101 Facts About the Death Star

Learn 101 canon facts about the Death Star! Construction, personnel, systems, the superlaser, its history, and behind the scenes trivia to fully prepare you for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story!
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[@antiohyeahyeah8408]

1: the death star doesnt have many windows because glass is made out of sand

[@Actiontime70]

@anti oh yeah yeah oh man how did you come up with that?

[@michaelgarcia5437]

Lightning Striking Sand Makes Glass And Anakin Hates Sand

[@captpenguinlord7208]

I’m confused why.

[@PedrotheChihuahuaA8]

CaptPenguin Lord (cus Anakin hates sand)

[@gavna5151]

Ha funny

[@flashkraft]

One trillion credits. You know thats a bargin when you think about it.

[@superiorquad3758]

flashkraft thats a really nice bargain. Since 1 credit is $2.10, yeah not much to make something that large. So take $2.10 x 1,000,000,000,000. = 2.1e+12... Since this is money, ima just say it costs 3Trillion to make, I might be off.

[@nickmenzhuber235]

Comets on a comets comet

[@Theking-dt1cc]

@@superiorquad3758 yea 3 trillion dollars for the most destructive weapon in the universe that could blow up planets in a blink of an eye

[@studinthemaking]

The US spent 4 trillion dollars on its nuclear infrastructure during the Cold War. That non inflation adjusted dollars.

[@neuropathical]

@@superiorquad3758 it depends from which planet and which TYPE of currency. In this case he just said credits. There are, galactica credits, republic credits, new republic credits etc... so the conversion rates are different.

[@lauraclowson8288]

Darth Vader: can we blow up tatooine and mustafar? *THE END*

[@troyandrade435]

Vade had a castle base on Mustufar.

[@lukemansell4504]

Its built on sand

[@joshjordan1428]

Vader’s castle

[@Punmiro]

why he doesnt know were luke or obi wan was

[@stuart9358]

NotRobloxian UwU He was a slave in ep 1 bro

[@ripsicle8046]

Bonus fact, the man who fired the first Death Star was named Tenn Graneet, who was originally a gunner for the republic before being transferred to the Death Star super laser. He did not however think that it would be fired, and was only meant to be used a as a form of fear, but after obliterating its first planet, he deemed himself the galaxy's largest killer and during the battle of Yavin, he delays the firing process to give the rebels time to destroy the Death Star. Right before its destruction in a new hope, you can hear him saying, "please stand by."

[@Gho73t]

Get a life xD That's just cringe

[@KitsuneGB-hc9zb]

Isn’t that legends?

[@derekforster6096]

Galaxy's largest killer? isn't that r2d2

[@chrisellinger4560]

"Docking Bay 327" doesn't necessarily mean there were 327 bays. It could mean Level 3, Bay 27

[@fawkesCCCP]

This guy gets it!

[@cheesews777]

I was going to post the same thing. U beat me to it lol. Good job

[@NoobGaming-lz9li]

I was thinking about docking bays, and how many there were. but 327 may be that, but they had to shut down tractor beam 12, and it actually made me do some math, so i think theres 338 Docking bays and the tractor beams for them are labeled backwards.

[@zachariahbrown2724]

"At Least 327" was said.

[@Cybermat47]

That’s a good point, but it’s in the middle of the station, not the very bottom or very top. I guess it could be level 32, bay 7? Even then, that could be a stretch. It’s a big station.

[@LostEmpireProduction]

Instead of building a Death Star let's petition the government to make a small fleet of Star Destroyers

[@lukep.7529]

I think we are capable of a squad of tie fighters, or lambda class shuttle. Even one star destroyer would be too expensive, and we don't have the technology to build turbo lasers yet.

[@BewareTheCarpenter]

By volume, the Death Star was millions of times larger than a star destroyer. That's no small fleet.

[@akmayernick3722]

I think you would like General Tagge. Just so you know, he got killed pretty quickly. 🤗

[@thatcrystalpie]

Small fleet of 1

[@perryvandenbosch7888]

Grand Admiral Thrawn approves

[@wilsthelimit]

In rouge one it said a large object is coming out of hyperspace so proof that the Death Star has a hyperdrive

[@colekinneman]

Weren't they talking about Vader's ship?

