It turns out that it would take more than money to build a fully operational battle station.
FORBES: How Much Would It Cost to Build the Death Star from Star Wars?
What this lookalike of a Star Wars battle station has to do with Tokyo's past is a mystery.
The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies.
The Obama Administration is not going to build a Death Star and I do not have a problem with that but the Obama Administration is also refusing to fund a second development air-frame for the Boeing anti-ballistic missile laser battle station and that I regard as a serious policy error.
FORBES: White House Denies Petition Request To Build A Death Star
The White House has rejected a petition to build a Death Star - a huge battle-station armed with a superlaser as seen in the Star Wars films.
Known locally as the Graffiti House, it is thought to have served as a Confederate field hospital during the 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, one of the biggest conflicts between Confederate and Unionist forces.
The battle over the transfer station, which includes court fights, has potential to reverberate beyond the Upper East Side.
The fire authority agreed the plans last month following a five-year battle to save the station from night closure.
BBC: Windsor Fire Station 'too small' fire engine criticised
Set in 1997, the film followed rising tensions between East and West and the battle to control a space station capable of manipulating the weather at any place on the planet.
Windsor residents are set to keep their 24-hour fire cover after a five-year battle to save the Berkshire town's station from night-time closure.
The BBC's Tomas Fessy, in Gao, says Sunday's gun battle appears to have started around the main police station in the town centre, but there is now heavy gunfire coming from different areas.
Joel Titus, 19, took part in the "pitched battle" between supporters of Brentford and Leyton Orient outside Liverpool Street station in May 2010.
At Waterloo station, the coffin was placed on a train drawn by a Battle of Britain locomotive named Winston Churchill.
In another development, an opposition radio station, Klub Radio, won the right to a permanent frequency after a two-year legal battle with the media regulator.
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