Aeromagnifier

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An aeromagnifier was a type of illuminated magnifier that hung from a repulsor hood. The enslaved human Shmi Skywalker was gifted an aeromagnifier by the junk dealer Watto. She used it while cleaning computer memory devices in her Mos Espa home on the planet Tatooine. The magnifier was on Skywalker's workstation when she bid farewell to her son, Anakin Skywalker, as he was leaving Tatooine in 32 BBY. In 9 BBY, aeromagnifiers hung in both Dendra's Antiquities and Pyloon's Saloon in Rambler's Reach Outpost on the planet Koboh.

Description

An aeromagnifier was a repulsor-powered, floating magnifier that consisted of a transparent magnifier disc surrounded by yellow illuminator rings hanging from a silver dome-shaped repulsor hood. The device produced a soothing thrum when in use.^[1]

History

By 32 BBY, the human Shmi Skywalker, who was enslaved by the junk dealer Watto, had been given an aeromagnifier in a rare show of kindness by Watto as recognition for all her hard work. She kept the tool on the workstation in her home^[1] in Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine.^[2]

Shmi Skywalker used an aeromagnifier at her workstation.

Skywalker used the aeromagnifier at the workstation to work long hours cleaning computer memory devices in order to earn extra wupiupi. Although the Skywalker home was poorly lit at night, the magnifier and light from the illuminator rings meant she could continue working on the devices long after Tatooine's twin suns set and her eyes had become fatigued.^[1] Shmi's aeromagnifier was floating above the workstation when her son, Anakin Skywalker, brought a group of off-worlders home during a sandstorm^[5] in 32 BBY.^[1] It was still above the station later when Anakin bid farewell to Shmi before leaving Tatooine.^[5]

An aeromagnifier hang above a work bank in Jedi Master Eno Cordova residence on the planet Bogano.^[3] In 9 BBY,^[6] the merchant Doma Dendra had a pair of aeromagnifiers hanging from a grill above the counter in her shop, Dendra's Antiquities, in Rambler's Reach Outpost on the planet Koboh. In the same outpost, an aeromagnifier hung above a workbench in the basement of Pyloon's Saloon which was used by the Jedi Cal Kestis while he was a guest of the saloon's owner, Greez Dritus.^[4] At some point after 35 ABY, an entry on Shmi's aeromagnifier was included as one of a hundred in a book detailing objects from throughout galactic history.^[7]

Behind the scenes

An aeromagnifier appeared in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,^[5] which was released on May 19, 1999.^[8] In the current Star Wars canon, the tool was identified in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.^[9] The name for the tool originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first used in the reference book Star Wars: Episode I: The Visual Dictionary, written by David West Reynolds^[10] and released on May 26, 1999.^[11] Aeromagnifiers can be collected as a scrap part in the mobile video game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and are used to upgrade characters' Relic Amplifiers,^[12] which were added to the game in late 2019.^[13]