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I had a dream where there was a type of TIE fighter called the HEN-TIE
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I had a dream where there was a type of TIE fighter called the HEN-TIE

The HEN-TIE was manned by two pilots and had double the number of ion engines so the top speed was around 2000 km/h. It also had better laser cannons, hence the name “High-speed Enemy Neutralizer”

Sienar Fleet Systems was really pushing the branding for this series of the TIE:
The AI targeting system was called HEN-T.ai, and the cameras that were put outside the wings and displayed inside the cockpit to make up for the obscured field of vision was called the HEN-TIEgif, which stood for “Graphics-based Improved FOV”

I think watching Shorts of Palpatine rating things in tier-lists and people calling the hantavirus hentaivirus caused this dream lmao

u/Doctor_Danguss — 2 days ago
▲ 19 r/MawInstallation

I'm reading through the early Marvel comics, and one thing I'm noticing is that the climax of ANH is referred to repeatedly as "the Battle of the Death Star." Which I kind of like. But it also makes sense since these issues are told from the POV of rebels, and also are very shortly after the events of the film.

So I'm curious, not only in-universe, but also in real-world sources, when was the term "Battle of Yavin" first used?

As an aside, it's also interesting that the comics use the assumption that Tarkin and Vader never told the rest of the Empire where the Death Star was going, so the Empire won't know to come and attack Yavin until Vader flies back in his TIE. Which presumably is taking quite a long time.

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u/Doctor_Danguss — 9 days ago
▲ 10 r/StarWarsEU

In this issue, Han uses Don-Wan Kihotay’s lightsaber to kill the Behemoth from the World Below (interestingly years before he uses a lightsaber in ESB, and Don-Wan implies it’s blasphemy for him to use a Jedi’s weapon). Han says that he was inspired by hearing stories about a Jedi using a lights to kill a similar monster in the past.

Did a later EU source ever fill in the details of which Jedi and what creature that was supposed to be?

u/Doctor_Danguss — 10 days ago