What i love about this, is that it's a failed project. Sounds weird, but hear me out. Far too often fan additions to Star Wars Lore are always these super powerful and significant and flawless things, that can do what they were designed for exceptionally well. But that really shouldn't be the case all the time. Real military development projects quite often result in the project being abandoned after some prototypes were built and the concept is deamed not worth it. Such projects are still super interesting though, and having stuff like that in Star Wars adds a lot of depth to it in my opinion. EDIT: Thanks for all the love folks! I'm very happy this comment was reseived so well. This is an awesome community, ya'll are great. :)
I agree. Failed and semi-successful projects are actually far more common than a lot of people seem to understand. This seems exactly like the kind of project that would get approved earlier in the time of the Empire (say around 12-15 BBY) when TIE Fighters were relatively new, and go into production for a short period of time before the Imperial Navy decided not to continue the project. I could definitely see the Navy developing this kind of project as an alternative to the Gozanti-class freighter conversion; a competition that the Gozanti TIE carrier would eventually win.
Adding on to this, this could be what leads not only to WHY the Advanced and Defender even have hyperdrives, but also why their other significant features were added. Stage 1: Mission profiles needing a hyperdrive-capable fighter crop up, so the Empire commissions this project. Stage 2: They quickly realize that a standard TIE is missing more than just a hyperdrive to operate in solo or small-squadron missions. Stage 3: Rather than upgrading all of the TIEs in service and using these pods, the Empire just went that slight step further and just installed them in the fighter, itself. Your fighter is more valuable, now, and you kinda want to make sure you can get it back. At least as common as failed projects are iterative ones, where the initial project reveals an unanticipated flaw, spawning Project II that handles the new need and the original one.
I could see this being particularly useful for having planet stationed tie fighters jumping to a nearby fleet battles to assist. Makes it far more viable to maintain a large military presence on planets to keep the peace and utilize more ships that don't carry fighters in your fleets.
Reminds me of helicopter emergency ejection. In a helicopter they have to explosivly jettison the main rotor in order for an ejection seat to not get launched into the spinning rotor blades. They are fairly uncommon but a few helicopters have them. I know the Russian KA-50 Black Shark has it, and possibly the newer spec ops stealth variant of the AH-64 Apache. I think the new Bell, Sikorsky, and Boeing Next Gen helis will have it as well.
An interesting concept. However, I'd argue that this undermines the Tie-fighters core strength of being a swarm ship. Sending in light cruisers or a docking ship that can carry a group of ties seems more practical. The Tie fighter simply isn't designed for lone long-range missions. Hence why Tie-Defends and other more capable long-distance ships are more desirable in those missions. I would, however, say this would benefit ships like Tie-Bombers and Tie-interceptors in discrete missions.
Star Wars Squadrons shows however that when such a need arises, they just send a Gozanti to carry and resupply the TIEs and provide minimal fire support.
Plus, a TIE is still more than a march for most ground units; being able to send one on loan to a planetary governor, or to assist an Empire affiliate would probably be worthwhile - even just quickly maneuvering in-system.
I'd think this could be a mission-ready kit used when sh*t hit the fan and imperial forces need immediate renforcements in a relative distance but the cruiser/destroyers are not ready to board yet. Sending a squadron could intercept space pirates or rebels in a sort of Fast Reaction Force.
You are not wrong but it fits well with established imperial doctrine, the Tie variants you mention are themselves victims of this same kind of thinking. Modifying a basic fighter to serve ever more specialized roles rather than developing ships for those roles is not dissimilar to this concept.
Unless it was intended for a stealth mission, it would be more cost efficient to launch from the bay of a larger, hyperdrive-capable vessel as they did. This also addresses the notion of keeping a leash on the pilots. Stealth TIE fighters themselves do come equipped with hyperdrives anyway. Cool idea and design, but I can see why the Empire didn't develop this.
Looks like this is canon now! The book Victory's Price in the Alphabet Squadron trilogy has one of the characters modify a clone wars era hyperdrive ring for a TIE/ln fighter. All I could think about was this video while reading it. Haha. Love what you do on this channel!
I'm trying to figure out a mission where a one way trip would be useful, the empire would need to at least pretend that it cares about retrieving pilots so they'd still need to send a carrier vessel to retrieve the pilots, and if you've already got a carrier vessel in the mission it would make more sense to deploy fighters from that carrier. I like the idea of there being limitations to the ring though, very empirey. Maybe the navicomputer in the hyperdrive ring could only store the trip out and then the trip back? Maybe it has very limited fuel so you can only make two jumps without tanking up?
Could be useful for an Alpha Strike capability, send in a few squadrons to distract the enemy, maybe get some sensor data, and then a few minutes later, the big guns and full carriers drop in on the now occupied enemy forces?
Inserting a special agent onto the surface of a planet. Send them in a disposable fighter with an equally disposable H-ring pick them up during the invasion. It's very limited but an interesting concept.
Evrybody expect the Empire to use big ships, it could be used to make a surprise attack on a rebel capital ship hyperdrive or shields just before the real strike, trapping the target.
@NomadShadow1 That actually sounds like a cool plot device! Rebels bait the region's Imperial fleet to send a few ties with a very small disturbance. Rebels then pull a heist to hijack the ties just as they come out of hyperspace, in order to get the "way back" coordinates stored in the rings. Then they use that intel to either guide their main force to either attack the fleet, or use the infomation to avoid it entirely. Deadass could be an episode of Rebels.
I feel like a project to do this would almost immediately snowball into a whole new custom fighter because imperial engineering projects have no self control and were already angling to replace TIEs from a dozen other angles. Also there's such a limit to what you can do with one TIE it'd probably be more effective to have some kind of tray or egg carton to take multiple fighters at once.
I mean if we're getting nit-picky, why do they need solar panels? They already have compact energy sources for other fighters and they're not always near a star when they're fighting. Even 100 percent efficiency wouldn't generate enough power in earth orbit to power all it's components. So the panels give it a larger profile to hit and block the pilots vision. It would have just made more sense to have the TIE fighters be little spheres zipping around. But then that wouldn't look as cool
I feel like using a ring like this is just simply the most efficient way of transporting a not-important-enough-for-a-special-transport minor officer or captain to his place in a far-off imperial outpost when the rest of the fleet's headed the other direction. The officer we needed AND an extra tie fighter to join the fight? win-win!
All it needs is temporary shield technology. TIE fighters lack shielding, meaning a trip into hyperspace would be a death sentence for such a small fighter. Implementing shields into the ring would make lightspeed safe. Anyway, the effects in this video are awesome and I love the lore you've come up with for the rings!
This makes sense to have for one man scouting missions and such, but given how TIE's seem to be made with swarm or group tactics in mind its probably why we haven't seen any rings so far. Remember that before the Gozanti cruiser was introduced we just assumed TIE's were only ever carried in Star Destroyers.
