Unwinnable Training Simulation: Difference between revisions

* This occurs several times in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'', especially the ''[[X Wing Series|X-Wing]]'' books. As in [[Real Life]], cockpit-shaped simulators are essential tools for fighter pilot training - but here, holographic and gravity-altering technology makes the simulations ''much'' more realistic. They get used for all kinds of things, from training to testing new tactics to teamwork-building exercises, and they tend to be either this trope or [[Fictional Video Game]]. There are even a few times when the one in the simulator [[Training Accident|doesn't know it's a sim]].

** Most notably, the opening of the first ''[[X Wing Series|Star Wars X-Wing]]'' book by Michael A. Stackpole has a literal unwinnable simulation, popularly called the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Redemption_scenario Requiem scenario]. In it, a flight of four X-wings must protect an Alliance corvette called the ''Korolev'' from waves of TIE fighters and bombers (flown by other pilots rather than the AI). Also, only two of the X-Wings could engage the TIEs, since previous runs showed that if at least two X-Wings didn't stay with the convoy, the Imperial frigate acting as a carrier for the TIEs would join the battle, making the situation even worse. Corran Horn beat the scenario after coming up with the strategy to quickly eliminate the more threatening bombers with proton torpedoes and then finish off the fighters afterwards, which as it turns out was how the scenario went originally.

** Another book, ''[[Death Star]]'', has a pilot compulsively replaying a simulation that had been made from a scan of one of the top fighter pilots. Even as a simulation, the top pilot kept gunning down the compulsive pilot within seconds, but this pilot was pleased to note that he was lasting a couple seconds more than when he'd started.

*** Later in the book, that same top pilot is said to have engaged in a practice fighter duel with [[Improbable Piloting Skills|Darth Vader]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|and lasted about the same amount of time]]. The viewpoint pilot, who'd seen it and been morbidly fascinated, swore that if ''he'' was ever in Vader's sights, he'd just overload his engines and kill himself.