"to super-scale intensity in the case of the Death Star. The Death Star's laser power works in a similar method to this by concentrating multiple light beams into one spot from where they combine into a single beam. This beam has been described as more powerful than usual because it can be used for the purpose of destroying/damaging solid objects such as drones and debris that it was compared to the lasers used by the Death Star. Interstellar transport in ""Star Wars"" is provided by hyperdrives. Hyperdrives transport the spaceship into another dimension, known as hyperspace, in which objects with"
"between ""Revenge of the Sith"" and ""A New Hope"", the Rebellion grows and becomes a formidable enemy of the Empire. The Death Star, a moon-sized battle station with sufficient firepower to destroy an entire planet, is designed to be the supreme weapon of the Empire's power. Grand Moff Willhuff Tarkin, the station's commander, shortly after informing the heads of the Imperial Military that Palpatine has dissolved the Senate, demonstrates that power in ""A New Hope"", when he destroys Alderaan merely as a show of force. In the film's climactic scene, however, the station is assaulted by a small force of"
"a huge spherical battle station 160 kilometers in diameter capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser. The film opens with Princess Leia transporting the station's schematics to the Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star. Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel base; she gives them the false location of Dantooine, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway, as a demonstration of the Death Star's firepower and the Empire's resolve. Later, Luke Skywalker, Han"
"Death Star, a moon-sized planet-destroying space station. Various types of fictional doomsday devices have also been activated as part of an AI takeover. This includes the missile launch system in the movie ""WarGames"" (1983), control of which has been handed entirely to a computer, and Skynet's nigh-destruction of the human race in ""The Terminator"" (1984). Doomsday device A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing ""doomsday"", a term used for the end of planet Earth. Most hypothetical"
"Super Star Destroyer ""Knight Hammer"" was destroyed here when it was diverted towards the planet's core after a collision with a Rebel vessel. Yavin Yavin (also known as ""Yavin Prime"", to distinguish it from its moons) is a fictional planet in the ""Star Wars"" galaxy. It first appeared in the 1977 film ""Star Wars"" and is depicted as a large red gas giant with an extensive satellite system of moons. The hidden military base of the Rebel Alliance is located on its fourth moon, Yavin 4. The climactic space battle at the end of the film, in which the Rebel"
"Alderaan Alderaan is a fictional planet featured in the ""Star Wars"" franchise. It is blue-green in appearance and is depicted as a terrestrial planet with humanoid inhabitants. It is the home planet of Princess Leia Organa, one of the lead characters in the film series. In the original 1977 film, Alderaan is destroyed by the Death Star. The destruction of Alderaan is considered as artistic depiction of danger and fear of nuclear weapon (as weapon of mass destruction) during Cold War and used as pop-culture example of inadequate political and military action, led to contrary effects. Early drafts of the"
"Yavin Yavin (also known as ""Yavin Prime"", to distinguish it from its moons) is a fictional planet in the ""Star Wars"" galaxy. It first appeared in the 1977 film ""Star Wars"" and is depicted as a large red gas giant with an extensive satellite system of moons. The hidden military base of the Rebel Alliance is located on its fourth moon, Yavin 4. The climactic space battle at the end of the film, in which the Rebel Alliance destroys the Death Star, takes place in orbit around the planet Yavin. In ""Star Wars"" fandom and the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe,"
"its predecessor. Both versions of these moon-sized fortresses are designed for massive power projection capabilities, capable of destroying multiple naval fleets or entire planets with one blast from their superlasers. Although details, such as the superlaser's location, shifted between different concept models during production of ""Star Wars"", the notion of the Death Star being a large, spherical space station over 100 kilometers in diameter was consistent in all of them. George Lucas gave the original task of designing a ""Death Star"" to concept artist and spaceship modeler Colin Cantwell, who had collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the 1968 film """"."
