The following is a list of fictional Star Warsterrestrial vehicles, including armoured fighting vehicles, military aircraft, and naval ships.
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Armored Assault Tank (AAT)
The AAT is a Trade Federation vehicle that appears in Star Wars: Episode I â The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode III â Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars expanded universe, and The Clone Wars. Early drafts of The Phantom Menace described the Trade Federation's invasion of Naboo being led by 'armored attack craft' that resembled helicopters.[1] The final version's forward curve is based on the curve of a shovel, and parts of it are intended to suggest animalistic traits.[1]LEGO released an AAT model in 2001.[2]
AT-ATAT-STBARC speeder
The BARC speeder appears in Revenge of the Sith and is a playable vehicle in Star Wars: Battlefront, Battlefront II and Star Wars Galaxies.They perform cavalry, scouting and mounted infantry roles and are armed with a single, or sometimes two, blasters. Inexpensive, lightweight, easy to maintain and able to fill various functions, they are a widespread mainstay of many armed organisations, governments and major armed forces.
Bongo
The Gungan 'bongo' submarine is a transport in The Phantom Menace. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best) use a bongo to travel from the underwater city of Otah Gunga to the Naboo capital of Theed.
Industrial Light & Magic's Doug Chiang devised the submarine's squid-like propeller design.[3] This assembly was then merged with the design for a manta-shaped underwater transport written out of an earlier draft of the story.[3] This design replaced earlier concepts that depicted the Gungan vessel as an organic-looking diving bell.[3]
Clone turbo tank
The turbo tank is a ten-wheeled battle tank and armored personnel carrier that appears in Revenge of the Sith and is based on designs done by Joe Johnston for use in The Empire Strikes Back.[4]West End Games based their 'HAVw A5 Juggernaut' design on Johnson's sketches. The larger, more heavily armed vehicle that appears in Revenge of the Sith is labeled 'HAVw A6'.[4]
Cloud car
Cloud cars fly around Bespin's Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Compositing the cloud cars into the original releases required multiple motion control passes to prevent the vehicles from standing out too distinctly from their cloudy background. Cloud cars were designed to have two cockpits that were interconnected with a small compartment block. It was often a red-orange color with each cockpit arranged in a 'shoe-shape' with the glass being on the 'tongue' of the cockpit.[5] Cloud cars inserted into the films' Special Edition releases were computer-generated.[5]
Corporate Alliance tank droid
Corporate Alliance tank droids appear in Revenge of the Sith and are playable vehicles in Battlefront II. This 'snail droid' was originally designed for Star Wars: Episode II â Attack of the Clones for the climatic Battle of Geonosis, but they did not make it into the final cut of the film.[6]They are a large, amphibious heavily armored droid, mainly used for amphibibous assaults, troop transport, and as a main battle tank on worlds with rough terrain. They can be fitted with nearly any type of armament from heavy laser cannons, to blaster cannons, and even guided missiles to perform almost any combat function. When given voice modulators, they are put to use policing potentially rebellious worlds owned by the Corporate Alliance as well as to crush civilian insurrections.[citation needed]
Droid gunship
Droid gunships appear at the Battle of Kashyyyk in Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Battlefront II. Their circular shape is designed to be reminiscent of the Trade Federation ships seen in The Phantom Menace.[7] These ships were originally intended to appear in the movie's opening space battle, but were ultimately depicted as aircraft.[7]
Dwarf spider droid
The Confederacy of Independent Systems uses dwarf spider droids in Attack of the Clones. These Spider Droids were designed to provide more agile artillery in the battlefield. Like the larger Confederate spider droid it has four legs, but this droid seems to have two optical receptors. Both the 'eyes' and the main turret are red and glowing with the laser pulses that go through them. Hasbro released a spider droid figure in 2003.[8]
Flash speeder
The Naboo Royal Security Forces use Flash speeders in The Phantom Menace.
