Device
Power coupling
Legends Canon version → Linked from 92 articles
Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
Power couplings were important parts of starships, vehicles, and other smaller devices.
Power couplings in starfighters enable the craft's power cells to share and balance energy output.
The term also referred to devices used to power objects on planets, such as the power coupling Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi flew through in their pursuit of Zam Wesell on Coruscant. Power couplings were used to hold podracer engines together and transfer power between them. Power couplings were also used as part of a melee weapon called the San-Ni staff which held together three metal rods that could be whipped around the wielder's body in combat.
Kel-Mar, Modog and Dekk were prime manufacturers of power couplings. Dekk created the Dekk-6 power coupling line.
"Hooking up a power coupling", while perhaps not consistent with the actual assembly of the device, was regardless used by several companions of the Jedi Exile to describe intimate relationships and presumed sexual intercourse.
Text and facts from the “Power coupling/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.
Facts
- Purpose
- Transfers and balances energy reserves and output from power cells
Appearances
42 works, in story order
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode I Racer
- Eye of the Sun: Revelation and Refutation (mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Racer Revenge
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones junior novelization
- The Gungan General
- Chain of Command (mentioned only)
- The Paradise Snare
- The Final Exit
- A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale
- Sandbound on Tatooine
- Scoundrel's Luck
- Allegiance
- Fair Prey
- Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead
- Choices of One
- Better Than Nothing
- Imperial Double-Cross
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization (first mentioned)
- The Millennium Falcon Pursuit
- Star Wars (1977) 42
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight
- X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
- X-Wing: The Bacta War (mentioned only)
- Conflict of Interest
- The Last Command
- X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
- Counterstrike
- Blaze of Glory
- Dark Empire 4 (first appearance)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Assault at Selonia
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion
- The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy
Non-canon appearances: 2
- Star Wars: Yoda Stories
- Shadows in the Force (unidentified)
Linked from
The best-known articles that mention Power coupling.
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- Vision of the Future
- The DarkStryder Campaign
- Tyrant's Test
- Before the Storm
- Children of the Jedi (novel)
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
- X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
- X-Wing: The Bacta War
- X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter