# Star Wars: What happened to the captives from the Tantive IV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208 "2017-05-09T17:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/21 "2017-05-10T16:02:23Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > In _The Force Awakens_, it’s worse - we’re _explicitly_ told that New Order Troopers are forcibly recruited as kids and “conditioned” (brainwashed) - you can’t send someone for “reconditioning”, like Finn was scheduled for, without them having been conditioned first. But even Finn has no problem immediately mowing down a whole hangar full of his fellow brainwashed child soldiers - _with cannon fire_ - just as soon as he possibly can. And whooping while doing it. And he does it with _the very guy_ who shot his buddy, the one who left the bloody hand-streak down his helmet on Jakku. Or do you think that’s something he and Poe don’t talk about? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/22 "2017-05-10T16:18:54Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Blockade Runners like the Tantive IV are a dime a dozen in the Star Wars universe. Strangely, despite appearing to have great big cannons on the sides, I’ve never seen them fire a single shot. The Tantive IV was firing back at the Star destroyer. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/23 "2017-05-10T16:22:28Z")
They are all fine. They were sent to live on a farm upstate. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/24 "2017-05-10T16:35:30Z")
From WookiePedia: > [@](#): > > Unable to find the plans on board the Tantive IV, Darth Vader ordered a team of stormtroopers to sweep the planet below to find them. Afterward, the corvette was destroyed and the entire crew was killed. Imperial propaganda, including a falsified report by the survey vessel Wide-Eyed, would later proclaim that an asteroid storm caused the destruction of the Tantive IV. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/25 "2017-05-10T16:51:19Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > From WookiePedia: > > Unable to find the plans on board the Tantive IV, Darth Vader ordered a team of stormtroopers to sweep the planet below to find them. Afterward, the corvette was destroyed and the entire crew was killed. Imperial propaganda, including a falsified report by the survey vessel Wide-Eyed, would later proclaim that an asteroid storm caused the destruction of the Tantive IV. Destroyed by an asteroid storm? What are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/26 "2017-05-10T16:56:11Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Destroyed by an asteroid storm? What are the odds? Never tell me the odds. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/27 "2017-05-10T17:41:07Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Destroyed by an asteroid storm? What are the odds? They just come up suddenly out of nowhere, like locusts. If only there were some way to know where asteroids will be in the future… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208/28 "2017-05-10T17:44:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They just come up suddenly out of nowhere, like locusts. > > If only there were some way to know where asteroids will be in the future… Can’t be done. An asteroid the size of Texas could be on a collision course with an inhabited planet and we wouldn’t know until only weeks before impact. What chance would a small ship have? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-what-happened-to-the-captives-from-the-tantive-iv/786208.md?page=1)