There are a few weapons that could destroy it without issues. One is the Planet Killer from Star Trek and the other is the Wave Motion Gun from Space Battleship Yamato
Reflex Cannon from Robotech/Macross, or a Reflex Warhead, would probably do the trick nicely. And that's not getting into Synchro Cannons and Neutron-S Missiles.
@@evanboll4651 Reflex cannon would cut it like a hot poker. Even more so if you're using the ones built onto the Macross Cannon ships from Macross II. Lol. Only thing that survived direct Reflex Cannon fire was Lord Ingues command fortress, and that's just because it was almost the size of a planet. It's OWN Reflex cannon was about the size of the Death Star ii, and made up less than 2% of its structure. Anything hit by that, shield or no, was like a match in a blast furnace.
The exhaust port weakness was actually located along one of the longitudinal trenches, not the main equatorial trench. This is a common misconception. They actually show it in the briefing before the battle.
And somehow the generated heat of a planet destroying superweapon has to be radiate out. They even had 19 of these I don't get how people have so much problem with the exhaust port
The death Star was a strategic failure. It was meant to terrify systems into submission but all it did was provoke resistance. It's very existence meant anyone who didn't like the empire had to take up arms. The death epitomises the Tarkin doctrine, in that it didn't fulfill its primary objective.
Besides, the Imperial Navy was right about the resource allocation: *one* Death Star in *one* place, or 10,000 Star Destroyers each watching over a single star system. (It makes a great movie, though.)
@@adudewithabetsyrossflag8125 which, had you read the pinned comment, is classified under 'Canon' and not 'Legends'. this video is on the legends stuff, and they will cover the canon stuff in a future video. Not trying to be mean, but it's right there...
Just a quick reminder that all of the information in this video comes from LEGENDS continuity. So no information from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or it's surrounding materiel is included. Spacedock will return in the future to cover the Death Star's Canon backstory.
Thank you for saying that it was a chain reaction that triggered the deathstar's destruction. I have seen/heard too many people saying that the torpedo went down the exhaust vent all the way to the core.
When I first saw Star Wars episode IV:A New Hope and when I first saw this thing it scared the crap out of me especially what it did to Alderaan and I started having nightmares about this thing opening fire on Earth and it's hard to believe 120 kilometer Space station was destroyed by 2 proton torpedoes being fired down a 2 meter wide thermal exhaust port and it was taken down by a farm boy from the planet Tatooine now that is ironic as Tatooine was the home planet of Darth Vader when he was Anakin Skywalker who was a slave on that planet before Jedi Master Qui Gon Jinn won his freedom from Anakin's slave master Watto in a pod race.
My mind is blown like Alderaan. Once again, the presentation, narration, and use of lesser known tidbits is amazing. If you're up for another Star Wars video in the near-ish future, I'd like to request the E-Wing. Thanks in advance for considering it.
Good video as always. You know I find it funny that everyone thinks luke blew up the death star when it was tarkins own hubris that did him in. Now I know there are a lot of fanboys that will send angry responses without even reading the rest. For the rest of you I give the following evidence. It was stated that if a torpedo was able to get all the way down the SECONDARY exhaust port it would cause a chain reaction. If this was the case there would have been alarms going off for at least a few seconds before the explosion. As we can clearly see in the movie there are no alarms, and everyone is rather calm as they try to line up the next shot. Next you have the fact that the main port was right next to it. Meaning that if the torpedo simply exploded upon entering then the safety systems would kick in and close both ports. This would spike the heat from the reactor and all the weapons being fired. Upon firing the weapon the reactor could simply overload, and melt down, causing the station to explode from the inside out. This would mean that by the time the system would even notice the heat spike it would be too late to shut down the system. A small portion of this is also proven in the main weapon as well. It does not even begin to fully fire before the station goes kaboom. If the spike had happened during firing the main cannon would at least get off a partial shot before the station blew up. I give much of this information to the show 'beyond science' where they go into much of this detail.
