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===Second Death Star===
[[File:DeathStar2.jpg|thumb|alt=The second Death Star|The second Death Star]]

The 1983 film ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' features the '''''DS-2 Orbital Battle Station''''' under construction as it orbits the forest moon [[Endor (Star Wars)|Endor]], which houses a shield generator protecting the station. The second Death Star is substantially more advanced and more powerful than its predecessor, and the critical weakness found in the first Death Star has been removed—the Rebel Alliance's only hope is to destroy it prior to its completion. [[Palpatine|The Emperor]] and Darth Vader [[Counterintelligence|send the Rebels false information]] that the station's weapons systems are not yet complete in order to lure the Alliance fleet into a trap, resulting in the decisive Battle of Endor. In fact, the station's superlaser is fully operational, and it begins firing on and destroying Rebel [[capital ship]]s during the battle.

A ground assault team led by [[Han Solo]] with the help of the Endor-native [[Ewok]]s successfully manages to disable the shield generator, allowing Rebel pilots [[Wedge Antilles]] and [[Lando Calrissian]] to fly into the station (using Han's ''[[Millennium Falcon]]'') and fire on its reactor, destroying the station in another catastrophic explosion.<ref name="star wars 6">{{cite AV media|people=Marquand, Richard (Director)|title=[[Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi]]|publisher=[[20th Century Fox]]|date=May 25, 1983|medium=DVD|edition=2004}}</ref>

An early draft of ''Return of the Jedi'' features two Death Stars at various stages of completion.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://io9.gizmodo.com/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-wars-ret-1383276948|title=10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Wars: Return of the Jedi|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|website=[[Gizmodo]]|date=September 25, 2013|access-date=April 16, 2019|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512060419/https://io9.gizmodo.com/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-wars-ret-1383276948|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the ''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'', the second Death Star had at its "north pole ... a heavily armored 100-story tower topped by the Emperor's private observation chamber."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sansweet|first=Stephen J.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36960986|title=Star Wars Encyclopedia|publisher=Ballantine|year=1998|isbn=0-345-40227-8|edition=1st|location=New York|page=70|oclc=36960986|authorlink=Steve Sansweet}}</ref> The size of the second Death Star has not remained consistent among the various writers for the ''Star Wars'' franchise, with some stating it shared the first Death Star's {{convert|160|km|adj=on}} radius and others claiming it was much more massive with a {{convert|900|km|adj=on}} radius.<ref>{{cite book |title=Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy |date=2004}}</ref> The most recent figure established in 2017 by Ryder Windham gives the second Death Star a radius of {{convert|200|km}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=Windham |first=Ryder |date=2017 |title=Star Wars: Rogue One: Death Star Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model |publisher=Insight Editions }}</ref>

The second Death Star is featured on the cover of the book ''[[Star Wars: Aftermath]]'' (2015), which also features many flashbacks to the destruction of the second Death Star, as well as the events directly after its destruction. One of the main characters in the story personally escaped the explosion of the Death Star. The destruction of the second Death Star was also shown in holograms in the book.{{citation needed|date=June 2017|reason=Star Wars Aftermath novel}} The 2015 comic book ''[[Star Wars: Shattered Empire]]'' also explores the days following the destruction of the second Death Star from the perspective of [[Poe Dameron]]'s parents, who were pilots during the event. The video game ''[[Star Wars: Uprising]]'' also takes place during the aftermath of the second Death Star's destruction, and features a hologram of its description on multiple occasions in and out of cutscenes.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Part of the wreckage of the second Death Star appears in ''[[The Rise of Skywalker]]'' (2019), on the ocean moon [[Kef&nbsp;Bir]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Bankhurst |first=Adam |title=Star Wars: Location Where Death Star II Crashed Identified |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/23/star-wars-location-where-death-star-ii-crashed-identified |access-date=October 23, 2019 |date=October 23, 2019 |archive-date=October 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023231239/https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/23/star-wars-location-where-death-star-ii-crashed-identified |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Rey (Star Wars)|Rey]] visits the wreckage to obtain the Emperor's wayfinder, a device that points the way to his hidden lair on [[Exegol]].<ref name="star wars 9">{{cite AV media|title=[[Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker]]|medium=[[Blu-ray]]|publisher=[[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=December 20, 2019}}</ref>