Star Wars: 10 Secrets Behind The Death Star You Need To Know
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- The Empire's most terrifying weapon is filled to the brim with fascinating facts...
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Somewhere in the Star Wars universe, theres a guy who joined just to get a drink at that cantina
And then subsequent got vaporized
No Bothans died to bring us this information.
Underrated comment 👏
Then what the hell did I throw in those shallow graves...?!?
The trench was located on the northern pole of the death star. Not in the equator trench. Like most people think.
two of my great uncles were prop designers in the OT and they helped design the death stars
Did they use batteship model kids for the death star as well? i heard from the special editio that they used battlship kits to make the trench...
Wait what?! Luke Skywalker killed women and children? That sure beats Annakin's murder of padawans.
Now that is hilarious. Oh BTW, it was younglings not padawans.
Anikin killed the women and children in the tusken village.
@@lopaka76 "not just the men, but the women and the children too"
About number 5... Gravity. Gravity is based on MASS, not volume alone. Considering that most of the volume consisted of breathable air, it brings the mass down considerably. However, that much steel should have SOME affect, I doubt it would be much; certainly not enough to make it difficult for a TIE fighter to achieve "escape velocity". Our medium sized moon has a diameter of 3474.73 kilometers and is solid rock. It's gravitational pull is ~1/6th of earth. The Death Star was miniscule compared to that at 127km, and is mostly air.
Yepp, even if it had the same density as our moon (3.344 g/cm^3, slightly higher than typical rock) its surface gravity would only be 0.6% of Earth's and its escape velocity would be a measly 86.8m/s (312km/h or ~200mph). You could shoot an arrow straight up with a regular bow and it wouldn't come back down.
As for density of the Death Star, let's assume it's similar to an Oasis-class cruise ship (I tried using an aircraft carrier, but can't find any information about their total volume). Those ships have a total enclosed volume of about 750000m^3 and a total weight of about 100000t, so their average density is about 0.133g/cm^3 or about 1/25th of the Moon's. Escape velocity (for a given constant radius) is proportional to the square root of the density, so the Death Star's escape velocity goes down by another factor of 5 to only 17.4m/s (63km/h or 40mph). A small object simply thrown by hand could easily escape from it (fastest recorded baseball pitch is ~105mph, fastest recorded throw of a football is 66mph), or you could take off using a bicycle with a running start in one of the equatorial hangar bays.
SO..... THE DEATH STAR HAD A DARTH MALL?
ba-doom-boom-ching! heh heh
Puns. You must be a Brit
Merchandising.... Spaceballs was truth! 😂
@@rcschmidt668 Spaceballs the flamethrower
@@andyinpa1 “And God willing, we’ll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.”
The death star should have been named "the friendship station". It would have received more support from the people across the galaxy.
The Death Star also housed Star Destroyers in it’s trenchial ring around the middle. Rogue One even shows a SDer docked inside of the Death Star.
You can see one at 5.03 minutes.
Still one of the coolest playsets ever,1978 Kenner Deathstar playset. Totally farby, but cool in 1978.
“Prepare ship for ludicrous speed! Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo.”
‘Buckle this!’
@@gageallen6055 "my brains are going into my feet!"
Hahaha, Spaceballs watch that last night. 🤣
Smoke’em if you got’em........
What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken!
A few more:
-The trench was at the pole, not the equator. The equatorial trench was for hangar bays -including hangars for Star Destroyers.
-There were multiple trenches. Pilots actually had a hard time finding the right one.
-there were multiple exhaust ports. Only one of them was able to be exploited as a weakness.
-the exhaust port was at a 90 degree angle to the trench. Pilots were firing the torpedoes to lock on to the reactor energy signature as they passed over it. The torpedoes needed to arm at just the right moment or they would miss the turn. THIS is why Luke's shot was "impossible" -given the speed the fighters were going,, pilots had less than a millisecond of error on either side. (this is also why the Disney decision to make it an intentional weakness instead of an oversight makes little sense).
in the Ancient Aliens episode : Space Station Moon, you will learn why the Death Star might have been inspired by Earth's own "moon"
Secret #11:
It's no moon...it's a space station.
You missed one: The reactor on the Death Star was basically a prototype. It required a long recharge time for the super laser. This was why they didn't fire on Yavin first, but had to go around it to destroy the rebel base.
frankly, blowing up Yavin, would have screwed all it's moon's at the same time.. but yeah.
@@jawstrock2215 that's why I love the original cut to "How it Should Have Ended", when a technician says, "The rebel base will be in range in thirty minutes." To which Tarkin replies, "I say we're in range now. FIRE!" 😄
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's mass that generates gravity and not size. I imagine most of the Death Star is empty space. i.e. rooms, adjoining corridors and so on.
