TIE/sh VIP shuttle

TIE/sh shuttle The TIE/sh shuttle, or TIE shuttle, was a priority personnel shuttle used by officers of the Imperial Navy to travel between capital ships or installations. The TIE shuttle was a modified version of the twin-pod starfighter design common to the TIE Bomber and the TIE boarding craft.



Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE/sh was able to carry two passengers, plus a pilot, and up to a metric ton of cargo. The TIE/sh was not built for combat, and was armed with a single laser cannon. Death Squadron personnel commonly used TIE shuttles to deliver face-to-face messages between ship officers. Often, flag officers chose to ride in the larger Lambda-class shuttles, while lower-ranking officers made do with the TIE shuttle.

After losing Millennium Falcon following a chase through the Hoth Asteroid Field, Captain Lorth Needa boarded a TIE shuttle to apologize personally to the Sith Lord Darth Vader for his failure. The shuttle transported Needa from Avenger to Vader's Executor.

Behind the scenes


The idea of a twin-hulled TIE transport dates back to unused concepts of a TIE boarding craft for A New Hope. The final TIE shuttle, glimpsed briefly in one shot of The Empire Strikes Back, is essentially a TIE Bomber, minus the bomb chute.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back