Star Wars: Death Star Owner's Technical Manual: Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station Author: Ryder Windham | Language: English | ISBN:
0804176612 | Format: PDF
Star Wars: Death Star Owner's Technical Manual: Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station Description
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“As an all-in-one resource for the Death Star, the
Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual is the book to turn to. It’s a wealth of information on one of the most iconic ships from the
Star Wars films.”
—Roqoo Depot “For a casual fan, there’s all sorts of neat trivia that will keep anyone’s attention. For a fleet junkie, the book is a huge wealth of knowledge that you’ll come back to scan again and again. The Haynes
Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual is a fun and brilliant read. Go pick it up.”
—Tosche StationAbout the Author
Ryder Windham is a former editor of
Star Wars comics and has written more than fifty
Star Wars books, including
Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force and
The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader. He is also an instructor and the certificate advisor for the Comic and Sequential Art Certificate Program at Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education.
For more than a decade
Chris Trevas has created
Star Wars artwork for numerous licensees. He currently lives and works at home in Michigan with his family.
Chris Reiff has spent the past fourteen years working as a toy designer and inventor, bringing a variety of licensed products to market. While he stays busy working on other major properties at the design company he founded in Cincinnati, he always finds time to jump back into the
Star Wars universe when the opportunity arises.
- Series: Star Wars
- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804176612
- ISBN-13: 978-0804176613
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Death Star Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station Owner's Technical Manual written by Ryder Windham, Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas is pretty much the ultimate guide to the Death Star. Do you want to know what kind of recreational facilities the crew of the Death Star had? Turn to page 76. Do you want to know the name and rank of everyone who was at the command table where Vader Force choked Mott in A New Hope? Turn to page 107. Heck, if you're looking for the bathroom, the book has those too (page 75 and 77). In combining most of the info from every existing source on the Death Star, this manual puts it all in one handy spot. With the addition of screen stills from the films, cutaway drawings and technical illustrations, the book has as much visual information as it does written info, not to mention some of the best Death Star artwork to date in a Star War guide. Whether this is a book you have to have in your Star Wars library is a far deeper question, so let's review the details.
In this manual you'll get an overview and details of the key features of the Death Star. Areas include weapons and defensive systems, energy and propulsion, hangar bays, city sprawls and trenches, security sectors, service and technical sectors, and the command sector. Each area has six to fourteen pages of coverage. There are pictures from the films to help fans identify the parts they've seen from the movies, and technical illustrations that show all the details they might have missed. All of those sections are broken down into smaller parts, covering individual systems and areas in even greater detail.
Written by Ryder Windham with artwork by Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas, the Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual is an in-depth exploration of the systems and structures of the Imperial DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, the Death Star.
This book follows on the heels of the previous Haynes-styled Star Wars vehicle book, the Millennium Falcon Owner’s Workshop Manual, which was released in 2012 by the same creative team.
The Manual is divided into 11-sections:
The History of the Death Star
Death Star
Weapons & Defensive Systems
Energy & Propulsion
Hangar Bays
City Sprawls & Trenches
Security Sector
Service & Technical Sectors
Command Sector
Death Star II
Size Comparison Chart
The book’s visuals are a mixture of still shots taken from the films, matte paintings and artwork created for the films, new artwork created for this project and diagram/schematics created for the books.
The written content of the book is a mixture of first-person accounts through the use of journal entries and more encyclopedic approach to the majority of the text.
Some things that really stuck out to me is that there seems to be a lot of stuff involving recreation from the novel Death Star that didn’t get included in this book. I can think of an in-universe reason for this but it struck me as odd given that the novel itself was specifically mentioned by Windham at the end of the book.
I will say that probably my favorite portion of the book was the section(pg. 106-107) on the Death Star’s conference room. This section is the perfect balance of text and visuals and deals with a very interesting scene from A New Hope and adds depth to that scene.
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