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Garbage compactor

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A garbage compactor, trash compactor, or garbage masher was a metal chamber used to store and compress waste. The walls would come together, compressing and crushing the garbage in the process.

Text and facts from the “Garbage compactor” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Locations
Gaze Electric
Death Star
Nakadia
Starkiller Base
Stormbringer
Purpose
Waste disposal
Affiliations
Nihil
Galactic Empire
First Order

Appearances

55 works, in story order
  1. The Prince and the Pirate
  2. The High Republic: The Rising Storm (mentioned only)
  3. The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness (mentioned only)
  4. The Living Force (mentioned only)
  5. Star Wars Battlefront II (mentioned only)
  6. Queen's Hope (mentioned only)
  7. A New Dawn (mentioned only, first identified)
  8. Star Wars Rebels: Chopper Chase
  9. Warhead (mentioned only)
  10. Vader - Dark Visions 3
  11. An Old Hope (mentioned only)
  12. The Baptist
  13. Bounty Hunt
  14. Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (first appearance)
  15. A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
  16. Star Wars: A New Hope junior novelization
  17. A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
  18. Star Wars: Heroes Path
  19. Trapped in the Death Star!
  20. Princess Leia – The Rescue
  21. R2-D2 and C3PO – Trash Compactor Rescue
  22. Rabbit Hunt (mentioned only)
  23. Darth Vader (2015) 12 (mentioned only)
  24. Doctor Aphra (2016) 1 (mentioned only, first identified)
  25. Star Wars (2015) 31 (mentioned only)
  26. The Trouble at Tibrin, Part II
  27. Star Wars (2015) 36
  28. Mind Your Manners (mentioned only)
  29. Doctor Aphra (2016) 20 (mentioned only)
  30. Doctor Aphra (2016) 27 (mentioned only)
  31. Rendezvous Point (mentioned only)
  32. Trooper Trouble (mentioned only)
  33. Star Wars: Uprising (mentioned only)
  34. Alphabet Squadron (mentioned only)
  35. Aftermath (mentioned only)
  36. Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle 2 (mentioned only)
  37. Aftermath: Life Debt (mentioned only)
  38. Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel (mentioned only)
  39. Aftermath: Empire's End
  40. The Key to Remembering (mentioned only)
  41. Bloodline (mentioned only, first identified)
  42. All Creatures Great and Small
  43. Secrets and Holograms (mentioned only)
  44. Destroyer Down (mentioned only)
  45. Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (mentioned only)
  46. Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization (mentioned only)
  47. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel
  48. The Force Awakens Adaptation 5
  49. Captain Phasma 1
  50. Captain Phasma 2
  51. Rules of the Game (mentioned only)
  52. The Ride (mentioned only)
  53. Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (mentioned only)
  54. Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel (mentioned only)
  55. Resistance Reborn (mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances: 5
  1. Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope
  2. Mission to Mos Eisley (in a flashback)
  3. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  4. Crossing Paths
  5. Escape from Coruscant (mentioned only)

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