Ever wondered how the Empire actually built the most terrifying weapon in the galaxy? This cinematic short from Star Wars: Tales Untold uses Kling AI to create a stunning timelapse of the entire Death Star construction, from its secret blueprints and flawed exhaust port to the installation of its planet-destroying superlaser.

Watch the Empire’s ultimate space station rise piece by piece, across decades of hidden labor, sabotage, and fear, until the moment it was ready to annihilate Alderaan.

[Via TA]