Episode III: Ship Speculation

I am incredibly excited for this aspect because this is where we will see the line drawn between Rebel and Empire.

We of course know that many ships in the Trade Fed. and Republic highly resemble those of the Empire in the OT. Which ones will become the Rebels, though?

I'm guessing that they'll take spare parts from various ships and stick 'em together! What do you all think?

 

When you take off the front wing sections of the Jedi starfighter (they do do that) you have a very narrow front, and the back wing sections open up into an X shape... The starfighter in this view looks amazingly similar to an Xwing. (X wings and a narrow pointed front)

 

I'm pretty skeptical that we will actually be seeing THE rebelion in Episode III. But I do think we might see more ships that will resemble X-Wings and Y-wings being used by the new Empire.

What gets me is the hexigonal wing of the original TIE fighter. We have already scene a president for the TIE in Maul's Infiltrator and droid fighters, but it in both cases they resemble the 'bent' wing design which as we all know came after the hexigonal design. So I think we should be seeing a ship that has a feature that strongly resembles this hexongal wing design. I suspect it will come from the Geonotians and thus flown by the confederacy.

 

>>When you take off the front wing sections of the Jedi starfighter (they do do that)<<

Where did you get that from? There's nothing from the movie that suggests this and nothing in the databank of the official site. It aprears to be just a cool feature of the toy. I sure hope that if we see them in Episode III we do so them in an "attack position" because right now, I think they are as bland to look at a those stupid Naboo Turds of Chome.

 

Actually the Jedi star fighter is based on the shape of the Empire's Star Destroyers.

In addition, the Starfighter *toy* detaches its wings to look a bit like a TIE fighter (which is really cool). Of course, we don't see that aspect in the movie :-(

I'd say the Jedi ships become the Empire's ships, as you can see the Republic transports look like mini star destroyers.

 

i was udner the impression that it's not one side that becomes the empire and one side becomes the rebellion, but everything becomes the empire, and the rebels just surface out of something else and scrape together what they can.

 

I'd probably crap my pants if I saw Palpatine give Anakin DV's TIE figheter (á lá ANH) as a present.

 

Well, the Empire nicked the plans for the Death Star from the Seperatists - so maybe we'll see the Speratists using TIE technology in EpIII, only for the Republic to use similar designs in their ships?

Doesn't really explain where the X and Y wings come from though, unless they're from a new planet in EpIII?

 

After a little messing about, I came up with this:

[image=http://www.kaashamau.co.uk/random/epiii_tiefighter.jpg]

Anybody have any thoughts on where the X and Y wings originate?

 

[image=http://www.kaashamau.co.uk/random/epiii_xwing.jpg]
After making this, I really hope that GL does something better...

 

The Naboo cruisers, and the whole Naboo craftsmanship looks entirely different from anything in the OT.

 

No, this guy has caught some similarities.

 

Where are those pics coming from? The first is obviously a close-up of the gunships from the Geonosis battle... the second I don't recognize.

--Mr. P

 

It's a mix-matched Naboo fighter made to look like an X-Wing.

 

Well, if we're willing to consider EU material like The Essential Guide to Vehicles (sp?), this time period should show Dreadnaughts and Victory-class Star Destroyers. Showing these vessels would be a nice touch.

 

The x-wing thing was made from this picture:
[image=http://www.theforce.net/multimedia/archive/Images/Episode_1/Starships/Naboo_N-1_Starfighter/n1-03.jpg]
And the TIE was from the Geo battle.

Don't victory class have all the antennas and aerials? Maybe that idea got mixed in with the droid control ship?

EDIT:
[image=http://www.kaashamau.co.uk/random/victory_class.jpg]
http://www.theforce.net/multimedia/archive/Images/Episode_1/Starships/Trade_Federation_Droid_Control_Ship/dcshi-06.jpg

 

I hate EU, but I wouldn't mind seeing some Z-95 Headhunters.

 

Yeah, the million dollar question is where the rebel ships are comming from? I tend to think we will see evidence of TIE technology from the Sepratists as menitoned before, but I also think that we will see precursors to the Y-wings and maybe X-Wings from the Republic going into battle with them. However, these precursors may not be fighters, but capitol ships

 

"I hate EU, but I wouldn't mind seeing some Z-95 Headhunters."

I'm w/ you, minus the anti-EU. But would 8-year-old boys recognise it?

"Oh look Mommy! It's...


a...

half...

of...

an...

X-wing? ? ? ? ? ?

 

since the naboo starship is supposed to be like the millenium falcon in the PT then what ship will we see in episode 3. will it be the royal starship (TPM), the naboo yacth (AOTC) or a new ship?

 

Naboo starship....Millenium Falcon?

Explain to me, again, how a ship from Naboo is supposed to resemble one from Corellia...

 

I think he meant in terms of story, it seemd to be the good guys ship.

 

I hope we see something bigger and better than the republic gunship

or more chrominess

 

The Naboo Starship is the equivalent of the Falcon in the PT. It's the big people-carrier, basically.