Editing Death Star (section)

====DS-X Prototype Battle Station====
In the ''Legends'' works ''Death Star'' (2007), ''[[Dark Empire II]]'', ''Jedi Search'' and ''[[Champions of the Force]]'', an experimental Death Star prototype, '''DS-X''' (a durasteel frame surrounding a reactor core, superlaser, engines and a control room) was conceived by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin as a test bed for the first Death Star. It was constructed by Bevel Lemelisk and his engineers at the Empire's secret Maw Installation. The prototype measured 120 kilometers in diameter. Its superlaser was only powerful enough to destroy a planet's core, rendering it an uninhabitable "dead planet". The targeting system on the prototype was never calibrated and the superlaser was inefficient, leaving the weapon's batteries drained - Engineers in the control room claimed it would take 10-15 minutes to recharge batteries after the first shot was fired. The prototype had no interior except a slave-linked control room, hyperdrive engines and other components; the station operated with skeleton-crew of 75 personnel.  The prototype was later destroyed when it was drawn into the black holes surrounding the Maw cluster itself.