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62-709: The Tantive IV Alderaan Diplomatic Envoy / ˈ t æ n t ɪ ˌ v i f ɔːr / (also referred to by its model as the CR90 Corellian corvette or simply as the Rebel Blockade Runner ) is a fictional spaceship in the Star Wars film series. Designed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC), the highly modified CR90 corvette is designed to be utilitarian, durable, modular, similar to its predecessors like

124-723: A docking bay under the Star Destroyer. The Tantive IV also appears as a ship model in both the X-Wing miniatures game and Star Wars Armada produced by Fantasy Flight Games. A 16-inch (410 mm) miniature of the Tantive IV sold at auction for $ 450,000, making it the most expensive Star Wars item sold at auction. Blockade runner Blockade runners are often the fastest ships available, and come lightly armed and armored. Their operations are quite risky since blockading fleets would not hesitate to fire on them. However,

186-579: A hangar where they await execution, but before they can be struck down, Holdo turns the Raddus around and stages a suicide attack by aiming a hyperspace jump right through the Supremacy , tearing it asunder. Finn, Rose, and BB-8 then fight their way out of the damaged Mega-Destroyer as it falls apart, defeating Captain Phasma in the process, and join the other surviving Resistance personnel as they gather on

248-618: A limited effect; as in Operation Frankton . From 1943 improved Allied air superiority over the Bay of Biscay rendered blockade running by surface ships effectively impossible. By some counts, during the war Germans sent 32 (surface) blockade runners to Japan, only 16 of them reaching their destination. Later in the war, most of the trade between Germany and Japan was by cargo submarine. Italian ships, interned in Spain after Italy entered

310-508: A refugee castle on the planet and has some knowledge of the Force herself, though is not a Jedi. There, Kanata implores Solo to return to his wife, the two having split after a tragic incident (their son, Ben Solo's fall to the dark side and transformation into Kylo Ren), helps Finn, who reveals to Rey that he was a stormtrooper, find passage to the Outer Rim to disappear, and advises Rey, who

372-483: A secret mission to the planet Cantonica to find a slicer who can disable the Supremacy ' s hyperspace tracker, which turns out to be a man named DJ . The four of them then sneak on board the Supremacy in disguise and nearly succeed in shutting down the tracker, only to have DJ betray the three others and turn them over to the First Order, before escaping with a monetary reward. Finn and Rose are then taken to

434-544: A symbol of hope for the Resistance and the galaxy. In the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi , following their successful destruction of Starkiller Base, the Resistance is ruthlessly pursued and nearly decimated by the First Order. Having failed to destroy the Resistance base on D'Qar, the First Order dispatches the Mandator IV -class Siege Dreadnought Fulminatrix to destroy it with powerful orbital weaponry. As

496-617: Is a fictional partisan resistance movement and private paramilitary force led by General Leia Organa that opposes the First Order in the fictional universe of Star Wars . It is the main protagonistic faction of the Star Wars sequel trilogy , first introduced in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens . It made subsequent appearances in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and in related media. The Resistance

558-672: Is a splinter of the military of the New Republic and takes inspiration from the Rebel Alliance , which had established the democratic New Republic after its war with the Galactic Empire . Many of the senior officers of the Resistance also served in the Rebel Alliance thirty years prior, including General Organa and Admiral Ackbar , while some junior officers had parents who served in the Rebel Alliance , as

620-545: Is able to overcome Ren. Rey escapes with Finn's body aboard the Millennium Falcon piloted by Chewbacca, and they return with Dameron and the surviving Resistance pilots back to their base on D'Qar. While Finn and Chewbacca are healed of their injuries, the droid R2-D2 wakes up, revealing the rest of the map to the first Jedi temple and combining it with BB-8's. Rey is sent there by General Organa, where she finds Luke Skywalker and offers him his father's lightsaber as

