Star Wars: Inside the Death Star

[@EvyWuf2016]

Technically, the death star is just a massive lightsaber igniting for 2 seconds.

[@sebjy9673]

Underrated comment

[@cocodojo]

And one of the madlads that designed the thing never heard Egon Spangler's warning to never cross the streams otherwise it'll result in the destruction of reality (or something like that).

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

That's what she said.

[@ccscheller8193]

That's what I was thinking

[@nicadi2005]

@@cocodojo "one of the madlads that designed the thing never heard Egon Spangler's warning" - *Irrelevant. Lasers are NOT proton streams!...*

[@Movie_Games]

Many Bothans died to bring us this video.

[@saiansydyk5796]

You have hited))))

[@ML98837bob]

Just so those Bothans did not die in vain, I watched this video twice.

[@ronjon7942]

Meh, Bothans are pretty cagey allies.

[@vmj361]

The 900 km size estimate for the 2nd death star is a long standing myth; it's actually around 160 km I think according to lore. The 900 km figure was some fans judgement based on the hologram scene in ROTJ that showed the death star in orbit around the Endor moon; it was not supposed to be to scale.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

Amusingly enough, if we scale that hologram of DS2 to the size of its reactor chamber, it shows that its diameter is only 50km or something 🙂

[@aceman67]

Wookiepedia puts the Death Star 2 at 160km

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

@@aceman67 Oh, it does? Last time I checked (which was... Oh. Before the sequel trilogy) it was 900km. Okay.

[@DarthSeverus3117]

@@Jan_Strzelecki If it was 900 km it would be bigger than Starkiller Base, which is 606 km

[@corausr]

agree the hologram was not to scale. But they showed both the moon and DSII iirc during the rebel attack and the DS was distinguishable in front of the moon. Plus severel comments from ILM employees considering its diameter which was supposed to be about 500 miles and if we used the 160km figure the forest moon would be far to small to sustain an atmosphere and therefor life.

[@Markis5150]

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed, the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force!

[@Halfscreen]

lol 😂

[@joechilds3256]

Dont try to fraternize us with your sorceress ways lord Vader. Your devotion to that ancient religion has done nothing to conjure up the stolen data tapes. Or givin you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels hidden fort....( chokes)

[@CollectionTHX1138]

It doesn't hurt to have one though lol Well OK I'll give you that unless its made out of Legos - Vader. Long live the Emperor!

[@miamimatt2010]

@@joechilds3256 I find your lack of faith, disturbing.

[@joechilds3256]

@@miamimatt2010 Tarkin: Enough of this. Vader release him!

[@jsl151850b]

I'd like to think that the lieutenant that warned Tarkin walked out of the command room *then ran to the nearest hanger bay.*

[@TOFMDrone]

he ran at warpspeed

[@BlackieNuff]

Indeed! Lieutenant : "I've analyzed their attack, sir ; there IS a danger... shall I have your ship standing by?" Tarkin : "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!" Lieutenant (to self, as he walks away) : "Better than overestimating ours! SEE YUH!" And that is when he does exactly what you suggested, lol.

[@stephanweinberger]

And actually, given the size of the thing, that would be a hell of a marathon...

[@rocketpastsix]

If I remember correctly, at least in legends, the officer was Chief Bast and he didnt make it.

[@BlackieNuff]

@@rocketpastsix Aw, ruin our fun speculations, why don't you? LOL

[@battlesheep2552]

The Death Star has primary exhaust ports on it's poles, the one used to destroy it was a secondary exhaust port, one of 19 similar ports spaced out across 1 hemisphere, and the only one of which could cause the chain reaction that destroyed the station. It was also ray-shielded, which means it could only be attacked by physical projectiles like proton torpedoes.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the explanation. A have a few people asking about the exhaust point. I didn't know about the secondary exhaust point.

[@cindydott452]

What are the ports exhausting? Diesel fumes?

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@cindydott452 Thermal radiation, actually.

[@cindydott452]

@@kennyholmes5196 wouldn't a series of radiating fins be easier to build and safer than what is essentially a hole leading deep into the station?

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@cindydott452 Not without being more vulnerable to exterior fire. Besides, we've already seen that the world of Star Wars operates on a system of "Don't think about the waste heat dispersal aside from the most basic form in giving it a way out that looks cool". An exhaust port that opens out into space would be an easy way to turn a reactor into a bomb when a single, centralized reactor is given just the right jostle while having the justification of "It's ray-shielded, and nobody would be crazy enough to brave the defended trench to get close enough for proton torpedoes to be usable, and it's so small that it's a one-in-a-trillion shot to hit it anyways" at the time of the main design's final draft. That was Galen Erso's sabotage: Convincing the Empire to use a massive, centralized reactor that could be sabotaged in one swift strike instead of many distributed reactors that would need to each be sabotaged.

[@cyborgbob1017]

Actually, the death star instantly killing planets makes a lot of sense, but in order to understand why, we have to look at what they are doing. In pretty much all of the shots of the Death Star killing things, we see the laser is hitting the planet, then the planet explodes outward instantly. I think the important thing to rememeber is it's not the laser itself thats (that) explosive, but its actually hitting the core, causing the core to react and expand outwards, engulfing the planet in its own core, which actually makes a lot of sense. In Rogue, they only commense fire on Jedha with a "single reactor ignition" which tells me that it might be the same reaction, but targeted in a different way on a much smaller scale. Like dropping a nuke instead of killing the planet itself

[@demonicaxeman7264]

Sort of like the laser is causing atoms to react on a planetary scale. A super nuke.

