The name "DS-3-12" was coined by Wizards of the Coast in the 2002 A New Hope expansion of the Star Wars Trading Card Game. Although the card game identified "DS-3-12" as the designation of a TIE fighter, 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia instead established that name as the call sign of the corresponding TIE pilot. This article assumes the latter source is correct.
Furthermore, the Star Wars Trading Card Game card for DS-3-12 uses a film still of a TIE fighter destroyed by Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles during the Battle of Yavin scenes in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. That TIE fighter had previously been identified as "Black 4," and its pilot identified as "DS-61-4," in the 1996 A New Hope Limited expansion set of the Decipher, Inc. Star Wars Customizable Card Game. This article treats the identification of DS-3-12 by the Star Wars Trading Card Game as an error and as such avoids linking the subject to any of the onscreen TIE fighters seen in the A New Hope Battle of Yavin scenes.
The image used by the A New Hope set of the Star Wars Trading Card Game to represent DS-3-12 was instead that of a TIE fighter previously identified as Black 4, piloted by DS-61-4.
The name "DS-3-12" was coined by Wizards of the Coast in the 2002 A New Hope expansion of the Star Wars Trading Card Game. Although the card game identified "DS-3-12" as the designation of a TIE fighter, 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia instead established that name as the call sign of the corresponding TIE pilot. This article assumes the latter source is correct.
Furthermore, the Star Wars Trading Card Game card for DS-3-12 uses a film still of a TIE fighter destroyed by Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles during the Battle of Yavin scenes in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. That TIE fighter had previously been identified as "Black 4," and its pilot identified as "DS-61-4," in the 1996 A New Hope Limited expansion set of the Decipher, Inc. Star Wars Customizable Card Game. This article treats the identification of DS-3-12 by the Star Wars Trading Card Game as an error and as such avoids linking the subject to any of the onscreen TIE fighters seen in the A New Hope Battle of Yavin scenes.
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia