The purpose of exterior checks is to ensure the Starfighter is visually operational if not under supervision, this is checking for bloody blatant or less blatant damage starting with the Engines and working around towards them again. Notice any anomalies in your vessel, then a in depth check must be done or you’ll be kriffed, should be done either by yourself if qualified or engineers. You’ll want to focus on these karking sections.

Thrusters: Are a great start, most are exposed cause they build up unmakerly kriffin’ amounts of heat, which makes it super easy in atmo to see things get stuck around or in them, even if anythin’ touching the heat will be burnt or tossed aside, these things are your fighters life. With the Empire’s Starships focused on speed, even small problems in your thrusters can see you crash or get kriffin’ shot down, without the armour or shields to make up for your moronic behaviour.

Fuel injectors and Tanks: Shouldn’t be leakin’ anything, fluids of any kind, an should be properly secured with feeding them if any.

S-Foils(If you have them): are properly attached an locked in, they ain’t loose or left open, they are there to regulate heat an’ very important to keeping your craft flyin’ once open an stablise you for in-atmosphere combat. Any loose joints or somethin’ small can see it ripping, knocked off or other nasty things.

The wings: No shit.

Laser Cannons and other weapons: All kinda things can obstruct the holes where the shots come out, this might not be noticed on technical readouts and can seriously kriff you up in combat, the same applies to missiles, bombs, anythin’ that can go boom if trapped inside.

Cockpit and main structure: Again, no shit. Keep your window spotless as you can, you’d rather have the ability to see beyond your implements aye?

Anything else: Just cause it ain’t all that important, doesn’t mean it can’t kriff you up, coolant pumps can flood you with toxic gas, even the small things goin’ wrong can just make a single maneuver go wrong and that’s all it takes for you to be snuffed out in space. Starfighter pilots have the most balls cause of that.

If under supervision, checks will already be bloody expected. If somethin’ fails it ain’t your fault, but dependin’ on the time and situation I’d still suggest giving the once over, just cause someone else’s ass is gonna get shouted out, don’t mean kark to you if you die cause of it. An' for a Sith sabotage is always a option.

The purpose of interior checks is to ensure the internal systems are churnin’ along hard as can be. You’ll wanna do several things before you even check on your subsystems or the shite that’s gonna see you flyin’.

The Ejection Seat: Should be damn safe, with the handle locked closed. The Empire’s often a jammy bastard with safety tech, all to make you more fearless, these crafts ain’t for cowards who pull at the first sign of trouble. The ejection systems are only to open up for those at serious risk, unless you’re fallin’ helplessly to the ground' chances are you’re gettin’ shot for pullin’ that’s if it even works. On the craft that don’t have these, skip this course.

Self Destruct Systems: Should be disengaged for obvious reasons, if your cockpits flashin’ with self destruct warnin’ anytime you don’t want, get the hell out. If you’re connected to the ship for a power recharge or bloody refueling, chances are your vessel can be remotely shut down, an if not, get to cover. Someone’s kriffed up royally, or it’s sabotage.

Main Power: Shouldn’t be engaged, the Empire’s fighters have a short nuff lifespan an life span as it is without wastin’ it. Someone’s probably been lazy an’ probably should be executed for wastin’ time, this one can be sorted pretty quickly by disengaging it yourself an’ callin’ it in, you should check your fuel an’ air reserves once you reboot her, they’ll ask for that also.

Controls: Check to see if someone hasn’t jacked off in your cockpit, if your main FCS or yoke are sticky or you struggle to turn them more than usual, maybe something's kriffed.

Anything else: If anything seems out of place, somethin’ could be up, by intention or otherwise. Don’t put your life on trustin’ the guy who came before you, chances are he ain’t a superior or in your squad, make kriffin’ sure there isn’t no bomb in your cockpit. There also may be manual systems that ain’t been mentioned, especially if you’re ‘borrowin’ someone else's starfighter.

Entry Hatch: Should be closed real tight, if everythin’ else is alright make sure it’s secure, any leakage or damage to it, may kill you.

Once you’re properly seated inside, that’s when you start checkin’ your electronics and controls, you need all the bloody help you can get. Especially you Imperials, we Sith can mostly work off our senses for some of the kark our fighters do, even then there’ll be stuff your techs tellin’ you that’s important. Just wouldn’t trust it ‘bove my senses if I were you.

Main Power: Should be turned on, there are two whole bloody protocols seperate for this. Immediate deployment and slow deployment, dependin’ on your orders or the situation.

-Slow deployment is turnin’ the power on slowly, keepin’ it to low power systems and advancing through the checks by diverting it to each system as you do the checks. This is to ensure everythin’ is perfectly operational, often used as a method of checkin’ the craft in drill or exercise or ‘fore patrol. May also be used to catch sabotage early, if your boss’s gettin’ paranoid.

-Immediate Deployment is sendin’ the bloody power to the systems immediately, this is for combat, or really most scenario’s you’ll be facin’ as a pilot. You wanna check over them as swiftly as possible, doin’ just enough to ensure she can fly an fight.

Ship Readouts: Should be displaying the ship as neutral, there should be no alerts of damage or irregularities.

