Death Star

> "This station is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it."
> ― Conan Antonio Motti
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The **Death Star**, known officially as the **DS-1 Orbital Battle Station**, or the **Ultimate Weapon** in early development stages, and later referred to as the **Death Star I** and the **First Death Star**, was a moon-sized, deep-space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire. Designed to fire a single planet-destroying superlaser powered by massive kyber crystals, it was the pet project of Emperor Palpatine, Director Orson Krennic, and its eventual commander Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to expound the military philosophy of the aptly named "Tarkin Doctrine."

Some of the earliest plans for a mobile, planet-destroying superweapon dated back millennia to the ancient Sith. Thousands of years later, shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Geonosians, aligned with Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, designed the Ultimate Weapon in secret. After the fall of the Confederacy, construction of the Death Star was appropriated by the nascent Empire. It was built in orbit of Geonosis and supported by a complex logistical network of bases. The station, which took many years longer to complete than expected, was eventually moved from Geonosis to Scarif in its final stages of construction.

## **Appearances**

* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 19: Ghosts of Mortis" (first appearance) (vision to Anakin Skywalker)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 18: A New Hope"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 8: Guardians of the Whills" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 40: A Mandalorian's Rage" (mentioned only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Unpleasant Memories" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 29: A Galaxy in Uproar" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 35: Thrawn's Dilemma" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 40: Some Preparation" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 42: Ghosts of Geonosis Pt 2" (depicted on a drawing)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 69: Wolves of Dume Pt 2" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 72: World Between Worlds" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 73: A Fool's Hope" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 6: Children of the Force* — "Chapter 2: Need for Rebels" (indirect mention only)
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 1: Imperial Boarding Party" (mentioned only)
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 3: The Distress Call"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 4: Mos Eisley Cantina"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 5: The Smuggler's Den"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 6: Destruction of Alderaan"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 7: Jedi Training"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 8: That's no Moon"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 9: Prison Break"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 10: Trash Compactor"
* *Galactic Civil War* — "Chapter 11: Kenobi"