Interesting trivia note: The design for this ship originally was at a different slightly smaller scale - with only two turrets dorsal and ventral - with a "Bomber Nose" cockpit up front. If that sounds familiar - it should. This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! However - the way the landing gear pods (later removed) were laid out, plus the overall shape of the ship, made George Lucas realize that the design looked too much like the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999! So the famous forked disc/side slung cockpit version of the Millenium Falcon was designed late in production. And the former design of the Falcon was re-purposed as the Blockade Runner with added details, "grimblies" to indicate a larger ship scale and extra turrets and the hammerhead forward hull. Hey - why totally scrap the model? We're on a budget here! :D
" This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! " - you're thinking of the CEC DP20, which didn't make the cut into the movie, but was featured in legends.
@@PetersaberHDNo, the model that was seen in Star Wars as the blockade runner was the original model for the Millennium Falcon. When Lucas decided to change the model they made some changes to the existing model and used it in the opening scene. Remember there was no CGI back then. Everything in, the original version of, Star Wars are kit bashed scale models.
@@PetersaberHD I've looked it up and it appears the CEC DP20 was developed from the initial "Falcon" design but evolved in a slightly different direction. (Probably to more easily fit in with the established canon of the time (Legends). ) But it IS closer to the original design than the Blockade Runner.
Ironically.. Valerian and Laureline fans today bitterly acuse Lucas to have copied their ship the XB982 because both are saucer shaped.. wich i personally doubt preciselly because Lucas had allready changed the design to avoid copy accusations
"A CEC ship will keep going until it hits something." Considering that they regularly fly through asteroid fields, I feel like CEC ships don't keep going much.
@@miles2378 *fire sale Yeah, they did, when the company that manufactured them went bust. But thousands and thousands were sold to legitimate companies and space truckers before that happened.
I honestly love the look of the CR90. It's one of the more believable spaceship designs from Star Wars. Front cockpit module, middle living quarters, aft fuel tank module, and massive engines for quick delta-v adjustment. All it needs is a few RCS thrusters and I could easily see a ship of this design in Elite Dangerous or something.
“Can’t serve as a star fighter carrier” Ah, you’ve never heard of the legends of the Night Caller. I thought not. It’s not a story that Disney would tell you. The Night Caller was a CR90 that Wraith Squadron (then under the command of Wedge Antilles) commandeered from Warlord whatever-the-crap his name was. They later modified the ship to hold the ships four tie fighters externally, and the squadron complement of x wings, (11 at the time) in the forward launch bay.
Yup. And at the battle of Atollon you saw Nebulon-B's getting taken down by just a few TIE rounds. And when Hera attacked Lothal, a TIE Defender literally just pops apart when shot by an X-Wing rather than being blown to pieces. And when Hera went to Concord Dawn, other A-Wings are one shot by the Mando fighters while hers can somehow take at least 10 and still manage to hyperspace away. Pretty much all combat in Rebels made no sense.
@@joechace8214 the only ship destruction that made sense was at 1:48. The second TIE Bomber was able to hit the segment where both the reactor and shield generator are located. In a New Hope, the reactor of the Tantive IV is shut down before it can tear apart the ship, but that CR90 in the Battle of Attolon was not so lucky
@@joechace8214 I agree, it does not make sense. I did not activly watched the series, but some parts of it on RUclips. I remember one scene where Hera was flying an X-Wing and some Imperial Pilot was following her in a TIE Defender. They both fly in the direction of Thrawns flagship, and Thrawn gives the order to open fire. Then, both fighters are hit by the really heavy Turbolasers positioned at the side of an Imperial Star Destroyer. And they only loose their shields. Like WTF??? Those gun turrets on the ISD are like 50m in Diameter and belong to the heaviest and deadliest weapons ever put on a spaceship, and when they hit a fighter the fighter losses its shields but is undamaged? I lost it at that point. Its bullshit.
the cr90 sure is a great ship, but I personally think that one could improve it's stopping power considerably with the addition of some enormous mass-driver cannons
I love the Light Freighter version of this ship, the XS-800 light freighter. Compared to the YT-1300, it carries more cargo, more passengers, and according to the source book, a much more comfortable ride.
And, with EXTENSIVE customization, the bow assembly could be reconfigured into a hangar deck sufficient to hold 12 Xwings of Wraith Squadron, in addition to the 4 TIEs docked to the outer hull.
Might not be an answer to this, but I was just curious - is there info about what happened to Leia's ship after it was captured there at the beginning of ep 4?
I think the imps destroyed it in a staged asteroid accident and claimed all hands were lost Can't remember where I read that, probably a "legends" thing
Vid brings up a question I had not realized before.. the Tantiv IV was captured in a new hope ... how or when did Leia get it back for the last movie or was that another ship just put in for fan service hoping no one would ask too many questions?
Princess destroyed a battle station killing hundreds of thousands of workers and soldiers in an act of terror that eventually led to the destruction of a relatively stable government that was badly run and corrupt, but stable. The Tantive IV was scrapped and the news blames asteroid storms
Would love a soley Space Warefare based Star Wars game. Wish Corelia made some bigger warships, love all their ships. Should do more Mass Effect ships. Edit: A console game...
As much as I loved it. I am curious. Why was the devastator so effective when it jumped in? Were the rebel's shields down or something before they jumped out? The Devastator did more damage in a few moments than 2 ISDs did across the whole battle. Thoughts?
All the other ships had been fighting and probably had weakened shields and battle damage. The Devestator was perfectly operational when it jumped in and caught the Alliance fleet in their retreat. And, you know, Vader.
