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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 160
Message ID: 20
#20, RE: Starfuries?
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-24-01 at 02:33 PM
In response to message #19
>The TIE/In was the interim replacement for the original TIE Fighter.
>The truth is that what we see in the the Star Wars movies are
>technically TIE/Ins, not original TIEs. The TIE/In had a superior
>hull construction to the original TIE (from tin can to thicker tin
>can), superior power supply (allowing for longer flights), and heavier
>lasers. The TIE Interceptor used the data from the TIE/In to develop
>a Space Superiority Fighter commensurate with the Incom T-65, AKA the
>X-Wing.
>
>This is all Star Wars information, and may or may not jibe with UF.

Mephron more or less gets a cookie. It is "ln", not "In" - hard to tell in non-serifed fonts, but I dug around for quite a while in gaming source materials to confirm it.

Basically, what happened was this: Rayna Tangril, a GENOM fighter pilot with an engineering background, looked at the state of the art in GENOM's space fighters fairly early in her career, around 2350, and saw that there was a better way to do things. The problem was, her vision was something more along the lines of the TIE Advanced, and she couldn't get a project as bold as that approved in the corporate climate at the time. She had to keep refining her proposed fighter type, stripping it down, until she finally arrived at the no-frills-at-all T.I.E. type. It wasn't what she wanted to build, and it wouldn't improve a GENOM pilot's chances much, but the Lancer II was so old and outclassed at that point that the T.I.E. wasn't a step down, anyway.

The TIE/ln was an improved T.I.E., introduced as much to test the waters for the possibility of refining the series as to actually improve the breed. She got it through without much trouble, and her influence within the Military Arm was growing. The TIE/i (Interceptor) was the next step, and was actually a fairly large leap toward what she was after. It was a fairly capable starfighter, pretty fast, very agile and decently armed, though it still lacked shields. It was the standard GENOM fighter by the War of Corporate Occupation, and the TIE/a (Advanced) was in the prototype stages, though not well-funded.

After that, it took a couple of years for things to settle, which is why she was still flying the TIE/a x1 prototype in Twilight. In the new GENOM climate, her ideas met with a much more receptive audience, and the Military Arm had standardized on the TIE/a by 2396.

In 2405, they're still standardized on an improved version (Mark III), but the next generation is rumored to be on the drawing board.

--G.
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