Semantic/lore - Imperial Tie Fighter should not receive bonus protection

Product: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Platform:Android Phone
What type of device are you experiencing the issue with? Samsung Galaxy S6 (Model SM-G920V)
OS Version Android 7.0
Ally Code: (Find it here: http://bit.ly/AllyCode ) 932-737-981
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Summarize your bug Not a bug but a semantic/lore discrepancy - Imperial TIE Fighter should not be able to receive bonus protection. Confusion arises when abilities give protection % up to Imperial TIE. Since Imperial TIE has zero base protection, a % up should be a zero.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a ship (fleet) battle and include Imperial TIE Fighter and TIE reaper. TIE reaper's "Imperial Support" ability will grant bonus protection to Imperial TIE fighter. Any other ability that gives bonus protection will cause same result.
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This is not really a bug and I don't really think it should be at the top of anyone's list....and probably shouldn't even be fixed at this point.

It seems wrong that Imperial TIE can get "bonus" protection (the purple protection).  There are a couple reasons i think this.

1) Imperial TIE fighters don't have shields....protection isn't necessarily "shields".  The Imperial TIE has a zero base protection in game, and I assume this was chosen in game because in SW lore, the imperial TIE does not have shields.  So granting "bonus shields" to a ship that doesn't actually have the hardware for a shield doesn't make sense (unless it's a force shield.....but that's reaching).

2) Imperial TIE fighters have a zero base protection stat.  Many (if not all) of the abilities that grant "bonus" protection describe the bonus in terms of "percentage up".  Any percentage of zero is still zero.

Sorry to waste anyone's time reading this...it's bugged me for a while and just had to get it out.