"of alien plans to build a doomsday device to destroy the surface of earth. This device is some kind of energy weapon, larger than a space station. As the weapon itself is impossible to destroy by conventional means, the research and creation of the ""Nova Bomb"" is required. This is a large missile, which instead of destroying the target directly, is aimed at the central star to a system. Upon impact, it would cause the star to explode, destroying everything in the system - thus the missile's name ""Nova"". The final mission is two-staged. The first stage involved entering a"
"to those the Romulans had in a Star Trek episode called ""Balance of Terror"". The Legion works also featured a force field called AKKA which can erase from the Universe any matter, of any size, anywhere, even a star or a planet. AKKA was a weapon of mass destruction and the secret of it was entrusted to a series of women. AKKA was used in the past to overthrow the Purple tyranny. It was also used to wipe out most of the Medusae, though they had tried to steal the secret. When they were wiped out, the Moon where they"
"the battle occurring through. """" features Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon built by the First Order. Significantly larger than either the first or second Death Star, and unlike either of those cost-prohibitive space stations, this superweapon cut-costs by terraforming an existing planet and draws its fire power directly from a sun (by extracting a kind of Dark Energy called Quintessence and turning it into another type of dark energy called Phantom Energy), but it requires time to draw enough energy. Once fired, it has the power to destroy up to five planets within the same star system"
"to Come"". The device was featured in films as late as 1967, such as ""Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon"". In the video game """", Percival Lowell builds a space gun to send a spacecraft to Mars. The video game Steel Empire, a shoot 'em up with steampunk aesthetics, features a space gun in its seventh level that is used by the main villain General Styron to launch himself to the Moon. In Hannu Rajaniemi's 2012 novel ""The Fractal Prince"", a space gun at the ""Jannah-of-the-cannon"", powered by a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb, is used to launch a spaceship from Earth."
"surface of planets occasionally, as in ""[[Stargate SG-1]]"" where the hero uses an [[Ancient (Stargate)|Ancient]] weapon in [[Antarctica]] to destroy the villain's invading fleet from the ground; others are simpler, including ground-based fighters, as in the case in ""[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]"" (1977) where single-manned fighters defended a rebel base against a moon-sized [[Death Star]]. In addition, in the novel ""[[The Armageddon Inheritance]]"" from the author David Weber's ""[[Empire from the Ashes]]"" trilogy, [[Antarctica]] possesses a core-tap generator, which yanks large energy reserves from hyperspace and projects it around [[Earth]] as a planetary shield. While"
"that can be exploited by a one-man starship"" as reasons for denying the petition. The Luxemburgish magician Christian Lavey (born as Christian Kies) submitted a petition for the construction of a Death Star to the Luxemburgish parliament. However, on an interview with a local radio station Lavey admitted that this petition was just a joke and some kind of protest against the space plans of the government. Death Star Death Star is the name of a number of fictional mobile space stations and galactic superweapons featured in the ""Star Wars"" space opera franchise. The first Death Star is stated to"
"during the Rebel briefing for the attack on the Death Star late in ""A New Hope"" were an actual computer graphics simulation from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory made by Larry Cuba and Gary Imhoff as part of a CalArts project, and had been included during filming. These are depictions of the Death Star and other similar weapons of mass destruction within the ""Star Wars"" canon. The original Death Star's completed form appears in ""Star Wars"", known officially as the ""DS-1"" Orbital Battle Station, or Project Stardust in ""Rogue One"". Commanded by Governor Tarkin, it is the Galactic Empire's ""ultimate weapon"","
"Lightsaber A lightsaber is a fictional energy sword featured in the ""Star Wars"" universe. A typical lightsaber is depicted as a luminescent blade of magnetically contained plasma about in length emitted from a metal hilt around in length. The lightsaber is the signature weapon of the Jedi Order and their Sith counterparts, both of whom can use them for melee combat, or to deflect blaster bolts. Its distinct appearance was created using rotoscoping for the original films, and with digital effects for the prequel and sequel trilogies. The lightsaber first appeared in the original 1977 film ""A New Hope"" and"
