Death Star (disambiguation)

The Death Star is a fictional giant military space station in the Star Wars universe, best known for its superweapon that can destroy planets.

Death Star may also refer to:

Star Wars related

• Death Star (novel), a 2007 Star Wars novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• Death Star (ILM), the render farm of Industrial Light and Magic

In other fiction

• "Death Star", a nickname of Ghroth, one of the fictional Ramsey Campbell deities of the Cthulhu Mythos
• "Death Star", nickname for the LAPD surveillance and communications satellite in the 1994 William Gibson novel Virtual Light
• "Death Star", name of a warship in online space strategy "Ogame".*

Business

• Death Star (business), a fraudulent business strategy used by Enron to manipulate California's energy markets
• "Death Star" is the nickname of two corporate logos:
  • AT&T (1885-2005) corporate logo designed by Saul Bass in use since 1984, and its recent derivatives, following the breakup of AT&T. In 1999 it was changed from the 12-line design to the 8-line design. Again in 2005 it was changed to the 3D transparent design.
  • Gannett corporate logo, especially its use in the late 1980s by television station WUSA
• "Death Star" is the nickname for the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington

Music

• Deathstars, a Swedish industrial metal band formed in 2000
• xDEATHSTARx, an American Christian hardcore band formed in 2002
• Deathstar, a 2007 song and single on Alpha from american heavy metal band Sevendust
• Tenacious D's song on their third album, Death Starr released in 2010
• Death*Star, a Seattle nerdcore hip-hop group. [1]

Video games

• Deathstar (video game) a 1984 video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers

Science and technology

Astronomy

• "Death Star", an episode of NOVA that discusses gamma ray bursts; see List of NOVA episodes
• "Death Star", nickname of Nemesis (star), a hypothetical star theorized to cause periodic extinctions on Earth
• "Death Star", nickname of Mimas (moon), a moon of Saturn which coincidentally resembles the fictional Star Wars space station
• "Death Star Galaxy", 3C321.

Other science and technology

• "Deathstar", nickname of IBM Deskstar hard drives, particularly the unreliable 75GXP and 60GXP models
• "Death Star", nickname of the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility

Other

• "Death Star", nickname of the British military base RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands
• "Death Star", nickname of the huge central administration building of the Hungarian police in Budapest, also known as the "Police Palace"
• In tabletop gaming, a "Death Star" is a unit or group of units which is very difficult to counter due to strength, survivability, abilities, or army specialization.

See also

• Star Destroyer

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