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[Star Wars] When they sent those TIEs after the Falcon when it escaped from the first Death Star, presumably they must have told those pilots "go and chase that ship, miss all your shots, and die intentionally." Were the pilots actually cool with that?
gpt
They weren't told to go die. They were told that extremely High Value Targets needed alive were on board that ship so they needed to harass the ship but NOT damage it (to prevent any possibility of the death of the targets) until the Death Star could project an interdiction field to prevent it from escaping and tractor it back.

It just so happens that they managed to escape right before the interdiction field could come online/weren't told that the tractor beam was currently disabled.