X-Wings

I'm doing a scene in one of my stories where i describe an X-wing through the eyes of someone who had never seen it before...and who had only seen Imperial type ships- you know, TIEs, etc.


can you guys give me some help with it? pictures are great too!

 

Hmm, if you want pics, there are some X-wings on the Lit banner.

 

[image=www.digital-digest.com/x-wing.jpg]


[image=www.jedimania.kit.net/images/blueprint/rebel/x_wing.jpg]


[image=www.kawachi.zaq.ne.jp/kurozuka/xwing/X-WING.html]

Hope those help.

~Inyri

 

You must mean you want physical descriptions, right? Long nose cone, two wings that fold out to attack formation and intersect to form an X, hence the name. Cockpit is located at the beginning of the nose cone, four engines in rear, R2 unit sits in back of the cockpit, just above the pilot, on the outside of the craft. I have a picture of the X-Wing on my site, and more coming soon. Hope this helps.

 

thanks for all your help everyone!!! that's great...the pictures didn't work unfortunately...can you fix the link?

 

anyone else?


UP!

 

My tips: try to look at it with the eyes of a hild, innocent, and never having seen this kind of thing before.

Try to fit this form (the X-Wing) into a list of shapes to which it might come closest.

Describe the differences, ans stress on them: The TIEs look like "Eyeballs" with wings - from the Point of View of a rebel pilot (X-Wing Saga), therefore a similar description should exist within the Empire. Buffered Arrow ? Flying Goose ? Something that might include sarcasm, or/and respect, because the X-Wings have ONE feature every TIE lacks: Shields.

I think it was Michael Stackpole who once wrote that the most deadliest pilots of the galaxy are TIE pilots - simply the have NO shields and the struggle for survival is much harder for them.

Thus, the presence of shields might look in the eyes of a TIE pilot as "waekness" - a REAL pilot actually doesn't need shields (as TIEs don't have it).

Try to imagine how an X-Wing might look through the eyes of someone who is used to see something very different - and devlop words for that difference.

An example: Looking at something at a very high zoom rate might lead to a different point of viw: If you can *only* see this thing through a magnifying glass and present this highly zoomed picture to innocent people, they are unable to tell what this thing really is.

That's just examples.

 

WEll, I'll give it a go:

"It was an unfamiliar fighter, with a slender fuselage, angular one-seater cockpit, and the silver dome of an astromech visible behind. The most distinctive feature was the engine and wing arrangement. Four wings were mounted to the side of the fuselage behind the cockpit, the upper pair canted upwards and the lower pair downwards. Each of the four wings mounted a large engine at the base and an oversized cannon at the tip."

-Tim

 

thanks! to both of you...that really helped me!