Great as always but a error now - the old specs with 150m in different games etc. are now wrong. The new Canon of Rebels as official the CR90 is only 126m long www.starwars.com/databank/tantive-iv ; www.starwars.com/databank/alderaan-cruiser
@@rossholt9352 That's NOT the only actor that did it. It's in the Radio drama several times. AND George Lucas says it that way...AND Pablo Hildago (Lucas film Story Group) confirmed it on Twitter. So yes, everyone has been saying it differently than originally intended. I found out just 3 years ago..so I was "wrong" too -I got over it... no big deal. Rumor has it, that the correct pronunciation will be spoken in Episode 9.
I’d personally swap out all the single turbolasers for dual or maybe even quad laser canons if I could get away with it, and maybe add some missile tubes for some extra anti capital ship ‘oomph’.
In the Wraith Squadron portion of the X-Wing novels (Legends only), there was a rather useful modification of a CR-90 that had a sizable hangar bay mounted under the bow. Originally used by former Imperials loyal to Warlord Zsinj, this modified corvette named "Night Caller" was captured by Wraith Squadron and used as part of an infiltration mission as the Wraiths' mobile base of operations for their early campaign against Zsinj. Originally equipped with a few TIE Fighters in the hangar, the Wraiths moved them to the external escape pod bays and installed racks in the hangar to land their nine X-Wings stacked three by three, all facing forward out the open hangar. This orientation proved useful in an ambush against some smaller Zsinj ships the Night Caller was pretending to side with. All nine X-Wings, still in the hangar, targeted an enemy Nebulon-B frigate with their proton torpedoes and fired them in a single volley while the Night Caller's own weapons focused on another CR-90. Taking both ships by surprise, the Night Caller destroyed the CR-90 while the torpedoes severed the Nebulon-B's neck and destroyed the frigate in a move later referred to as the Loran Spitball, named for the Wraith pilot who came up with the idea.
Tan-tee-veh. Not to be EXCESSIVELY nerdy, and I love your videos enough to have marathoned all of them in a long row several times, but Tantive is pronounced Japanese style with each syllable separate.
@@irradiatedslagheap7933 You do recall correctly. In the configuration you described, that ship was supposed to be the Millennium Falcon, but because it looked a bit too similar to the Eagle Transporters from Space: 1999 (not to mention the name of Falcon), the design had to be altered and repurposed as Princess Leia's consular ship. The design you described which was meant to be the Millennium Falcon got redesignated as a Corellian Gunship (a Legends ship now).
ironically... originally the Imperial destroyer was to be actually smaller than the rebel ship it was pursuing.. wich would match our classic definition of the term "destroyer" (a smaller , faster and well armed ship that trades mass and armour for speed while keeping a more than decent firepower to take on bigger ships).. there are arround the blueprints of the original star destroyer and you can see its much much smaller than the final.. George Lucas upscaled the destroyer (and probably downscalled the corvette some) because he wanted the audience to get clear in that opening shot the uneven war the rebellion was having against the Empire.. it shows in a single shot the desperate situation the alliance was and the might of the GE
@@sparrowlt Absolutely! So much is revealed to the audience with that one shot, and it immediately throws us into this universe. I can't think of a more effective approach to immerse the audience into your story.
*Sigh* The entire Scene was terrible. The Entire Sequence was terrible. The ending of the Battle of Scariff counters the information we received in Episode IV. "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy..." The battle wasn't a victory. By my count, only 6 fighters, 3 blockade runners, and a ramship (which is never shown anywhere else) escape. Even more concerning, the Rebel fleet didn't try to Flee or Fight the Star Destroyer, they just sat there and got destroyed. Next, the Imperial's "intercepted transmissions" which lead them to Tantive IV. All we see is Fan Service as Darth Vader wrecks Admiral Raddus' ship. Just to see Tantive IV escape. Okay, why is Tantive IV there? It's a consular ship with diplomatic immunity. Why would the captain risk being identified by imperial forces at a secure imperial facility which is under attack? Just because a Captain says "we never received any transmissions" nor do those transmissions appear in the log/data banks... doesn't mean the ship never received them. It just means the Captain took measures to remove all traces of them from his ship. This is currently possible to do. So, it is what happened. This is why Darth Vader threw him away. He knew he lied. If Disney wants to rewrite Star Wars History, they should have just said "nothing is canon". Making movies which contradict the OT is very bad.
While I am sorry about how you feel about Rogue One a Star Wars Story, I wish you had not used my comment as an excuse to vent you hatred.@@aralornwolf3140
I remember there was one mission in X-Wing where you had to fly cover for an unmanned Corvette, the Ram's Head. She was fitted with a prototype shield generator that allowed her to be used to plow through a number of ISD bridge modules in their slipways at Kuat Drive Yards. She decapitated at least an Imperial squadron, as far as I can recall. Good times.
Umm Dad,… I'm a registered member of the Alderanian Royal family. We, _,I mean I,_ did alright after you abandoned me. I'm thinking of getting a restraining order after the way you treated mum though. So don't think you can tell me what to do.
It's funny because no one seems to know how large the CR90s are. In Battlefront 1 and 2, they are as long as the Falcon, in rebels they are sometimes four times the length of 3.5 a-wings, but the same make of ship as Grievou' Invisible Hand is dwarfed by it lmao.
@@unclearsector4266 it allways was 150m.. in Rebels they show very well at 150m wich is about 12 times the lengh of an X-Wing.. wookiepedia incorrectly listed them at 126m for a while but that was a confussion with the CR70..
The Corellian Corvette is my favorite starship in the Star Wars universe. It reminds me a bit of the Eagle Transporters from Space:1999. The original design was meant to be the Millennium Falcon, but because of the name, and its very similar appearance to the Eagles from S:1999, the ship was altered a bit, (more engines, and turning the conical cockpit section into a hammerhead cockpit section) and repurposed as Princess Leia's Tantive IV (Tan-tiv-ee....as pronounced in the Star Wars Radio Drama in 1980). The original unaltered design was repurposed as a (now Legends) starship known as the Corellian Gunship.