I have a nigh-forgotten ship for you yo do EC, and its from the prequel era. The *High-Altitude Entry Transport-221*, or *Republic Assault Gunboat* from Episode III. I think it would be quite nifty to see a video on it fleshing the details and operational usage of it out. Anyhow, thanks and good day to you. :)
Rebels would be *much* less likely to than scavengers, given how few rebels there would be compared to scavengers; and I feel like scavengers would also have to struggle with legitimate businesses with more resources that deal in scrap. I imagine the space equivalent of a garbage truck driver - who'd do his daily runs in orbit cleaning up whatever space junk was left up there over the week would scoop the debris up and dump it all in a scrapyard where they could be picked apart and recycled to make literally anything that requires the same materials; with all the still-functioning parts removed and sold to be used in more hyperspace rings, or to build a new hyperdrive - even for civilian use; and the un-useable parts being sold to a metal-recycling company to be, well... recycled.
Reusable ones would be insanely useful for elite units, like Black Squadron (Darth Vader’s personal squadron in ANH), Titan Squadron, and the 181st Fighter Wing.
I love this design and concept! Would be great if it was something seen, more so during the Remnants of the Empire Era where supplies were low, and every resource was priceless to those attempting to keep control as the New Republic was closing in.
@@FeeriiEekii He should be doing designs for all the Disney Star Wars shows and Star Trek properties, as well. I want a remake of the old "Star Wars vs Tie Fighter" PC game with ships designed by EC Henry.
This also seems to fit VERY well with the Empire's habits. Namely, mass-producing standard hardware with no frills, but also making specialist versions for limited issue to elite units or black-ops specialists. This looks like something that'd be rare after the project was largely shelved, but occasionally used to, say, insert an operative into a distant system subtly, or issued to spies as an emergency exit strategy, to get valuable intel and assets back into Imperial hands while still looking like an ordinary TIE from a distance.
In a much shorter amount of time you have put more effort and contributed more to the Star Wars universe than Disney has with the entirety of the new movies they have released.
I love how from the front it makes the TIE/ln look just like the TIE/wi, as if the First Order basically just took the existing design and baked it into their TIEs 🙃
I like that it also visually connects to the TIE Whisper. You could see there being some loose form of lineage with the tech design leading from the disposable hyperdrive unit to an integrated one (or, at the very least, an upgrade module that could be installed in/over an existing model). Not sure if the Whisper's red bands serve the same function, but the general latch-on module tech design could still have overlap regardless.
I like the idea that the light speed booster rings where another way for Palpatine to trap the Jedi in whatever system they’re in during order 66. Call for the order, the squadrons in space blow up the ring, or they just self destruct, stranding the Jedi if they managed to survive the clone army. If you look at it that way, it makes 100% sense they didn’t show up later in the series
In Legends several Imperial warlords did modify their TIE/LN and TIE/IN models with hyperdrives and shields, usually mounted on the back of the cockpit. A notable exception is Zsinj who built the TIE Raptor which was basically an even cheaper version of the TIE/LN, which basically involved getting rid of the solar panels and later on he built droid versions of them.
How would the TIE Fighter computer system calculate hyperspace jumps though? As I would assume they are not capable of doing so, meaning the computer would be on the hyperspace ring. Other drawbacks for the Imperials would be that if the calculations are done by TIE pilots, these pilots now need increased training to learn how to calculate hyperspace jumps. Alternatively it could be that the calculations are uploaded directly to the TIE hyperspace ring, by a local navigational officer or droid.
TIE pilots were trained in every possible method of space travel, they were thoroughly trained combat pilots, so why would hyperspace travel be left out? As for the computer issue, I think the TIE fighters navigation computer would link up with another computer in the hyperdrive ring.
@@thelonious2213 that would be cool, if the TIEs local computer just connected with something that was slightly “beefier”, as to add some processing. I think though that the Empire would consider it to be a waste of resources to train all TIE pilots to be hyperspace adept. As they are meant to be expendable, and released in swarms. I think you’re right that the elite pilots would almost certainly have had extra training to include calculating hyperspace jumps. And the Empire would only entrust mission profiles that used hyperspace rings, to said elite pilots.
@@bioboy1819 the biggest problem with the imperial hyperspace rings is that the empire has built it's navy around sttarfighter carrying. They have Gozantis, Arquitens cruisers, Quasar fire carriers, Secutor class carriers, and even their mainline ships can carry a full wing of TIEs. They also have stations positioned across the galaxy. They already have the ability to deploy starfighters in any star system they want, and this is a reason I find more satisfying than simply wanting to make sure their pilots don't escape as to why they chose not to equip most of their starfighters with hyperdrives.
Love it. I've always felt one mistake Lucas made when establishing the lore was allowing hyperdrives to be on small ships. I think he should have made the Millennium Falcon the smallest you could go and still have a hyperdrive....unless you had something like this, which the Jedi did in Episode 2.
Well, pilot, you're going to deliver this message to the headquarters of our allies on Omycron-C. Here, use this one-way hyperdrive module. Eventually, we'll pick you up at our next visit to Omycron system - it is planned to April 2356, which is just 20 years from now. Good luck.
So the thing that has always bugged me about the fact that the Imperial fighters 'lacked' hyperdrive is that it feels like lugging around that extra equipment should hurt the Rebel ships in someway. From what little I know about real-world fighter design, interior volume is at a premium, and any extra mass on board hurts you in several different ways, either worsening range, reducing speed and agility, and taking up slots that could otherwise go to more or better weapons, reinforced structure or armor, or extra fuel capacity. Every time I see "X-Wing is better because HYPERDRIVE" I can't help but think "Okay, but should the TIE fighters not have been able to use some fraction of that mass and volume for, I don't know, awesome shields, or incredibly powerful cannon, or something?" And even if they didn't, the extra acceleration and agility should have been a huge edge in combat, especially the dogfights that seem to be most of Star Wars Fighter-on-Fighter actions. It just feels like that is never, ever addressed, and it ought to be.
The problem is more that TIEs are made dirt cheap without much care in durability and pilot survivability. This allowed the hyperactive equipped fighters of of Rebels to be superior
Damage output, survivability, cost, pick two. X-Wings are better because they are more expensive, and the Rebellion couldn't afford a war of attrition. In the same way that TIEs are better because they're less expensive, and the empire couldn't afford not to wage a war of attrition. The right place, at the right time, in the right hands, good old stick can defeat an empire just as effectively as a Death Star. When creating narratives it's really good to intentionally set up situational advantages and disadvantages, that's where conflict is interesting. Particularly when you subvert expectations by introducing a complication that ends up being counterintuitively advantageous. Like a scene where a heroe's carrier ship is destroyed, in a fight he is losing to a gaggle of TIE fighters, depriving his X-Wing of what little cover fire was keeping him alive. When suddenly the expectation of imminent doom is subverted when the carrier ship intentionally self destructs taking out all of the unshielded TIEs, while letting the hero live to fight another day. That would be a cool scene for a book, movie, RPG table and otherwise, etc. In a WEG D6 tabletop game, we were using the Star Wars Technical Commentaries on theforce.net, and a player got a great idea to use spray foam fire retardant to overload TIE fighters to use as an improvised explosive device. Those aren't solar panels those are radiators, you mess with those and you have a bad day. Like an insulating foam combined while running their engines in maintenance mode. Enough thrust to test the systems not enough to rip it out of the cradle, builds up heat quick when the radiators aren't working correctly, the maintenance mode overrides the security protocols. Using fire fighting foam to cause an explosion, priceless.
