Tantive IIVI

The Tantive IIVI was the ship of The Fanon Menace that conveyed the Senators Padmé Amidala and Leia Organa Skywalker Solo from place to place. The ship was designed to look like an MTT after the half MTT that Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi used to sneak past the blockade and rescue the Queen from the nice mechanized embodiments of destruction that were kindly asking her to sign a peace treaty.

History and usage
The Tantive IIVI was commissioned in 21 BBY to serve the Naboo Royal House. Construction on the ship was completed directly after Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon rescued Padmé from the battle droids. The original designation of the ship was going to be Tantive IV, after George Tantive the Fourth, the queen’s jester, because the ship looked funny, but the painters they hired to put the numbers on the side of the ship messed up and painted "Tantive VI" on the side. The painters immediately recognized their mistake and remedied it by adding two I's before the Roman numerals, canceling out the extra I they added at the end.

After the invasion of Naboo, the Tantive IIVI was used as an escape vessel by the Jedi rescue party. The ship served the rescue party well until the chief mechanic aboard the Tantive IIVI decided that the hyperdrive needed to be fixed, even though there was nothing wrong with it, and ordered the captain to land at the nearest habitable planet, which happened to be Tatooine. The chief mechanic was later found out to be a henchman of Darth Sidious and it was discovered that there never actually was anything wrong with the hyperdrive. After making its debut on Tatooine, the Tantive IIVI had few appearances of galactic interest, although it continued to be the ship of choice of Padmé Amidala.

The ship was bestowed upon Captain Raimus Antilles after Order 66, when Padmé went into retirement, and it served the Alderaan Royal House as a consular ship. The ship saw many new planets, such as Dantooine, Ryloth, Mandalore, and Selonia, but had little affect on galactic history.

The ship was given to Princess Leia Organa after she took over Senatorial duties from her adopted father, Bail Organa. Under Leia’s order, the Tantive IIVI was used as a courier ship for top-secret Imperial plans. It was eventually caught by an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer and the crew was taken captive, with the exception of two droids, who escaped with the all-important plans for the Empire’s new superweapon, the Death Star.

After the Tantive IIVI was released from impoundment, the ship resumed its duties of transporting Senators from place to place, which it continued to do until it was dismantled to build an upgraded version of the MTT it was so closely modeled after.