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[Star Wars] Please explain how gravity in the Death Star works.

The Death Star is plenty large enough to create all the gravity that those aboard would need. But it would seem that the Empire is using an artifical system to counteract and over power the natural system. When standing on any level of the station one's feet should be pointed towards the core but no, insted the are aimed at the souther pole (or rather the plane the the pole would sit on). The best visualization if this is when ships dock and depart. The aim for the center of the station and pull in nose first and land flat without changing orientation. So what kind of artifical gravity is being used? And more importantly why?
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Actually, the Death Star is not massive enough. For the small radius it has, it would need to be insanely dense. It has a low gravity like that of a medium-sized moon, but that isn't viable for a space station. The core levels had a reasonable amount of gravity and used concentric decks with the floor facing the core, but outside of those first few levels artificial gravity was used and oriented towards the "south" pole. The gravity itself was created by standard artificial gravity generators that can be found in any ship larger than a fighter. There were quite a few of them all hooked up in a matrix in order to make the gravity uniform throughout the station.