in regards to your first point, aren't TIE fighters much smaller than X-wings? pretty much the only part of the ship that has significant volume is the tiny cockpit. my point is that TIEs would be expected to have significantly less capabilities than a more voluminous X-wing. in regards to your second point, there's a couple of possible explanations. it's possible that b/c TIE fighters are so light, their engines are much weaker to reduce production costs while maintaining acceptable acceleration and maneuverability (which happens to be at most on par with X-wings). if that was true, then more advanced and expensive TIE fighters might be expected to have better engines and be more maneuverable. alternatively, space flight doesn't really work in ways we would expect in the Star Wars universe, so smaller ships aren't necessarily more maneuverable.
Yeah this. The X-Wing *is* bigger, which is where all the hyperdrives and shields go, and the TIE does have powerful cannons for its size, but... the fact the Rebellion is operating with top-of-the-line do it all fighters is somewhat odd. Also that they're... such a thing? Like, shields, sure, but I feel most fighters shouldn't be equipped with hyperdrives. An Expensive carrier launched fighter should also perform better than an Expensive hyperspace fighter, limiting hyperspace fighters to very specific roles. Which, admittedly, are the kind of roles the rebels use them.
@@basedeltazero714 but a carrier needs personnel and is an additional large target. i imagine that hyperdrive-equipped small fighters are great for fast hit-and-run missions where each fighter needs to be able to quickly escape without needing to join up and land on a bulky and exposed carrier
So amazing idea but they already have a solution to this problem with TIE’s. The gazonti cruiser could carry 4 TIE’s and carry them through hyperspace using its own hyperdrive but it’s a slower process because the TIE’s have to detach and a gazonti is waaaaayyyy more conspicuous to an insurgency you may be trying to spy on or ambush. My explanation is the empire was too lazy to fix this because “we have the gazonti cruiser that’s good enough” but still the empire should’ve done at least some field testing or something with such a convenient technology for such a serious shortcoming. Awesome vid and great intro btw
I like how you came up with it and then gave a logical reason for it's canonical redundancy. Still seems like the kind of thing Imperial engineers may have prototyped or produced a small number of but they're only useful in such specific situations that they probably all ended up gathering dust in a warehouse.
And this is why fanlore/design will always be cooler than anyting a company can come up with, because fans actually know the lore arguably better than even most of the official writers do, and they have a passion that far exceeds a paycheck.
Standard TIEs are short range crafts so it makes sense that their primary way of getting around long distance was riding in a large carrier ship like a star destroyer. This would be a cool idea for someone having stolen a tie and modifying it or imperial remnants needing it post ROTJ due to lower resources.
I had the head cannon the TIE Scout was the go-to hyperdrive capable fighter craft for distant low-profile missions that were deemed excessive to send TIE carrying crafts.
Fantastic, you sir have the thought processes of a nuanced wargamer. I wouldn't be surprised if Lucas film use this at some point in time and if they don't they're fools.
Nice concept. The animation was awesome. But i’d say that Gozanti cruisers are more cost efficient for small scale missions. The Gozanti can serve as a Hub for the pilot between missions for some needed rest and supply Ties with energy for in deep space missions where no solar energy is available or ressuply food and life support systems.
These would be cool to have in combination with older Republic style carrier ships like the Venator, which were said to be relegated to patrol duties on the far edges of Imperial space. A Venator II with a large compliment of TIEs outfitted with hyperspace rings could much easier maintain control over multiple systems at once, as multiple wings of TIEs can be dispatched in different directions at the same time without the Venator having to break it’s advantageous middle ground location in deep space, except to go and pick the fighters up after they were done. Or, simply spend some more credits to have a “round-trip” hyperspace ring variant. Fighters dispatch to nearby trouble, deal with situation, then jump back to home and get refitted with new rings.
EC just stopping in to throw out early congratulations on the new Steamrunner in STO, thank you it looks amazing. The Appalachia is a day one buy for me. I'm hoping you'll do a behind the scenes here???? Please?
I like the idea of these being built by the rebels to use stolen TIEs in their fleet alongside their hyper drive ship tactics OR as some kind of after market thing for people who bought salvage and are making their own star fighters.
TIE-Fighters were designed to deploy in groups for short range tactical combats. If it has to travel between planets, it might as well be carried in a Star Destroyer.
I love the idea and the design, but for a TIE hyperdrive ring would require an almost full redesign of the TIE suite of star ships. Notably, adding life support systems, increasing the cockpit size, larger astronomical computers (sucks not having an astromech lol) and a full redesign of the solar array wings. Not to mention the already discussed change in naval doctrine, the TIE platforms don’t lend themselves to all that great of atmospheric flight let alone surviving the difficulties of long hyperspace travel. Still, with all that said, it’s an awesome design!
They should include this into a movie, both to demonstrate it's practical use compared with other alternatives, and during dialogue scenes that debate its effectiveness and conflict with imperial doctrine. I can also see this being used on a trial basis, but since some ambitious officer didn't like the idea (like Tarkin), it ends up being shelved, not so much because it's not a good idea, but because of politics.
I do absolutely adore the bulkier silhouette of the four extra thrusters around the ball. Think it would work really well with a slightly better TiE MKII.
In my head cannon I think this would be great for Imperial Special Forces like Inferno Squad to use. Basically having them on the Raider Class Corvette for Inferno Squad to make a stealthy insertion into a system, destroy the objective, and then have the Raider link up in-system for extraction.
There's a browser game called Astro Empires, where if you take ships without hyperdrive to a planet or system too far away, to fight someone, or, simply by mistake because you forgot they didn't have hyperdrive, since your planet has a Jump Gate you can build to send them out, you can't get them, back. I always said they needed to add this feature in for things to build. Or a tug ship system to tow them back. Make it Warp 1 only, so it took a while to get to them, and then to bring them back, but, at least you could get them back without having to scrap them.
oh, Thrawn would've used the shit out of them! Drop a bunch of drive-ring equipped TIEs in the outer ring of a system and use an Interdictor to pull them precisely where he wanted them. Maybe when Star Dust pulled his Defender budget, he could've done impressive work with these. I mean, what if the components of your Marg Sable maneuver came from hyperspace AS WELL as from around your ship?? Awesome idea as usual, EC
In Legends' Young Jedi Order series Jenna Solo installs a small self contained hyperdrive unit in a TIE stranded on Yavin since the Deathstar blew up after its pilot took one of the kids hostage. It was mounted into an existing auxiliary equipment compartment. Ya stuck on Yavin for 15yrs or so only to escape, be tricked by a false Emperor, attack the Academy, then realize he'd been played only to get stranded on Yavin again...that guy has no luck. Would have loved to see him eventually working at the Academy somehow, but as far as I know he was never mentioned again.
