Thermal exhaust port

"The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system."

- Jan Dodonna on the attack on the first Death Star

A thermal exhaust port or simply called an exhaust port was a small opening on the Death Star that led to its reactor core, which was deliberately designed by Galen Erso to be unstable. During the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker fired two proton torpedoes into the exhaust port with the aid of the Force, leading to the destruction of the battle station.

Appearances

 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization
 * Rogue One, Part II
 * Rogue One, Part III
 * Rogue One, Part VI
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Battlefront II: Inferno Squad
 * Heir to the Jedi
 * Darth Vader 1: Vader
 * Darth Vader 2: Vader, Part II
 * The Screaming Citadel, Part I
 * All Creatures Great and Small