In Legends there were CR90's modified to carry TIEs in the forward cargo hold, the Wraiths captured one and modified it carry their X-Wings in the hold, with the TIEs moved to the escape pod launchers.
One of the best features of the CR-90's were how modular and easily altered they were. From stripping out 1/3 of the engines and the entire weapons array to be turned into a diplomatic luxury ship, or swapping out everything between the cockpit and engine block and replacing it with hangar space, these little buggers could be refitted to do just about anything, without the use of a dedicated shipyard. Some were even turned into 'fire ships', replacing the crew with remote controls and packing them to the gills with enough explosive to crack a Star Destroyer in half.
Could you do the *ZD-9300 Correllian-class Star Destroyer.* I came across it while looking up the CR-90 (so I could make whimsical comments) but can't find any concrete stats on it. Guns, layout, speed (slightly slower than the Millennium Falcon apparently) and effectiveness. Was it better than the standard ISD, or ISD Mark 2? Was it Starfighter bait? Or was it just a hotrod capital ship that was average in other respects?
There's only one problem I have with Rouge One and that is that in the first released movie of Star Wars Vader said that they traced the communication signal to her CR90. But overall, it was the best Disney Star Wars project.
Leia: The Devastator's nearly onto us, how many boosters are you using? Captain Antilles: All of them, your Highness. Leia: I... told you to use more than that...
I have the original Star Wars ship blue print book. I remember the Tantive IV has a bunch of interesting things. The entire top deck is a luxury detachable life boat. The 4 torrents on the top can be used as armed scape pods. It had no fighter hangar. You should get those books
You know for many years we just called this this a Corellian Corvette if we wanted to be technical, and Rebel Blockade Runner if we didn't. And it always bugged me that it didn't have a number designation or anything. Well we finally have a designator for this, the first starship ever depicted in any star wars film
This ship just needs 12 more single laser cannons four on the bottom(screw escape pods)... And one on top and bottom of each of the engines all anti-star fighter
One of my personal favorites in Star Wars and on my top 10 list for personal star ships if I had to pick from Star Wars. I tend to favor the idea of a corvette over fighter craft for my personal ship, at least in the Star Wars universe. Depending on the universe, a single pilot can control something as large as a destroyer!
Liam Kleronomos I’ve only ever seen small resin kits, metal gaming miniatures and the plastic fully painted model from the Armada game. Bandai never made one, however it’s possible their upcoming Star Destroyer could have one. I doubt it as it’s an Imperial II, and the Devastator was an Imperial I.
The original model in ANH was apparently bigger than the Star Destroyer featured in the film. Plus it was originally going to be the Millennium Falcon, but was then changed due to its similarities to the Eagle from Space 1999.Also worth mentioning that in the Legends EU there were a few of these craft that had its mid section expanded to serve as a hangar bay for one squadron of A-Wings.
As awesome as it sounds to have a freeform starship game in the Star Wars universe, you know the gig would fall to EA and it would be a mess of micro-transactions and pay-to-win
I've seen art of a CR-90 modified as a carrier before and in an old Star wars rts from the 90's had a variant that removed the area for passengers and crew replacing it as a giant crane to deploy prefab buildings from orbit. A similar thing was done with a Lambda -class shuttle...
One of my favorite corvette designs in all of sci fi! An excellent anti-fighter vessel, with loads of speed and agility to keep it out of harm’s way. The massive engine cluster has always been a favorite aspect of the design for me, as well as how the secondary gun turrets doubled (at least in Legends) as high capacity armed escape pods.
So it can essentially serve as an AA Frigate, providing a fleet AA Screen like the Fletcher class DDs in addition to a Starfighter CAP. A truly versatile Warship, indeed.
Hmm, I just noticed something interesting about that SD model in the opener - the forward hangar (the smaller hangar) doesn't actually appear to be a large open-box style hangar that I always thought it would be. But it looks more like a mirrored array of launch-tubes, that have a down-(relative) facing slope to them. It's fairly obvious at ~ 0:33 ish
The Corellain Corporation, INCOM and Mon Calamari Shipyards are the top 3 ship building groups that the Rebel Alliance used in their fight against the Empire and it didn't go to waste.
I just light bulbed and realized that, "Alliance to Restore the Rebublic", could very well have the acronym of, "A.R.R." . And now my night has been made. ARR!!! Oh, that was way funnier playing over in my head. I need to sleep more.
In the book Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company we learn that these things can carry multiple drop ships (likely U wings) into battle. Don’t know how they’d manage to stick more than one in there though. Maybe they have them on some sort of rack?
In Rebels we see that a corvette can carry up to 3 fighters externally in the docking ports.. we also see shuttles docked to those so its fairly to asume it can carry at least 3 U-Wings.. if you mod 2 more ports in the front area of the main body where the escape pods are you can add 2 more easily
@@rebelappliance771 well its a mess ... Rebels clearly had the fighters being externally carried in the docking rings with up to 3.. Resistance shows a CR90 from the Rebels era and it has the ventral bay
"Too small to serve as an effective starfighter carrier" unless your ship happens to be crewed by Wraith Squadron. Then it's gonna have 12 X-Wings and 4 Tie fighters crammed inside.
Does anyone else think there was a continuity error in Rogue One with the Tantive IV? It's in the Profundity's launch bay for the whole battle, but they show a scene with C-3PO and R2-D2 in the Rebel base as the ships are leaving for Scarif. Shouldn't they already be on board?
If Tantive IV was carrying an Imperial Senator (Leia) and flying under the cover of official government business (a diplomatic mission), shouldn't that imply that it is actually an Imperial government ship according to the context of the original movie? It's not really until ROTJ that it gets solidified as a standard rebel gunship, when the movie makers decided to bring it back to fill out the rebel ranks. But in its original context it seems to me that it should actually be a standard Imperial VIP transport, with only a few that have been commandeered by the rebels for special purposes.