[@coocato]

Rithrius lmao imagine getting salty over a letter swapped in spelling

[@chrishall2594]

@S C just to get through one solar system lol

[@Beef_Bastard_]

Cole Kinneman no, after they had said that it shows the Death Star emerging from over the planet they were stationed at.

[@maryaguilera2494]

@@rithrius5384 Are you alright there buddy?

[@ACObbb]

So Skywalker family members are mass murderers. Darth Vader destroyed Alderaan using Death star, Luke destroyed the Death star, Kylo Ren used Starkiller base and destroyed 4-5 planets. That is some nice family tradition alongside losing your arm in battle.

[@floridmonkey2723]

Gerald Araco I knew it! Luke is the real bad guy.

[@Lunchbox4811]

Gerald Ar

[@andruloni]

That's where the name Skywalker comes from. They never have ground to walk on for very long

[@DariViol]

Darth Vader: Looses Hands Luke: Looses Hand Leia: Looses Han

[@thomasmayer-rupert629]

You forgot chopping off hands, Jeez. Anakin chopped off Count Dooku's hands and Lukes' hand. Luke cut off Vader's hand.

[@ragingagent5040]

"A simply designed battle station the size of a moon that can destroy a planet"

[@ratbatnufftime2861]

"A small moon"

[@nickolasko8184]

That's no moon!!!

[@Rosie-fx1rp]

Just a simple, fun, easy project!

[@appleoftheground]

"simply designed"

[@RadicalEdward2]

DIY Weapon Platforms for Dummies!

[@sebgomez2688]

Thank god this isn't an unnecessarily long 1 hour video

[@commander-fox-q7573]

That shore would be bad

[@TeaSquiffy2]

I'd *storm* right out of here.

[@MrJeepinZeke]

The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.

[@zRDeFuZee]

MrFlibberGibbet KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Western KZbin Wester

[@TeaSquiffy2]

imOlzeh x That's nice, dear.

[@kuroi_iruka]

4:05 Say I was to rent a hotel room by the number of 327, does that mean, the hotel has at least that many rooms..?

[@Overbay23]

Dolphin Lol!

[@scruffyy111]

Yes and no

[@chunguscharlie902]

Well yes, but actually no.

[@FriskMeemur]

illuminati confirmed.

[@jimmythewig3354]

I was on my way to the comments section to give exactly this example.

[@matteogagliardi9880]

“Starkiller base and Illum might be the same planet.” That would be really cool if it was confirmed in episode nine.

[@gamingwatch5054]

It is everybody knows that

[@Jakew9810]

@@RufusMufus159 when? I know the stormtroopers were there but I thought they were getting crystals for the death star

[@diarmuid1213]

jake mcgraw After you finish the game and go to ilum it has the big wide open trench thing where the superlaser fires and it has a place which look remarkably like the trench where poe and the other x wings fly through to blow up the planet.

[@finnsimpson5253]

Why would they confirm it then, Illum has no relation to the plot

[@Odrikah]

@@Jakew9810 they were, but if you look at the planet from space, they mined for crystals in a giant band across the equator of the planet. Years later, the First Order, still having all the records of the Empire, took advantage of the giant empty spot left by the Empire's mining efforts to house their gigantic laser, thus making Starkiller base.

[@colorcommentary5987]

I believe that the number of soldiers was so specific because it was recorded after the destruction of the Death Star. If the Death Star were currently functioning, then this number would regularly change, but once the Death Star was destroyed, Imperial records indicated an exact number of troops that were operating on the structure at that time.

[@ZacksRockingLifestyle]

I thought the acting of the Imp zealot pilot in the Mandalorian season 2 finale was stellar when he says to Cara Dune “do you know how many people died on those battle stations?” or something to that effect. The Imperial leadership in all reality would seriously hammer that number into the remaining troops. Much of Star Wars’ narrative has Vietnam parallels, and I have few doubts that, had the Empire survived the civil war, the Empire wouldn’t have constructed memorials to the fallen, akin to the Vietnam memorial in DC with all our fallen men listed on it.

[@woodyhorton8537]

Yup it would b their 9\11 except deaths are multiplied by a lot

[@azhiraphale]

#34 the station was actually made up of 84 main levels, each with 357 sublevels. Total levels: 29,988

[@commonsenselogic]

At 70 plus miles that sounds about right.

[@FriskMeemur]

say sike right now.

