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The Imperial Interdictor had four globe-shaped gravity well projectors attached to its hull.
A gravity well projector was a powerful device affixed to an Interdictor vessel used to pull ships out of hyperspace. As a ship could not usually enter hyperspace when within a planet's gravitational pull, the gravity well projector mimicked the effect by creating a strong artificial gravity well known as an interdiction field.[1] Gravity well projectors were first theorized by Chancey Yarrow, a student of theoretical hyperspace physics at the Academy of Carida during the High Republic Era, although she was expelled after the school discovered she had lied about using grant money in an attempt to build such a projector before she could earn her doctorate.[2] Five years after the birth of the Galactic Empire, an untested Immobilizer 418 cruiser was used to trap Wilhuff Tarkin's stolen corvette, the Carrion Spike. However, at the time the gravity well projectors were not perfected, and the Immobilizer was returned for reassessment.
Ten years later, the experimental Imperial Interdictor utilized four gravity wells to trap a rebel patrol. It also succeeded in capturing Ezra Bridger and Commander Jun Sato aboard the corvette Phoenix Home, but subsequent actions led to the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer's destruction.[3]
Imperial gunners generally operated these projectors.[4]
Behind the scenes[]
Gravity well projectors first appeared in Scavenger Hunt, a 1989 Star Wars Legends roleplaying adventure written by Brad Freeman for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[5] The technology was confirmed to be canon after it appeared in Tarkin, a 2014 novel written by James Luceno.[1]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: Out of the Shadows
- The High Republic: Out of the Shadows audiobook
- The High Republic: Mission to Disaster (Mentioned only)
- The High Republic: The Fallen Star (Indirect mention only)
- The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 2 (Indirect mention only) (In flashback(s))
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (Mentioned only)
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (Audiobook) (Mentioned only)
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil audiobook
- Tarkin (First appearance, simultaneous with Tarkin audiobook)
- Tarkin audiobook
Star Wars Rebels – "Stealth Strike" (First pictured)
Star Wars Rebels – "Zero Hour"
- Thrawn: Alliances
- Thrawn: Alliances audiobook
- Thrawn: Treason
- Thrawn: Treason audiobook
- Heir to the Jedi
- Heir to the Jedi audiobook
- Lando 1 (Mentioned only)
- Choose Your Destiny: A Finn & Poe Adventure
Sources[]
Stealth Strike Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
Star Wars Helmet Collection 26 (Databank A-Z: Imperial Future Council–Inquisitorius)
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
Star Wars Helmet Collection 55 (Databank A-Z: Saesee Tiin–Toydaria)
- TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
- Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
Imperial Interdictor in the Databank (backup link)