It would take 833,315 years to produce enough steel to start work on a Death Star, meaning you'll be long dead before you'll ever see it anywhere near operational. The Earth's iron supply is capable of building 2 billion Death Stars. Based on the density of a modern warship and scaled up, it would take about 1 quadrillion tons of steel to build one Death Star. I guess ruling the Galactic Empire isn't so terrible when you're ballin'.įinally putting some questions to rest, the smart folk over at Centives calculated how much iron it would take to build the planet-destroying space station and even figured out how long it would take to build. It means Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were rolling in the money like filthy rich rappers. I'm just going to shake my fist angrily at the script.That's 852 with 15 zeros following it. As for how they built the substantially larger Second Death Star in just 4 short years after the Battle of Yavin, while I could rationalize something about the Emperor taking the destruction of the original as a personal affront and flooding colossal amounts of money and resources into the thing while simply expanding upon already proven technology. I mean, between the need to slowly gather resources without arousing suspicion, engineering setbacks, and some sabotage by the labor force (for that matter who thought using slaves was a good idea on a prototype?), it's plausible that actual construction could have been quicker once the proper knowledge base was in place. The biggest issue I can forsee is the sheer logistical nightmare of keeping something like that a secret while excavating and appropriating the colossal resources necessary to create the required mass. So when you've got a hearty slice of GDP coming into the coffers at Coruscant, and the best engineers at Sienar, Kaut, and Corellia on retainer, it's not entirely unreasonable for a super-project of the Death Star's magnitude to be accomplished in 20 years. In a galactic society with a dominant central government in the form of the Republic/ Empire, advanced manufacturing, rigorous intergalactic economic trade, and heavy automation, the economic output of planets is likely much greater. 
The current global economy produces nominally 77 Trillion dollars a year.
The Death Star took about 19-20 years to construct, and an unknown number of years to design.
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