How does the mass of the ISS compare to the Death Star's structural demands?

The ISS weighs under 500 tons, orders of magnitude less than required components

The International Space Station (ISS) serves as a benchmark for contemporary complex orbital assembly, weighing less than 500 tons, and its construction took over a decade involving dozens of international partners. In stark contrast, the logistics required for the Death Star, even the smaller version, involve moving billions of tons of material. The difference is not just incremental; it is many orders of magnitude. The ISS represents sophisticated, modular, low-mass construction, while the Death Star demands planetary-scale industrial infrastructure to move and assemble material far exceeding the ISS's entire mass for just small subsections of the larger project.