[@amitkothekar8406]

the death star diameter was 120 km which means every level was on average 4 meters (12 feet) tall

[@bjarnonegames5394]

@@amitkothekar8406 well that makes some sense doesnt it?

[@seancayce]

its actual diameter was about 3 feet... with some paper tubes, some art paint, some string, model clay

[@twstf8905]

Whoever it was in the White House that drafted the Death Star petition response was a really good sport about it, and actually seemed to have done their Star Wars lore homework lol

[@ethanwinters7829]

You can even drive The death Star just make sure it ain't Gary!

[@thomasodonnell4122]

I got the reference

[@Notyaboijayyyy]

Gary is not the best at flying a metal death ball the size of the moon

[@hawaiianr6]

lmfao

[@Hobnob21]

I understand that reference

[@WozWozEre]

Docking bay 327 does NOT mean that there are at least 327 docking bays, as that number may not be a simple sequential naming but refer to it's location. Docking Bay 327 is located in Quartersphere 3, Sector 2, Area 7 for example.

[@alucardofromania9844]

and assholes have a hard time squeezing out digested jelly doughnuts. So eh!

[@DaleESkywalker]

Could be...maybe not. It's level 327, but not all levels have docking bays. Maybe it's level 32, Bay 7. Maybe certain levels were divided in quarters, others in sixteenths and others into thirtyseconths. Well, at least we know it's possible someone could have stated a fact wrongly... Is it more important that you're right, or that they're wrong?

[@domjohnson9188]

GunboatDiplomat nerd

[@CC-rd3jy]

WTF is wrong with you

[@omikronweapon]

@@domjohnson9188 You're watching a Starwars video. What were you expecting exactly, genius? Also, what does that make you?

[@RainOfChaos91]

SPOILER AHEAD: The Deathstar uses its Hyperdrive in Rogue One :)

[@licoagustin9]

RainOfChaos91 but we can't see it 😕

[@AAhmou]

RainOfChaos91 Spoiler alert: We know.

[@NoxusMetil]

RainOfChaos91 a

[@Freddy3763]

RainOfChaos91 yep

[@thechairman1336]

RainOfChaos91 soil

[@averagepotatoenjoyer9719]

Despite often being portrayed as ruthless and monstrous, at least the Empire has recyclable armor

[@Pahjx]

11:23 I like how in Rogue One the plans for the Death Star still have the dish at the equator.

[@SuperStreetWarrior]

Contuinity

[@pancakes8670]

Honestly it would look cooler that way imo

[@lifan9892]

Do 100facts about corusant? Who wants it too?

[@Blazing_Ben]

I am with you! Perhaps a Corusant week?

[@111abcdefghijklm]

My favourite planet!

[@innes8417]

lifan 98 me too mate!!

[@starwarseverythingandanyth3382]

Like if you want

[@lifan9892]

+Otus Memo yess!!

[@ARCHSWOOSH]

Is the Death Star possible of shooting his laser trough a black hole?

[@calebmurphy9406]

Did you just assume the Death Star's gender?

[@ARCHSWOOSH]

Dylan Murphy No hahahahah

[@justindecker6813]

+Dylan Murphy Bruh😂😂😂

[@dannymaupin1920]

It's possible to shoot anything into a black hole, it just won't ever come back out, well, at least not as anything bigger than random particles that black holes tend to expel.

[@twinkie3321]

Hahahaha!

[@dimitnik_]

Me: sees one of Saturn's moons (Mimas) Also me: that's no moon...

[@lauragodridge8966]

Thought u said minmus lol

[@Galaxius2117]

Its a space station.. Its too big to be a space station!

[@hiltondriver5335]

Yeah and our moon is hollow nasa proves it rang like a bell our is also a ancient spaceship

[@Outware0]

@@hiltondriver5335 Our moon is not hollow. It has a thin crust but larger mantle and small core.

[@robhansen6553]

One thing I always wondered about is the nature of the Death Star in relation to the people on it. Clearly, it is a massive structure with many levels which are obviously one on top of the other like a traditional tall building (presumably on the Y axis). Yet, it is also rounded like a planet with structures on the surface like the gunners seen in the beginning of this scene (presumably on the X axis). How do they solve the issue of where the two points converge, especially with regards to doorways and entrances? Maybe I'm thinking too much.