I heard it was the spin. Centrifugal force creating a natural pull toward it's surface, not toward it's center.
Give the creative who made the intro thing with the lightsabers a huge raise. So cool.
According to the Force Unleashed, it had an atmosphere on the outside, generated artificially. It was described in the book as the bear minimum. Very cold.
If you ever do a Death Star II vídeo, you might want to talk about IG-88A’s adventure into the main systems.
And how he spent his time trolling Palpatine until the DS-2 got exploded
“Distension” != “Dissent”
“Abroad” != “Aboard”
I wouldn't say that CGI is ever better than miniature effects. Maybe they're now getting close, but never better.
Even the Empire needs secretaries, bed changers, janitors...Finn
Distention in the ranks? Wtf? You don't mean a growth in ranks, you mean dissent, therefore it is dissention in the ranks!
I have a feeling the second death Star always have secrets 🙂
The legends novel "Death Star" by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry is pretty good when it portrays life on the Death Star during its construction and right up to its destruction. You have a woman recruited to run one of the officers' clubs andan artillery commander recruited to be the head Superlaser gunner, not to mention assorted techs and slaves working on its construction. The basic concept is that Palpatine knew that the conventional military wouldn't be able to hold power indefinitely before a rebellion overthrew him. The Death Star was his insurance policy. Either you did what he said or he'd blow up your planet. He also applied the Sith Rule of Two in that originally he'd planned for two Death Stars, one larger one that he'd command personally and the other smaller one to be commanded by his apprentice.
Great book
And where The Hard Heart was first actually mentioned.
I was just going to mention this novel. And let's face it, there's some great stuff in there that Filoni and Favreau could mine for future works.
we all know Dave Filoni gonna have Luke drink another colored milk in the Mandalorian
You seemed to have omitted the Death Star Canteen..........Mr Stevens.
No, that's Jeff Vader.
the mouse droid was used for sanitation so it was the earliest form of kryton
Or Roomba?
Great video! Learned a lot, thanks
Dang it had a bar lol.
Just to see if I'm right, according to what I heard the "Tarkin Doctrine" was not only flawed but actually produced the opposite affect of what is was supposed to do, from what other TH-cam video makers on this subject have said, Tarkin created this doctrine based on his own experiences growing up in a rather harsh system where things were already bad possibly even worse than on planets controlled by the "Hut's" like Tatooine, but after the Death Star destroyed Alderaan there was more of an out-speaking on this subject by many Rebel Planets, and if I'm not mistaken again the primary reason that little to no action was initially taken after that until the Death Stars Destruction was due to the fact that the Emperor had dissolved the Imperial Senate and put his Regional Governors in charge, most likely because he thought that after the revelation of the Death Star Following the events in "Rogue One" that continue on in "Episode 4: A New Hope" that the Senators would use their combine political influences in a way that would have him thrown out of power, this all of course would have no doubt been his plan in the long term after establishing "The Empire" over "The Republic" and his initially needing the Senate to do so in the beginning, also one thing about the Death Star that seems more obvious about the second one over the first is that given the improvements from the first to the second(which you should also do a video on) is that the Emperor was probably planning to use the second Death Star as his "Home-base" as opposed to Coruscant due to the potential difficulty in penetrating the stations defenses after all construction was finished, finally if you do make a video about the second Death Star be sure to include details about its technical improvements as well as how secret the project was as opposed to the first and if they had taken anymore precautions in building it that would have prevented sabotage as was the case in the first as seen in "Rogue One"
Already knew most of these, but a few took me by surprise.
All that technology. Surely a massive space bong to chill everyone out and make them happy would have been the better way to go.
And they only had one gelato machine... which was always broken.
If you think about it it probably had various means of supplying at least some of its own food, or the supply chains for food alone would be a massive weakness.
When the Death Star has more Life than Death with all these bars and residencies.
Really Epic video buddy I love the channel
Awesome. Guess you'll have to do one on the Death Star 2 now!
06:47, THAT'S, GRAND MOFF TARKIN, GRAND. Who the hell are You to demote him...???
Last time I saw a grand moff was in a 1970s issue of Playboy.
@@whiskeyvictor5703 ...aahh...the good old days...
Legends canon: Innocent peoples were on the Death Star such as bar tenders, medics and etc.
contractors...
It's like millions of people cried out at once and then we're silenced!
If you think about, the levels of a moon sized station should be organized like a set of Russian nesting dolls (shells), but when you see them taking in the Millennium Falcon that's not what you see. Look for yourself, the Death Star is organized like a set of pancakes with varying widths.
