The inclusion of warhead launchers in the design was considered audacious by some members of the design team. Flown by elite pilots, TIE Defenders aided in the destruction of the Rebel ships and the Empire went on to capture the Rebel base.

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Defender pilots raced against the clock to navigate the course, destroying targets when at all possible to gain bonus time. The Empire's loss at the Battle of Yavin forced it to reconsider its tactics in fighting the Rebellion. Since TIE Defenders were considered too valuable to destroy, Maarek Stele, piloting the Empire's TIE Defender, was given instructions to disable Zaarin's own TIE Defenders. Although Zaarin negotiated with them, it was the Empire who made the highest bid and sent a shuttle to rendezvous with the pirates and conduct the exchange.In 4 ABY, the Empire lured the Rebel Alliance into attacking the second Death Star battlestation in orbit of Endor, where the Imperial Navy would be waiting to spring a trap. The fighters also appear in the 2011 novel Fate of the Jedi: Ascension by Christie Golden, in which they are twice referred to as the "TIE Destroyer. Armed with proton bombs, trainees arrived in system to discover two Rebel Ton-Falk-class escort carriers loaded with starfighters, however the primary objective only dictated the necessity of capturing one carrier.

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I was intending on keeping the original engine structure but the liftarm used ( 44374) is incredibly hard to find cheap so I rebuilt the design trying to keep it simple. TIE Defenders saw action during Shadowspawn's campaign against the New Republic in 5 ABY and were used by the Republic's Rogue Squadron during a brief alliance with former Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard against Prince-Admiral Delak Krennel's Ciutric Hegemony in 9 ABY. In the end, the field tests were never extensive and this, together with the prohibitive cost, meant that even an organization as wealthy as the Imperial Navy chose not to mass-deploy such a fighter. However, Imperial forces were able to hold off the Rebels until the transfer was complete and Hashim group fled to hyperspace. A mixed squadron of TIE Defenders from the 29th Fast Attack Squadron and TIE interceptors from the 92nd Interceptor Squadron were stationed aboard the Nebulon-B frigate Mephitis while it was on assignment near Polis Massa.Having received a training certificate, Defender pilots could move onto the combat scenarios, some of which were based on historical sorties, designed to familiarize the pilot with the controls and handling of the starfighter before they entered actual combat. Testing of the original prototype indicated the need for a more powerful hyperdrive [23] and production models included a class 2, [7] ND9 hyperdrive motivator [1] modified from the version developed for the TIE Avenger. Then land the shuttle, grab Ahsoka’s lightsabers and team up with Sabine Wren to battle against Marrok! This history would later be reclassified as Star Wars Legends, though the Defender would reappear in canon in Star Wars Rebels. The Empire dismissed the theft as unimportant since the prototype lacked most of the systems planned for later models and, despite the prototypes' failure against the Rebels, the data collected during the battle proved useful to Sienar Fleet System's technicians in further developing the fighter.