This is the ship I would want for traveling through the Star Wars galaxy. I would modify it for long term, deep space exploration and planetary survey.
@@paulrasmussen8953 yes.. if you can use a 65m transport to carry 4 fighters arround.. Also there was another CR90 carrier variant.. in the old SEGA 32X star wars game you took off from a CR90 wich had a hangar in where the docking rings are...
I do not understand where these crew numbers come from, that ship isn't remotely big enough to have a crew of over 100 AND room from "hundreds" more passengers.
I have to disagree with your assessment that the cr 90 is too small for an effective fighter carrier. There is a varient demonstrated by the correlian corevette FarStar that has a starboard mounted hanger bay with a compliment of 8 T-65 X-wing starfighters in a multi task attack fighter role and 4 Defender starfighters in a close defense role. This varient could feild a full x-wing squadron with a 4 ship "hot bunk" rotation traveling in formation with the ship while the 8 ships are in the hanger in a ready status for a regular cruise. Or a three shift rotation of two x wing squadrons with 8 ships in the hanger for rest and refuel and 16 flying in formation for short duration combat operations.
Corellain engineer: How many engines do you want?
Corellain Boss: Yes
Corellian Boss: how many do we have?
@@marcosbravo9645 "Probably still not enough sir"
"Do we need that many?"
"Redundancy, sir."
"But nine of them, really?"
"They're also cheap."
"Approved."
Corellian engineer: "How many engines do you want?"
Corellian boss: "Most of them. Leave a few for the others."
"How many drives did you use?"
"All of them."
"I told you to use more than that!"
Interesting trivia note:
The design for this ship originally was at a different slightly smaller scale - with only two turrets dorsal and ventral - with a "Bomber Nose" cockpit up front. If that sounds familiar - it should. This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon!
However - the way the landing gear pods (later removed) were laid out, plus the overall shape of the ship, made George Lucas realize that the design looked too much like the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999! So the famous forked disc/side slung cockpit version of the Millenium Falcon was designed late in production. And the former design of the Falcon was re-purposed as the Blockade Runner with added details, "grimblies" to indicate a larger ship scale and extra turrets and the hammerhead forward hull. Hey - why totally scrap the model? We're on a budget here! :D
" This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! " - you're thinking of the CEC DP20, which didn't make the cut into the movie, but was featured in legends.
@@PetersaberHDNo, the model that was seen in Star Wars as the blockade runner was the original model for the Millennium Falcon. When Lucas decided to change the model they made some changes to the existing model and used it in the opening scene. Remember there was no CGI back then. Everything in, the original version of, Star Wars are kit bashed scale models.
@@PetersaberHD I've looked it up and it appears the CEC DP20 was developed from the initial "Falcon" design but evolved in a slightly different direction. (Probably to more easily fit in with the established canon of the time (Legends). ) But it IS closer to the original design than the Blockade Runner.
Ironically.. Valerian and Laureline fans today bitterly acuse Lucas to have copied their ship the XB982 because both are saucer shaped.. wich i personally doubt preciselly because Lucas had allready changed the design to avoid copy accusations
@Deutschland Mexiko If you mean raster graphics on an actual CRT then sure call it CGI.
"A CEC ship will keep going until it hits something."
Considering that they regularly fly through asteroid fields, I feel like CEC ships don't keep going much.
CEC Pilot: "Oh shit, a pebbl-"
3:25 I feel bad for legitimate space truckers who use a GR-75. The insurance rates must be horrendous.
I thought the rebelion got this in some fire sail when a company was going under.
@@miles2378 *fire sale
Yeah, they did, when the company that manufactured them went bust. But thousands and thousands were sold to legitimate companies and space truckers before that happened.
“The ship excelled as a fast attack vessel and blockade runner”
*runs away from Star Destroyer in a straight line*
I honestly love the look of the CR90. It's one of the more believable spaceship designs from Star Wars. Front cockpit module, middle living quarters, aft fuel tank module, and massive engines for quick delta-v adjustment. All it needs is a few RCS thrusters and I could easily see a ship of this design in Elite Dangerous or something.
The CR-90 Corellian corvette, the most technically impressive ship to almost never win any fight it's in (at least in the films)
3:07 *Vader:* You come back here right now, young lady. When I catch you, you are so grounded.
“Can’t serve as a star fighter carrier”
Ah, you’ve never heard of the legends of the Night Caller. I thought not. It’s not a story that Disney would tell you.
The Night Caller was a CR90 that Wraith Squadron (then under the command of Wedge Antilles) commandeered from Warlord whatever-the-crap his name was. They later modified the ship to hold the ships four tie fighters externally, and the squadron complement of x wings, (11 at the time) in the forward launch bay.
I had to rewatch 1:23-1:27 multiple times. Did a CR90 really just one shot a Gozanti Cruiser?
I know its not something that would be expected to happen.
From what I've seen, the Gozantis basically have paper armor and shields. They will die even to a few hits from standard military-grade laser cannons
Yup. And at the battle of Atollon you saw Nebulon-B's getting taken down by just a few TIE rounds. And when Hera attacked Lothal, a TIE Defender literally just pops apart when shot by an X-Wing rather than being blown to pieces. And when Hera went to Concord Dawn, other A-Wings are one shot by the Mando fighters while hers can somehow take at least 10 and still manage to hyperspace away. Pretty much all combat in Rebels made no sense.
