Art with a TIE “ugly”, a salvaged mix of a TIE Interceptor and Y-Wing components in the foreground. By John Nadeau

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Very Cool!

Weren't these featured in I, Jedi?

Or one of the Wraith Squadron books?

I vaguelly recall reading an Expanded Universe novel featuring those craft any how. Written by Michael A. Stackpole with Kieran Halcyon as a leading character.

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- Yep, "I, Jedi".
  
  It was one of my favourite EU books
  
  That feel when Disney easter-egg canonized your favorite EU character.
  
  That feel when you realize it probably means he died to Darth Emo and a sidenote goon squad in the offscreen Academy purge while Luke cried in a corner or something.
- I know of at least a few EU works that various uglies showed up. TIEs were widespread surplus that were low cost to modify after the Empire fell, and a lot of them ended up in use by criminals and planetary defense forces.
I always wanted to see a TIE Defender rebuilt by the B-Wing builders. Like, the new Republic gets the Defender plans, and builds their own version.
- Is that from Lost in Space movie from the 90s?
Is it a "Twing" or a "Xie"?
- Wookipedia calls this particular layout a “TYE-Wing” but I think that’s just putting an official sounding name on a hodgepodge ship build.

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