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The first Death Star was designed by the [[List of Star Wars races (F-J)#Geonosian|Geonosian]]s under [[Poggle the Lesser]]. At the start of the [[Clone Wars (Star Wars)|Clone Wars]], they gave the designs of their "Great Weapon" (also referred to as the "Ultimate Weapon") to [[Count Dooku]] to prevent the designs from falling into Jedi hands. Dooku took the designs back to [[Coruscant]] and gave them to his master, [[Darth Sidious]]. Once the war was well underway, the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems|Separatist]] leaders began to finance and build the weapon, using mostly Geonosians as their laborers. Due to the changing political climate, the Separatist leaders were all murdered, the Separatist movement was ended and the weapon fell directly into the hands of the newly-formed [[Galactic Empire (Star Wars)|Empire]].

[[Raith Sienar#Sienar.2C Raith|Raith Sienar]] also had plans for a Death Star-like battle station. HeI do belive Vader masturbated alotHe later passed the project to [[Grand Moff Tarkin]] so that he could take credit for the design, since he no longer had interest in the project. It is believed that enslaved Geonosians continued to work on the Death Star well into its construction, the initial stages of which were shown in the ending of ''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith|Revenge of the Sith]]''. According to the ''New Essential Chronology'' as well as statements made by George Lucas himself, this '''''is''''' the same Death Star seen in ''A New Hope.''{{Fact|date=March 2007}} Despite this, some fans (including Dr. Curtis Saxton on his [[Star Wars Technical Commentaries]] website) have claimed that this Death Star must be a prototype to the one seen in the original film. The construction was delayed while a test system was created at Maw Installation, and after a long delay for systems testing, construction was resumed on the battlestation.

In ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|A New Hope]]'', [[Han Solo]] and [[Luke Skywalker]] mistake the station for a small moon while following a lone patrolling TIE fighter. After escaping from the Death Star, the plans to the station, stolen by Rebel spies (according to the [[LucasArts]] video games, a secret signal interceptions asteroid, as well as [[Kyle Katarn]]), are transported by [[Princess Leia]] (with help from Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and the droids [[R2-D2]] and [[C-3PO]]) to Rebel leaders. Luke Skywalker pilots an [[X-wing]] starfighter through a trench indentation on the surface of the Death Star, evading [[Darth Vader]] long enough to launch a pair of proton torpedoes down a thermal exhaust port that leads directly to the reactor core, causing a chain reaction which destroys the battle station.