The most descriptive and informative clip on Death Star iv watched. Most clips just say ( it's big ,round and no moon . ). Great channel 👍. I think Palpatine was thinking of leaving the SW galaxy with it . Wanting the whole universe. In his mind he was gonna live forever so time wasn't a problem. Or if your into legends he was preparing for the Von invasion.
Would like to restate a request for the CCS Battlecruiser, the most ubiquitous covenant warship in Halo, being the first covenant vessel we see in the Truth and Reconciliation as well as being present in every one of the original three Halo games.
Indefined radius of both Deathstars was always a problem. There were once a info about DS2 with 320km in diameter. Which possibly was scrapped later after Centerpoint station.
Funny how the death star, a symbol of the galactic empire and the finest example of the Tarkin doctrine, met it's end in 0 BBY along with Tarkin himself
I'd love to see a vid on the UNSC MAC Defense Platform. Such as the Cairo, Athens, or Malta. From the Halo universe. Please and thank you for the awesome vids.
As usual, brilliant stuff. Any chance, I know there are so many ships etc. to do some from Blake's 7. The Federation Pursuit Ships for instance. Perhaps one day you would publish a book. I'd buy it.
this kind of stuff is great fun me being a greater Syfy buff However were do you find your material as I have watched a vast number of your vids and find them all of the highest compliment in entertainment some day we may see the likes of similar types of crafts as these until then you and your team do a fine job explained in in your channels vids MERRY Christmas. AND MAY THE FORCE BE With YOU !!!.
I don't remember it's name but we have a moon in our solar system that only has a single massive crater which ironically is in the same spot as the Death Star Super Laser and I think it's in orbit of the planet Saturn.
The port in question was only a secondary exhaust port, likely one of thousands that were scattered across the station's hull, and the port itself wasn't the weakness, it was just the easiest means of directly attacking the weakness: a flaw in the casing of the station's hypermatter reactor that was either viewed as an inevitability of the reactor's sheer size and thus not deemed worth the equipment and materials required to fix it or simply not severe enough to be detected at all by structural integrity tests.
You know, if the new Republic had found another one of these under construction, it would have made for a great capital. Even if they dismantled the death ray, which they should, the rest of the structure would still be very defensible.
The image it would've presented wouldn't have been ideal. Mon Mothma wanted to prove that the New Republic wouldn't transform into another Empire (hence the demilitarization) so traveling around in a modified Death Star would've undermined all of that.
First Last To be fair it took a person with space magic to blow it up. Without luke the Rebellion could never blow it up and it was too big for the rebellion to actually destroy in time
Have you thought of doing the Corruption line of ships from the Star Wars empire at war expansion?? Does anyone know if they have appeared in any other story lines?? Those are quite interesting looking.
The trench being a kilometer wide clearly isn't canon to what we see in the film, which also throws off the scale of it being 120 kilometers in diameter.
the Death Star is not just a super laser, the idea is that you can also transport millions of Stormtroopers and hold hundreds of thousands of political prisoners on the death star. Its the ultimate Rebellion crushing machine.
26 000 is a very small number, wasn't there more of them? I read there were around 1 000 000 stormtrooper, and plenty of other Staff, like fleet engeniers and fleet troopers(infantry less efective than stormtrooper core, but bigger, and more like paramilitary forces)
Tarkin Doctrine stated that to effectivily rule the galaxy and keep the empire secure.. it should be done throught fear.. so insurgents or other subergive elements would not dare to raise against the order and so the empire would be at total peace.. So the use of superweapons like the Death Star was in line with Tarkin Doctrine.. think that the emperor disolved the imperial senate just as the death star was finally complete.. because he (and Tarkin before him) tought that once complete people would not rebel or raise against him out of fear of the Death Star.. Unfortunatelly (for them) that backfired horribly when first they used it to destroy a peacefull planet without warning... and then the DS was destroyed couple of days later.. causing a galaxy wide revolting and no DS to properly backup the Tarkin doctrine.. thats why the empire tried to build a second one so fast..
biostemm The massive hypermatter reactors in these things gave off so much energy they created wormholes sucking up much of the statiom into otherspace.
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"Superweapons are a waste of credits, but that's none of my business." -Grand Admiral Thrawn, probably.
