so I have been listening to the audiobook for the nu-cannon book Tarkin, very good so far, and have been thinking.

Tarkins personal ship is corvette sized, very fast, well armed, has high tech stealth gear, and, well just plain cool.

It doesn't to my knowledge appear anywhere in Clone Wars, and so hasn't been givin a visual appearence, so I was thinking. Could it not be an early model or protoype of the Raider corvette?

It could easily be the testbed platform that the rest of the raider fleet was based off, but without all the expensive and sophisticated stealth equipment.

Therefore I suggest a title card for the Raider that would give a defensive bonus, such as extra defence tokens or other benifits etc.

It would also be a great and easy way to slip the Raider into new Cannon.

Sidebar: I am liking the little nods to the old cannon, which then makes some things new cannon. For example:

Persons mentioned: Admiral Screed, Ramond Isard,

Places: Sluis-Van, Fondor

How about "Penetrator"?

the ship the carrion spike is based off the stealth ship shown in the animated clone wars tv show, the raider is larger than the ship he used

the ship the carrion spike is based off the stealth ship shown in the animated clone wars tv show, the raider is larger than the ship he used

Could you please cite that reference, as that was not alluded to within the book (And I actually just watched that episode last night when they introduced that ship)

Sidebar: I am liking the little nods to the old cannon, which then makes some things new cannon. For example:

Persons mentioned: Admiral Screed, Ramond Isard,

Places: Sluis-Van, Fondor

I agree, this is a nice way of coloring the new stuff with the flavor of the OT and established popular cannon. This book also has a nice nod to Mon Cal cruisers where Tarkin watches one go by, reflecting on its size --and role as a luxury liner. It's a cute moment where the reader knows something that Tarkin doesn't and you get to go "oooooooh!"

As a Rebel sympathizer I read that thinking, "that fish liner is gonna kick your ass in a few years old man -- oh wait, you won't be there to see it. SUCKA!"

The other thing this book did that was neat (to be fair other books did it too) was that you saw a nascent Rebel movement using old Clone Wars era cast offs. It really paints the picture of a desperate group with no hardware using an Empire's cast offs. It also, for me at least, carries over a sinister hangover of how well Palpatine orchestrated the Republic's downfall. The Clone Wars end and the Seperatists --a galactic force consisting of many worlds and their military cultures/tech-- disappear overnight. It really goes to show how much of a paper dragon that force was and how it was fabricated solely to justify the creation of the clones and so eliminate Palpatine's Jedi enemies.

sigh...

But you're still a SUCKA Tarkin. Go on and "stand by" just a little longer why don't you...

the ship the carrion spike is based off the stealth ship shown in the animated clone wars tv show, the raider is larger than the ship he used

Could you please cite that reference, as that was not alluded to within the book (And I actually just watched that episode last night when they introduced that ship)

Its at the beginning of the book, tarkin references it at the start when he is describing the carrion spike and where it came from

Just because a ship design is based off an older design doesn't necessarily mean they are the exact same size though. However I seriously doubt that Carrion Spike was a Raider

And was Carrion Spike's size ever confirmed because the stealth ship it was based off of was the size of a small corvette.

Just because a ship design is based off an older design doesn't necessarily mean they are the exact same size though. However I seriously doubt that Carrion Spike was a Raider

And was Carrion Spike's size ever confirmed because the stealth ship it was based off of was the size of a small corvette.

Well it is listed as a Stealth ship on Wookieepedia but I haven't read Tarkin yet so I don't know if the book establishes it as a stealth ship or if someone just assumed it was because it's design was inspired by a stealth ship.

Having listened to a few more chapters, including a space battle, it is definitely much bigger than the prototype stealth ship.

It is described as corvette size, has multiple turret hardpoints,it has a turbolift system, and at least 3 cargo bays big enough to fit vaders meditation chamber. It took on a whole squadron of fighters and a frigate and more than held its own.

Im certain it is comparable in size to the raider, and would be a perfect cannonising of FFGs creation

Im certain it is comparable in size to the raider, and would be a perfect cannonising of FFGs creation

Agreed, at least until it pops up in The Force Awakens.