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You are indeed wrong to think that electric breakdown does not occur in the
vacuum. It is intuitively plausible but in fact, the breakdown voltage
is smaller for a given vacuum gap than for an air gap. This was a matter of
considerable practical importance when high power radars were carried to
great heights, where they proceeded to misbehave until their waveguides
were pressurized.