Backwards tailslide

The backwards tailslide was a starfighter maneuver in which the user would briefly drift next to an asteroid before throttling their ship and blasting off away from the asteroid. A pilot would perform the maneuver by piloting their starfighter into an arc-like movement, avoiding the asteroid themselves and causing pursuers to crash. The maneuver was utilized by both Resistance Commander Poe Dameron and Resistance spy Kazuda Xiono during the investigation of a G-class freighter in an asteroid field near the planet of Castilon in 34 ABY.

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