Gian speeder
The Naboo Royal Security Forces use Gian speeders in The Phantom Menace.They are larger, heavier counterparts to the NRSF Flash Speeders, and are used mainly for skirmishes against pirates and smugglers. However, they are still modified civilian landspeeeders, and prove relatively useless against Trade Federation tanks. They are painted purple, carry one medium blaster cannon, and have seating for four NRSF officers. They also have light armour plating for protection against hand-held blasters, but there is little protection for the vehicles occupants.
Hailfire droid
Hailfire droids are mobile missile platforms that appear in Attack of the Clones. They consisted of two large wheels with a low-fixed base that had two glowing red optical receptors and two large missile boxes to store its large arsenal of heat-seeking missiles, which glowed purple as they traveled through the air. It was large and towered over many infantry units in battle. Its main chassis was rounded and brown, while the wheels had ridges and were a gray shade.
Homing spider droid
The OG-9 homing spider droid appears in Attack of the Clones and is a playable vehicle in Battlefront II. During post-production, the droid was referred to as 'Commerce Guild droid B.'[9]
Landspeeder
Landspeeders are antigravity vehicles that appear throughout the films and Expanded Universe in both civilian and military roles. They appear in Star Wars: Episode IV â A New Hope.
Multi-troop transport (MTT)
MTTs carry and deploy Trade Federation battle droids on Naboo in The Phantom Menace. As with the AAT, parts of the MTT are intended to suggest animalistic traits.[1][10] Lucas requested the MTT have locomotive-type qualities and be capable of knocking down everything in its path; consequently, the MTT has battering rams and locomotive components.[10]
Podracer
Podracers are high-speed one-man race craft. Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) enters and wins a podrace in The Phantom Menace. It consists of forward turbines attached loosely to the cockpit by a series of cables with the turbines attached to each other by an ion beam. It was frequently gambled upon and was considered by many, including Qui-Gon Jinn, to be a dangerous sport. The video gamesStar Wars Episode I: Racer, Star Wars: Racer Arcade and Star Wars Racer Revenge are based on The Phantom Menace's podracing scenes.
Republic assault gunboat
The Republic assault gunboat appears in Revenge of the Sith. The vehicle went through several changes over the course of its development: it was originally a Confederacy capital ship, then became the 'Good Guy A' support ship for the Republic.[11] It became a Confederacy ship once more before being scaled down, turned into a speeder, and becoming a Republic craft.[11]
Republic attack gunship
The Low-Altitude Assault Transports (LAATs) are Galactic Republicairborneattack transport and multirole-ground attackgunships that appears in Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Star Wars: Republic Commando, ferrying clone troopers, Jedi, and military hardware during battle. The Expanded Universe describes the LAAT as a versatile multi-role aerospace crafts capable of reconfigured for the gunship, transport, starfighter, and bomber combat roles. There are numerous LAAT variants: the LAAT/i infantry transport, the LAAT/c cargo carrier, the LAAT/s stealth special forces, the LAAT/le law enforcement for military police, and LAAT/v vehicle tactical airlift that carried AT-TEs.[12][13] Lucas turned to footage of helicopter-troop deployment when conceiving the LAAT; the vehicle was originally labeled the 'Jedi attack helicopter'.[14] The vehicle's ultimate appearance is based on the RussianMil Mi-24 helicopter.[14] The craft's engine sounds are the modified sound of a Vickers Vimy, a World War I bomber. Both Hasbro and Lego released LAAT models in 2002; Lego released another LAAT in 2008.[15][16]Code 3 Collectibles released a die-cast gunship two years later.[17]
Sail barge
A sail barge delivers Jabba the Hutt and his entourage to the sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi. Illustrator Ralph McQuarrie designed the ship to appear more utilitarian in comparison to early designs, which made the ship reminiscent of a Baroque sea craft.[18] A 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2), 60-foot (18 m)-tall full-scale sail barge set was erected in Yuma, Arizona; it was one of the largest Star Wars sets created.[18]
