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ST 321
Production information
Model

Lambda-class T-4a shuttle[1]

Technical specifications
Length

20 meters[1]

Sensor systems

Specialized tactical displays

Countermeasures

Sensor jammers

Usage
Role(s)

Shuttle

Era(s)
Earliest sighting

18 BBY, Yinchorr[1]

Latest sighting

4 ABY, Endor system

Affiliation

Galactic Empire

Known owner(s)

Darth Vader

[Source]
"Inform the commander that Lord Vader's shuttle has arrived."
―Lieutenant Endicott[src]

ST 321 was the comm unit designation of Darth Vader's personal Imperial Lambda-class T-4a shuttle.

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CharacteristicsEdit

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ST 321 in the Executor's hangar

ST 321 was equipped with sensor jammers, specialized tactical displays, and other modified features, such as advanced targeting systems.[2][3] The "ST" in the shuttle's designation stood for "space transport."[4] It is escorted by a contingent of TIE/LN starfighters, one of which included Black 11.

Vader's shuttle featured a meditation chamber aboard similar to the one on his flagship, the Star Dreadnought Executor.[5]

HistoryEdit

In 1 ABY, Vader—accompanied by a unit of Triumphant-class dark troopers—used this shuttle during the operations Molecular Clamp, Sieve, Green Light and Take Down to travel to the cities of Bestine, Coronet and Theed, respectively.[6] A year later, Vader later used the shuttle to travel to Bespin during its occupation by Imperial Forces to coerce its administrator, Lando Calrissian, who was also a former acquaintance of Han Solo, into delivering him, Leia, and Chewbacca to him. After losing Luke Skywalker during their duel, he used the shuttle to return to the Executor.

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, the ST 321 brought Darth Vader from the Star Destroyer Avenger to the second Death Star.[7] This was the shuttle Luke Skywalker used to escape the second Death Star along with his deceased father.[8] He managed to get to the shuttle relatively easily as the Imperials were in the middle of an evacuation at the time.

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Behind the scenesEdit

The Return of the Jedi radio dramatization states that Luke escaped the second death star in Emperor 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. This is supported by Starships of the Galaxy, which states that Palpatine's shuttle was destroyed with the second Death Star.

The shuttle later reappeared in the 1997 re-releases of The Empire Strikes Back when Vader returned to the Executor during the film's climax, largely due to their reusing the scene of Darth Vader's arrival on the Death Star II from Return of the Jedi.

AppearancesEdit

Non-canon appearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

Notes and referencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Two-Edged Sword
  2. ↑ SWCCGsmall Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Special Edition Limited (Card: {{{cardname}}})
  3. ↑ Sw-pm-logo1 "Star Wars PocketModel TCG - Base Set" (Card: Darth Vader's Lambda-class shuttle)
  4. ↑ Galaxy Guide 8: Scouts, by Bill Olmesdahl and Bill Smith, West End Games, 1993
  5. ↑ TCGsmall Star Wars Trading Card Game – The Empire Strikes Back (Card: Vader's Imperial Shuttle)
  6. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies
  7. ↑ Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization
  8. ↑ The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
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