Carrion Spike

The Carrion Spike was a corvette and the personal starship of Moff Wilhuff Tarkin while he was stationed at Sentinel Base in the Outer Rim Territories. This ship was based off of the design of the stealth ship used during the Clone Wars. It was captured by the disaffected former Republic Intelligence agent Berch Teller and his rebel cell. Berch used the Carrion Spike in a campaign against Imperial space stations, in which its abilities were unparalleled. Later the ship was abandoned by the rebels at Carida after they discovered their inside source within the Empire, Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit, was planning a betrayal.

The Carrion Spike suffered unknown damage after its abandonment, perhaps committed by the dissidents to keep the ship out of action. For the loss of his ship, the Empire gave Tarkin the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Executrix. In 7 ABY, the Carrion Spike was discovered in the abandoned Rothana Imperial Shipyards by Terex, who became the leader of the Ranc gang and later an agent of the First Order's First Order Security Bureau.

Description
"Sienar Fleet Systems wasn't the only contributor. The company's design is all over the corvette, but every shipbuilder from Theed Engineering to Cygnus Spaceworks played a part in outfitting it."

- Artoz

The Carrion Spike was designed specifically for and in collaboration with Moff Wilhuff Tarkin by Sienar Fleet Systems and several others. It was triangular-shaped, just under 150 meters in length and heavily armed with turbolasers, ion cannons and proton tubes.

Her Class One hyperdrive made the ship the fastest one in the Imperial Navy, while her state of the art navicomputer allowed the corvette to travel from the Outer Rim to Coruscant without reverting to real space to retrieve routing data from relay stations or hyperwave beacons. By contrasts, less advanced ships had to exit hyperspace to check navigation data while traveling from one system to another).

The Carrion Spike ion turbine sublight arrays and countermeasures suite were also state of the art. Based on a prototype stealth corvette introduced during the Clone Wars at the Battle of Christophsis, the Carrion Spike was unique in having a stealth system powered by stygium crystals able to render the ship invisible to almost all scanners and the naked eye. The Sith Lord Darth Vader was able to navigate the ship at some point, but only because he could track his meditation chamber which was on the ship.

Appearances

 * Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
 * Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue
 * Tarkin
 * Poe Dameron 2: Black Squadron, Part II
 * Poe Dameron 5: Lockdown, Part II
 * Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III
 * Poe Dameron 8: The Gathering Storm, Part I
 * Poe Dameron 9: The Gathering Storm, Part II
 * Poe Dameron 10: The Gathering Storm, Part III
 * Poe Dameron 11: The Gathering Storm, Part IV
 * Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V
 * Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI
 * Poe Dameron 14: Legend Lost, Part I