[@cyborgbob1017]

@@demonicaxeman7264 yes exactly

[@sarahrichards3909]

Smart

[@neilr4867]

I'll remember that for real life 😂

[@HwangInhoBooNam]

Keepstar feeds on black holes, if Death Star shoot It with its superlaser that's basically providing the station free energy 😂

[@RtB68]

...and to think, all I need to do to destroy it is hyperspace a drone at it. Thanks Disney. You really understand the lore.

[@a_balloon]

...all that ACTUALLY needed was a flyboy God. Thanks George Lickass. You really understand the role.

[@fujimi715]

Doubt it. The shielding would be able to handle it. The Executor class super star destroyer supposedly had a regular star destroyer hyperdrive into it and the shield took it no problem

[@SerginhoPMoura]

@@fujimi715 but the Executioner wasn't at lightspeed.

[@generaldurchbruchmuller]

@@a_balloon This is not how it works, you can't compare a major change in the physics of the universe that exist since 1977 that makes the previous six movies illogical with some Boi with plot armour

[@hungryfilms3707]

When has Star Wars lore ever been consistent?

[@TenToAceStudios]

fun fact, they say kyber crystals power the death star super lazer but in actuality it is powered by its reactor. the kybers do the same thing they do in a lightsaber, they focus and exponetialy increase the energy output. so they do power it to an extent but the initial energy does not come from the kybers themselves

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the additional information.

[@boblupart862]

@@Halfscreen If you want more info the power core of the deathstar is a hypermatter reactor.

[@Halfscreen]

@@boblupart862 thanks for the info

[@pyropulseIXXI]

Focusing energy is not powering; that is like saying a magnifying glass powers light

[@TenToAceStudios]

@@pyropulseIXXI exactly

[@HUBBABUBBADOOPYDOOP]

Back when in the theater- at first glance, I and my friends thought the "new" Death Star was just the remnants of the old one, that hadn't completely blown up before.

[@cyborgbob1017]

dudee same I thought that too for the longest time!

[@IpswichBadDriversUK]

I thought this when I was a kid! and as a kid I didn't bother reading the opening crawls.

[@Pathfinder118]

there is a fan theory that parts of the original deathstar were reused in the new one, salvaging as much as they could from the first one makes some kinda sense.

[@swiftrebooted7704]

I don't watch star wars just stared getting into the star lore and i thought that aswell to be honest wondered why it looks like that

[@chrismusix5669]

Yup, same.

[@ralfhtg1056]

The official numbers of Star Wars are different concerning the size: 120 km for the first Death Star and 160 km for the second one.

[@grek6667]

Yes, 120 km diameter (DS1) and 160 diameter (DS2) are correct, according to "The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" and of course the famous Star Wars P&P RPG from "West End Games".

[@thomasbednarowski1651]

I totally agree. 120km and 160km

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

I was gonna say, that's more like it. Where he got 900 km for the second was like, what?!?

[@ralfhtg1056]

@@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay in fact the 900 km figure is out there for many years. I don't know where it came from.

[@timmiller8495]

Cut the chatter red 2

[@snorom11aru23]

I really liked this video. I would like to see more in depth look at this showing how the different decks are arranged inside the Death Star and how the decks change orientation towards the outer layers of the Death Star. You have an interesting way of graphically displaying these objects.

[@davidh.4944]

One correction: The vulnerability Galen Erso set up was *not* the exhaust port. Galen was in charge of the central reactor design, not minor structural details like that. What he did was deliberately introduce a point of instability into the reactor, such that it could be easily overloaded to induce a runaway chain-reaction, which would subsequently cause it to explode completely. That subtle flaw was all he dared to arrange personally, other than also getting the message about it to the right people. He could only hope that _someone_ would be able to figure out a way to take advantage of that weakness. When the rebellion got hold of the Death Star plans, they had limited time and means at their disposal, but were luckily able to find a direct pathway to the reactor from outside in the form of a small, overlooked, exhaust port. Some _other_ engineer had not bothered to completely protect the port from outside attack. Not an unreasonable decision, really, considering how unlikely it was that anyone would want, much less be able to, target such minor thing. Almost certainly that there were other vectors also available for overloading the reactor, but likely most of them would depend on being _inside_ the Death Star at the time. Only the exhaust port was exploitable through outside attack.

[@starsiegeplayer]

Just so. I don't know why people keep saying he designed the exhaust port.

[@davidh.4944]

@@starsiegeplayer It was really a clever bit of thinking on the part of the R1 writers. They managed to tie their story into ANH without blatantly contradicting the original dialog (e.g. "I just hope we can find a weakness"). The Rebellion would know what to target-the reactor-but not know how, or even if, they could do so, and it helps to explain how they managed to find such a small vulnerability so quickly. Now if only Disney had put that amount of thought into the rest of their movies....

[@captnwinkle]

@@davidh.4944 Rey could have sent a drone from the other side of the Galaxy to Holdo Maneuver it and the Galaxy would be saved

[@pyropulseIXXI]

@@captnwinkle just stop talking please

[@DarthVader-1701]

Bevil Limilisk is the Death Star designer, not Galen Erso.

