Azure Angel

Azure Angel Azure Angel was a customized Delta-7 starfighter that belonged to Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars.

Characteristics
Anakin gave his ship a paint scheme similar to that of his old podracer. Coincidentally, this paint scheme also resembled the one used by Jedi Master Plo Koon on his own customized fighter. The name Azure Angel represented Anakin's love for his secret wife, Senator Padmé Amidala. Although Azure Angel began its life as a standard Delta-7, Anakin made extensive modifications to suit his own tastes for speed and control. To increase the ship's firepower, he armed it with four Taim & Bak laser cannons (two on each wingtip) and a proton torpedo launcher. The laser cannons on each wingtip could fire either separately or simultaneously, and at such extreme angles off axis that they could hit targets even as Anakin passed them.

Proton torpedoes could be launched in rapid succession; seven of them were fired within the span of seconds at the Battle of Muunilinst. Other modifications included articulated stabilizer foils and vectored thrusters for increased maneuverability, as well as a pair of TransGalMeg hyperdrive thrusters that provided limited hyperspace capability.

History
Some Jedi were concerned that Skywalker regarded this fighter as a possession, and that it was a sign of his inability to let go of his past. However, Master Saesee Tiin encouraged him to keep pushing the ship's limits, hoping to see that Anakin's improvements were incorporated into the next generation of Jedi starfighters.

The original Azure Angel was used up until the Battle of Muunilinst. After destroying numerous droid fighters and a Separatist gun platform, Anakin encountered Asajj Ventress, who dueled him using her Fanblade starfighter. Anakin chased Asajj Ventress to the jungle moon of Yavin 4, where she destroyed Azure Angel after he had landed. Skywalker went on to build a second ship, which he named Azure Angel II.

Behind the scenes
The name Azure Angel was created by Lucasfilm's "Keeper of the Holocron", Leland Chee based on the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels precision flight team. Other possible names were Cerulean Angel, Cobalt Angel, and Teal Angel.

Plo Koon's Jedi starfighter seen in Revenge of the Sith possessed a color scheme and pattern nearly identical to that seen on Azure Angel.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * "Chapter 1"
 * "Chapter 2"
 * "Chapter 4"
 * "Chapter 10"
 * "Chapter 11"
 * "Chapter 16"