![]() ![]() After the fall of the Confederacy, construction of the Death Star was appropriated by the nascent Empire. ![]() Thousands of years later, shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Geonosians, aligned with Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, designed the Ultimate Weapon in secret. Some of the earliest plans for a mobile, planet-destroying superweapon dated back millennia to the ancient Sith. It was the pet project of Emperor Palpatine, Director Orson Callan Krennic, and its eventual commander Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to expound the military philosophy of the aptly named Tarkin Doctrine. ![]() It had been designed to fire a single planet-destroying superlaser powered by massive kyber crystals which would destroy any planet targeted. The DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station, also designated as the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station and referred to as the Ultimate Weapon in early development stages and later as the Death Star I and the First Death Star, was a moon-sized, deep- space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire. " Both as an impregnable fortress and as a symbol of the Emperor's inviolable rule, the deep-space mobile battle station was an achievement on the order of any fashioned by the ancestral species that had unlocked the secret of hyperspace and opened the galaxy to exploration." ―Wilhuff Tarkin, in his posthumously published memoir ![]()
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