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"Luke, help me take this mask off."
"But you'll die."
"Nothing can stop that now. Just for once. Let me look on you with my own eyes."
―Anakin Skywalker asks his son to remove his breath mask[9]

A breath mask,[10] also known as an oxygen mask,[11] breathing mask,[12] respirator,[13] or gas mask,[14] was a device that provided breathable air to whoever was wearing it. In some cases, it also acted as a life support system, especially if the wearers had extensive cybernetics.

A typical oxygen mask was a small, portable device that allowed an oxygen-breather to survive in low-oxygen atmospheres. Although not suitable for use in realspace, these hands-free masks were essential equipment for deep-space travel that might require activity outside of a starship.[1]

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Benthic trailer

The Tognath Benthic wears a breath mask

Tognath who left their homeworld of Yar Togna,[15] as many were forced to in the wake of the conquest of Yar Togna,[16] needed to wear a breath mask.[15] Saw Gerrera wore a breath mask by the time of the destruction of Jedha City[4] that seemed to be an oxygen mask[17] but was in fact a way for him to breathe in rhydonium.[18] Two of his followers were the Tognath Edrio and Benthic, who both wore breath masks of their own. When remaining behind on Jedha to face the impending destruction from the Death Star, Gerrera ripped his breath mask off of his armor.[4]

On the occupied planet Skako Minor, stormtroopers wore a type of breath mask attached to their helmet.[19] The Sith Lord Darth Vader, the Sith persona of the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, wore a suit of cybernetic armor that featured a breathing mask. Upon his return to the light side of the Force, he requested the help of his son, Luke Skywalker, in removing his mask, recognizing that he was already dying and that it was his last chance to look upon his son's face without the mask in the way.[9]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oxygen Mask in the Databank (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars Rebels — "The Call"
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
  7. ↑ Aftermath: Life Debt
  8. ↑ Star Wars Resistance — "The Core Problem"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
  10. ↑ The Last Jedi: Bomber Command
  11. ↑ A New Dawn
  12. ↑ StarWars.com Back from the Drawing Board: Recycled Star Wars Aliens on StarWars.com (backup link) (original link is obsolete)
  13. ↑ Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook
  14. ↑ Force Collector
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Dawn of Rebellion
  16. ↑ Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
  17. ↑ Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel
  18. ↑ StarWars.com Making a Revolutionary: Inside Andor Season 2 with Tony Gilroy on StarWars.com (backup link)
  19. ↑ Doctor Aphra (2016) 15
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