Advanced Project ship

The Advance Projects ship was a prototype of the TIE fighter designed by Raith Sienar which was being developed in 29 BBY. Its role was to escort freighters in the Outer Rim Territories for corporate clients. They could deploy into combat from tight-packed launch stacks in standard cargo-holds. They did not have the blade-shaped forward hull of the Scimitar, and had broad vertical cooling vanes at either end of a twenty-meter wingspan. It had the TIE's signature look: a sphere-shaped cockpit in the center.

A small number of the ships had made test flights in the Invasion of Naboo.