Sandcrawler
C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) are briefly held in a Jawa sandcrawler in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Shots of the sandcrawler at a distance were actually a matte painting; only two of its treads and a 27-meter-long piece of its lower structure were actually built.[19] For shots involving the vehicle's movement, ILM used a 125-centimeter radio-controlled model.[19] A computer-generated sandcrawler briefly appears in The Phantom Menace,[19] and a sandcrawler also appears in Attack of the Clones. Sandcrawler-related merchandise include a Lego model,[20] card game items,[21][22] and Hasbro and Micro Machines toys.[23][24]
Self-propelled heavy artillery (SPHA)
Self-propelled heavy artillery first appear in Attack of the Clones. The vehicle was initially design on treads, but Lucas suggested that it be equipped with legs like the AT-TEs that fight alongside it.[25] The SPHA was referred to as 'Clone Tank A' during production.[25]
Single Trooper Aerial Platform (STAP)
STAPs, which appear in The Phantom Menace, are designed to appear reminiscent of the speeder bikes seen in Return of the Jedi.[26] The STAP's design also relates back to Lucas' 1973 idea of ridable 'jet-sticks'; a draft of The Phantom Menace refers to the vehicles as STAPS, or Single Troop Armed Pogo Sticks.[26] They were brown with one vertical stem and a horizontal foot stand and a higher horizontal handlebar. It had two twin engines directly underneath the handlebars with one on either side of the vertical stem. The STAP's allowed single droids to travel ahead and scout out the battlefield.
Skiff
A pair of skiffs travel with Jabba's sail barge in Return of the Jedi. The skiff was originally conceived as a flying animal carrying strapped-on passenger modules.[27] It was modified to be a nautical-type vehicle, and then transitioned to become more utilitarian.[27] A full-size skiff was built alongside the sail barge in Yuma. An 81-centimeter miniature was also built, and it was 'crewed' by poseable puppets.[27]
Skyhopper
An Incom Corporation T-16 skyhopper appears in the background of the Lars residence in A New Hope, and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) races a skyhopper in National Public Radio's radio adaptation of that movie; a skyhopper also appears at the end of the Special Edition release of Return of the Jedi. The skyhopper model that Skywalker handles in A New Hope is the concept model Colin Cantwell built; budget limitations allowed only a partial full-size mock-up of the craft to be built.[28]
In Star Wars: Rebel Assault, skyhoppers are used by Rebel pilots to train in Tatooine's Beggar's canyon.
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T-47 Airspeeder
A T-47 airspeeder, better known as 'snowspeeder', is a Rebel Alliance vehicle featured in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and several books, comics, and video games in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and also in Atari game cartridges in the 80's. Snowspeeder models and replicas have been merchandised by several companies.
Origin and design
During production of The Empire Strikes Back, designer Joe Johnston conceived a ship that combined the body of an X-wing and the cockpit of the Y-wing.[29] However, this design was scrapped for the T-47, which featured no elements from previous craft.[29] Johnston's designs for the Snowspeeders have influenced later Star Wars designers, such as Tommy Lee Edwards.[30]
The models were built in three different scales by Steve Gawley, Charlie Bailey, and Mike Fulmer of ILM, with the smallest (20 inches) used for motion control photography, and the largest (2½ feet) for hero and pyrotechnic shots.[31] All models included motor-controlled flaps to imply maneuverability, and the largest version also possessed motor-articulated crew[31] Several full-scale props were built in London for the hangar, cockpit, and speeder crash scenes.[31]
In the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the First Order uses the Light Infantry Utility Vehicle, also known as 'LIUV' or 'First Order snowspeeder', a landspeeder-like speeder designed for troop transport on the icy Starkiller Base.