682-492: Is demoted to captain by General Organa for losing a major portion of the Resistance's starfighters. The Resistance's fleet is then pursued across the galaxy by the First Order's fleet of Star Destroyers, led by the massive Mega -class Star Dreadnought Supremacy , with Supreme Leader Snoke on board. The First Order is able to keep up with the Resistance due to the Supremacy ' s ability to track down hyperspace jumps, and dispatches its starfighters, led by Kylo Ren, to degrade

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744-436: Is docked in a local establishment. The Millennium Falcon is found and captured by Han Solo and Chewbacca , who are forced to escape with Rey, Finn, and BB-8 after they are pursued by two rival criminal gangs, though one of them identifies the droid BB-8 and informs the First Order of it now being in the hands of Solo. Solo, Chewbacca, Rey, Finn, and BB-8 find refuge on Takodana with Solo's old friend Maz Kanata , who runs

806-618: Is strong in the Force, to take Skywalker's lightsaber , which Kanata has been holding onto. Rey refuses, however, and runs into the forest. While Finn loads onto a transport and Rey runs away, General Hux uses the Starkiller Base superweapon to destroy the New Republic capital, where the Republic Senate and Starfleet are also destroyed, shattering the Republic government and confirming the Resistance's worst fears, leaving

868-428: Is struck by a bolt from Chewbacca. Nevertheless, it buys time for Poe Dameron and his squadrons to attack the base and perform bombing runs on the oscillator. After Chewbacca detonates the bombs, the oscillator is left vulnerable and Dameron performs a trench run, bombing it and destroying it, leading the entire planet to begin collapsing in itself. Rey and Finn duel Kylo Ren; Finn is beaten and knocked unconscious, but Rey

930-520: Is the case with Poe Dameron . The Resistance was a precautionary movement founded by Senator Leia Organa in response to the rise of the First Order; a military dictatorship that rose from the fallen Old Empire in the galaxy's unexplored space (the Unknown Regions) by staunchly loyal former Imperial hardliners. The New Republic did not deem the First Order to be a credible threat, so Senator Organa and several other Rebel veterans broke away from

992-458: Is to evacuate to another planet via escape pods, a course of action that Dameron objects to, but is unable to prevent. The First Order then begins firing upon the fleeing convoy, destroying some of the escape pods and much of the dwindling Resistance fleet as its personnel, except Holdo, begin abandoning ship but are unable to destroy the Raddus due to its rear shield deflector. Meanwhile, Finn, BB-8, and Resistance technician Rose Tico embark on

1054-481: Is tortured for information but can escape with the aid of defector stormtrooper FN-2187, whom Dameron dubs Finn . They crash and land back on Jakku, where Dameron is presumed dead, though Finn finds the droid BB-8 in the company of local scavenger Rey . When the two are seen together, they are marked by First Order stormtroopers and forced to escape Jakku together aboard the Millennium Falcon , which

1116-918: The Arkadi Monastery , sunk by the Ottoman sloop-of-war Izzedin in August 1867); Hydra ; Panhellenion ; and Enosis (Unification), which was detained in Syros by Hobart Pasha in December 1868, just about the time the rebellion collapsed. During World War I the Central Powers , most notably Germany, were blockaded by the Entente Powers . In particular the North Sea blockade made it nearly impossible for surface ships to leave Germany for

1178-684: The New Republic , following in the footsteps of the Old Republic , and signed the Galactic Concordance with what remained of the Empire, reducing it to a mere rump state of what it once was and eventually dissolving it entirely, leaving the Republic as the sole galactic power and government. Eventually, the First Order , a remnant of Palpatine's regime, rose to power in the Unknown Regions and repeatedly ignored and violated

1240-665: The World Wars . There were numerous blockades and attempts at blockade running during the Peloponnesian War . With his fleet blockaded, Leon of Salamis dispatched blockade runners to seek reinforcements from Athens. During the Punic Wars , the Carthaginian Empire attempted to evade Roman navy blockades of its ports and strongholds. At one point, blockade runners brought in the only food reaching

