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Moisture vaporator

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"What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."
"Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters—very similar to your vaporators in most respects.
"
Owen Lars and C-3PO[src]

A moisture vaporator was a relatively simple device used to harvest excess atmospheric humidity.

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[edit] Characteristics

The device was comprised of any number of tall slender refrigerated pipes (usually one). When hot, moist air came into contact with one of the frigid tubes, the humidity immediately condensed into droplets of pure water that ran down the tubes and into underground storage tanks.

A properly maintained moisture vaporator could usually collect enough water to sustain three average Humans, even on hot desert planets like Tatooine, and Geonosis. Because of the delicate nature of the machines, regular maintenance was usually required.

Patch-in droids were often used as counterparts to the vaporators, as the droids translated the binary language they spoke, for the benefit of the operators.[1]

[edit] History

The Republic Army deployed vaporators during the Clone Wars to help reduce the amount of potable water that had to be shipped on transports.

The Tatooine Moisture Farm Collective existed to protect the planet's water supply. Together with the Bestine Chamber of Commerce, they sometimes employed hunters to kill the wild creatures that damaged the vaporators.[2] One Tatooine moisture farm, the Lars homestead, had 63 separate GX-8 water vaporators on property.

[edit] Behind the scenes

After filming A New Hope, the vaporators outside the Lars homestead were left there, and are still visited by tourists to the Tunisian desert.

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[edit] Sources

[edit] Notes and references

  1. Visual Guide — Chapter 8: Droids for Sale
  2. Star Wars Galaxies - information from mission terminals
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