A stasis tube functioned as a sizable container designed to induce suspended animation in living, organic entities.
Following their training under the tutelage of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett, who also served as the prime clone, the Alpha-class Advanced Recon Commandos were housed within stasis tubes on Kamino. The Kaminoans, apprehensive about their volatile nature, opted to maintain them in a state of stasis. These ARC troopers were only awakened from suspended animation as a final measure when Tipoca City faced the imminent threat of being overwhelmed by Battle droids from the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
IG-88B had a solitary stasis tube on his vessel, the IG-2000. The bounty hunter utilized this tube to preserve the lives of captives who had sustained life-threatening injuries while they were being transported.