Imperial Starfighter Corps

The Imperial Starfighter Corps was a sub-branch of the Imperial Navy during the Age of the Empire.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
After the Declaration of a New Order in 983 ARR, the Republic Starfighter Corps lost its status as an independent military branch and was merged with the Imperial Navy. Unlike the Republic Navy, the Imperial Navy's doctrine focused on capital ship firepower rather than starfighter superiority and it subordinated the Starfighter Corps to this role. Consequently, the Empire turned away from snubfighter development, seeing it as a distasteful legacy of the great swarms of Vulture droid starfighters deployed by the Confederate Navy during the Clone Wars. The Empire instead focused on the creation of a new generation of space superiority fighters, culminating in Sienar Fleet Systems' TIE Series of starfighters.