Death Star by Martin Hunt (crease pattern only) Death Star (Modular) by Martin Hunt (part 2, part 3, assembly) Gungan Sub by Martin Hunt; Imperial Shuttle by Max d'Anger (crease pattern only) Imperial Shuttle by Rafal Sabat; Jedi Interceptor by Max d'Anger; Jedi Starfighter by 4-LOM (part 2, part 3, part 4) Jedi Starfighter by Blythe Creamer. Death Star Plans Combat If you have at least 1 fighter after the space battle step, reveal this card to roll 3 dice. If you roll a (wild), play this card and destroy a Death Star in this system. Otherwise return this card to your hand. Action: One in a million Special Use during either a combat or a mission. Star Wars Death Star. Challenge / Adventure Map.
Inciting Event: After Artoo crash lands on the desert planet Tatooine on his 'mission' for the captured Princess Leia, he and Threepio are purchased by Luke Skywalker's uncle. Shortly thereafter, Luke stumbles upon the message Leia embedded in Artoo: 'Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.'
This is the turning point halfway through the First Act in several obvious ways: a new setting and the introduction of the protagonist Luke Skywalker (note that introducing your protagonist this late is rarely a good idea). It's also the protagonist's first brush with the conflict. Up to this point, Luke has had no conscious connection to the Empire or the Rebellion.
His rejection of the Call to Adventure comes a bit later when Obi-Wan tries to convince him to come to Alderaan and learn to be Jedi, but Luke refuses, saying, 'I've got to get back. I'm in for it as it is.'
First Plot Point: After meeting Obi-Wan Kenobi and hearing Leia's full message, explaining that she's given the Death Star plans to Artoo and that she needs Obi-Wan to take them to her father on Alderaan, Luke stumbles upon a Jawa massacre and realizes Imperial Stormtroopers are tracking the droids. He races home to the farm only to discover it's been torched and his aunt and uncle murdered. This is a firm closing of the door to the Normal World for him. As he tells Obi-Wan, 'there's nothing for me here now.' He can only react to what's just happened and move forward into the (now very personal) conflict.
First Pinch Point: After hiring passage out of the Mos Eisley spaceport aboard Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, Luke and Obi-Wan are chased off-planet, under fire, by Imperial Star Destroyers.
The true pinch comes in the subsequent scene when Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader use the Death Star to blow up Alderaan while forcing Leia to watch. It's a skillful demonstration of their true power and a foreshadowing of the climactic conflict.
But note how the plot's turning point—Luke's escape from Mos Eisley and the beginning of his journey to Alderaan—is also nicely 'pinched,' thanks to the antagonistic presence of the pursuing Star Destroyers.
Midpoint: After emerging from lightspeed at the coordinates where Alderaan should have been, Luke and Co. encounter the Death Star for the first time. The Falcon is pulled in by a tractor beam, and they barely escape by hiding in Han's smuggling compartments. Afterward, Luke discovers Leia is a prisoner aboard the Death Star. He and Han shift out of reaction and into action by deciding to go rescue her.
Second Pinch Point: After the rescue goes sadly awry, Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are forced to hide in a trash compactor. This proves to be a dangerous mistake, when a dianoga sewer slug tries to eat Luke and the Imperials then turn on the compactor in attempt to crush them. They barely escape, thanks to Artoo's intervention.
Third Plot Point: Just as they make it back to the Falcon (false victory), Luke spots Obi-Wan dueling Darth Vader. Obi-Wan allows Vader to strike him down. The Falcon escapes but immediately comes under fire by TIE fighters.
The low moment here is pretty brief, but the film does a good job capitalizing on it by giving Luke a visible moment of grief: 'I just can't believe he's gone.'
Climax: After escaping to the Rebel base on Yavin IV, Artoo's plans are used to formulate a plan of attack against the Death Star. Luke joins the X-Wing fighters and heads out to battle.
Climactic Moment: Luke 'uses the Force' and makes a perfect shot to create the chain reaction necessary to blow up the Death Star.
Resolution: Luke and Han return to Leia on Yavin IV, where they (but not Chewie!) are awarded medals.
Given everything that the Rebels had to go through to obtain data about the Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, you should consider yourself lucky. All you need to do is pick up a copy of the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual!
Cover art for the US edition of the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual. The UK edition is titled Imperial Death Star Owner's Technical Manual.