@@joechace8214 the only ship destruction that made sense was at 1:48. The second TIE Bomber was able to hit the segment where both the reactor and shield generator are located. In a New Hope, the reactor of the Tantive IV is shut down before it can tear apart the ship, but that CR90 in the Battle of Attolon was not so lucky
@@joechace8214 I agree, it does not make sense. I did not activly watched the series, but some parts of it on RUclips. I remember one scene where Hera was flying an X-Wing and some Imperial Pilot was following her in a TIE Defender. They both fly in the direction of Thrawns flagship, and Thrawn gives the order to open fire. Then, both fighters are hit by the really heavy Turbolasers positioned at the side of an Imperial Star Destroyer. And they only loose their shields. Like WTF??? Those gun turrets on the ISD are like 50m in Diameter and belong to the heaviest and deadliest weapons ever put on a spaceship, and when they hit a fighter the fighter losses its shields but is undamaged? I lost it at that point. Its bullshit.
Love this ship and it's line through history.
the cr90 sure is a great ship, but I personally think that one could improve it's stopping power considerably with the addition of some enormous mass-driver cannons
According to this one guy, EC Henry's headcannon, that would be the CR110, a bigger but less maneuverable iteration of the Correllian Corvette line.
I love the Light Freighter version of this ship, the XS-800 light freighter. Compared to the YT-1300, it carries more cargo, more passengers, and according to the source book, a much more comfortable ride.
What source book?
The Corellian Corvette is also able to hold 2-4 A-wings depending on the configuration.
Favorite. ship. ever.
Superb video. Always loved the look of this ship.
And, with EXTENSIVE customization, the bow assembly could be reconfigured into a hangar deck sufficient to hold 12 Xwings of Wraith Squadron, in addition to the 4 TIEs docked to the outer hull.
Can you do the Odyssey class from Star Trek Online :D
I WANT FULL SHIP BREAKDOWNS ON HALO SHIPS LIKE THIS! THE SPIRIT DROPSHIP IS MY FAVORITE
100 crew - Hundreds of passengers.
8 escape pods.
So it's the Titanic in space then ?
Rebel Fleet HR: We assigned you to a CR90 crew.
Rebel Recruit: I forgot my blaster, I'll be right back...
Might not be an answer to this, but I was just curious - is there info about what happened to Leia's ship after it was captured there at the beginning of ep 4?
I think the imps destroyed it in a staged asteroid accident and claimed all hands were lost
Can't remember where I read that, probably a "legends" thing
Love you videos dude!!
Im pretty sure it's Tantavee IV not Tantv IV, unless something changed.
I think you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct.
I've always seen it written as tantive 4 or IV
@@SaberViper I meant it's pronounced with a long e sound at the end.
@@alexknj1 ah I missed what you were getting at initially.
Can you do the ETA-5 from legends?
Make this the top comment, people!
More Legends ships on this channel would be cool.
Every shot in this video is mirrored.
Vid brings up a question I had not realized before.. the Tantiv IV was captured in a new hope ... how or when did Leia get it back for the last movie or was that another ship just put in for fan service hoping no one would ask too many questions?
Their where many at the battle of Endor it was basicly the DC3 of starwars just somany they laster almost a hundred years.
Please give us the episode of The Sojourn !!!
Tell me is there any way I can find out more about the Tantive IV and the 'plans' it carried and what became of them and the Princess?
Princess destroyed a battle station killing hundreds of thousands of workers and soldiers in an act of terror that eventually led to the destruction of a relatively stable government that was badly run and corrupt, but stable.
The Tantive IV was scrapped and the news blames asteroid storms
Would love a soley Space Warefare based Star Wars game. Wish Corelia made some bigger warships, love all their ships.
Should do more Mass Effect ships.
Edit: A console game...
Frothy Walrus Check out Empire at War!
Thomas Vernon yeah I have. Shoulda been more clear. I meant for console.
As much as I loved it. I am curious. Why was the devastator so effective when it jumped in? Were the rebel's shields down or something before they jumped out? The Devastator did more damage in a few moments than 2 ISDs did across the whole battle. Thoughts?
The plot err i mean the force was on vaders side.
All the other ships had been fighting and probably had weakened shields and battle damage. The Devestator was perfectly operational when it jumped in and caught the Alliance fleet in their retreat. And, you know, Vader.
Great as always but a error now - the old specs with 150m in different games etc. are now wrong. The new Canon of Rebels as official the CR90 is only 126m long www.starwars.com/databank/tantive-iv ; www.starwars.com/databank/alderaan-cruiser
*pronounced TAN-TAH-VEE
No it's not. I will fight you.
LOL
@@rossholt9352 ruclips.net/video/0-29uKdckL4/видео.html
@@1000YearBeard so the voice actor mispronounced its name. So that means everyone saying tantive for the past 40 years is wrong.
@@rossholt9352 That's NOT the only actor that did it. It's in the Radio drama several times. AND George Lucas says it that way...AND Pablo Hildago (Lucas film Story Group) confirmed it on Twitter. So yes, everyone has been saying it differently than originally intended. I found out just 3 years ago..so I was "wrong" too -I got over it... no big deal. Rumor has it, that the correct pronunciation will be spoken in Episode 9.
How would you guys modify this ship? Be creative!
More engines.
MORE ENGINES
Oh and anti-capital torpedo tubes. lol
I’d personally swap out all the single turbolasers for dual or maybe even quad laser canons if I could get away with it, and maybe add some missile tubes for some extra anti capital ship ‘oomph’.
In the Wraith Squadron portion of the X-Wing novels (Legends only), there was a rather useful modification of a CR-90 that had a sizable hangar bay mounted under the bow. Originally used by former Imperials loyal to Warlord Zsinj, this modified corvette named "Night Caller" was captured by Wraith Squadron and used as part of an infiltration mission as the Wraiths' mobile base of operations for their early campaign against Zsinj. Originally equipped with a few TIE Fighters in the hangar, the Wraiths moved them to the external escape pod bays and installed racks in the hangar to land their nine X-Wings stacked three by three, all facing forward out the open hangar. This orientation proved useful in an ambush against some smaller Zsinj ships the Night Caller was pretending to side with. All nine X-Wings, still in the hangar, targeted an enemy Nebulon-B frigate with their proton torpedoes and fired them in a single volley while the Night Caller's own weapons focused on another CR-90. Taking both ships by surprise, the Night Caller destroyed the CR-90 while the torpedoes severed the Nebulon-B's neck and destroyed the frigate in a move later referred to as the Loran Spitball, named for the Wraith pilot who came up with the idea.