"a special satellite code-named Regia Solis is used to provide a city with clean energy but at full capacity it is powerful enough to destroy said city or other targets. In the TV series ""Scorpion"" episode ""Sun of a Gun"", Walter O'Brien's fictional alter ego and his team are sent alongside their friend Sylvester Dodd's estranged father to an African dictator's country to investigate his discovery of a Nazi World War II sun gun project. In the ""Star Wars Legends"" book """", Rogue Squadron commandeers an orbital solar reflector (used for power generation) is used to boil ocean water in"
"film in ""Attack of the Clones"", where Jango Fett deploys space mines in an attempt to destroy Obi-Wan Kenobi and prevent him from pursuing him. In , similar explosives were used to disable the shields of the ""Starkiller"" base. These, however, were all connected to a single detonator, which caused them to explode simultaneously when triggered. A tractor beam is described as an invisible energy field that can grab, trap, suspend, and move objects with force. Tractor beams in ""Star Wars"" were first seen in film in ""A New Hope"". They are used for the primary purpose of trapping and/or"
"powers into its power. The demonic sword created by Kaguya to rule the Moon, but because of its immense power, it destroyed all the bamboo forests on the Moon. It was once used by Gekko to fight Yaiba and Onimaru. Onimaru later took it as his new weapon instead of the Fūjin-ken. It has three attack forms: the Crescent Slash (weakest attack); the Half-Moon Slash and; the Full-Moon Slash (strongest attack) which has the power to destroy one planet in an instant. It changed the evil powers into its power. It was called ""Sword of Devil King"" in the Philippines'"
". When seen from certain angles, Mimas resembles the Death Star, a fictional space station and superweapon known from the 1977 film ""Star Wars"". Herschel resembles the concave disc of the Death Star's ""superlaser"". This is coincidental, as the film was made nearly three years before Mimas was resolved well enough to see the crater. In 2010, NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas, using images obtained by ""Cassini"". The warmest regions, which are along one edge of Mimas, create a shape similar to the video game character Pac-Man, with Herschel Crater assuming the role of an ""edible dot"" or"
"the moon, known as Buster Machine III. When detonated, the bomb and 3,000 'slave mines' placed around the center of the galaxy, will cause a black hole to be formed thereby sucking in and destroying the space monsters. Amano is sent back into space to board the new ship Eltreum, where mobile suits called Sizzlers (buster sized machines, piloted individually) are now used in combat. With the crew present to welcome Amano, she and Takaya share an emotional reunion, though the absence has felt much longer for the former. Takaya has difficulty coming to terms with the fact that so"
"superlaser is powered by multiple reactors, allowing it to vary its destructive power depending on the target. Skeptical of the station's power, Tarkin ordered that it first be tested on Jedha City using a single reactor. Subsequently, a second single-reactor test would destroy their installation on Scarif, along with the Rebel strike force who had successfully stolen the station's plans. The destruction of the planet Alderaan would be the first time the Death Star was tested with all reactors employed. ""Return of the Jedi"" features a second Death Star still under construction in orbit around the forest moon of Endor."
"blueprints for the Death Star, the Empire's moon-sized battle station, inside the astromech droid R2-D2 and has sent it to find one of the last remaining Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the nearby planet of Tatooine. Vader arrests Leia and has her tortured, but she resists revealing anything. Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin threatens to destroy her home planet Alderaan with the Death Star unless she reveals the location of the hidden Rebel base. She provides the location of an old, abandoned base on the planet Dantooine, but Tarkin orders Alderaan to be destroyed anyway. Leia is rescued by Luke"
"warfare since the ""Lensman"" series. This is not a realistic capability, as it has been calculated that a force on the order of 10 joules of energy, or roughly the total output of the sun in a week, would be required to overcome the gravity that holds together an Earth-sized planet. The destruction of Alderaan in ""Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"" is estimated to require 1.0 × 10 joules of energy, millions of times more than would be necessary to break the planet apart at a slower rate. Fictional space warfare tends to borrow elements from naval warfare."