And everyone else who wasn’t Tarkin
Three kilometer deep armor plating... my admiration for it just got higher. Lol. That thick, even fleet weapons would just warm the hull.
There are a few weapons that could destroy it without issues. One is the Planet Killer from Star Trek and the other is the Wave Motion Gun from Space Battleship Yamato
@@brianrogers7360 or Super MACs. Repeated strikes. The Death Star is so massive it’d be easy to hit from long range
Normal warships would effectively only scratch the paint.
Reflex Cannon from Robotech/Macross, or a Reflex Warhead, would probably do the trick nicely. And that's not getting into Synchro Cannons and Neutron-S Missiles.
@@evanboll4651 Reflex cannon would cut it like a hot poker. Even more so if you're using the ones built onto the Macross Cannon ships from Macross II. Lol.
Only thing that survived direct Reflex Cannon fire was Lord Ingues command fortress, and that's just because it was almost the size of a planet. It's OWN Reflex cannon was about the size of the Death Star ii, and made up less than 2% of its structure. Anything hit by that, shield or no, was like a match in a blast furnace.
The exhaust port weakness was actually located along one of the longitudinal trenches, not the main equatorial trench. This is a common misconception. They actually show it in the briefing before the battle.
And somehow the generated heat of a planet destroying superweapon has to be radiate out. They even had 19 of these I don't get how people have so much problem with the exhaust port
Amen,
and if it was located in the equatorial trench we'd have seen hanger bays and ion engines zooming past Luke's cockpit windows 🤣
The largest and most feared super weapon ever created in Star Wars, amazing.
The exhaust port was actually at the end of a polar tench, not the equatorial one, common error. Great vid !
The death Star was a strategic failure. It was meant to terrify systems into submission but all it did was provoke resistance. It's very existence meant anyone who didn't like the empire had to take up arms. The death epitomises the Tarkin doctrine, in that it didn't fulfill its primary objective.
Besides, the Imperial Navy was right about the resource allocation: *one* Death Star in *one* place, or 10,000 Star Destroyers each watching over a single star system. (It makes a great movie, though.)
3:30 the exhaust wasn't on the equator, but on a thin tench going from south to north.
All of the trenches were colloquially referred to as equatorial trenches. I love Star Wars, but sometimes it even baffles me
Came here to say this...Thanks for clarification of OP.
Not to mention that he forgot to say this weak spot was created by Galen Eyrso, the father of Jynn Eyrso, the main character in Rogue One
@@adudewithabetsyrossflag8125 which, had you read the pinned comment, is classified under 'Canon' and not 'Legends'. this video is on the legends stuff, and they will cover the canon stuff in a future video. Not trying to be mean, but it's right there...
@@ramseysaab6590 Star Wars writers are better at writing than geography.
The Death Star has been the MVP of fictional superweapons in the sci-fi realm for a very long time and it truly was a weapon of pure terror.
Just a quick reminder that all of the information in this video comes from LEGENDS continuity. So no information from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or it's surrounding materiel is included. Spacedock will return in the future to cover the Death Star's Canon backstory.
As much of a flop as the game is turning out to be, I am VERY curious regarding the ships, especially the Olympus.
Spacedock Is it possible for you to do a review on the UNSC Forward unto Dawn?
Spacedock can you please make a video on the arewing from Star Fox
Spacedock can you do more battlescape that was sooooo good
Have you done a video on all the other Star Wars Superweapons, like CenterPoint Station or the Star Forge?
Thank you for saying that it was a chain reaction that triggered the deathstar's destruction. I have seen/heard too many people saying that the torpedo went down the exhaust vent all the way to the core.
That was even stated in the briefing they gave to the pilots before the attack.
When I first saw Star Wars episode IV:A New Hope and when I first saw this thing it scared the crap out of me especially what it did to Alderaan and I started having nightmares about this thing opening fire on Earth and it's hard to believe 120 kilometer Space station was destroyed by 2 proton torpedoes being fired down a 2 meter wide thermal exhaust port and it was taken down by a farm boy from the planet Tatooine now that is ironic as Tatooine was the home planet of Darth Vader when he was Anakin Skywalker who was a slave on that planet before Jedi Master Qui Gon Jinn won his freedom from Anakin's slave master Watto in a pod race.
