TIE/sh VIP shuttle

TIE/sh shuttle

"Get a shuttle ready. I shall assume full responsibility for losing them, and apologize to Lord Vader."

- Captain Lorth Needa

The TIE/sh shuttle, or more commonly, TIE shuttle, was a priority personnel shuttle used by officers of the Imperial Navy to travel between capital ships or installations.

Characteristics


The TIE shuttle was a modified version of the twin-pod starfighter design common to the TIE/sa starfighter 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.

History


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 the 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 the Avenger to Vader's Executor, where Needa was Force-choked to death by Vader.

THIS PICTURE TO YOUR TOP LEFT IS A TIE BOMBER WE ARE SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE.

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

 * Dark Knight's Devilry
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars 53: The Last Gift From Alderaan

Notes and references
TIE Shuttle