History Headscratchers / TIEFighter

** They did make a couple of sequels to TIE Fighter. The simple fact is that the space simulation genre, along with the 'Mech simulation genre, is effectively dead. The space shooter genre (treating space as a 2d plane) ''isn't'' dead. So naturally, when you want to make a StarWars space game, you go to the genre that isn't dead.

** Possibly because this briefing officer is just as skilled at briefing as Stele is as being a pilot? Considering their origins from the first battle, this unnamed officer was also probably assigned to some backwater Imperial station and his daily routine involved telling rookie TIE Fighter pilots how to inspect passerby craft. Then due to the urgency of the situation with the Rebels and Mugaari attacking the Imperial Outpost he started moving up his game, informing Stele adequately of the situation and what threats awaited him. After a time it would not have escaped notice that him and Stele were an incredible asset to the Empire when kept together, the Officer doing enough background work so that he's able to inform Stele of everything he needs to know about increasingly difficult missions for him to survive and succeed, all the way to the final showdown against Zaarin.

** See the [[WMG/TIEFighter Wild Mass Guessing]] theory that this was [[JustAsPlanned]]. Anyway, the canon explanation is Palpatine was briefly incapacitated by Arden Lyn, an ancient Proto-Sith that was serving as his Hand. It's possible that Zaarin could have gotten hold of ysalamiri or a Universal Energy Cage as well.

** See the [[WMG/TIEFighter Wild Mass Guessing]] theory that this was [[Main/JustAsPlanned]]. Anyway, the canon explanation is Palpatine was briefly incapacitated by Arden Lyn, an ancient Proto-Sith that was serving as his Hand. It's possible that Zaarin could have gotten hold of ysalamiri or a Universal Energy Cage as well.

** You can also use the backwards compatibility setting to run VideoGame/XWing or {{Main/TIE Fighter}} using the latest XP updates.

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** Notable: Prior to Lucasarts going down, they were supposedly working on a sequel called "Wingman." Various development pictures/videos of it are available online. As to why it was never remade, Lucasarts went on record as saying they did not want to spend more resources on "legacy" titles (which was the reason a DayOfTheTentacle remake was shelved).

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** Who's to say they didn't try? Palpatine, being the most powerful Sith Lord ever to have lived, would be pretty tough to trounce. It's entirely possible he was allowing himself to be captured so as to be taken to Zaarin and deal with his treachery personally. When Stele disabled the shuttle, Palpatine probably decided to just slaughter everyone onboard to kill some time while he was waiting for the Mescue to arrive.

** You can also use the backwards compatibility setting to run {{Main/X-Wing}} or {{Main/TIE Fighter}} using the latest XP updates.

* Why did Harkov choose the plan with the lowest possible probability of success to try and kill off Maarek Stele? He sticks Stele in a reasonably fast, maneuverable ship (albeit one with no shields), then sends... a whopping two TIE Interceptors to kill him while he's sweeping a minefield. This is an ace pilot who has destroyed dozens of rebel starfighters, most of which are - ship for ship - objectively better than a TIE Interceptor, and once used a TIE Bomber - aka, the slowest, most vulnerable starfighter in the game - as an escort ship when no Fighters or Interceptors were available, and Harkov thinks two Interceptors are going to be enough to deal with him? Why not send him out as the leader of a squadron of twelve to make sure? More to the point, why send him out at all? Stele is in his element in space AND he has the means to contact the Empire. Instead of tossing him into a machine where he is all but unkillable, why not have some Stormtroopers murder him while he's sleeping in his quarters? Frame it as a suicide or a fight with another pilot or whatever other excuse you choose to come up with. If you truly [I]must[/I] send him into space, sabotage his ship beforehand or plant a bomb in it and blame the resulting explosion on mechanical error.

**** There is, if I remember correctly, an expansion to XWvsTF that adds a single-player campaign. Then there's X-Wing Alliance.

** See the [[WMG/TIEFighter Wild Mass Guessing]] theory that this was [[Main/JustAsPlanned]]. Anyway, the canon explanation is Palpatine was briefly incapacitated by Arden Lyn, an ancient Proto-Sith that was serving as his Hand. It's possible that Zaarin could have gotten hold of Timmy Zahn's force-suppressing lizards or a Universal Energy Cage as well.

* Why does T-4a lambda-class shuttle appear as a Rebel spaceship?

** See the [[WMG/TIEFighter Wild Mass Guessing]] theory that this was [[Main/XanatosGambit just as planned]]. Anyway, the canon explanation is Palpatine was briefly incapacitated by Arden Lyn, an ancient Proto-Sith that was serving as his Hand. It's possible that Zaarin could have gotten hold of Timmy Zahn's force-suppressing lizards or a Universal Energy Cage as well.