[@Hunter-cf6tk]

The second Death Star isn’t actually 900 km in diameter, that’s a misconception due to there being no curve when the Executor crashes

[@KrateFocksKratesCrateofGaming]

I wonder if there are like conspiracy theorists that are constantly trying to prove the Death Star was flat

[@ilovethe80s74]

@@KrateFocksKratesCrateofGaming It'd be president if the election hadn't been stolen from it.

[@LAV-III]

It was originally 900km but it was retconned to 160km in 2008

[@Pete...NoNotThatOne]

@@KrateFocksKratesCrateofGaming we have proof that bits of it _were_ hollow!

[@mirkojorgovic]

No 900km ; seccond DS was 320km ; another misconception is Starkiller's diameter 660 km( smaller than 900 km DS2 ??; It's not possible, comparison hologram projector gave information of drastic diameter's difference of DS1 & 2 vs Starkiller). Starkiller is comparable with Martian-size planets 6000 km diameter +- 600 km approx( or 🪐 Saturn's biggest moon)

[@Surrenitie]

The thing i love about Star Wars is how science based allot of the show is. Usually they would just tell you "thats our planet killing space ball don't question it"

[@minicle426]

Last part sounds very much like the MO of the Sequel Trilogy. :P

[@boblupart862]

COMMENCE OPPERATION.........VAC-U-SUCK!

[@Surrenitie]

@@Regard1ess I'm not so sure i agree with the scientific accuracy of the show anymore but i'm more saying that they don't leave things unexplained just because its future technology, they don't shy away from that (also you forgot lightsabers)

[@sciencecompliance235]

Star Wars veers very far from established science. It's pretty much as fantastical as Lord of the Rings.

[@Surrenitie]

@@sciencecompliance235 Indeed

[@Okiedog1]

Ah, so that's how big they were compared to our moon. Thanks for that!

[@Halfscreen]

No problem! When they said it's moon size, I was assuming it's based the same size as the moon.

[@Okiedog1]

@@Halfscreen My thought exactly. But the first one looks so small in comparison it's a little hard to believe something that small could blow up a planet. Eh, sci-fi logic.

[@Halfscreen]

@@Okiedog1 I think that why it's called Science Fiction and not Science Fact.

[@rick_271]

That's no Moon, it's a space station

[@APersonOnYouTubeX]

@@Okiedog1 John wick and Viggos disagrees

[@DuneClarity]

At the very end, we get to see all the components of the Death star, albeit as they fly off in all directions...

[@Railfan105.]

" no no, he's got a point."

[@quantumgaming93]

Rebels: we have hope (death star appears) Empire: say hello to my little friend

[@ALTDOK667]

Empire: We have power! Rebels: Say hello to _my_ little friend!

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

Empire: it'll take an army to stop me Luke: [fires torpedo and blows up DS1] [like the shotgun guy in Scarface, blaam to the back and poor Tony Montanna went flying]

[@nicadi2005]

QUANTUMGAMING "Empire: say hello to my little friend" - Luke: Hello! (fires proton torpedoes) Torpedoes: ...And into the hole we go! Wheeee! ...

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

@@nicadi2005 LMFAO!!!! Russel Casse: hello boys, I'M BACK!!!

[@ARBBFamily]

Dam..almost a hundred years later and I just learned the two Death Stars were different sizes

[@martywood8543]

LOL P.S. I "Liked" your comment.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

just like fastfood portions. Large death star and extra large death star. : D

[@minicle426]

"It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it."

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

these wars happened a lot longer ago than that.....it's closer to 10,000 years now..... think McFly think, light from other galaxies takes thousands if not millions of years to reach the Milky Way and Earth.....by the time the light from alpha Centauri reaches us whatever we see there will have taken place thousands of years ago and that is just our galaxy lolz

[@martywood8543]

@@Red_Lanterns_Rage True that.

[@matthewurquhart5495]

WOW! That size comparison blew my mind. I mean I know DS 2 was big, but had no idea it was THAT hugantic! That's pretty much big enough to have it's own gravity and atmosphere; crazy!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad to give you some references at least.

[@pyropulseIXXI]

DS2 was only 160km; DS 1 was 100 km

[@DarthVader-1701]

@@pyropulseIXXI 120km* for DS 1

[@hernanxx]

Second Death Star wasn't 900, no matter if the executor crash scene is taken as reference, it was not.

[@krishnarjunar2724]

Yea it's only 160 km. The star killer base is 900 km

[@meleardil]

I remember from CANON canon (before the dark times, before Disney) 120km and 160 km... So, the second 30% bigger in diameter and TWICE in volume. It used the same weapon, but with an advanced reaktor design, so it did not needed the extreme long cooldown-recharge period as the first DS had. It was able to "rapid fire"

[@hernanxx]

@@meleardil Exactly, and I liked those measures. There's no need for them to be extremely big. Now in canon they are 160 - 200I think.

