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| Name: | V-38 TIE Phantom |
| Weaponary: | 4 Laser Cannons, 2 Ion Cannons, 2 Missile/Proton Torpedo Launchers
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| The TIE Phantom was the brainchild of Grand Admiral Martio Batch, after the development of the hibridium-based cloaking device. Wanting to recreate the successful stygium cloaking screen used in the Sith Infiltrator, he ordered the superlaser platform Tarkin to the planet Aeten II, whose mines, the only known source of the rare stygium crystal, had dried up long before. Batch used the Tarkin to shatter the planet, releasing thousands of the crystals to be used in Batch's new project. The TIE Phantom was a heavily modified version of a stock V38 assault fighter—leading some to refer to the Phantom TIEs by this designation—and initial prototypes were tested near Dreighton. When preliminary tests were completed, Darth Vader took control of the project and ordered the full scale production of the Phantom. The TIE Phantom was first deployed after the Rebel Alliance deployed the B-wing starfighter, and destroyed three X-wings in a demonstration. The YT-1300 light freighter Corellia Star was able to find out about the TIE Phantom project, but was captured on Dreighton trying to return to the Rebel Alliance Fleet. Two B-wings were then sent to investigate, but the Phantoms appeared and shot Kirby, the leader, down. "Rookie One", however, survived. The TIE Phantom was deployed again when an Imperial mining facility in the Arah asteroid belt was destroyed. It destroyed two out of three Rascal Squadron X-wings, but Rookie One again survived. A rack of TIE Phantoms inside Terror.The X-wing's flight recorder showed the capabilities of the TIE Phantom, and prompted Admiral Ackbar to launch an operation to destroy the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Terror, the production facility for the TIE Phantoms, under the command of Admiral Sarn. Rookie One and Ru Murleen were able to steal a TIE Phantom and destroy Terror, as well as the research plant on Imdaar Alpha. The stolen Phantom was taken back to the Rebel Fleet, but the designers had already predicted this: Each fighter had a self-destruct mechanism disabled by some Imperial code, so that should one fall in the hands of the Rebels, they wouldn't be able to replicate its technology. After the destruction of this short-lived fighter, its technology was lost forever. Following the failure of the TIE Phantom project, Batch fled into hiding, where he was later executed by his first officer. However several years after Batch was executed, and during a deep reconnaissance mission near Imdaar Alpha, a derelict escape pod was found floating through a field of debris by Imperial Directorate intelligence officers. Inside the pod they discovered more than a hundred data pads, many destroyed by a fire within the pod some years before. However enough data was recovered from a number of the data pads for ID engineers to restart the once doomed TIE Phantom project. Due to the high cost of materials and resources, only a small number is built at a time. Now nearly 30 of these highly sought fighters exist within the fleets of the Imperial Directorate, including one that the Grand Moff himself has taken possession of as his personal starfighter. |
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- Sources:
- Gorden, Greg. Imperial Sourcebook. West End Games. June 1994