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IIRC, the Death Star was a secret to everyone outside of the Empire until Rogue One, which took place only a couple of days before it was blown up in A New Hope. In the Imperial meeting scene of A New Hope, Tarkin says “Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station,” which implies the threat of the Death Star is meant to be widely known after its public demonstration on Alderaan; public sentiment became unnecessary once they could hold a gun to the head of every possible dissident as well as to their world. I don’t see how this meme could take place after A New Hope since the destruction of both Alderaan and the Death Star would be widely known and verifiable by that point.
How the hell do you keep a space station the size of a small moon secret? Like, they couldn't see it coming as they moved toward Alderaan like up to several weeks from it reaching firing distance?
Han Solo thought it was a moon up until he was in tractor beam distance. I'd imagine you wouldn't see it from hyperspace, but even if you did manage to get within visual distance of it, you'd probably assume it was an exoplanet or asteroid.
I guess the rebels on Alderaan should have been keeping an eye out for this thing but sensors in Star Wars seem to be a funky thing, since they have limited range and ships seem to bypass them all the time.
Edit: Totally forgot - The death star can enter hyperspace as shown in Rogue One. In may have only been in Alderaan's space for a little while.
Oh shit, yeah. I forgot too. 🤣