OrderedOrb
I trust you know where the happy button is?
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You sure about that? The Avenger is damn good, but the Defender is basically the Avenger +1 because it has even better performance. It should have the higher cost.It's actually supposed to be quite a bit superior to the X-Wing in the lore. The TIE Interceptor was designed to be able to outclass the X-Wing in terms of performance, and it does, by kind of a lot. And the TIE Avenger outclasses the Interceptor in multiple ways, meaning it is very much better than the X-Wing. As for why they don't use it, take a look at the price tag. It's actually 100,000 credits more expensive per unit than the Defender is.
As a price reference, the standard TIE runs about 60,000 credits each, the Interceptor comes in at about 75,000 credits each, the TIE Bomber costs about 150,000 credits each (about the same as the X-Wing), the TIE Defender costs 300,000 credits each, and the Avenger comes in at a whopping 400,000 credits a piece, making it by far the most expensive TIE model, even when you compare it to the First Order TIEs that we have price numbers for.