〔TGE〕//: The Death Star

The Death Star (DS-1 platform), also known as the Death Star I, First Death Star, and early in its planning stages as simply the Ultimate Weapon, was a moon-sized deep space mobile battle station constructed by the Galactic Empire. Designed to fire a single planet-destroying superlaser powered by massive kyber crystals, it was the pet project of both the Emperor, Vader, and its eventual commander Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to expound the military philosophy of the aptly named Tarkin Doctrine.