The E-Wing Reborn
When Star Wars continuity was relaunched in 2014, little information was initially made clear of the events that took place in the roughly 30 years between the events of Return of the Jedi and what would become The Force Awakens. What we did know was that the E-Wing was no more—firmly resigned to what was now dubbed “Legends” continuity. What little early material that explored the post-Return of the Jedi landscape maintained the X-Wing as the primary starfighter of the New Republic, and as new Star Wars continuity lead the reformed government down a path of de-militarization, the development of a new starfighter standard for the navy was not on the cards.
But for all its setbacks textually and metatextually, the E-Wing couldn’t be kept down. While the vessel maintined a fandom presence through sourcebooks and games like the X-Wing tabletop miniatures game from Fantasy Flight, its first flittering signs of re-introduction came in the 2017 Lego animated series The Freemaker Adventures—and although like other ancillary Lego material its place in the “everything’s canon” continuity established by Disney and Lucasfilm was kept decidedly away from other mainline material, it marked the first time the E-Wing appeared in the new era.
