ah haroon...even through a slow news day you can still pull some mildly interesting articles out of your butt.

(but we still love you for sitting in that one office at the end of the hall)

THAT'S ME!!!!!

Actually, it's 100% accurate, excusing that the pie is not a perfect circle, as it was recently destroyed by Rebel Forces.

The percentages are approximate, as I only carried them out to tenths, and rounded to the nearest half. But the numbers are exact, obtained from the Star Wars Expanded Universerse.

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Total Deaths - 1,179,293

Crew - 265,675 - 22.5%
Gunners - 52,276 - 4.5%
Troops - 607,360 - 51.5%
Stormtroopers - 3,984 - 0.5%
Ship Support Staff - 42,782 - 3.5%
Pilots & Support Crew - 180,216 - 15.5%

PS - GIZMODO RULES!

@luckypictures: Yes.

Yes they do.

I Owned myself thanks to the Giz!

@luckypictures: Since it was under construction I think you might be missing all the independant contractors that lost their lives in the destruction of the (fully operational) battle station.

@AGiES: A hometown poster and a Kevin Smith fan. Very nice. (I'm from Pittsburgh)

Well, in all fairness, that conversation was my inspiration, but those statistics are from when the Death Star was destroyed in A New Hope. The first time it was destroyed, hence the lack of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine on the graph. I wanted to do a graph of it being destroyed in Jedi, but that would have had to have meant the inclusion of the two, and I have a feeling that Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine are trademarks of Lucasfilms, and there's no way the shirt could ever be made. And, the geek in me would require putting them on it. Although I may do a separate design for Jedi to include independent contractors, and break it down into plumbers, electricians, roofers, drywallers, et cetera.

I wish I had a screen print machine. THen I'd poach ideas from The Onion and sell them as t's too.

@luckypictures: you forgot,
Darth Vader - 1 - 0.00000085% jk but pretty cool shirt

@luckypictures: Ah, I see. The incomplete side threw me off. One with contractors would be awesome.

@Chris2812: See post above about New Hope vs Jedi.. Thanks for the compliment though. If it doesn't win, I'm going to have some printed up on my own. It's too cool to not be made into a t-shirt.

@luckypictures: Although Vader and Palpatine were the most important figures to die on the Death Star, the resolution of the chart doesn't seem to be precise enough to show them.

Also you could argue that they were both dead before the death star exploded, certainly the case for Palpatine and probable for Vader.

This helps my argument that Star Wars probably has the most violent deaths of any film ever. Consider that, in addition to the destruction of the Death Star, the entire inhabited planet of Alderaan was vaporized (you remember those "billions of souls crying out" and being "suddenly silenced," right?)

@Marty200: Yes, but Vader and Palpatine died in Jedi, the chart is from A New Hope, which Vader escaped from, to see it rebuilt, and again destroyed in Jedi.

@professorjonathan: Good point.

Hehe, I just realised the right side of the death star looks like the east coast of South America.

@luckypictures: Yes they died in Jedi and Palpatine was thrown down the exhaust shaft, but Vader was carried to Endor and burned in the funeral pyre...

If you were to include Vader and Palpatine, I think a tiny sliver called "Administration" would suit the cause fine.

@luckypictures:

*scratches head* Ok... I'm confused. If that's the ANH Death Star, then why the "unfinished" side ala the ROTJ Death Star?

@luckypictures: Luke took Vader off of the Death Star. He burnt his body

@pinkfloyd1972: Should have read all of the comments....

@Obee Juan: Well, because, both times the Death Star was destroyed, it became nothingness. So in "reality," after the deaths, there would be nothing, and therefore nothing for it to represent. So, in choosing to use the half built Death Star, it shows the transitional phase after those people died, and before the destruction of the second Death Star. The half built Death Star was the result of being blown up the first time. Those were the number of deaths on the minds of the crew as it was being rebuilt. Now, aesthetically, it's identifiable as the Death Star. If I had just made it a full circle, as in a fully built Death Star, not only would it not be as visually appealing, but it would not have been as easily identified. You see that, you say Death Star, immediately. Everyone can see it. But a round circle with a line through it? Maybe it's the AT&T logo, I don't know.

Does that about sum it up in not so many words? lol. I know, it's a bit of an anachronism, but if you think about it, and you really put way too much thought into a work of fiction, you realize that was what the Death Star looked like when those facts and figures would have been compiled by the statistics department of the Death Star. See, way too much thought.

