Death Star command center

The Death Star command center, also known as the Death Star control room and the command station, was located on the second Death Star battle station. It was able to remotely operate the station's functions, including the deflector shield and superlaser.
==Description==
The command center was small control room located along the Equatorial trench of the second Death Star, just off of a small hangar. It featured a row of computer terminals and a duty post that contained the superlaser firing switch, which would beep when it was ready to fire. The room also had a turbolift, a door to a surrounding hallway, and a viewport that looked into the hangar below. Additionally, a large targeting screen was located the far wall opposite the computer terminals, with a smaller one behind the duty post. To the right of the door, behind the duty post was a blaster rack holding two A280 blaster rifles. In addition to being able to fire the superlaser when it was ready, the command center could also raise and lower the deflector shield and rotate the entire station itself. The command center's controls could be overridden by duty posts and control consoles inside the throne room.Death Star Owner's Technical Manual
==History==
In 4 ABY, Lieutenant Endicott, along with several Death Star troopers, including Sergeant Jad Bean, were stationed in the control room. While piloting Darth Vader's shuttle, Captain Yorr contacted the control room and asked them to lower the Death Star's deflector shield so they could dock in one of the hangars. Upon conferring with Endicott, who immediately recognized the ship as Vader's, and receiving the shuttle's code transmission, Bean deactivated the deflector shield and told the shuttle that they could safely proceed. Shortly after, Endicott asked Bean to inform the station's commander, Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod, that Vader's shuttle arrived.
Not long after, Jerjerrod, Endicott, and several personnel were present in the command center during the Battle of Endor. They were boosted by Force-sensitive Grand Admiral Nial Declann as he used Battle meditation to improve their side's efficiency. Upon receiving orders from Emperor Palpatine himself, Jerjerrod authorized gunners in superlaser fire control to begin targeting Rebel ships, while a trooper in the main control room fired the superlaser itself at will. The superlaser began firing, destroying the Liberty, the Urjani,Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance the Redemption,Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 1 and an MC80 Home One type Star Cruiser. The Imperials were forced stop shooting when, in response to the superlaser, the Rebel fleet engaged the Imperial fleet at point blank range in order to limit the Death Star's ability to destroy any Rebel ships without hurting their own. At some point, Bean replaced the trooper on duty at the superlaser's firing switch station.
Eventually, Jerjerrod was given more orders by Palpatine, this time to turn the Death Star's superlaser on Endor itself if the Rebels managed to deactivate the deflector shield. Jerjerrod was reluctant due to the fact that although the Rebels on the moon would be killed in the blast, the Imperials stationed there would be killed as well. He tried to remind the Emperor about the Imperial troops on the moon, but the Emperor repeated his orders and Jerjerrod accepted them.
Eventually, the Rebels did manage to deactivate the shield generator by blowing up the shield generator bunker itself. Upon losing contact with the bunker and confirming the deflector shield was gone, Endicott informed Jerjerrod, who gave the command to begin rotating the station towards the moon. As the station turned, the Imperials in the command center watched as the tide of the battle began turning in favor of the Rebels, whose ships started bombarding the station due to there being no deflector shield to absorb the shots. The command center, along with the station itself crumbled around the Imperials, as several electrical fires started, some areas suffered cabin depressurizations, and computer terminals began blowing up. Several crew members abandoned their posts, frantically looking for a way to escape, while others were either wounded or killed by the results of the bombardment. The remaining crew desperately tried to shoot at Rebel ships, though some were heavily demoralized, working inefficiently as Declann had stopped using Battle meditation to rush to the Emperor's throne room when he sensed Palpatine had been killed.
Jerjerrod gave an aide orders to speed up the station's rotation. At sixty seconds to firing, the aide handed Jerjerrod the firing switch before running off to save himself. At thirty seconds, the Death Star exploded, destroying the control room and killing everyone present, including Jerjerrod.
==Appearances==
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*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi novelization 
*Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi junior novelization 
*Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Cine-Manga
*Return of the Jedi 1 
==Sources==
*Death Star Owner's Technical Manual 
==Notes and references==
Category:Death Star II locations