My mind is blown like Alderaan. Once again, the presentation, narration, and use of lesser known tidbits is amazing. If you're up for another Star Wars video in the near-ish future, I'd like to request the E-Wing. Thanks in advance for considering it.
Tarkin was not exactly a practical person, was he?
+VestedUTuber
That can be discussed...
It's possible he was secretly working for the rebellion
To be fair, actual governments have built working but pointless superweapons countless times.
That vent opening was a design weakness built into by its unwilling architect Galen Erso.
According to the original movie notes there is in fact a focusing lense floating where the 8 beams converge
The Andromeda Ascendant (or the Glorious Heritage class Heavy Cruiser)
Eclipse Class Dreadnought would a pretty awesome ship to look at, just a recommendation
All those weapons, but did they provide some towels to dry the cantina trays? Noooo, no they didn't.
Good video as always.
You know I find it funny that everyone thinks luke blew up the death star when it was tarkins own hubris that did him in. Now I know there are a lot of fanboys that will send angry responses without even reading the rest. For the rest of you I give the following evidence.
It was stated that if a torpedo was able to get all the way down the SECONDARY exhaust port it would cause a chain reaction. If this was the case there would have been alarms going off for at least a few seconds before the explosion. As we can clearly see in the movie there are no alarms, and everyone is rather calm as they try to line up the next shot.
Next you have the fact that the main port was right next to it. Meaning that if the torpedo simply exploded upon entering then the safety systems would kick in and close both ports. This would spike the heat from the reactor and all the weapons being fired. Upon firing the weapon the reactor could simply overload, and melt down, causing the station to explode from the inside out. This would mean that by the time the system would even notice the heat spike it would be too late to shut down the system.
A small portion of this is also proven in the main weapon as well. It does not even begin to fully fire before the station goes kaboom. If the spike had happened during firing the main cannon would at least get off a partial shot before the station blew up.
I give much of this information to the show 'beyond science' where they go into much of this detail.
It’s not overpowered enough, MORE DAKA!!!!!
And now witness the power of this fully operational battlestation
If you forget that the Death Star is a weapon, it’s actually pretty cool. It’s basically a man made planet that can support millions.
The Death Star is the best space station of all of Sci Fi
Still can't tell if the floors are stacked from top to bottom or if it is wrapped around the sphere...
Excellent Death Star video !
MAGNIFICENT ! OUT STANDING VIDEO !
can you do the Romulan D'deridex-class warbird fro star trek?
Nice job
Can you do the (Omega class destroyer) from Babylon 5
could you do one on the USS Kelvin from star trek?
could you do a video on starkiller base please and how does it work
7000 fighters on board. Result? Few planes can easily get close to the vessel and wipe it out by one shot.
Filip 3 Tarkin never saw the rebel fighters as a threat, the only TIE's that got airborne were Vader's squadron
TheReal Lifehacks Underestimating your opponent: The undoing of almost every single villain.
Well by that point the Death Star had already created a rallying point for the Rebellion.
To be fair, a single 2m hole on the surface of the moon is an almost impossible weakness to find.
That vent opening was a design weakness built into by its unwilling architect Galen Erso.
Any particular spacecraft...Well it's no moon *ba-dum-tss*
is it made of cheese?!!
kineticdeath I don't know 0_0
please do the Aggressor-class Star Destroyer
The most descriptive and informative clip on Death Star iv watched. Most clips just say ( it's big ,round and no moon . ). Great channel 👍. I think Palpatine was thinking of leaving the SW galaxy with it . Wanting the whole universe. In his mind he was gonna live forever so time wasn't a problem. Or if your into legends he was preparing for the Von invasion.
one thing, the exhaust port is found in the north not the equatorial trench and one thing the trench runs from south to north.
Would like to restate a request for the CCS Battlecruiser, the most ubiquitous covenant warship in Halo, being the first covenant vessel we see in the Truth and Reconciliation as well as being present in every one of the original three Halo games.
Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer
You should do a canon version video on the Death Star.
120km in diameter sound a little small to me, the moon has a radius of 1737 km.
And the Super Star Destroyer, we see crashing into it was 19 km long..
Indefined radius of both Deathstars was always a problem. There were once a info about DS2 with 320km in diameter. Which possibly was scrapped later after Centerpoint station.
Let's not even get into Star Killer Base, which was smaller than dwarf planet Ceres in our solar system.
please do one on the TIE Striker
Kilimanjaro/Everest Class Dreadnoughts From Mass Effect
"I HADN"T EVEN PAID THE THING OFF!!! "What the hell is an aluminum Falcon?"
a maior e mais temida super arma já criada em star wars, incrivel.
"to the Death Star" *clink glasses of blue milk*
dingie256 I'm sick of blue milk
Corellian Ale, then.
+CaptainRadish But then, some desert hobo came and told me....
CaptainRadish you wanna buy some death sticks?
Now for the DS-2 station.
Funny how the death star, a symbol of the galactic empire and the finest example of the Tarkin doctrine, met it's end in 0 BBY along with Tarkin himself
Big fan of your videos; thank you again.
How about an S-43 HAMMERHEAD video?
I didn't realize that's what the Mygeeto mission was for in Battlefront II haha the more you know
If you could do the malevolence, that would be great xD
Where you get the figure of 3km thick of armor plate on it?
he sure loved the word pivotal
I'd love to see a video on the Alliance Frigate from Mass Effect, specifically the Geneva class
Geneva-class is actually a cruiser, and an outdated model at that, I think what you're looking for is the Alamo-class frigate.
How about a review of the Imperial class star destroyer?
I would love to see the Prometheus Class Multivector Starship from Star Trek
Can you do a video on the MC80?
how about v'ger or the simitar star trek nemesis this one would be interesting to analyse.
Great summary. You should do the SDF from Macross!
Well done..
Please…a simple Holdo maneuver would turn that into the SS Minnow from Gilligans island.
Now that was funny….
I look forward to a new video w/ Catalyst 7 R-1 book info used... Very good new canon stuff a-plenty!
Elite dangerous Federal Dropship next please.
The E-wing or V-wing (Rebellion) from Star Wars.
could you do a video on starkiller base from star wars the force awakens?
I'd love to see a vid on the UNSC MAC Defense Platform. Such as the Cairo, Athens, or Malta. From the Halo universe. Please and thank you for the awesome vids.
As usual, brilliant stuff. Any chance, I know there are so many ships etc. to do some from Blake's 7. The Federation Pursuit Ships for instance. Perhaps one day you would publish a book. I'd buy it.
7000 fighters but over 167000 pilots? Does every pilot work just an hour a week? No wonder they have so many supporters.
this kind of stuff is great fun
me being a greater Syfy buff However were do you find your material
as I have watched a vast number of your vids and find them all of the highest compliment in entertainment
some day we may see the likes of similar types of crafts as these until then you and your team do a fine job
explained in in your channels vids
MERRY Christmas. AND MAY THE FORCE BE With YOU !!!.
I've always wondered if you took a bunch of Y-wings and bombed the crap out of the dish, would the laser become inoperable or unstable?
I don't remember it's name but we have a moon in our solar system that only has a single massive crater which ironically is in the same spot as the Death Star Super Laser and I think it's in orbit of the planet Saturn.
to be fair to a single two meter wide exhaust port for a moon sized station that can blow up planets is still quite an accomplishment
The port in question was only a secondary exhaust port, likely one of thousands that were scattered across the station's hull, and the port itself wasn't the weakness, it was just the easiest means of directly attacking the weakness: a flaw in the casing of the station's hypermatter reactor that was either viewed as an inevitability of the reactor's sheer size and thus not deemed worth the equipment and materials required to fix it or simply not severe enough to be detected at all by structural integrity tests.
The Eclipse-class SSD had scaled-down versions of the superlaser for destroying capital ships in a single blast.
What about the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter?
