TIE Maniple

TIE Maniple TIE Maniples, were light easy to produce star fighters used by the Varino Imperium as scout ships. It was light with two small pentagonal wings on it's side, it lacked the life support systems that were common in most TIE variants designed by the Varino Imperium, however it fit a quite good hyperdrive aswell as having a great speed, making it quite apt at hit and run tactics. The TIE Maniple was quite cheap to produce and as such it was used in squadrons normally numbering twelve, but in some operations these could even be thirty ships, as they were used similarly to the using numerical superiority to it's advantage.

Characteristics
The TIE Maniple was designed to complement it's other ships in a skirmishing capacity as well as scouting, making it the lightest of the Varino Imperium's early TIE models, it was also the fastest of the ships, beating out the TIE Aurora however due to it's lack of armament it was less often seen in combat. It's unique pentagonal wings had the Repeating Laser Cannons on their outer surface similar to the though smaller, it would also mount a single chin mounted concussion missile launcher. Finally it had an array of sensors and transmitters alongside it's hyperdrive located behind the pilot in an elongated fuselage.It's sensors were ran by an Astromech, having an Astromech Socket located also behind the pilot, it would also help the pilot make it's hyperdrive calculations. This addition was an oddity among TIE Fighters, however due to the Varino Imperium's location, Cerci IV Drive Yards saw it as a must have for navigating in the, due to the large number of anomalies in the area.