Im sick of the Rogues having some grand symbolism. Why can they just be a new squadron?
Rogue Squadron is not and can never be an ordinary squadron, for two reasons. One, consider their creation…. they aren’t simply a squad that was trained and thrown at the Imps, they’re the pet project of the Rebellion’s two greatest fliers. That in itself sets them off from the rest of the starfighter groups. Second, the idea for the “X-Wing vs the World” theme came from a couple of places. I first started thinking about it when I read in the X-Wing Mini-book (see question #2) that the T-65 was considered backup to the Y-Wings at Yavin, so much so that they only carried two torpedoes a piece. Then, when I began to incorporate the implications of Luke leaving the squadron, and the fact that X-Wings clearly came to dominate much of the post-Yavin fleet, Rogue Squadron seemed to be the natural means of changing Fleet’s mind.