Tan-tee-veh. Not to be EXCESSIVELY nerdy, and I love your videos enough to have marathoned all of them in a long row several times, but Tantive is pronounced Japanese style with each syllable separate.
Is it weird that I dont really like corellian designs?
Na I like em to
Na I like them to
I dont. I like symmetry and firepower. VSD-I
It's perfectly normal we all have different preferences
Heresy!!!
According to Pablo Hidalgo it's pronounced Tantivee 4 not Tantiv.
Forgive me if I dont take seriously the opinion of the almighty Pablo Hidalgo.
Spoiler alert would be nice, you gave away the entire movie...
I like to think the Corellain engineer who designed the CR90 was looking at the blueprints and sneakily added four more engines.
"I think this ship needs more engines"
Blockade runner.... Need to deliver that moonshine..
Corellians are the Star Wars version of Kerbals. MOAR BOOSTERS!!! :D
Obviously the Kerbal approach works, since Corellian ships are considered some of the best built ones around!
"Captain! I'm giving it all she's got!"
"Then add more engines!"
And the CR 90 was the very first ship of the Star Wars Universe too.
If I recall correctly, It was originally going to be the 'Hero Ship', with the Falcon's cockpit instead of the dual bucket head.
@@irradiatedslagheap7933 You do recall correctly. In the configuration you described, that ship was supposed to be the Millennium Falcon, but because it looked a bit too similar to the Eagle Transporters from Space: 1999 (not to mention the name of Falcon), the design had to be altered and repurposed as Princess Leia's consular ship. The design you described which was meant to be the Millennium Falcon got redesignated as a Corellian Gunship (a Legends ship now).
This ship is really an underdog ship. That opening shot showing how little it is compared to the star destroyer has you rooting for it immediately
uh nope
Well rooting for it didn't help …
ironically... originally the Imperial destroyer was to be actually smaller than the rebel ship it was pursuing.. wich would match our classic definition of the term "destroyer" (a smaller , faster and well armed ship that trades mass and armour for speed while keeping a more than decent firepower to take on bigger ships).. there are arround the blueprints of the original star destroyer and you can see its much much smaller than the final.. George Lucas upscaled the destroyer (and probably downscalled the corvette some) because he wanted the audience to get clear in that opening shot the uneven war the rebellion was having against the Empire.. it shows in a single shot the desperate situation the alliance was and the might of the GE
@@sparrowlt Absolutely! So much is revealed to the audience with that one shot, and it immediately throws us into this universe. I can't think of a more effective approach to immerse the audience into your story.
It's an iconic ship
3:26 can we just press F for that poor GR-75 that smashed directly into the Devastator.
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RIP
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Captain Antillies: Your Highness, the transmission from the surface. What did they send us?
Princess Leia: Hope.
and yet if those gunners just blasted that escape pod.....
Second officer: Shouldn't we broadcast this to the other ships, in case we get caught?
Hell I could upload it to _scoundrel bay_ or _wikiDroid._
*Sigh*
The entire Scene was terrible. The Entire Sequence was terrible. The ending of the Battle of Scariff counters the information we received in Episode IV.
"It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships,
striking from a hidden base, have won their first
victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal
secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the
Death Star, an armored space station with enough
power to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of
the stolen plans that can save her people and
restore freedom to the galaxy..."
The battle wasn't a victory. By my count, only 6 fighters, 3 blockade runners, and a ramship (which is never shown anywhere else) escape. Even more concerning, the Rebel fleet didn't try to Flee or Fight the Star Destroyer, they just sat there and got destroyed.
Next, the Imperial's "intercepted transmissions" which lead them to Tantive IV. All we see is Fan Service as Darth Vader wrecks Admiral Raddus' ship. Just to see Tantive IV escape. Okay, why is Tantive IV there? It's a consular ship with diplomatic immunity. Why would the captain risk being identified by imperial forces at a secure imperial facility which is under attack?
Just because a Captain says "we never received any transmissions" nor do those transmissions appear in the log/data banks... doesn't mean the ship never received them. It just means the Captain took measures to remove all traces of them from his ship. This is currently possible to do. So, it is what happened. This is why Darth Vader threw him away. He knew he lied.
If Disney wants to rewrite Star Wars History, they should have just said "nothing is canon". Making movies which contradict the OT is very bad.
While I am sorry about how you feel about Rogue One a Star Wars Story, I wish you had not used my comment as an excuse to vent you hatred.@@aralornwolf3140
@@ethenallen1388 ,
There was no hate.... Frustration yes.
Sorry about that.
Corellia, single-handedly saving the drive manufacturing economy since 300BY
This ship is my favorite sci-fi craft of all time, it captured my imagination as a kid and it has never let go ^_^
Same
I remember there was one mission in X-Wing where you had to fly cover for an unmanned Corvette, the Ram's Head.
She was fitted with a prototype shield generator that allowed her to be used to plow through a number of ISD bridge modules in their slipways at Kuat Drive Yards.
She decapitated at least an Imperial squadron, as far as I can recall.
Good times.
"IF THIS IS A COUNCILOR SHIP, WHERE IS THE AMBASSADOR?"
-Lord Vader
Consular*
Umm Dad,… I'm a registered member of the Alderanian Royal family. We, _,I mean I,_ did alright after you abandoned me.
I'm thinking of getting a restraining order after the way you treated mum though. So don't think you can tell me what to do.
Star Wars: A New Adopted Child
_the sounds of flushing in the distance_
_ambassador appears from around corner_
Forgive my tardiness, Lord Vader, taco night.