Depiction
In The Empire Strikes Back, Rogue Group, led by Commander Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), pilots snowspeeders against ImperialAT-AT walkers during the Battle of Hoth.[32] When their blasters prove ineffective the Rebel pilots turn to tripping the walkers with the snowspeeders' harpoons and tow cables.[32]
The snowspeeders used on Hoth are modified Incom T-47 airspeeders initially used for civilians;[32] they are modified to survive the 'hostile environment of the ice planet Hoth'.[33] Expanded Universe material states that the Y-wing cockpit and other features were donated to the airspeeders.[32] The two-man craft has an advanced power system and repulsorlift to compensate for additional armaments and armor, affording them a top speed of 1,000 km/h and combat speed of 600 km/h.[34] The playable snowspeeder in Star Wars: Battlefront II is armed with concussion missiles and small tow-cable launcher.
Merchandise
Kenner released a toy snowspeeder in 1980.[35] Kenner re-released an updated version utilizing the same mold in 1995 for their new 'Power of the Force' line.[36] After Hasbro shut down the Kenner offices in 1999, it was released several times under Hasbro's brand name: in 2001 as a Wal-Mart exclusive in the 'Power of the Jedi' collection,[37] in 2006 as a Target exclusive in the 'Saga Collection' line,[38] and three versions of it in the 2010 'The Vintage Collection', including a Target exclusive packaged as the original 1980 Kenner version.[39]
LEGO has also sold snowspeeder models,[40][41] and Snowspeeder models used in The Empire Strikes Back have been sold online.[42]
Hasbro's Star Wars Transformers line included a Snowspeeder that transformed into Luke Skywalker.
In 2009, Japanese model manufacturer Fine Molds released a 1/48 scale kit of the Snowspeeder.
Speeder bike
Speeder bikes first appear in a chase scene in Return of the Jedi, and later in the prequel trilogy.
Swamp speeder
Swamp speeders appear in Revenge of the Sith. TJ Frame, who worked on the swamp speeder concept soon after joining the art department, initially designed the craft to be appear reminiscent of fanboats.[43]
Swoop bike
Swoop bikes are high-speed racing craft that appear in the films and Expanded Universe.
Swoop Racer
The swoop racer is similar to the swoop bike, however, it was specifically designed for racing with. During a swoop race, the racers do not race together on the same track, but separately. Each racer gets timed individually and the times are compared after the event to determine the winner. The fastest time is the winner. The first appearance of the swoop racer was in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
V-wing airspeeder
An airspeeder that first saw service with the New Republic at the Battle of Mon Calamari.
WalkersWheel bike
General Grievous rides a wheel bike in Revenge of the Sith. Grievous' vehicle is similar to another wheel bike that appears in the Star Wars: Droids cartoon.[44] One concept for Grievous' vehicle was for it to include 'tank-like chariots'; at another point, the vehicle was going to be another droid.[44]
Wookiee flying catamaran
Wookiee flying catamarans appear in Revenge of the Sith. They were originally conceived as strictly water vehicles.[45] The addition of a rotor came late in production; some printed works do not depict this component.[45]
Wookiee ornithopter
Wookiee ornithopters appear in Revenge of the Sith. The craft was originally known as the 'dragonfly helicopter'.[46] Although mostly depicted through computer-generated imagery, a full-size mockup of the gunner's seat was created for a closeup of the tail gunner.[46]
World Devastator
World Devastators appear in the Dark Empire comic series and the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron video game.
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A new age in Star Warsstorytelling begins this week, but before it does, let's take a look back at the wildest ideas ever to get Lucasfilm's official seal of approval.
Most of these belong to the world of Star Wars tie-ins sometimes called the 'Expanded Universe' and more recently called 'Legends,' which could also be described these days as 'semi-canon' in that they can be used for inspiration in future Star Wars stories, but aren't written in stone.
But still, these aren't mere fanfic. Somebody got paid money by George Lucas or one of his licensors to write these stories. In a lot of cases, they would have been better off just buying the rights to the best of the fanfic instead.
