Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release) (Spoilers)
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joshvanrad
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Please don't say hurtful things like that.
Axlotl
Master Member
I thought TIE stood for "Twin Ion Engine"?
Reelo
Sr Member
I've read "Weapon of a Jedi", almost done with "Smuggler's Run" and have "Moving Target" waiting for me to start reading. And I must say, while short and "young adult" oriented, they were fun reads so far. Loving the small hints at things to come (Sarco Plank, PZ 4CO, etc...)
Riceball
Master Member
That's what I thought too, maybe it's a retcon.
It isn't so much a retcon as making stuff up to fit the shooting stage verbal shorthand they used at ILM. I'm not really sure when or who first gave that meaning to "the tie fighter", butyes it became an in-universe acronym after the fact.
--Jonah
--Jonah
Jaitea
Master Member
RIGHT!!!
This is supposed to be the EP7 Spoiler thread,...not the (un)interesting fact thread on naming star wars craft,.....(I personally like the rough nick-name way the craft are named in Star Wars by the ILM guys.....as opposed to the nerdy way it has evolved over the years,.....Snowspeeder...becomes a T-47,.....etc, etc)
.....BUT.....heres a supposedly canon wee story for all you B-Wing lovers out there:
http://www.starwars.com/news/blade-squadron-part-one
J
This is supposed to be the EP7 Spoiler thread,...not the (un)interesting fact thread on naming star wars craft,.....(I personally like the rough nick-name way the craft are named in Star Wars by the ILM guys.....as opposed to the nerdy way it has evolved over the years,.....Snowspeeder...becomes a T-47,.....etc, etc)
.....BUT.....heres a supposedly canon wee story for all you B-Wing lovers out there:
http://www.starwars.com/news/blade-squadron-part-one
J
T-47 was used in the movie though. The 2-1B medical droid that is taking care of Luke says "Sir, it will take quite a while to evacuate the T-47s."
seelsa73
Sr Member
God, no. Everything that bashers say about them has been said a million times in a million different ways. I've had more than enough of the prequel bashing for a lifetime. But thanks for asking first.
Jaitea
Master Member
......Yes,....it was mentioned,....but was a T-47 a Snowspeeder?,.....back then & up until the mid 90's there was no mention in any books etc of a connection,.....a role playing game described Snowspeeders as T-47's,....(a role playing game that made assumptions & got a few things wrong,as far as I remember someone saying)
T-47/Snowspeeder is now canon,...unfortunately,....it is also worth noting that even the pretty recent Making of book by Rinzler, there is no mention of T-47,....it's just Speeders or Snowspeeders
.....but that conversation between Luke & 2-1b....why would a medical droid be concerned with Snowspeeders?
MEDICAL DROID
Sir, it will take quite a while to evacuate the T-forty-sevens.
LUKE
Well, forget the heavy equipment. There's plenty of time to get the smaller modules on the transports.
MEDICAL DROID
Take care, sir.
LUKE
Thanks.
J
Yeah, I'm one of those annoyed by the T-47 = Snowspeeder link that West End Games made. There was nothing in that exchange that even remotely hinted at it. I figured, at the time and now, that it referred to construction equipment used to carve out the base -- possibly quasi-sentient construction droids, hence 2-1B's concern. That tends to always be the sort of thing we refer to when we say "heavy equipment"...
--Jonah
--Jonah
Jaitea
Master Member
Yep,...its funny when you see the films & they talk of places, beings, experiences & craft that you don't know anything about,....you imagine and fill in,...like "That little manoeuvre at the Battle of Taanab".....or "Spice mines of Kessle".....or when Luke says ever since the XP-38 came out,...you imagine a newer & improved Landspeeder than his own.....
T-47 = Snowspeeder
Doesn't work
J
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