Also, nuCanon is STRONGLY headed toward the idea that the X-Wing is a "super fighter" meant to counter the Tie Defender
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And since the last season of Rebels will almost certainly feature both the capture of the XWing factory and the destruction of >
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The TIE Defender factory, this explains the Rebels' space fighter superiority in the original trilogy
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Still doesn't make a ton of sense that X-Wings were manufactured in such large numbers and never used by the Empire, but...
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(we know Y-Wings and A-Wings WERE used by the Empire, but during some period off screen)
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And it really doesn't make sense that there isn't the occasional frigate with a compliment of them still in Imperial service
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Which means we have to assume that the Empire really is following the oldEU "China in Korea" throw-lots-of-shitty-equipment-at-them plan
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Because a Y-Wing, albeit piloted by a Force user, can canonically defeat a TIE Defender, and every other class of TIE pre-TFA is inferior
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The black First Order TIE can plainly kick any other TIE's ass, but the upgraded X-Wings are still ridiculously stronger
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It's part of their political doctrine that giving individual pilots too much power is dangerous
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In the quasi feudal structure of the old school Republic a fighter ace was something like a knight
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Many of them literally were Jedi Knights
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In TIE Fighter your character eventually earns the rank of "Tan", a title previously held by Anakin Skywalker
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