Razor (CR90 corvette)

The Razor was a CR90 corvette in the Alliance Fleet.

History
After secret Imperial data was stolen from the freighter Suprosa, the information was taken to members of the Bothan Spynet on Kothlis, and then transferred to the Razor when the Alliance base at Kothlis, Kothlis II, came under attack from Imperial forces.

Orbiting Kothlis while in transit to the fleet, however, the corvette was ambushed and disabled by a flight of Assault Gunboats. The Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger arrived and caught the corvette in a tractor beam, but not before the Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser Mercury unexplicably showed up in the field to assist. The corvette then launched an escape pod from the Razor containing a lone crewer managed to escape with the data, which was received by the friendly civilians.

Following a furious battle between Imperial and Alliance forces, the Rebels managed to retrieve the secret information and escape. Unfortunately, the ship and the rest of its crew became prisoners of the Empire.

Behind the scenes
Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader and X-wing Alliance portray different outcomes as to the Razor ' s fate. While X-wing Alliance shows the Razor leaving the Battle of Kothlis, Rogue Leader shows the destruction of the Razor and its captor, the Motivator (not Avenger), upon the latter's crash-landing on Kothlis.

There has not been an official retcon to reconcile this, but it's possible that Razor was a group of at least two Corvettes, and each game shows the fate of each one.

The whole story of the Razor, carrying the secret plans, pursued by a Star Destroyer and captured by its tractor beam, and eventually ejecting the plans in an escape pod, strongly remind of Tantive IV and the opening scenes of A New Hope

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars: X-wing Alliance
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader