IT could be that the Death Star, of “Star Wars” fame, doesn’t only exist in a galaxy far, far away.

    German inventor and laser fanatic Patrick Priebe equipped a large, disco-ball-size model of the Galactic Empire’s planet eraser with enough laser power to actually do some real damage while also intensifying Sith-fueled nightmares worldwide.

    Priebe’s “Death Star” replica started life as a beachball covered with layers of fiberglass that was eventually finished off with aluminium panels glued to the outside.

    Priebe said that he spent around US$3,000 on the lasers, with an additional US$1,500 going into creating the sphere. He adds that the finished product incorporates 25 meters of electrical wiring, 110 screws, 80 meters of glass fiber, and three square meters of aluminum sheeting.

    Priebe isn’t a newcomer to the destructive power of lasers. Earlier this year the YouTuber worked up a real-life “Iron Man” laser glove, which itself seemed kind of like a reworking of another earlier project, his James Bond laser-shooting wristwatch.

    But this latest homemade masterpiece ups the ante with an array of 14 adjustable lasers that Priebe focuses on the same point to deliver 84 watts of burning energy. This model not only sets paper on fire and singes wood and plastic, it also cuts through a thin sheet of steel.(SD-Agencies)