I like to look at what they flew, as well. Fel used either a standard TIE Fighter or TIE Interceptor. By the ime of Endor, he had built up an illustrious career in fighters that most pilots hoped to just survive 1 year in. Tycho Celchu is good, too, but he was taught by Fel, as was Derek "Hobbie" Klivian. In fact, only Wedge was seen as Fel's rival as the greatest pilot in the galaxy, after Vader's death.
Originally posted by CaptainRexfan
it's funny how the greatest pilots are from the rebellion, and there are not many known imperial pilots
Soontir Fel and Marek Stele come to mind. Also, some of those great Rebel pilots defected from the Empire: Tycho Celchu, Biggs Darklighter, Derek Klivian, to name a few.
Originally posted by Kalen Sykes
Soontir Fel and Marek Stele come to mind. Also, some of those great Rebel pilots defected from the Empire: Tycho Celchu, Biggs Darklighter, Derek Klivian, to name a few.
No shields meant no learning from their mistakes in the empire. No way to get better when they were always just dead.
Originally posted by truejedi
No shields meant no learning from their mistakes in the empire. No way to get better when they were always just dead.
It also meant a higher learning curve. You're more susceptible to mistakes, with shields catching a few stray shots. TIE pilots didn't have that luxury. No shields meant that everything had to be perfect. No need to learn from your mistakes, if you didn't make any.
Originally posted by CaptainRexfan
it's funny how the greatest pilots are from the rebellion, and there are not many known imperial pilots
Originally posted by Kalen Sykes
Soontir Fel and Marek Stele come to mind. Also, some of those great Rebel pilots defected from the Empire: Tycho Celchu, Biggs Darklighter, Derek Klivian, to name a few.
Well, we focus on them less. There's no 'TIE fighter' book series like there is an X-wing one, after all.
The ones I know of note are Vader (of course), Soontir Fel and Maarek Stele (Of the TIE Fighter games, force sensitive) as Kalen mentioned, and Gunn Yage from Legacy.
Originally posted by truejedi
No shields meant no learning from their mistakes in the empire. No way to get better when they were always just dead.
Mind you, the learning curve wasn't *that* different- in the movies, one burst would regularly kill a shielded ship and TIEs were giving almost as good as they got at Endor. Shields mostly helped against glancing hits.