Alpha-44 was an Imperial Rho-class transport shuttle. Around 18 BBY, it was stolen by Echo, a member of the Clone Underground and the rogue clone commando unit known as the Bad Batch. Flying the shuttle to the cloning facilities on the planet Bora Vio, he rendezvoused with the other members of the Bad Batch and together, along with their prisoner, the former Imperial Vice Admiral Edmon Rampart, traveled to Imperial Station 003 above Coruscant. When they arrived at the planet Wayland, the shuttle would be shot down by V-wing starfighters, but not before the Bad Batch were able to disembark into the forest surrounding Tantiss Base.