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10 Indiana Jones excavates Han Solo's corpse (Star Wars Tales #19, 2004)
A crossover between Indiana Jones and Han Solo sounds pretty cool. Both have low cunning and a sarcastic working-class charm, but have very different motivations: Han has no patience for hokey religions and ancient weapons, whereas Indy is all about the ancient and travels in pursuit of knowledge, without worrying about paying off any mob bosses. The chemistry between them could fuel a year's worth of stories.
So naturally, Dark Horse Comics instead opted to kill Han off(!) in 19th-century Earth so Indy could excavate his corpse. Finding 'something familiar' about the body, Indy gets the hell out of there, abandoning his quest to find the Sasquatch - who is Chewbacca, watching over his friend's body over a century later.
9 Skippy the Force-sensitive, precognitive droid (Star Wars Tales #1, 1999)
Remember the first two droids Luke's family bought? It wasn't C-3PO and R2-D2, it was C-3PO and that one shaped like a Red Bull can, just so we could be worried for 45 seconds about our favorite pair of droid bros getting separated by the slave market. The other droid blew a gasket before the Skywalkers got ten paces with it, and it was never seen again.
In Peter David's retelling, that droid was actually the most powerful droid in the universe, capable of using the Force to sense the future, and willingly sacrificed its life so that Luke could buy Artoo, get Leia's message and ultimately save the galaxy. All hail the one who truly defeated the Empire. All hail Skippy the Droid.
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8 Darth Vader and Princess Leia fight over finances (Star Wars #48, 1981)
It turns out that building X-wings costs even more credits than getting somebody to fly you to Alderaan, so Leia needs to go to the banking planet of Aargau to get a loan, and Darth Vader shows up basically to say 'Nuh-uh.' No, wait, he's actually there in a ridiculously convoluted plot to steal the Crown Jewels of Alderaan, after maneuvering her into putting them up as collateral.
He accomplishes this and leaves Leia powerless to tell anyone about it because reporting the incident would hurt her credit rating. By the way, Aargau has only three laws - concerning exporting, carrying weapons and defrauding the bank. Each of the laws is enforceable by death. Vader breaks all three.
7 Beldorion the Hutt Jedi-turned-Sith (Planet of Twilight, 1997)
Star Wars occasionally falls into the practice of 'fantasy racism,' assuming that all Wookiees are warriors like Chewbacca, all whatever-Yoda-is are Yoda-like like Yoda, and all Hutts are gangsters like Jabba. Once in a while, a story shows us that we decide our true destiny, regardless of race. The story of Beldorion.. is not one of those.
Seriously, good on Beldorion for completing his Jedi training, but it didn't take him long at all to decide this Dark Side thing sounded pretty neat and to set himself up as ruler of a distant world. He also followed in Jabba's slime trail by capturing Leia.. and getting killed by her. Because Yoda's 'size matters not' rule doesn't apply when you're a four-ton slug trying to use your stubby little arms in a lightsaber duel.
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6 Boba Fett falls into the Sarlacc Pit AGAIN (Star Wars #81, 1983)
Bringing back a popular character who might have died too soon feels like a no-brainer, but bringing back Boba Fett is a little more challenging. You'd only chip away at his best qualities - mystery and professional efficiency - the more times you brought him back so he could fail to kill Han Solo.
Still, you probably could've come up with a better idea than having an amnesiac Fett escape the Sarlacc, get mistaken for and stored as a droid by the Jawas (didn't he need to eat?), get rescued by Han, get his memories back and try to kill Han again for about four minutes, then crash-land right back into the Sarlacc's jaws. This wasn't even the last time he'd fall into the Sarlacc, but enough already.
5 Introducing Jaxxon the talking green rabbit (Star Wars #8, 1977)
As Marvel moved from its crazy successful adaptation of Star Wars to a regular series, Lucas laid down the law: they couldn't use too much of Luke and Leia. Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin responded by pairing Han and Chewie with some new characters: most memorably with a green-skinned alien version of Bugs Bunny. (Bugs used to nickname other people 'Jackson,' hence the name.)
