• bloopernova@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    I always wanted to see a TIE Defender rebuilt by the B-Wing builders. Like, the new Republic gets the Defender plans, and builds their own version.

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    6 months ago

    Very Cool!

    Weren’t these featured in I, Jedi?

    Or one of the Wraith Squadron books?

    I vaguelly recall reading an Expanded Universe novel featuring those craft any how. Written by Michael A. Stackpole with Kieran Halcyon as a leading character.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        6 months ago

        That feel when Disney easter-egg canonized your favorite EU character.

        That feel when you realize it probably means he died to Darth Emo and a sidenote goon squad in the offscreen Academy purge while Luke cried in a corner or something.

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      6 months ago

      I know of at least a few EU works that various uglies showed up. TIEs were widespread surplus that were low cost to modify after the Empire fell, and a lot of them ended up in use by criminals and planetary defense forces.

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      6 months ago

      Wookipedia calls this particular layout a “TYE-Wing” but I think that’s just putting an official sounding name on a hodgepodge ship build.