A vacuum-lift, also known as vacuum tube, is a chute that allowed rapid travel to great heights. Air pressure in the tube carried an individual entering it to a higher level. The variety of places Vacuum Tubes were used include docking bays, Jawa sandcrawlers, and the first Death Star.
In Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars, the second draft of the first Star Wars movie, the concept of a vacuum elevator (also called vacuum tube in the draft), was featured when referring to the elevators in the Death Star. However, the technology of the lifts displayed in the released movie, and the Star Wars galaxy in general, would turn out to be repulsor activated, and later called turbolifts. Still, vacuum-lifts went on to also be part of the Star Wars universe, through their introduction in Star Wars (1977) 20, and Star Wars (1991 video game).
A guide to the 1991 Star Wars video game in Nintendo Power magazine referred to these devices as "Jump Boosters."
In Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars, the second draft of the first Star Wars movie, the concept of a vacuum elevator (also called vacuum tube in the draft), was featured when referring to the elevators in the Death Star. However, the technology of the lifts displayed in the released movie, and the Star Wars galaxy in general, would turn out to be repulsor activated, and later called turbolifts. Still, vacuum-lifts went on to also be part of the Star Wars universe, through their introduction in Star Wars (1977) 20, and Star Wars (1991 video game).
A guide to the 1991 Star Wars video game in Nintendo Power magazine referred to these devices as "Jump Boosters."
- Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars
- The Jedi Master's Quizbook
- "Star Wars" — Nintendo Power Vol. 28
- Star Wars Hint Book