A Haynes Manual for another gigantic, ill-fated ship served as something of a role model: RMS Titanic Owner’s Workshop Manual.Īlthough Haynes Publishing is best known for publishing illustrated automobile-maintenance manuals, Haynes has a growing reputation with books about historic vehicles as well as fictional spacecraft. By relating details about the Death Star in the past tense, we would also have opportunities to present information from the Rebel Alliance’s perspective. Tempted as I was to write the book as if were an official publication of the Imperial Navy, Derek Smith and I agreed that a more practical approach was to write the book from the perspective that the Death Star’s destruction was already common knowledge. The popular awareness of the Death Star’s fate made me consider the narrative aspects for the Death Star manual, which - like the Millennium Falcon manual - would read as an “in universe” book. I’m guessing you know this already, but - SPOILER ALERT! - the Death Star wasn’t active for very long in the Star Wars galaxy. I believe it was the nice folks at Lucasfilm who decided we should proceed with the most enormous. How did this book come about? A few years ago, artists Chris Reiff, Chris Trevas, and I were still working on the Millennium Falcon Owner’s Workshop Manual when Haynes Publishing editor Derek Smith presented us with a short list of vessels that might be the subject for a follow-up book. The UK edition is titled Imperial Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual.
Cover art for the US edition of the Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual.
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