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The Death Star refers to any of several fictional mobile space stations and galactic superweapons appearing in the Star Wars science-fiction franchise created by George Lucas. The First Death Star was stated to be in diameter, or (to give perspective) aprox. 1/25 the size of our Moon., and was crewed by an estimated 1.7 million military personnel and 400,000 droids,. The Second Death Star was significantly larger and more advanced than its predecessor. Both versions of these dwarf planet-sized fortresses were designed for massive power projection capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with one blast from their superlasers.
The Death Star strategy, (named after the Death Star space station and weapon from the movie Star Wars), was the name Enron gave to their practice of shuffling energy around the California power grid to receive payments from the state for "relieving congestion." According to the company's own memo they would be paid "for moving energy to relieve congestion, without actually moving any energy or relieving any congestion."
For example, if the California power grid was congested with energy flowing south, Enron would schedule energy to be transmitted north to Oregon. They would receive a payment from California for apparently relieving congestion on the grid. Then Enron would schedule the energy to be transferred back to its point of origin, but not through California. Ultimately the energy would end up right back where it started, and Enron would be paid by California without actually putting any electricity on their grid.
The firm acknowledged in internal documents the inherent ethical dilemmas, in one internal document stating "Traders could buy power at $250 and sell it for $1,200. Doing so appears not to present any problems, other than a public relations risk arising from the fact that such exports may have contributed to California's declaration of a Stage 2 Emergency yesterday."
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:
Death Star is a 2007 science fiction novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry that is set in the Star Wars galaxy. It deals with the construction of the Death Star, a massive weaponized space station which first appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
The book was originally published in New York by LucasBooks/Del Rey/Ballantine Books, in 2007, with the title Star Wars: Death Star. It is held in 860 WorldCat libraries. It was reprinted in London by Century in 2008 as Death Star.
The Death Star is the name of the render-farm owned by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). It is a cluster computer originally built by SGI. Since then, it has been converted into a Linux system built by RackSaver (now Verari Systems) with AMD processors. The system originally had 1,500 processors in 750 nodes, this figure was doubled for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. ILM tends to be quiet about their supercomputer, so its current configuration is not known.
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Usage examples of "death star".
Tenel Ka had been right about a Jedi Master not being able to lead the strike team, which meant that Anakin - and no doubt Jaina, too - would be trusting their lives to a plan almost as foolhardy as trying to break Leia out of the Death Star's detention center.
Our forces on Toprawa may have a shot at the Death Star plans as well.
Kenobi had died sacrificing himself on the Death Star before he could see any of his seeds bear fruit, but Luke would never forget him.
In her hair she wore the combs he had given her, made from silver and opal mined on Alderaan before Grand Moff Tarkin blasted the planet to cinders with the first Death Star.
Music: Music from ROTJ (scene where Vader arrives at Death Star) is played.
She'd aged a lot since he'd first met her, back when the Alliance was trying to find a way out from under the shadow of the Empire's second Death Star.