This is the turning point halfway through the First Act in several obvious ways: a new setting and the introduction of the protagonist Luke Skywalker (note that introducing your protagonist this late is rarely a good idea). It's also the protagonist's first brush with the conflict. Up to this point, Luke has had no conscious connection to the Empire or the Rebellion.
His rejection of the Call to Adventure comes a bit later when Obi-Wan tries to convince him to come to Alderaan and learn to be Jedi, but Luke refuses, saying, 'I've got to get back. I'm in for it as it is.'
First Plot Point: After meeting Obi-Wan Kenobi and hearing Leia's full message, explaining that she's given the Death Star plans to Artoo and that she needs Obi-Wan to take them to her father on Alderaan, Luke stumbles upon a Jawa massacre and realizes Imperial Stormtroopers are tracking the droids. He races home to the farm only to discover it's been torched and his aunt and uncle murdered. This is a firm closing of the door to the Normal World for him. As he tells Obi-Wan, 'there's nothing for me here now.' He can only react to what's just happened and move forward into the (now very personal) conflict.
First Pinch Point: After hiring passage out of the Mos Eisley spaceport aboard Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, Luke and Obi-Wan are chased off-planet, under fire, by Imperial Star Destroyers.
The true pinch comes in the subsequent scene when Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader use the Death Star to blow up Alderaan while forcing Leia to watch. It's a skillful demonstration of their true power and a foreshadowing of the climactic conflict.
But note how the plot's turning point—Luke's escape from Mos Eisley and the beginning of his journey to Alderaan—is also nicely 'pinched,' thanks to the antagonistic presence of the pursuing Star Destroyers.
Midpoint: After emerging from lightspeed at the coordinates where Alderaan should have been, Luke and Co. encounter the Death Star for the first time. The Falcon is pulled in by a tractor beam, and they barely escape by hiding in Han's smuggling compartments. Afterward, Luke discovers Leia is a prisoner aboard the Death Star. He and Han shift out of reaction and into action by deciding to go rescue her.
Second Pinch Point: After the rescue goes sadly awry, Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are forced to hide in a trash compactor. This proves to be a dangerous mistake, when a dianoga sewer slug tries to eat Luke and the Imperials then turn on the compactor in attempt to crush them. They barely escape, thanks to Artoo's intervention.
Third Plot Point: Just as they make it back to the Falcon (false victory), Luke spots Obi-Wan dueling Darth Vader. Obi-Wan allows Vader to strike him down. The Falcon escapes but immediately comes under fire by TIE fighters.
The low moment here is pretty brief, but the film does a good job capitalizing on it by giving Luke a visible moment of grief: 'I just can't believe he's gone.'
Climax: After escaping to the Rebel base on Yavin IV, Artoo's plans are used to formulate a plan of attack against the Death Star. Luke joins the X-Wing fighters and heads out to battle.
Climactic Moment: Luke 'uses the Force' and makes a perfect shot to create the chain reaction necessary to blow up the Death Star.
Resolution: Luke and Han return to Leia on Yavin IV, where they (but not Chewie!) are awarded medals.
Given everything that the Rebels had to go through to obtain data about the Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, you should consider yourself lucky. All you need to do is pick up a copy of the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual!
Cover art for the US edition of the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual. The UK edition is titled Imperial Death Star Owner's Technical Manual.
How did this book come about? A few years ago, artists Chris Reiff, Chris Trevas, and I were still working on the Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual when Haynes Publishing editor Derek Smith presented us with a short list of vessels that might be the subject for a follow-up book. I believe it was the nice folks at Lucasfilm who decided we should proceed with the most enormous.
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I'm guessing you know this already, but — SPOILER ALERT! — the Death Star wasn't active for very long in the Star Wars galaxy. The popular awareness of the Death Star's fate made me consider the narrative aspects for the Death Star manual, which — like the Millennium Falcon manual — would read as an 'in universe' book. Tempted as I was to write the book as if were an official publication of the Imperial Navy, Derek Smith and I agreed that a more practical approach was to write the book from the perspective that the Death Star's destruction was already common knowledge. By relating details about the Death Star in the past tense, we would also have opportunities to present information from the Rebel Alliance's perspective. A Haynes Manual for another gigantic, ill-fated ship served as something of a role model: RMS Titanic Owner's Workshop Manual.
Although Haynes Publishing is best known for publishing illustrated automobile-maintenance manuals, Haynes has a growing reputation with books about historic vehicles as well as fictional spacecraft.
