• TY2D2
  • TY2D2
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  • Registered: 2006-07-24
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Re: I know it's big, but...

I thought it was grey floor with giant blocky models on top of it and the trench was like 1-2 repeating models or something.

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  • Registered: 2006-09-10
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Re: I know it's big, but...

Ah, can't wait to try out the Trench Run. Fire up my Interceptor and take down some rebels.

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  • Registered: 2006-05-15
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Re: I know it's big, but...

Actually, there weren't any interceptors at the trench run. They weren't invented.

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18 Reply by piewalker (edited by FSDev| piewalker 2007-01-07 08:35:16)

  • From: wales
  • Registered: 2006-05-13
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Re: I know it's big, but...

actually
Although the interceptor only made its appearance in Return of the Jedi, the Star Wars Sourcebook  has stated that the interceptor existed at the time of the Battle of Yavin, where an Imperial Star Destroyer's six TIE squadrons consisted of:
-four squadrons of standard TIE fighters
-one squadron of TIE bombers
-one of TIE interceptors.
By the Battle of Endor, an additional squadron of interceptors replaced one of the TIE fighter squadrons. The interceptor's absence from A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back was perhaps due to design limitations.

i'm too lazy to shorten it so

so in theory it was invented.just not heavily used.kinda like the yt-1300,you could say there was only one in star wars because we only ever saw one.but in reality there was many

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  • Registered: 2006-02-07
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Re: I know it's big, but...

The source book for the card game, and some games date the int as pre-ANH. Despite the movies (and books I believe) evidence to the contrary.

Unfortunately, as convenient as having a pre-ANH int would be, it seems unlikely in canon, due to the obvious question of why the death star, and Darth Vader's fleet in ESB, would not have been equiped with them, or used them.

In development, almost certainly. In canon use - extremely unlikely.

20 Reply by piewalker (edited by FSDev| piewalker 2007-01-07 09:55:18)

  • From: wales
  • Registered: 2006-05-13
  • Posts: 437

Re: I know it's big, but...

unless.the emp didnt trust the new design untill it was tested under supreme conditions.kinda like the at-at.just that this testing didnt happen untill the BoY
kinda like
if i was to sell you a brand new car.untested for safety,or if it even worked.would you swap it for your current car?

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  • Registered: 2006-02-07
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Re: I know it's big, but...

Unfortunately, you just proved me right. If they were not tested, they would not be in the fleet. And logically, the most important units would have received them first - and we have direct G-Canon evidence they didn't have them at that point.