“I really wanted to do the perspective of someone who had kind of seen through that and was done with this bullshit,” he says. The films depict TIE fighters as incredibly reckless, frequently diving into narrow spaces and colliding with asteroids, cruisers, and each other, which makes Wexler think that TIE fighter pilots must be subject to intense propaganda. “So when they told me to do one from Empire Strikes Back, this is what I came up with as a TIE fighter pilot story.” TIE fighters game you play on a tabletop-and that had expanded on the lore a little bit, so I wanted to dive into that in a short story,” Wexler says. “I had gotten really into the X-Wing Miniatures Game-which is just an X-wings vs. Wexler’s story focuses on the lives of TIE fighter pilots, who are generally treated as faceless cannon fodder in the Star Wars films.