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- "Well, here I am. Tell me about this new weapon."
"You're looking at it."
"I'm looking at what?"
"Two steps forward and you'd actually be kissing it. It's a stealth ship." - ―Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
The IPV-2C Stealth Corvette[10] was an experimental vessel developed by the Galactic Republic and manufactured by Sienar Design Systems during the Clone Wars. Equipped with a cloaking device that rendered it invisible, the prototype stealth ship was used during the Battle of Christophsis by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker.[1]
Description[]
The stealth ship had a modular hull and twenty eight cloak projectors. It was armed with two anti-aircraft laser cannon turrets, one each in the dorsal and ventral sides, and four proton torpedo launcher at the front. The stealth ship was also equipped with flares and had two sensor rectennas, one dorsal and one ventral.[3]
The cloaking technology's enormous expense and maintenance requirements discouraged the Galactic Republic Navy from commissioning additional stealth ships.[11]
History[]
Originally tasked with sneaking past the Separatist blockade of the planet to deliver relief supplies to Senator Bail Organa on the surface,[1] Skywalker instead used the ship to bring down Separatist Admiral Trench's command ship, the Invincible during the Battle of Christophsis. Skywalker, Clone Commander Blackout, Spark, and the crew of the ship tried to attack Trench's ship, but beforehand, Admiral Trench found that the ship's magnetic signature could be tracked, so it was not completely undetectable. However, when he launched tracking torpedoes that followed the ship's magnetic signature, Skywalker flew close to the Invincible's bridge, causing the torpedoes to take out Trench's own ship.[4]
After the Clone Wars, Moff Wilhuff Tarkin used a heavily modified version of IPV-2C Stealth Corvette named Carrion Spike as his personal starship.[6]
In 32 ABY,[12] during the mission to Megalox Beta, the First Order took the Carrion Spike.[13]
In 34 ABY,[14] at battle over a desert planet[15] the Carrion Spike had been taken by the Ranc Gang and destroyed.[15]
Appearances[]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cat and Mouse" (First appearance)- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel audiobook
- Darth Vader Annual 2
- Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue
- Tarkin
- Tarkin audiobook
- Darth Vader (2017) 18
- Star Wars Rebels webcomic (Appears through imagination)
- Star Wars (2020) 7 (In flashback(s))
- Poe Dameron 2 (In flashback(s))
- Poe Dameron 6
- Poe Dameron 8
- Poe Dameron 9 (In flashback(s))
- Poe Dameron 10
- Poe Dameron 11
- Poe Dameron 12
- Poe Dameron 13
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑
Stealth Ship in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cat and Mouse"
- ↑ stealth ship in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Tarkin
- ↑ Poe Dameron 10
- ↑ Poe Dameron 2
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Poe Dameron 3
- ↑ Rise of the Separatists
- ↑ TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
- ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary states that Poe Dameron began leading Black Squadron on missions two years before the Starkiller Incident, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY. The mission to Ovanis was the first mission that Black Squadron undertook as stated in Poe Dameron 1. The mission to Megalox Beta takes place immediately after the mission to Ovanis so it must therefore also take place in 32 ABY.
- ↑ Poe Dameron 6
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Poe Dameron 13