Where Have We Seen the Arrestor Before?
Canonically, the Cantwell-class first officially appeared in Solo: A Star Wars story. In the theatrical cut of the movie, the design features in a hologram recruitment ad for the Imperial Navy, flanked by Star Destroyers and briefly glimpsed when Han is trying to flee capture in the Coronet Spaceport during the film’s opening.
That wasn’t going to be the only time we were meant to see the Arrestor in Solo, however. In early versions of the script, the Millennium Falcon was going to be captured by an Arrestor using its tractor beams, and in deleted scenes from the movie that explain how Han was reassigned from the Carida pilot academy to infantry duty on Mimban, the young Corellian’s TIE Brute wing was stationed aboard a Cantwell-class. But well before Solo, the Arrestor’s design was almost a key part of Star Wars history…
