Star Wars, given its rich history of secondary/EU/Legends body of work has been subjected to many misconceptions, or Myth-conceptions thought the decades. One of the most contentious of years past was the '5 mile fallicy' from West End Games, makers of the first SWRPG. The source books of that game states the 'SSD' class of ships (otherwise known as the Executor class) was only 8 km or 5 miles long, most likely based on a faulty interpretation of the ESB novelisation that mentioned Darth Vader's ship was larger than the five 'ordinary' star destroyers escorting it. Dr. Curtis Saxton later rebuffed this claim and backed up the true size of the ship with canon evidence from ESB itself, showing the length to be 11 miles, or twice as long and 8 times the size per volume. It took a concerted effort on one fan's part to finally change the 'official' word, because many fans and SW 'creators' simply accept any numbers from any number of reference books without thinking or checking if these are supported by the films themselves.

There are many myths in Star Wars that persist even to this day. Sadly Dr. Saxton even perpetuates one himself in the 'Endor Holacaust' myth, forgetting the still active global/planetary shields that protect the moon following the relatively minor destruction of the shield protecting the Death Star. Certainly those shields would be more than enough to protect the moon and the native life from even the large scale debris shone following the explosion of DSII.

Still others are the many myths surrounding TIE fighters and their pilots, and the nature of 'The Academy' that Biggs attended and which Luke hoped one day to join.

I don't intend to cover all these in one post, but here's a little preview:

TIEs do have shields, and this can be demonstrated in ANH where laser blasts explode near TIEs but not on them.

TIEs lacking life support is fully debunked by many sources, the latest of which is the Rebels television series. (I have also speculated that TIE pilots plug their suits directly into the on board life support for more efficient use of power while flying, no need to pressurize the entire cockpit!)

The Academy was a quasi-governmental agency that trained civilian pilots for flying several types of ships, including civil defense force fighters for the various sector/planetary governments, commercial freighters and pilots for hire. Under the Empire the academy increasingly funneled or encouraged many recruits into Imperial service but was never officially an 'imperial' academy. There is just no way Luke would have ever considered going to a school to be a TIE fighter pilot flying for the Emperor.

Does anyone else want to bring to light any other myths that still persist?

TIEs do have shields, and this can be demonstrated in ANH where laser blasts explode near TIEs but not on them.

TIEs lacking life support is fully debunked by many sources, the latest of which is the Rebels television series. (I have also speculated that TIE pilots plug their suits directly into the on board life support for more efficient use of power while flying, no need to pressurize the entire cockpit!)

Some rather poor examples. In ANH, obi wan also chops off someone's arm with a light saber yet the stump is completely bloody and not cauterized. Likely because this was movie number one and things changed by the time Luke loses his hand in number 2.

My point being is that just because it was on the silver screen, doesn't make it current fact. It could very likely be that, a movie made in the 70's that was not using fancy CG opted to detonate the explosive close to the Tie and not on the Tie itself. Maybe during ANH, Lucas thought Tie would have had shields too but changed his mind. Originally, he wanted Ties to be purple but it was too difficult to film.

SW Rebels is an extremely bad example to try and prove Ties had life support. In the episode where they escape with it, they flew the tie for what, 5 minutes? Couldn't it be plausible that the cockpit still seals, leaving enough breathable atmo inside for its 3 occupants? The Tie would have to have a sealing cockpit so when it flies in an atmosphere, the controls don't get destroyed by all sorts of things like humidity and mildly corrosive atmospheres. In a following episode when Sabine flies her tricked out Tie (several episodes later mind you), couldn't Sabine also have installed a life support system on it so she didn't have to fly around with a personal system?