That Hyperdrive ring for standard TIE was dope. However at time 1:09 he answers his own question. 1. Imperial Doctrine mandates no hyperdrive on standard TIE. 2. The Empire has 2 TIE variants for missions such as long range infiltration or and discreet operations. If you think about it the Empire would have its bases, outposts, and fleets strategically placed throughout the core worlds and Outter Rim and patrolling various sectors. Each Grand Moff was responsible for their sector and conducting the political and military objectives of the Empire. A disruptive element such as smugglers or Rebels were either arrested, suppressed, or run out of the sector. Being that Grand Moffs don’t interfere in matters outside of their sector, there is no advantage for a Grand Moff to move their assigned resources out of their assigned sector unless the order came from the Emperor. If you think about it the Rebel Alliance was only one issue. They had many worlds to govern, distribute resources too, provide security and some semblance of support to the indigenous citizens of the Empire. Not everyone in the Empire were slaves or Imperial Forces. There were merchants, government contractors, regular tradesmen etc… the Empire provided and regulated commerce for. That got completely off topic as to why Std TIE are not equipped w/ hyperdrive. 😂
This actually happens in the canon _Alphabet Squadron_ trilogy of novels, where, after the Battle of Endor, the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing salvages Clone Wars-era hyperdrive rings and retrofits them onto their TIE/LNs, giving the isolated and poorly-supplied unit a bit more utility.
That's cause, as far as I am aware, hyperdrive rings were added to the prequels as a show of technology having actually evolved in the time between the prequels and the original trilogy. Since we know hyperdrive technology was advanced enough for use in fighters at the time showing us that in the republic time it wasn't is just a nice tiny detail of worldbuilding
Seeing this reminded me of an idea I had a few weeks ago, the at-at could be drastically improved with the addition of some ball turrets I figure one on top and one on the belly would do but ideally u would want that plus one on the chin and another on the rear Something suitable for anti personnel and aircraft ideally
We do see that the First Order in the Sequel Trilogy gave TIE fighters serious upgrades: now they can jump to hyperspace, carry missiles, can have co-pilots, and front/rear laser blasters
If I were he Empire this technology would make me more worried about deserters. A hyperdrive ring as a one way ticket means that if a lone tie fighter were to hyperdrive away knowing that they couldn’t possibly return, that just invites those deserters who wish not to return.
I feel like they'd probably be used more for infiltration missions and special operations where it was already fairly obvious that the mission would be a one-way trip anyway. The TIE hyperdrive ring is not expendable because the pilot is expendable, it's expendable because the pilot is going to *succeed* or *fail* at their mission and still not make it back.
This would be extremely handy for QRFs (Quick Reaction Forces) if a station which could not house it's own TIE Fighters, but was not important enough to use up a star destroyer by simply stationing it nearby.
After some contemplation, i do think hyperrings could be handy LOGISTICAL addon, to get new Ties with pilots ON mothership (or base), with no light carrier (nor heavy carrier) needed to be spared for that duty.
Perfect looking design and lore. Though with Imperial Tactical Doctrines I feel like it would find good use as part of a vanguard force of TIEs to soften up the enemy while the Imperial fleet mobilizes and gets into position. It would also help to rapidly respond to raids by Rebel groups, something that the Empire always struggled with.
Quite imaginative and well rendered , most the pity existing canon does not support the design, specifications, and mission parameters of the TIE fighter. On a short range ship with limited life support and lack of a either a Hyperspace navigation system or an Astromech Droid jumping blindly would prove disastrous. Hyperspace capable TIEs would exist only as a personal ship ie. Vader’s or for use by elite squadrons . Designing a First Order TIE based on the original TIE Advanced X1 was a missed opportunity, but then again that entire trilogy was .
When they made the books into "legends" they removed part of this. In the young jedis series there is a crashed TIE fighter that has a built in hyperdrive generator, not usual but it did exist without the rings.
Makes sense to me. Although every (almost every) imperial ship has a hanger or some sort of external Rack on the ship, so im not suppressed they never bothered. Although a simple disposable hyper ring like that would be something the Empire would do if they wanted hyperdrive travel on a budget.
Okay, that intro was next level lmao
Yes it really was...
They remind me on the StarVipers
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For real that was dope
I love that idea guys
@@a1403s it looks like the Star Viper
What i love about this, is that it's a failed project. Sounds weird, but hear me out. Far too often fan additions to Star Wars Lore are always these super powerful and significant and flawless things, that can do what they were designed for exceptionally well. But that really shouldn't be the case all the time. Real military development projects quite often result in the project being abandoned after some prototypes were built and the concept is deamed not worth it. Such projects are still super interesting though, and having stuff like that in Star Wars adds a lot of depth to it in my opinion.
EDIT: Thanks for all the love folks! I'm very happy this comment was reseived so well. This is an awesome community, ya'll are great. :)
Yeah, it adds to the lived in feel of Star Wars. Plus, it gives ideas to smugglers or rebels.
"Do you want to tell the Emperor why this single use component costs more than the fighter?" - Imperial bean counter somewhere
I agree. Failed and semi-successful projects are actually far more common than a lot of people seem to understand. This seems exactly like the kind of project that would get approved earlier in the time of the Empire (say around 12-15 BBY) when TIE Fighters were relatively new, and go into production for a short period of time before the Imperial Navy decided not to continue the project. I could definitely see the Navy developing this kind of project as an alternative to the Gozanti-class freighter conversion; a competition that the Gozanti TIE carrier would eventually win.
@@shorewall one-use hyperdrives could be an interesting plot device for poor space crews who can't afford a multi-use hyperdrive
Adding on to this, this could be what leads not only to WHY the Advanced and Defender even have hyperdrives, but also why their other significant features were added.
Stage 1: Mission profiles needing a hyperdrive-capable fighter crop up, so the Empire commissions this project.
Stage 2: They quickly realize that a standard TIE is missing more than just a hyperdrive to operate in solo or small-squadron missions.
Stage 3: Rather than upgrading all of the TIEs in service and using these pods, the Empire just went that slight step further and just installed them in the fighter, itself. Your fighter is more valuable, now, and you kinda want to make sure you can get it back.
At least as common as failed projects are iterative ones, where the initial project reveals an unanticipated flaw, spawning Project II that handles the new need and the original one.
I could see this being particularly useful for having planet stationed tie fighters jumping to a nearby fleet battles to assist. Makes it far more viable to maintain a large military presence on planets to keep the peace and utilize more ships that don't carry fighters in your fleets.
Ships without fighters are sitting ducks. Just look at battleships and Death Stars.
Alright, how the heck do your renders look THAT GOOD!?
Trying!
Lots of very skilled and experienced assistance. That and/or a lot of time to get it done.
