How was the Second Death Star Built So Fast? |

Report from the Holocron of Xela. Description: How was the second Death Star built so fast? The first one took twenty years, but the second was built in only four! The only reason it took so long to build the first Death Star was because the superlase technology hadn’t been developed. Of course constructing the battle station itself was a massive undertaking, but the Empire had the resources to do it. The book Catalyst by James Luceno goes into the difficulties met by Orson Krennic, and we see the delay caused by Galen Erso when he learned his research was being used to create a planet killer. His time in hiding stalled development, and even when he returned it took several more years to build a functioning weapon. The second Death Star began construction almost immediately after the destruction of the first. While it certainly wasn’t convenient for the Empire to build another superweapon, it still had the resources to pull it off. And this time it didn’t have to wait for Galen Erso’s research. So they were able to build an operational, albeit incomplete Death Star in only four years. #starwars


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