[@alessandroarcuri209]

I had this thought for years, now. Given its size there must have been a detectable gravitational pull towards the center of the structure. Ok, not strong enough by itself to avoid the use of some sort of artificial gravity, but still... it would have made more sense if the levels were concentric, like the layers of earth, the crust, the mantle and so on.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Alessandro Arcuri I doubt this: The Death Star isn’t solid, like a planet. It’s almost hollow. Any gravitational pull would be very weak if not negligible.

[@SiliconBong]

Good thinking.

[@joyhoward6105]

Movie go brrrrrrrr

[@freaky1382]

Every ship seems to have artificial gravity so surely the Death Star would? And everything would converge as they were rounded around the central hypermatter reactor

[@pigpig252]

Since the Death Star is capable of travelling between systems, could it be referred to as a ship rather than a station?

[@dirtsmack4]

no its a shiption

[@BananenBoerBob]

Whatever it is, it sure is no moon!

[@accountdeleted5194]

its what the borg assimilated

[@lukenss0460]

In Star wars empire at war, the death star moves between systems slower than fleets of star destroyers

[@atomicbuttocks]

No a staship

[@lukemorosini4]

Lmao a real life Death Star petition. Kind of silly that the White House even gave an official response to it. That would be epic though.

[@liljakesspokesman3337]

Yankee Fan101 ff

[@fgmods]

The petition was a joke, the white house responded in jest. Everyone had a bit of a laugh

[@birdmn9930]

But, still! I will not fail!

[@AJMIckna2010]

When Trump finds out, he'll say we need to build it, and screw the wall, build the Death Star!

[@novoeduardoac1248]

Yankee Fan101 they are obliged by law

[@ZickyAG101]

Every one says it's the size of a small moon after the line "Look at him he's heading towards that's small moon" not that there's any thing wrong with it

[@napzkins]

Nooo i didn’t know that Admiral Yularen was on the death star :(

[@mazisaac]

wasnt he thrawns friend? or something like that

[@diegogandara8913]

He was a really good friend of Anakin and Obi-Wan but he died when it exploded.

[@damiankilsby277]

11:36 #88 is incorrect. Hamill did indeed burst a blood vessel by holding his breath, but that was because he thought it would look cool if he strained his face while underwater, to give visual realism to him almost drowning. After this, Lucas called him an idiot because it made no difference to the final scene. Source: Hamil himself said so in interviews and talks at SW Celebration.

[@mrchadden501]

9:53 narrator guy dies

[@CrazyBrosCael]

*The Death Star was comprised of 84 interior levels ( each comprised of 357 sub levels )* Take 357 and multiply it by 84, and there’s your answer on how many levels the Death Star had.

[@anandmorris]

@Yuck Foutube multuply! 29,988

[@TheJoeSwanon]

So basically Luke was a mass murderer that killed countless people that were just doing their job with no evil intent

[@ivanlol7153]

Yes

[@finisterre2415]

"no evil intent" *blows up a planet*

[@jimmythewig3354]

It was a legitimate military target.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

Once Alderaan was blasted, any who stayed on instead of either getting themselves transferred or otherwise deserting were no longer innocent in that regard.

[@darthspam4710]

the rebellion is just a group of terrorists

[@Scp-ls3zy]

''The administration does not support blowing up planets''and the'' why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a death star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship'' got me the most

[@lkgrave4959]

Fun Fact: AT&T's original globe logo resembled the Death Star and was classically mocked for it in Bloom County.

[@supahcomix]

wow, never knew

[@mountaindouse7066]

“Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they've obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.” “That is fantastic. Terrific work. So no weaknesses at all?” “N... no.” “You, uh, you hesitated there. Is there something I should know?” “No, it's virtually indestructible, like 99.99%.” “Uh, okay, wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask what's the 0.01?” “Well, I mean, there's this little hole. It was kind of an aesthetic choice by the architect. And if you shoot a laser into this hole, the station blows up.” “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! That sounds like a pretty big design flaw, then.” “No, no, the hole's only two meters across.” “Well, that's no bigger than a womp rat.” “Exactly. And even to get within range of it, you have to skim along this whole trench. It's not a big deal.” “Can't we board it up or, you know, put some plywood over it or something?” -Favorite scene from Family Guys Blue Harvest episode

[@moonbot7613]

Unknown fact: no toilet was ever clogged by poop in the DeathStar

[@FriskMeemur]

lol if it did that would be one heck of an explosion XD the rebels will not have to blow it up, just let the poop clog do it for them!

