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TIE fighters don’t have hyperdrives though.
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…
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.
Is this still available?
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?
Best I can do is 150.
Low res panjandrum (or however those are spelt)
