detailing for both Kaph and Nazgul squadrons.
 
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FM/PO1 Raigen DarkBlayde Tei-Yehn/Nazgul Squadron 2-8/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF DEF/VEN/VE(=*A*=)[VC:B][BWC]

How much?
 
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TRP/PFC Sayah/1SQD/2 PLT/1 COM/1 RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
[Black League]
SM/Com Sayah/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(L)

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

http://bd1.battledawn.com/referx.php?serv=2&ref=5755

i think that's too much coloring, for the second set anyways. thy lost the classic idea of black Tie fighters.
 
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And all this time I had been thinking that you'de need solar panels larger than that to power a pair of ion engines. Heh, I was informed they were radiation panels for expelling heat.

Oh, just a side note: Dark blue actually works better for solar panels than a pure black does. I did a science fair project on solar panels a year or two ago for school, and part of the research was to find out how they were made and what caused them to work and whatnot. Dark blue absorbes light energy but not as much heat, which can cause problems in the silicon crystals, possibly a short circuit (if you'd like me to explain that, feel free to ask.)
 
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The VEN`s #1 writer as of ESC `06

I was just kidding. They are good though...
 
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TRP/PFC Sayah/1SQD/2 PLT/1 COM/1 RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
[Black League]
SM/Com Sayah/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(L)

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

http://bd1.battledawn.com/referx.php?serv=2&ref=5755

I think in a universe where we wiled lasers that come to a blunt stop in mid air, and have ships that go faster than light does, red solar panels shouldn't be too hard to achieve.

But, we could go with something like these.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor%27s_Royal_Guard_TIE/In_starfighter

Then again:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Red_TIE_Fighter

I think that colored solar panels can be achieved, but otherwise I can rethink the schematics.
 
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FM/PO1 Raigen DarkBlayde Tei-Yehn/Nazgul Squadron 2-8/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF DEF/VEN/VE(=*A*=)[VC:B][BWC]

Awe- we have some people who know a thing or two around here!

However, the argument had little to do with the efficiency of the solar panels themselves, more to do with what would be more effective in everyday situations.  Note that this is only in terms that could be understood by today's experts, and thusly- applicable to us. 

The intake of solar energy out in the middle of nowhere is close to nothing.  It would take weeks to get the energy necessary to power a fighter, not to mention the additional energy for dogfighting or entering atmospheric situations.  Furthermore, if they're usually launched from ships, why would they need solar power?  This could only be explained in an emergency situation, where the fighter could draw energy from its surroundings to escape injury or death, but seeings how the initial empire cared little about their troops or pilots- this would seem unlikely.  Though, I did put in a viable option for splitting the difference between radiation grills and solar panels- the most the solar panels would probably, in our sense, be able to do is power peripheral systems like lights, weak repulsors, any of the compensators (inertial, acceleration or gravitational), or maybe the life support.

So, in order to make it more understandable for all of us, I had the VE interceptors convert the 'solar-panels' into 'radiation-grills,' an idea that was introduced by a few different articles that I researched, one of which was very, very convincing and detailed, pulling sources from both the SW universe and advanced rocketry.

Whatever does this mean?  Put simply, the amount of energy being produced by the Twin Ion Engines within a TIE Fighter is absolutely astounding- its remarkable that the pilot isn't killed from the radiation- or anyone else for that matter.  Thus, the only way to explain this and the 'solar-panels' in a strictly practical sense, is to assume that what were the 'solar panel diffusion tubes' running off from the 'Solar Panels' and lead to the 'Twin Ion Engines' are actually 'coolant tubes' that remove heat and radiation from the engines and push them toward the 'radiation grills.'  We could probably come up with a cooler name, but whatever.  Some images attempt to make the TIE's solar panels appear more so than originally intended, though, perhaps by accident, the original image appears to be more 'grill-like.'  Again, perhaps this would be more efficient in the SW Universe- we'll probably never know.

Why is it possible for us to apply current science to something that is obviously untouchable to us?  Apparently the creators of this SW Universe had similar ideas in mind.  Most of the flying equipment, if you read any of the SW Cross-Sections, has a whole lot of modern day science in it, along with the novels- primarilly dealing with the dangers and science of radiation.  The repulsors are used rather than the sub-light drives because they don't emit radiation, or that certain substances are always used in their ships' outer-hull to protect from radiation that often surrounds planets...  And so on and so on...

