Phase 7: Siege of the Tantive IV
Eager to save face after the embarrassment the 501st faced during the prison uprising, Vader took his forces in pursuit of the ship, which attempted to resist capture under Leia Organa’s senatorial immunity before succumbing to an Imperial boarding action. With the majority of the crew killed during combat or captured by Vader’s forces in the aftermath, Senator Organa was rendered into Imperial custody—but the stolen plans were nowhere to be found in the Tantive IV’s databanks. Little did the Empire know that an escape pod containing two droids was hurtling down to the nearby desert world of Tatooine with the data in one of their memory banks, and… well, you know the rest of it from here, don’t you?
First Covered In: Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
