 Name: Sienar Design Systems IPV-2C Stealth Corvette
Scale: Capital
Length: 99.71 Meters
Skill: Capital Ship Piloting: Stealth Corvette
Crew: 12; Skeleton Crew: 2/+10
Passengers: 50
Cargo Capacity: 800 Tons
Consumables: 1 Month
Hyperdrive Multiplier: X2
Hyperdrive Backup: NA
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 7
Atmosphere: 310; 950kmh
Hull: 4D
Shields: 3D
Sensors:
Passive: 40/1D
Scan: 80/2D
Search: 100/3D
Focus: 5/4D
Equipment:
Anti Missile Flare Launchers
Reduces Enemy Skill by 2D when activated.
Cloak projectors (28):
Renders Vessel undetectable when activated, however Magnetic Weapons lock can be maintained if successfully locked onto the Stealth ship before the Cloaking device is activated.
Weapons:
2 x anti-aircraft dual laser cannon turrets
Scale: Starfighter
Fire Arc: Turret
Fire Control: 3D
Space: 3-15/36/75
Atmosphere: 15-50/300/750m
Damage: 4D
4 x Proton Torpedo Launcher
Scale: Capital
Fire Arc: Front
Fire Control: 1D
Space: 1/3/7
Atmosphere: 2/6/14km
Damage: 9D
Description: The IPV-2C Stealth Corvette was an experimental starship 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 Stealth Corvette was piloted by specialized stealth clone pilots with unique grey armor and had a crew of special ops clone troopers.
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's bridge, causing the torpedoes to take out Trench's own ship.
The cloaking technology's enormous expense and maintenance requirements discouraged the Galactic Republic Navy from commissioning additional stealth ships. After the Clone Wars, Moff Wilhuff Tarkin used a heavily modified version of IPV-2C Stealth Corvette, inspired by the Republic stealth ship, named Carrion Spike as his personal starship.
In 32 ABY, during the mission to Megalox Beta, the First Order took the Carrion Spike.
In 34 ABY, at battle over a desert planet the Carrion Spike had been taken by the Ranc Gang and destroyed.
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