- "Whoa! Put on your retro-rockets!"
- ―Han Solo
A retrorocket,[1] also known as a braking jet or braking thruster, was a type of braking rocket[2] or retrothruster[3] used to counteract motion and decelerate or stop a space vessel or other craft.
Appearances
- The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
- Template:TOR
- Knight Errant
- Han Solo at Stars' End
- Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3 (First mentioned)
- Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords!
- Star Wars 16: The Hunter (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars 18: The Empire Strikes
- Star Wars 37: In Mortal Combat
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye (First appearance)
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
- Star Wars 41: The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Pursuit (Mentioned only)
- Hard Merchandise
Sources
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
- The Star Wars Rules Companion
- The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook (As "braking thruster")
- Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
Notes and references
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