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revenge of the sith - Was Sidious already making the Death Star by the end of Episode III?


I ask this because at the end of the movie, you see Luke on Tatooine, Leia with Bail Organa, and then a decent portion of the Death Star already done as Palpatine & Vader look on. So it seems the station was already under construction during the Republic. Or was there just some random time gap between these scenes?



Here is the scene in question:


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Answer



The Death Star was constructed during the Clone Wars. Wookiepedia has more information.



As the war raged on, the Ultimate Weapon saw construction over Geonosis. By the time the three-year conflict came to an end, workers had partially completed its framework. As the war ended, Darth Sidious got rid of his Confederacy puppets, including his own apprentice, and proclaimed the birth of a new, authoritarian Galactic Empire, anointing himself Emperor. The Ultimate Weapon project was immediately appropriated by the nascent Empire.



So there you have it- it was being constructed for up to three years. Remember that at the end of Episode 2 the Separatists had the plans. They had the resources of many star systems behind them, as well as the personal wealth of two influential Sith.


EDIT: I just saw something in another answer that can serve here as confirmation; the commentary for Episode 2 has Lucas say the following:




...I came up with the idea of adding a little schematic of the Death Star in here, because the Geonosians build robots and build things, they're sort of construction workers. They would probably be the ones contracted to build the Death Star, and they were the ones that Jay and Silent Bob worry got killed on the Death Star, but they are after all a bunch of large termites.



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