A docking tube, cofferdam, or pressure tunnel was a temporary, pressure sealed enclosure used to connect a starship in dry dock. Cofferdams were also used to connect starships with mismatched airlocks. The device itself was a flexible, ribbed tube that could attach to a surface with chemical, magnetic, mechanical, or negative pressure means. The Yuuzhan Vong equivalent was the oqa membrane.
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- The Politics of Contraband (As docking tube)
- "Zirtran's Anchor" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 (as pressure tunnel)
- Alliance Intelligence Reports (as docking tube)
- Pirates & Privateers
- Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids (as boarding tube)
- Stock Ships (as umbilical passageway)
- Lords of the Expanse
- The Far Orbit Project
- The New Jedi Order Sourcebook
- Scum and Villainy (Misspelled as "cotterdam")
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 133 ("cofferdam")
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