*(Sickening sounds of snapping neck-bones and a man being hurled into a bulkhead)*
It's funny because no one seems to know how large the CR90s are. In Battlefront 1 and 2, they are as long as the Falcon, in rebels they are sometimes four times the length of 3.5 a-wings, but the same make of ship as Grievou' Invisible Hand is dwarfed by it lmao.
Rpg source books clearly state there 150m long.
And they were from the late 80's.
@@matthewburroughs9597 i know that, im just saying no one SEEMS to know, because the sizes always seem drastically different
The crashed CR90 on Jakku in Battlefront 1 in much bigger than the Falcon
@@unclearsector4266 it allways was 150m.. in Rebels they show very well at 150m wich is about 12 times the lengh of an X-Wing.. wookiepedia incorrectly listed them at 126m for a while but that was a confussion with the CR70..
The Gunship variant is 120m if I remember.
Anti -star fighter platform, able to screen other ships.
Man the RP G source books were good.
The Corellian Corvette is my favorite starship in the Star Wars universe. It reminds me a bit of the Eagle Transporters from Space:1999. The original design was meant to be the Millennium Falcon, but because of the name, and its very similar appearance to the Eagles from S:1999, the ship was altered a bit, (more engines, and turning the conical cockpit section into a hammerhead cockpit section) and repurposed as Princess Leia's Tantive IV (Tan-tiv-ee....as pronounced in the Star Wars Radio Drama in 1980). The original unaltered design was repurposed as a (now Legends) starship known as the Corellian Gunship.
In Legends there were CR90's modified to carry TIEs in the forward cargo hold, the Wraiths captured one and modified it carry their X-Wings in the hold, with the TIEs moved to the escape pod launchers.
The ship that started it all, one of my favorite designs.
One of the best features of the CR-90's were how modular and easily altered they were. From stripping out 1/3 of the engines and the entire weapons array to be turned into a diplomatic luxury ship, or swapping out everything between the cockpit and engine block and replacing it with hangar space, these little buggers could be refitted to do just about anything, without the use of a dedicated shipyard. Some were even turned into 'fire ships', replacing the crew with remote controls and packing them to the gills with enough explosive to crack a Star Destroyer in half.
It's one of the most iconic ships
Whoa that ship is mad 11 engines and laser cannons? Awesome 10/10.
Could you do the *ZD-9300 Correllian-class Star Destroyer.*
I came across it while looking up the CR-90 (so I could make whimsical comments) but can't find any concrete stats on it. Guns, layout, speed (slightly slower than the Millennium Falcon apparently) and effectiveness.
Was it better than the standard ISD, or ISD Mark 2?
Was it Starfighter bait?
Or was it just a hotrod capital ship that was average in other respects?
Me: So what is your ship most known for?
Salesman: Running away and getting captured!
Me: Give me 10 for my enemies!
There's only one problem I have with Rouge One and that is that in the first released movie of Star Wars Vader said that they traced the communication signal to her CR90. But overall, it was the best Disney Star Wars project.
Leia: The Devastator's nearly onto us, how many boosters are you using?
Captain Antilles: All of them, your Highness.
Leia: I... told you to use more than that...
Than*
@@Kuoted Always gets me... ALWAYS.
One of my all time favourite ships in Star Wars the Nebulon-B being the other one. Thank you very much!
An iconic symbol of the rebellion! Keep up the great work dan! I gotta be honest I love seeing crashed CR-90s in the battlefront games
I hope one day we will see content about my favorite but forgotten boi : the tartan cruiser.
Imperials.
I have the original Star Wars ship blue print book. I remember the Tantive IV has a bunch of interesting things.
The entire top deck is a luxury detachable life boat. The 4 torrents on the top can be used as armed scape pods.
It had no fighter hangar.
You should get those books
Will you do another video about the CR92A Assassin Corvette that the Empire fielded in response to the blockade runners?
Oooh... makes me wonder when we'll get some Spacedocks on Mon Cal cruisers, (specifically hoping for the MC-75 Profundity)
Love the Rebels footage.
You know for many years we just called this this a Corellian Corvette if we wanted to be technical, and Rebel Blockade Runner if we didn't. And it always bugged me that it didn't have a number designation or anything. Well we finally have a designator for this, the first starship ever depicted in any star wars film
AH! I know you have to invert the video for copyright reasons, but it causes physical pain to me...
This ship just needs 12 more single laser cannons four on the bottom(screw escape pods)... And one on top and bottom of each of the engines all anti-star fighter
Can you do a similar video for the 116meter Sphyrna/Hammerhead corvette for your next Star Wars vid?
One of my personal favorites in Star Wars and on my top 10 list for personal star ships if I had to pick from Star Wars. I tend to favor the idea of a corvette over fighter craft for my personal ship, at least in the Star Wars universe. Depending on the universe, a single pilot can control something as large as a destroyer!
I know it is legends only, but the Night Caller was refitted as a pocket carrier and at one stage carried a whole squadron worth of fighters with it
The whole adventure of the Night Caller was amazing, from the moment the Wraiths captured her through her 1 on 1 duel against an ISD.
@@VegetaLF7 she definitely was my favorite of the class
The new LEGO model is an impressive representation of this ship. Now someone needs to make a decent plastic model of it.
Pretty sure Bandai made a really nice one.
Liam Kleronomos I’ve only ever seen small resin kits, metal gaming miniatures and the plastic fully painted model from the Armada game. Bandai never made one, however it’s possible their upcoming Star Destroyer could have one. I doubt it as it’s an Imperial II, and the Devastator was an Imperial I.
The CR90 is probably one of my favorite SW ships and only 2nd to
The Rogue Shadow....
