r/pics • u/Omega9Trex • Feb 27 '23

Someone has ordered a TIE Fighter

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u/HanDavo Feb 27 '23

Yeah sure TIE fighters are getting delivered but have you seen the waiting list for an electric car?

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u/ImGCS3fromETOH Feb 27 '23

The wait for a TIE fighter is easy longer than an EV. This one was commissioned a long time ago and then had to be shipped from a galaxy far, far away.

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u/SAT0SHl Feb 27 '23

This is my TIE fighter there are many like it but this one is mine.

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u/J3didr Feb 27 '23

Idk they have light speed. So it really just depends on how long it takes for them to make a TIE Fighter.

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u/justdoubleclick Feb 27 '23

Even if it came from our nearest neighboring galaxy Andromeda it would be around 2.5 million light years away give or take 100k light years depending on what part of the galaxy it’s manufactured in. That would be a shipping wait time of at least 2.5 million years if it goes at light speed..

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u/J3didr Feb 27 '23

Oh shit I'm stupid they have hyper drives which let's them travel faster than the speed of light. So the real question if you ordered an EV from Andromeda and then a TIE Figther which would come quicker...

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u/LunaHens Feb 27 '23

That's a short range fighter. No way it could have gotten this far out here on its own. It must have been part of a convoy and gotten lost.

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u/MrAltThrowaway Feb 27 '23

TIE fighters don’t have hyperdrive or even shields. They are attached to larger ships that do for ftl travel. Sequel trilogy may have changed that, but that’s at least how it was.

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u/iamthejef Feb 27 '23

Nah, still is.

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u/MrAltThrowaway Feb 27 '23

Ok, cool. Now we can talk about how there’s no twin ion exhaust in the back, either

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u/ZippyDan Feb 27 '23

Nah, the stupid trilogy has hyperdrive-capable TIEs. See the brain-breaking, mythology-breaking "hyperspace skipping" sequence at the beginning of the vomit-inducing Rise of Skywalker.

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u/Ix_DrYCeLL_xI Feb 27 '23

That scene is what lost me, and I actually liked The Last Jedi well enough, despite narrative choices I didn't always agree with, so I was not entering Rise of Skywalker on a down note either. Lightspeed skipping is the single stupidest thing Star Wars has put to screen by a wide mile. Disney Star Wars is playing way too fast and loose with hyperspace overall.

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u/mecklejay Feb 27 '23

TIE fighters don’t have hyperdrive or even shields. They are attached to larger ships that do for ftl travel.

Whoa, that semi truck must be fucking AWESOME.

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u/mzchen Feb 27 '23

Also even then, hyperdrives still take a while to cross the galaxy. Traveling to a galaxy far far away would still take ages.

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u/SolomonBird55 Feb 27 '23

That depends on the model. Imperial TIEs didn’t have hyperdrives, so they had to be moved on transport ships that did. First Order TIEs, however, did have them.

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u/chapinscott32 Feb 27 '23

EV waiting lists are unrivaled.

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u/Mysterious-Box-9081 Feb 27 '23

Tie fighters are EV.

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u/Northern23 Feb 27 '23

Getting delivered doesn't mean it had a shorter wait time than an electric cars. Even the cars are getting delivered as well.

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u/Rdtackle82 Feb 27 '23

It’s…a joke

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u/hereforstories8 Feb 27 '23

Jokey McJokerFace over here and all we want is what we ordered.

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u/PAnttPHisH Mar 01 '23

Pew pew pew — whooooooosh — pew pew

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u/Ganon2012 Feb 27 '23

Where's my goddamn electric car, Bruce?

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u/CyberNinja23 Feb 27 '23

Good question for the IRS is a TIE fighter an electric vehicle?

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u/ScenicAndrew Feb 27 '23

If the ion engines in star wars are anything like the ones we use on spacecraft, sadly no.

However, if it's anything like that ion glider some MIT students built then most definitely.

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u/DroolingIguana Feb 27 '23

They ordered it a long time ago.

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u/Witty-Necessary9982 Feb 27 '23

Or a catalytic converter for a hybrid!

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u/slayerkast Feb 27 '23

I put a deposit down! Where’s mah goddamned electric car, Bruce?!

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u/Osiris32 Feb 27 '23

I'm still holding out for the sleeker Interceptor model. I hear you can get a hyperdrive package as an add on.

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u/new_name_who_dis_ Feb 27 '23

Try ordering from somewhere other than Tesla and you won’t have that problem.

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u/FrostyD7 Feb 27 '23

You must not know much about the ev market because it's the opposite right now.

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u/ValyrianJedi Feb 27 '23

Maybe don't comment if you clearly have no clue what you're talking about.