Great video!
The Hard Heart Cantina is first mentioned in the now legends book "Death Star".
Rogue One and Rebels had some scenes that made me think of the X-Wing game, see if this sounds familiar:
Imperial Star Destroyers attack a rebel base from orbit and then send ground troops, including AT-ATs.
Death Star used the Despayre Colony for resources and then destroyed it.
I think DS and destroying planets wasn't Tarkin's idea. He found out about the project later anyway. Great video tho.
according to canon, Count Dooku was the one who gave it to Palpa...I mean Darth Sidious...make Tarkin just taking credit?
So luke like his father murdered a bunch of kids
The first fact reminds of that scene in clerks where they are talking about how the deathstar being destroyed by "a radical military group" wasn't so bad in the 1st one but when they destroy it in return a lot of innocent workers died. Now knowing there were whole families on board you realize the rebels really weren't any better than the empire.
The rebels really had no other choice. If they did nothing, the Empire would have destroyed the rebel base and then most likely would have destroyed other planets as well, killing billions.
Religious extremist recruits young men to fight an established government and to fly aircraft in and destroy their massive construction which kills thousands of innocents. 9/11 or A New Hope.
War is War but you have to wonder how many innocent civilians got killed that wanted nothing to do with it either way.
You're really stretching in order to make the rebels the bad guys here. Here's the difference: the Empire would kill those families and non-military workers themselves if their military family members stepped out of line. In addition, they would destroy ENTIRE worlds consisting of BILLIONS of people, if the governments of those worlds didn't toe the Imperial line. The Rebellion is paying a smaller, albeit necessary, lesser price of a percentage of those previous numbers, to stop that galactic massacre from happening. The Empire essentially is using the families for a dual purpose: to keep their soldiers in line AND as living shields from a rebel attack. This shows just how despicable the Empire is as compared to the Rebellion.
@@Turkkish1 This is a new take on the Godwin argument.
You would think you would know what your job is doing when everyone calls it the "Death Star" or when you're sending your kids to the Death Star Day Care Center.
Just think that Lucas wanted to do a Flash Gordon movie. He couldn't get the rights so he Created Star Wars.
"Distention in ranks?" Were the crew feeling a bit bloated?
Also, would the name "Death Star" not possibly have raised suspicion that its main function was possibly not mining?
Its official Imperial name was the DS1 Orbital Space Battle Station. It's unofficial name which never appeared in any official Imperial memoranda was "the Death Star."
"Distention in ranks?" Were the crew feeling a bit bloated?
Have you ever eaten Death Star chow? There is a reason the garbage shoots smell the way they do.
Sounds like working on the station would be a real gas. 😁
Considering cost it can be called "Debt Star"
The Death Star sounds like the Fort Hood of Star Wars!
The falcon did the kessol run in over 12 parsecs, Hann rounded down.
Very cool video, what about the bathrooms how many of those are on the death Star, I'm asking because according to some drawings of the falcon it doesn't have a bathroom? LoL
Are talking just the bathrooms in private quarters, barracks latrines, or public restrooms? Because I'm sure they had all of the above.
Wasn't the Hard Heart the name of the bar from the legends book Death Star?
Alex you’re amazing!!!
according to The Onion, the Death Star also has a day care centre
It also has more wet trays in the cantina then anywhere else
Vader at the mall...
- DS2 had millions of microscopic thermal exhaust vents rather than the womp rat sized one on DS1.
- DS1 had a 24 hour recharge time due to its superweapon being powered by single giant khyber crystal. DS2 could fire any number of elements in rapid succession at any power level due to it being powered by thousands of crystals.
The Empire learned many lessons in redundancy from the destruction of the first Death Star, suggesting that the second Death Star construction was started AFTER the first was destroyed.
That's all I got right now.
I thought the DS-1 had a 30-minute re-charge time.
Number 11 - The red light district
Palps has been leaking information again
I guess that Ray-Ban sunglasses are shades for those who do not want to see the new trilogy?.. :D
When I heard that there were families in the Death Star I decided I would not only hate Luke for ever but hopefully never say his name again. Long live the Empire!
I think they evacuate the families to near by an plant where they are safe, because in the movie one of the officers told Tarkin if he like to be evaluate but Tarkin who being stubborn decides didn't evaluate as he was overconfident so in my theory, the Empire was worried that soldiers and officers families would died, so they ask one plant for the families or soldiers and officers if they wanted to leave.
@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 I really hope those families were safe because it would be pretty sad if they died.
Long live the Empire!
