Aural sensor/Legends

An aural sensor, also called an audio interpreterThe New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand or audio simulation was a sensor device found on all spaceships.
==Characteristics==
An aural sensor could give audio simulations of the sounds of nearby spaceships' engines and other relevant sounds while in the vacuum of space. This was done to give a spaceship's crew a rough idea of where surrounding ships were when they were not visible on a ship's screens.
==History==
The Millennium Falcon was equipped with such sensors.
==Behind the scenes==
These sensors offer an in-universe explanation for why sound was heard in space in the Star Wars films despite its physical impossibility (because space contains no substance that can transmit sound waves). This phenomenon is seen in a number of science fiction films and games, not just Star Wars. Sound in space is generally accepted as a cinematic convention and part of suspension of disbelief, even if it is scientifically incorrect.
==Appearances==
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*Jedi Search
*The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
==Notes and references==
Category:Audio sensors
Category:General starship components
Category:Sensor types
Category:Starship sensors