Motti’s ambitions, which grew in the wake of the battle station’s completion, were short-lived, however. The Rebel Alliance, who had obtained a copy of the Death Star plans during the Battle of Scarif, discovered a weak spot in the station’s thermal exhaust port and successfully exploited it, leading to the destruction of the battle station along with the deaths of everyone onboard, Motti included.
And how’d that go for him?
He survived
Not for long, though: