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- "Poe, get your head out of your cockpit. There are things that you cannot solve by jumping in an X-wing and blowing something up!"
- ―General Leia Organa rebukes Resistance pilot Poe Dameron
The cockpit or control pod[2] was, usually, the primary center of control for various kinds of vehicles. Pilots operated their vessels from cockpits, managing a variety of instruments that controlled the vehicle's speed, direction, and other operations. Anakin Skywalker was once ordered to stay in the cockpit of an N-1 starfighter during the Battle of Naboo in order to stay out of harm's way. Skywalker inadvertently flew the craft into battle, however. Although cockpits were normally a part of a vessel's main body, podracer cockpits were tethered to the engines they controlled via cables.[3]Some ground vehicles had an open cockpit, such as the All Terrain Reconnaissance Transport (AT-RT) walker.[4]