[@moonbot7613]

@@FriskMeemur lmao 😂

[@Turtle152]

When I was a kid I drew a picture of what I thought the full DiaNoga would look like, and I'm pleased to see that the rendition in this video is very similar.

[@ajwright572]

4:32 Ahh yes, Vader with a bendy straw. Everyones got have fun some time

[@luthermcgee432]

I was fascinated by the laser crystals, although I had speculated on their size being the height of a small skyscraper until I saw the size comparison to a human here in this video. Very informative.

[@Outjes]

6:22 i just realized their helmets are just black rebel fleet trooper helmets

[@Outjes]

I think that’s neat but whatever, people don’t know good

[@AbstractM0use]

I wonder if the deflector shield window on Scarif was a nod to Spaceballs.

[@e.a.corral4713]

Just realized it? Yeah?

[@heebiejeebies4625]

Grand moff Tarkin disliked this video

[@mothra1149]

Nikolai Belinski can i steal your vodka?

[@birdmn9930]

Nikolai Belinski because he's a fuckwit

[@jx592]

Aperture Science Aperture Empire, we some planets up because, we can!

[@grandmasterethan8373]

NCR Rangers grand mood tarkin died in 1977 so good luck disliking that

[@randomcommentator4332]

NCR Rangers and 130 more moffs

[@keepingthingsnaunced9954]

11:39 I watched the new hope recently on dvd and there was an option for a commentary and during the trash compactor scene Karrie Fisher aka princess leia said that a blood vessel popped in marks eye because he was really acting like he got grabbed by the alien.

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

I remember in the times of the first force unleashed where they explained that the death star's laser isn't 8 lasers merged into one, but 64. each of the 8 lasers that merges into the main is each in tern made by 8 other lasers systems, and each laser was amplified by 2 kyber crystals. So 64 lasers and 128 crystals were needed to blow up planets

[@bagelbro1824]

Yay lego Star Wars 2 at 5:30 lol

[@Lilly_Fae]

Ya boi!

[@lebronthegoat3670]

5:20 *

[@bryangomez3566]

Number 1 star war game is Minecraft

[@the_freebeard]

I hadn't realized it before, but fact 4 definitely seems to contradict fact 87.

[@pottyscottystudios]

Don't forget that 87 is in the 'behind the scenes' section. When he said the original plans had it on the equator he meant the original prop plans, not in-universe plans.

[@peterhyatt3635]

Love this, I had my own death star in 78 palitoy toys ! And a couple of stormtroopers ,

[@thepaultato3243]

5:03, we do see the deathstar come out of hyper speed in Rouge one. Remember scarif?

[@StirbMensch]

One interesting piece of info that I would have liked to be on the list: It is heavily hinted in Legends that Palpatine was aware of a large & very dangerous threat from outside the galaxy, specifically the Yuuzhan Vong (in Shadow Planet, Anakin, Obi-Wan & Tarkin actually have direct contat with Vong technology through the form of the planet Zonama Sekot) and that the Death Star was actually a project meant to combat that threat, instead of being used as a weapon of terror & domination

[@josephyml]

the video is all canon

[@MrJoshcc600]

Except mention of the maw installation, sun crusher, and admiral dalal gassing the other imperial separatist leaders.....

[@carlmillegan]

Although, the cannon may call the Death Star's super weapon a laser, it is more likely a particle beam.

[@toubi4316]

6:12 This definitely humanizes the stormtroopers in my eyes.

[@SupermuzuDK]

You have an amazing channel for Star Wars facts. As a huge fan, I reeeeaally appreciate that so thank you for sharing all of this! Subscribed!

[@maxval1997]

86 is slightly inaccurate, in the same version of the movies, when Luke talks to R2 in the X-Wing (Episodes VI and V) there's a screen translating what R2 says into English.

[@kaileewalden3586]

Max In The Hat I get what you're saying, but you understand what he meant when he said "in the movies" right?

[@maxval1997]

Kailee Walden He said "The only written english in Star Wars"

[@kaileewalden3586]

Max In The Hat Yeah, I know I slightly misquoted. What I mean is that he was probably referring to the in-universe text. The subtitles are for the benefit of the viewer. They're not actually there physically like the text he pointed out, although I get what you're saying.

[@maxval1997]

Kailee Walden No No, in episode VI and V. There is a translation in the X-wings computer, translating R2's beeps to Luke. It's in universe, not movie subtitles.

