Sentinel-class landing craft

"Detecting a Sentinel-class landing craft near planetfall. We're about to be raided by stormtroopers."

- An Alderanaanian, during Leia Organa's rescue mission.

A Sentinel-class landing craft, also known as a Sentinel-class shuttle or Imperial landing craft, was a large-scale troop transport utilized by the Galactic Empire.

Characteristics
Designed by Sienar Fleet Systems in the shape of its cousin, the Lambda-class T-4a shuttle, this larger, more spacious shuttle was primarily used to ferry a complement of 75 stormtroopers into battle &mdash;55 more troops than the Lambda-class. The ship featured three wings: one stationary center foil and two articulated flanking wings. The landing craft also had shielding being able to withstand few hits from a Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier turrets. They could also be modified with special containers carrying vehicles. The interior of the ship had a main passenger section and a cockpit. In the passenger/cargo area there were benches and harnesses on each side with a ladder to the side of the front ramp. The cockpit section had four seats.

History
"A Sentinel-class&mdash;wizard."

- Jai Kell

A Sentinel-class shuttle was once used for transporting the Imperial cadets of the Academy for Young Imperials on the planet Lothal to a nighttime aquatic training mission.

Stormtroopers and the Grand Inquisitor took a Sentinel-class to an old Republic military base called Fort Anaxes, to either capture or eliminate the Spectres, after the rebels' successful mission to rescue a former Imperial employee. After a brief battle on the abandoned base, Kanan Jarrus piloted the Phantom and destroyed the shuttle before running away. Weeks later, another one was used in the chase of the rebels and Senator Gall Trayvis.

Minister Maketh Tua of Lothal was to take a shuttle on a meeting with Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin when she was rescued by the rebels, but after she boarded it, it exploded as part of a trap set by Agent Kallus and Darth Vader.

The rebels later became notorious for stealing shuttles, such as the shuttle Lagos. Later, a rogue former clone trooper CT-7567, nicknamed Rex, and Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus used another one of these stolen shuttles during their mission to destroy the Imperial Interdictor. A Sentinel-class shuttle was used by the empire in an attempt to regain control of a imperial carrier which was captured by the Spectres and members of the Free Ryloth movement.

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, at least one Sentinel-class shuttle was deployed on Tatooine to find the droids that stole the Death Star plans.

Shortly afterward, Commander Alecia Beck of the ISB used one of the shuttles to carry a squad of stormtroopers off the Vehement during the hunt for Caluan Ematt.