Part of Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy depicted the Imperial remnants using cloaking devices on asteroids and ships. Non-canon Star Wars material has dealt with cloaking devices too. “It’s got a cloaking device, if you can believe that,” the new comic establishes. And had Tarkin taken his flunky’s advice, he could have been cruising away from death, completely invisible to the scanners of the Rebellion. So, in A New Hope, when Tarkin’s lackey Chief Bast asked Tarkin, “Should I have your ship standing by?” the Carrion Spike is the ship he meant. Called the Carrion Spike, Terex’s ship has now been revealed to have originally belonged to Grand Moff Tarkin just prior to the events of A New Hope. Released on January 11, the tenth issue in Marvel’s ongoing Poe Dameron comic series provided an unexpected flashback that explained the origins of the slick spaceship flown by a renegade member of the First Order named Terex. And since this cloaking device is canon, the galaxy far, far away could be filled with invisible ships that we’ve - obviously - never seen. Just before the Death Star was destroyed by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope, Grand Moff Tarkin could have evacuated and saved himself with a super-sleek starship, which has now been revealed to have been canonically equipped with a badass cloaking device.

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