1302-402: The 2015 film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the Resistance is in a desperate race with the First Order to find the location of Luke Skywalker , the last Jedi . General Leia Organa hopes to recruit her brother back into the fight, while Kylo Ren of the First Order seeks to eliminate him, though Supreme Leader Snoke , leader of the First Order and Kylo Ren's master, only seeks to prevent

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1364-658: The American coastline, thus enabling them to outmaneuver and outrun blockaders. Among the more notable was the CSS Advance that completed more than 20 successful runs through the Union blockade before being captured. These vessels brought badly needed supplies, especially firearms, and Confederate mail . The blockade played a major role in the Union's victory over the Confederate states, though historians have estimated

1426-681: The CR70 with its simplistic interiors featuring subtle luxury for Alderaan officials. It was used by Leia Organa in the original Star Wars film and was the first vessel audiences saw when Star Wars premiered in 1977. Other CR90 Corellian corvettes, which share the Tantive IV 's design, appear in Return of the Jedi and in the Star Wars Expanded Universe 's books, comics, TV series, and games. The Tantive IV also appears in

1488-607: The Disney purchase of Lucasfilm, this plotline is part of the non-canon Legends timeline. The vessel appears at the end of Rogue One (2016), with the film's final scenes depicting how the Death Star plans reached the ship and Leia beginning their journey to Tatooine. The film's novelization further states that the ship was meant to take part in the Battle of Scarif, but had been docked for repairs aboard Admiral Raddus ' ship,

1550-476: The First Order TIE fighters and Finn's attempted suicide attack on the First Order's siege cannon, the First Order successfully breaches the base's entrance. However, before the First Order can advance further to finish off what little remained of the Resistance, they are stopped by a Force projection of Luke Skywalker, who then confronts Kylo Ren, stalling him and his forces long enough for the remnants of

1612-706: The First Order's spy and fled back to their base using the Falcon after wiping off the TIE fighters that chased them. Later on, they and C-3PO accompanied Rey to search for clues to the Sith wayfinder artifact mentioned by Luke Skywalker. The Resistance under command by Poe Dameron and Finn, traveled to Exegol with their fleet to face the Sith Eternal forces, including the Final Order, and ultimately emerged victorious. After

1674-465: The First Order, Finn is used for his knowledge of Starkiller Base and taken to the icy planet by Solo and Chewbacca while Poe Dameron leads two starfighter squadrons, waiting to attack the star system -destroying superweapon as Solo, Finn, and Chewbacca take down the planet's shields, though Finn also seeks to rescue Rey from the clutches of Kylo Ren. They run into Rey, who has already escaped on her own, and capture Captain Phasma , whom they force to lower

1736-475: The First Order. The Resistance, which hearkened back to the Rebel Alliance, recruited from both the New Republic military and worlds that experienced the worst of the Empire. Though the Republic tolerated the Resistance, it did not officially support the private military force, though secretly some within the Republic Senate, who shared the fears of the Resistance, funded and armed the group. As depicted in

1798-399: The Galactic Concordance, rebuilding former Imperial fleets and mobilizing a new generation of stormtrooper forces in its expanding armies. Despite this, the heavily demilitarized New Republic did not view the First Order as a true threat and disregarded it entirely, leading to several Rebel veterans led by General Leia Organa to break away and form the Resistance as a check on the designs of

1860-453: The Jedi ), following Imperial defeat at the Battle of Jakku , many Imperial loyalists fled to the galaxy's Unknown Regions, which were nigh-impossible to safely navigate, though was made possible for these select Imperial loyalists through a secret contingency plan designed to destroy the Galactic Empire and rebuild it, to eventually return to the galaxy. The Rebel Alliance had established

1922-563: The MC75 Star Cruiser Profundity. Once the battle was finished, the ship would head to Tatooine to deliver Bail Organa 's request for help to Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, Tantive IV was forced to launch before repairs were completed due to the capture of the Profundity and in order to protect the newly stolen Death Star plans from Darth Vader. Although they were able to elude Vader initially, damage sustained during