To million people and ONE pub 😳
I heard they got a “Jim’s” in the Death Star. Man they have great Cole slaw.
Huntington?
And one shot from the mighty Wave Motion Gun from the Space Battleship Yamato and scratch the Death Star
I wonder if there was a Sbarro's in the food court 🤔
How did they get an atmosphere into it??
What was a month based on? A year? And dogs? Who came up with that, Tim Zahn?
The Deus Ex Machina of the exhaust port ultimate weak point was so silly. But hey, that's Star Wars.
Without an exhaust port, it would have blown up without being fired upon.
the death star looks like a giant pokemon ball
Lovely
Because it was massive enough to have gravity, its architecture should have been like an onion, not flat across.
Also, I think if Lucas gave much thought to when Han and Chewie met, it was on the Death Star. However, since Han was a pilot, he should have seen it while flying supply runs. Unless they worked on the second Death Star. If it took however long to build the first, it had to take almost as long to build the second. Or longer, since it was bigger. So they must have started on the second long before they finished the first.
Its a spaceship not a station, a station is well stationary. The Death Star has a hyperdrive for gods sake.... Sorry being nerdy and picky.
Deep Space 9 was always called a station, yet it had impulse engines to slowly move itself (they cheated and used a bubble to make the thing lighter so it moved faster... it almost destroyed the entire thing until they turned off the safety protocols.)
@@joermnyc I think they only moved DS9 from beyjor(spelling) to the wormhole, but those engines were for stability more than movement. I think Babylon 5 was a true station.
@@bjacobs1988 yeah, DS Nine was moved from the orbit of Bajor, out to the Denorios Belt, right near the Bajor System terminus of the Bajoran Wormhole.
Awesome thread.
2 million crew members
327 decks
And yet no bathrooms.
I need to know.
So I guess there was no green technology in use.
The Death Star eviscerated Alderaan? So, it disemboweled a planet. Alright.
How many miles per diameter was the death star in 128 km?
Im sure there was more than one pub
Who didn’t know it had its own gravity?
I mean, a gerbil has gravitational pull.
Most of the habitant's onboard the DS were humans. That said, eventually we start having a family's, more or less, and to have your family, Wife, Husband, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Spouse or Children is not only convenient, but a better working moral for the Trooper, Officer, Technician, Gunner, Engineer and Contractor. And I assume the DS is big enough to separate personal of time with on duty !
How Many Slaves Were Aboard The Deathstar When It Was Destroyed?
IG-88's sentience was downloaded in the 2nd Death Star. Check out "Tales of the Bounty Hunters: 'The Tale of IG-88' ". Just a heads-up tho: It's one of those normal books, just words, no pictures. Still pretty good though. 😉👍
Buster Machine 3... am I a joke to you?
it's not a moon, it's a space station
So they had one great bar...for 2 million people?
What is this, a crossover episode?
The Death Star is not a space station it is a space ship
OMG, Luke Skywalker is just like Timothy McVeigh! 😱
They didn't show the Death Star Day Care Center, or the shopping malls, but whitewashing a problem doesn't make it any less horrible.
they used blue police call boxes modified into urinals for the 2nd death star during construction
I’m just here because I thought the video said “things we didn’t know...”
I’m still not sold on why you needed 2 million souls to occupy and operate the DS. Same with the gigantic size, you really need all that real estate just to operate the planet killing weapon? Plus the reactor and interstellar drive plus defensive weaponry? Seems like they just went big for bigness sake…
gets to number 5, wait people thought the death star had no mass wtf?
In the end of retun of the jedi after palpaten died you can hear blaster shots luke is the only reble in the death star the empire os evacuating so atrom troopers a killing other for room on the ship's
I always thought in reality a spaceship, no matter how big or how massive would accelerate at the same speed since there is no air-resistance nor gravity. Obviously thats not very impressive for telling a fantasy story
It's been 38 - 44 years and no one has yet to answer the question of what was the purpose of the two imperial officers in the laser tunnel on both Deathstars other than to shield themselves by turning away when the laser is firing? Besides, you would think that being that close to the laser, those two would be vaporized from the kind of heat the laser is generating.
I always thought the same thing. What a dumbass place to station personnel.
I'd love to see a Deathstar cantina! The Harkin doctrine sounds familiar, oh yeah U.S. policy !
It would be just a bunch of humans running it because the Emporer hates aliens execpt for a few that he liked and would be rather boring .
That's why you don't see any aliens in any imperial role
.....the Death Star had its own gravity, which way was up??? is the surface the ground?? why are the ships entering the ports in the trench at a 980 degree angle? Unanswered questions. PEACE family.