Tantive V (CR90 corvette)

The Tantive V was a CR90 corvette in the service of the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War. Just prior to the Battle of Yavin, the Tantive V acted as a decoy for the identical Rebel corvette Tantive IV, the consular vessel of Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, which was carrying stolen technical data of the Galactic Empire's Death Star battle station.

To buy time for Organa to escape with the Death Star plans, the Tantive V drew the pursuit of Darth Vader's Imperial Star Destroyer, the Devastator, away from the Tantive IV. Believing the Tantive V to be the princess's corvette, the Devastator captured and boarded the decoy vessel, only to find that it carried an unarmed crew of Gungans rather than the coveted Death Star plans. The Tantive V ruse briefly allowed Organa to slip past Vader's grasp with the Death Star readouts.

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