The TIE Commando is a limited production variant of the TIE Interceptor. Featuring marginally improved fire control, it has two very distinctive features. The first is an improved power generator, allowing a small ray shield generator to be mounted into the hardpoints left by the original laser cannons of the TIE/ln. The other, and perhaps most radical of all, is the inclusion of conventional landing skids and a repulsor generator. These have been installed to give the TIE a greater selection of landing areas to choose from, to get special operations pilots to the ground, and make it easier to land damaged TIEs on a planetary body. This feature is being evaluated for possible inclusion on future production runs of all TIE models.
The majority of the Interceptors that would fall into the forces of Warlord Zsinj would have the repulsors and landing struts added, with a handful of them also receiving shield generators. A number of other Warlords, independents with Imperial weapons, and New Republic units with captured Interceptors would also make these adaptations, but the fire control upgrade remains relatively rare.