So I just read through the new TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual, and I'm more than a little bit disappointed by the fact that the base TIE, long the TIE/ln, is now the TIE/in. No, that's not the interceptor (which is also designated TIE/in but specifically the "TIE/in Interceptor"). For a long time the "ln" stood for "line" but now it's "in" for "Imperial Navy." Well, here's another change that I'm going to just ignore.

I wouldn't take that book as anything official.

Isn't everything released since the Disney reset now official canon (Excepting FFG stuff of course)?

Yep, I pretty much ignore it as well. I was really excited for this book, but there are a few inconsistencies that stand out and disappoint me, "TIE/in" for the standard starfighter being the most obvious.

In my head canon it is still TIE/on as is Imperial starfleet vice Imperial Navy.

I really wanted to see an updated take on the old TIE/gt, TIE/rc (TIE Vanguard), TIE/fc, and TIE/sr (TIE Scout). Oh, well.

15 hours ago, HappyDaze said:

Isn't everything released since the Disney reset now official canon (Excepting FFG stuff of course)?

I actually don't think so, at least not in the way you seem to be defining it.

I'm sure that events, locations, and people are canon. But I doubt LFL/Dis gives a rats about minor technical details like the exact, never spoken on screen, technical designation of a specific make and model of TIE fighter.

The reset was about dumping the EU storyline and making room for the new films to operate, and new audiences to not have to read 1,000 (mostly awful) novels to know what's going on. The Story group was established to ensure that Luke Skywalker doesn't have to be in two places at once.

I'm pretty sure neither have anything to do with a Nubican Type-6 Hyperdrive manifold having 5 fusal riventments on the plasma convertor.

Honestly the TIE/ln vs TIE/in sounds like the kind of thing that some otaku will bring up to some panel or something, and get a response of "ummm..... there's two makes, the /ln and the /in, with the difference being minor technical details I don't want to go into here and totally didn't just make up on the spot just to get you to shut up."

If there wasn't already the TIE Interceptor, the TIE/in could be the original model of TIE before the TIE/ln that was mentioned in Legends sources like the Star Wars Sourcebook.

I wonder is they saw the L in ln and thought it was a capital i

1 minute ago, Daeglan said:

I wonder is they saw the L in ln and thought it was a capital i

My sources say yes.

7 hours ago, Daeglan said:

I wonder is they saw the L in ln and thought it was a capital i

Wait! That was a non-capital "L" all that time?

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Well... the only response to this whole discussion that I can think of is this:

And... proud of it?

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