[@kaileewalden3586]

Max In The Hat Oh, I didn't notice. I was wrong, but that's cool.

[@Skirata6]

I think that it is very likely that Starkiller-Base is Illum (no idea how to spell it) because on a post on the official Facebook-site, they said that crystalls of Starkiller-Base were used for the Death Star. Just like Illum.

[@lucasivanov7824]

Wtf I'm hoping Illum and Starkiller Base are indeed the same planet, it would be soo mind blowing!

[@mrfisher1072]

Lucas Ivanov well both were frozen planets and I believe both were on the outer rim.

[@lucasivanov7824]

Mr Fisher *Unknown regions

[@peterburns3902]

I think it's spelled Illuminati

[@0errab0]

If the Emperor had gone with Thrawn's Tie Interceptor Strategy instead of a Trillion Credit costing Technological Terror with an Achilles Heel, the Rebellion would have been overwhelmed by the shear number of Tie Interceptor's and unparalleled mobility of the Imperial Fleets.

[@orage8802]

12:21 Scientist: Look a small moon! Someone probably: That's no moon.

[@Chrispypullen]

so when Luke is screaming and Han is so happy, they just killed 2 million people? Geez

[@Chrispypullen]

Oh wait, only 750,000 /s

[@josephyml]

luke is screaming and han is so happy because they killed 750,000 people to save the lives of billions more

[@mrfisher1072]

Joe the Right Triangle yes but those billions are rebel scum.

[@josephyml]

Mr Fisher sure, dude. whatever.

[@repo1981]

THAT is mess up

[@Eomer2202]

what happened on Yavin after the death star was blown up?

[@tatepultro]

The Rebels immediately began evacuating. Didn't want to stick around for the Empire's reprisal.

[@VanillaCoke64oz]

Eomer2202 If Star Wars Battlefront 2 is Cannon, a land assault took place and Imperials attacked the base.

[@olisingapore9908]

Levi not cannon

[@VanillaCoke64oz]

Ninja Gaming Damn

[@Freddy3763]

The Imperials did a attack on the base but the rebels were already packing and they left

[@EngPheniks]

A fleet officer accidentally bumped into the Death star's fire button "Oops, sorry guys" 😬

[@bryangomez3566]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHHH

[@Thebaronvonburger]

5:08 OMG LOL I THOUGHT DARTH VADER AND TARKIN WERE HOLDING HANDS FOR A SECOND

[@fakepro5848]

thank you. this has been so much more informative than I thought possible! I can't imagine how long it would take to get all this info. thanks to your videos you have saved countless hours for us hardcore star wars fans thank you sooo much!

[@TheRebelGM56]

This is a awesome 101 facts video! Would love to see some more like it about other things, characters, vehicles in the Star Wars Universe

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

I think I remember in the X Wing novels that it was described on Coruscant as a mining machine that the rebels were trying to steal but the Emperor himself traveled there personally to plead with them only to be killed along with the destruction of the large mining machine when the Rebels couldn't capture it. It's in Emperor Palpatine's memorial on Coruscant so it has to be true.

[@ElephantWhisperer222]

How the hell was Darth Vader planning on drinking that wine??

[@lukep.7529]

Use the force.

[@Imperial_Remnant]

Straw duh

[@brianfreeman9421]

Straw. Use the force to firmly place in the exit port. Some claim it works. I have not the desire to try. Might taste like ass.

[@kevinl3298]

he will drink it right through the mouthpiece, didn't you watch Spaceballs?!

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

You mentioned the bar but neglected the death star cafeteria.

[@1701spacecadet]

SierraSierraFoxtrot You'll need a tray.

[@1701spacecadet]

SierraSierraFoxtrot And no shout-out for Mr Geoff 'Vader' Stevens???

[@dagoon7206]

SierraSierraFoxtrot well of course it would have one

[@birdmn9930]

Don't try their casserole. That stuff is nasty.

[@eddies7883]

Jesse McCree mcree sux

[@kchandler74653]

Mom:the food is not that hot The food: 5:25

[@charlesbrentner4611]

120 kilometers = 74.5645 miles. It would take a while to get around from one place to another. It's circumference would be 234.25 miles. The moon's circumference is 6,786 so the Death Star is some 28.9 times smaller than our moon but that's still a good size.

