Star Wars: Rebels Animated
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This...is really.....REALLY bad for the Rebellion. In the original EU Tie Defender weren't a thing until around the time of Endor...and even then they were tied up dealing with a Rogue Grand admiral. To have those ships this early...could've spelled the end for all resistance. You put 12-24 of those on every Star Destroyer (total TIE complement is 72 if memory serves) and the Rebel fighters won't stand a chance. I've flown that thing in TIE Fighter....and it doesn't 'even the odds' it outclasses anything the Rebellion can field. It's faster, better armed and better shielded than any other fighter in space (at that time).
This...is really.....REALLY bad for the Rebellion. In the original EU Tie Defender weren't a thing until around the time of Endor...and even then they were tied up dealing with a Rogue Grand admiral. To have those ships this early...could've spelled the end for all resistance. You put 12-24 of those on every Star Destroyer (total TIE complement is 72 if memory serves) and the Rebel fighters won't stand a chance. I've flown that thing in TIE Fighter....and it doesn't 'even the odds' it outclasses anything the Rebellion can field. It's faster, better armed and better shielded than any other fighter in space (at that time).
They're also skipping the Tie Advance/Avenger which should be the step between what would be current designs in Rebels and this thing. Darth Vader's New Hope ship was supposed to be a prototype for them, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to skip over them right to the Defender this way. They should have been designing the Tie Avengers here instead, as cool as the Defender is, it's out of place here and at the time, the Avenger would have been seen as just as much of a threat as it is also shielded and has a hyperdrive and missiles on in it.
