Tractor beam/Legends

A tractor beam is a beam sent out by an electronic device with the intent of holding a ship in place or pulling it into the direction of the beam. The tractor beam is a mainstay in most new capital ships.

In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, a tractor beam is used to pull the Millennium Falcon into the Death Star. It cannot escape until it is later disabled by Ben Kenobi.