But that's just me

(Edit: Here's a link on the Vast Empire Navy's Interceptors.)

http://www.vastempire.com/wiki/index.php?title=TIE_Interceptor

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Phoenix Wing Commander and Training Officer

As do I, Shazam.

Another possibility is that the panels/grilles store light energy and use it to convert the waste radiation from the twin ion engines back into energy to power the fighter's main systems...there is mention of solar ionization reactors being standard equipment not just for TIE fighters but Star Destroyers as well.

Also some crystals in the SW Universe are known to convert light into tremendous energy: e.g. Adegan crystals and Corusca gems.

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FM/SCRW Delia "Evil Clown" Cael/Nazgul 3-2/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)[SoA]

"So tell the judge I'm ready for the vases.
I'll dance in their faces when the guitar sounds.
Won't be long, I won't be gone.
Been leaning towards the shadows all along.

Nah, didn't think you were being close-minded, not at all, Shazam. We're just brainstorming, and that's always fun.


Adegans are rare(and only for lightsaber crystals), but synthetic Corusca gems are in common use in various fields in the SW universe.


But...I was thinking about this last night at work, and another possibility occurs.

Off the wall, albeit, but maybe the solar panels aren't solar panels at all, but some sort of ramscoop system, drawing in hydrogen from space to fuel the on board reactor, eliminating the need to have any but the most minimal fuel storage on board, contributing to the small overall size of the TIE-series fightercraft.

Or, maybe the ramscoops feed directly into the twin-ion engine system, which in turn drives a power generator to power the rest of the craft.


As for the duplication of Force-beings...well, maybe another thread.

I have a theory on that, too.




 

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FM/SCRW Delia "Evil Clown" Cael/Nazgul 3-2/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)[SoA]

"So tell the judge I'm ready for the vases.
I'll dance in their faces when the guitar sounds.
Won't be long, I won't be gone.
Been leaning towards the shadows all along.

Mostly its a popular idea amongst fans: not something that was originally stated in the SW fictional text.  Again- we're just trying to make it applicable: I like how inventive you are about the hydrogen bit, but that's even more complicated than I was wanting to get.  Perhaps we could get into particulars about how the Twin Ion Engines actually work: you've got me there.  I can't say I've sat down and researched or tried to figure it out.  My biggest goal was to help people realize the importance of the equipment they're using and are probably going to run into.  This has been good
 
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Phoenix Wing Commander and Training Officer

*Apologizes as well*

Interesting, that first page is extremely detailed at the beginning.  The other pages- I already knew most of that.  I may just have to include some of that detail into the VE Wiki.
 
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Phoenix Wing Commander and Training Officer

With your research, I'm sure you are probably right Trevor. However, I built solar panels for years and at the time our preferred color for the copper paneling was matte black.

That was over ten years ago though and times are changing all the time.
 
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Grammar, mechanics, punctuation, spelling, diction, effectiveness in the science, and larger elements are the facts at hand.

I might be willing to take a crack at it, depending on RL.

Though, my bachelor's--from a time when the Internet was still the ARPANET--is in English lit, not computer science....
 
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FM/SCRW Delia "Evil Clown" Cael/Nazgul 3-2/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)[SoA]

"So tell the judge I'm ready for the vases.
I'll dance in their faces when the guitar sounds.
Won't be long, I won't be gone.
Been leaning towards the shadows all along.

Oh, yeah, back when the 286 was state-of-the-art, Word Perfect 2.0 was the only word processing software worth mentioniong and all MMORPGs were scrolling text-based things. 
 
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FM/SCRW Delia "Evil Clown" Cael/Nazgul 3-2/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN/VE/(=*A*=)[SoA]

"So tell the judge I'm ready for the vases.
I'll dance in their faces when the guitar sounds.
Won't be long, I won't be gone.
Been leaning towards the shadows all along.

This topic kind of transformed into a conversation over the details of the TIE Interceptor itself- not the 'detailing' as you called it. 

I think that giving Interceptors paint jobs specific to a certain Fighter Squadron is working against Naval Intelligence, lol.  I mean- "That must be Kaph!"  is the number one reason to think twice about this idea.  But furthermore, as was spoken about in the Pilot uniform thread, the character of the Navy is called into question when we start tying to look 'neat.'  In the uniform section I called into question whether we were being scary enough, but here it seems like we need to ask "are we still going to be scary?"  Give me some reasonable answers to that and how your character would be able to deal with those challenges in a story, and perhaps then they could be implemented.  But otherwise it doesn't seem especially helpful for a pilot to decorate his or her fighter with designs specific to a squadron or fleet.
 
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