Latest episode of Starwars Rebels "an Inside man" gave us a nice surprise: The entrance of the Tie Defender in the Cannon ! Till now it was only used in video games (Tie-Fighter, Commander and Battlefront)
As you can see on the picture bellow Hera and the crew just discovered the plan of the Empire to produce the new Tie that is equipped with Shields. (and Hyperdrive !). This Tie will be a great threat for the rebels. We learn also that it is a wish from Grand Admiral Thrawn and it makes sense because it is clear that his war tactics are requiring equipment less "expandable" (like tie and his pilot) and more accurate in order to defeat rebels starfighters.
That is really great that the Star Wars Rebels shows focuses a lot on introducing new space ships in a way that we can see both Rebels and Imperials develop their fleet.
For the rebels we have been step by step introduced with A-wings, B-wings (proto), Y-wings but not yet with X-wings. X wings development could actually be pushed by the existence of these high performances Ties like the Defender.
For the imperials we saw first standard Tie fighter and Bombers, recently the Interceptors showed up at the academy and now we got first look on the Defender project.
That brings an additional dimension to the serie to build the "tech" bridge to the Episode 4.
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