The original Death Star's completed form appears in
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Commanded by
Grand Moff Tarkin (
Peter Cushing), it is the
Galactic Empire's "ultimate weapon", a space station capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser. The film opens with
Leia Organa (
Carrie Fisher) transporting the station's
schematics to the
Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star. Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of
Alderaan in an attempt to pressure her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel base; she gives them
a (false) location, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway. Later,
Luke Skywalker (
Mark Hamill) boards the station with his friends and rescues her. Later, Luke uses his power in
the Force to help him destroy the station.
In
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the Empire is building a second Death Star; it is half-finished throughout the film.
Emperor Palpatine (
Ian McDiarmid) and
Darth Vader (
David Prowse/
James Earl Jones) send the Rebels false information that the station's weapons systems are not operational in order to lure them into a trap, and bring Skywalker on board to turn him to the
dark side of the Force. In the film's climax, Vader throws Palpatine down the station's reactor core, killing him, and is mortally wounded in the process. Skywalker escapes with Vader's body moments before the Rebels cause a massive explosion which destroys the second Death Star.
The first Death Star's schematics are visible in
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and is shown early in construction at the end of
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
The Death Star explosions featured in the special edition of
A New Hope and in
Return of the Jedi are rendered with a
Praxis effect, wherein a flat ring of matter erupts from the explosion.
SOURCE:Wikipedia
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