Sweet.

*asia

I would watch it!!!!!!!! Disney, please make it for the older viewers!

Adding video to channels (Asia) - requested by ant.

Unfortunately, we'll have to start buying a lot more lunchboxes and action figures to get them to consider us. Maybe Samsung, Apple and company can start releasing Star Wars branded electronic gadgets.

That missile sound... Some old reflex made me hit the space bar immediatly..

Looks like a long version of this
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Star-Wars-animated

(not a dupe, longer and his different music)

Why is it that while TIE Fighter pilots are relatively sympathetic, Imperial officers are, without exception, douchebags?

Star Wars Tie Fighter Animated has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine.

I don't know about that, most of the TIE pilots had the same thin, angular "I'm a total douchebag" face that you often see on anime bad guys. But I guess even I can feel some sympathy for someone who has to fight X-Wings in what amounts to a garbage can with a couple of ion engines and blasters strapped to it.

Isn't that the same thin, angular "I'm a total douchebag" face that you see on anime good guys too?

Besides look at the poster... we have
-the officer with smarmy slicked back hair (universal sign of someone who tortures small animals)
but then
- impressively moustached man (presumably the leader)
- pensive guy looking to the left
- hot chick with cool scar.

Ignoring Blando McGeneric in the middle there, it's clear that Moustachio and Hot Scar Chick are the heroes here... defending the peace moon from the terrorist scum.

So this is the finished product, eh? It's good that whoever worked on that project finally got it done, even though the short that was already linked is 2 years old.

It does feel finished. But I'll be honest and to the point: the music sucks. It sucks sucks sucks sucks sucks sucks. If you were to mute the audio, you can enjoy it (and can almost hear the sound effect in your head). Watching it with the audio was both entertaining and irritating at the same time.

They brought an Interdictor with them?

Rebels were so screwed.

I approve of this message.

The pilots still believe in the Empire as a force (no pun intended) for civilization and protection from anarchy...

...and the officers have seen behind the curtain.

Is it horrible to wish this is actually a trailer for the X-Wing/Tie Fighter reboot game?
Cell shaded like Borderlands...

Horrible??? It's the least horrible thing I can think of.

It is good and noble and just and honourable.

It's the most right thing ever, apart from @Zawash's epic Benny Hill version of the theme music

Y-Wings are the fat kids of the entire fleet. And, what, no A-Wings? How do you beat every mission in classic LucasArts X-Wing? With the A-Wing.

I never got into the TIE Fighter or X-Wing games, my space sim experience of that era was all Wing Commander.

BUT, that video made me incredibly nostalgic for Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed, the space sim expansion to the MMO. Actually had really well modeled craft, customizable component loadouts, etc. I miss SWG a lot, and JTL in particular. Guess I'll wait a few more years for SWGEmu, right now the ground game is fairly solid but JTL is still in the pretty distant future.

Dude, not even X-Wing Alliance?

Nope. I have been a big Star Wars fan since I was a young kid (not quite old enough to have seen ANH or ESB in theaters, but I did see RotJ on the big screen, plus of course watching them all on TV many many times growing up) but somehow I missed out on those games.

Quick google shows Wing Commander 1 as 1990, Wing Commander 3 at 1994, TIE Fighter also in 1994, and X-Wing Alliance in 1999. I played those Wing Commander games (and others), and played a lot of Star Wars games during that span, including stuff like Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron for N64. But somehow the X-Wing and TIE Fighter stuff stayed off my radar at the time.

Should I check GOG?

Yes. Try GOG, these SW computer games are old. I think there are (add/mod(ification))s to improve them if you want to get fancy. FYI, I never got into WC series.