So light speed skipping?
Um, since when can TIE fighters follow the Falcon through lightspeed? Did that bother anyone else?
shareSince when can tie fighters use light speed? They literally don't have life support or shields and now they have light speed?
I also thought traveling at light speed needed precise calculations.?
Don't forget how long it took to get to Alderaan from Tatooine but now they can do it instantly.
Good job Luke and Obi Wan didn't hire a Tie Fighter they would have been at Alderan before it was destroyed based on this.
Jar Jar Abrams is just a hack. Pretty pictures with no substance.
Well, these TIE fighters are 30 years advanced, so I accepted they can do light speed. Plus, they have some life support as depicted in TFA when Finn and Poe steal one (although that doesn't explain why the pilots still wear those masks).
share1. I would credit Finn and Poe having life support in a Tie as more plot armor and continued evidence that JJ doesn't understand how Tie's work.
2. As for being 30 years advanced? The tech existed during the original Trilogy. Light speed capability is thousands of years old. Cost and efficiency were the reason they weren't equipped.
The First Order has more money? Lol.
The only explanation I could think of for the following thing is that in the time between TLJ and TROS, the tech the First order fleet used to follow the Resistance through lightspeed has been miniaturized and been added to some of their fighters. That's still a stretch, but I bet that's what the authors of the shared universe will come up with....
Yeah, that' another thing. Where does the first order get it's money? The Empire obviously was the government in power of the entire Galaxy and used the republic's existing infrastructure for the most part.
The First order rules what systems and has what kind of governmental system installed. All we really see is a few Generals here and there that all answer to the supreme leader. How did that system get set up again?
Light speed inside of atmosphere? Why bother to think about it, this movie has more plot holes than plots.
shareI thought the small fighters had light-speed capability in the original trilogy? I mean, Darth Vader was stranded in a t-wing at the end of ANH, and he got to some other star system. Luke managed to get from Hoth to Dagobah in an X-wing, and any travel from star system to star system in a short period of time requires faster than light travel. And didn't Obi-Wan travel from Coruscant to Camino in a small fighter ship?
If I'd had enough sleep, I could probably think of more instances of people moving from planet to planet in small fighter craft, although not T-wings. We only see them blow up, we don't follow them on whatever journeys they make.
Yes, some fighters are fitted with hyper-drives. However, its my understanding that they are large and expensive components.
Tie fighters where designed to be fast and cheap so they could be produced and used in mass quantity. They are basically engines with guns. Primary hauled and used by large cruises(IE Star-Destroyers) for support. It was understood that a Star-Destroyer is a small army on in it's self. It's a large powerful cruiser that carries dozens of Tie fighters/bombers along with a garrison of storm troopers. A Star-destroyer can be sent to system to deal with a wide variation of military issues. The empire isn't going spend 5 times the money to equip a fighter with a hyper-drive and deflector-shield system when it can just hitch a ride with it's commanding cruiser.
The rebellion on the other hand typically used higher-end fighters like the X-wing and Y-wing that did have hyper-drives and deflector-shields. Simply because they didn't have the personnel or funds to man large cruisers. So the pilots they did have were given higher-end fighters to make the most of them. They're rebels for a reason.
Don't think for second that Darth Vader is using the same type of ship as a common imperial pilot. Vader's ship is a Tie advanced equipped with shields and HD.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Vader%27s_TIE_Advanced
Obi-won flew a fighter specifically designed to accommodate Jedi knights(Commanders of the Clone Army). Even it had a separate attachment to allow hyper-drive.
X-wing
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/T-65B_X-wing_starfighter
Tie
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/TIE/LN_starfighter
Very interesting, although I suspect its the sort of information where it's almost impossible to sort out the Canon from the Fanon. And no, I'm not asking you to say, or even think about, which is which! I'll just take your information as being widely accepted!
But I will say that technology usually becomes smaller and cheaper over time, so it's entirely possible that by Rey's day, T-wing fighters could have hyperdrive.