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The Death Star is a fiction space station appearing in the Star Wars movies and Star Wars Expanded Universe. The first Death Star is featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and a second Death Star is under construction in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Although particular details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between different concept models during A New Hope's production, the notion of the Death Star being a large, spherical space station was consistent in all of them. Portraying an incomplete yet powerful space station posed a problem for Industrial Light and Magic's modelmakers for Return of the Jedi. Only the front side of the 137-centimeter model was completed, and the image was flipped horizontally for the final film. Both Death Stars were depicted by a combination of complete and sectional models and matte painting.
The original Death Star, commanded by Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), is the Galactic Empire's "ultimate weapon" in A New Hope....
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