star wars - Can I bail out of my Imperial starfighter?

So here I am, a rank-and-file TIE fighter pilot, in a dogfight for my life! Unfortunately, because I'm not a main character, my fighter is very quickly hit. By sheer luck, however, the shot only clips me, leaving me spinning through space!

With only seconds before my ship explodes, do I have any way to bail out and survive?

Does this differ between different models of fighter on both the Rebel and Imperial sides?

Would it make a difference if I'm fighting in an atmosphere or space?

Or am I just dead?

Thanks for the help! I'd really like to survive this...

Answer

The original TIEs had ejection seats

Some believed that they did not:

Of course, the trade-off is this: The TIE is a suicide ship, isn’t it? To get the speed and maneuverability, the Empire sacrificed safety and sanity in the rest of the design. The whole thing is brittle like a bird skeleton. Doesn’t even have an ejector seat. It’s not just a fighter.

—Star Wars: Aftermath

But apparently they actually did:

“You…crashed,” Jas says. Norra shrugs. “Turns out, TIE fighters have an ejector seat after all.”

—Star Wars: Aftermath

Her palm mashed buttons. One of those buttons was the ejector.

—Star Wars: Aftermath

As did First Order TIEs

In The Force Awakens, Finn ejects himself from a TIE fighter:

He looked around and began calling the name he remembered.

“Finn! Finn!”

Then he recalled that the renegade stormtrooper who had helped him escape had ejected from their stolen TIE fighter as it had plunged out of control toward the surface of…Jakku. That was it. He was on Jakku. As for the absent Finn, there was no response to the pilot’s anxious shouts. Depending on the angle and speed of ejection, his new friend could have come down anywhere, Poe knew.

—The Force Awakens (novelization)

Some Rebel fighters apparently had ejectors as well

Porkins: I got a problem here.

Biggs: Eject!

Porkins: I can hold it.

Biggs: Pull up!

Porkins: No, I'm all right... ahhh!

—Star Wars

Not all of them necessarily did, though.

According to this answer, the Y-Wing did, as seen in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. It also claims that the X-Wing doesn't have space for an ejection mechanism, but Biggs's quote suggests otherwise.

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