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Emperor Palpatine's shuttle

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There are two conflicting canon sources for this article, from Return of the Jedi (radio) and The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader.

A cohesive timeline has not yet been devised by Lucasfilm Ltd. Editor discretion is advised.

Emperor Palpatine's shuttle

Production information
Model	Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
Technical specifications
Countermeasures	Cloaking device
Usage
Role(s)	Shuttle
Era(s)	Rebellion era
Affiliation	Galactic Empire
Known owner(s)	Palpatine

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Emperor Palpatine's shuttle was an extremely well-guarded Lambda-class shuttle.

1 Characteristics
2 History
3 Behind the scenes
4 Appearances
5 Sources
6 Notes and references
- 6.1 In other languages

CharacteristicsEdit

The shuttle featured a cloaking device and was marked by a grey stripe on its nose.^[1] It was presumably crewed only by a limited number of the Emperor's Royal Guardsmen.

HistoryEdit

Emperor Palpatine used it often on trips throughout the galaxy.

Palpatine's shuttle was hit at least once in its career with the Emperor inside, in a premature (and inadvertent) shooting by attempted assassin Raygar. Raygar had been attempting to aim at the pod of a couple of Ewoks, Latara and Teebo; Raygar was punished by the Emperor for "high treason" after the incident^[2].

He used the shuttle to reach the second Death Star orbiting over Endor. It is unknown if the shuttle was destroyed when the battlestation was destroyed during the Battle of Endor.

Behind the scenesEdit

The Return of the Jedi radio dramatization states that Luke escaped the second Death Star in Palpatine's shuttle. The novel The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader counters this by stating that the escape was made in Vader's shuttle. Starships of the Galaxy states that Palpatine's shuttle was destroyed with the second Death Star, confirming that Luke did not use this ship.