[@zamp6969]

WOW I was only looking for a few facts and would have been satisfied with 2 or 3 but you came with 101 facts to completely surpassed my expectations. Well done Sir!

[@marianomurillo599]

the mouse droid is the emperors apprentice

[@Beef_Bastard_]

is it possible that the mouse droid is more powerful than the gonk droid?

[@marianomurillo599]

Zany_Pickles_ have you ever heard of the tragedy of Darth Gonk the wise ?

[@saluluu9119]

Nice video !!! (The music is realy cool by the way.)

[@BNJT]

As a Star Trek fan, I didn't realise Star Wars lore was so complex. Good video, thanks.

[@brussell639]

I've seen documentaries on the dam busters and they really had a hard time blowing up dams. Bouncing bombs at a dam just wasn't a very accurate way of dropping munitions on a target. Dropping regular bombs was also pretty inaccurate back then. It seems like an easier way would have been dropping torpedoes on the water side and let them do the work. I wonder if that option was even considered?

[@RUTJA.]

Maybe sea mines would do the trick also,torpedos would been better than regular bombs. Sea mines just needs parachute otherwise it could explode by hitting the water.

[@brussell639]

@@RUTJA. I wonder how we can ever be sure there aren't any sea mines still out there?

[@RUTJA.]

@@brussell639 In Finland was 20 years ago still sea mines, i think the still is. Sometimes they pop up when the chain breaks up.

[@brussell639]

@@RUTJA. That's kinda scary.

[@SamuraiPie8111]

i think Ilum and Starkiller may be the same, people often ask how Starkiller could be built by the First Order considering how weak they are compared to the Empire, but perhaps Ilum was mined so much that it was easy for the First Order to turn it into a weapon. Or maybe the Empire actually did most of the work and just never got it to fire before the civil war ended.

[@jamesricker3997]

I believe Star Killer Base was constructed using components originally intended for the Death Star III. I also think the planet killing star destroyers from the Rise of Skywalker were intended to be based on the 2nd Death Star. After firing that super laser they would have had to return to the Death Star for a recharge.

[@flxgld7096]

Imagine buying pieces of Aldaron from the gift shop at Disney's Death Star

[@jasonsaville2262]

Thank you for your videos. Especially about the Death Star. Both One And Two.

[@tylermcalpine6550]

The Death Star cafeteria better have a consistent supply of Vader’s fav cookies or someone is getting force choked

[@mattdotsonrailfanproductio266]

Imagine waking up one morning and seeing that in space

[@noobzgaming3836]

Fork

[@fishsquishguy1833]

Google: Iapetus

[@Simon-un5pv]

I'm pretty sure Mark blew that blood vessel from holding his breath under water and not from the bad smell.

[@Sasketchejuana_man]

I've never watched a single Star Wars, but this is interesting and showing just how deep and intricate Star Wars is. Wow.

[@Lapran3]

7:25 It’s been confirmed, Ilum was the location of Starkiller Base, and the entire planet blew up Alderaan style when the base’s superweapon was destroyed and turned into a star

[@istrumguitars]

#82 is probably only *partially* true. I find it much more likely that Starkiller Base was just one of the Empire's other secret weapons projects that was abandoned by the Empire. Remember the project code names from those 'structural engineering archives' in Rogue One? Uh-huh, some of them sound suspiciously like they could have been other ideas for weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately for the Empire, when they destroyed Scarif they bet all their chips on the Death Star. Tarkin even commented how the loss of certain projects would be "unfortunate" once the attack on Scarif was set into motion. My guess is the First Order found evidence of Starkiller Base elsewhere in the Empire's archives and finished the job for them.

[@shawnhicks619]

I read someplace that Scariff was one of many information storage facilities. Of course that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t certain files that were only on Scariff but you gotta admit if Scariff is the ONLY place they are keeping sensitive files and information then the empire is hosed. So I’m more of in the camp of Scariff is one of many information repositories that likely had some data that was only held there, if the emperor did t have a backup copy in a safe someplace

[@therandomcow3543]

lol people actually wanted to build the death star lol

[@lukemorosini4]

Can you blame them? I want to build it too lol.

[@utmost9470]

The random Cow just imagine if someone hacked it and made it blow up the earth

[@therandomcow3543]

Utmostseeker 834 0_o

[@lilmelon5400]

The random Cow Closest you can get is a lego ball

[@blankblank5409]

Utmostseeker 834 uh oh

[@Corn-Pop.]

