TIE Drone, or TIE/D automated fighter, or droid/drone TIE fighter, was a TIE Series starfighter used by the reborn Emperor Palpatine

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during his attacks on the New Republic in 10 ABY.
The TIE drone took the standard TIE Series command pod with twin ion engines and twin laser cannons, additional armor plating and rectangular wing panels with adjustable pitch were added. Despite their heavier armor, they could actually reach a higher atmospheric speed than the TIE/IN interceptors

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- overall, they were fast, small, and very expendable. A single drone cost 170,000 credits. The starfighter had rectangular solar arrays with a movable wing servo to fuel the power generator. The 6.3 meter-long craft was capable of 100 MGLT. Instead of a living pilot, the craft was equipped with a Cybot Galactica

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Ace-6 droid brain. The 10-kilogram unit allowed Sienar Fleet Systems

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to increase the TIE/D's shielding.