:\ I was able to forget it before your post. Why did you have to do this!?
20 years in the making… 😄 almost as much as the autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria (still in the making!)
I think Lucas’ “official” explaination was that they couldn’t complete it on time because of remonstrances, but he could’ve avoided the problem not showing the Death Star in ROTS: I don’t think that was what fans were looking for, and added nothing but retcons.
What about Motti? I was under the (false?) impression that when Vader said that Motti had constructed the Death Star, he meant it, right from its planning stage to its final form.