[@meleardil]

​@@hernanxx yeah... Darth Mickey made them 30% bigger... because inflation, or something. Megalomania is a common illness among communists... (note: starkiller base is sooo childishly stupid, that I stopped watching the movie when it was introduced, and never after I went anywhere near to the Disney garbage.) To me even 120km was extreme, beyond the limit of believable. I remember the times BEFORE Return of the Jedi and second Death star, when the size was first inflated, that they told the original Death Star was 50 km diameter and a Stardestroyer 1600 meter. Now those are barely acceptable. A Nimitz class nuclear carrier is 340 meter, and the biggest ship ever built, the seawise giant oil tanker is only 460 meters. And those are gigantic! About 500 000 cubic meter! A 200 km Death star would be 42 000 000 000 cubic meter. So, you can build 100 000 of the biggest ship EVER built, but in SPACE. Insane.

[@ramonsalu563]

@@krishnarjunar2724 actually it was around 600km

[@TBomb39]

When the Death Star 2 blew up, due to it's massive size supposedly there was so much debris that the Ewoks were all doomed when their planet was hit by the falling debris and shock wave. Similar to asteroid strikes killing a planet.

[@Serkant75]

How did they throw a party afterwards

[@pyropulseIXXI]

that is pure nonsense and no one ever said that in any official capacity. The Death Star II was 160 km in diameter; compared to an asteroid, the DSII is mostly hollow; plus its impact speed would be virtually nothing when compared to an asteroid. This is because the DSII just fell out of the 'sky,' as if it was dropped, once it lost power. Asteroids come in hot with massive speeds, as if God himself through a dense rock at a planet

[@zombieshoot4318]

@@Serkant75 Given it's distance they had a few hours before the debris hit the planet. The rebellion made sure to party and than leave by 6 pm local time. At 7 pm local time that was the end of Endor's forest moon. ;)

[@reddrick69]

​@@zombieshoot4318 lmao sounds about right.

[@DarthVader-1701]

There wasn't much debris from DSII, like the first one it completely vaporized. Hypermatter reactor after all.

[@darrenhill7286]

Confused- thermal exhaust port is located on the north pole of the diagram at 5:20- was it not the main equatorial trench Luke flew down then?

[@KingdaToro]

No, the equatorial trench is much larger.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

It's right below the main port

[@riforgiate74]

Funny thing about the original Death Star, it didn't have different power settings. It was built to destroy planets. The second Death Star had different settings. That's why it could target Mon Calamari cruisers and blow them up.

[@jinta87]

Rogue One would like a word with you about this statement.

[@riforgiate74]

@@jinta87 I'm talking Lucas Star Wars, not Disney.

[@DarthVader-1701]

@Yasha Kato He's right Disney completely butchered already established Star Wars lore. When they 1st completed the death star they fired it on the planet of despair(different spelling) which is the planet it was orbiting under construction but it was not at full power yet meaning the reactor itself so it didn't completely destroy the planet right away but everybody on it was definitely dead with the 1st shot.

[@d.o.m.494]

Wasn't DSI 120km in diameter and DSII 160km?

[@youfube-]

1:45 Hanger bay 327, that's were they store imperial coats.

[@SheosMan117]

Fun fact I've read about the Death Star, out of universe. The REAL reason for the trench? With the model they made, there was always a gap between the hemispheres, no matter what they did. The 2 halves refused to completely join, and there was always a gap. So they just decided to say that's intentional, and left it in.

[@TheGroundedAviator]

That and George had been watching "The Dambusters".

[@davidconway6874]

How far from the hangar bay was the cell block where Leia was being held? Also how far did Ben have to travel to get to the tractor beam terminal?

[@tf2spyclass09]

"After everything those Clone troopers did for our Republic and Empire, we're just going to discard them? Surely we can't-" Tarkin's honest reaction (the Death Star was completed early):

[@bobyoung1698]

This was all designed and manufactured by Ikea. The original Death Star was never 100% completed because of a missing fastener.

[@351cleavland]

Very little-known fact: The Death Star, in its original imperial conception, was supposed to be very long andcylindrical, like a gun barrel, and they were going to call it "The Death Stick" ... but then the Empire realized that that name was already taken.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Thanks for the video. I have acquired 30 million metric tons of durasteel already. I will put your video to great use.

[@redfive8486]

The second Death Star is NOT that much bigger. That size is a myth based on the executor crash scene but the canon size is the same as the first

[@reefy5316]

Death Star: *surrounded by star destroyers* Death Star: *nervously sweats*

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

1:13 Seeing the size of the 2nd one makes me wonder why they didnt just make 3 or 4 or maybe even 10 smaller death stars instead...

[@rynozerous2755]

💰💰💰

[@TokyoXtreme]

Why not just build hundreds of star destroyers, each with its own world-ending superlaser. Also, why not have one that you could drop onto a planet and be pulled by AT-ATs.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

@@TokyoXtreme why not make them fly now too?

[@randywoodworth5990]

Thrawn told the emperor building a massive super weapon like the deathstar was a waste, that building a fleet of small capital ships would be better.

[@ronjon7942]

@@TokyoXtremeI don’t think, at the time, a super laser could be fit into an ISD. Although the tech DID miniaturize rapidly enough that engineers could have at least guessed a 120km/160km sphere wouldn’t be needed to house the weapon for very much longer.

[@lennonist9746]

This video is very helpful for my project. Thanks !

[@Halfscreen]

No problem

[@jdduder7049]

Epcot Center's Spaceship Earth geodesic sphere would be close in size to a 1:18 scaled DS 1.