@@DocWolph trying my best, thanks
Try to limit scattered light to a minimum, a space has no atmosphere to make it a thing
@@abelzatyko1513 following star wars aesthetics and movie mindset. Not realism. Anything that is believable and matching the movies
On this episode of ECHenry knocks it out of the park again…
Also I really love the jettison animation. Reminds me of real-world rocket stages.
Reminds me of helicopter emergency ejection. In a helicopter they have to explosivly jettison the main rotor in order for an ejection seat to not get launched into the spinning rotor blades. They are fairly uncommon but a few helicopters have them. I know the Russian KA-50 Black Shark has it, and possibly the newer spec ops stealth variant of the AH-64 Apache. I think the new Bell, Sikorsky, and Boeing Next Gen helis will have it as well.
YES! Real rockets jettison things explosively, so why don't we makea realistic spacecraft for this damned fandom?!
An interesting concept. However, I'd argue that this undermines the Tie-fighters core strength of being a swarm ship. Sending in light cruisers or a docking ship that can carry a group of ties seems more practical. The Tie fighter simply isn't designed for lone long-range missions. Hence why Tie-Defends and other more capable long-distance ships are more desirable in those missions. I would, however, say this would benefit ships like Tie-Bombers and Tie-interceptors in discrete missions.
Star Wars Squadrons shows however that when such a need arises, they just send a Gozanti to carry and resupply the TIEs and provide minimal fire support.
Much cheaper than a TIE-D though.
Plus, a TIE is still more than a march for most ground units; being able to send one on loan to a planetary governor, or to assist an Empire affiliate would probably be worthwhile - even just quickly maneuvering in-system.
I'd think this could be a mission-ready kit used when sh*t hit the fan and imperial forces need immediate renforcements in a relative distance but the cruiser/destroyers are not ready to board yet.
Sending a squadron could intercept space pirates or rebels in a sort of Fast Reaction Force.
You are not wrong but it fits well with established imperial doctrine, the Tie variants you mention are themselves victims of this same kind of thinking. Modifying a basic fighter to serve ever more specialized roles rather than developing ships for those roles is not dissimilar to this concept.
I absolutely love the design, it looks effective and usable as well as cheap and crude.
It's just perfect!
Unless it was intended for a stealth mission, it would be more cost efficient to launch from the bay of a larger, hyperdrive-capable vessel as they did. This also addresses the notion of keeping a leash on the pilots. Stealth TIE fighters themselves do come equipped with hyperdrives anyway.
Cool idea and design, but I can see why the Empire didn't develop this.
Could also make sense for scouting - send in a few cheap TIEs, then send in the big ship if the area is clear enough.
Such an clever innovation that is so obvious but literally no one else thought of it, it’s a million-credit idea. Awesome work!
I could totally see these popping up in the “Trawn Trilogy” or being used by Imperial Remnants.
Perhaps. Maybe if they ran out of Gozantis and TIE Scouts and didn’t feel like making more.
Good idea!
@@chewy99. TIE Scouts are ugly and need to go.
@@nickgennady they look exactly like regular ties…
Looks like this is canon now! The book Victory's Price in the Alphabet Squadron trilogy has one of the characters modify a clone wars era hyperdrive ring for a TIE/ln fighter. All I could think about was this video while reading it. Haha.
Love what you do on this channel!
I'm trying to figure out a mission where a one way trip would be useful, the empire would need to at least pretend that it cares about retrieving pilots so they'd still need to send a carrier vessel to retrieve the pilots, and if you've already got a carrier vessel in the mission it would make more sense to deploy fighters from that carrier. I like the idea of there being limitations to the ring though, very empirey. Maybe the navicomputer in the hyperdrive ring could only store the trip out and then the trip back? Maybe it has very limited fuel so you can only make two jumps without tanking up?
Stealth Scouts going in first to land agents to mark targets in in a zone or provide tactical information to an incoming attack group.
Could be useful for an Alpha Strike capability, send in a few squadrons to distract the enemy, maybe get some sensor data, and then a few minutes later, the big guns and full carriers drop in on the now occupied enemy forces?
Inserting a special agent onto the surface of a planet. Send them in a disposable fighter with an equally disposable H-ring pick them up during the invasion.
It's very limited but an interesting concept.
Evrybody expect the Empire to use big ships, it could be used to make a surprise attack on a rebel capital ship hyperdrive or shields just before the real strike, trapping the target.
@NomadShadow1 That actually sounds like a cool plot device! Rebels bait the region's Imperial fleet to send a few ties with a very small disturbance. Rebels then pull a heist to hijack the ties just as they come out of hyperspace, in order to get the "way back" coordinates stored in the rings. Then they use that intel to either guide their main force to either attack the fleet, or use the infomation to avoid it entirely. Deadass could be an episode of Rebels.
I feel like a project to do this would almost immediately snowball into a whole new custom fighter because imperial engineering projects have no self control and were already angling to replace TIEs from a dozen other angles.
Also there's such a limit to what you can do with one TIE it'd probably be more effective to have some kind of tray or egg carton to take multiple fighters at once.
I mean if we're getting nit-picky, why do they need solar panels? They already have compact energy sources for other fighters and they're not always near a star when they're fighting. Even 100 percent efficiency wouldn't generate enough power in earth orbit to power all it's components. So the panels give it a larger profile to hit and block the pilots vision. It would have just made more sense to have the TIE fighters be little spheres zipping around. But then that wouldn't look as cool
@@logangrimnar3800 Wait, those are solar panels?!
@@Hiperruimteindustriee Yep, the Tie is solar powered.
that basically is a gozanti.
...So yeah, my first thought with the hyperdrive ring was why not expand it into a snap-on heavy combat module.
This kind of things give me some Kenner vibes with those vehicles they Made back then.
Good video.
I feel like using a ring like this is just simply the most efficient way of transporting a not-important-enough-for-a-special-transport minor officer or captain to his place in a far-off imperial outpost when the rest of the fleet's headed the other direction. The officer we needed AND an extra tie fighter to join the fight? win-win!
I want a remake of the old "Star Wars vs Tie Fighter" PC game with ships designed by EC Henry.
Edit: Make that, "everything designed by EC Henry"
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@@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385 Thanks for noticing
The TIE jumping to hyperspace sounds like the Zombie scream from Half-Life 2 😂 0:09
I love this idea! Now, if only you would work up the files for it to be 3D printed, I'd buy a couple!
This is far too brilliant. Also, by far the most imperial way to do such a thing.
EC Henry: *once again putting more thought and care into stuff than the movies team*
All it needs is temporary shield technology. TIE fighters lack shielding, meaning a trip into hyperspace would be a death sentence for such a small fighter. Implementing shields into the ring would make lightspeed safe. Anyway, the effects in this video are awesome and I love the lore you've come up with for the rings!
This makes sense to have for one man scouting missions and such, but given how TIE's seem to be made with swarm or group tactics in mind its probably why we haven't seen any rings so far.
Remember that before the Gozanti cruiser was introduced we just assumed TIE's were only ever carried in Star Destroyers.
I have a nigh-forgotten ship for you yo do EC, and its from the prequel era.