Though Jaxxon was fondly remembered enough to show up in a variant cover for Marvel's newer 2015 comics series, Lucas wasn't exactly thrilled to have such a silly character concept running around the Star Wars universe, and Jaxxon's appearances were pretty sporadic after his first. This same George Lucas would later bless the world with Senator Jar Jar Binks.
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4 A moon falls on Chewbacca (The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime, 1999)
After a while, the chain of Star Wars novels got kind of depressing, as galactic crisis after galactic crisis made the celebration of lasting peace at the end of Return of the Jedi look like something of a grim joke and Han and Leia's kids got some Dark Side issues of their own. But at least none of the original cast (who were still alive at the end of Jedi) met any violent deaths, at least until Sernpidal.
It seems the planet Sernpidal houses some exotic creature who pulls the moon on top of the planet, and evacuation efforts left Chewie stranded. His last moments were spent howling his defiance at the descending moon, almost as if he were some sort of werewolf-like creature.
3 Luke Skywalker's ghost girlfriend possesses the corpse of his suicidal Padawan to be with him and he's cool with this (Children of the Jedi, 1995)
Callista Ming was a Jedi ghost haunting The Eye of Palpatine, an old empire ship, rather than just turning up anywhere like Ben Kenobi's Jedi ghost. When Luke and his student Cray Mingla hopped on board, the ship roared into autopilot, threatening to destroy the very planet that Han, Leia and Chewie were investigating.
Luke and Callista fell in love and saved the day thanks to Cray's last-minute sacrifice, but since Cray was ready to die to be with her lover anyway, maybe 'sacrifice' isn't the best word. So then Callista is like 'Sweet, free body!', possesses Cray's vacated meat sack, and then she and Luke start knockin' boots.
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2 The worst-ever Star Wars novel (The Crystal Star, 1994)
What exactly is the weirdest thing about The Crystal Star? Is it how all the characters are idiots except Han and Leia's five-year-old twins, who are practically Ph.D. physicists? Is it the reverse character development that turns father-of-three Han back into a scoundrel and Jedi Master Luke back into a whiny brat? Is it the use of centaurs and werewolves - oh, sorry, 'wyrwulves' - as mere set dressing?
Is it the fact that the bad guy's master plan to get back to his home dimension involves eating someone very Force-powerful, and his first choice is a baby?
No, it's got to be the fact that the bad guy sends out his Force-powerful flunky to kidnap said baby, not realizing until the end of the book that he could save himself a whole lot of trouble by just eating the flunky. So he does and then either goes home completely unpunished or dies for no reason. It's not really clear.
1 The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
If you knew about this, you knew that #1 was always going to be this.
If you didn't, the plot revolves around trying to get Chewbacca to his home planet so he can celebrate Wookiee Christmas, er, 'Life Day.' This special featured all the first movie's significant characters, was the first appearance of Boba Fett, introduced the Wookiee homeworld, and featured Carrie Fisher singing a song set to Star Wars' original theme tune.
That sounds great when it's put like that, doesn't it? But much like the Matrix, no one can be told how embarrassing and soul-crushingly boring the Star Wars Holiday Special is. You simply have to experience it for yourself. But really, why would you?
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The Devastator was an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer of the Imperial Navy famous for its participation in the capture of the Tantive IV and as Darth Vader'sflagship for a time.
CharacteristicsEdit
At some point in its service life, the Devastator was structurally altered from its original design to hold an increased amount of armament and munitions.[2]
HistoryEdit
In 7 BBY, the Devastator was serving with Darth Vader's personal fleet. When a secret biological weapons research laboratory on Falleen required containment, Vader ordered the Devastator to bombard the surface with turbolaser fire, despite CaptainBolvan's preference for a ground assault.