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1984-479: The New Republic's military and founded the Resistance. As depicted in the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), the First Order used the Starkiller Base superweapon to shatter the New Republic government and starfleet, leaving the galaxy vulnerable for conquest. They were now only opposed by the Resistance, whose fears had come true. One year after the Battle of Endor (depicted in Return of

2046-462: The Resistance evacuates aboard the flagship Raddus and a fleet of other ships, Poe Dameron, who was recently promoted to commander, decides to lead a desperate assault on the Fulminatrix , hoping to destroy it to ensure that more Resistance personnel escape the planet alive. His starfighter forces succeed in doing so, but many pilots are killed in the process. Upon returning to the Raddus , he

2108-474: The Resistance from reaching him first. This culminates in General Organa dispatching agent Poe Dameron to Jakku to recover part of a navigational star map to the first Jedi temple from an old ally, Lor San Tekka , where Skywalker is believed to be residing, though Ren intercepts Dameron and captures him, killing San Tekka in the process. Dameron's droid, BB-8 , is able to escape with the map. Dameron

2170-496: The Resistance to escape the base through a backdoor exit and on board the Millennium Falcon , with additional help from Rey and Chewbacca, before blasting into hyperspace away from the First Order to regroup. The Resistance appears in The Rise of Skywalker , set a year after The Last Jedi . They are based on the jungle moon of Ajan Kloss. Finn, Poe, R2-D2, and Chewie were first seen collecting Intel about Palpatine's return from

2232-486: The Resistance's fighting abilities. The Resistance's remaining starfighters are destroyed, several Resistance leaders, including Admiral Ackbar, are killed in the assault, and Organa is seriously wounded, which results in Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo assuming temporary leadership of the Resistance. With very little fuel and combat resources available, Holdo deduces that the only option for the Resistance

2294-641: The South prior to the war, and were suffering from the Lancashire Cotton Famine . The British Empire also controlled many of the neutral ports in the Caribbean, most notably the Bahamas and Bermuda . In concert with Confederate interests, British investors ordered the construction of steamships that were longer, narrower and considerably faster than most of the conventional steamers guarding

2356-734: The blockade to Britain in Operation Rubble but later attempts failed. In modern times, tracking equipment such as radar, sonar, and reconnaissance satellites make evading a total blockade by a world power nearly impossible. Drug smugglers and groups like the Tamil Tigers are able to run blockades due to the partial nature of the blockade, or because the navy imposing the blockade is weak and under-equipped. Reminiscent of earlier German attempts, drug smugglers have used semi-submersibles ( narco-submarines ) in their smuggling operations. Resistance (Star Wars) The Resistance

2418-605: The city of Carthage . During the 14th century, while Queen Margaret I of Denmark 's forces were besieging Stockholm , the blockade runners who came to be known as the Victual Brotherhood engaged in war at sea and shipped provisions to keep the city supplied. Blockade runners in the American Revolution eluded the British naval blockades in order to supply resources to the army. French naval aid

2480-422: The class of ships as "Corellian corvettes", but Lucasfilm later identified them as Alderaan Cruisers. The name Tantive IV was used in various merchandise as well as the official Rogue One novelization. The name may be derived from the term tantivy, referring to a rapid gallop or blaring of horns, associated with the sport of fox hunting , suggesting the Tantive IV 's role in the early scenes of A New Hope as

2542-520: The death of Palpatine, the Resistance has won, as citizens of the galaxy rise up against the First Order, thus bringing the regime to its demise. The fate of the galaxy following the defeat of the Sith Eternal has never been revealed, but it is likely that thanks to the Resistance that it made a return to democracy, potentially even a return of the New Republic. Led by Fleet Admiral Gial Ackbar , General Leia Organa , and Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo ,

