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"Clear Bay 327. We are opening the magnetic field."
―An Imperial controller[2]

Docking Bay 327, also known as Hangar Bay 327 or simply as Bay 327 was a docking bay aboard the Death Star. The docking bay was overseen by a control room, along with a tractor beam projector. It served as a cargo loading assembly area. An atmosphere containment projector kept the station's internal atmosphere in if the bay doors were opened. It was located directly above a TIE fighter staging area and 400 meters above Detention Block AA-23.[3]

History

When it was captured by the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon was pulled into Bay 327 through a tractor beam.[2] Evading detection, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca launched a covert effort to rescue Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan from her captivity, with C-3PO and R2-D2 coordinating their efforts from Bay 327's control center. At the same time, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi disabled the tractor beam surrounding Bay 327, before being confronted by his former apprentice, Darth Vader, who ultimately struck him down in a duel in the vicinity of the Millennium Falcon. Despite the intervention of Imperial stormtroopers, Skywalker and his allies ultimately escaped.

It, along with the Death Star, was completely destroyed after the Battle of Yavin.[2]

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