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- "Poe, get your head out of your cockpit. There are things that you cannot solve by jumping in an X-wing and blowing something up!"
- ―General Leia Organa rebukes Resistance pilot Poe Dameron
The cockpit of the Millennium Falcon
The cockpit or control pod[2] was, usually, the primary center of control for various kinds of vehicles. Pilots operated their vessels from cockpits, managing a variety of instruments that controlled the vehicle's speed, direction, and other operations. Anakin Skywalker was once ordered to stay in the cockpit of an N-1 starfighter during the Battle of Naboo in order to stay out of harm's way. Skywalker inadvertently flew the craft into battle, however. Although cockpits were normally a part of a vessel's main body, podracer cockpits were tethered to the engines they controlled via cables.[3]Some ground vehicles had an open cockpit, such as the All Terrain Reconnaissance Transport (AT-RT) walker.[4]
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Pablo Hidalgo has noted "cockpit" as an example of real world term that is accepted amongst the Star Wars fandom as an in-universe term, effectively having been grandfathered into acceptance thanks to its common usage amongst Star Wars works.[5]
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- ↑ Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
- ↑ Star Wars: Star Pilot
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
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Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) on Bluesky (post on April 10, 2025): "Editing the Star Wars-iness of text is an idiosyncratic art and not a defined science. I balk at the use of “footage” due to its outdated terrestrial origins, but we’ve all given “cockpit” a pass because it’s so grandfathered in." (backup link)