Battle Of Empires 1914-1918 Honor Of The Empire-PLAZA Key Generator
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Battle Of Empires 1914-1918 Honor Of The Empire-PLAZA Key Generator
StormtrooperGeneral informationOrganization typeTrooper[1]Leader(s)
- Sheev Palpatine (Galactic Emperor)[2]
- Darth Vader[2]
- Stormtrooper Command[3]
- Galactic Empire[1]
- Stormtrooper Corps[8]
- Gratloe's faction[9]
- Uprising (rogue)[10]
- Imperial Remnants[11]
- Ubrik Adelhard's Imperial remnant[10]
- Gideon's Imperial remnant[11]
- Visler Korda's faction[12]
- Imperial territory G5-623[13]
- Morak Imperial remnants[14]
- Thrawn's forces (Night Troopers)[15]
- Yomo Council[16]
Taking their name from the "storm" of galactic history, clone troopers served as the first generation of stormtroopers, and were gradually replaced by Imperial recruits known as TK stormtroopers. Clone troopers were composed of the clones who formed the backbone of the Grand Army of the Republic from its inception at the end of the Clone Wars when the Sith Lord Darth Sidious declared the Galactic Republic at an end and himself Galactic Emperor. Into the early years of the Imperial Era, the cloning operation on Kamino was shut down as the Empire turned to conscription and voluntary recruitment in order to fill the stormtrooper ranks. The remaining clones were gradually retired from service due to their rapid aging, their legacy inherited by natural-born humans who were also trained to render total allegiance to the Emperor and his New Order.
Bucketheads were spread throughout galaxy during the Emperor's reign, from the galactic capital of Coruscant in the Core Worlds, to major installations and vital worlds, such as Lothal in the Outer Rim Territories. These shock soldiers fought many battles against the forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War, including the Battle of Scarif, the Battle of Hoth, and the Battle of Endor. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Princess Leia Organa was captured by stormtroopers who served under the Emperor's lieutenant, Darth Vader. However, Organa was rescued by Luke Skywalker and Han Solo who, disguised as stormtroopers, infiltrated the first Death Star. The Emperor stationed a legion of stormtroopers on Endor to protect the shield generator of the second Death Star, although they were defeated by the Alliance's Ewok allies.
With the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Lord Vader, Counselor to the Empire Gallius Rax took control of the Empire, which rallied to his homeworld of Jakku to make a final stand against the New Republic. After losing the Battle of Jakku, the Empire signed the Imperial Instruments of Surrender and the Galactic Concordance, and its stormtrooper forces were consequently demobilized as part of the New Republic's terms for peace. Despite that, in violation of the agreement between the New Republic and the Empire, a number of Imperial holdouts continued to make use of Remnant Stormtroopers as soldiers or mercenaries, including Moff Gideon's faction as well as the remnants on Morak. By the last days of the New Republic Era, a new generation of stormtroopers emerged as standard soldiers of the First Order.
At the dawn of the Galactic Empire, the first generation of stormtroopers consisted of cloned soldiers who served the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars.[4] Under the leadership of the Jedi Knights, clone troopers fought the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems across the galaxy. Though they were loyal to the Jedi as well as the Republic, the clones were secretly programmed to obey Order 66,[19] a military directive authorizing the complete liquidation of the Jedi Order.[20]
With the exception of a handful of survivors,[21] including Jedi Generals Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi, most of the Jedi were killed by their own troops at the command of Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith who controlled the Galactic Senate through his public persona of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine.[22] With the Empire claiming the galaxy was brought from chaos to order during to its rule, one account of the origins of the name "stormtrooper" was that it came from the troops emerging from the "storm" of galactic history.[18] Another origin came from the final days of the Republic Era: with clone shock troopers enforcing law on the Republic capital of Coruscant[23] and taking the role once held by the Senate Guard,[24] onlookers began to refer to the soldiers as "stormtroopers."[23]
Re-named "stormtroopers" and assigned their new role by the Emperor himself,[26] the clone troopers enforced Palpatine's reign during the early years of the Imperial Era[4] No longer beholden to the authority of Jedi officers[2] who exercised restraint in warfare,[27][28] the clones utilized brutal tactics under the leadership of Imperial officers and Governors,[2] suppressing dissent and imposing the New Order over the known galaxy as the first generation of Imperial stormtroopers.[4] Immediately, the Empire moved to remove sedition within its legislative branch, as clones were deployed to carry out the Senatorial arrests, rounding up a total of sixty-three senators who were subsequently claimed to be Jedi sympathizers.[29]
