Vader personally destroyed all security terminals on the bridge, in order to send the defenses into disarray, and disabled a turbine console to steal a set of access codes, in an attempt to gain entry to the ship's escape pod bays. Vader himself was personally displeased with Tatooine being the location of their capture of the Tantive IV, due to it being his hated homeworld and it bringing back bad memories of the last time he saw his mother. Due to the use of grenades, both sides incurred heavy casualties, but the 501st broke through, capturing the main Rebel barracks and clearing the way for Lord Vader's arrival. Rebel troopers try to repel the Stormtrooper assault aboard Tantive IV.Īs troopers of the 501st Legion stormed the hallways of Tantive IV, a skirmish erupted between them and Rebel troopers defending the ship, with one of the stormtroopers being killed just as he boarded the ship. " Retrieve the plans and bring the ambassador to Lord Vader-alive." ―Instructions given to all 501st stormtroopers, prior to the battle on the Tantive IV
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Vader then dispatched a TIE boarding craft filled up with troops, to board and secure the ship as soon as possible, but later the crew of the destroyer attached a portable accessway to the corvette. The Devastator moved in and caught the corvette in a tractor beam. Ī laser bolt hit near the engine section of the Tantive IV, disabling the main reactor and preventing the vessel from entering Tatooine's atmosphere. The Star Destroyer Devastator pursued Tantive IV out of the battlefield and chased it around the planet Tatooine, Vader's homeworld.
A clash between the Imperial fleet and the Alliance fleet broke out, with both sides taking several casualties in the crossfire. When Tantive IV moved toward the uplink station, Interdictor-class cruisers were activated, preventing it from escaping. Upon taking out most of the pirate attackers, the Navy then hid in the surrounding nebulas, avoiding detection by Rebel Alliance Blue Squadron, led by Raymus Antilles, who were scouting the area. Upon reaching the Tatoo system, the Imperial fleet was ambushed by a pirate fleet near the planet Tatooine. The Star Destroyer Devastator chases down the Tantive IV over Tatooine. " We intercepted no transmissions…! This is a consular ship…! We're on a…diplomatic mission…" ― Darth Vader and Captain Antilles " Where are those transmissions you intercepted? What have you done with those plans?!" The information that the Tantive IV held the plans had been obtained by captured Rebels, as well as a Bothan who revealed it to the Emperor on Bothawui. They managed to track the Tantive IV with the unknowing aid of the protocol droid U-3PO, who had earlier been programmed to act as a sleeper agent and covertly placed on the ship's droid pool on Ralltiir. The next attempt in the recovery effort involved the Emperor Palpatine's feared enforcer, Sith Lord Darth Vader, taking his legion of Imperial stormtroopers, the 501st Legion, to where the Tantive IV was harbored-within the Tatoo system. As Alderaan had been a nuisance to the Empire for years, it came as little shock to the 501st legion. Nonetheless, the information they did receive on Polis Massa caused them to conclude that the Alderaanian Senator and Princess Leia Organa was involved in the theft. This, however, failed in recovering the lost schematics. Immediately, an Imperial assault on a makeshift Rebel base on Polis Massa was initiated, being tasked with retaking the stolen plans.
It successfully occurred during a distracting Rebel prisoner revolt on the Death Star, being supplemented by partial documents stolen during the Battle of Danuta and the Battle of Toprawa. The theft of these plans was the aim of the wider Operation Skyhook.
An unwitting instigator to the battle was the disguised Alderaanian diplomatic corvette Tantive IV, being used as an important vessel in the Rebel Alliance fleet, most notably in the operation to steal the plans of the Death Star: the new Imperial superweapon. The battle was part of the Galactic Civil War, a major conflict that opposed the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic. For all their talk of being a peaceful planet, Alderaan had been thumbing its nose at the Empire for years." ― Unidentified 501st stormtrooper " With the information gathered on Polis Massa, Vader concluded that the stolen plans had been given to Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan.
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