<a href="http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/the-cost-of-the-death-star" rel="nofollow">http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/the-cost-of-the...</a><p>>If you're looking for a better wage then you might have to start embracing evil. Students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania worked out how much it would cost to build the Death Star and came up with a figure of $8,100,000,000,000,000 ($8.1 quadrillion!?), which is 13,000 times the world's GDP.