Mr. Reiff, Mr. Trevas (I try to refrain from refering to them as 'the Chrises') and I were familiar with the Death Star's weapons and technology by way of our work on Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection (DK Publishing, 2008), but in preparation for the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual, we reexamined many peviously published Star Wars books that featured information and illustrations about the Death Star. These books ranged from other 'in universe' books, such as Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections by writer David West Reynolds and artists Hans Jenssen and Richard Chasemore (DK Publishing, 1998), to J.W. Rinzler's 'real world' book, Star Wars: The Blueprints, as the floor plans and diagrams for Death Star sets and props were obviously useful for our own purposes.
I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that the Star Wars: Death Star Technical Companion by Bill Slavicsek (West End Games, 1991) was a gold mine for information about the Death Star. Although Slavicsek could not have anticipated how the subsequently-produced Star Wars movie prequels or The Clone Wars TV series would revise continuity about the Death Star, information in the Technical Companion remained largely sound. I was briefly tempted to retcon Slavicsek's text for an Imperial communique between Governor Tarkin and Emperor Palpatine's office because some bits didn't exactly mesh with subsequent continuity. However, I opted—with the approval of the Holocron Keeper, Leland Chee — to keep the communique as is for two reasons: I respect Slavicsek's contributions, and the continuity discrepancies could be blamed as an error on the part of the Imperial Propaganda Bureau.
West End Games roleplaying game books introduced a great deal of information about the Death Star to the Expanded Universe.
But how could an in-universe manual about the Death Star include onboard 'recordings' of images and data that, one might assume, were lost after the Death Star exploded? I found a workable explanation in Star Wars: Galaxy Guide I: A New Hope by Michael Stern and Grant S. Boucher (West End Games, 1989). That book introduced the character Voren Na'al, a Rebel Alliance-affiliated historian, who obtained information about the construction and destruction of the Death Star by infiltrating an Imperial communications complex on the planet Galvoni III. Evidently, and most fortunately for this writer's purposes, the Death Star was transmitting data to the Galvoni system right up until the moment that a certain proton torpedo found its target.
That said, the Death Star Owner's Technical Manual would be hardly just a rehash of previously published material. Over the course of numerous email exchanges with Reiff and Trevas, we sorted out how illustrations, diagrams, and photographs would be spread throughout the book. I loved their idea for the stormtrooper barracks, which was to take inspiration from clone trooper barracks seen in episodes of The Clone Wars. When I proposed that command sector duty posts should have extendible frames to allow crewmen to easily enter and exit the posts, Reiff and Trevas made it happen. Although ther drawing certainly required more time than my writing, the project was very much a collaborative experience.
Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas created the art and provided detailed annotations for the Death Star's Command Sector Duty Posts.
Searching for screen grabs that might serve as illustrations, I reviewed every frame of Star Wars: A New Hope and Return of the Jedi that presented exterior and interior scenes of the first and second Death Star. Yes, every frame. Can I prove it? No. But unless you've also scrutinized A New Hope thoroughly on home video, and noticedhowthe Death Star corridor viewed through an open blast door at around 1:13:46 utilized the same camera set-up as the corridor viewed at 1:29:28, I hope you'll take my word for it. In the latter scene, an Imperial astromech is visible in the corridor. Just so you know.
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Some screen grabs and production stills were digitally-manipulated to illustrate previously unseen action within the Death Star. For example, a photograph of Darth Vader (David Prowse) and Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) was modified so the characters appear to be monitoring the Death Star's passage through hyperspace. When I first saw that modified photo, I thought, 'Wow.' It looked very cool.
A still from A New Hope was repurposed to illustrate Hyperdrive Station A-226 on the Death Star.
Recently, at New York Comic Con, Del Rey editor Erich Schoeneweiss presented me with a hot-off-the-press copy of the Death Star Owner's Technical Companion. Even though I'd already seen all the pages as digital galleys, I thought, 'WOW!'
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I hope you'll think the same when you see the book. If you wind up building your own full-scale Death Star, please invite me, Chris Reiff, and Chris Trevas over for a tour. Just do the world a favor and make sure the superlaser is set on 'safety.'
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When not playing with toys and writing Star Wars books, Ryder Windham helps organize Star Wars-themed blood drives and charity events with the 501st Legion and Rebel Legion.