What If You Could Build the Death Star?

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That's no moon. It's a space station. The enormous, planet-killing kind, designed for only one thing — to bring order to the galaxy. It's Star Wars' Imperial superweapon, the Death Star. What would it take to build one just like this? Where would we assemble the biggest weapon of mass destruction?

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