Darth devastated.
Epitaph: “Never forget to shield your thermal exhaust ports.”
Stranger
I have a bad feeling about this. 
RIP.
It’s a ball with a dent. How hard was that to make?
It was impressive enough that AT&T copied it as their logo 5 years later (in 1982).
(I mean, probably not really, but still, that looks a lot of like the Death Star to me.)
That would have been your design? Probably superior from a psy-ops point of view.
Apparently easier than making a ball without a dent. When Cantwell was building the model the two halves shrunk, resulting in the trench.
Was it an X-Wing strike?
Little known origin of the dent.
Oh, I don’t know; AT&T is a lot like the Galactic Empire of Star Wars in many ways; officious and bureaucratic, making grandiose plans that do not come to fruition, incapable of maintaining a reliable network and providing poor service to outlying systems, led by a guy with a shiny domed head, soon to break up into a bunch of fragmentary little fiefdoms with much infighting and mercenary pursuits. If George Lucas were just writing Star Wars today, he would doubtless be looking at AT&T as a source of material to ‘pay homage’ to.
Stranger
The funny thing is, he started out designing a moon.
I thought the trench with the exhaust port was not on the equator. The animation that’s shown during the briefing doesn’t show it on the equator, and the scale is completely wrong.
Wait.
Are we sure this guy isn’t actually Kylo Ren?
It’s always reminded me of the Panasonic “ball radio” from the 1970s.
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that’s no moon
“You realize we just killed thousands of people?”
The giveaway was the only song played was Benson Arizona
I’m staggered that anyone ever thought the exhaust port was on the equator. It’s blatantly obvious in the movie that it isn’t.
“It’s only a model!”
Stranger