The original model in ANH was apparently bigger than the Star Destroyer featured in the film. Plus it was originally going to be the Millennium Falcon, but was then changed due to its similarities to the Eagle from Space 1999.Also worth mentioning that in the Legends EU there were a few of these craft that had its mid section expanded to serve as a hangar bay for one squadron of A-Wings.
CR90 is the Toyota HiLux of Star Wars.
Anyone else want an ELIte Star wars game?I
Sav e up credits and buy a CR90.
As awesome as it sounds to have a freeform starship game in the Star Wars universe, you know the gig would fall to EA and it would be a mess of micro-transactions and pay-to-win
EA
Just say no to drugs.
I would take the blue version of this craft.
I've seen art of a CR-90 modified as a carrier before and in an old Star wars rts from the 90's had a variant that removed the area for passengers and crew replacing it as a giant crane to deploy prefab buildings from orbit. A similar thing was done with a Lambda -class shuttle...
Galactic Battlegrounds? Force Commander?
@@PetersaberHD Which one has the the Rebel hero ship being the YT freighter with the center mounted cockpit? Because it's that one.
It needs a centrally mounted ion cannon and a shitload of torpedoes or missiles, and it would make a decent capital ship killer.
What of the Hammerhead Corvette?
What a beast.
One of my favorite corvette designs in all of sci fi! An excellent anti-fighter vessel, with loads of speed and agility to keep it out of harm’s way. The massive engine cluster has always been a favorite aspect of the design for me, as well as how the secondary gun turrets doubled (at least in Legends) as high capacity armed escape pods.
So it can essentially serve as an AA Frigate, providing a fleet AA Screen like the Fletcher class DDs in addition to a Starfighter CAP. A truly versatile Warship, indeed.
The statistics only come from "Official Disney Canon," right...?? That's the only accepted expanded universe by Lucasfilm.
Hmm, I just noticed something interesting about that SD model in the opener - the forward hangar (the smaller hangar) doesn't actually appear to be a large open-box style hangar that I always thought it would be. But it looks more like a mirrored array of launch-tubes, that have a down-(relative) facing slope to them.
It's fairly obvious at ~ 0:33 ish
The Corellain Corporation, INCOM and Mon Calamari Shipyards are the top 3 ship building groups that the Rebel Alliance used in their fight against the Empire and it didn't go to waste.
I just light bulbed and realized that, "Alliance to Restore the Rebublic", could very well have the acronym of, "A.R.R." . And now my night has been made. ARR!!! Oh, that was way funnier playing over in my head. I need to sleep more.
In the book Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company we learn that these things can carry multiple drop ships (likely U wings) into battle. Don’t know how they’d manage to stick more than one in there though. Maybe they have them on some sort of rack?
In Rebels we see that a corvette can carry up to 3 fighters externally in the docking ports.. we also see shuttles docked to those so its fairly to asume it can carry at least 3 U-Wings.. if you mod 2 more ports in the front area of the main body where the escape pods are you can add 2 more easily
sparrowJLT true, but the book implies that the docking bay is at the bottom of the craft, like the docking bay on a cr 70 corvette.
@@rebelappliance771 well its a mess ... Rebels clearly had the fighters being externally carried in the docking rings with up to 3.. Resistance shows a CR90 from the Rebels era and it has the ventral bay
"Too small to serve as an effective starfighter carrier" unless your ship happens to be crewed by Wraith Squadron. Then it's gonna have 12 X-Wings and 4 Tie fighters crammed inside.
Does anyone else think there was a continuity error in Rogue One with the Tantive IV? It's in the Profundity's launch bay for the whole battle, but they show a scene with C-3PO and R2-D2 in the Rebel base as the ships are leaving for Scarif. Shouldn't they already be on board?
This was always my favourite star wars ship, overall. It's got just enough of everything.
My question is why didn’t Leia have a hyperdrive equipped fighter on board like a Z-95, N-1 or Belbullab-22?
If Tantive IV was carrying an Imperial Senator (Leia) and flying under the cover of official government business (a diplomatic mission), shouldn't that imply that it is actually an Imperial government ship according to the context of the original movie? It's not really until ROTJ that it gets solidified as a standard rebel gunship, when the movie makers decided to bring it back to fill out the rebel ranks. But in its original context it seems to me that it should actually be a standard Imperial VIP transport, with only a few that have been commandeered by the rebels for special purposes.
This is the ship I would want for traveling through the Star Wars galaxy. I would modify it for long term, deep space exploration and planetary survey.
The coverette has been used as a pocket carrier. Hell Wraith Squdron manage to fix nearly a squadrons worth of fighters
that was a quite modified CR90 tough.. that thing was esentially a flying hangar
@@sparrowlt but still possible
@@paulrasmussen8953 yes.. if you can use a 65m transport to carry 4 fighters arround..
Also there was another CR90 carrier variant.. in the old SEGA 32X star wars game you took off from a CR90 wich had a hangar in where the docking rings are...
My favorite Alliance Capital Ship I would name my The Andor after Cassian Andor
I do not understand where these crew numbers come from, that ship isn't remotely big enough to have a crew of over 100 AND room from "hundreds" more passengers.
I have to disagree with your assessment that the cr 90 is too small for an effective fighter carrier. There is a varient demonstrated by the correlian corevette FarStar that has a starboard mounted hanger bay with a compliment of 8 T-65 X-wing starfighters in a multi task attack fighter role and 4 Defender starfighters in a close defense role.
This varient could feild a full x-wing squadron with a 4 ship "hot bunk" rotation traveling in formation with the ship while the 8 ships are in the hanger in a ready status for a regular cruise. Or a three shift rotation of two x wing squadrons with 8 ships in the hanger for rest and refuel and 16 flying in formation for short duration combat operations.
165 crew + "several hundred" passengers? I'm calling bullshit on that one.
Bro- you remind me of the Imperial/Rebel officers in star wars games that would give the run-down on various craft. Absolutely awesome lol