What could the Empire have bought instead of the Death Star?

The Death Star wasn't a great idea. It united the Rebel Alliance and gathered all of the empire's resources into one big fat target. read more

As previously mentioned, the Empire could have produced 6,000 Imperial I and II Class Star Destroyers, or 1,000 Executor class Super Star Destroyers. But the Death Star was a project several decades in the making. The original plans were drafted before the Battle of Geonosis. read more

Remember that durin the Battle of Yavin it was the Death Star which was moving to acquire the rebel base, the planetary rotation was simply not fast enough for the Death Star to just sit there and wait for the moon to get into the position. read more