Life-form scanner

A life-form scanner, also known as a life scanner or life-form sensor was a form of sensor device used to detect living beings from a distance. In its Sentinel Base facility, the Galactic Empire used such scanners of Idellian Arrays make. One such system was also included on the Secutor-class Star Destroyer Conquest. Darth Vader used the vessel's scanner to prove the corvette Carrion Spike was unmanned. There also existed small, handheld models, like the one used by C-3PO on K43.

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