u/Toon_Lucario

Workers:

Protocol droids: It’s honestly surprising we don’t have at least one Protocol droid in the gamers it’s seems like a pretty obvious pick

Treadwell droids: I think these guys have merit being added since they’ve been around since the beginning and have appeared quite a few times. Plus their parts could be easier to mix and match to create new ones.

PLNK Droids: Long Gonk. Nuff said.

Combat:

Droideka: Like these are probable some of the most noteworthy droids in the CIS. The only reason they’re probably not in the game yet is probably because their animations would be hard to make.

Commando droids: One that wouldn’t be difficult to implement, however, is the commando droids. Literally can just reuse Mr Bones’s crouched animations.

Magna Guards: Now, you may be wondering, “how would these work?”. The answer is Simple. They’ve used blasters before.

Explorer droids

R1: The only missing R series droid. Plus the head could be cool on other droids

C1 series droids: Another now iconic droid type. Could use the round domed ones like CH-33P

OOM Pilot: What’s this? An Explorer droid that isn’t the typical Astromech type? Yes indeed. Simply put, I just think it’d be interesting to have droids of different types in the Astromech slot. We have a bunch of variety in the other slots, so I think It’d be helpful.

Lowkey this is one of the most overglazed ships in all of Star Wars and I’m not even kidding. People tote it as something that could “save the Empire” (why you would want that, I would never know) while ignoring the fact that it’s only ever known for getting destroyed after the Empire hypes it up and it maybe kills some unnamed Rebel pilots. This thing is 2 for 2 on never reaching mass production in both continuities.

Probably because

1. It’s literally just a more expensive Interceptor.

2. It has a hyperdrive meaning chances are one would get stolen in like a month of it reaching production.

Plus it’s just fuckin ugly. Like billions of taxpayer credits and they couldn’t even make the thing look decent? At least the TIE Avenger has the decency to look pretty cool with its double interceptor wings. This thing looks like the molecular structure of a chemical you learn about in class only to forget it immediately after including on the test.

And the fact of the matter is, even if this project got off the ground and the Empire canned the superweapons for it, guess what, still wouldn’t have saved the empire. Because it would still be wasting credits on something that helps no one and as mentioned previously, the Rebellion or defector would probably steal one pretty quickly and have a counter ready afterwards. It’d be like if you gave the cops lambos after hearing people want to leave due to corruption. It doesn’t make anything less corrupt, you’re not making anything better, and people are just gonna want to steal that Lambo to resell it.

TL;DR The TIE Defender doesn’t do anything any other variant can do other than be a money sink that will be stolen or destroyed the second a prototype is released and is LITERALLY the definition of a “potential man” in starship form.

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