The tractor beam power-generator trench was one of seven locations where Docking Bay 327's tractor beam was connected to the Death Star I's reactor. The Level 6 Core Shaft Corridor within the trench, more specifically Tractor Beam 12 of Section N-Six, was where Obi-Wan Kenobi severed the connection, allowing the Millennium Falcon to escape. The entry area to the corridor was guarded by two stormtroopers, but Kenobi distracted them with the Force.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope junior novelization
- Star Wars (1977) 4 (recolorized in Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld and Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope) (First identified as Tractor beam power-generator trench)
- Star Wars (1977) 52 (recolorized in Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 3: Resurrection of Evil)
- The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
