The Carrion Spike was a corvette and the starship of Moff Wilhuff Tarkin while he was stationed at Sentinel base in the Outer Rim.
His ship was based off of the design of the stealth ship used during the Clone Wars It was captured by dissident elements from the Galactic Republic.
After being used in many assaults against Imperial space stations, the ship was abandoned by the dissidents at Carida after they discovered their inside source within the Empire, Vice Admiral Rancit, was planning a betrayal.
The Carrion Spike suffered unknown damage after its abandonment, perhaps committed by the dissidents to keep the ship out of action. For the loss of his ship, the Empire gave Tarkin the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Executrix.
More than forty years later, the ship became the personal vessel of Agent Terex of the First Order.
Description[]
"Sienar Fleet Systems wasn't the only contributor. The company's design is all over the corvette, but every shipbuilder from Theed Engineering to Cygnus Spaceworks played a part in outfitting it."
--Artoz
The Carrion Spike was designed specifically for and in collaboration with Moff Tarkin by Sienat Fleet Systems.
She was triangular-shaped, just under 150 meters in length and heavily armed with turbolasers, ion cannons and proton tubes.
Her Class One hyperdrive made the ship the fastest one in the Imperial Navy, while her state of the art navicomputer allowed the corvette to travel from the Outer Rim to Coruscant without reverting to eal space to retrieve routing data from relay stations or hyperwave beacons (less advanced ships had to exit hyperspace to check navigation data while travelling from one system to another).
Ion turbine sublight arrays and countermeasures suite were also state of the art. Based on a prototype stealth corvette introduced during the Clone Wars at the Battle of Christophsis, she was unique in having a stealth system powered by Stygium crystal able to render the ship invisible to ordinary scanners.
Appearances[]
- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
Darth Vader Annual 2- Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue
- Tarkin (First appearance)
- Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 18
Leia, Princess of Alderaan (Mentioned only)- Poe Dameron 2: Black Squadron, Part II (First pictured) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Poe Dameron 5: Lockdown, Part II (Mentioned only)
- Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III
- Poe Dameron 8: The Gathering Storm, Part I
- Poe Dameron 9: The Gathering Storm, Part II (Appears in flashback(s))
- Poe Dameron 10: The Gathering Storm, Part III
- Poe Dameron 11: The Gathering Storm, Part IV
- Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V
- Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI
- Poe Dameron 14: Legend Lost, Part I (Mentioned only)
- Poe Dameron 18 (Indirect mention only)