The end of the Clone Wars, however, fulfilled the sole purpose behind the creation of clone troopers.[21] Although Palpatine had supported the Kaminoan government's clone trooper program during his final years as Supreme Chancellor, his priorities shifted away from the expensive cloning production after becoming the Galactic Emperor. The Prime Minister of Kamino, Lama Su, maintained that the clone troopers possessed unrivaled combat skills and discipline. In addition, Lama Su believed that his clones were critical to the security of the fledgling Empire. Despite this, Governor and Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin was confident that the Empire would be better served by a force of non-clone recruits and conscripts, which he saw as a cost-effective way to enforce order in the galaxy.[25] In addition, the clones' accelerated aging process,[21] limited shelf-life,[30] and original purpose as soldiers to the Republic[31] were further incentives for the Empire to decommission its clone units in favor of natural-born humans.[21]
Although Governor Tarkin supported conscription[25] and recruitment over cloning,[32] clone troopers were initially retained by the Imperial Army that replaced the Grand Army of the Republic,[21] but rumors spread throughout the ranks that the cloning facilities on Kamino had been shut down.[33]
In the days following the end of the Clone Wars, Vice Admiral Edmon Rampart sanctioned the creation of an Elite Squad of non-clone human soldiers, led by the former Clone Force 99 marksman CT-9904 "Crosshair." Rampart envisioned enlisting human soldiers and having them train under skilled clones would be the best way to generate loyal soldiers without the cloning program. The squad included four highly skilled recruits enlisted to be the first wave of such soldiers. The individuals traded in their names for numbers, becoming ES-01, ES-02, ES-03, and ES-04 and undertaking early missions to eliminate insurgents throughout the galaxy,[35] in particular, pursuing the now-rogue Clone Force 99, Crosshair's old squad-mates. The squad's success during their missions proved the potential of an enlisted army to Tarkin, who allowed Rampart to continue secretly enlisting more non-clone recruits under Project War-Mantle. Though Tarkin supported the project, he believed that clone troopers would continue to remain essential until the new army had been fully formed.[32]
With the development of the new Imperial war machine under Project War-Mantle,[36] a new armor model was produced to be used by the enlisted recruits. Massive stockpiles of this armor was stored on planets such as Barton IV in preparation for the influx of future non-clone recruits in the Stormtrooper Corps. Clone commandos were deployed as instructors to the enlisted troopers, who were assigned the designation of TK stormtroopers. During the first year of the Empire's reign, a secret training facility had been set up on Daro, where fifty clone commandos were tasked with training the first 1,000 TK stormtroopers.[31] In order to fully cease clone production, Rampart destroyed all of Kamino's cloning cities with his fleet of Venators. The continued recruitment of non-clone troops and the destruction of Kamino was kept secret from the Imperial Senate, with the latter incident being covered up as the result of a cataclysmic storm.[37]
Stormtroopers in armor very close[38] to the eventual final design[1] were deployed to the planet Mon Cala,[38] where they engaged the native Quarren and Mon Calamari in the Empire's planetary invasion. Also involved in the operation were clone troopers from the last Kaminoan batch, with the newly deployed clones having been assigned to Darth Vader and the Inquisitorius as a disposable death squad: the Purge Troopers.[39] Recruited stormtrooper soldiers were also deployed in the place of clones to worlds like the Outer Rim planet Thabeska, the moon of Raada,[40] and the former Separatist planet Desix. Desix in specific saw a large number of TK troopers move into occupy its lands after a clone trooper squad claimed Desix City for the Empire, with that squad's commanding officer, Clone Commander Cody, watching in silence as the new soldiers took control. Cody had hoped to open diplomatic talks with planetary governor Tawni Ames, only for her to be executed at the order of the new Imperial governor, Grotton.[41] Having also taken part in the enslavement of Kashyyykk,[42] Cody was unable to justify the Empire's actions and soon abandoned the Imperial Military. Rampart would take Cody's defection as further proof that clones could not be trusted.[41]
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