CR90 Corellian Corvette

The CR90 Corellian Corvette is a model of fictional spacecraft featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. A ship known as the Tantive IV appeared in the 1977 film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and also appeared in the 2005 prequel movie, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

CR90 Corellian Corvettes were often used as consular ships during the waning days of the Old Republic. At the close of the Clone Wars, a CR90 was used to transport Obi-Wan Kenobi and infant Luke Skywalker to the planet Tatooine.

Eighteen years later, this same vessel, the Tantive IV, was still being used for diplomatic missions, but was also secretly a vessel for the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In the year 0 BBY, Princess Leia Organa and her Rebel Alliance had intercepted a transmission containing detailed schematics for the Empire's newest super-weapon the Death Star space station. The Empire learned of the transmission and Sith Lord Darth Vader led the mission to retrieve them. The Imperial Star Destroyer Devastator overtook the Tantive IV as it was passing through the Tatoo system. With little time to spare, Leia uploaded the Death Star plans into the memory circuits of the astromech droid R2-D2. R2 and his protocol droid companion C-3PO took an escape pod and jettisoned themselves from the ship towards the planet Tatooine.