Posted: 2004-08-24 06:39am
The fighter looks awesome. It reminds me of the Coyote from Starlancer.
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If you bothered to follow the spoiler-talk, you would know by now that the new Jedi fighters have Twin Ion Engines.Also, shouldn't latter-day Republic fighters look more like TIEs anyway?
Stark wrote:I'm also glad to see original designs. This ship looks a little heavy to be a 'fighter', tho, since it's never going to be in the same league as the D-7... I agree with the WW2 references, even tho all the planes like that sucked in WW2
I believe EU material has said that it was called Republic Sienar Systems, or something similiar.Vympel wrote:Galvatron wrote:Frankly, I don't see why we can't just have X-wings in the prequels. The design could conceivably be centuries old. Yes, that means ignoring the EU.![]()
Then it is probably obsolete in the era of ROTS.Lord Revan wrote:Z-95 predates TPM and thats canon.
It was still widely used up until the last few years of the Rebellion.phongn wrote:Then it is probably obsolete in the era of ROTS.Lord Revan wrote:Z-95 predates TPM and thats canon.
Of course, some of the final products were a step down from the concept art. Like the SPHA-T, which had treads in the concept art and then they changed it to those horrible stupid squatty legs, to keep things consistant with them putting legs on just about everything else the Old Republic/Empire uses on the ground.Vympel wrote:If anyone's seen the Art of Attack of the Clones (I've flipped through it, didn't purchase, way too pricey) you can see that demonstrated by the LAAT ("Republic Gunship") designs- the concept art never does the final model justice.
No, EGTV&V explicitly states VSD I was Clone Wars era; VSD IIs were did not make the end of the Clone Wars by a number of months.phongn wrote:Those probably are contemporaries of the VSD, which postdate the Clone Wars.Chris OFarrell wrote:I hate it. What was wrong with the Z-95 and Y-Wing?
LOL I tried to think of planes like that, but only remembered the other ones. Yes, the Il rules. The Beufort(sp) does not.Vympel wrote:Stark wrote:I agree with the WW2 references, even tho all the planes like that sucked in WW2
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Il-2 "Strumovik". Nuff said.
Plus it doesn't sound like it was ever the top fighter of the pack. It seems like it's meant to be a commercial fighter rather than a top of the line military fighter.Vympel wrote:Z-95: because it's an EU creation and noone at ILM or Lucas gives a crap about itChris OFarrell wrote:I hate it. What was wrong with the Z-95 and Y-Wing?
To be fair the Beaufort was a torp bomber. I think contemparies of this craft would be the IL-2, the Me-110, the P-38, the De Havilland Mosquito, and the Beaufighter, maybe also the Henschel 129 and the Japanese Dinah.Stark wrote:LOL I tried to think of planes like that, but only remembered the other ones. Yes, the Il rules. The Beufort(sp) does not.
Technically the Z-95 is now Canon as it's mentioned by Qui-Gon in the TPM novelisation.Vympel wrote:Z-95: because it's an EU creation and noone at ILM or Lucas gives a crap about itChris OFarrell wrote:I hate it. What was wrong with the Z-95 and Y-Wing?
In my version of novelisation (the finnish translation), it mentioned by the old pilot Anakin talked with in Mos Espa. I don't remember Qui-Gon ever mentioning it, but otherwise your point is correct.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Technically the Z-95 is now Canon as it's mentioned by Qui-Gon in the TPM novelisation.Vympel wrote:Z-95: because it's an EU creation and noone at ILM or Lucas gives a crap about itChris OFarrell wrote:I hate it. What was wrong with the Z-95 and Y-Wing?
for the finnish softcover version of the TPM novelisationSpanky The Dolphin wrote:Perhaps. I might be misremembering what I've read about it, as I've never read the book itself. But yeah, either way, it's still mentioned in there...
that was the only time I can remember Z-95 being mentioned in TPM.The Old Pilot wrote:"Jos saisin päätää lentäisin aina Z-95 Headhunterilla"
(translation(paraphrasing) "If I could diside, I would allways fly with the Z-95 Headhunter")
Actually, I was thinking that it looked German. Especially the canopy and the two engines. Let's hope the separatists don't build one with four engines...President Sharky wrote:I really like it too. The 3-man crew and rear gun evokes images of WWII flying fortresses. Perhaps this is the Republic's fighter-bomber?