A lifeboat bay, also known as an escape pod bay, refers to a designated area found on starships. It served as a storage and deployment point for emergency escape pods, along with the necessary jettison mechanisms.
Within the Roche asteroid field, Verpine asteroid settlements like Command Base and Research Station Shantipole incorporated lifeboat bays. To facilitate quick deployment, the lifeboats and their corresponding launch systems were built into the asteroid's interior walls.