Despayre

Despayre had a sad job in the galaxy. A prison world and then the birth place of the first Death Star, the planet was a centre of suffering and death long before its demise at the hands of the Death Star - the first planet to be victim to the superweapons terrible legacy.

The shipyard that created the Empires ultimate weapon became the centre of the Imperial war machine. Components from almost all major corporations of the galaxy were sent to this system, and labor was found on the penal colony below. Grand Moff Tarkin visited the system on many occasions to oversee the construction, bringing with him Wookie slaves from the Kashyyyk system.

Despayre was finally destroyed when Darth Vader arrived in system, speeding up construction with a wave of executions to push forward the process. When the shipyard released the Death Star upon the galaxy, Tarkin tested the weapom on Despayre, destroying the planet totally