The TIE Commando is a limited production varient of the TIE Interceptor. Featuring marganally improved fire control, it has two very distinctive features. The first is an improved power generator, allowing a small shield generator to be mounted into the hardpoints left by the origional laser cannons of the TIE/ln. The other, and perhaps most radical of all, is the inclusion of conventional landing skids. These have been installed to allow the TIE Commando to live up to it's name, and to give it a greater selection of landing areas to choose from. This allows select special operations pilots to operate on the ground. It also makes it easier to land damaged TIEs on a planetary body. This feature is being evaluated for possible inclusion on furture production runs of all TIE models.