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2604-530: The escape and the still-unrepaired malfunctions allowed Vader's ship to disable and catch them above Tatooine. The ship appears in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as the center of the Resistance 's base and during the final battle on Exegol as part of the Resistance's initial attack fleet. It was one of the ships hit by the resurrected Darth Sidious ' Force lightning assault, and although

2666-474: The fate of the ship and its pilot, Nien Nunb , are not mentioned in the movie, it is presumed to be destroyed and Nunb lost. This supposition was confirmed by the novelization's author, Rae Carson . The ship was initially referred to as the "Rebel blockade runner", and National Public Radio 's radio adaptation of Star Wars in 1981 reveals the name " Tantive IV " (pronounced 'Tan-tiv-ee four'). Star Wars Expanded Universe material initially referred to

2728-404: The galaxy vulnerable to First Order conquest. Kylo Ren attacks Takodana and takes Rey captive after learning she has seen the map, withdrawing the stormtrooper forces when the surviving Poe Dameron comes to aid with Resistance starfighter pilots. Solo reunites with his wife and travels to D'Qar with her, Finn, and BB-8, where Finn reunites with Poe Dameron. In order to launch a counterattack on

2790-693: The hunters' quarry. Both Decipher, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast published Tantive IV and Corellian corvette cards for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game , respectively. A small Lego model of the Tantive IV is included with the Ultimate Collector series 3,000-piece Star Destroyer which, at the time of its 2002 release was Lego's largest set. Lego 's 1,700-piece Ultimate Collector series blockade runner model, released in 2001,

2852-660: The outbreak of war, the Royal Navy imposed a naval blockade of Germany . The fall of France provided the German occupying forces with access to the French Atlantic coast and between 1940 and 1942, many blockade running trips succeeded in delivering cargoes of critical war supplies - especially crude rubber - through the port of Bordeaux; a trade that increased with the entry of Japan into the war in December 1941. Allied attempts to disrupt these operations initially had only

2914-422: The planet Crait , taking refuge in an abandoned Rebel Alliance base. The First Order, led by Kylo Ren, arrives on Crait and assaults the base, using a superlaser siege cannon, AT-M6 and AT-AT walkers to break down its heavy-duty doors. The Resistance forces were preparing for defense, using several laser turrets and ski speeders to attack the First Order walkers, including the Millennium Falcon counterattack on

2976-563: The potential profits (economically or militarily) from a successful blockade run are tremendous, so blockade-runners typically had excellent crews. Although having modus operandi similar to that of smugglers , blockade-runners are often operated by state's navies as part of the regular fleet, and states having operated them include the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War , and Germany during

3038-488: The sequel trilogy film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). The ship's design stems from initial concepts for the Millennium Falcon . When Space: 1999 (1975–1977) featured a ship called an Eagle Transporter with an appearance similar to the Industrial Light & Magic 's Falcon design, the model makers redesigned the Falcon and adapted the initial design for the Tantive IV . The revised model

3100-481: The shields. The Resistance party then travels to the base's thermal oscillator to plant bombs and destroy it, leaving the weapon itself vulnerable, though, in the process, Han Solo reunites with his son. Rey, Finn, and Chewbacca watch on as Han Solo implores Ben to return to his family and abandon the dark side, but Kylo Ren kills his father per the urging of Supreme Leader Snoke, hoping it will give him power. Instead, Kylo Ren finds himself only further lost in conflict and

3162-645: The supplies brought by blockade runners to the Confederacy lengthened the duration of the war by up to two years. By the end of the American Civil War, Union warships had captured more than 1,100 blockade runners and had destroyed or run aground another 355. Greek blockade runners supplied the Christians during the Cretan revolt (1866–1869) . Names of the ships include: Arkadion (named after

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3224-707: The then neutral United States and other locations. The blockade was run with cargo submarines, also called merchant submarines , Deutschland and Bremen , which reached the then neutral United States. The Marie successfully ran the British North Sea blockade and docked, heavily damaged, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now called Jakarta ) on May 13, 1916. In 1917 Germany tried unsuccessfully to supply their forces in Africa by sending Zeppelin LZ104 . On

