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Chaff
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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
The chaff countermeasure was a means of protection against warheads commonly mounted on small spacecraft. Deployed from the ship's aft, a chaff burst caused a scattering of particles designed to confuse a warhead's guidance system, detonating the warhead prematurely and thus protecting the ship itself.
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15 works, in story order
- Shatterpoint
- Equipment
- Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
- Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
- One Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid
- Dark Forces: Rebel Agent
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight
- X-Wing: The Bacta War
- X-Wing: Wraith Squadron (mentioned only)
- Darksaber
- Planet of Twilight (mentioned only)
- The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
- Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines
- Legacy of the Force: Tempest
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