[@ronjon7942]

I’d like to see more info on the sublight and hyperdrive engines, specifically the exhaust nozzles. Like, were the nozzles peppered all around the equatorial trench, or did the DS have to rotate in order to go in a different direction? I haven’t seen/heard/read much regarding its locomotion. Actually, this video is the most I’ve seen, thanks to the cutaway view.

[@Halfscreen]

I may do a more detail video on the death star if i have the time.

[@ronjon7942]

Thanks! And I really appreciate the work you do - your channel is a really good resource, and I’m on it quite a lot.

[@lovebbqnoles367]

Halfscreen listen *"Don't be too proud of this technological ''Informative'' Channel you've constructed. Your Expert ability to Inform us, is insignificant, next to the power of the Force!"™* ~Lord Noles~

[@Halfscreen]

Actually, these technical jargons on these Star Wars websites can be inconsistent at time, hence errors.

[@lovebbqnoles367]

@@Halfscreen Sigh?? lol I'm Shocked You would say that Senator Palpatine.

[@Halfscreen]

@@lovebbqnoles367 Blame it on text to speech. 😁

[@lovebbqnoles367]

@@Halfscreen SMH.

[@dennistietz9363]

Very interesting, thank you for putting this together. 🙏😁👍

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@faizashabahat5722]

I watched this to build a Death Star in Minecraft awesome job! 👍

[@Halfscreen]

I was watching that too. He did a good job on his animation.

[@justicetaylor3050]

Really? How many blocks in diameter was your build?

[@judsongaiden9878]

Or as Alyx Vance might say, "You can call it the 'Imperial Expeditionary Battle Planetoid'...if you really want to." 1:44 The number "327" has special symbolic significance in George Lucas's movies.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

The Death Star's real weakness is it was BUILT BY THE LOWEST BIDDER. he he he

[@LoneTiger]

Palpatine: _"Lets save some money and skip those handrails next to the large conduits to keep people from falling down, ok? Its not like anyone is going to throw someone down, right"_

[@TokyoXtreme]

I doubt they would’ve had bids; the project was top-secret during its construction and just used internal and pre-existing partnerships (Kuat and Sienar).

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

Should i say thank you for serving? ;)

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

@@LoneTiger Vader: "That's right Emperor Palpatine. These sleazy contractors are always installing unnecessary items just to milk more money from the empire. Makes me want to practice my telekinetic choke hold on them. I'm getting good at it by the way." Palpatine: "I prefer to use my force lightning. The lights are pretty and I like the crackling sound and the ozone smell."

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Darn that Corporate Sector anyway!

[@YourOldUncleNoongah]

The equatoral trench is a bit larger than depicted in this 3D graphic, as in R1 we see the stern and engine assembly of an ISD MK-I ship inside a large hangar.

[@cakeboss4194]

For the folks in the comments; the 900km diameter theory is because of the imperfections in the visual trick they used for the filming of their surfaces. The DS2, in fact, was officially 160 kilometers in diameter. Honestly, how are people STILL falling for that? It takes not ten seconds to go to a wiki and search the damn thing up. As for the kyber crystals, they were a focusing array, not a power source. The Death Star super laser is, in essence, an oversized composite lightsaber emitter designed to destroy planets. Also, I don't like the canon of intentional sabotage. Originally, one Bevel Lemelisk was given the job of actually building a functioning blueprint of the damn thing, because the guy who originally came up with the idea, Raith Sienar, was a political jockey and CEO for the company who made most of the GE's toys. Bevel was given the research material to get such a megastructure in working order. The vent was just a vent, and it requires SEVERAL leaps of logic for the damn 'weakness' to be exploited. Go watch this for a good explanation; kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5jGg6p9ebCootk Bevel was also tortured for his 'failure'. Extensively.

[@ilovethe80s74]

Why is the tractor beam assembly depicted as bigger than the super laser? I'd think the super laser would be the largest subsystem on the death star.

[@parkpunk2]

Is that part at the bottom where they blew it up in Return of the Jedi?

[@worldtraveler930]

I was pondering the same thing myself. 🤔

[@High-Overlord-Pugula]

The Death Star was one of the most important sci-fi ideas in film history.

[@ronjon7942]

It really was. The sheer audacity of the idea was - IS! - revolutionary. When I think back to when I was seven, and in utter awe of the ISD capturing the TantiveIV, it was simply beyond my comprehension the magnitude of the Death Star. And, in fairness to my feeble brain and imagination, so it was with Han.

[@IvanPetrov-k2k]

In Edmund Hamilton's "Star Kings" the book, which probably was an inspiration for the Star Wars' creators, there is the "Disruptor" a weapon which could destroy not entire planet, but the entire Universe. The book is written in 1954...Unfortunately, George Lucas is a fabulous movie-maker but doesn't have much fantasy

[@IvanPetrov-k2k]

In the Edmund Hamilton's book Star Kings, the possible inspiration of Star Wars' authors, the "Disruptor" is described. A weapon, which is able to destroy the entire Universe. The book is from 1954.

[@benb3316]

I like the idea of a Photon Torpedo that's a solid cone ramming down a shaft slightly bigger than it at 10x the speed of sound for 1/20th the Moon's radius - even if the exhaust was weaker than air at Mt Everest it'd have to be pounded into liquid towards the end. That goes to the idea "Vader did it" - because he didn't want the Emperor to have a weapon that might make him casually replaceable... Neat videos!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank for watching and your input Ben. Great perspective, something I haven't considered.

