H - type Nubian yacht / Legends The H - type Nubian yacht was a sleek , rocket - shaped yacht created by the Nubian Design Collective , and customized by the Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps for the Royal House of Naboo . Characteristics . The vessel was unarmed in accordance with the peaceful culture of Naboo . The yacht only required a small crew and Padmé could pilot the ship on her own from the cockpit in the central area of the yacht ' s upper section . Below the cockpit were maintenance consoles , the Class 0 . 9 Nubian 150 hyperdrive core and stores to contain supplies and astromech droids . The lower and upper levels were connected by a turbolift platform , situated before the lounge and crew bunks on the upper level . At the front section of the lower level was Padmé ' s bedroom which could serve as a portable throne room . The ship featured a powerful shield system , an array of electronic countermeasures , a slim , narrow profile and sheltered engines giving a small sensor signature for evading pursuits . It also featured a breakaway escape pod . History . Though originally constructed for the Royal House , the yacht was not assigned to a member of Naboo ' s royalty . Instead , it was given to Senator Padmé Amidala after a failed assassination attempt on Coruscant resulted in the destruction of her Naboo Royal Cruiser . Naboo Yachts were the smallest non - fighter craft in the Theed Hangars , and they were primarily employed as getaway vessels as they were much faster than most civilian ships . With Senator Amidala at the helm of one of these vessels , even the N - 1 starfighters of the Royal Naboo Security Forces had difficulty keeping pace . On the eve of the Clone Wars , Amidala returned to Naboo in secret , escorted by Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker . Skywalker was compelled to leave Naboo to return to his home planet of Tatooine , and Padmé joined him , both traveling in a Naboo Yacht . Following his mother ' s death and his retaliation against the Sand People , R2 - D2 received a distress signal from Obi - Wan Kenobi . Amidala and Skywalker traveled in the yacht to Geonosis in a failed attempt to rescue Kenobi . It was on Geonosis that the opening battle of the Clone Wars was fought , plunging the Galaxy into three years of warfare . The yachts continued to serve Amidala during the early years of the Clone Wars , transporting her to such places as Ilum . Captain Gregar Typho , Yoda , and the Senator journeyed there to rescue two Jedi from the crystal temple and prevent a Confederacy conspiracy at the Ambush on Ilum . After going to see Ziro the Hutt to try to reopen communication with Jabba the Hutt , Amidala was captured by Ziro to sell to Viceroy Nute Gunray . Amidala tricked battle droid into anwering a call on her comlink from C - 3PO . She informed C - 3PO of her capture and told him to get help . C - 3PO arrived at Ziro ' s Palace in the Royal Yacht with members of the Coruscant Guard to free the senator . Several of Senator Amidala ' s H - type yachts suffered misfortunes . After being led into a trap near the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center by Darth Sidious , the Senator and the yacht she was traveling in were captured by the " Malevolence " . In an attempt to stop General Grievous , Padmé set the engines to overload . The ship exploded , although Grievous escaped unscathed . The senator used another H - type yacht to travel to Rodia to assist in a food crisis on the planet . Padmé was captured by Separatist forces when Onaconda Farr yielded to the Separatist ' s terms . While the yacht was parked , however , it was destroyed by Jar Jar Binks when he clumsily activated a magnetic loading arm above the craft , causing it to smash through the ship to the floor of the landing bay . Padmé and Jar Jar later traveled to Naboo , again using an H - type yacht to investigate the presence of battle droids on her homeworld , which led to the discovery of the recreation of the Blue Shadow Virus . Along with this ship , Amidala would also use a J - type star skiff .