User:Deckiller/Star Wars devices
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Below is a list of devices from the fictional Star Wars universe.
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[edit] Comlink
A Comlink is much like a walkie-talkie, but can be used from much farther away and is a lot smaller and sleeker. These are seen throughout the Star Wars movies, most notably when Luke calls C3-PO during his tenure in the garbage chute with Leia, Han, and Chewbacca.
[edit] Datacard
A datacard is a data storage medium for computers and datapads. A datacard is small, thin and made of plastic.
[edit] Datapad
A datapad is a computing device. It is roughly the size of a palm and consists of a screen, touchpad, and datacard slot. It performs functions similar to a laptop computer and personal digital assistant.
Datacards are used as the storage medium for datapads.
[edit] Empion bomb
The Empion bomb is a bomb laid by Warlord Zsinj in an effort to trap fleeing capital ships and X-wings from Talasea. This bomb was ineffective in its only use, as Wraith Squadron was able to capture the ship sent to destroy the remnants surviving the bomb.
The bomb drags ships out of hyperspace, using a gravity well, sends out a EMP to disable all ships in the area, as well as a hypercomm pulse to inform the deployer of the bomb that it has detonatated. There is no explosive material, although the EMP fries prosthetics, in the case of Ton Phanan.
[edit] Entechment
Entechment is a technological process that uses multiple devices and personnel. During entechment, a lifeform's life energy is drained out of them and funneled into a machine, most likely a droid fighter. This allowed combat machines to be more efficient than ordinary droids. Entechment has only been employed by the Ssi-Ruuk, and has been used only on humans and P'w'eck.
[edit] Envirosuit
An envirosuit is a device from the fictional Star Wars expanded universe. Envirosuits are sealed body suits made to protect people from the coldness and emptiness of space. Envirosuits are mainly used in space or on planets with a weak atmosphere or no atmosphere at all. They are also used underwater. They tend to have their own air supply.
They were used in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
[edit] Fusioncutter
The fusioncutter is a commonly found tool in the Star Wars universe. In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo used it to repair part of his Millennium Falcon. Most astromech droids use them as well. The Rebel, Imperial, clone and droid pilots carry one. It is used like a welding torch to fuse metals together. in the video game Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II, pilots use fusioncutters to repair or destroy (slice) ships and droids.
[edit] Gravity-well projector
The Gravity Well Projection System projects a simulated gravity well that is characteristic of a planet or sun. The idea is that a ship cannot jump to lightspeed in a gravity well. The use is to keep the enemy ships from retreating. This can also be used to "pull" ships out of hyperspace if their route crosses the gravity well. This technology was first seen in the Interdictor Cruiser which resembles a small star destroyer with what look like four large shield generators placed in a square arrangement near the middle of the ship.
In order for a hyperdrive to function, a starship must be free of a gravity well. Safety cut-offs restrict the hyperdrive from activating while in a gravity well, and the gravitic presence also interferes with a nav computer's ability to calculate accurate coordinates.
The Galactic Empire took advantage of this weakness of the hyperdrive and developed artificial gravity well generators. These devices send out powerful waves that disrupt the mass lines in space, thereby simulating the presence of a large stellar body such as an asteroid or a planet. The presence of such simulated mass prevents ships in the area from engaging their hyperdrives, and also drops ships already in hyperspace back to realspace.
The G-7x generators developed by Sienar Fleet Systems are the main weapon of the Immobilizer 418, the first of the Empire's Interdictor-class heavy cruisers. The Empire continued research into refining this technology, making it more powerful and more compact. The last generation of Super-class Star Destroyers, including the Eclipse and the Sovereign featured gravity well generators.
While under optimal circumstances, gravity well generators are effective weapons, they do have their limitations. Powering up a gravity well generator takes 30 seconds. While it can be shut off with no delay, it takes the capacitors 40 seconds to shunt the power and completely recycle. Once a gravity well is placed, it is difficult to move, as it is subject to similar laws of inertia as actual gravitic bodies. The great energy output of a gravity well projector also affects the movement and handling of the interdicting cruiser.
Aboard the first Death Star, a working prototype of an incredibly powerful gravity well projector was nearing the final stages of development. The device, small enough to be carried by two men, required a power source 10 times more powerful than that of a Star Destroyer's main tractor beam. The resultant gravity well, however, was immense—much larger than those generated by the G-7x.
This prototype projector survived the destruction of the Death Star, and floated for a time within a large chunk of debris. This debris became the center-point of the floating Ugor junkyard in the Paradise system. The gravity well projector was somehow reactivated, and became the center of a vast junk asteroid field. The Ugors, who worship trash, referred to the Death Star fragment—the new center of their system—as the Holiest of Holies. The projector itself was known as the Prime Mover. The gravity well projector was removed by a Rebel strike force assisting a Squib mission to disrupt the Ugor trash-hauling racket. With the removal of the projector, the Paradise system fell apart.
Reports of a naturally occurring gravity well generator led the Empire to the Sedri system. There, the bizarre lifeform known as Golden Sun created a gravity well effect that made it appear as if Sedri was a star, not a planet. Research into this naturally occurring effect ceased when the Golden Sun was freed by a Rebel strike team averting a civil war among the native Sedrians.
A vast array of gravity well generators aided in regulating traffic into and out of the Imperial Deep Core during the resurrected Emperor's campaign against the New Republic. These generators formed the backbone of the Imperial Hyperspace Security Net.
Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, a group of would-be conquerors identified as the Sacorran Triad used the ancient Centerpoint Station to create a vast interdiction field covering the entire Corellian system. As such, Centerpoint Station is the largest gravity well projector on record.
[edit] Hyperspace ring
Hyperspace rings are rings which can be attached to small-scale spacecraft and permit them to travel through hyperspace. These contain a hyperdrive module and possibly a power supply for the hyperdrive.
[edit] Hyperwave Inertia Momentum Sustainer
The Hyperwave Inertia Momentum Sustainer is a fictional device in the Star Wars Universe. It was invented by the planet of Bakura to be mounted on their Home Fleet's Star Destroyers. Its whole purpose was to allow a starhip to continue travelling in hyperspace even when crossing an interdiction field. An interdiction field is a gravitic field emitted by a device known as a gravity well generator that essentially causes a buldge in the spacetime continuum. This does not effect realspace objects visibly, but its effects are greatly amplified in the alternate dimension of hyperspace. When a quartet of gravity well generators are activated, they will interdict all hyperspace travel in the system that they are in.
These starships are known as Interdictor Star Destroyers. They can be used to prevent enemy fleets from arriving at their destination, or halt convoys in the middle of hyperspace transit to board them for their goods.
The Hyperwave Inertia Momentum Sustainer was developed as the perfect counter for the interdiction field. A starship with an H.I.M.S. will pass through an interdiction field unaffected while in hyperspace. This has great applications, but these unique devices are very rare, and are extremely difficult to construct.
The physics behind their operation is that they have a gravity sensor that can sense a gravitic field (i.e.:interdiction field) before the gravity well is large enough to rip the starship from hyperspace and into realspace. Then, the H.I.M.S. created a static hyperspace bubble that nullified the effects of gravity on the starship's hyperdrive. This stopped the forward movement through hyperspace from the hyperdrive, but the starship's momentum carried it forward.
These were used as a counter against dovin basals in the Yuuzhan Vong war. A dovin basal is an organic device created by the Yuuzhan Vong that creates a mini-black hole that sucks in enemy lasers, missiles, and even small fighters or gunships! In the Retaking of Coruscant, the Galactic Alliance had a trio of troopships mounted with H.I.M.S. devices to allow them to breach the Yuuzhan Vong dovin basal line. Two were able to make it through the singularities unharmed, but the third H.I.M.S. failed, and that troopship was sucked literally into oblivion.
[edit] Navicomputer
The navigation computer is used in making calculations for the jump to hyperspace.
[edit] Repulsorlift
A repulsorlift is an anti-gravity technology in the fictional Star Wars universe, capable of levitating any object to which it is applied. It is created from constituents that are subnuclear knots of spacetime made in enormous unmanned power refineries encompassing black holes.
Repulsorlifts are usually assembled in arrays or clusters. They may also be assembled as vanes infused with micro-coils of gravitic knots, or coils. The placement of these repulsorlifts are usually under the vehicle or spacecraft, or even a chair. Examples of hovering chairs can be seen ridden by Yoda and Cliegg Lars in Attack of the Clones.
In large ships, the repulsorlift is powered by an antigrav generator. Usually the larger the ship, the more repulsorlifts needed, and their size also increases.
Vehicles like the Death Star that moved through space only were never made to land on a surface, therefore they did not have repulsorlifts. However, smaller Death Star-like spacecraft like the Trade Federation core ships seen in Attack of the Clones had their repulsorlifts concentrated at their lower ends as they did land. In addition to the lifts, large legs and an exhaust thrust was needed to land on Geonosis as the repulsorlifts could not hold them up alone.
- Sources
Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections: Attack of the Clones. DK LucasArts Books -- Curtis Saxton
- See also
[edit] Shield generator
A shield generator is a power source which is used to create and maintain a deflector shield. Some shield generators use a focusing dish to extend the shield's reach around a relatively distant object. One such shield generator on the forest moon of Endor was used to protect the second Death Star while it was being constructed. Rebel Alliance forces eventually brought down the shield generator, allowing the Rebel fleet to directly attack the Death Star.
[edit] Tracking Beacon
Tracking beacons (also called homing beacons) are electronic devices that are attached to subjects the user wishes to follow or hunt down. They work by sending out a signal from wherever they are, and can even be tracked through hyperspace, as is the case with the Millennium Falcon and the Slave I in Episodes IV and II, respectively. In Episode IV, Darth Vader has a tracking beacon attached to the Millennium Falcon. Luke, Han and Leia are followed to Yavin 4 by the Death Star in an attempt to destroy the rebel base. In Episode II, Obi-Wan attaches a tracking beacon to the Slave I in order to follow Jango Fett to Geonosis.
Slave tracking beacons are also common. Despite the Republic's anti-slavery laws, it still exists in some of the more remote planets, such as Tatooine. All slaves have a tracking beacon placed in their body somewhere, with a deadly neurotoxin. The owner can activate the neurotoxin him/herself, or, should the slave escape beyond the range of the tracker, the neurotoxin will be activated automatically. This serves as a relatively successful deterrent for slaves who wish to escape. In Episode I, Anakin and Shmi Skywalker both have a tracking device. Anakin reveals that he is working on an invention to locate his device, but eventually had no need of it, as he was freed by Qui-Gon Jinn.
For more information, see: TheForce.net Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia.
[edit] Vaporator
A vaporator is a device that extracts moisture from the air for use in farming. They were used by Luke Skywalker's adopted parents on Tatooine.
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