[@josephzielinski8817]

2:51 So where's the site of the exhaust port?

[@lyleslaton3086]

"That's no moon, turn the ship around".

[@Picardsulu]

Would love to see cut aways of the USS Enterprise. NX-01, Ncc1701, 1701-A, B, C, D E and J

[@Halfscreen]

Do you know where I can find good information regarding cross-section for the USS Enterprise?

[@davidkardos2794]

The Death Star is amazing, you are awesome !!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks!

[@ClayHales]

It's kind of funny how almost everything in Star Wars doesn't make sense as far as physics, but the Death Star kind of does. Larger ships and battle stations make more sense because they can pack more power supplies, engines, armor, shielding, and armaments. The sphere maximizes usable volume and minimizes exterior surface area.

[@wrigleyx]

01:10 So DeathStar2 is 330 km size. ( 205 miles )

[@CJ-ey1dq]

Nicely done animation.

[@jezus22]

5:19 correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I remember it was on equator in the trench, not on the north pole

[@Halfscreen]

Based on the drawing below, its near the north pole. www.pipesyscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Death-Star-Elevation-Plan.jpg

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@Halfscreen That's right, yes. And there are about 16 radial trenches from the pole, seen in General Dodonna's briefing. All are much narrower than the equatorial trench. The 'primary exhaust port' is implied to be at the North Pole, in that same briefing, with the target, secondary port a little lower down, in the target trench.

[@iHusk]

I mean it sounds dumb to say, but I love how the DS is just a giant reactor with a gun strapped to it, with a space station built around it.

[@blenderzone5446]

your video is so helpful and inspiring!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you think so!

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

what a wonderful video, if a bit short, more inside detail please, and can you please do one on death star 2, so we can see what differences there where between the two.

[@Halfscreen]

I was thinking about doing the DS 2. Probably down the road.

[@polloleviatano5754]

This is very cool, well done

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks!😁

[@LoneTiger]

When the fork someone jumped Death Star II from 160km to 900km? Its like people saying the Super Star Destroyer is now 17 km long instead of the original 7km. DS I = 120km, DS II = 160km, SSD = 7km, period.

[@ZZZWorks]

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[@Fnordathoth]

Indeed; and it was specifically a Grass Valley 200 Video Mixer.

[@ZZZWorks]

@@Fnordathoth i know that fantastic tool and created many video with that.

[@Fnordathoth]

@@ZZZWorks Awesome!

[@Kakaragi]

isn't the Second Death Star 200 km in diameter though as according to Windham, Ryder (2017), Star Wars: Rogue One: Death Star Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model. Insight Editions?

[@ronjon7942]

I guess a little smaller, but close. I think that’s about 40km in diameter too large.

[@FaceInTheCrowd]

Watching the Star Wars 4 attack on The Death Star again, it still looks like the rebels flew along the equatorial trench to reach the exhaust port. Is there a less visible, longditudinal trench leading to the exhaust port on top of the Death Star?

[@Halfscreen]

I had many of my audience who mentioned the same thing; however, the exhaust port was located on the north pole on the DS schematic. I'm not sure why it was on the north pole instead of the longitudinal trenches.

[@FaceInTheCrowd]

@@Halfscreen I totally agree, the schematics do show that. I just decided to ignore the uncertainty and enjoy the film.

[@Halfscreen]

@@FaceInTheCrowd LOL.😁😁.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@FaceInTheCrowd The equatorial trench is the largest, and the only one visible at a distance. It is hundreds of meters tall. However, the rebel briefing shows sixteen polar trenches (in dot matrix imagery!) radiating from the pole, one of them holding the exhaust port. And they are on the order of only 30 to 40 meters wide.

[@FaceInTheCrowd]

@@chrissonofpear1384 thanks Chris, I'll look out for that. It would answer one of the questions that's been bugging me for a while.

[@jaymac8496]

I have a question…if the superlaser is facing parallel or horizontally…while lookin at it from a space point of view why does it look like a huge crater to a human while standing on the surface

[@Anyad911]

Im just designing the superlaser interior for 3D printing. An oldschool AMT/Ertl scale model will be custom built R1-style with blinking warning lights...

[@Halfscreen]

Nice!

[@darthcheeseburger]

Can someone please explain where the trench was located on the OG death star? If I'm understanding correctly...the X-Wings were flying sort of vertically to get to the top of the death star and the trench was basically the outward facing surface of the death star?

[@Halfscreen]

Supposedly, one of my viewer mentioned two different exhaust pipe. On the DS schematics, it was closer to the north pole.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

How much was the insurance on one of those things. For first year?

[@lawrencemanning]

Anyone got the canonical reference for why it’s stated the ROTH Death Star is bigger then the NH one? Just curious. Been a while since I watched ROTJ.

[@soavioes153]

Good explanation.

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you liked it

[@BlackieNuff]

I would have liked to see where the trash compactors were situated and how they were purged of their refuse contents (and possibly explain how that damn Dianoga creature got into one and nearly drowned Luke).

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

My understanding of dianogas is they infested sewer systems across the galaxy, finding their way into ship sewage systems and transferring from vessel to vessel.

[@3Rayfire]

Apparently the Empire keeps the Dianogas in the trash compactors to help breakdown organic waste.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@3Rayfire Wouldn't go in there for a while if I was you ... Vader was in there for an hour reading the _Imperial News_

[@3Rayfire]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Oh Noooo. Thanks for the heads up.

