Phantom TIE

Phantom TIEs were a secret project of Darth Vader, conducted by Admiral Sarn in the Dreighton Nebula.

After Admiral Sarn's attempt to use cloaking device on a Corellian Corvette in his Vorknkx project, he was able to modify a B83 starfighter.

The TIE Phantom has slightly above normal firepower for a starfighter of its class. This Stealh Fighter could move through space neither spotted on radar nor by any pilot until they were ready to strike.The serious advantage of the TIE Stealths was that they had a built in mechanism that allowed the pilot to fire its lasers at any time, and have the device automatically shut off and turn back on after every volley, which is similar to what World War I craft had when it came to being able to shoot their forward guns with a propeller in the way. This in effect allowed the TIE Phantoms to be virtually invisible 99 percent of the time.

Prototypes were tested near Dreighton. When preliminary tests were completed, Lord Vader took control of the project and ordered the full scale production of the Phantom. Tehe first wave of those, was Sigma Squadron were ready before the construction facility on Imdaar Alpha was destroyed. Admiral Sarn's command ship, the Super Star Destroyer Terror was also eliminated along with the base by a strike team consisted by Rookie One and Ru Murleen.

Unfortunately, the designers had already predicted this: Each fighter had a self-destruct mechanism disabled by some imperial code, so that should one fall in the hands of the Rebels, they wouldn't be able to replicate its technology. After the defunction of this short lived fighter, its technology was lost for ever but the blue prints for the phantom fighter were still on Coruscant and are available for members of the Emperor Palpatine's Inner Circle.

The whole story appeared only in the game Star Wars: Rebel Assault II – The Hidden Empire which is not considered totally canonical.