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{{quote|"The Death Star was a monster, no question about that. It was conceived by [[Complete Monster|monsters]] and controlled by them. But not everyone on board was a monster."|''Teela Kaarz''}}
''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star_%28novel%29 Death Star]'' is a novel in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. Perry also wrote [[Shadows of the Empire]]. Reaves wrote a few episodes of the old ''Droids'' and ''Ewoks'' television shows, as well as ''Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter'' and the Coruscant Nights Trilogy. Prior to ''
The novel follows the lives of a selection of characters who end up working on the Death Star late in its completion, and after that. They include Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, Admiral Motti, an old surgeon, a Force-Sensitive stormtrooper, a bartender, a librarian, a bouncer, a TIE pilot, a wrongly accused convict, a political prisoner who was an architect, and the Death Star's lead gunner.
Interestingly, there is no overall villain of the book. The Rebellion is certainly out there, weighing on people's minds, but aside from the minor role that Leia Organa plays, none of them are named or given much notoriety, much less become a viewpoint character. Some characters oppose each other - Motti does not like Vader, for instance - but until the end most of them are at least somewhat civil with each other. They're all more or less on the same side, after all.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]: The TIE pilot, Vil Dance, becomes one.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Tenn Graneet and Nova Stihl.
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* [[Bar Brawl]]: Threatened at several points, but it never gets that far. The bouncer's good at his job.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Tenn Graneet calls it by name.
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Now he understood exactly what that meant. He had wanted to fire the big gun, and he had gotten to do just that. The only man in the galaxy who had shot it for real, at real targets, and look what it had brought him: [[My God, What Have I Done?|misery beyond his ugliest dreams.]] }}
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: Tenn Graneet is the one who pulled the trigger sending Despayre and Alderaan to their deaths. While Despayre unnerves him, he can at least partially rationalize it what with it being full of convicts declared too dangerous to be held locally. When he terminates Alderaan, however, he sinks into a deep, deep depression feeling that death would be too good for him.
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* [[Mind Probe]]: Vader does this casually to the architect, who senses him, freaks out, and closes down.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Tenn Graneet has a major one of these. Some time after shooting down a shuttle of escaping convicts, and then after killing Rebels in X-Wings, the TIE pilot, Dance, has a quieter one.
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[[Driven to Suicide|How could a man live with that?]] }}
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Nova's Force-Sensitivity.
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Averted. One of the interspecies couples refers to this as a [[Noodle Incident]] after a [[Time Skip]] of several months.
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"You could have looked it up. You plan to date outside your species, it's on you to know what's poison and what's not."
"[[Never Live It Down|You're never going to let me forget it, are you?]]"
"Not a chance, Green-Eyes." }}
* [[Penal Colony]]: Despayre, again.
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Tenn Graneet delays firing the superlaser at Yavin IV long enough for a certain Rebel pilot to fire a proton torpedo...
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]]: Doctor Uli Divini has been in Imperial service since before Palpatine's New Order, due to the Imperial Military Stop Loss Order, or IMSLO.
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* [[Retirony]]: Old-school Admiral Helaw, a man with standards who'd [[Taking the Bullet|take a beam to the chest]] rather than allow it to get you [[In the Back]], planned to retire as soon as this project was finished. A certain amount of time was spent building him up as cautious, reliable, and Admiral Motti's confidant. And then he died in an act of sabotage.
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: Admiral Helaw (one of Motti's old friends) talks about this hardcore master marksman who would often throw himself into the fray with his troops. Helaw's friend is about to gun down a charging pirate when his gun jams, and gets unceremoniously shanked by a sharpened piece of junk. Helaw relates this story as a warning against hubris.
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* [[Word of God]]: Motti's [[Only One Name]] status was to be ended with the authors of this novel giving him the name "Zi." However, that was changed before the novel was published after [[George Lucas]] jokingly said that the character's name was "Conan Antonio Motti" (in reference to [[Conan O'Brien]]). A single use of "Zi" still remains in the novel, presumably as an editing mistake.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Nova Stihl is badly shaken after Alderaan, the deaths of billions of innocent civilians of all ages, enough so that he concludes he has to try to prevent something like that from happening again.
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* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: A minor character named Bahlateez speaks in this manner.
** And of course, Vader's "What is thy bidding, my master?" (Look up T-V distinction. Basically it means that Indo-European languages generally have a "familial" form [''thou'' in English, some variant of ''tu'' in the Romance languages] and a "polite" form [''you'' in English, ''vous'' in French, ''usted'' in Spanish, ''vos'' in Latin], which is usually but not always the plural form.) Which could be a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]], considering the nature of the Sith.
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