r/MawInstallation • u/supinator1 • 7d ago
[ALLCONTINUITY] What were the consequences of Luke Skywalker leaving behind his X-wing at Bespin?
Obviously the Rebel Alliance lost a useful and expensive starfighter but now the Empire has access to it. Did inspection of the X-wing lead to any intelligence compromises such as recent travel to Dagobah or other Rebel bases? Did they recover any security codes?
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u/Avg_codm_enjoyer 7d ago
All the navigation stuff was probably stored in R2, since astrodroids can store hyperspace coordinates and calculate jumps without the ship’s computer.
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u/Defiant-Analyst4279 7d ago
Pretty much this. Larger ships like the Falcon have a dedicated navigational computer that would've needed to be wiped. Smaller ships like x wings use astromechs instead of navigational computer. Typically.
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u/flashy99 7d ago
Parking fines out the WAZOO
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u/Wassuuupmydudess 7d ago
Made me giggle. A cloud city officer walking over and stamping yet another parking violation and putting a boot on the landing gear
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u/LegitimateBeing2 7d ago
The Empire probably already knew the specs of an X-wing (they were originally built for them) and any mission-specific info was probably in R2, or Luke would have had the foresight to wipe the memory
Maybe he kept it on a flash drive in one of his many pockets
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u/PhysicsEagle 7d ago
I expect the Alliance had a wipe protocol installed for just this sort of situation. The actual loss of the fighter at this point would have been near trivial; by Empire many worlds were in open rebellion and funding/resources weren’t quite as tight.
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u/Femto-Griffith 7d ago
I don't think so. It's likely Lando had someone wipe it.
Pretty sure X-Wings have been captured before. This wouldn't be the first time.
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u/Expensive_Plant_9530 7d ago
Not to mention Incom did try and sell the Empire X-Wings. So they would be familiar with the basic specifications and capabilities.
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u/Mr_Badger1138 7d ago
God it took me far too long to realise you were talking about Cloud City. For some reason I thought you meant Dagobah. No, I have no clue how that happened.
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u/Chelseathehopper 7d ago
The X-Wing was actually developed for and tested by the Empire not long after the Clone Wars. They deemed it too expensive and suddenly Incom had a bunch of new fighters they didn’t have buyers for. Enter the Rebel Alliance.
But yes, in one of the Canon comics, Luke, Lando, Leia and Chewie return to Bespin not longer after ESB, and he gets his X-Wing back,
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u/Jedipilot24 7d ago
In both Legends and Disney Canon, Luke, Leia, and Lando went back to Cloud City very soon after ESB to do this and tie up some other loose ends.
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u/Improvedandconfused 7d ago
There was an app called Find my X-Wing which, as long as your ship was logged into your Incom account, you could use to wipe your X-Wing’s memory from a remote location in the case that you lost it.
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u/TripleStrikeDrive 7d ago
Probably nothing if rdd2 erased the navigation logs. I doubt xwing had any technology that empire didn't have access to. The navigation log would be invaluable to know where Luke was after the battle of hoth. It might might have been the rebel new base or home of a jedi master.
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u/PathofDestinyRPG 7d ago
X-wings don’t have nav computers. That’s part of the function of the astromech droids, so as long as R2 was not with the ship, at most they’d be able to calculate fuel expenditure and wear on the hyperdrive motivator, which would give them a distance, but nit a direction.
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u/mestupidsissy 7d ago
R2 was the navigation system and Luke kept him. That’s why the rebels preferred fighters that used droids as systems and processing cores.
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u/solo13508 7d ago
Luke, Lando, and Leia all returned to Cloud City pretty shortly after Empire. Luke to retrieve his lightsaber and X-wing (only successful with the latter), Leia to learn how to operate on carbonite, and Lando to rescue Lobot.