Star Wars, given its rich history of secondary/EU/Legends body of work has been subjected to many misconceptions, or Myth-conceptions thought the decades. One of the most contentious of years past was the '5 mile fallicy' from West End Games, makers of the first SWRPG. The source books of that game states the 'SSD' class of ships (otherwise known as the Executor class) was only 8 km or 5 miles long, most likely based on a faulty interpretation of the ESB novelisation that mentioned Darth Vader's ship was larger than the five 'ordinary' star destroyers escorting it. Dr. Curtis Saxton later rebuffed this claim and backed up the true size of the ship with canon evidence from ESB itself, showing the length to be 11 miles, or twice as long and 8 times the size per volume. It took a concerted effort on one fan's part to finally change the 'official' word, because many fans and SW 'creators' simply accept any numbers from any number of reference books without thinking or checking if these are supported by the films themselves.

There are many myths in Star Wars that persist even to this day. Sadly Dr. Saxton even perpetuates one himself in the 'Endor Holacaust' myth, forgetting the still active global/planetary shields that protect the moon following the relatively minor destruction of the shield protecting the Death Star. Certainly those shields would be more than enough to protect the moon and the native life from even the large scale debris shone following the explosion of DSII.

Still others are the many myths surrounding TIE fighters and their pilots, and the nature of 'The Academy' that Biggs attended and which Luke hoped one day to join.

I don't intend to cover all these in one post, but here's a little preview:

TIEs do have shields, and this can be demonstrated in ANH where laser blasts explode near TIEs but not on them.

TIEs lacking life support is fully debunked by many sources, the latest of which is the Rebels television series. (I have also speculated that TIE pilots plug their suits directly into the on board life support for more efficient use of power while flying, no need to pressurize the entire cockpit!)

The Academy was a quasi-governmental agency that trained civilian pilots for flying several types of ships, including civil defense force fighters for the various sector/planetary governments, commercial freighters and pilots for hire. Under the Empire the academy increasingly funneled or encouraged many recruits into Imperial service but was never officially an 'imperial' academy. There is just no way Luke would have ever considered going to a school to be a TIE fighter pilot flying for the Emperor.

Does anyone else want to bring to light any other myths that still persist?

Lasers aren't really lasers, they are super-heated plasma blasted. a "laser" exploding near a TIE is no proof they have shields.

For that matter, all the X-wings except Luke's and Wedge's don't have shields because they all blow up in one shot, and the same goes for the Y-wings.

The Academy was a quasi-governmental agency that trained civilian pilots for flying several types of ships, including civil defense force fighters for the various sector/planetary governments, commercial freighters and pilots for hire. Under the Empire the academy increasingly funneled or encouraged many recruits into Imperial service but was never officially an 'imperial' academy. There is just no way Luke would have ever considered going to a school to be a TIE fighter pilot flying for the Emperor.

My understanding is that the plan was to join the Academy, which would be the Imperial Academy, as that is the quickest way off Tatooine. Once they get off the planet, the find a way to escape and meet up with the Rebellion.

Tosche Station is a bar.

The Power Converters were a 4 piece all girl band playing that night who all had a reputation for both playing good music and .. umm .. well, you know.

Tosche Station is a bar.

The Power Converters were a 4 piece all girl band playing that night who all had a reputation for both playing good music and .. umm .. well, you know.

:o Luke wouldn't!!

Tosche Station is a bar.

The Power Converters were a 4 piece all girl band playing that night who all had a reputation for both playing good music and .. umm .. well, you know.

:o Luke wouldn't!!

Dude kissed his sister. Do we really know what Luke wouldn't do?

They don't call him Wormie for nothing!

Tosche Station is a bar.

The Power Converters were a 4 piece all girl band playing that night who all had a reputation for both playing good music and .. umm .. well, you know.

:o Luke wouldn't!!

Dude kissed his sister. Do we really know what Luke wouldn't do?

Tosche Station is a bar.

The Power Converters were a 4 piece all girl band playing that night who all had a reputation for both playing good music and .. umm .. well, you know.

:o Luke wouldn't!!

Dude kissed his sister. Do we really know what Luke wouldn't do?

When you're 16: any port in the storm...