12,500 vies and only 65 votes? There has to be more Gizmoders out there that are also Woot!ers. You only have to have bought something from any of the Woot! sites before to vote. Help a geek out. And it's just a cool design.

There needs to be more "rejected" stamps on that page. A lot more.

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@luckypictures: I think you're absolutely wrong in your decision to use the second death star as well as your assumptions about how the two death stars are related to each other. They didn't take the remnants of the old Death Star and patch it up. They built a brand new one. When Luke destroyed the death star in A New Hope, it was completely destroyed. Watch the movie, theres a giant explosion then nothing. If you look at the differences in dimensions in the two space stations, the second one was vastly larger. Therefore using the image of the second death star to portray the first one is not only wrong but stupid as well. I hate to flame you but your reasoning in your decision was completely wrong. You said, "The half built Death Star was the result of being blown up the first time." That is not the case at all. The first death star was 120 km in diameter and the second was 160 km. Some sources even say the second death star was upwards of 900km in diameter. They were not the same space station. You also say, "Now, aesthetically, it's identifiable as the Death Star." Again you're wrong. It's recognizable as the death star II, which is why so many people thought that and said you neglected the civilian contractors. If you were going to make a shirt that uses the Clerks joke then it would have been a great shirt. To me it just looks like someone trying to make some money off of people who like star wars without putting any effort into it to make it accurate. Sorry man, your shirt sucks, it shows lack of effort. I'll definitely be voting 'no' on it and letting whoever would make this shirt know its completely inaccurate.

@avrohim: FWIW, my cousin worked in the Human Resources department on the first Death Star, and a good friend of mine had just started as an intern on the second Death Star. I appreciate your good intentions to nitpick the details, but as someone with personal ties to these ill-fated stations, I find the t-shirt a noble homage to their memory.

@avrohim: Flame away, but it's not completely inaccurate. The pie chart is 100% accurate according to the statistics given by Lucasfilms. Go ahead, run the numbers, create a pie chart, and lay it over the graphic. You will find that in your image, the Storm Trooper is slightly small than that on the shirt. It was enlarged to show detail in such a small image. The final design is 16x20 and is accurate as to the percentage. That being said, I will repeat myself in saying that my choice to use the Death Star II was an aesthetic one. AESTHETIC. Artistic license. And, considering that it is a matter of art, and if you would like to debate that, please take it elsewhere: There are other more scholarly forums in which to debate the question, "What is Art?"
Now, I am fully aware that Star Wars is a movie/item of culture that is analyzed to the nth degree, and I don't appreciate you telling me that I want to make money. And to that, I say go fuck yourself asshole. Those are the only vulgarities/unkind words you will hear from me.
THAT being said, it is an accurate representation of the deaths that were a result of the original Death Star. Nowhere did I say that they just patched up the old Death Star. That was never my intent, nor was it stated anywhere. I was saying that while the Death Star II was being built, the statistics of death from the destruction of the original Death Star would have been compiled. That in mind, that image is an accurate representation of the Death Star as a whole, not as a I/II, but, an accurate image of the Death Star as it existed when those facts would have been compiled, as such, it is in fact accurate.
Now, if you're really going to flame about representation of Star Wars characters, and products produced soley for the purpose of making money, you may want to take that up with Mr. Lucas himself, regarding about 75% of the SH!T that has been put out of the past few years, including representations of the characters as children, poorly drawn cartoons (and not in a good way), and recently, as I found at my local WalMart, some type of really really bad anime. The Galactic Heroes series, I believe. And tell me that line of figures serves ANY purpose other than to make money off a younger demographic. There's not even any artistic merit in those figures. Good day sir.

PS - PWNED!

@frigg: I don't even know what to say to that. That's just brilliant.

HA Haaaaaaaaa, nerds.

@luckypictures: If it's art instead of a statistical representation of manpower loss, then all I have to say is it's poorly done. I'm not trying to be an @ss, I'm just letting you know my opinion. Star Wars fans are very nit-picky about this type of thing so you're going to get some criticism. If I were presented with a shirt that was the same, just using statistics of the second death star, I'd pick it over yours any day.

@phlavor: Hey, Hey, Hey!

@avrohim: Well, unfortunately, those statistics don't exist, presumably (again in a fictional world), because there was no one alive afterwards to compile them.
If you can find them, I would remake the design, but I could find reference nowhere on the internet, or in my own printed reading materials.

@avrohim: I bow down to you, good sir!

For the Clerks fans:

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@avrohim: Again, as a statistical representation of manpower loss, it is 100% accurate, what are you missing? I've said that 3 times now.