Power Management Display: Should show only what has been diverted in slow deployment, or in immediate deployment should show all subsystems sharin’ equal power unless required otherwise.

Throttle: Should be set to 0%

Radar: Should be showing nothing but friendlies in the hangar, if you really wanna bloody test her in slow deployment or if you sure she ain’t working the Empire have a manual hangar ping system, usin’ a in hangar IFF transmitter to act as a false ship ping. If you can bloody see her an identify correctly to control, you’re good to go.

Auto-Pilot: Should be ensured to be off, but most Imperial Starfighters have a standard set of auto-pilot protocols able to be activated you should check. These’ll be imputed by your commanders an’ officers and able to coordinate you lot out the hangar, without relyin’ on your skill or tractor beams fore you take control.

Targeting System: Needs to be on and properly ready, while checking this ensure your weapons are bloody disabled you muppet. Including any special targeting computers for torpedoes or bombs.

Missiles or bombs: You can rotate the loading system to ensure her karking mechanics ain’t jammed.

This is the step you’ll start to hover, it’s a short ass one. You just gotta ensure a few things ‘fore you get out to fly proper.

Stabilizer: Check to see if your ship is stable an kept in place by the repulserlifts we don’t kriffin’ want some wobbling or some nonsense. In flight this’ll make it bloody hard to move unaided an properly get your aim

Auto-pilot: Has to be activated to the launch protocol your local ship uses to leave dock. It’ll help ensure you ain’t bashin’ into any karkers on the way out.

Once in flight, you’ll wanna do a comms check with your Squadron and turn off your bloody autopilot once clear of the capital ship. Check your Etheric Rudder is operating properly, lettin’ you drift through space an make proper turnings, as well as your Inertial Dampener so you don't kriff yourself when goin' fast.

Your S-foils can be tested or anythin’ that your systems show as a problem. In immediate deployment, all fighters should immediately through their full throttle power to 100% and join whatever formation their squadron leader has decided to take up. Keep your distance. And check immediately for contacts, begin your standard scanning patterns unless ordered otherwise.

After returnin’ from a hard day of slapping bastards back to the core. You’re gonna be tired and distracted, maybe your mate got slapped down, good for you, it wasn’t you. Before you cheer your survival an probable success, you still gotta ensure your ship is doin’ alright and if she ain’t ensure your bosses know so they can fix her up.

Ship feel: The easiest manual way to tell on the journey back home is how your vessel feels. You’ve been flyin’ her for kriffin’ ages, if something’s up even if your techs sayin’ you’re doin’ fine who bloody knows what’s happened. Just take note of it and adjust accordingly, convene with your wingman if they ain’t exploded to do a visual check.

Ship Readouts: Are normal, they’ll tell you what’s karked 'bout your hull an' electronics and what’s not typically, but keep in mind they can be wrong. Adjust to whatever nonsense it’s showing.

Landing permission and informing: The Empire’ll guide you in wherever you are, both through visual in areas where you gotta manual it or through your landing autopilot routine. Get permission, inform them and your Squadron Leader of any faults you may have found to ensure they find the best place for you to land. Once you’ve gained permissions get goin’

Anything in your way: Only you really know if something is in your way, you’ll get clonked against it and boom if you don’t notice. Landin’ especially after battle is normally harder for pilots than takin’ off, we can’t prepare as well for it, one hangar may be bombed out, we’ve lost ships and weapons most likely in a battle, debris could be in your way, get close as possible fore engaging autopilot. Who knows, you may need to land in the midst of battle.

Post Flight Checks: Check everythin’ you did preflight just shuttin’ them off rather than opening them up.

If your ships karked, what’d we do? First things you’ve gotta consider before attempting the following solutions is rank and importance to the battle. If you can take out an enemy bridge by ramming it and you ain’t the Wing Commander, a Sith or another member of important personnel, if allowed by your commander course ramming speed my boy. Tradin’ with enemy fighter also perfectly acceptable, the Empire’ll remember it far more than if you eject. This only applies if the bloody situation is judged unsalvageable and aligns with mission objections.

Anti-tumbling procedure: Keep your throttle at current speed, check stabilizer, engage emergency stabilizer and guide her to the easiest flight path.

Unusual Attitude Recovery Procedures: Guide her to the easiest most predictable flight path, regain control by minimizing system output as kriffin’ required.

Out of Control Flight: Check instruments, check to see if you can manually adjust and direct, to execute prior protocols and if you can’t either eject or maneuver in a method that bloody achieves objectives.

Controllability Checks: To ensure your vessel ain’t gonna blow up our hangar if you’re kriffed, coordinate with a wingman or other of your flight or squadron.

Fire/Fume/Smoke Elimination: Identify if electrical, isolate system and disable or reboot if able, if unable dump oxygen and refill with emergency tank, rely on backup suit oxygen.

Low Oxygen: Activate emergency oxygen tank, disable primary tank, if able divert to safe planetary atmosphere, dock immediately or if unable rely on spacesuit to compensate until able.

Display Malfunction: Isolate and cycle display, if it don’t work keep offline an focus on the others best you can.

Ionic Disruption: Reboot all relevant power supply, cycle the display until proper bloody visuals are available, then return to level flight on a visually open flight path if able.