TIE fighters don’t have hyperdrives though.
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No, it’s a short range fighter.
Must have gotten lost. Apart of a convoy or something.
It was alone, so it was certainly apart
The TIE Advanced did. Wrong wing shape for that though.
Twin Ion Engine. There's no hyperdrive in there...
So this one is basically already complete. What a bargain!
I think First Order Special Forces TIEs do
Sorry, I think you hallucinated something there. There is no first order. Episode 7? Legends cannon? What are you talking about?
If they did then disgruntled pilots might get ideas and not return to the star destroyer. Can’t have that, can we?
50,000 credits. I know what I got.
50,000‽ I can buy a whole new starship for that!
But who’s gonna fly it? You???
You bet I could! I'm not such a bad pilot myself. C'mon, we don't have to sit here and—
"Perfect restore candidate" Third pictures is of completely rotted out floorboard.
It's got good bones.
okay now i cant unsee how TIE fighters look like modified and weaponized cable spools, initially only used for construction purposes. my head canon is that they were tough, and plentiful in used quantity for relatively cheap, and became pretty much the intergalactic version of those technicals that the taliban use.
jokes aside though, i'm not too familiar with these vehicles. like would like a motor rebuild be decently feasible or is this like the starfighter version of a used mercedes?
That might literally be their origin. Like the movie props that became well known as the TIE fighter shape, not their in universe origin.
If starfighters work like aircraft, an engine swap should be easy and normal.
Wait, are they called tie fighters because they look sort of like bow ties
TIE is the acronym for Twin Ion Engine.
I mean the bow tie thing kinda works too, but yeah.
When Lucas first sketched one out to give early collaborators a sense of what he wanted to make, he wrote "TIE" next to it without knowing what it would stand for (or so the story goes). Crew speculated that he'd already thought it looked a little like a bow tie and he hadn't found the right backronym yet; apparently concept artist Joe Johnston proposed "twin ion engine".
After all, what is Star Wars if not an endless parade of retcons?
Is this still available?
Best I can do is 150.
Low res panjandrum (or however those are spelt)
Needs windows too, otherwise there isn't anything to see true.