Just finished the add-on campaign for Battlefront 2. At one point you are running down one of the slavers who is... "recruiting" children for the First Order Stormtrooper program. While the battle was interesting, it of course got me thinking that it may be a way to introduce some additional ships to X-wing. The slaver in question could either be considered Scum or First Order. But his squadron is made up of ARC-170s and V-wings presumably salvaged from the clone wars, but also likely used as payment from the First Order to help finance his abductions. Modern TIEs are seen as superior to that 40 year old tech, but it would make for nice method of payment for a rebuilding First Order. Which of course implies that they still have a bunch of those ships sitting around somewhere they have access too. Considering the clones ultimately became the Empire and then the First Order, it would make the most sense that these ship be Imperial/First Order, despite them being the "good guy" ships during the prequel trilogy.

The final fight is against the slaver himself in a "heavily modified" Naboo N-1 (it has a bomb slot, which he uses frequently)

It also introduces what could be another scum huge ship. I don't know the lore well enough to have recognized it, but it definitely wasn't a C-ROC. It was exactly the size that would fit nicely in an epic game though.

Finally, it had an interesting mechanic, where you could disarm dropped bombs with an EMP device. I know X-wing already has an EMP, but how great would that be as an upgrade? "ACTION: remove any bomb tokens at range 1 without triggering their effect." It could really help reign in the bomb fest the game has become recently. Alternatively, again using it as it is seen in the game, some sort of ion pulse device which removes the action all ships in the area. "Action: apply 1 stress to every other ship at range 1. Ships effected by this may not drop bombs when they reveal their dial"

I don't think many ships should be shared between factions, and if anyone the rebels have substantially more claim to get a N1.

Also, let's be real. They used an N1, because they didn't wanna put in the extra effort into making a new model for something more appropriate. At this point the N1 is at least a 60 year old design, and not a very good one at that. It isn't a space superiority fighter, it is a fancy looking ship for the royal guard of Naboo. It isn't the most appropriate ship as a personal fighter for a slaver.

36 minutes ago, RufusDaMan said:

I don't think many ships should be shared between factions, and if anyone the rebels have substantially more claim to get a N1.

Also, let's be real. They used an N1, because they didn't wanna put in the extra effort into making a new model for something more appropriate. At this point the N1 is at least a 60 year old design, and not a very good one at that. It isn't a space superiority fighter, it is a fancy looking ship for the royal guard of Naboo. It isn't the most appropriate ship as a personal fighter for a slaver.

You know what it is though? A **** of a way to show off your money and connections.

Oh, I agree. But for some reason it is one of the most requested ship to be put in the game it seems. I never really liked the look of it. Too sleek, it doesn't seem to fit in the Star Wars universe IMO. FFG has said they have no intention of visiting the prequel movies. The release of the ARC-170 as a rebel retro fit means that they are willing to use the ships. Putting clone and droid pilots is a big problem because it put 2 new factions, which frankly are hard to ally with the current ones. Droids are the 'bad guys' along with the Empire and First Order, while close are the 'good guys' but the close become the Empire, so do either really belong to the Rebels, or the Imperials? It is far too muddied.

But taking them as salvage ships, changes that. I could see them using a V-wing scum ship. Especially since they are really scraping for small base scum.