DS-1 Orbital Battle Station
The DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, better known as the Death Star or Death Star I, The Death Star II, is an existing Legends battlestation.[1]
Design and construction
Because conventional hyperdrives were insufficient for moving installations as massive as the Death Stars, the physicist Sigit Ranth designed experimental hyperdrives for both the first and the second Death Star based on his heterodox conception of the nature of hyperspace.[2]
Potential secondary purpose
In 4 ABY, Mas Amedda speculated that the excessive personnel requirements of the Death Stars served as a precaution in case a Death Star was destroyed while the Emperor was aboard: the sudden release of large numbers of life energies would provide the Emperor with the strength he needed to pass through the Chaos unscathed and reincarnate in a clone body.[2]