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Death Star Manual: DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (Owners' Workshop Manual) Hardcover – January 1, 2014
by Ryder Windham (Author), Chris Reiff (Author), Chris Trevas (Author)

Following the success of the Haynes Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual, this follow-up volume covers the equally iconic Imperial Death Star battle station. The Death Star is a spherical space station, the size of a small moon, highly armoured and armed to destroy anything from enemy spaceships to whole planets. Using cutaway drawings, exploded diagrams and photographs, backed by detailed technical specifications and descriptions of the onboard systems, the Death Star Owner's Workshop Manual reveals the technology contained within and lays bare the awesome power (and weaknesses) of the Empire's ultimate weapon.

Author: Ryder Windham has written over 50 Star Wars books, including the Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual for Haynes, and is highly regarded by Lucasfilm and Star Wars fans. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife and two daughters. Illustrators: Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas are widely known and highly respected for their work on Star Wars projects over many years. They contributed all the art for the Haynes Millennium Falcon Manual.

The Death Star is a fictional mobile space station and galactic superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise. The first Death Star, introduced in the original Star Wars film,[a] is stated to be more than 120 kilometers (75 mi) in diameter, and is crewed by an estimated 1.7 million military personnel and 400,000 droids.[1][2] The second Death Star, which appears in Return of the Jedi, is significantly larger at between 160 kilometres (99 mi) to 900 kilometres (560 mi) in diameter, and technologically more powerful than its predecessor. Both versions of these moon-sized fortresses are designed for massive power-projection capabilities, each capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2x1032 J/s power output blast from its superlasers.[3][4]

Although details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between different concept models during production of Star Wars,[a] the notion of the Death Star being a large, spherical space station over 100 kilometers in diameter was consistent in all of them.[5] George Lucas gave the original task of designing a "Death Star" to concept artist and spaceship modeler Colin Cantwell,[6] who had collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.[7] In a 2016 interview, Cantwell related that "I didn't originally plan for the Death Star to have a trench, but when I was working with the mold, I noticed the two halves had shrunk at the point where they met across the middle." As it "would have taken a week of work just to fill and sand and refill this depression," Cantwell suggested a trench to Lucas to save the labor. Lucas liked the idea,[6][7] and the Death Star model was created by John Stears.[8][9] The buzzing sound counting down to the Death Star firing its superlaser comes from the Flash Gordon serials.[10] Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for Industrial Light & Magic's modelmakers for Return of the Jedi.[11] Only the front side of the 137-centimeter model was completed, and the image was flipped horizontally for the final film.[11] Both Death Stars were depicted by a combination of complete and sectional models and matte paintings.[5][11]

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