You know, if the new Republic had found another one of these under construction, it would have made for a great capital. Even if they dismantled the death ray, which they should, the rest of the structure would still be very defensible.
The image it would've presented wouldn't have been ideal. Mon Mothma wanted to prove that the New Republic wouldn't transform into another Empire (hence the demilitarization) so traveling around in a modified Death Star would've undermined all of that.
Tarkin's tactics used in the attack on Yavin 4 even made Hitler look like a military genius for Operation Barbarossa
First Last
To be fair it took a person with space magic to blow it up. Without luke the Rebellion could never blow it up and it was too big for the rebellion to actually destroy in time
Have you thought of doing the Corruption line of ships from the Star Wars empire at war expansion??
Does anyone know if they have appeared in any other story lines??
Those are quite interesting looking.
could you do one on the GA-TL1 Longsword from halo?
The trench being a kilometer wide clearly isn't canon to what we see in the film, which also throws off the scale of it being 120 kilometers in diameter.
Writers usually fail math.
can you do the Intrepid class(voyager)?
the Death Star is not just a super laser, the idea is that you can also transport millions of Stormtroopers and hold hundreds of thousands of political prisoners on the death star. Its the ultimate Rebellion crushing machine.
*rebellion generating machine.
Nice job on the Death Star. Do you think you can do the Acclamator-class assault ship next?
Could you do a video about the TIE D automated starfighter?
26 000 is a very small number, wasn't there more of them? I read there were around 1 000 000 stormtrooper, and plenty of other Staff, like fleet engeniers and fleet troopers(infantry less efective than stormtrooper core, but bigger, and more like paramilitary forces)
I like the SWTOR soundtrack.
can you please next time talk about how the halo's slip space works because I always wondered how it worked :p
Please do a video on the Mon Calamari Cruiser :)
At some point can you do the Legends Eclipse class star dreadnought?
Josiah Wright I hope Spacedock makes one about it too :)
Poor design for a central exhaust should have been multiple small openings hidden in the armour
Could you please do the BC-304 Class of Stargate ?
The Death Star had defensive railguns? Huh, never even knew the Empire used Railguns, figured that was more of a Republic thing.
How about the USG Ishimura?
make a video on the ori warships from stargate sg1
Please do a Warhammer 40k Gloriana class battleship!
or just more 40k ships period
Could someone remind me what the Tarkin Doctrine is? I'm not that familiar with Star Wars legends.
Korms Gaming OK, that makes sense.
Tarkin Doctrine stated that to effectivily rule the galaxy and keep the empire secure.. it should be done throught fear.. so insurgents or other subergive elements would not dare to raise against the order and so the empire would be at total peace..
So the use of superweapons like the Death Star was in line with Tarkin Doctrine.. think that the emperor disolved the imperial senate just as the death star was finally complete.. because he (and Tarkin before him) tought that once complete people would not rebel or raise against him out of fear of the Death Star..
Unfortunatelly (for them) that backfired horribly when first they used it to destroy a peacefull planet without warning... and then the DS was destroyed couple of days later.. causing a galaxy wide revolting and no DS to properly backup the Tarkin doctrine.. thats why the empire tried to build a second one so fast..
sparrowJLT Followup question: who was Tarkin?
smacks Graham Rich
with some tuna
sparrowJLT Ask me about Halo, I'll probably know the answer. But when it comes to Star Wars, I only really watch the movies.
Could you do a video on the Autobot Arc (G1)?
Ok but if they had 7000 fucking tie fighters why the hell did they only use 9 during the battle of yavin what the fuck
Because Tarkin didn't think a bunch of fighters would make a difference. Vader took his own personal squadron out.
Could we get an episode on the Halcyon Class Cruiser from Halo?
You do know that the trench they go through when they blow it up is not on the equator, right?
I wonder if there were any salvagable bits left of the Deathstar, after it was destroyed.
biostemm
The massive hypermatter reactors in these things gave off so much energy they created wormholes sucking up much of the statiom into otherspace.
One former Alderaan native disliked this video.
He should just feel lucky he didn’t get vaporized like the 3.2 billion of his fellow Adlerians
Will Wow *she