Power chair

"If you won't use a mechno-limb, this powerchair will have to do.''" "''You'll not be making me into a half-droid, that's for sure. This little buggy will do fine."

- Owen and Cliegg Lars

A power chair was a one-being, repulsorlift-powered floating chair also known as a hover chair or repulsor chair.

Characteristics
Power chairs used basic antigravity technology to lift the chair above the ground, and were controlled via a panel on the armrest. These chairs were commonly used by disabled, wounded or elderly beings.

History


Aarrba the Hutt used a hover chair around 5,000 BBY as did most Hutts throughout galactic history, due to their enormous weight on most humanoid-compatible planets.

Jedi Masters Vandar Tokare and Yoda were known to use hoverchairs during their later years, to keep pace with their humanoid companions.

Cliegg Lars was forced to use a power chair after losing his leg during an encounter with Tusken Raiders, and both Maximilian Veers and Leia Organa Solo used power chairs after sustaining injuries to their lower bodies&mdash;the former after Derek Klivian crashed his snowspeeder into Veers's AT-AT walker, the latter after an encounter with Tsavong Lah on Duro.

Bertroff Hissa used a hoverchair after losing his arms and legs, though at this point he had been given prosthetic replacements.

Luke Skywalker used a hoverchair after the Battle of Endor while he recovered from the injures he sustained there.

Notable users

 * Yoda
 * Wonn Ionstrike
 * Vandar Tokare
 * Cliegg Lars
 * Maximilian Veers
 * Leia Organa Solo
 * Bertroff Hissa
 * Aarrba the Hutt
 * Jacen Solo
 * Rorax Falken
 * Weston Warsheld
 * Booster Terrik
 * Threkin Horm
 * Mara Jade Skywalker
 * Ackbar
 * Luke Skywalker

Behind the scenes
The power chair was 60 month veteran reward for players of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies.