DS-73-3

A TIE pilot operating under the call sign DS-73-3 served in the Imperial Navy by 0 BBY. That year,The New Essential Chronology DS-73-3 participated in the Battle of Yavin, where the Alliance to Restore the Republic attempted to destroy the Galactic Empire's DS-1 Orbital Battle Station superweapon, and numerous TIE/LN starfighters attempted to defend the Imperial battle station from the attacking Alliance starfighters. Ultimately, the Battle of Yavin ended with an Alliance victory and the Death Star's destruction.
==Behind the scenes==
The name "DS-73-3" was coined in 2002, in Wizards of the Coast's A New Hope expansion of the Star Wars Trading Card Game. Identified on the card as the TIE fighter, the 2008 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia would instead identify DS-73-3 as the fighter's pilot. This article assumes the later source is correct.
Furthermore, the DS-73-3 Star Wars Trading Card Game image shows a TIE fighter which was destroyed by Han Solo from aboard the freighter Millennium Falcon during that ship's escape from the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station in a scene from the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, that takes place prior to the film's later Battle of Yavin scenes. This contradicts The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, which lists DS-73-3 as a TIE pilot active during the Battle of Yavin. This article treats The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia as the accurate source and as such avoids linking DS-73-3 to any of the onscreen TIE fighters in A New Hope.
==Sources==
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
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