The US government may have refused to build a Death Star,
but that doesn't mean the project is dead and forgotten about. One among the
millions of Star Wars fans around the globe has taken to Kickstarter to seek
funding for a crowd-sourced planet-destroyer. And despite the description on
the page making it clear to the world that it's a joke, he's raised more than
£50,000 in just over a day! Though that is still a bit short of its goal of
£54,300,000,000,000,000 to actually start the construction work.
To bring down the overall cost of the machine/satellite/destroyer
all the hardware and software used in the project will be from open source
projects.
Seeing as the US has turned down the opportunity to get
involved, we'd join calls to have the Death Star manufactured in the project
founder's native Leicestershire (conveniently also home to the National Space
Centre). Well the Death Star was populated mostly by British character actors
in the films.
The page also goes on to state that chipping in £1 gets you
thanks and "the knowledge that we're one step towards a safer
planet". Pledge £10 or more and you can have "your name etched onto
the underneath of one of the MSE-6-series repair droids used on the finished
station". At time of writing, 460 backers have pledged an average of £125
each to make a total of over £57,000!
Source: Kickstarter, TechRadar
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