Star Wars Technology, Reduced to Mere Symbols

While chatting on Facebook with a certain JLB, we developed an idea which to my opposite-of-chagrin has not been done. There are versions of it, but not as we developed it, making our idea original and unique (at least as far as a Google search is concerned, and that's pretty much internet doctrine- if Google don't show it, it ain't been done).

I'm talking about basic Star Wars-themed emoticons. You know, the :)'s and the :O's and :('s and :S's. You've seen them all over the place, even if some of them are weird and nigh-incomprehensible.

Here's how it evolved/unfolded/came to fruition: The aforementioned JLB and I were talking. JLB hates when people use "lol" in any context. To avoid censuring while trying to convey the same idea, I used the following substitutes: | (the alternate character on the "\" key), 0 (number zero), and | again. Together, you get "|0|", which resembles a TIE Fighter from Star Wars. From there we got the following (repeating the TIE Fighter symbol with a visual reference):

-------------------------- |o|----- a TIE Fighter, first seen in "Star Wars: A New Hope"


-------------------------- (0)----- a TIE Interceptor, first seen in "Return of the Jedi"


--------------------------- {o}----- a TIE Advanced x1, like Darth Vader flies in "Star Wars: A New Hope"


---------------------------- [o]----- a TIE Bomber, first seen in "The Empire Strikes Back"



----------------------------- >o< ----- an X-Wing fighter, first seen in "Star Wars: A New Hope"



------------------------------ o+-- ---- a B-wing fighter, first seen in "Return of the Jedi"

Now, in case you're wondering:

• |o| is not as good as >o<.
• (0) is faster than |o|, but still not as good as >o<.
• Of all the TIE options mentioned in this post, {o} is superior.
  
• >o< is probably equal to |o| |o| |o| or (0) or {o}.
  
• o+-- is stronger than |o| or (0), but |o| and (0) are each faster than o+-- and would thus likely win.
• [o] are just all around awful.

Make sense?>