OS-72-8

OS-72-8 was the designation of a TIE pilot who served in the Imperial Navy by 3 ABY. By that year,The New Essential Chronology the pilot was stationed aboard the Star Destroyer Devastator, and had also joined the Imperial Obsidian Squadron, flying under the call sign of Obsidian 8. While flying under the call sign of Obsidian 8, OS-72-8 flew a modified TIE/LN starfighter used most often to pursue raiders attempting to take refuge in the upper atmosphere of nearby planets. The pilot had also left the Devastator before the Empire's occupation of the planet Bespin in 3 ABY.
During Bespin's occupation, the YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon managed to escape the planet, and OS-72-8 was among the TIE pilots who subsequently pursued the freighter. However, the TIE fighters were unable to capture the Millennium Falcon, with the freighter managing to evade Imperial capture in space.
==Behind the scenes==
The OS-72-8 name was first used for 2003's The Empire Strikes Back expansion set of Wizards of the Coast's Star Wars Trading Card Game. OS-72-8 was identified as the designation of a TIE fighter seen in the 1980 original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, though Decipher, Inc.'s 1997 Cloud City Limited expansion set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game had previously identified the fighter as "Obsidian 8." The 2008 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia resolved the issue by identifying OS-72-8 as the pilot of the Obsidian 8 TIE fighter seen in The Empire Strikes Back. Before the film's May 21, 1980 release, OS-72-8's fighter appeared simultaneously in The Empire Strikes Back StorybookThe Empire Strikes Back Storybook and the film's novelization,Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization both released April 12 of the same year. Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition
==Appearances==
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*Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Cine-Manga 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization 
*Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization 
*The Empire Strikes Back Storybook 
*Star Wars (1977) 44 
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==Sources==
*The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: The Illustrated Screenplay 
*Star Wars: Behind the Magic
*TIE Fighter: A Pocket Manual 
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
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