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.
Why did the second Death Star take less time to build?
The planning for the second Death Star began before the first one was even finished. The Empire had all the resources and labor necessary to quickly construct the second Death Star much faster than the first.
The Empire's Second Death Star didn't have thermal exhaust ports, meaning it would have lacked that weakness. Fortunately, the battle-station was only partially completed, allowing the rebel ships to fly directly through the structure and destroy the reactor.
Upon completion, the DS-2 Death Star would have been an immense battle station 200 kilometers in diameter that featured 560 internal levels which could house 2,471,647 passengers and crew.
The REAL REASONS Palpatine leaked the Second Death Star BEFORE it was finished
Was there a third Death Star?
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For other uses, see Death Star (disambiguation). The Death Star III, also known as the third Death Star, was a mock Death Star battle station created from an incomplete worldcraft by the Kaarenth Dissension.
The Empire constructed the first Death Star in secret for nearly two decades before using it to destroy Alderaan; the second Death Star boasted a more powerful superlaser, with improved targeting sensors and power regulators.
Is the Death Star more powerful than Starkiller Base?
The answer to this question will come down to each person's individual preference for the functionality of a sci-fi super weapon. If one considers the sheer might of the Starkiller Base and nothing else, then it is clear that the Starkiller Base is the better of the two.
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.
But what made the Death Star particularly menacing was its ability to travel through hyperspace. Not only was it equipped with destructive armaments, it could pursue its prey with those armaments.
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.
Star Wars: Rogue One revealed that the exhaust port weakness in the original Death Star was deliberately placed there by Galen Erso. But the second Death Star's weakness was that it was incomplete and not properly sealed up.
Did Bail Organa survive the destruction of Alderaan?
Though the Alliance won its first major victory of the Galactic Civil War at Scarif, Organa and his wife were killed when the Death Star, an Imperial planet-killing superweapon, destroyed Alderaan just days later.
Naboo was among the first worlds to be attacked. Despite the planet sustaining heavy losses, Operation: Cinder was foiled before Naboo could be destroyed. After that, however, little is known about Naboo, other than it was saved from the First Order after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Darth Vader didn't learn he had a daughter until Return of the Jedi, when he stood before Emperor Palpatine. The Emperor's power probed Luke's mind, attempting to goad him to fall to the dark side, and he discovered Leia's existence. "Sister," the Emperor taunted.
Galen Marek, better known as Starkiller, was the main protagonist of the Legends games before Disney bought Lucasfilm. He displayed incredible control of the Force, from moving a Star Destroyer to defeating both Vader and Palpatine in succession.
Starkiller shot Force Lightning at him and ended the fight as he threw his lightsaber at him, splitting Kylo Ren into two and launched his remains out of the base.
Introduced in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Starkiller Base was born from the remains of the planet Illum, where Jedi would go to find their Kyber Crystals. With a huge battery to focus its power, the massive base could wipe out entire systems with better efficiency than the Death Star.
Leia brought the plans to the Alliance leadership on Yavin 4, who quickly analyzed the data and discovered the design flaw deliberately left in the battle station by Imperial engineer Galen Erso, which would allow a single proton torpedo, fired into the thermal exhaust port, to destroy the entire station.
We learn in Rogue One that the Death Star's main gun is powered by Kyber crystal. We know from various sources that it's rare. Then the Death Star is tested, destroying Jedah, where they're mining the crystals.
But taking all these sources into account, the death toll of the first Death Star can be left as around 1.1 million and the one of the second Death Star as over two million, which is still a lot even for Star Wars – more so considering that this happened in the first three films of the franchise.
