DS-1 Orbital Battle Station/Legends



The First Death Star was a massive battle station the size of a small moon. The basic structure of the station was spherical, with a trench, wide enough for a fighter, running the diameter at its equator. The northern hemisphere held the main armament of the station, which was the fearsome Superlaser. This weapon took the external apperance of a kilometers wide circular indentation into the massive body of the Death Star. When activated, the eight massively high powered laser generators were powered up. When they were all fully charged they would be shot in unison, forming one hideously powerful superlaser. The precise physics of this weapon are still under discussion. The original specifications for the 120 kilometer Death Star comprised eighty-four separate internal levels, to be stacked south to north. Each level was separated into 257 sub-levels. A nominal amount of sub levels were then to be stacked around the surface of the sphere, encompassing the inner stacked levels. The full crew included 27,048 officers; 774,576 troops, pilots, and crewers; 378,576 support and maintenance crewers; 400,000 support droids; and over 25,000 Stormtroopers. The military hardware on the Death Star included 5,000 turbolaser batteries; 5,000 heavy turbolaser batteries; 2,500 laser cannons; 2,500 ion cannons; and 768 Tractor beam generators. Facilities included parks, shops, and other amenities for the human compliment to the ship. The ship also included massive sublight, and hyperdrive systems to movie the station into place, at a relatively fast speed. Near the northern pole, a hundred meter tower was constructed and shielded to near impenetrability for the Emperor to use as personal quarters while on board.

The Death Star was developed by the Geonosians, just prior to the beginning of the Clone Wars. These plans were turned over to the then leader of the CIS, Count Dooku. What happened to the plans then is not entirely know. But some time later, during the Empires rise to its full imperial strength, the idea of a massive battle station resurfaced, Its possible that Raith Seinar had something to do with this. Grand Moff Tarkin, the appointed military leader of the Emperors New Order, called for a massive battle station to fully assert the Empire's power in the Outer Rim. The contract of its design (or rediscovery) was appointed to Grand Moff Tarkin's personal friend and Chief Technological officer Tol Sivron, who was the Chief of Operations at the Imperial instillation in the Maw.

The development and building of the Death Star were as monumental as the final ship would be itself. Tarkin wisely assumed that releasing the true intent and scope of the final project would be detrimental to its construction. Because of this, very few beings were told the true nature of this project. Most of the materials acquisition for the building of the Death Star was done under the guise of the Departments of System Exploration and Public Works. These organizations would literally dismantle old dead, and dying planets for their raw materials. After it was constructed, the newly appointed commander of the vessel turned the main weapon on the prison planet of Despayre, killing most of those who had built it.

The destruction of the Death Star is heavily embroiled in the Battle of Yavin, where the Death Star was positioned to destroy the newly discovered Rebel Base on the Yavin’s fourth moon. The Death Star was destroyed by Luke Skywalker, who, with help available to him through the force, successfully managed to fire a proton torpedo into an exhaust shaft that led directly to the ships core. It destroyed the main generators, and caused to ship to explode from the inside out, killing Grand Moff Tarkin, and most of the beings aboard.