Docking Bay 327/Legends

"Clear Bay 327. We are opening the magnetic field."

- Imperial controller, preparing the docking bay for the Millennium Falcon

As one of many docking bays on the Death Star I, Bay 327 (also known as the Main Forward Bay or Main Hangar) served as an empty hangar to check ships which had been "sucked in" by a tractor beam.

Outside access to the docking bay was granted via the tractor beam. A nearby ship would be caught in the beam and dragged into the Docking Bay. If a ship tried to depart with the tractor beams active, the beam would again drag it back into the Docking Bay.

Encounters
Docking Bay 327 was the location that the Millennium Falcon docked with the first Death Star. After Imperial troops searched the ship finding no one inside, a scanning crew was sent in. The scanning crew never completed their search of the ship for they were stunned, along with two stormtroopers, by the Millennium Falcon's crew.

From this Docking Bay, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, the Wookiee Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan Kenobi departed to rescue Princess Leia Organa and disable the Death Star's tractor beam.

It was in this hangar where Skywalker witnessed Kenobi's death. From this Docking Bay (after Kenobi disabled the tractor beam) Skywalker, Solo, Chewbacca, and Princess Organa left to Yavin 4. Before the Millennium Falcon's departure, however, a tracking device was secured aboard their ship, eventually leading the Death Star to the Rebel base on Yavin 4.

Behind the scenes
The set of Bay 327 was originally Docking Bay 94 as the set of the Millennium Falcon did not fit out the stage doors.

In Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections, it is incorrectly referred to as "Docking Bay 3207" and as "hangar 3207" in the junior novelization of The Empire Srikes Back. In Death Star, it is incorrectly referred to as "Docking Bay 2037".

The number 327 also appears in The Empire Strikes Back as the number of the platform at which the Millennium Falcon lands on at Cloud City; and in The Phantom Menace, Queen Amidala's ship is a "J-type 327 Nubian."

Besides its role in the bonus mission "Death Star Rescue" for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, Bay 327 was also used non-canonically for the Endurance bonus mission, where Luke Skywalker has to fend off in a ground melee against various Imperial soldiers and Boba Fett as well as survive.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game
 * Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novel
 * Star Wars Droids 7: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book II
 * Star Wars 3: Death Star!
 * Star Wars 4: In Battle with Darth Vader
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * The Star Wars Holiday Special
 * Star Wars: Rebellion 15: Vector, Part 7
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novel
 * The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

Non-canon appearances

 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * ''LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy'
 * Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead'