Model: Imperial I Death Star

Manufacturer: Imperial Engineering

Designation: Deep Space Mobile Battle Station

Length: 120,000 meters

Crew: 1,140,309

Troops: 25,984

Cargo Capacity: over one million metric tons

Consumables: 3 years

Hyperdrive Multiplier: x4

Hyperdrive Backup: x24

Speed: 1 MGLT

Hull: N/A RU

Shields: N/A SBD

Special Features: Planet annihilating "superlaser" with a firing range of 47,060,000 km.

Weapons: 5,000 Turbolaser Batteries, 5,000 Heavy Turbolasers, 2,500 Laser Cannons, 2,500 Ion Cannons, 768 Tractor Beam Projectors and 1 Superlaser.

Onboard Craft: 7,200 TIE Series Fighters, 4 Strike Class Cruisers, 3,600 Shuttles, 2,840 Gat-12h Skipray Blastboats, 1,860 Drop-Ships and 13,000 Support ships.

 

The Imperial I Death Star was constructed in a distant corner of the Outer Rim Territories, near the planet codenamed "Despayre" in the Horuz system. The construction site was selected due to its remote location; the orbital construction yards circling Despayre could operate free of scrutiny by galactic holomedia and the former Imperial Senate. The Death Star was designed to provide the power to bring more star systems in line with the Emperor's regime and to frighten into submission those worlds with rebellious leanings. Roughly the size of a small moon, the Death Star housed a gigantic crew to support the huge power plants and control systems.

Thousands of turbolaser battery emplacements speckled the canyon-like surface of the battle station, designed to defend it against capital ship assaults. Countless hangar bays housed starfighters, shuttles, and other combat and transport craft. But the crowning achievement of the entire Death Star project was the "superlaser", a destructive weapon capable of annihilating entire planets in the blink of an eye.

When the Rebels learned of the Death Star project, they made securing the plans to the battle station an utmost priority. Through careful analysis, the Rebel scum was able to find a chink in the colossal weapon's armor, the key the Rebels desperately needed to destroy the vast battle station. After the cowardly destruction of the Imperial I Death Star, rumors abounded that another, more powerful and larger version was already under construction in some hidden sector. Many within Rebel Alliance Command took the rumors very seriously, and as now known, the Empire did indeed build a second Death Star.