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A New Hope: Vehicles & Technology

Explore vehicles & technology in Star Wars A New Hope. Direct answers, lore explanations and Wookieepedia sources.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Which vehicle or technology features in A New Hope?

Direct answer: Death Star

The first Death Star is an Imperial battle station with a planet-destroying superlaser.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What weapon does Obi-Wan give Luke in his home on Tatooine?

Direct answer: A lightsaber

Obi-Wan gives Luke Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What type of starfighter does Luke pilot against the first Death Star?

Direct answer: X-wing

Luke flies an X-wing as Red Five at Yavin.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Which droid carries the Death Star plans in A New Hope?

Direct answer: R2-D2

R2-D2 carries the plans from Leia's ship to the Rebels.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does Luke fire into the Death Star exhaust port?

Direct answer: Proton torpedoes

Proton torpedoes reach the reactor through the exhaust port.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Which company manufactures Han's DL-44 heavy blaster pistol?

Direct answer: BlasTech Industries

BlasTech Industries manufactures the DL-44 heavy blaster pistol.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Which purchased droid malfunctions before R2-D2 replaces him?

Direct answer: R5-D4

R5-D4's malfunction allows Owen to select R2-D2 instead.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is Omi's Death Star garbage masher number?

Direct answer: 3263827

Omi inhabits garbage masher 3263827.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

True or false: Luke Skywalker destroys the first Death Star.

Direct answer: True

Luke fires proton torpedoes into its exhaust port during the Battle of Yavin.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

True or false: Luke's first lightsaber has a red blade.

Direct answer: False

The lightsaber Obi-Wan gives Luke has a blue blade.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

True or false: Han and Luke use stolen stormtrooper armor inside the Death Star.

Direct answer: True

They disguise themselves as stormtroopers while rescuing Leia.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

True or false: A restraining bolt prevents R2-D2 from freely playing Leia's full message for Luke.

Direct answer: True

R2-D2 persuades Luke to remove the bolt before departing to seek Obi-Wan.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What type of ship is the Millennium Falcon?

Direct answer: YT-1300 light freighter

The Falcon is a heavily modified YT-1300 Corellian light freighter.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What weapon does the Death Star use to destroy planets?

Direct answer: A superlaser

The Death Star's planet-killing weapon is its massive superlaser.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What starfighter does Luke fly at the Battle of Yavin?

Direct answer: X-wing

Luke pilots a T-65 X-wing starfighter during the trench run.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What are the small one-man Imperial fighters called?

Direct answer: TIE fighters

The standard Imperial starfighter is the TIE/ln fighter.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What vehicle do the Jawas use to travel across Tatooine?

Direct answer: A sandcrawler

Jawas roam the desert in massive sandcrawlers, trading scavenged droids.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What powers the Death Star's superlaser?

Direct answer: Kyber crystals

Giant kyber crystals focus the Death Star's planet-destroying beam.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What model are the Rebel Y-wing bombers at Yavin?

Direct answer: BTL-A4 Y-wing

The BTL-A4 Y-wing is the workhorse assault bomber of the early Rebellion.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the designation of the trash compactor where the heroes are trapped?

Direct answer: 3263827

The famous garbage masher is unit 3263827.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the model of the Tantive IV?

Direct answer: CR90 corvette

The Tantive IV is a Corellian CR90 corvette.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What targeting system does Luke switch off in the trench?

Direct answer: The targeting computer

Luke trusts the Force instead of his X-wing's targeting computer.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the Death Star's diameter as given in canon references?

Direct answer: About 160 kilometers

The first Death Star measures roughly 160 kilometers across.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the name of the Death Star's thermal exhaust port's designer flaw in Legends?

Direct answer: It was a deliberate flaw by Galen Erso in canon

Canon reveals Galen Erso built the flaw intentionally; Legends differs.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What fuel do starships' hyperdrives commonly use?

Direct answer: Coaxium is for special ships; most use hypermatter

Hypermatter annihilation powers most hyperdrives.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the designation of Luke's T-16 model at home?

Direct answer: T-16 skyhopper

Luke bulls-eyes womp rats in his T-16 skyhopper.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the name of Han Solo's ship?

