Yes , you ’re seeing that correctly . That is the cockpit pod of a TIE Fighter with some 10 - Wing foils strapped around it . I do n’t know whether to cogitate that it ’s rad or be personally hurt at my beloved X - wing being used in such a Department of State . Probably a bit of both .
This delightful bit of starship mashup - ery comes from today ’s Poe Dameron # 11 , by Charles Soule , Philo Noto , and Joe Caramagna . Specifically , it ’s the preview of payoff 12 , which will see Poe and Threepio clangoring landed on a planet and on the trial from the pirate power led by Poe ’s go back enemy in the comic serial , First Order Agent ( and , it move around out , pirate lord ) Terex — whose force catch up with Poe in outer space in today ’s issue and end up overwhelming the resistor pilot , leading to the crash landing .
There ’s some really weird amalgams in that fleet shot above , but the trailer itself gives us our good look at that TIE / X - Wing dental amalgam — and hell , even an AT - ST cockpit with fender slapped on either side :
Really , it have sense for a fleet of pirate ships . In the run up to The Force Awakens , there ’s tons of ship parts and scrap around from the crepuscule of the Empire and the New Republic ’s acclivity to prominence . Why would n’t contrabandist and literary pirate repurpose those into young shipworthy vessel ? It might look hilarious to us , but it make a good deal of common sense in - universe .
And , perhaps unsurprisingly , it ’s not a construct that ’s exclusively new to the rebooted canon . fan of the honest-to-god EU novels , especially theexcellent ten - Wing series , might retrieve the construct of “ ugli fruit , ” starfighters that were mashups of different parts to form raw , horrifically weird looking ( yet functional ) ships . Here , for deterrent example , is a Z’ceptor , part TIE Interceptor , part Z-95 Headhunter , from the pages of Dark Horse ’s go - Wing : Rogue Squadron Handbook :
I guess that ’s another one to summate to theever - originate listof sure-enough EU elements twist their way into the unexampled variant of Star Wars canyon .
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