TIE Experimental Project image - Star Wars Rise of Hope mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Star Wars Rise of Hope is a mod that will be based on the early Empire and its fall against the Rebel Alliance and its following sucessor the New Republic.
The TIE Experimental Project was a secret Imperial research project to develop innovative new remote-piloted starfighters based upon TIE technology. Sponsored by Grand Admiral Demetrius Zaarin, the project was disrupted and ended by the Rebel Alliance before it could reach fruition.
The TIE "Bizarro" M1 consisted of a single standard TIE/LN starfighter wing panel with two wing braces connected to a pair of standard TIE series cockpit pods. The port pod held the control systems, and the starboard pod held a turbolaser much heavier than the laser cannons equipped on any previous TIE.
The TIE "BigGun" M2 was essentially a standard TIE/LN starfighter but with a pair of turbolaser turrets mounted on the outer wing hubs.
The TIE "Warhead" M3 was essentially a standard TIE/IN interceptor but with a pair of warhead launchers mounted on the outer wing hubs.
The TIE "Bomb" M4 was designed as a cruise missile for destroying capital ships and space stations. With wing panels taken directly from the TIE/sa bomber and a similar central pod and wing struts, the TIE M4 was loaded with enough explosives to detonate with five times the explosive force of a kamikaze TIE/LN starfighter.
The TIE "Booster" M5 was essentially a standard TIE/LN starfighter, but with a large booster engine attached to the aft of the fighter.
I still dont know what I´ll do with them, maybe I´ll free release them too, but later on.
Credits:
Original TIE Interceptor and Fighter and engines particles: Yuuzhan Vong at War team.
Original TIE Bomber: DICE BF and Jedi_Clone_X2.
All edits by Nkorn.
From all of them, the one I more like is the "Booster" ;)
And the one that definitly will have to be revised will be the "BigGun".
i like the big gun or warhead best. though Bizarro is cool. those could potentially, with extreme care, be updated to piloted models
What do you mean by piloted models? Do you mean attach a pilot on the model that can be seen? No, I wont do that as that would put to much stress on the game, besides those models are now old ;)
haha :D
Amazing :3
Love the models. Epically the M3
Ya'know you could give the Empire Zaarin as a hero and he could have the ability to construct special Escort Carriers with their regular fighter compliments swapped out for these guys.
that would be a very interesting idea. maybe give him a Arc Hammer 2.0 with all the special ties instead of dark troopers?
Zaarin already has the Glory, no need to make up a ship that doesn't exist.
Ah, the Empire truly had some very odd TIEs, but they ultimately did create some very impressive ones.
these should be added to the Zaarin Faction, even if their only spawned units. maybe a dedicated factory ship to produce them, or a type of purchasable carrier to release them?