The *High-Altitude Entry Transport-221*, or *Republic Assault Gunboat* from Episode III.
I think it would be quite nifty to see a video on it fleshing the details and operational usage of it out.
Anyhow, thanks and good day to you. :)
This sounds like it would inevitably turn into spare parts for any scavengers / rebels trying to maintain their ships
Rebels would be *much* less likely to than scavengers, given how few rebels there would be compared to scavengers; and I feel like scavengers would also have to struggle with legitimate businesses with more resources that deal in scrap. I imagine the space equivalent of a garbage truck driver - who'd do his daily runs in orbit cleaning up whatever space junk was left up there over the week would scoop the debris up and dump it all in a scrapyard where they could be picked apart and recycled to make literally anything that requires the same materials; with all the still-functioning parts removed and sold to be used in more hyperspace rings, or to build a new hyperdrive - even for civilian use; and the un-useable parts being sold to a metal-recycling company to be, well... recycled.
Reusable ones would be insanely useful for elite units, like Black Squadron (Darth Vader’s personal squadron in ANH), Titan Squadron, and the 181st Fighter Wing.
I love this design and concept! Would be great if it was something seen, more so during the Remnants of the Empire Era where supplies were low, and every resource was priceless to those attempting to keep control as the New Republic was closing in.
Why is EC Henry not working for Industrial Light and Magic and/or Lucasfilm?
No, seriously. That's a legit question.
He's done a couple of designs in Star Trek Online, awesome stuff
@@FeeriiEekii He should be doing designs for all the Disney Star Wars shows and Star Trek properties, as well.
I want a remake of the old "Star Wars vs Tie Fighter" PC game with ships designed by EC Henry.
@@jonsnowight9510 agreed. Every design EC makes looks leagues better than what the sequels did. Not just in design, but also in functionality.👍
This also seems to fit VERY well with the Empire's habits. Namely, mass-producing standard hardware with no frills, but also making specialist versions for limited issue to elite units or black-ops specialists. This looks like something that'd be rare after the project was largely shelved, but occasionally used to, say, insert an operative into a distant system subtly, or issued to spies as an emergency exit strategy, to get valuable intel and assets back into Imperial hands while still looking like an ordinary TIE from a distance.
In a much shorter amount of time you have put more effort and contributed more to the Star Wars universe than Disney has with the entirety of the new movies they have released.
That was a clean transition from locking onto the ring and then unlocking from the ring
Anyone else wanna see him make the hyper-realistic version of Dexter Jettster's personal shuttle from the 2003 comic "Appetite for Adventure"?
I'd like to see his take on the craft from Starfighter, personally.
I love how from the front it makes the TIE/ln look just like the TIE/wi, as if the First Order basically just took the existing design and baked it into their TIEs 🙃
I like that it also visually connects to the TIE Whisper. You could see there being some loose form of lineage with the tech design leading from the disposable hyperdrive unit to an integrated one (or, at the very least, an upgrade module that could be installed in/over an existing model).
Not sure if the Whisper's red bands serve the same function, but the general latch-on module tech design could still have overlap regardless.
I like the idea that the light speed booster rings where another way for Palpatine to trap the Jedi in whatever system they’re in during order 66. Call for the order, the squadrons in space blow up the ring, or they just self destruct, stranding the Jedi if they managed to survive the clone army.
If you look at it that way, it makes 100% sense they didn’t show up later in the series
looks awesome!
@The Czech Cosmonaut Good to be here! I'm researching so that I can refine my giant Tie Model.
In Legends several Imperial warlords did modify their TIE/LN and TIE/IN models with hyperdrives and shields, usually mounted on the back of the cockpit. A notable exception is Zsinj who built the TIE Raptor which was basically an even cheaper version of the TIE/LN, which basically involved getting rid of the solar panels and later on he built droid versions of them.
How would the TIE Fighter computer system calculate hyperspace jumps though? As I would assume they are not capable of doing so, meaning the computer would be on the hyperspace ring. Other drawbacks for the Imperials would be that if the calculations are done by TIE pilots, these pilots now need increased training to learn how to calculate hyperspace jumps. Alternatively it could be that the calculations are uploaded directly to the TIE hyperspace ring, by a local navigational officer or droid.
TIE pilots were trained in every possible method of space travel, they were thoroughly trained combat pilots, so why would hyperspace travel be left out?
As for the computer issue, I think the TIE fighters navigation computer would link up with another computer in the hyperdrive ring.
@@thelonious2213 that would be cool, if the TIEs local computer just connected with something that was slightly “beefier”, as to add some processing.
I think though that the Empire would consider it to be a waste of resources to train all TIE pilots to be hyperspace adept. As they are meant to be expendable, and released in swarms. I think you’re right that the elite pilots would almost certainly have had extra training to include calculating hyperspace jumps. And the Empire would only entrust mission profiles that used hyperspace rings, to said elite pilots.
@@bioboy1819 the biggest problem with the imperial hyperspace rings is that the empire has built it's navy around sttarfighter carrying. They have Gozantis, Arquitens cruisers, Quasar fire carriers, Secutor class carriers, and even their mainline ships can carry a full wing of TIEs. They also have stations positioned across the galaxy.
They already have the ability to deploy starfighters in any star system they want, and this is a reason I find more satisfying than simply wanting to make sure their pilots don't escape as to why they chose not to equip most of their starfighters with hyperdrives.
Love it. I've always felt one mistake Lucas made when establishing the lore was allowing hyperdrives to be on small ships. I think he should have made the Millennium Falcon the smallest you could go and still have a hyperdrive....unless you had something like this, which the Jedi did in Episode 2.
Well, pilot, you're going to deliver this message to the headquarters of our allies on Omycron-C. Here, use this one-way hyperdrive module. Eventually, we'll pick you up at our next visit to Omycron system - it is planned to April 2356, which is just 20 years from now. Good luck.
This would be absolutely perfect for exploring the Empire's earliest expeditions into the Unknown Regions.
your videos are the definition of Quality over Quantity
Great job on your design! Disney should use this concept someday.
So the thing that has always bugged me about the fact that the Imperial fighters 'lacked' hyperdrive is that it feels like lugging around that extra equipment should hurt the Rebel ships in someway.
From what little I know about real-world fighter design, interior volume is at a premium, and any extra mass on board hurts you in several different ways, either worsening range, reducing speed and agility, and taking up slots that could otherwise go to more or better weapons, reinforced structure or armor, or extra fuel capacity.
Every time I see "X-Wing is better because HYPERDRIVE" I can't help but think "Okay, but should the TIE fighters not have been able to use some fraction of that mass and volume for, I don't know, awesome shields, or incredibly powerful cannon, or something?"
And even if they didn't, the extra acceleration and agility should have been a huge edge in combat, especially the dogfights that seem to be most of Star Wars Fighter-on-Fighter actions.
It just feels like that is never, ever addressed, and it ought to be.
The problem is more that TIEs are made dirt cheap without much care in durability and pilot survivability. This allowed the hyperactive equipped fighters of of Rebels to be superior
Damage output, survivability, cost, pick two.
