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John Forte
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"Where did the rebels get X-Wing Fighters?"


          

I've never heard of a civil war where the Rebels had air power. If they did, surely they would be using stolen aircraft but that would mean they'd have the same fighters as the Empire. The Empire would not let some defense contractor create an entire fleet of fighters for the rebel alliance.

Was a neighboring empire/republic arming the Rebels? If so, why didn't they enter the conflict. Surely, the destruction of entire planets would call for intergalactic intervention, no?

  

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In that war they were fighting for the control of whole star systems
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They would have to come from outside the Empire
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in thw star wars universe, having a plane is likw having a car.
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The X-Wing fighter was military grade
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      hmmm.
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ACME
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The Rebel Alliance has deep pockets
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RE: The Rebel Alliance has deep pockets
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reverse engineering?
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The galaxy is very big.
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welp, that answers that.
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wow
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Soulfunk came through with DA CANON *plays funkmaster flex drops*
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gotdamn. This is as impressive as it is deflating
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lol I'm a complete Star Wars nerd.
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      great thing to be
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The force is strong with you.....
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the CIA
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Lardlad95
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Tue Oct-20-15 06:51 AM

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1. "In that war they were fighting for the control of whole star systems"
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Once you liberate one planet you gain all of their production capabilities. Also there were systems that were outside of Imperial Rule so I'm sure they would like to make a quick buck by selling arms to the Rebels.

  

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John Forte
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Tue Oct-20-15 07:12 AM

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4. "They would have to come from outside the Empire "
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Those planets might have manufacturing, but they're set up to make tie fighters. Developing the X-wing would have taken trillions in R&D. Makes more sense to keep churning out the Tie-fighter.

  

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Mike Jackson
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Tue Oct-20-15 06:58 AM

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2. "in thw star wars universe, having a plane is likw having a car."
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even farmers at the market have hovercrafts.

and given the circumstances,
it's not unusual for every plane to have a weapons system.

but the rebels planes we're not designed for war. Which is why
it always looks scrapped together. Retconned. Whatever.

It only is unusual in our universe...
where planes aren't owned by poor ppl.

  

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John Forte
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Tue Oct-20-15 07:04 AM

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3. "The X-Wing fighter was military grade"
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They hung in there with the best Imperial fighters. You're not going to arm a Lear jet or G6 and fuck with the USAF.

  

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Mike Jackson
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Tue Oct-20-15 08:00 AM

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7. "hmmm."
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Good point.

  

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FLUIDJ
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Tue Oct-20-15 07:31 AM

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5. "ACME"
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bigkarma
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6. "The Rebel Alliance has deep pockets"
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If you keep up with the side stuff in the Star Wars universe (games, cartoons, books...etc), they all allude to the fact that there were like 2000 planets that weren't down with the Empire.

  

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murph71
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17. "RE: The Rebel Alliance has deep pockets"
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>If you keep up with the side stuff in the Star Wars universe
>(games, cartoons, books...etc), they all allude to the fact
>that there were like 2000 planets that weren't down with the
>Empire.



^^^^^^^ basically.....

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T Reynolds
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8. "reverse engineering?"
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9. "The galaxy is very big."
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The Empire had direct control over the core worlds, but in the outer rim systems not so much. They may have been part of the empire but they didn't know everything that was going on. Think of it like Rome in it's last days when the Roman Empire was too large for them to have direct control on all the separate groups in far territories. In Star Wars there were entire planets who were officially part of the empire but were also working to support the rebellion in secret. It's like if the fall of Rome are escalated because all the separate groups of barbarians were able to communicate and organize in secret.

To your specific question, the x-wing was developed by a firm for the empire but they defected and ended up supplying the rebel alliance. in terms of resources the rebel alliance had plenty of $$$. Bail Organa was essentially one of the richest dudes in the galaxy and he bankrolled the beginnings of the rebellion.

  

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KiloMcG
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11. "welp, that answers that."
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12. "wow"
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Let me sport my Air Hyperbole 2010s in peace. (c) ansomble

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13. "Soulfunk came through with DA CANON *plays funkmaster flex drops*"
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John Forte
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14. "gotdamn. This is as impressive as it is deflating"
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I wanted this to go on for a while, and nigga came through and murked it.

  

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15. "lol I'm a complete Star Wars nerd."
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16. "great thing to be"
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18. "The force is strong with you....."
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GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

  

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Jay Doz
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10. "the CIA"
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hey, it turned out better than in Syria!

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