3286-441: The war in June 1940, crossed the Bay of Biscay to Bordeaux and some of them, such as Fidelitas and Eugenio C , dashed through the English Channel bound for Germany and Norway. To transfer technology to Imperial Japan, on 25 March 1945 Nazi Germany dispatched a submarine, U-234 , to sail to Japan. Germany surrendered before it arrived. The Japanese submarine I-8 completed a similar mission. The German ship Ramses

3348-412: Was also made for the shot of the craft receding into the distance. A separate model was needed for this because of the limited length of the Dykstraflex track used. That model has lights for the eleven engines to give the illusion of exhausts. The miniature model was in the collection of Grant McCune until he died in 2010 and it was then sold at auction in 2015 for a record sum of $ 450,000. The model

3410-464: Was altered slightly for Return of the Jedi , with the addition of windows along the ship's spine and larger weapons. These modifications were removed in the 1990s. The Republic cruiser in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was designed to be reminiscent of the Tantive IV ' s shape. The Tantive IV first appears in the opening of Star Wars as it is captured by the Imperial I -class Star Destroyer Devastator over Tatooine. The ship

3472-407: Was by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale , which flew in July 1942 , according to various sources, either from Zaporozhye to Baotou or from Rhodes Island to Rangoon . Later, German Junkers Ju 290 -A aircraft prepared for (or, according to some sources, completed) similar flights . During World War II, trade between Sweden (which remained neutral throughout the war) and Britain

3534-443: Was carrying Princess Leia and the plans for the Empire's Death Star battle station. Leia had taken the ship to Tatooine to recruit the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to join the rebellion. Unable to find Kenobi herself, Leia gives the plans and a message to R2-D2 , who escapes with C-3PO in an escape pod and lands on Tatooine. According to the Star Wars Encyclopedia , the ship was subsequently destroyed by Darth Vader . Since

3596-427: Was in China when the war started. On Nov. 23, 1942, she attempted to sail from Batavia (now Jakarta ), to Bordeaux with a cargo of rubber. The hope was that maintaining a sharp 24-hour lookout they could evade the Allied blockade. HMAS Adelaide (1918) caught and sank her. A small number of planes succeeded in flying between the Axis-controlled Europe and the Japanese-controlled parts of Asia. The first known flight

3658-424: Was scaled down, with replacements for outsized components and a different cockpit. This also explains the 194-centimeter model's intricacy, which would have been necessary for depicting the prominent Falcon . Although not visible in the original Star Wars film , modelmakers put a miniature nude centerfold in the cockpit's interior. The Tantive IV was the last model completed for the film. A smaller 16-inch model

3720-451: Was severely curtailed by the German blockade of the Skagerrak straits between Norway and the northern tip of Denmark. In order to import vital materiel from Sweden, such as ball bearings for the British aircraft industry, five Motor Gun Boats , such as the Gay Viking , were converted into blockade runners, using winter darkness and high speed to penetrate the German maritime blockade. Larger Norwegian ships succeeded in escaping through

3782-408: Was the first set to include dark red bricks. In 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of such models, Lego released an updated model of the Tantive IV . Two Micro Machines three-packs included a Corellian corvette toy, and Hasbro 's Collector Fleet line included an electronic blockade runner. Kenner's Die Cast Star Destroyer from 1979 includes a miniature Tantive IV that can be inserted into

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3844-492: Was vital. During the American Civil War , blockade running became a major enterprise for the Confederacy due to the Union blockade as part of the Anaconda Plan to cut off the Confederacy's overseas trade. Twelve major ports and approximately 3,500 miles of coastline along the Confederacy were patrolled by roughly 500 Union Navy ships. The United Kingdom played a major role in Confederate blockade running. British merchants had conducted significant amounts of trade with

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