Talk:Aurek tactical strikefighter

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Contents 1 Image 2 The KOTOR2 strategy guide calls them A-Wings 3 it looks kinda like a 4 Aurek fighter 5 Engine sound 6 hyperdrive 7 Arwing link

[edit] Image

I....liked it.....vertical +_+ - lalala_la

What's the source for this image? If its reliably official, it seems to heavily suggest the 'wings' of this fighter open and close. --Fade 20:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea where the image comes from, but it is by far the best picture I've seen of the starfighter. They really do look like this in the game. I'll have to check the cinematics again, but I believe the wings do swing back in combat mode. --User:DarthMuffin 15:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• It looks similar, but check the video sequences in-game; they don't actually look as detailed as this rendition. The game versions are shinier and smoother. I call fake, probably from somewhere like Sci-Fi 3D - Kwenn 20:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Do you have your setings on max (PC)that could be why its worse to you DX-2052 00:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
    • On the darkside ending where the Republic fleet gets swarmed by all the Sith fighters....when you look at the lead squadron that flies out and gets destroyed you'll see one of the A-wings make a 90 degree roll just as it gets blown up and you'll see that it looks just like it does in the pic. - lalala_la

[edit] The KOTOR2 strategy guide calls them A-Wings

In the official Primagames Game Guide for KOTOR2, this type of ship is refered to as A-Wings. From page 137: "...Demolish the attcking A-Wings.", and from the same paragraph: "...After you destroy all six A-Wings..." Of course, since A-wings didn't exist in that time period, I'm not sure if the statements in the game guide can be acepted as fact. 141.154.189.78 20:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• No, A-wings are completely different, in any case, they look more like early Z-95s to me. I think that guide was meant more for the gamer than anything else. YIIMM 21:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• • There's no reason to assume that the RZ-1 A-wing interceptor was the first vehicle to ever be called an "A-wing", though. KOTOR's G-wing light shuttle proves that the idea of -wing names has been around for millennia, and there are after all only 26 letters to choose from. Red XIV 07:46, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • "A-wing" is more of a nickname than a model. Remember that before the movie "A-wing", there were already Spearheads, which were often called "a-wings"--I think this article could justifiably be called A-wing (Old Republic)--the strategy guide name is canon, and there is really nothing WRONG with it.JustinGann 08:58, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Exactly, it's like the HMS Dreadnought. That name got used by six different RN ships over a span of 500 years. This is two classes of starfighter over a span of 4,000 years. I'd say it's ok for two different designs of vastly different eras to bear the same name (or nickname, as the case may be). VT-16 16:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
      • Hmm... I disagree. While it is possible that two such classes could have the same (nick)name I don't see any reason why the strategy guide is considered canon. It is, after all, not a work of fiction or even a reference book for existing Star Wars canon. It is only a walkthrough licensed by LucasArts to help players go through a game. Besides, many strategy guides make in-universe mistakes for other games as their main purpose is to provide tips, not information on the universe.

The only way I would consider this to be a viable source was if it were quoted outside of the context of a walkthrough, like for example if there was a separate section devoted to the vehicles in the game and had a short amount of information on each vehicle. As it is I think it's unlikely anyone at LucasArts other than the people who approved the book even know of the name A-wing and they may have even absent mindedly forgotten it. I think this is reading too much into what the guide says, nothing more.Niirfa-sa 16:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] it looks kinda like a

S-100 Stinger-class starfighter

• Not even a little bit -Dangerdan97 12:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aurek fighter

This and PoD's Aurek fighter are one and the same, as confirmed by Tasty - \\Captain Kwenn// ^{— Ahoy!} 14:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• Maybe they got renamed over the period of a couple thousand years? - lalala_la
  • No, they're one and the same. The Prima guide's name of A-wing has been superceded. We were only using it as little more than a nickname anyway. Needs to be moved to Aurek fighter - \\Captain Kwenn// ^{— Ahoy!} 20:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I wouldn't say superceded, more like confirmed. After all, Aurek is the Aurabesh equivalent of "A."JustinGann 22:18, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Engine sound

Okay, so apparently somebody decided to "source?" my little sentence about this ship having the same sound as the Naboo starfighter's. I mean, does this really need to have a source? Just watch the cutscene, and then watch the space battle in Episode 1....it's the same sound! And considering that sound effects usually don't end up identical by coincidence it really can't be that much a stretch to say that it was imported over from TPM Lalala la 02:25, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, providing the sound is an easy way to give the reader a way to justify. Suppose I don't have the game (right now I don't have it installed) and I am very curious to justify if your info is right. Wookieepedia offers the answer MoffRebus 09:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

• Maybe its audiable in the cut scenes on Youtube? VT-16 18:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
  • [1] at 2:54, and [2] at 4:11 Lalala la 22:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] hyperdrive

does anyone think it odd that these fighters have a hyperdrive built-in when they still can't do it 4000 years later? I think Wizards of the Coast need to check out the Delta-7 from episode 2

• The Delta-7 doesn't have a built-in hyperdrive because it simply doesn't have any room for one. Grand Moff Tranner ^(Comlink) 22:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

• true but the Aurek is only 1 metre longer. How big is a hyperdrive? I thought it was more than a metre- maybe the Aureks have rings as well User:1705jallen

• the Aurek's fuselodge is too small to have a built-in hyperdrive, its just over 9 meters long. It's the same case as the Delta-7, there wasn't enough room. In this era, they only hyperspce-capable star fighters, like Star Saber, in use by the Republic were well over 11 to 14 meters in length. So the Aureks would need to count on carriers like the Hammerhead for transport and deployment into a battle zone. That would explain the Class 2 hyperdriving rating User: Johnny Rogue

[edit] Arwing link

...Under "Behind the scenes" links to a section of the Wikipedia Star Fox Page, which does not include an image of the Arwing. Is it acceptable to link to the appropriate Wikia site instead? Here it is: http://starfox.wikia.com/wiki/Arwing -AndromedaRoach 16:39, October 26, 2009 (UTC)