

If anything, it takes away from the notoriously storied history of the ship that we’ve come to understand over the course of three film trilogies and the novel Resistance Reborn. The retcon really doesn’t add anything to the overall Star Wars story. Why the powers that be changed it from the Tantive IV remains a mystery. As Star Wars canon goes now, it was that ship upon which the fallen Jedi meet the beleaguered Senator. III, we’ve come to learn, is Organa’s personal vessel, the Sundered Heart. Obi-Wan and Yoda walk with Bail Organa aboard the Tantive… III, now, apparently. Now that meeting also occurs on the Tantive III… begging the question of why. However, Lucasfilm has since retconned the scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda meet up with Organa on the Tantive IV in Revenge of the Sith. The two meet aboard that ship as they discuss her return to the fight as Fulcrum. In the Ahoska novel, Bail Organa assists Ahoska with several Alderaanian ships, including the Tantive III. Why retcon the Tantive IV, Star Wars? Who can forget this scene aboard the Tantive IV? (Image: Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Hence what occurs in “Victory and Death.” It’s a throw-away reference to the Tantive III in the book, however, that led to a seemingly unnecessary retcon of the Tantive IV.

The chaos of that even was easy enough to reference in a written work…. In the novel, Order 66 takes place when Ahoska Tano and Rex are still on Mandalore. First and foremost, The Clone Wars series finale includes a relatively minor retcon to the former Jedi’s escape of Order 66. Strangely, a couple of these changes in Star Wars canon stem from E. The Tantive IV flees the Battle of Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