Direct answer: Millennium Falcon

Han captains the Millennium Falcon.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What type of starfighter does Luke fly at the Battle of Yavin?

Direct answer: X-wing

Luke flies an X-wing as Red Five.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is Luke's call sign at the Battle of Yavin?

Direct answer: Red Five

Luke flies as Red Five.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What kind of vehicle does Luke drive on Tatooine?

Direct answer: Landspeeder

Luke owns an X-34 landspeeder.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What weapon does Obi-Wan give Luke in A New Hope?

Direct answer: His father's lightsaber

Obi-Wan gives Luke Anakin's lightsaber.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the Empire's moon-sized battle station called?

Direct answer: Death Star

The Death Star can destroy planets.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does Darth Vader fly at the Battle of Yavin?

Direct answer: TIE Advanced x1

Vader pilots a TIE Advanced x1.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What kind of droids are R2-D2 and C-3PO, respectively?

Direct answer: Astromech and protocol

R2 is an astromech; 3PO is a protocol droid.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the color of Darth Vader's lightsaber?

Direct answer: Red

Vader wields a red Sith blade.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the weapon Chewbacca carries?

Direct answer: Bowcaster

Chewbacca fires a Wookiee bowcaster.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What are the white-armored Imperial soldiers called?

Direct answer: Stormtroopers

Stormtroopers are the Empire's infantry.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What color is Luke's first lightsaber?

Direct answer: Blue

Luke's first saber, once Anakin's, has a blue blade.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the Falcon's famous quality according to Han?

Direct answer: It's the fastest hunk of junk

Han boasts the Falcon is fast.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the name of Leia's blockade runner in A New Hope?

Direct answer: Tantive IV

Vader captures Leia aboard the Tantive IV.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What model of ship is the Millennium Falcon?

Direct answer: YT-1300 light freighter

The Falcon is a modified Corellian YT-1300.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What blaster does Han Solo carry?

Direct answer: DL-44 heavy blaster pistol

Han's sidearm is a DL-44.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the standard rifle of Imperial stormtroopers?

Direct answer: E-11 blaster rifle

Stormtroopers carry the E-11.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What vehicle do the Jawas live in?

Direct answer: Sandcrawler

Jawas roam the desert in sandcrawlers.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does Luke use to destroy the Death Star?

Direct answer: Proton torpedoes

Luke fires proton torpedoes into the exhaust port.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

How wide is the Death Star's thermal exhaust port?

Direct answer: Two meters

The port is only two meters wide.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does Han say the Falcon did the Kessel Run in?

Direct answer: Less than twelve parsecs

Han's famous boast cites under twelve parsecs.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the Corellian ship class of Leia's Tantive IV?

Direct answer: CR90 corvette

The Tantive IV is a CR90 corvette.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What class is the Star Destroyer that chases the Tantive IV?

Direct answer: Imperial I-class

The Devastator is an Imperial I-class.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the name of the Star Destroyer that captures the Tantive IV?

Direct answer: Devastator

Vader's Devastator captures Leia.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What Rebel fighter's pilots does Gold Leader command at Yavin?

Direct answer: Y-wings

Gold Squadron flies Y-wings.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the name of the trash compactor monster on the Death Star?

Direct answer: Dianoga

A dianoga lurks in the trash compactor.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does Luke's T-16 Skyhopper help him practice?

Direct answer: Bullseyeing womp rats

Luke bullseyed womp rats in his T-16.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Who manufactured the X-wing?

Direct answer: Incom Corporation

Incom built the T-65 X-wing.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Who manufactures the TIE fighter?

Direct answer: Sienar Fleet Systems

Sienar Fleet Systems builds TIEs.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

Who builds the YT-1300 freighter?

Direct answer: Corellian Engineering Corporation

CEC built the YT series.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the X-wing's main engine manufacturer?

Direct answer: Incom 4L4 fusial thrust engines

X-wings use Incom 4L4 engines.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What does "TIE" stand for?

Direct answer: Twin Ion Engine

TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What is the Death Star's official designation?

Direct answer: DS-1 Orbital Battle Station

The first Death Star was the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station.

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Canon · Vehicles & Technology

What was Galen Erso's codename for the Death Star project?

Direct answer: Project Stardust

Galen worked on Project Stardust.

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