Tantive IV The Tantive IV ( ) was a CR90 corvette in the service of the House of Organa . The ship was a central player in the events at the beginning of the Galactic Civil War , serving as Prince ss Leia Organa ' s personal starship in the leadup to the Battle of Yavin . Description . The ship was mostly white , as was typical for CR90 corvettes , painted with red lines . As a vessel of state , the ship featured dining rooms for hosting state dinners , as well as conference centers suitable for negotiations with interstellar dignitaries . Bail Organa had an office aboard . The " Tantive IV " also carried at least two escape pod s . History . The ship was used by Bail Organa as a mobile headquarters during his duties as the Senator of Alderaan , during and after the Clone Wars . Organa took it to Toydaria in order to negotiate with King Katuunko about the possibility of using his world as a staging ground for a Republic supply mission to Ryloth . One year after the rise of the Galactic Empire , it was briefly broken into by Ahsoka Tano in her quest to speak with Bail . She had R2 - D2 ' s assistance in this , as the astromech droid secretly opened one of the corvette ' s airlock s so Ahsoka , wearing a spacesuit , could slip inside . It later assisted with the evacuation of Raada . Five years before the Battle of Yavin , the Spectres returned C - 3PO and R2 - D2 to Organa aboard the " Tantive IV " . The two droid s had been on a mission to prevent a shipment of T - 7 ion disruptor rifle s from falling into Imperial hands , and had encountered the " Ghost " crew in the process . When Leia Organa came of age and had her Day of Demand , she was able to requisition the ship for use on relief missions . She took the " Tantive IV " on her first such mission , to Wobani , where she wound up evacuating 100 refugees under the pretence of hiring them as crew for the corvette , unwittingly destroying Bail ' s secret negotiations to relocate the suffering planet ' s population . Leia took the vessel on several more missions while completing her Challenge of the Heart , including to the planets Chasmeene and Chal Hudda . During this time , Bail still used the ship for rebel business , including to the rebel base at Paucris Major . The Viceroy evacuated from Paucris in the " Tantive IV " after Leia arrived warning of the impending arrival of an Imperial fleet in the system . Shortly before the Battle of Scarif , the " Tantive IV " was on a mission in which it was severely damaged , requiring extensive repairs to its hyperdrive , engines and weapons . It was in drydock aboard the " Profundity " undergoing those repairs when the Rebel fleet was forced to scramble to Scarif . Prince ss Leia had boarded the corvette with the intention of traveling to Tatooine to meet with the exiled Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi , the battle breaking out before she could leave . Towards the end of the battle , the " Tantive IV " barely managed to launch from the crippled Rebel flagship and escape the battle with the stolen schematics of the Death Star before Darth Vader could board it to recover them . The crippling of the flagship also damaged the corvette ' s own electrical grid , leading to its shields and weapons being only partially available . The " Tantive IV " then headed to Tatooine . The crew did everything in their power to keep the ship running due to the damage , and Captain Raymus Antilles planned to ditch the corvette on Tatooine , intending to acquire a new ship to complete their journey . Eight minutes — three quarters of a parsec — short of their destination , their Hyperdrive motivator gave out , and the " Tantive IV " was intercepted by the Imperial Star Destroyer " Devastator " . In the following battle , the main reactor of the " Tantive IV " was shut down , and Imperial stormtrooper s boarded the ship . Captain Antilles gave the order for the civilians aboard to launch in the escape pod . Soon thereafter , the Imperials destroyed the " Tantive IV " . Before the corvette ' s destruction , the droids R2 - D2 and C - 3PO , the former carrying the stolen plans , escaped to Tatooine on one of the ship ' s escape pods . Legacy . Decades after the end of the Galactic Civil War , Leia Organa , now leading the Resistance against the First Order , recounted her experiences , thinking that she never learned what happened to the crew of the " Tantive IV " . Behind the scenes . The " Tantive IV " appears in the first " Star Wars " saga film , 1977 ' s . In 2010 , Lucasfilm Ltd . ' s Keeper of the Holocron Leland Chee confirmed a retcon that Bail Organa ' s ship from was indeed a different corvette , and not the " Tantive IV " , as was previously established .