By 0 BBY, the Devastator was acting as Lord Tion'sflagship in his campaign against Rebel outposts. Under Tion, the Devastator also participated in the Subjugation ofRalltiir.
Following Tion's death, Vader raised his flag on the Devastator and began his pursuit of the Rebel who had stolen the plans to the first Death Star. Vader caught the Tantive IV at Toprawa and chased it to Tatooine, where it was successfully captured by the Devastator. Vader quickly dispatched a TIE/br boarding shuttle filled with the troops of the 501st Legion, and boarded the Tantive IV. Later the crew of the Devastator attached a portable accessway to the corvette. The Devastator also targeted and destroyed any escape pods that were launched in order to ensure none of the Rebels escaped. The sole exception was R2-D2 and C-3PO's escape podâwhich even then was only because they didn't detect any life signs in the pod, and dismissed it as a malfunction.[14][15]
During those events, Blue Squadron of the Anchorhead Base moved to intercept it. Rookie One and Ru Murleen were called from Kolaador and joined with Thurlow Harris against the Devastator. They intercepted the TIE/LN starfighters moving against them while Rookie One destroyed the Star Destroyer's emplacement cannons, destroyed its shield generators and managed to damage its bridge.[16]
It was the Devastator's forces, including the famed 501st Legion, that defeated the Rebel forces on Tatooine and gave chase to the fleeing Millennium Falcon. Captain Mulchive Wermis served Vader as the vessel's captain throughout this time period and in the following months, during the blockade of the Gordian Reach, the assault on Ultaar, and other missions.
The next year, the vessel served in the Blockade of Kashyyyk.
Later history and destructionEdit
When the Executor completed construction, Vader transferred his flag, but the Devastator remained a part of his roving, Rebel-hunting Death Squadron.
Prior to the completion of the Executor, the vessel was commanded by CaptainNevik. Agent Sollaine, head of the Imperial Security Bureau and Vader's rival, commandeered the ship to track down undercover Rebel spies. Nevik and Sollaine came to a clash of opinion, Sollaine believing the agents to be on Corulag while Nevik believed they were in the Alfestril system. Sollaine executed Nevik to have his way, but Vader intercepted the vessel at Corulag and killed Sollaine for executing Nevik.[8]
Devastor
Eight months after the Battle of Yavin, the ship foughtWarlordNuso Esva's forces in the Poln system as part of Death Squadron.[10]
Around 2 ABY an ISB captain Jeffren Brek arrived to the Devastator to present a report to his superior, GeneralNevar.[12] The Devastator had participated at the Battle of Hoth under command of an unnamed captain as part of the Death Squadron.
It was finally destroyed during the events of the Battle of Endor, under a concentrated attack of A-wings and B-wings.[17]
Behind the scenesEdit
Although the Devastator was Darth Vader's flagship prior to the Operation Skyhook, the authors of X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide mention that Vader was on Immortal.
A Devastator appears in the game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, but it is an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. The limited context doesn't provide enough information to determine whether this is a blooper or a different ship altogether.
In Death Star, the Devastator is, at one point, erroneously identified as a Super Star Destroyer. This may be a mistaken reference to Darth Vader's Star Dreadnought flagship, Executor, which was called a Super Star Destroyer by the Rebel Alliance'sAdmiralAckbar.
The Devastator was the second ship seen in the entire series, after the Tantive IV. Although in-universe it dwarfed the Tantive IV, its production model for filming was half the size of the Tantive IV's production model.[18]
Non-canon storiesEdit
In the non-canon story Tantive IV, originally published in Star Wars Manga: Black issue of Tokyopop's Star Wars Manga, the Devastator mistakenly captures Tantive V over Tatooine, a decoy ship masquerading as Tantive IV and manned entirely by Gungans. Vader soon realizes the mistake and captures the real Tantive IV less than an hour later.[19]
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