I love the way they named things. Like George is thinking about a more bad ass name for a laser gun so he comes up with "Turbo Laser".

[@Warsaw_Pact]

Wedge Antilles: the only man with 2 Death Stars painted on his X-Wing

[@kenknowlton3085]

Wouldn't it have been more practical to take an actual small moon and transform it into the Death Star rather than forge the entire station from a moon's mass worth of metal?

[@ayangarg3865]

1. How many facts from Catalyst are in this? 2. I have Catalyst. Should I read it before seeing Rogue One? I know that I can, easily, but should I?

[@doamomiji9879]

Jediøtic! ! You should. It gives a bigger insight to the characters before the movie. It's a really good book.

[@StarWarsJay]

Brilliant. I watched this twice back to back. I never knew it was built above Geonosis.

[@charlesforbin6937]

I believe I heard Carrie say during commentary or in an interview Mark burst the vessel in his eye from yelling...hence all the smiling during the ceremony at the end of the movie...but I wouldn't swear to it in an Imperial court....clearly you have done a great deal of research so 99 outta 100 aint bad. Good presentation.

[@fluffydragon1525]

Wouldn’t it make more sense for DS-1 to hold closer to a million staff rather than 750,000? The DS-2 probably held much less staff because it was unfinished

[@starkat0311]

So it's bacicly a giant light saber that can go into hiperspace

[@N94able]

Starkat03 Yep

[@thomasodonnell4122]

No!

[@taliakellegg5978]

Who do I believe

[@justintimex8608]

Maybe Hyperspace, I don’t think the Death Star is hip enough for hiperspace

[@evanveres7483]

It went into hyperspace in Rogue one

[@angelofreak7]

The information in this video! I love it!

[@jimthorstad]

Great fact about the origin of the equatorial Trench

[@antwan1357]

So the trench idea came from a real life flaw in the model weird but neat.

[@theHuGoroN]

One thing I've been wondering... Death Star had its own gravitation field because of its weight? ...but its levels all go from pole to pole all on same orientation... so wouldn't some of the personnel had to walk on the ceiling and on some levels had then fall along the floor to the direction of the center of the mass?

[@kurtwpg]

The gravitational field is overblown. Given that it's built with heavy materials but has more air space than solid, we're probably talking density around 2. Gravity probably 1/50th of Earth's moon. The internal gravity would be the artificial sort, as we've seen anything Millenium Falcon or bigger has that on basically an assumed level.

[@olachristianbardsen3171]

The panels used for firing the weapon is a videomixer common in all older News and multicamera control rooms. The handle they push to fire is used for manual transitions between video sources. Often a wipe (GLs favourite) or a dissolve. Probably an old Grass Valley videomixer.

[@bullrun2772]

i dk

[@Laura-qn2nf]

#88 was debunked by Hamil in a recent con interview: he burst a blood vessel because he was trying to make his face look red as if he was really being suffocated, which he later found out wouldn't have shown up on film anyway.

[@Willam_J]

I’d really like an explanation of the physics behind the cooling ports. If they are removing excess internal heat, they would need some type of medium, such as air, which doesn’t exist in space, to transfer the energy to, when exhausting it. Even if they used their own air, to exhaust the excess heat, it would be a waste of resources. Why couldn’t they just use that extra heat as another source of energy, even if converted to a different type of energy? (Heat to electricity.) Also, when are we going to get laser rifles?!?! I need one for.... um.... home defense! ;-)

[@wardy4887]

9:50 Yularen joined the empire? D:

[@lcm361]

he is the supreme boss of imperial kgb

[@darthmetallus3893]

Dave Filoni confirmed way back when The Clone Wars first started that Yularen was one of the imperial characters in the Death Star meeting room.

[@generaliv8658]

Yes, He was a Colonel in the ISB.

[@flare9757]

Rip Wulf Yularen. Can we have an F?

[@zachariahbrown2724]

fact 2 answered my question on why the Clones' gun ships had Death Star-like bulb turrets. fact 26, I've also heard "Project Starscream" once, possibly mentioned in a Galaxy of Fear book. fact 69 is also mentioned with Lightsaber construction, requiring only Force Sensitives to create them.

[@jedidrummerjake]

Great channel! Thanks!