Star Wars: 10 Expanded Universe Starships You Didn't Know Were Canon Again

If your response to the name ‘CloakShape’ is a bemused ‘Huh?’ then don’t worry, even Expanded Universe aficionados will struggle to place it, because despite the design appearing in a surprisingly varied amount of Star Wars media, from novels to comics to video games, it has never played a leading role.

The reason is simple: an old design, pre-dating even the antiquated Y-wing and Z-95 Headhunter, it was not front-line material. That said, it was dirt cheap, surprisingly agile and endlessly customisable, so customisable in fact that by the time of Star Wars: A New Hope it was said that no such thing as an original CloakShape existed. These qualities that made it popular with small, cash-strapped organisations like sector police forces, smugglers, small time bounty hunters and criminal outfits.

Accordingly the CloakShape just, just about snuck into canon in the form of the novel, Heir to the Jedi, a book slated to appear in the Legends novel series, Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, but which was released as a stand-alone entry instead.