Way back when, I used to be a speechwriter. One of the things we'd do to amuse ourselves was come up with random words and try to make them fit into the speech. Bonus points if the word actually made it out of the politician's mouth.

So: the K-Wing. This was clearly the work of a pair of bored designers who started flipping through the alphabet in search of the hardest letter to turn into a Star Wars fighter.

"How about the Q-Wing?"

"Naw, too easy. It's basically the Falcon."

"Hmm. The F-Wing?"

"Tried that one a year ago. Lucas doesn't like the associations with the letter 'F'"

"Oh man! Ok. What about the 7-Wing?!"

"Dude, no! Are you crazy?! Letters only"

"Huh. Ok. Oh! I know. The K-Wing. It's asymmetric, has no association with naughty English words, and if we can pull it off, we'll be gods among humans."

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*turn to each other and grin*

"GENIUS"

And then they made it. And someone at FFG was able to turn it into a plastic toy. And _that_ makes this a wonderful ship. It's the ship of bored designers looking for a challenge. It's the ship of ordnance fixes. It's the ship of destiny.

It's the ship of trolls. All hail.

I will point out that even in its uglyness, at least it still looks like a starship.

And there are much much more ugly 'things' floating out there.

Nah, there are much harder letters to turn into wings. J. N. P. R. S. Z. Are all more problematic.

I will point out that even in its uglyness, at least it still looks like a starship.

And there are much much more ugly 'things' floating out there.

Caugh caugh starviper...

I'm definitely calling my K-wing "the ship of destiny"

Maybe I'll even paint it along the hull

Nah, there are much harder letters to turn into wings. J. N. P. R. S. Z. Are all more problematic.

made easier by either aligning two of the same letter symmetrically, or taking two and and rotating one 180 degrees before placing it on top of the other one

or through cheating (B-wing)