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Bevel Lemelisk
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Bevel Lemelisk is a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe who is credited in several sources with being the inventor and primary designer of the Death Star. Lemelisk's role in the Death Star construction is apparently contradicted, however, in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones when the Death Star is shown to have been created by the Geonosians.
Some Star Wars sources, however, have attempted to explain Lemelisk's role, even with the Geonosian contradiction. As it is not made clear what was the exact role of the Geonosians in the Death Star design and construction, this leaves some space for the speculation on where Lemelisk did participate. Lemelisk could have had relations with the Geonosians and possibly had worked together on the plans, supervised them, or even had ordered them to complete his initial designs.
Lemelisk appeared in the novel Darksaber, where he created an adaptation of the Death Star superlaser with the same name as the book.
In Darksaber, it is revealed that Emperor Palpatine had Lemelisk executed numerous times, usually in very painful circumstances, but continually made clones of the scientist, and used The Force to shove Lemelisk's soul into this cloned body before he would have died. Palpatine does this after every failure by the Death Star (i.e., the vent design flaw that allowed it to be destroyed at the Battle of Yavin).
At the end of Darksaber, Lemelisk escapes the doomed superweapon in his inspection space vehicle, and is captured by the commander of the New Republic fleet, Wedge Antilles, who told him that he will almost certainly be sentenced to death by the New Republic for his actions. When informed of this, Lemelisk's only reaction is to ask them to "get it right" this time, so that he'll stay dead.
- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Novelisation, 1st edition hardcover, 2005. Matthew Woodring Stover, George Lucas, ISBN 0-7126-8427-1
- Star Wars: Darksaber, 1st edition, 1995. Kevin J. Anderson, ISBN 0-553-57611-9