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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, toAnakin Skywalker, regardingAhsoka Tano[1]

Bossk andAurra Sing inSlave I's airlock
Anairlock was a structure built into moststarships that allowed beings to enter or exit pressurizedatmospheres from thevacuum ofspace.
Shortly before theBattle of Endor,AdmiralJhared Montferrat of theGalactic Empire used an airlock on theDevastator toexecute suspectedRebelspies.[2]
Description[]

A complex airlock aboard theExecutor
Airlocks were equipped to mostspace-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 smallhatches 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 ashield on the spaceship end[1] and others such as these aboard theExecutor-class Star Dreadnoughts were extremely complex structures with an attached control room andtransparisteel observation windows.[7]
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LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "The Storms of Taul"
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — "Return to the Wheel"(Mentioned only)
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"Destroy Malevolence" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)
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"Jedi Crash" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)
"Cargo of Doom" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
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- No Disintegrations
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- YT-1300 Millennium Falcon Owners' Workshop Manual
- Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
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Cad Bane in theDatabank(backup link)


















