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9 Years Later, Star Wars Has Retconned Its Previous Death Star Retcon

Ryan Britt

created: May 14, 2025, 2 a.m. | updated: May 18, 2025, 10:34 a.m.

Forty-nine years ago, the original Star Wars fans weren’t super worried about the origin of the Death Star. In the opening crawl to the first 1977 movie, later retitled A New Hope, we were told about the Death Star in big, bold, yellow letters. The Death Star, in abstract, is a very comprehendible thing: a moon-sized mobile space station that blows up planets. But in the final episodes of Andor, the top-secret notion of the Death Star might seem slightly confusing, even to the most detail-oriented Star Wars fan. The First Rebel to Crack the Death Star CaseRobert Emms as Lonni Jung, the man who revealed the Death Star.

9 months ago: Inverse