They also armored it so that a starfighter's proton torpedo couldn't hit it because that's what happened in Phantom Menace so a bomb that someone has to place would have to be bigger or you need many of them thus an increase chance of being found out.
They kinda did Tie/ln for X-wing, Tie bomber for Y-wing, and Tie interceptor for A wing, the cost comparison is also interesting for a Tie/on it was 60,000 credits and for a T-65 X-wing it was 149,999 credits, for the Tie bomber it was 150,000 credits and a Y-wing was 134,999 credits, and Tie interceptor was 120,000 credits and the A-wing was 175,000 credits. This is not including maintenance costs which skyrockets the Alliances costs even higher as a Tie fighter could be left alone in a random base for a few decades and still work, while a X-wing would be scrap in the same conditions.
I can't wait to see Thrawn tear into the mother when she goes to ship him off without even checking if he met her criteria.
It's a fucking huge ship run by pirates, I wouldn't be surprised if their using that area as a bar, and as I said the spies or Mandos could sneak in and plant a bomb either a explosive or ion based one.
My thought was he could use the broken sections of the Lucrehulk to connected different hollowed out asteroids to create the training center I mentioned way back a few chapters ago.
Okay when did we start talking about cost cause what I've been talking about is the performance of said craft which the X-wing out preforms the Tie/Ln in all but speed, the Y-wing is both faster and more armored and shielded than the Tie bomber, and the A-wing is both faster and better armed than the Tie interceptor so again these are better craft and where does it show a tie sitting in disuse for decades and still being usable with a flick of a switch? Plus the rebel craft being hanger queens is because of the fact that they are made with substandard parts which makes the fact that the X-wing, Y-wing, and A-wing still beating the Tie models that much worse.
Thrawn: I shall build a stronger TIE fighter that will be the future of fighter warfare and crush the Rebellion when the Empire adopts it en masse.
Okay why would engineering be a fucking bar hello what. How dumb would someone have to be for that to sound like a good idea. You are a smart person would you do that no because turning your engineering into a bar means no power so that would mean no life support, weapons, or shields. The Crowns are a smart group who are moving around so as not to be found so that by books means engineering is operational. Plus the Lucrehulk already has a bar in the core part of the ship as is standard for some reason even the battleship version of the class has one which is funny.
Because for the cost of a single X-wing you get two Tie/ln, and for the maintance costs? probably 2-3 more, and then each one needs a Astromech. So am I saying the Tie/ln is the better fighter? NO, I'm saying its the best for what the empire is, its the best logistically. The fighters of the Empire are meant to work the best logistically, not combatively. Thats not including the fact these were fighters primarily made for a more peacetime situation.
ahemmm, Pirates. Full stop, pirates aren't smart people, and to emphasize this they painted the damn thing GOLD.
That's because a tie has almost no moving parts. Or a number so low as to make no real difference. It is the epitome of low matainence.
That's because a tie has almost no moving parts. Or a number so low as to make no real difference. It is the epitome of low matainence.
Ok the Tie is a swarm tactics fighter that means on average you need 2 to 3 fighters for every 1 of the enemies then lets look at the fact that it takes time to train pilots so you are sending the equivalent of a manned vulture droid fighters against 1500 plus starfighters the numbers are stacked in the pirate favor and the empire's switch to the tie is a cost saving factor sure. But Minda is a backwater system that is looked down on do you think that a sector fleet is going to show to help no it was already shown that's not coming. Plus let us look at the fact that the X-wing on average is pulling 3 to 4 kills on the Tie/Ln and is easier to learn to fly than the Tie/Ln this is a fact that is stated in the lore as well which means on average the X-wing is better overall. And now let's look at some smart pirate/criminal factions the Zan Consortium, Black Suns, Crimson Dawn, and The Hutts are just a few that come to mind off the top of my mind so saying if your a pirate your dumb is really not smart seeing as the Zan Consortium stole an SSD towards the end of the empire's life. And the fact that you are using that they painted it gold isn't showing that lets look at what colors the empire use sleet gray or white for their ships, the rebels brown for their ships and they color code their starfighter squadrons, the republic red and white, the cis gray and blue none of these colors help in any way to hide in space it's to show what faction you are a part of. It's the equivalent of a flag or standard of a unit. The reason they painted it gold was to show it belongs to the Crowns. Which when you think of crowns you think of gold.
Mommy Mola wouldn't be happy with Las even if he successfully usurped the Emperor.
The same way they did in the old tie fighter games, make use of sensors. There's a pair of screens in every Tie fighter cockpit, one shows where everything in front of them (within range of the sensors) is and the other everything behind them. Sure the readout on those is basic, mere dots on the screen but you can use a different display to actually look at readouts on individual objects and if they're selected on that readout they're highlighted on the scanner/radar/whatever display so you know which dot you're looking at.
You absolutely do not want to be a rallying point without an expanded fleet, cause the first bozo with a star destroyer who comes around is going to think 'I can take that'. Now he'd (probably) fail, but he'd devastate our current fleet in the doing leaving us vulnerable for the second bozo. And there will be a LOT of bozos.
it doesn't help that hyperdrives are supposed to be the single most delicate and expensive component of any normal fighter. So it really does add an unneeded cost to a production line for new ships. (Mind you it was like this in legends, not sure if that's changed for Disney verse, and not sure which way the author interprets it)
That's a fair point.
If the engineer crew he is placing on the Lucrehulk gains control of the engine room and secondary bridge, while the first crew breaks the connection with the main bridge, they can do the following:
Thrawn: Are you telling me that instead of spending millions on secret project we could have got over 9000 designs for free?
True that option is a feasibility for that situation. The engineering crew would need to be either spec ops or have combat specialist attached to them but that is valid.
Oh!oh!oh! I know how to sidestep it! Buzz droids! THE sabotage specialists. Get some for Minda R&D and then watch the fireworks. Hehehe.
Ohhh I like that. That gives all sort of ideas if you can program a buzz droid or some sort of controller droid for the buzz droids you can make them into smart mines that can be spread around and disable any ships that don't have the right IFF.