EC Henry: Creates an entire back story to explain the use of a toy I had as a kid, and its very slight difference in the movie
Me: Never even noticed that Palpatine's shuttle had a stripe

The most surprising part of this video was the dark stripe of Palpatine's shuttle. I never noticed that.

"Hey I found some toy ships we can use as props. They're a little different but I don't think anyone will notice."

40 years later

"The tie vigilant..."

Director: oh shoot, one of the ties look different from the others.

George: eh don’t worry about it no one will notice.

EChenry: is this a secret imperial tie

Ship: is 1% different from its counterparts
EC Henry: H M M M M

A few pixels of a ship exists

EC Henry: Finally! A worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

Return of the Jedi: exists

Everyone: “how many unidentified ships you got in here......”

EC Henry: slaps hood of Return of the Jedi
“You know many unidentified ships can fit in this?”

Imagine if this TIE variant replaced the "TIE Scout" in canon, it would've served as a better explanation to how Ben made it to Exegol with seemingly just a TIE fighter. It would've made sense too since plenty of these were clearly stationed in the Death Star 2 when it got destroyed. And given that Ben is an excellent pilot, we could infer that he'd studied the history of TIE variants and knew exactly which one he should find in the Death Star 2's wreckage...

Who needs canon in a world where we got EC Henry's fantastic head canon

EC Henry: makes new render of a blurry background ship

Me: this is cannon now

Tie fighter: has one more atom than the normal version
EC Henry: NEW VARIANT!!

that's kind of amazing that the film used its own actual merchandise

So regarding the "Dark stripe" down the middle denoting it as the Emperor's guard, the Bad Batch finale did this too! During the epilogue sequence where Nala Se is delivered to the imperial base, she is accompanied by Clone Commandos with a similar grey stripe on their armor. Behind the scenes material refers to these Clones as "Royal Guards". So it's nice to see that little bit of consistency.

Also for Legends fans? The name of that base is "Mount Tantiss." Do with that info what you will.

3:30 I'll tell you what, I'll accept all that as canon. It's so well thought out.

6:17 That's a fan film??? Incredible!

Henry: sees .2 pixels that look sliightly like an unknown ship.

"Its free real estate"

EC Henry: uh... what you got there?
Return of the Jedi: * literal toys in the background of shots * "A smoothie."

I’ve said it a hundred times and I’ll say it again — Lucasfilm NEEDS to hire you!

3:30 Today I learned that Palpatine's shuttle has a stripe

When you said the bit about them participating to devastating effect in the Battle of Endor, I thought about the F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat of WWII.

The Hellcat looks quite similar to the Wildcat, and apparently some Japanese pilots mistook it for such, attempting maneuvers that the older and slower Wildcat couldn't keep up with only to find the Hellcat still on their tail and firing at them.

I can just imagine a Rebel pilot in the heat of battle assuming its a standard TIE/ln and underestimating it, perhaps thinking it lacks shields so a glancing blow should be enough to finish it off.