I can understand being confused where the trench is. The filmmakers were working off outdated information. The briefing before the attack uses the original graphics, with the weapon “dent” right on the equator. I’m surprised Lucas never “fixed” it for one of the many special editions. I like that they kept the wrong graphics in Rogue One.
That looks more like the training remote that Luke used to practice his lightsaber with Kenobi.
It’s not just the graphics, though. When the Millenium Falcon is brought on to the Death Star by the tractor beam, we can see how wide the trench is that circles the equator. When the rebels are making their attack runs down the trench with the exhaust port, it’s much, much smaller.
I want one! 
It also had the big-ass laser on the equator.
The main weapon was originally going to be fired through the polar axis, not from the dish on the surface,
The dent is the “big-ass laser”.
Its name is “superlaser” in the Star Wars universe. (And yes, it is a ridiculous name.)
Sure, but not as ridiculous as either the Sun Crusher or whatever that thing that was just a superlaser without the Death Star superstructure was called.
I remember the Sun Crusher. I remember it from reading the comics. It was even worse, but at least it was only in “Expanded Universe” stories, and isn’t canon. So you can plausibly ignore its existence.
It was basically the same as the Death Star, but instead of blowing up a planet, it blew up a star (causing it to supernova). That would destroy entire systems. Oh, and it was only the size of a starship, and was nearly indestructible.
It first appeared in the 1994 novel Jedi Search, and was a product of the XTREME!!! mentality that was far too common in the 90s. (Also see the countless grimdark superhero titles of that era.)
That’s what all the employees said, too.
At that, it was better than the Lucent logo, which people likened to either a lipstick circle or an inflamed anus.
That’s just asking to be photoshopped with goatse.
But luckily he built in a design flaw which he gave to his estranged daughter who then was able to steal it for the Rebel Alliance.
Yeah, that Suncrusher thing is almost as dumb as the star-killing vintage Star Destroyers from Rise of Skywalker. So why even build planet-sized planet-killing super-weapons like the Death Star and Starkiller Base when you can apparently miniaturize the tech into some big goofy over-sized gun and graft it to the underside of thousands of Imperial Navy surplus Star Destroyers?
I mean we had at least 4 Star Wars films revolving around the Imperial strategic doctrine of building giant, oversized, planet-killing weapons.
Methinks somebody was compensating for something. Or a lack thereof.
Well, Anakin did lose various body parts in that lava-infused fight with Obi-wan…
Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.
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They were ray shielded, dammit.
But they were 2 meters wide; large enough that some random farm boy whose only experienced is shooting “wamp rats” could aim a torpedo down them without even using a targeting computer. <owen wilson>That’s a terrible design!<owen wilson>
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I wonder if the womp is a unit of measure in the Star-Wars-verse, equal to two meters. And womp rats are named for their size, like an inch worm.
I once ran the Mos Espa loop in less than 500 womps.
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