ISD's vs VSDs vs Mon Cals

[Trejiuvanat]

The original TIE and Maul's Infiltrator were pretty cool as well.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

The Sith Infiltraitor was cool looking, but we really don't know what it's capabilities are. We don't even know if it had shields. It can't have been too good in any case, because it dissapeared in the later movies (unless GL plans on replacing Vader's x1 with the infiltraitor)

[BadSamaritan]

GL cant replace Vaders x1 with an infiltraitor. the Infiltraitor was a much larger vessel that any TIE fighter.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

But that doesn't mean he can't replace the x1 with it. If he's going to be changing the Battle of Yavin around and adding more CG fighters, anything is possible.

 

I suggest we let this topic rest for a while. I'd value the input of Fishy, Darkie, Mad..ie and others who aren't here right now. Oh, and Trejie too.

[ADarkJedi44]

The Sith infiltrator was pretty cool, but I don't think it was designed with space combat in mind. It's strength was stealth.

Shut it down? Well...ok

[BadSamaritan]

Hey, if they want to be losers and not be on the site 24/7, thats fine by me.

 

Us 1337 players though, we can continue this conversation all night long.

[AdmiralFishface]

Hey!

[ADarkJedi44]

Umm...Fishface...what was that supposed to mean? Comments like that might get threads locked?

[AdmiralFishface]

Hey, if they want to be losers and not be on the site 24/7, thats fine by me.

 

I was responding to that.

Sorry, should have made that more clear.

Aww, this is not my time for humour. I should just leave it, right?

 

...losers...hmph.

 

Now where were we?

[Mad78]

Those who have played SW Starfighter may know that you can unlock the Infiltrator. It is the most powerful ship in the game.

[ADarkJedi44]

Yeah, but that's a game. I really don't see the Sith infiltrator going at it in the trenches....

[Lord_La_forge]

The Sith Infiltraitor was cool looking, but we really don't know what it's capabilities are. We don't even know if it had shields. It can't have been too good in any case, because it dissapeared in the later movies (unless GL plans on replacing Vader's x1 with the infiltraitor)

 

Good point. We are writing 2004, and GL has to produce some cool looking, HUGE, or strong ships to impress the crowd. But if we think about the timeline, it could be, that the infiltrator is not much better as a simple TIE Fighter. SW timeline is a bit hard to manage however. Just think about Kotor. I think it was 20-30 thousand years before ANH. Still, there were TIE like ships with laser cannons... and a ship looking like the Mill. Falcon... Perhaps we just leave Kotor out of sight

[Trejiuvanat]

The Infiltrator is much bigger than a TIE, you could label it as a shuttle or light transport rather than a starfighter.

As for that game, which I haven't play, well... we know how imaginative game designer can be.

[ADarkJedi44]

I think KOTOR was 4 set four thousand years before ANH. Games can't really be depended on for realisim. The sith infiltrator is definatly closer to a transport than a fighterr

[BadSamaritan]

I always thought of the Infilitrator as more of a shuttle than anything else.

[Mad78]

A shuttle with strong cloaking capacities.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

Stealth, no cloaking. Except for the Thrawn trillogy, ther eare no cloaking devices in Star Wars. I think it is more of a glorified shuttle, since it too big to be a fighter.

[Trejiuvanat]

In the TPM novelizations it states that is possess a cloaking device. And there are other vehicles with cloaking devices, remember that comment made by Captain Needa during ESB?

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

Yes, but remember that the Empire did have access to cloaking devices because of what was stored in Mount Tantis. However, you would have to be privy to that information (like the captain of a Star Destroyer in Death Squadron) to know about it. What needa says directly contradicts anything in the TPM novels. "No ship that size could have a cloaking device". You could take it that no ship that big could have a cloaking device, butsince the Falcon isn't that big, you must assume he meant no ship that small could have a cloading device.

[Trejiuvanat]

Or the contrary, cloaking devices could be meant to be for starfighters, and a ship of that size could be too big for a cloakind device, only Lucas know. (Let's ignore TIE Fighter, because we all know how LEC invents stuff to break continuity).

[Mad78]

In ESB he must be referring top a stealth device which makes ships disappear frm radar.

[Grand_Admiral_Thrawn]

That is possible, but he does say cloaking device. WHo knows, there are lots of contradictory statements in the movies that make it very difficult for fans to figure out what the hell is the truth.

[Mad78]

BTW If the empire didn't have cloaking shields how did they build those strange ties that you see in rebel assault 2?

[Trejiuvanat]

Games shouldn't be considered canon. There were also some cloaking shields in TIE Fighter, the modified V-38s from Reb Assault II.

[Mad78]

Maybe the Imperials kept just a few shields for experimentation.