>be the Empire
>commission the X-Wing
>wienergobbling Alliance steals the plans and fields X-Wings instead
>decide to build a plastic ball with tennis court wings instead
>no shields, no hyperdrive, no fricking life support
>Tarkin gives the thumbs up because TIEs are cheap and that's more important than effectiveness
The Empire was run by some fricking idiots, wasn't it?
>Fascist Nazi state is run by idiots
No shit
>There are two political positions
>mine
>Nazi
>"no I'm not obsessed"
>constantly posts about fascists/nazis
The real nazis were actually quite advanced. They did invent the rocket, the jet fighter, and the public highway system the whole world uses.
>build a fighter with a wide firing range so it's impossible to center a target unless it's the size of a building thanks to four wide-spread lasers
>make its functions dependent on a droid instead of giving it an on-board computer. What if the enemy gets smart and cripples your fleet by taking out the droids?
that's just cope. tie fighters didn't even have shields and couldn't operate without a star destroyer (they're literally not designed to land on the ground). x-wings completely mog them in any feasible way
Except they are way more expensive to maintain and train pilots for. Ties are best to swarm with.
somebody call the air force and tell them to replace their gen5 jets with ww2 era planes, you can shit out dozens of them in a month
You say that as if ship combat in Star Wars isn't literally WW2 air combat but in space.
yes, tarkin was an idiot who only cared to further his own goals
Zerg vs Protoss. Ties were cheap but numerous. X-wings were hardy but expensive.
Literally only 2 x-wings survived that engagement lol
Exactly. Only reason why the rebels won was because Luke could use the Force. Rebels can't do shit without a Jedi.
Mmm bacon
>Erich Hartmann POV (Futuristic artistic liberties taken)
PORKINNNNNNNS!!!
He actually died because he was fat, had his X-wing's inertial compensator set to maximum to counter his own gravity well and it disoriented him into flying too low where he got struck by debris and subsequently shot down.
This is so fricking moronic. Dude died because the TIE fighters were just better. Same shit with the others that died. What is with autists in needing every little thing to be explained in detail?
Hey Emperor what should we do with all these?
Scrap them.
This was infuriating. Droid fighters are faster, can perform maneuvers that would kill any living pilot, and both better armed and armored than any normal fighter. But frick that, let's set up a school to teach maniacs how to fly TIEs and call them the elite, even though they have an 87% mortality rate.
Who knows the reasoning. Maybe the Emperor trusted his ability to manipulate and control people more than droids. He wasn't a pure rationalist, he was a mystic.
or maybe lucas is just dumb
>TIEs are cheap and that's more important than effectiveness
How do you know the price of things in the Star Wars universe? Didn’t the emperor basically snap his fingers and a million Star Destroyers appeared? I would imagine efficiency is a the main priority.
No, those Episode 9 destroyers were under construction in the Original Trilogy era the whole time according to comics.
The importance of Padme dying from a "broken heart" is to prove that Anakin's fall to the dark side is what killed her, and that her death WAS preventable and not a certainty like Anakin thought it was. But in order to save her he needed to remain good, not go bad like he thought.
Whoa dewd. That's so deep. I nvr thot of it liek dat b4
That isn’t even remotely close to what the medical droid said, try again.
X-wings have a different purpose, in ANH they're launched from a planetary base and they act more like torpedo bombers than straight fighters. TIEs are, well, tied to capital ships and there are multiple specialized TIE designs for different purposes. With the superior resources of the Empire, I would imagine they preferred easy to replace, cheap fighters that were single purpose as opposed to multi-purpose "workhorse" fighters that were more expensive and required better trained pilots.
TIEs themselves were easy to replace. The pilots weren't. Their schooling was long and arduous, most washed out, and those that passed usually died on their first mission.
star wars gays deserve death
They're going through the process of grieving the loss after last week when George Lucas came out on the side of KK and the woke.
No Star Wars fan gives a shit about anything made in the last ten years. Legends still receives plenty of attention.
thanks for proving my point
I thought X wings were adapted from sport ships. at least I remember reading that as a kid. I also remember han meeting chewie by saving his family from slavers, so I guess canon changes.
I know Chewie died when a fricking planet fell on his head, and he roared at it the entire way down. What a man.
Canon is Disney's toilet paper. Don't forget: they're not making shit for the fans. They refuse to. Their shit is for ~~*MODERN AUDIENCES*~~.
>I also remember han meeting chewie by saving his family from slavers, so I guess canon changes.
The original backstory for Han was that he was raised by Wookiees, enlisted in the Imperial Navy and was kicked out because he freed Wookiee slaves.
>>be the Empire
the X-Wing
What the frick is this dogshit lore? That was not in the movies. The movies showed the predecessors to TIEs, which were Jedi Starfighters and V-Wings. God, the EU is so fricking moronic. No one gives a crap about your gay little comic book or novel tie-in merchandise fanfiction. It's not real Star Wars.
>the popcorn movies about cultist wizards with laser swords would have explained the history of starfighter production and the companies that built them
You are right, that is completely and totally irrelevant, and all this expanded lore is fricking GAY shit for homosexualS and eternal MANCHILDREN CONSOOMERS. However, the movies gave enough VISUAL CUES. Like we see at the end of ROTS, that V-Wings, the predecessors of TIEs that have a similar shape and sound exactly like them, were employed by the Empire. It is fricking baffling and moronic to even think of such stupid nonsense as "Empire commissioned X-Wings". On the contrary, it would make sense thematically, that Rebels would use older technology. X-Wings all look old as shit, battered, used. They look absolutely nothing like anything Imperial, they don't have the same aesthetics as anything Imperial. They are notably different.
Incom made the Z-95 Headhunter and ARC-170 for the Republic which became the Empire. Incom was then an Imperial company and the only reason the Rebels got the X-wings was because some of the staff defected with the prototypes.
>Incom made the Z-95 Headhunter and ARC-170 for the Republic which became the Empire
Right, gaylord, and we don't see the Empire using those fighters anymore. We see them using V-Wings, which are proto-TIEs. Whereas Rebels used old Republic technology and updated it a bit. moron.
Disney agrees with OP, The X-wings were commissioned by the Empire.
>decide to build a plastic ball with tennis court wings instead
TIE Fighters were around before X-wings were a twinkle in the Z-95 Headhunter's eye.
I am glad LF ran out of money before they ruined X-wing. Wedge and Tycho blowing shit up is so comfy.