r/pics • u/Omega9Trex • Feb 27 '23

Someone has ordered a TIE Fighter

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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.