Stormtroopers served as guards for high-ranking Imperial officials.Īn independent branch of the Imperial Military, the Stormtrooper Corps supported both the Imperial Army and Navy while belonging to neither.
The Imperial Army walks in the path we blaze." ― TX-5532, Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide We do not stop until we have achieved our objective. We face the enemy where they are strongest.
Under the Empire's successor states, however, non-Humans were permitted to serve as stormtroopers in the Empire of the Hand, the Imperial Remnant, Roan Fel's revived Empire and Darth Krayt's Sith Empire. With few exceptions, the Corps was predominantly Human throughout the existence of the first Galactic Empire. Commander Cody, one of the last clones who remained in service years after the formation of the Empire, believed that the operational effectiveness of the Stormtrooper Corps had been severely diminished over time, a setback that he blamed on the infusion of Human recruits into the stormtrooper ranks. Īlthough their ranks were numerous and well-armed with advanced weaponry and armor, stormtroopers were generally less respected as soldiers by the clone troopers who preceded them. Although its direct predecessor was the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars, the Stormtrooper TX-5532 implied that they may have been comparable to the Rocket-Jumper Elite Advance Unit in terms of an elite, first-attack unit of soldiers in galactic history. Before long, the original clones of the Jango Fett line were reduced to the status of a minority within the army that they once held as their exclusive province. Further changes in policy led to the recruitment of birth-born Humans as enlisted troopers. However, the Stormtrooper Corps gradually expanded its ranks to include cloned soldiers from different genetic sources. The first stormtroopers were Republic clone troopers that the Empire inherited after the Clone Wars. Regarded as elite shock troopers and the special forces of the Empire, the Corps also functioned as Palpatine's chief enforcers-both within the military ranks and the galactic populace alike-due to their uncompromising loyalty to Palpatine. Though they functioned under their own command structure, Imperial stormtroopers ultimately answered directly to Emperor Palpatine, the architect of the New Order that incorporated most of the known galaxy under Imperial rule. It was the smallest of the primary three branches of the military. The Stormtrooper Corps was an independent military branch that operated alongside the Imperial Army and Navy of the Galactic Empire. I am fulfilled, for I am an agent of the Emperor." ―Stormtrooper pledge
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