orbit of Coruscant , the capital world of the Empire . Shortly after Palpatine ' s death at the Battle of Endor , Devian stole both unfinished Worldcrafts . After sending them to two separate corners of the galaxy , he reconverted one of them into a Death Star - like battlestation with the intention of creating a feint against the enemy Alliance of Free Planets , whom at that time were based at Endor . The battlestation underwent construction near Endor and was guarded by a fleet of " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers . Its exact date of it commencing construction , however , remained a mystery , although it was closer to completion a few months after Endor . A few months after the Battle of Endor , a New Republic task force was sent to destroy the station . A similar weakness to the first Death Star had been discovered in the unfinished superstructure , and Republic starfighters made their way past the Imperial escorts , fought TIE squadrons and made a trench run to their designated target , as well as having to defend an inexperienced StarSpeeder 3000 Star Tours pilot that accidentally came into the conflict . Firing proton torpedoes into the thermal exhaust port , the fighters withdrew from the battle , leaving the station to be destroyed . Ultimately , however , its destruction acted as a Pyrrhic victory for the Rebels , as Devian used the distraction caused by the battle to steal several vessels from various shipyards owned by the New Republic . Behind the scenes . The Death Star III idea was created by Leland Chee to explain why a Death Star is present on the " Star Tours " ride when both of the stations in the movies were destroyed . It was later confirmed as canon in the blog on StarWars . com . The station being built near the Forest Moon of Endor like the Death Star II before it is similar to an original concept for " " , where two Death Stars would have been built near Had Abbadon ( then the Imperial capital world ) . The Habitation sphere s , based on the Imperials ' suspicious claims that they were designed strictly for peaceful purposes , were suggested by some fans to have been the origin for the Death Star III . This was later revealed to be the case in Part 2 of the StarWars . com Blog series . In the non - canon game " " , a random HoloNet entry states that one of the residents of the Death Star is simply staying there until he can afford to stay at the Death Star 3 .