The Tie Fighter is actually A archeological find from Thailand. The panels act as asymmetric capacitors, 2 Van de Graaff generator's feed the panels on each side. By tilting the Van de Graaff generator's so they feed panels individually the craft can maneuver. The combination of the charged triangular panels and a resonance to the Schumann frequencies created with piezo electric quartz acting as a transducer on the hull allows the craft to propel itself and causes the signature Tie Fighter noise. The entire design is so efficient it can use only solar power.

It is an old mass production class of Vimana from the nuclear war described in the Mahabharata.

Bhagavad-Gita Book of Drona:
Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful Vimana, hurled A single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon and iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.

The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hours, all food sources were infected…, to escape from this fire; the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and all their equipment.

“Any target hit by the brahmastra would be utterly destroyed; land would become barren and lifeless, rainfall would cease, and infertility in humans and animals would follow for aeons of time.”