[@DarthVader-1701]

@Nature and Physics Vader has waste processing built into his legs, essentially he has a Porta potty in his pants.

[@werewolfking2646]

1:45 "Also, near the equator is docking bay 327, also known as hanger bay 327, was a docking bay aboard the death star." The Docking Bay known as 327 was a docking bay aboard the death star, but also known as hanger bay 327? no way

[@aidansaris8590]

Fun fact: the Death Star’s design is based on Mimas, a moon of Saturn, it’s big crater resembles the station’s most powerful weapon “the super laser” The moon has even been given a funny nickname: “the death moon” Because of how close it looks like to the imperial station!

[@LCE1313]

Was the second Death Star being built alongside the first?

[@Halfscreen]

From my understanding, probably not.

[@scottl.1568]

Thanks for this

[@Halfscreen]

My pleasure!

[@laffinkippah]

To this day I still wonder what constitutes "up" and "down" inside the Death Star. Is "up" the North Pole and "down" the South Pole, or does "up" point towards the surface of the station while "down" points to its center?

[@kwan3217]

Both. In one design I've seen, the station has a "crust" of decks that are parallel to the surface. In the crust, gravity pulls towards the center of the station. This makes sense for the crews manning the turbolaser turrets. Under the crust, and therefore in the vast majority of the volume, the decks are stacked like playing cards, and gravity pulls parallel to the station axis, towards the south. That would make the transition from the crust to the interior interesting, especially near the south pole. The crust doesn't include the equatorial trench and a small section of the surface near it -- those have gravity pulling south. The station doesn't have anything like enough mass to have significant gravity -- I ran the numbers myself one time and got something like 0.01g at the surface. All gravity in the station is artificial, so it can be whatever direction is convenient.

[@Bestingray]

You mentioned the hanger bay that the falcon was brought into. Making the observation of the death star having at least that many. Well I think its safe to say that it has 360 hanger bays. As in 306° on account of it is a sphere. You might want to mention it the next time you talk about that space station. Thank you. -E-

[@ronjon7942]

There’s nothing that requires each hangar taking up precisely 1deg of arc. Each hangar could take 10deg of arc, or there could be one hangar every 90deg, or there could be multiple hangars for each degree of arc - it depends upon the radius of the station, the width of the hangars, and how many hangars are needed. Since every circumference of any sphere has 360deg by your logic EVERY sphere must have 360 hangars - including a basketball.

[@Bestingray]

@@ronjon7942 Good point. Thank you for your comment. - B -

[@tsitracommunications2884]

how many miles is 160 KM and 300 KM in diameter?

[@pattyjay9999]

I was hoping you would mention the overbridges location.

[@Halfscreen]

too many thing to keep track of.

[@nanab256]

5:58 lol german flak18 xd

[@gearthehuman2115]

Hmmm, looking by its size. Does death star is count as planet? (in size terms)

[@Halfscreen]

No, since pluto is consider a dwarf planet and not a planet.

[@gearthehuman2115]

@@Halfscreen but the station is big, big enough to make a city structure and it could even carry a million people or ties

[@camgraca]

Wasn’t the exhaust port along the rebels used to destroy the Death Star along the equator, not at the top?

[@KoalaTContent]

No but I see how many people see that. The center equator is almost exclusively for hangers, cargo bays, and maintenance. Also the central equator is significantly wider than the trench to the exhaust port.

[@camgraca]

@@KoalaTContent ahh okay now that I look back at pictures and think about it the trench along the equator was much wider than the thin trench the rebels attack. That makes sense. Thanks

[@oobrocks]

How does this channel get it's data?

[@TheonlyaviableID]

Nice work. But shouldn't the exhaust port be located somewhere along the equator-trench? Also (at least if you take Death Star II into concideration) the Emperor's tower is a pretty important structure (I know they ignored it for Rise of Skywalker, but you can see it very clearly in ROTJ (mirrors the look of the Jedi temple tower). And what about the hyperspace drive (if it are supposed to be able to jump?)

[@Halfscreen]

Based on the DS schematic, it's near the north pole. www.pipesyscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Death-Star-Elevation-Plan.jpg

[@TheonlyaviableID]

@@Halfscreen I see. Thank you for clarification and great work making the 3D-version of the schematic. I wonder if they mean that the exhaust port on the scematic is just one of many, or that the one Luke fires into is something entirely different. The movie makes it look like it is in the trench and not at the north pole.

[@Halfscreen]

@@TheonlyaviableID During the movie, even the crude 3D animation shows the exhaust pipe at the top of Death Star. I could be wrong, but based on the schematic and animation from the movie, is think it located near the North Pole. thanks for the comments.

[@TheonlyaviableID]

@@Halfscreen And thanks for answering. Interesting. I watched the 3D animation again and read the script to double-check Dodonnas instructions, and there is clearly room for intepretation. The animation feels pretty symbolic, and they turn and twist it, so I do not think it is a very good reference. It could be on top, it could be showing the Death star FROM the top, when showing the shaft. But Dodonna says "You are required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point." First part sounds like the trench they fight in. But the last bit with "skim the surface" sounds like Luke has to exit the trench to reach the port. This could mean that it isn't located in the trench, but it seems like a far way to go from the trench to the north pole. The actual scene in the movie shows him fire the torpedoes in the trench though, so a lot of information that clash a bit. So I think it can be located at different places depending on what sources one uses. Got me a new perspective on it at least =) Looking forward to see your next work =)

[@Halfscreen]

@@TheonlyaviableID Trust me, I have done quite of few 3D animations regarding Star Wars, and there seems to be much inconsistency throughout all the spacecrafts. These flaws are made more obvious once you see them in 3D. Most other Star Wars channel doesn't go into detail and only used 2D drawing or movies from Star Wars as references.

