Escape pod

Escape pod

Escape pods, also known aslife pods, were small escape crafts intended for use in emergencies. They were standard aboard alldeep-spacestarships. Some luxury models were fitted withhyperdrives.^[3]

Some escape pods were designed to fly into the upper atmosphere and wait to be picked up by a ship, which is howJedi MasterYoda departedKashyyyk whenOrder 66 was declared. Someplanets had a network of escape pods that could launch into the upper atmosphere away from danger.^[4]JediCal Kestis despised escape pods,^[5] which was likely caused by his experience during Order 66, in which Kestis' master,Jaro Tapal, died in front of hisPadawan in an escape pod after being mortally wounded byclone troopers.^[6] Smaller ships, such as theMillennium Falcon and otherlight freighters, carried such crafts that could only accommodate one typically-sizedhumanoid in a fixed, immobile, and straightened position.^[7]

During theBattle of Atollon,Alexsandr Kallus used an Imperial escape pod to escape theImperial-class Star DestroyerChimaera after incapacitating hisstormtrooper escort.^[8]

R2-D2 andC-3PO used an escape pod to smuggle theDeath Star plans off theTantive IV. TheDevastator's gunnery officers noticed the launch but chose not to fire upon the pod, presuming that it had malfunctioned as they detected no life forms aboard.^[9]

In order to comply withSenate investigations of possible war crimes, the Devastator would have had to provide justification in accordance with Imperial Naval Regulation 132.CAT.ch(22) to fire upon an escape pod.^[10]

At the advice ofObi-Wan Kenobi,Han Solo jettisoned the escape pods of theMillennium Falcon when the ship was caught in thetractor beam of theDeath Star. He lamented their loss, as they were expensive, but recognized the value of the move as a ruse and recorded acaptain's log stating that he had abandoned the ship.^[11]

TheKiljispecies' escape pods were small, metallic, and cylindrical. An individual aboard the Kilji pods could live for severalhours before running out ofoxygen. TheKilji war cruisers were equipped with the escape pods. After being launched, they broadcast their location.^[12]

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• LEGO Star Wars: A New Hope DK Reader
• "Attack over Tatooine" —LEGO Star Wars 1
• "Escape Pod for Sale!" —LEGO Club Magazine March/April 2016
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

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