"treetops to monitor entries and exits from the base. Once discovered by the Galactic Empire, the Yavin Base is threatened by the Death Star, the Empire's giant space station which has the capability of destroying entire planets. The Rebellion launches an attack on the Death Star with X-wing and Y-wing starfighters; with seconds remaining before the Yavin moon is to be destroyed, Luke Skywalker launches proton torpedoes and successfully destroys the Death Star. The film concludes with a triumphant award ceremony on Yavin in which the heroes are decorated for their bravery. This battle has become known as the ""Battle"
"Bespin Bespin is a fictional planet, a gas giant in ""Star Wars"" films and books (in the Bespin System of the Ison Corridor of the Ivax Nebula of the Anoat Sector of Greater Javin of the Outer Rim). The planet was first seen in the 1980 feature film ""The Empire Strikes Back"". Since its introduction, Bespin has gained more specific characteristics in the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe. In ""The Empire Strikes Back"", Bespin's floating city Cloud City hovers suspended by an anti-gravity pod. The planet is a gas giant that is about in diameter. Like most gas giants, it has"
"Tatooine Tatooine () is a fictional desert planet that appears in the ""Star Wars"" space opera franchise. It is beige-coloured and is depicted as a remote, desolate world orbiting a pair of binary stars, and inhabited by human settlers and a variety of other life forms. The planet was first seen in the original 1977 film ""Star Wars"", and has to date featured in a total of six ""Star Wars"" theatrical films. It is noted as the home planet of the protagonist of the ""Star Wars"" saga, Luke Skywalker, and also of his father, Anakin Skywalker. Shots of the binary"
"able to melt the construct with energy blasts, its melted form was later easily reanimated to its original state. The Destroyer armor is capable of firing extremely powerful bolts of energy, primarily for destructive purposes. It has such power that the simple energy that crackles within can shatter planets. The armor can project beams of intense heat, electricity, plasma, and magnetic force. The armor is also capable of manipulating the molecular structure of most materials and matter itself for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, transmutation such as the creation of impenetrable substances. Its most devastating weapon,"
"Tatooine because they have been discovered orbiting binary star systems. Tatooine Tatooine () is a fictional desert planet that appears in the ""Star Wars"" space opera franchise. It is beige-coloured and is depicted as a remote, desolate world orbiting a pair of binary stars, and inhabited by human settlers and a variety of other life forms. The planet was first seen in the original 1977 film ""Star Wars"", and has to date featured in a total of six ""Star Wars"" theatrical films. It is noted as the home planet of the protagonist of the ""Star Wars"" saga, Luke Skywalker, and"
"in hopes of rebuilding the Old Empire, as it was being called, and restoring Imperial rule to the galaxy. These individuals were able to form the First Order, an offshoot of the Empire seeking to destroy the Republic and rule the galaxy. For the three decades preceding the film, the First Order operated secretly in the unexplored regions, rebuilding its army and starfleet, in hopes of resurrecting the Empire. Inspired by the ideology of the Old Empire, the First Order constructed Starkiller Base, which hosted a massive superweapon that was capable of destroying entire star systems at once. The superweapon"
"and anywhere in between. The best known such organization to the general public today is probably the Galactic Empire from ""Star Wars"", which was formed in turn from the Galactic Republic. A military dictatorship based upon fear and terror, said Empire is an explicitly villainous force with linguistic and visual traits directly reminiscent of Nazi Germany. For example, their armored forces known as ""stormtroopers"" are named analogously to the ""Sturmabteilung"" (often known as the ""SA""), a paramilitary entity created by the Nazis in 1920. Their best known weapon is the iconic ""Death Star""; the moon-sized space station has the ability"
"moon and the heavens. However, one of them, Zeorymer of the Heavens, has been stolen and the main character, fifteen-year-old Masato Akitsu, is forced into piloting it with a mysterious girl named Miku Himuro. Zeorymer possesses an energy based weapon called the ""Dimensional Coupler Cannon"" that appears almost telekinetic in nature; by holding its fist in the air, or aiming it at a target, energy strobes across the orb and causes a large explosion to engulf whatever enemy it is directed against. These orbs can also fire beams of golden-hued energy (labeled as the Energy Wave attack) which can cause"
"Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader send the Rebels false information that the station's weapons systems are not yet operational in order to lure them into a trap. When the station's protective shield is disabled by a ground assault team on the forest moon of the planet Endor (led by Han Solo) with the help of the native Ewoks, Rebel fighters flew into the unfinished station targeting its reactor core chamber and damaged the reactor core itself, which eventually explodes and destroys the station. It was destroyed by Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrissian in the ""Millennium Falcon, the former destroying a"