[@mode1charlie170]

I always thought the Trench ran around the equator. But now i know it ran along a meridian. Learn something new every day

[@alexgataric]

In Rouge One the exhaust port was on the equator unless I'm mistaken.

[@Mineralwasser436]

the first deathstar ist 160 km in diameter, and the second 200 km.... the Starkiller Base (Ilum) is 660 km. That are canon infos.

[@tom_p9075]

3:04 Star Wars universe screaming for Health and Safety Inspector 😆

[@KirbyBWebb]

Pretty Cool Video .

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks!

[@TheSighphiguy]

um...you're displaying the "exhaust port" as near the northern pole of the Death Star instead of in the equatorial trench. why?

[@Halfscreen]

It is on the schematic. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91ig7iKkmHL.jpg

[@TheSighphiguy]

​@@Halfscreen that conflicts with what was actually seen on screen though. stick to the facts.

[@Halfscreen]

@@TheSighphiguy I based the 3D model on a schematic since the movie doesn't show the internal mechanism of the Death Star.

[@lesmoor001]

hang on the exhaust port is the top ???? so why fly along the trench to hit it ?

[@Halfscreen]

Based on the DS schematic, it's on the north pole even though in the movie, its on the trench.

[@lawsnewton]

They should have had Vadar guiding dish array into the Deathstar using the force, that would have been so cool!

[@mrbum6320]

Well actually, according to cannon the first Death Star was 120 km in diameter, not 160 km. 160 km is the length of the 2nd Death Star according to cannon. The 900 km diameter myth is a misconception because there was no curvature when the executor crashed into the Death Star II (2).

[@ronjon7942]

I think DS1 took about a day to refresh its super weapon, right? I’m pretty sure the DS2 recharged must faster, but for now, my question is about DS1. Wouldn’t it be excruciatingly vulnerable from star destroyer attack right after it fired its laser, for 23 HOURS? I mean, sure - now way it’s not gonna go anywhere without a huge task force escorting it, but still. Well, I suppose it is armed with thousands of turbo lasers, missiles, etc, so maybe it’s really not all that vulnerable. Was DS1 intended strictly as a planet buster, or did it have the chops to target star destroyers as well, like the Eclipse?

[@devarmont87]

Woah.. so the death Star is actually just a large circular lightsaber 😬

[@StarWarsJay]

Brilliant.

[@LCdrDerrick]

Induction Hyper Phase Generator? "Jesus Morty, you cannot ad a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something!" - Rick

[@ramsesxix4492]

hi, i wanted to know where is the room where Luke and darth Vader fought, thanks

[@Halfscreen]

It wasn't on the Death Star I.

[@ramsesxix4492]

@@Halfscreen okk, but for curiosity...

[@RailfanJason]

900km? No. 100 for the first, 160 for the second. Also, did you not see A New Hope? The thermal exhaust port was in the trench, not near its north pole.

[@Halfscreen]

It's really based on the DS schematic. i.inews.co.uk/content/uploads/2016/12/Death-star-1.jpg Sizes starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star/Legends#:~:text=The%20first%20Death%20Star%20was%20120%20kilometers%20in%20diameter%2C%20while,massive%20superlaser%20and%20power%20plant.

[@RailfanJason]

@@Halfscreen Ah, wiki, where anyone can edit what they want. I've never heard nor seen any source say the DS2 was that big. It's always been 160km, never 900. Think you need some new sources. I do appreciate the work you put in these vids, they are really neat, but some things in them I don't agree with. As for the exhaust port on DS1, did the person who made that schematic ever watch the movie? Why would they be flying in the trench at the equator to hit it if it were up near the north pole? That makes no sense and is not what happened in the movie. Luke hits the exhaust port, then with Han in the Falcon, flies out of the trench. The schematic is blatantly inaccurate.

[@Halfscreen]

@@RailfanJason I don't typically like to make things up since it can upset some of my fan base. You ain't the only person who mentioned it was on the trenches instead of the north pole which makes total sense when watching the original series.

[@RailfanJason]

@@Halfscreen But you kinda are making things up when using "specs" that don't follow what's actually cannon; the movies... not some artist rendering.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

As noted in the comments, the 900km figure is incorrect. Most of the footage supports the 120/160km size, respectively.

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah. It was a typo on my part, unfortunately, I can't change it once it's uploaded.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

@@Halfscreen Okay, fair enough. In any case, I do appreciate very much the effort you put towards making those videos - especially the X-wing one. It's one of those videos where saying "Great video!" seems so inadequate to properly express its magnificence 🙂

[@Halfscreen]

@@Jan_Strzelecki It's ok. I'm used to the eagle eyes from my audience, especially from the real expert (fans). 😁

[@DarthVader-1701]

@@Halfscreen Actually yeah you can all you have to do is put text on the screen saying the correct number with *