Aqua-Soft ForumsThe Empire is coming!
on way you could improve it would be to add lights (like little ones, from the places on the death star), to the places not lit by the star in the background. You can do this with texturing in 3ds max (though it is mostly used for photorealistic earth models). Also, a little motion blue and correction of the laser on the death star wouldn't go amiss (I thought it was more a semi-spherical cut out or boolean op in 3dsmax).
Still, its nice...