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"If I activate this control, the outside airlock will open and she will be sucked into oblivion. Do you think you can kill me and then save her before she's pulled out into space? It's a horrible way to die."
―Cad Bane, to Anakin Skywalker, regarding Ahsoka Tano[1]
Slave I airlock

Bossk and Aurra Sing in Slave I's airlock

An airlock was a structure built into most starships that allowed beings to enter or exit pressurized atmospheres from the vacuum of space.

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, Admiral Jhared Montferrat of the Galactic Empire used an airlock on the Devastator to execute suspected Rebel spies.[2]

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Airlock

A complex airlock aboard the Executor

Airlocks were equipped to most space-faring vehicles for the purpose of allowing their passengers to enter from and exit to the vacuum of space. They were also used as connection points between spaceships: by attaching two ships' airlocks and pressurizing the passage their passengers could safely pass from one to the other as long as the connection remained intact. This method of mid-space docking was mostly used to connect similarly sized spaceships that couldn't land in each others' hangar[3] and was particularly dangerous as a hit to the airlocks' connection point could fuse them together, causing the ships to be stuck and requiring their crew to perform a manual disconnect using emergency controls in the airlocks' vicinity.[4]

As an extremely common feature shared between most spaceships, airlocks came in vastly different shapes and sizes, from small hatches in a starship's floor[5] to large circular tunnels with the seal in their end[6]. Some were as simple as a room with a vacuum worthy seal on the space and a shield on the spaceship end[1] and others such as these aboard the Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts were extremely complex structures with an attached control room and transparisteel observation windows.[7]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cargo of Doom"
  2. ↑ SWInsider "Blade Squadron" — Star Wars Insider 149–150
  3. ↑ Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels — "Idiot's Array"
  4. ↑ Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels — "Secret Cargo"
  5. ↑ Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels — "Iron Squadron"
  6. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Death Trap"
  7. ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 25
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