They arrived at Tattooine because Leia was intentionally going there to find Obi Wan Kenobi. Vader was pursuing her, because he knew they had intercepted the plans.
Originally the Tantive IV had dropped out in a system the empire was keeping heavily patrolled and claimed “engine trouble”, and jumped away.
In the new Disney star wars movies, the Tantive just fled a major space battle and then supposedly tried to claim they were on a diplomatic mission…
But I old and new movies, they were always going to end up over Tattooine
They arrived at Tattooine because Leia was intentionally going there to find Obi Wan Kenobi. Vader was pursuing her, because he knew they had intercepted the plans.
Originally the Tantive IV had dropped out in a system the empire was keeping heavily patrolled and claimed “engine trouble”, and jumped away.
In the new Disney star wars movies, the Tantive just fled a major space battle and then supposedly tried to claim they were on a diplomatic mission…
But I old and new movies, they were always going to end up over Tattooine
I’m not awake enough, the Tantive was the correllian corvette?
Correct. The first (smaller) ship we see in the opening of Star Wars is the Tantive.
(pronounced tan-tiv-ee according to Lucas and the old radio drama)