Communications relay

A communications relay or a relay dish was a communications unit widely used by militaries to send and receive transmissions.
==Description==
A communications relay consisted of a main dish through which an antenna was installed. A relay was used for sending, receiving, and in certain cases, intercept transmissions.
Widely used by the military of the Galactic Empire, communications relays were a common sight throughout Imperial worlds, perched atop Imperial ground-based installations. The Empire's KX-series security droids were also each fitted with a full comm relay.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
The TIE/fo space superiority fighter of the First Order were optionally installed with a Comm Relay upgrade.
The comm booth and holobooth both functioned in a similar way, only being public stations for communications.Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy
==History==
There were communications relay emplacements throughout Imperial worlds, including Mustafar, Stygeon Prime, and Lothal. In particular, during Lothal's period of Imperial occupation, an Imperial installation there had a communications relay that was disabled along with the facility itself during a sabotage mission conducted by the Spectres, a rebel cell seeking to undermine Imperial control. The rebel Ezra Bridger first assaulted the facility with an appropriated All Terrain Missile PlatformStar Wars: Commander during the extraction of the Ithorian rebel sympathiser Dorthu Santim, before the rebel group's leader, Hera Syndulla, arrived with her modified VCX-100 light freighter, the Ghost, and landed the rebel Sabine Wren, who broke into the Imperial base amidst confusion in its personnel and sabotaged it.
Jalindi Station was a massive relay dish developed and used by the Galactic Empire.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Convergence 
*The High Republic: Cataclysm 
*The High Republic: Light of the Jedi 
*The High Republic: Mission to Disaster 
*The High Republic: The Fallen Star 
*The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness 
*The Vow of Silver Dawn
*The Living Force 
*Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 
*Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions 
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*Thrawn: Treason 
*Doctor Aphra (2016) 35
*Alphabet Squadron 
*Aftermath 
*Shadow of the Sith 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Comm units