- "That can't be! My audio receptors must be malfunctioning!"
- ―C-3PO
An audio sensor, auditory sensor, audio receptor, auditory sensor recorder[1] or sound sensor was a type of sensor that detected the sort of atmospheric vibrations that organic beings perceived as sound. They were able to detect frequencies in a broader range than organic hearing devices. Audio sensors were colloquially referred to as audio pickups or auditory pickups.[1]
These sensors were featured on many droid models, such as Holowan Laboratories IG-88 assassin droid models.
Audio sensors could be mounted externally on starships, to relay sound from outside the ship so it could be heard by someone inside it.[2]
Appearances
- "Memory Loss" — Star Wars Comic 13 (Mentioned only) (As "audio receptor")
- "Ringers" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 6
- Black Ice (As "audio-receptor")
- The Game Chambers of Questal
- "Infiltration" — Supernova (As "auditory sensor")
- "The Mynock Conspiracy" — Supernova
- "The Spira Regatta" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (As "auditory sensor")
- "The Spira Regatta" — The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4 (As "auditory sensor") (Reprint)
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (novel) (As "auditory sensor")
- Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88
- "Escape from Balis-Baurgh" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (As "auditory sensor")
Sources
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe (As "acoustic sensor")
- Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back (As "auditory receiver")
- Death Star Technical Companion (As "auditory sensor")
- Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Two (As "audio receptor")
- Dark Force Rising Sourcebook (As "auditory sensor")
- Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley
- Dark Empire Sourcebook (As "audial sensor")
- Star Wars Technical Journal of the Planet Tatooine (As "auditory sensor")
- The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook (As "audial sensor")
- Death Star Technical Companion, Second Edition
- Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook
- Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters (As "audial sensor")
- The Last Command Sourcebook (As "audial sensor")
- Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters, Second Edition (As "auditory sensor")
- Cracken's Rebel Operatives (As "auditory sensor")
- The Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition (As "sound sensor")
- Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations (As "auditory sensor")
- The Star Wars Planets Collection (As "audio receptor")
- "Smugglers of the Outer Rim" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 (As "audio receptor")
- "Zirtran's Anchor" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 (As "audio receptor")
- Goroth: Slave of the Empire (As "audial sensor")
- Star Wars Technical Journal (As "auditory sensor")
- "Boba Fett: Mystery Man in Not-So-Shining Armor" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 1
- Galladinium's Fantastic Technology (Also as "auditory pickup" and "auditory sensor recorder")
- Flashpoint! Brak Sector
- "The Cure" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 (As "auditory sensor")
- "Scouts' Dispatch" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 6 (As "auditory sensor")
- Alliance Intelligence Reports (As "audial sensor")
- Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
- Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
- Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids (As "auditory sensor")
- Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary (As "audio pickup")
- Boba Fett's Armor: An Essential Guide to a Walking Weapon
- "We Don't Need That Scum" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (As "audio recording unit," "sonic sensor")