[quote=@Assallya]
I love the Death Star.  It was so pointless.  The Imperial Fleet was much more capable of wiping out a civilization.
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In the books and other sources they actually talk about that bit. The Imperial navy kept waht was left of the empire together almost singlehandedly and many of the moffs and admirals blamed the deathstars huge diversion of resources as the reason for the empire's fall. One death star could have built something like a dozen super star destroyers and alot of admirals were pissed about that.