Vac-shovel

Vac-shovels were a type of shovel used for shoveling. They could have solid or perforated heads with tubing running from the head up into a sifter hopper. In 32 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of to 32 BBY. a gray vac-shovel with a perforated head and no sifter hopper was sat by the door to the Skywalker home in Slave Quarters Row in the city of Mos Espa on the desert planet Tatooine when the child Anakin Skywalker brought a group of offworlders inside to shelter from a sandstorm.
In 10 BBY,Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide dates the events on Kessel in Solo: A Star Wars Story to nine years after the formation of the Galactic Empire. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the formation of the Empire to 19 BBY; therefore, the events on Kessel in Solo must take place in 10 BBY. the mine worker Dezine Krisso used a solid-headed vac-shovel with a red sifter hopper, metallic gray tubing, and a white handle while working in the criminal Pyke Syndicate's spice mines on the planet Kessel.
==Behind the scenes==
A vac-shovel first appeared in the 1999 Prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. The prop was first identified in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.
==Appearances==
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia 
*Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
==Notes and references==
Category:Tools