Docking tube

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A docking tube, boarding tube,^[1] cofferdam, or pressure tunnel was a temporary, pressure sealed enclosure used to connect a starship in dry dock. Cofferdams were also used to connect starships with mismatched airlocks. The device itself was a flexible, ribbed tube that could attach to a surface with chemical, magnetic, mechanical, or negative pressure means. The Yuuzhan Vong equivalent was the oqa membrane.

Appearances

Sources

• The Politics of Contraband (As docking tube)
• "Zirtran's Anchor" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 (as pressure tunnel)
• Alliance Intelligence Reports (as docking tube)
• Pirates & Privateers
• Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids (as boarding tube)
• Stock Ships (as umbilical passageway)
• Lords of the Expanse
• The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology (as boarding tube)
• The Far Orbit Project
• Star Wars: Behind the Magic
• The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
• Scum and Villainy (Misspelled as "cotterdam")
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 133 ("cofferdam")

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