just secondarily, how did they manage to build a planet-sized space station in four years after (surely) losing so much design and operations expertise in the destruction of the first one
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Just remember, the time between an apparent decisive victory (the destruction of the first Death Star) & an actual decisive victory (the destruction of the second Death Star) was 4 years, during which most of the time life sucked for everyone because the Empire was striking back all over the place.
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2) As famously recounted in Clerks, the design and construction people had already left the first Death Star
https://youtu.be/iQdDRrcAOjA?feature=shared
Low tech, but high production output.
Sort of like the MiG-15.
But they did have droids, which are good at space construction because they don't need air