Repulsor pad

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"The corridor came out with a vault filled with cabinets, relics of the past suspended on repulsor pads, some behind glass, other protected by crackling force fileds."
―Dooku describes the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts to his sister Jenza[2]

Repulsor pads were devices present in the Jedi Temple, located on the planet Coruscant, that could be used to train the Force power known as controlled descent[1] as well as suspending relics.[2] In 88 BBY,[3] Jedi Initiates Dooku and Sifo-Dyas broke into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts, a secret vault located in the Jedi Temple, and saw several artifacts suspended on repulsor pads.[2]

Behind the scenes

Repulsor pads were first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in a flashback sequence in the 2019 audio drama Dooku: Jedi Lost, written by Cavan Scott.[2] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, repulsor pads were first mentioned in "Freedom Strike Seltos," an adventure written by Bill Smith and published as part of Twin Stars of Kira, a paperback supplement to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games. The book was published in 1993.[4]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dooku: Jedi Lost
  3. ↑ According to Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded, Dooku was eighty years old at the time of the First Battle of Geonosis. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the battle in 22 BBY, thus dating Dooku's birth to 102 BBY. The script of Dooku: Jedi Lost states that Dooku was fourteen years old when he sneaked into the Archive of Forbidden Artifacts, placing the event in 88 BBY.
  4. ↑ WEGCite-Icon "Freedom Strike Seltos" — Twin Stars of Kira