Facts About the Death Star

[Darth Abaddon]

Thought you guys might enjoy this.

[Rina Ascura]

It's damn hard to zoom the browser to read this. You should make the pic clickable.

[DarthJimmer]

It's damn hard to zoom the browser to read this. You should make the pic clickable.

Right click, Open image in new tab, Click to zoom.

[Waxman]

One thing that always confused me was how the Death Star was proportioned.

Is the Death Star like a planet so you could start on one hemisphere and walk around it with a gravitational pull towards the center or is the Death Star built in sections starting from the top to the bottom?

The confusion comes from the surface of the Death Star with the "city buildings" and the turbo-lasers.

Is there an area on the death star where the gravitational-pull changes so people are standing like they do on a planet when they get to a certain section of the Death Star?

[Sky Dragon c5]

^I thought of the core being so dense that it creates a gravitational field.

[Waxman]

^I thought of the core being so dense that it creates a gravitational field.

I thought so too but then what about when the Millenium Falcon docks into the Death Star?

Does that mean that at some point during the intrusion to rescue Princess Leia the "heroes" passed through an area that changed the orientation?  Kind of like in 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Transport Ship to the Moon / Space Station.

The "cross-section" booklet shows the Death Star being "floored" from "top to bottom", which makes sense considering the Emperor's Throne Room, but still, what about the turrets along the rim of the Death Star?

[Sky Dragon c5]

Maybe there is fake gravity everywhere. Like on the Falcon.

[loosekannonn]

Gravity in most Sci-Fi is driven by the floor or the computer generates the field oriented to the floor no matter the angle or one floor relative to another;
for example in the Millennium Falcon the gun pods face straight up and down relative to the ships internal lay out, but as Han and Luke climb into the gunner seats you see gravity pull them to the ladder then to the seats and floor of the gun pod; even though the gun pods would have them standing 90 degrees out from the corridors of the Falcon.

[DarthJimmer]

It might be blasphemous but some things you just have to chalk up to it being a movie lol

[Oramac]

I always assumed it was standard artificial gravity like is used on the other ships (Falcon, Star Destroyers, etc.) and built in levels starting at the "bottom" (southern) hemisphere,  and moving up to the "top" (northern) hemisphere.

[kewlkev360]

Gravity in most Sci-Fi is driven by the floor or the computer generates the field oriented to the floor no matter the angle or one floor relative to another;
for example in the Millennium Falcon the gun pods face straight up and down relative to the ships internal lay out, but as Han and Luke climb into the gunner seats you see gravity pull them to the ladder then to the seats and floor of the gun pod; even though the gun pods would have them standing 90 degrees out from the corridors of the Falcon.

I believe it is most similar to this.  The very outer "region" of the Death Star has gravity that is focused towards the core whereas the more internal regions have gravity focused top to bottom or north to south.