Death Star Quotes

“I want a gun, Happy said immediately. "A really big gun. I want a fully functioning Death Star gun."

"Not even if Godzilla himself were to show up," said JC.”
― Simon R. Green, Ghost of a Chance

“It can't be. They would never do that again.
But they had. Ciena couldn't deny what she saw-
-a second Death Star.”
― Claudia Gray, Lost Stars

“Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I guess research isn’t for everyone.”
“Certainly not for the faint of heart or the unfaithful.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the Master.”
“Only a master of evil, Darth.”
― Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

“She was working for the Empire, a thing she had sworn she would never do, helping design a vessel that would, in all probability, be the most fearsome weapon the galaxy had ever seen. While it was true that improving the biometrics and seating pattern in an assembly hall was not the same as devising a superlaser that could melt moons, still…
Still, one was either a factor in something’s success, or a factor in its failure.
Working for the enemy, said the little voice she sometimes heard in her head. She often visualized it as a miniature version of herself, shaking a chastising finger. How sad is that?
Not as if I had a choice, is it? she replied mentally. Nobody asked me if I wanted the job, now, did they?
You could have turned it down, the avatar of her conscience shot back.
And been sent back to that serpent’s nest of a planet to rot and die? To what end?
Her inner self fell silent.”
― Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Death Star

“As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.”
― Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Death Star

“Vader’s burned face twisted into its unseen, stiff smile. Once again, Tarkin had been overconfident, so certain his beloved monster was proof against anything. A fly could sting you if you missed swatting it.”
― Steve Perry, Star Wars: Death Star

“My father’s revenge,” Jyn said. She resisted the urge to sneer. Her voice came out proud and defiant. “He built a flaw in the Death Star. He put a fuse in the middle of your machine and I’ve just told the entire galaxy how to light it.”
― Alexander Freed , Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“He stood at a metaphorical cliff’s edge, stamping his foot in an effort to cause an avalanche. With Galen Erso’s treachery undone, he would gain the allegiance of Vader. With Vader’s backing, he would expose the incompetence of Tarkin—the revelation of rebel survivors from Jedha. With Tarkin humiliated, Krennic’s command of the Death Star would be uncontested, and he would confer with the Emperor himself as to how it might best be used.
Krennic would be, in every way that mattered, the most powerful and decorated man in the Empire.
Or he would fall from the cliff and bash his skull open on the rocks. And his Death Star would fall into the fumbling hands of Wilhuff Tarkin.
Tarkin, Erso, Vader—how had so many men conspired against him for so long?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I have a really bad feeling about this…”
“Then we must be doing the right thing.”
― W. Haden Blackman, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

“This was not the fate Krennic had envisioned for Jedha. The Death Star was designed to obliterate worlds, not maim them. Yet he wondered if the moon would ever recover from such an attack, or whether the cascading effects of a burning atmosphere and broken crust would result in a tortuous death played out across millennia. He felt in his bones that his weapon had exposed something profound—about the nature of worlds, about their lifeblood and their death throes—though he could not have put it into words. Maybe, he thought, that’s what poets are for.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I wish I could say the crisis isn’t real. I wish I could say you came all this way for nothing.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story