TIE Bomber

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[ The Force ] [ 2004-12-31 15:20:08 ]

TIE Bomber

The TIE Bomber, a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe, is a larger, less maneuverable version of the TIE Fighter used for destroying larger Rebel ships. It carries large numbers of torpedoes, but it is slow and not very manoeuverable and must be protected by fighters. Whilst the design was done for A New Hope, the craft did not appear until The Empire Strikes Back.

The TIE Bomber has two hulls next to each other; one carries the pilot and the other carries a universal warhead launcher, enabling them to carry a variety of weapons tailored for the mission. The fighter is much more heavily built-up than the "fighter"-series of TIEs; presumably it must carry more sophisticated sensors to penetrate capital ship jamming and stronger engines to move all of those warheads (in keeping with the Star Wars "atmospheric flight" spacecraft physics).

One variant replaces the warhead bay with a small cargo bay which may also be configured into a personnel shuttle.

The craft can most prominently be seen in The Empire Strikes Back, where a group of them bomb the asteroid on which the Millennium Falcon is hiding.

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