Talk:Etheric rudder

"The TIE fighters launched, accelerating away from the Chimaera and then leaning hard into etheric rudders to sweep back around it like the spray of some exotic fountain." Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire, page 10. This directly contradicts the current text, which is stating that the etheric rudder was developed by the New Republic. It was probably reverse engineered by the Republic, but if it is present in ordinary TIE fighters by the time of the Thrawn campaign, it is highly unlikely that it was not developed by the Empire.