As part of a devious scheme masterminded by Emperor Palpatine to destroy the Rebel Alliance, the plans were delivered into the hands of the Alliance through Black Sun leader Prince Xizor, under the guise of being stolen, providing them with the technical data needed to formulate the assault on the Death Star, ...
That datacard – briefly glimpsed in Rogue One as the Rebel ship is attacked by Darth Vader – is seen again in an early moment from A New Hope, when Princess Leia furtively transfers the Death Star plans to R2-D2.
The idea for the Death Star began when the Confederacy of Independent Systems designed the Ultimate Weapon, using plans and concepts provided by Wilhuff Tarkin. Poggle the Lesser possessed the original (or a copy of the) plans, which he handed to Count Dooku during the First Battle of Geonosis.
Essentially, the Empire was able to build the second Death Star so quickly because they'd already built one before. Furthermore, Darth Sidious expedited the construction of the second Death Star so that it was functional far sooner than the first.
The Bothan spy network and its involvement in the theft of the second Death Star's plans are also described vaguely. The theft of the plans for the Empire's first Death Star in Legends was shown through multiple missions across various mediums, leading fans to understandably believe that they contradicted each other.
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How did the Rebels get the Death Star 2 plans?
As part of a devious scheme masterminded by Emperor Palpatine to destroy the Rebel Alliance, the plans were delivered into the hands of the Alliance through Black Sun leader Prince Xizor, under the guise of being stolen, providing them with the technical data needed to formulate the assault on the Death Star, ...
Stolen during the Battle of Scarif by the Rogue One squad at the cost of many Rebel lives, the remaining copy of the blueprints were transmitted to the MC75 Star Cruiser Profundity, where members of the Alderaanian consular security transferred the plans into the datacard and evacuated to Princess Leia Organa's ...
In the original Star Tours, a Death Star III is seen and destroyed during the ride sequence by the New Republic. Leland Chee originally created the third Death Star to explain why a Death Star is present on the Star Tours ride when both of the stations in the movies were destroyed.
It was two-three times larger than DS1 and took far more materials to build it. Sid also wanted it to look unfinished so he could lure the Rebels in: “it's a trap!” But he ensured the planet killer gun was operational by sending Vader in to oversee it.
Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, had his apprentice Darth Tyranus (also known as Count Dooku) deliver the plans from Geonosis to Coruscant at the start of the Clone Wars. Even as the Clone Wars raged, the Death Star secretly took shape in space above Geonosis.
Leia's ship intercepted vital Imperial plans stolen by Rebel spies. These plans, the complete technical readouts of the Death Star battle station, could be exploited by the Alliance to score a sizable victory over the Empire. Leia was given a mission by Bail Organa to recruit Obi-Wan Kenobi into the Alliance.
From Geonosis to the Empire: The Development of the Death Star. Attack of the Clones saw Dooku taking the plans for the Death Star from Poggle the Lesser, the Geonosian leader who had pledged support to Dooku's Separatists.
One of the mysteries from the original trilogy that was fueled by the prequels is why R2-D2 never told Luke that Darth Vader was his father, as he actually knew Anakin Skywalker and witnessed his turn to the dark side.
After Jawa traders take C-3PO and R2-D2 captive, they are soon sold to moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker. C-3PO and R2-D2 are crucial in assisting Luke Skywalker's rescue mission to free Princess Leia from the heart of the Imperial space station, the Death Star.
Luke hid his lightsaber inside R2-D2's dome during his mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, and surrendered the weapon to Darth Vader as part of his effort to reawaken the spirit of Anakin Skywalker.
Out of the 2 billion inhabitants on Alderaan - with the modern-day populations of China and India having about 2.8 billion people combined - about 60,000 survived the destruction of the planet due to being outside of its star system at the time.
After a successful attack on the Death Star II's reactor during the battle of Endor, the ruins of the destroyed battle station subsequently fell to the surface of the ocean moon Kef Bir. The Alliance Fleet had also set up tractor beams and shields to protect the forest moon from debris.
Secretly constructed in orbit around the remote forest moon of Endor, the Death Star II was larger than its 160-kilometer-wide predecessor and was constructed using more efficient methods.
The Death Star 1 carried about 1.2 million crew members, as did the Death Star 2. This means that in total, 2.4 million Imperials died on both Death Stars.
Some Expanded Universe sources state much smaller figures—120 kilometers for the first Death Star and 160 kilometers for the second—however, most of the evidence argues for the larger sizes.
However, he placed a weakness deep within the system so the Death Star could be destroyed, a two meter thermal exhaust port that led directly to the main reactor, and he made the main reactor unstable so one blast to any part of it would destroy the entire station.
The Geonosians maintain large factories for the production of droids and weapons for the Separatist cause in the Clone Wars. After the Clone Wars, the Empire chose Geonosis as the construction site of the first Death Star, restricting travel to the system and sterilizing the planet's surface.
During the search for the new Death Star, two dozen Bothans sacrificed their lives in order to attain the technical specifications for the space station. Furthermore, they learnt that the Emperor himself intended to inspect the Death Star II, which paved the way for a Rebel attack at the unfinished weapon around Endor.
