The XG-1 StarWing assault gunboat was one of the few Imperial starfighters to be equipped with deflector shields and hyperdrive. The design philosophy of the StarWing was based on a tri-wing design very similar to the Lambda-class shuttle, with a fixed dorsal wing flanked by two lateral folding wings. It is heavily armed with two laser cannons, two ion cannons above the cockpit, and a pair of warhead launchers, thus making it a deadly Imperial assault starfighter to behold. However, its performance was below that of even the much larger TIE Mangler, rendering it mediocre in space superiority. Its large size meant that it is spacious enough to it a hyperdrive and a shield generator, however it also borrowed the standard reactor design from the TIE series, which, like those fighters, was mounted directly into the tail of the craft.
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