{"id":5174,"date":"2020-04-21T07:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5174"},"modified":"2020-07-14T08:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T08:19:50","slug":"tie-fighter-pilot-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/product\/tie-fighter-pilot-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"TIE Fighter Pilot Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIE pilots\u00a0served in the\u00a0Starfighter Corps\u00a0of the\u00a0Imperial Navy <sup id=\"cite_ref-GAW_0-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>by\u00a0piloting\u00a0the various\u00a0TIE Series\u00a0starfighters. Distinguished by all-black\u00a0flight suits\u00a0and bulky, fully enclosed, vacuum-sealed helmets, the\u00a0Galactic Empire\u00a0at its height produced millions of TIE pilots and generally considered them expendable assets. The TIE pilots formed the elite of the Imperial Navy&#8217;s\u00a0Flight Branch.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Handbook_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>They were referred to as &#8220;bucketheads&#8221; by\u00a0Rebel pilots, due to their bulky helmets. Within the Imperial forces they were often referred to as &#8220;coffin jockeys&#8221; due to the high mortality rate of those manning the vulnerable\u00a0TIE fighters, <sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>a holdover from the Galactic Republic&#8217;s use of clones during the\u00a0Clone Wars prior to the Empire&#8217;s formation. Among the pilots, they were known as &#8220;vac-heads&#8221; and &#8220;ground-hogs,&#8221; in reference to their roles in the Navy and Army, respectively, due to a significant rivalry between the two factions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIE pilots\u00a0served in the\u00a0Starfighter Corps\u00a0of the\u00a0Imperial Navy by\u00a0piloting\u00a0the various\u00a0TIE Series\u00a0starfighters. Distinguished by all-black\u00a0flight suits\u00a0and bulky, fully enclosed, vacuum-sealed helmets, the\u00a0Galactic Empire\u00a0at its height produced millions of TIE pilots and generally considered them expendable assets. The TIE pilots formed the elite of the Imperial Navy&#8217;s\u00a0Flight Branch. They were referred to as &#8220;bucketheads&#8221; by\u00a0Rebel pilots, due to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/product\/tie-fighter-pilot-star-wars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TIE Fighter Pilot Star Wars<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"product_cat":[57],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincelow.com.my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}