The Rebels's X-wing starfighter was one of the most advanced fighters of it's day when Luke Skywalker flew into battle against the first Death Star. Many fighters have come along which are faster and more heavily armed, but the X-wing has been assured a its place in history becuase of its role in that stunning Alliance victory.
    Yet it's a miracle that the Alliance had the fighter at all. The T-65 was the latest starfighter design produced by the Incom Corporation before its seizure by the Empire. When the X-wing was in its final stages, ISB (Imperial Securtiy Bureau) agents began to suspect that memebers of Incom's design staff might have sympathies for the Rebel Alliance. A Rebel commando team helped Incom's senior design staff defect to the Alliance; the designers took with them all the plans and prototypes of the X-wing.
    The X-wing takes its name from the pair of double-layered wings, deployed into the farmiliar X formation for combat. During normal sublight space flight, the double layered wings are closed, giving the fighter the appearance of having only two wings. Each wingtip has a high-powered Taim & Bak KX9 laser cannon. The four cannons can be fired simultaneously, in sequence, or in pairs.
    A pair of Krupx MG7 proton-torpedoe launchers are located midway up the main spaceframe. Each carries a magazine of three torpedoes; those specialized weapons allowed the Alliance to destroy the Death Star.
    The X-wing is a small single-pilot fighter. An Industrial Automaton R2, housed in a snug droid socket behind the pilot, handels many in-flight operations, such as damage control, astrogation jumps, and flight performance adjustment.
    The X-wing's controls are reminiscent of those of T-16 airspeeders and other common "sport" vehicles found on frontier worlds. Bush pilots train their reflexes on such vehicles and easily make the adjustment to the X-wing's familiar controls.
    The X-wing is known for its durability, with a reinforced titanium-ally hull and high-powered Chempat shield generators. It is a forgiving fighter and normally can take minor hits without serious loss of performance. It has a full ejection system, and Alliance pilots have fully sealing suits and helmets.
    Like the older Alliance Y-wing, the X-wings have a hyperdrive for travel to other systems (the specific drive is an Incom GBk-585 unit). The R2 astromech unit can store up to ten sets of jump coordinates and handles all astrogation duties, becuase the X-wing lacks a navigation computer.