Star Wars: 10 Starfighters We Never Got To See

10. TYE-Wing

What do you get the person you hate for Christmas? Well, you get them the keys to a DIE-Fighter of course! Quite frankly, this ship was a death sentence to be assigned to in battle. They were only worth using as small transport ships. They didn't even have a large cargo capacity (65 kilograms), making them effectively useless for transporting anything other than the pilot.

This is the 'affectionate' nickname for the TYE-Fighter, one of the 'uglies' that combined the cockpit of the TIE-fighter, the engines of the Y-Wing Starfighter and the offensive capabilities of neither.

This made up part of the fleet that was first seen in the comic Poe Dameron 8, led by the First Order's Terrex. They weren't equipped with shields or a hyper-drive engine, though they were armed with light lasers. They were most often found in the hands of pirates, used as distraction decoys for smuggling items out of hot areas. They were not a design that did anyone any real favours, which is most likely why they were never mass produced and entered into service in either the Imperial or Alliance fleets.

Due to their flimsy nature, they never made it past the pages of the comics. They are an oddity, something to be mocked and derided. If you pilot one, you've messed up somewhere along the way and deserve to feel bad.