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Of course, there are a lot of similarities and echos between The Force Awakens and previous (movie) canon.
What are the things that “The Force Awakens” borrowed/parallel from “A New Hope?”
In particular,
there is the Starkiller Base, which is essentially a third amped-up Death Star.
(Related: Why does The Dark Side keep building Death Stars?)
The Deathstar III was a "fake" built by the warlord Ennix Devian , but it had a superlaser and a trench with heavier guards than the original Death Star. This is the Death Star that gets destroyed in Star Tours. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and can destroy planets like a duck...
Then, of course, there was the Death Star Prototype, which was illogically built at the same time as the production model.
As for the other planet killers in Legends...
The Mass Shadow Generator could destroy all life on a planet, ground all ships in orbit, and destroy the planet itself.
Centerpoint Station could tear planets apart with its hyperspace-driven tractor beam.
Yo'gand's Core was a biomechanical meteor made through Yuuzhan Vong manipulation of moons and an alien species that could manipulate gravitational fields.
A Dark Reaper could siphon out the power of Force sensitives and use it to create a turbolaser blast.
The Sun Crusher could make a star go supernova, destroying all the planets in its system.
(source: nocookie.net)
The Galaxy Gun was essentially a floating planet destroying gun.
(source: nocookie.net)
The World Devastators would use tractor beams to tear a planet apart, while keeping its resources usable.
(source: nocookie.net)
And these are just a select few. The list goes on!
While there is a DS-1 (Death Star 1) and DS-2 (Death Star 2), there is no DS-3 listed on Wookieepedia.
Axelrod makes mention of a third Death Star. However it is stated:
A fake Death Star III was built by the warlord Ennix Devian of the Galactic Empire - (emphasis added) http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star_III
That is was fake, although it did appear to have defenses.
There was the original Death Star Prototype, which was located in a black hole cluster called the "Maw Installation." While technically the first Death Star, it was the third one introduced to the principal heroes of Star Wars.
It made a first appearance in the Legends book "Jedi Search," book one of The Jedi Academy Trilogy.
Also introduced in that series was the super weapon Sun Crusher
The Sun Crusher was a nearly indestructible craft that was no larger than a starfighter, but was capable of unleashing destruction on a magnitude that dwarfed even the Death Star's capabilities. Unlike the Death Star, which destroyed individual planets, the Sun Crusher could destroy an entire star system by causing its target star to turn into a supernova
In addition to the previously-mentioned examples, there was also "The Tarkin":
The Tarkin, or the Tarkin Project, was an Imperial superweapon modeled in principle after the first Death Star battlestation and named in honor of the late Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. The Tarkin combined the first Death Star's offensive capabilities in the form of a planet-destroying ionic cannon superlaser with a defensive shield generator and a set of engines. Imperial engineer Bevel Lemelisk designed the Tarkin, at the behest of Emperor Palpatine following the Death Star's destruction at the Battle of Yavin, as a prototype weapons testbed for the construction of the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, a massive warship armed with a ship-mounted superlaser. With technological refinements, the Tarkin improved upon the mistakes learned from the first Death Star, including the absence of the single design flaw—an exposed thermal exhaust port—that proved to be the original battlestation's undoing, in the name of the development of a second Death Star, built concurrently with the Tarkin.
It wasn't exactly a Death Star, but it was a "third planet killer" with some of the same parts.
In the Dark Empire comic series, the Eclipse-class Star Destroyer had a planet-destroying super-laser based on the Death Star design built into it.