X-Wings are better because they are more expensive, and the Rebellion couldn't afford a war of attrition.
In the same way that TIEs are better because they're less expensive, and the empire couldn't afford not to wage a war of attrition.
The right place, at the right time, in the right hands, good old stick can defeat an empire just as effectively as a Death Star.
When creating narratives it's really good to intentionally set up situational advantages and disadvantages, that's where conflict is interesting. Particularly when you subvert expectations by introducing a complication that ends up being counterintuitively advantageous.
Like a scene where a heroe's carrier ship is destroyed, in a fight he is losing to a gaggle of TIE fighters, depriving his X-Wing of what little cover fire was keeping him alive.
When suddenly the expectation of imminent doom is subverted when the carrier ship intentionally self destructs taking out all of the unshielded TIEs, while letting the hero live to fight another day.
That would be a cool scene for a book, movie, RPG table and otherwise, etc.
In a WEG D6 tabletop game, we were using the Star Wars Technical Commentaries on theforce.net, and a player got a great idea to use spray foam fire retardant to overload TIE fighters to use as an improvised explosive device. Those aren't solar panels those are radiators, you mess with those and you have a bad day. Like an insulating foam combined while running their engines in maintenance mode. Enough thrust to test the systems not enough to rip it out of the cradle, builds up heat quick when the radiators aren't working correctly, the maintenance mode overrides the security protocols.
Using fire fighting foam to cause an explosion, priceless.
in regards to your first point, aren't TIE fighters much smaller than X-wings? pretty much the only part of the ship that has significant volume is the tiny cockpit. my point is that TIEs would be expected to have significantly less capabilities than a more voluminous X-wing.
in regards to your second point, there's a couple of possible explanations. it's possible that b/c TIE fighters are so light, their engines are much weaker to reduce production costs while maintaining acceptable acceleration and maneuverability (which happens to be at most on par with X-wings). if that was true, then more advanced and expensive TIE fighters might be expected to have better engines and be more maneuverable. alternatively, space flight doesn't really work in ways we would expect in the Star Wars universe, so smaller ships aren't necessarily more maneuverable.
Yeah this. The X-Wing *is* bigger, which is where all the hyperdrives and shields go, and the TIE does have powerful cannons for its size, but... the fact the Rebellion is operating with top-of-the-line do it all fighters is somewhat odd. Also that they're... such a thing? Like, shields, sure, but I feel most fighters shouldn't be equipped with hyperdrives. An Expensive carrier launched fighter should also perform better than an Expensive hyperspace fighter, limiting hyperspace fighters to very specific roles. Which, admittedly, are the kind of roles the rebels use them.
@@basedeltazero714 but a carrier needs personnel and is an additional large target. i imagine that hyperdrive-equipped small fighters are great for fast hit-and-run missions where each fighter needs to be able to quickly escape without needing to join up and land on a bulky and exposed carrier
This is *awsome* omg it looks so slick and that animation is crisp!
So amazing idea but they already have a solution to this problem with TIE’s. The gazonti cruiser could carry 4 TIE’s and carry them through hyperspace using its own hyperdrive but it’s a slower process because the TIE’s have to detach and a gazonti is waaaaayyyy more conspicuous to an insurgency you may be trying to spy on or ambush. My explanation is the empire was too lazy to fix this because “we have the gazonti cruiser that’s good enough” but still the empire should’ve done at least some field testing or something with such a convenient technology for such a serious shortcoming. Awesome vid and great intro btw
I like how you came up with it and then gave a logical reason for it's canonical redundancy. Still seems like the kind of thing Imperial engineers may have prototyped or produced a small number of but they're only useful in such specific situations that they probably all ended up gathering dust in a warehouse.
Really cool idea, dude. I loved your design.
And this is why fanlore/design will always be cooler than anyting a company can come up with, because fans actually know the lore arguably better than even most of the official writers do, and they have a passion that far exceeds a paycheck.
Standard TIEs are short range crafts so it makes sense that their primary way of getting around long distance was riding in a large carrier ship like a star destroyer.
This would be a cool idea for someone having stolen a tie and modifying it or imperial remnants needing it post ROTJ due to lower resources.
I could see this being used as part of a squadron escourting the TIE-varients that already have them when on a specialized mission profile.
I had the head cannon the TIE Scout was the go-to hyperdrive capable fighter craft for distant low-profile missions that were deemed excessive to send TIE carrying crafts.
0:16 Wait, this is single-use? I kinda don't like that, seems a little wasteful. You don't just throw away hyperdrives like that.
I think it’s sorta like how Nasa uses booster tanks to get ships to space.
It’s cheaper to build a small booster than a fully hyperspace capable ship.
Don't normally watch these but your very legit!
That intro scene actually looks better in 360p because it gives it that nice old Star Wars look
Very cool and it just fits well into the Star Wars universe.
Your Tie Hyperdrive unit is cool! Looks like something straight out of R*Type.
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I love the look on the Interceptor, great models and excellent video.
Good news, they built a huge hyperdrive ring to go look for thrown. Your dream came true.
Love the idea, but holy crap, the intro sequence was FIRE.
An absolute genius idea. Well done
Fantastic, you sir have the thought processes of a nuanced wargamer.
I wouldn't be surprised if Lucas film use this at some point in time and if they don't they're fools.
Nice concept. The animation was awesome. But i’d say that Gozanti cruisers are more cost efficient for small scale missions. The Gozanti can serve as a Hub for the pilot between missions for some needed rest and supply Ties with energy for in deep space missions where no solar energy is available or ressuply food and life support systems.
These would be cool to have in combination with older Republic style carrier ships like the Venator, which were said to be relegated to patrol duties on the far edges of Imperial space. A Venator II with a large compliment of TIEs outfitted with hyperspace rings could much easier maintain control over multiple systems at once, as multiple wings of TIEs can be dispatched in different directions at the same time without the Venator having to break it’s advantageous middle ground location in deep space, except to go and pick the fighters up after they were done. Or, simply spend some more credits to have a “round-trip” hyperspace ring variant. Fighters dispatch to nearby trouble, deal with situation, then jump back to home and get refitted with new rings.
Loved that its jettison animation featured a miniature "korolev cross" 😆
EC just stopping in to throw out early congratulations on the new Steamrunner in STO, thank you it looks amazing. The Appalachia is a day one buy for me. I'm hoping you'll do a behind the scenes here???? Please?
I like the idea of these being built by the rebels to use stolen TIEs in their fleet alongside their hyper drive ship tactics
OR as some kind of after market thing for people who bought salvage and are making their own star fighters.
So much fun! Your stuff is always so imaginative and interesting!
Omg I can't put into words how much I appreciate all the awesomeness this video holds. :D
Amazing how we went decades without any hyperdrive rings until recently.
TIE-Fighters were designed to deploy in groups for short range tactical combats. If it has to travel between planets, it might as well be carried in a Star Destroyer.
