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A little old lady is trying to cross the busy streets of Coruscant. We just have a single question to ask to see if you are Empire worthy. I believe Lord Vader already told you there was no Death Star 1.0 when you came in looking for the droids you weren't looking for. How do you recruit people after a PR nightmare like that? "Thanks for coming today, Stan. Realistically, using statistics like average number of workers in a factory and population per square mileage of livable space, that number is a paltry 273,195.

Brad Burnie of did a painstakingly detailed analysis and determined that, according to official Star Wars lore, 1,565,231 people died on Death Star 1.0, split between Stormtroopers, Imperial garrisons, and passengers. He did not, of course, which means a bunch of people kicked it, but how many depends on how you look at it. Perhaps if Tarkin had turned down the hubris even a little, he could have told the people aboard the Death Star to evacuate just in case.

Yes, the Force did play into the one-in-a-trillion shot, but tell that to young Tarkin, Jr. I think you overestimate their chances!" These words are uttered by Grand Moff Tarkin ( Peter Cushin g) in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, mere moments before Death Star 1.0 is taken out by Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill), a former moisture farmer who compared hitting the exhaust port to shooting at womp rats in Beggar's Canyon.