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[Star Wars] Why didn't the Rebels deploy the Tantive IV at the battle of Scarif? An additional ship would have been useful.

Was it because the ship was known to be Princess Leia's and identification would jeopardize her political and diplomatic standing?
gpt
The CR90 corvette is one of the weakest in the rebel fleet, but it's one of the fastest.  It was a contingency plan on the off chance something went horribly wrong. If anything was going to outrun the tractor beams and star destroyers it'd be that ship.  When something horribly wrong did happen they rushed the plans to the Tantive IV and launched it, hoping that at least that escapes alive.