IPV-2C Stealth Corvette

The IPV-2C Stealth CorvetteRise of the Separatists was an experimental vessel developed by the Galactic Republic and manufactured by Sienar Design Systems during the Clone Wars. Equipped with a cloaking device that rendered it invisible, the prototype stealth ship was used during the Battle of Christophsis by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. An advanced ship of the same class, the Carrion Spike, was later developed as the personal ship of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin.
==Description==
The IPV-2C Stealth Corvette had a modular hull and twenty eight cloak projectors. It was armed with two anti-aircraft laser cannon turrets, one each in the dorsal and ventral sides, and four proton torpedo launcher at the front. The stealth ship was also equipped with flares and had two sensor rectennas, one dorsal and one ventral.
The cloaking technology's enormous expense and maintenance requirements discouraged the Galactic Republic Navy from commissioning additional stealth ships.TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
==History==
Originally tasked with sneaking past the Separatist blockade of the planet to deliver relief supplies to Senator Bail Organa on the surface, Skywalker instead used the prototype IPV-2C corvette—called simply the stealth ship—to bring down Separatist Admiral Trench's command ship, the Invincible during the Battle of Christophsis. Skywalker, Clone Commander Blackout, Spark, and the crew of the ship tried to attack Trench's ship, but beforehand, Admiral Trench found that the ship's magnetic signature could be tracked, so it was not completely undetectable. However, when he launched tracking torpedoes that followed the ship's magnetic signature, Skywalker flew close to the Invincible bridge, causing the torpedoes to take out Trench's own ship.
After the Clone Wars, Moff Wilhuff Tarkin used a heavily modified version of IPV-2C Stealth Corvette,Tarkin inspired by the Republic stealth ship,Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy named Carrion Spike as his personal starship.
In 32 ABY,Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary states that Poe Dameron began leading Black Squadron on missions two years before the Starkiller Incident, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY. The mission to Ovanis was the first mission that Black Squadron undertook as stated in Poe Dameron 1. The mission to Megalox Beta takes place immediately after the mission to Ovanis so it must therefore also take place in 32 ABY. during the mission to Megalox Beta, the First Order took the Carrion Spike.Poe Dameron 6 
In 34 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines at battle over a desert planetPoe Dameron 13 the Carrion Spike had been taken by the Ranc Gang and destroyed.
==Appearances==
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*Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel 
*Darth Vader Annual 2
*Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue 
*Tarkin 
*Darth Vader (2017) 18
*Star Wars Rebels webcomic 
*Star Wars (2020) 7 
*Poe Dameron 2 
*Poe Dameron 6
*Poe Dameron 8
*Poe Dameron 9 
*Poe Dameron 10
*Poe Dameron 11
*Poe Dameron 12
*Poe Dameron 13
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==Notes and references==
Category:Corvette classes
Category:Galactic Republic projects and operations
Category:Republic Sienar Systems products
Category:Starship classes of the Galactic Republic
Category:Stealth ship classes