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Death Star

The Death Star is a fictional massive space station and superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise. Constructed by the autocratic Galactic Empire, the Death Star is capable of obliterating entire planets, and serves to enforce the Empire's reign of terror. It appears as a hundreds of kilometers wide mobile space station that has the…

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Affiliation
Galactic Empire
Armaments
Superlaser
Class
Orbital battle station Weapon of mass destruction
Combat vehicles
TIE Fighters and TIE Bombers
Created by
George Lucas
Defenses
Turbolasers, Laser cannons, Tractor beams, and Ion cannons

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Death Star

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Avg. degree1.99
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Death Star

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related to Original Death Star · 33
Death Star → Alderaan, As, C-3PO, Chewbacca, Commanded, Dantooine, Darth Vader, Death Star's, DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, Empire's, Galactic Empire's, Governor Tarkin, Han Solo, Later, Leia's, Luke, Luke Skywalker, Millennium Falcon, Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan Kenobi
related to Expanded Universe · 29
Death Star → Anderson's Jedi Academy, Ann Sachs, Bail Organa's, Both Death Stars, Death Star's, Death Stars, DS-X Prototype Battle Station, Empire, Expeditionary Battle Planetoid, Imperial, In Greg Bear's Rogue, Kevin, Kyle Katarn, Leia, LucasArts, LucasArts' Dark Forces, LucasArts' X-Wing Alliance, Maw Cluster, National Public Radio's Star, Planet
related to Merchandise · 29
Death Star → AMT, Australia, Both Death Stars, Canada, Card Game, Coast's Star Wars Customizable, Darth Vader, Death Star II, Death Star Speaker, December, Decipher, Estes Industries, Game, Hasbro, In, Inc, Kenner, Lego, Micro Machines, Palitoy
related to Origin and design · 23
Death Star → According, Although, Both Death Stars, Cantwell, Colin Cantwell, Dreams, Flash Gordon, George Lucas, In Empire, Industrial Light, It, Jedi, John Stears, Lucas, Magic's, Only, Portraying, Return, Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
related to Second Death Star · 18
Death Star → Alliance, Battle, Darth Vader, DS-2 Orbital Battle Station, Endor, Endor-native Ewoks, Han Solo, Han's Millennium Falcon, In, Jedi, Lando Calrissian, Rebel, Rebel Alliance's, Rebels, Return, The, The Emperor, Wedge Antilles
related to Depiction · 17
Death Star → Andor, Attack, Both, Clones, J/s, Jedi, Rebels, Return, Revenge, Rogue One, Sith, Star Wars, Starkiller Base, The, The Bad Batch, The Clone Wars, The Force Awakens
related to Political campaigns · 14
Death Star → Administration, Centives, Christian Kies, Christian Lavey, In, January, Lavey, Lehigh University, Luxembourgish, The, The Luxembourgish, The White House, United States, White House's
has effect · 13
Death Star → After, CalArts, Cuba, Gary Imhoff's, George Lucas, Illinois Chicago, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Larry Cuba, New Hope, Rebel, The, Tom DeFanti, University
related to External links · 12
Death Star → DatabankDeath Star, Death Star On Asteroid, It Would Be Easier, Planet Spaceship, Science Fiction, Speculative, Star Wars, StarWars, The Encyclopedia, To Build, TV TropesNASA Engineer Says, Wookieepedia
related to Astronomy · 8
Death Star → Additionally, In, Mimas, Nemesis, Oort, Saturn, Solar System, Voyager

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star death wars first film one station second planet also empire star's superlaser original destroyed space base superweapon force rebel

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Death StarAffiliationGalactic Empire1.00infobox
Death StarArmamentsSuperlaser1.00infobox
Death StarClassOrbital battle station Weapon of mass destruction1.00infobox
Death StarCombat vehiclesTIE Fighters and TIE Bombers1.00infobox
Death StarCreated byGeorge Lucas1.00infobox
Death StarDefensesTurbolasers, Laser cannons, Tractor beams, and Ion cannons1.00infobox
Death StarDesigned byColin Cantwell1.00infobox
Death StarFirst appearanceStar Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976)1.00infobox
Death StarLaunchedn/a, constructed in space.1.00infobox
Death StarMaximum speedFaster than light speed1.00infobox
Death StarPowerAble to destroy a planet with one shot of the superlaser1.00infobox
Death StarPropulsionImperial Hyperdrive1.00infobox
Death StarWidth160 km (99 mi) (Death Star I); 200 km (120 mi) (Death Star II)1.00infobox
Death Staris afictional massive space station and superweapon featured in the Star Wars space-opera franchise0.90text

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