Pushed from the drafting board to the production line by Grand Admiral Thrawn himself, the Scimitar bomber embodies the latest step in bomber design. Most significantly, the craft places a crew of two inside an ejectable command cabin. Two crewmembers already replace an enormous amount of strain that a single pilot faced in the standard TIE Bomber, and survivability is greatly enhanced. However, unlike its hard-hitting predecessor, the Scimitar doesn't support torpedoes or similar large-scale ordinance. Instead, the payload usually consists of concussion missiles, gravity grenades, mines, and thermal detonators. In this regard, the Scimitar is much better suited to groud bombardment and suppression.