Corruption or Efficiency? The Story of Tie Fighter Program

When you have a monopoly on fighter production there's gonna be some corruption

The Grand Moff Tarkin was rumored to have had substantial investments in the Kuat Drive Yards. A more detailed investigation into his investments could answer some questions

WWII in space again. Before watching the vid: It could be both. The BF-109 kept on being made because the factories that made it kept on getting better and better at it. So switching to a different fighter which didn't have the inherent limitations of the BF-109 (as big an engine in as small a plane as practical) would have meant falling behind in the short term. That's the legit efficiency part. The corruption would have involved trying to keep profit margins as high as possible by advocating for a doctrine demanding many small, cheap fighters.

GT from the bottom of my heart don’t stop making these kinds of videos. This is the kind of unique and different Star Wars content I look for these days. You aren’t just milking the Acolyte still like some are but you enjoy being different with your kind of content. We need more of it! Never thought in the year 2024 I see a video about starship economics.

I’ll invest in Sienar not because of its TIE fighter per se but because it also has shuttles and transports used by the military and civilians alike. Also like Incom and Koensayr they can maintain relevance just by reselling parts from the Core to the Outer Rim

I like how your video are often worded in a way that can reflect the real world like the problems with unchecked political power and governing systems based on camaraderie instead of merits.

@GenerationTech With all that economic videos on Star Wars lore will we ever hear an answer to my personally biggest question on Star Wars corps: what the heck Kuat produced since Ruusan reformation and for the next thousand years?! They are same, if not bigger, sized as Corellia, and specialized in military production. Yet all the peace time they didn't even produced Dreadnaught-class, it was Rendili - build...

Vibration would push mass not the entire body . The body would Shaffer or melt before it moves . But it would make it easier on Conventional rockets.

Alan Rules!!!!

It's terribly corrupt

Would you say that the twin ion engine was the best small ship propulsion system in Star Wars? I wonder what kind of beastly ship could be built around that system, considering its strengths. Not to mention how compact it is. I know the Tie Defender program aimed at doing this, but I feel like it was taking the wrong approach. Trying too hard to stick to the Tie line's build philosophies. I could see a small ship mounting several small engines around the ship to make it pull off some unnatural manoeuvres, such as circle strafing enemy ships and flying backwards without any real loss in manoeuvrability. Such agility would greatly improve the effectiveness of each ship. Allowing them to easily throw off any target leading skills or systems, while simultaneously improving the ship's ability to stay zeroed in on the target. Of course, such a ship would also require a solid G-force compensator for the pilot. That, or have it piloted by a droid brain or through remote control.

A reliable line of fighters, A marvel of engineering, or one of the most grotesque examples of Imperial Cronyism and corruption? I'm thinking all of the above. The hell of it is, sometimes, a company or individual that is rotten to its core, way beyond saving... can still have a good, if very niche, product to sell you.

*screeching ion engine sound*

Generation Tech is the best!

Listening to this is like listening to the actual story of a real company. It's so realistic

I 🧡💛 Generation Tech

I feel like A New Hope depicted the TIE fighters and their pilots to be outstanding and the lack of shields didn't seem to matter so much since they pretty much got one-shot-kills against the Alliance fighter bombers, regardless of of the hits were generally tail-chase and the Rebels switched their deflectors "double front." The pro and con rationalizing seems more of a sensible ret-con to make the X Wing in particular live up to the hype of it being so cool looking. By Return of the Jedi the Empire seemed more bumbling and weak, and while the TIE fighter and interceptor weren't depicted as garbage, they seemed to have a bit more of a cannon fodder for the plot's good guys role. In the old MS DOS TIE Fighter Lucas Arts game, the Tie fighter had incredible performance compared to the X Wing but it was very fragile unless you fiddled with game options to make yourself invincible. The TIE Interceptor was in my opinion way overpowered against the X Wing performance wise, but again weak armor. But then the TIE Advanced and Defender were just ridiculously superior vehicles. One fun thing to do in the game is that in some missions, you can load up your Defender with space bombs or protons or concussions and take out your own corvette mothership, then an ISD hyperspaces in and the narrator says "destroying your ship was not wise." Then the computer sends wave after wave of Tie Bombers (for some reason) to attack you, and it's fun shooting down your own ships 😂

Check out or video about Koensayr Manufacturing as well >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe5in5Y_nA

Thanks Alan👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

For the Empire!!!