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As you can see on this image, I went with a "hangar" version which utilizes the narrow spine for storing and launching the TIE fighters. However, I didn't go for the Legends version of the Neb-B carrying two squadrons of starfighters but only one squadron, aka 12 TIEs instead of 24. And there's a simple reason for that: 24 would be both a logistical nightmare for a frigate and total overkill for its entire raîson d'être, that being a light and CHEAP escort ship for imperial convoys. 24 TIEs is the equivalent of the complement of my personal favorite of imperial capital starships, the Gladiator-class cruiser, and that thing is twice as long and about 5 times as wide as the Neb-B. And as others already have pointed out in various forums and probably also youtube videos using properly scaled models: you can't squeeze 24 TIEs into the hull itself even if you completely carved it out and left nothing but a paper-thin hull.

In this version of the Neb-B, the TIEs are packed into two rows with six fighters each. They are dropped from the racks the same way the Gozanti-class does, however the pilots do not enter their starfighters through a retractable airlock tunnel - they have to do a little EVA from an elevator protected by an atmospheric shield, and enter their fighters in the vacuum of space, which isn't a big deal since TIE fighter pilot suits are sealed and pressurized anyway, and the TIEs lack a life support system and therefore a normal atmosphere as well. Recovery, maintenance and restocking the fighters with anything else than tibanna gas and energy is done inside the ship's hangar, though, which leads us to ....

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The TIE fighters I used for this render for demonstration purposes are available on sketchfab, provided by the user Daniel under the Creative Commons - Attribution license: creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

The model: sketchfab.com/3d-models/star-w…
user page: sketchfab.com/DanielAndersson

EDIT: had to re-upload the file because some of the meshes were missing while others which are actually just for measurement purposes were rendered.

Description

As you can see on this image, I went with a "hangar" version which utilizes the narrow spine for storing and launching the TIE fighters. However, I didn't go for the Legends version of the Neb-B carrying two squadrons of starfighters but only one squadron, aka 12 TIEs instead of 24. And there's a simple reason for that: 24 would be both a logistical nightmare for a frigate and total overkill for its entire raîson d'être, that being a light and CHEAP escort ship for imperial convoys. 24 TIEs is the equivalent of the complement of my personal favorite of imperial capital starships, the Gladiator-class cruiser, and that thing is twice as long and about 5 times as wide as the Neb-B. And as others already have pointed out in various forums and probably also youtube videos using properly scaled models: you can't squeeze 24 TIEs into the hull itself even if you completely carved it out and left nothing but a paper-thin hull.

In this version of the Neb-B, the TIEs are packed into two rows with six fighters each. They are dropped from the racks the same way the Gozanti-class does, however the pilots do not enter their starfighters through a retractable airlock tunnel - they have to do a little EVA from an elevator protected by an atmospheric shield, and enter their fighters in the vacuum of space, which isn't a big deal since TIE fighter pilot suits are sealed and pressurized anyway, and the TIEs lack a life support system and therefore a normal atmosphere as well. Recovery, maintenance and restocking the fighters with anything else than tibanna gas and energy is done inside the ship's hangar, though, which leads us to ....

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The TIE fighters I used for this render for demonstration purposes are available on sketchfab, provided by the user Daniel under the Creative Commons - Attribution license: creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

The model: sketchfab.com/3d-models/star-w…
user page: sketchfab.com/DanielAndersson

EDIT: had to re-upload the file because some of the meshes were missing while others which are actually just for measurement purposes were rendered.