Turbolift

Turbolifts, also called elevators or simply lifts, were machines used for conveying people and objects to great speeds to different levels in a building, starship, space station, or even tiered city. Said machine traveled in a shaft that extended vertically, allowing them to move up and down. In the case of a building, a turbolift could be either internal or external to the structure. The elevators installed in the Separatist dreadnoughts were cable-borne and equipped with braking mechanisms.

On the planet Coruscant, turbolifts could be used to travel between the many levels of the ecumenopolis. A human girl named Anandra Milon and her younger brother Santigo Milon once used a turbolift to travel from Level 1997 to Level 1996, as did a stormtrooper who pursued them. For transit to and from Quarzite, the Belugan homeworld, an immense turbolift sped travelers to an orbital space station.

Turbolifts were also installed on and ran throughout both Death Stars, notably the Detention Blocks on the first battle station and the throne room spire on the second.

A military base used by an Imperial Remnant on a snow-covered planet was equipped with turbolifts.

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