Blood-sensitive sensor

Blood-sensitive sensors were a type of sensor that could detect when blood had been spilled and worked alongside a blood alarm to notify individuals via comm when it was triggered. In 32 BBY, Captain Quarsh Panaka installed a blood-sensitive sensor in Queen Padmé Amidala's apartments within the Theed Royal Palace on the Mid Rim planet Naboo.

That year, the sensor was set off when Amidala's handmaiden Saché started her period, so it sent a blood alarm notification to the captain, leading him and his wife, Mariek Panaka, to investigate. Upon entering the rooms and discovering what had happened, Saché was mortified. Afterward, Mariek helped the handmaiden acquire new sleeping attire and admonished Quarsh for placing a blood-sensitive sensor in rooms housing teenage girls.

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