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I love the idea and the design, but for a TIE hyperdrive ring would require an almost full redesign of the TIE suite of star ships. Notably, adding life support systems, increasing the cockpit size, larger astronomical computers (sucks not having an astromech lol) and a full redesign of the solar array wings.
Not to mention the already discussed change in naval doctrine, the TIE platforms don’t lend themselves to all that great of atmospheric flight let alone surviving the difficulties of long hyperspace travel.
Still, with all that said, it’s an awesome design!
They should include this into a movie, both to demonstrate it's practical use compared with other alternatives, and during dialogue scenes that debate its effectiveness and conflict with imperial doctrine.
I can also see this being used on a trial basis, but since some ambitious officer didn't like the idea (like Tarkin), it ends up being shelved, not so much because it's not a good idea, but because of politics.
I do absolutely adore the bulkier silhouette of the four extra thrusters around the ball. Think it would work really well with a slightly better TiE MKII.
Really enjoyed and appreciated your hard work!
In my head cannon I think this would be great for Imperial Special Forces like Inferno Squad to use. Basically having them on the Raider Class Corvette for Inferno Squad to make a stealthy insertion into a system, destroy the objective, and then have the Raider link up in-system for extraction.
There's a browser game called Astro Empires, where if you take ships without hyperdrive to a planet or system too far away, to fight someone, or, simply by mistake because you forgot they didn't have hyperdrive, since your planet has a Jump Gate you can build to send them out, you can't get them, back. I always said they needed to add this feature in for things to build. Or a tug ship system to tow them back. Make it Warp 1 only, so it took a while to get to them, and then to bring them back, but, at least you could get them back without having to scrap them.
Damn, that was a really cool video
I appreciate the brain juice that went into this idea
oh, Thrawn would've used the shit out of them! Drop a bunch of drive-ring equipped TIEs in the outer ring of a system and use an Interdictor to pull them precisely where he wanted them. Maybe when Star Dust pulled his Defender budget, he could've done impressive work with these. I mean, what if the components of your Marg Sable maneuver came from hyperspace AS WELL as from around your ship?? Awesome idea as usual, EC
Neato! That was a fun thought experiment.
In Legends' Young Jedi Order series Jenna Solo installs a small self contained hyperdrive unit in a TIE stranded on Yavin since the Deathstar blew up after its pilot took one of the kids hostage. It was mounted into an existing auxiliary equipment compartment.
Ya stuck on Yavin for 15yrs or so only to escape, be tricked by a false Emperor, attack the Academy, then realize he'd been played only to get stranded on Yavin again...that guy has no luck.
Would have loved to see him eventually working at the Academy somehow, but as far as I know he was never mentioned again.
I love the video & they are a great concept! Keep up the good work 👍
Interesting, definitely would be a cool design for a in universe hyper drive.
That Hyperdrive ring for standard TIE was dope. However at time 1:09 he answers his own question. 1. Imperial Doctrine mandates no hyperdrive on standard TIE. 2. The Empire has 2 TIE variants for missions such as long range infiltration or and discreet operations. If you think about it the Empire would have its bases, outposts, and fleets strategically placed throughout the core worlds and Outter Rim and patrolling various sectors. Each Grand Moff was responsible for their sector and conducting the political and military objectives of the Empire. A disruptive element such as smugglers or Rebels were either arrested, suppressed, or run out of the sector. Being that Grand Moffs don’t interfere in matters outside of their sector, there is no advantage for a Grand Moff to move their assigned resources out of their assigned sector unless the order came from the Emperor. If you think about it the Rebel Alliance was only one issue. They had many worlds to govern, distribute resources too, provide security and some semblance of support to the indigenous citizens of the Empire. Not everyone in the Empire were slaves or Imperial Forces. There were merchants, government contractors, regular tradesmen etc… the Empire provided and regulated commerce for. That got completely off topic as to why Std TIE are not equipped w/ hyperdrive. 😂
This actually happens in the canon _Alphabet Squadron_ trilogy of novels, where, after the Battle of Endor, the 204th Imperial Fighter Wing salvages Clone Wars-era hyperdrive rings and retrofits them onto their TIE/LNs, giving the isolated and poorly-supplied unit a bit more utility.
Very nice idea and, extremly cool realization.
That's cause, as far as I am aware, hyperdrive rings were added to the prequels as a show of technology having actually evolved in the time between the prequels and the original trilogy. Since we know hyperdrive technology was advanced enough for use in fighters at the time showing us that in the republic time it wasn't is just a nice tiny detail of worldbuilding
Seeing this reminded me of an idea I had a few weeks ago, the at-at could be drastically improved with the addition of some ball turrets
I figure one on top and one on the belly would do but ideally u would want that plus one on the chin and another on the rear
Something suitable for anti personnel and aircraft ideally
We do see that the First Order in the Sequel Trilogy gave TIE fighters serious upgrades: now they can jump to hyperspace, carry missiles, can have co-pilots, and front/rear laser blasters
Awesome i love it, I will make this soon build from Lego oh my god can't wait for it, so good
If I were he Empire this technology would make me more worried about deserters. A hyperdrive ring as a one way ticket means that if a lone tie fighter were to hyperdrive away knowing that they couldn’t possibly return, that just invites those deserters who wish not to return.
I feel like they'd probably be used more for infiltration missions and special operations where it was already fairly obvious that the mission would be a one-way trip anyway. The TIE hyperdrive ring is not expendable because the pilot is expendable, it's expendable because the pilot is going to *succeed* or *fail* at their mission and still not make it back.
Really cool concept, great work!
This would be extremely handy for QRFs (Quick Reaction Forces) if a station which could not house it's own TIE Fighters, but was not important enough to use up a star destroyer by simply stationing it nearby.
After some contemplation, i do think hyperrings could be handy LOGISTICAL addon, to get new Ties with pilots ON mothership (or base), with no light carrier (nor heavy carrier) needed to be spared for that duty.
Perfect looking design and lore. Though with Imperial Tactical Doctrines I feel like it would find good use as part of a vanguard force of TIEs to soften up the enemy while the Imperial fleet mobilizes and gets into position. It would also help to rapidly respond to raids by Rebel groups, something that the Empire always struggled with.
the jettison doing the korolev cross was great
Quite imaginative and well rendered , most the pity existing canon does not support the design, specifications, and mission parameters of the TIE fighter. On a short range ship with limited life support and lack of a either a Hyperspace navigation system or an Astromech Droid jumping blindly would prove disastrous. Hyperspace capable TIEs would exist only as a personal ship ie. Vader’s or for use by elite squadrons . Designing a First Order TIE based on the original TIE Advanced X1 was a missed opportunity, but then again that entire trilogy was .
When they made the books into "legends" they removed part of this.
In the young jedis series there is a crashed TIE fighter that has a built in hyperdrive generator, not usual but it did exist without the rings.
Makes sense to me. Although every (almost every) imperial ship has a hanger or some sort of external Rack on the ship, so im not suppressed they never bothered. Although a simple disposable hyper ring like that would be something the Empire would do if they wanted hyperdrive travel on a budget.