█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒█ ✪ █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒█

Hello Galaxy!

In this post, I would like to tell you about the popular and not popular types of attack aircraft!

P.S. There WILL NOT be non-canonical stormtroopers in this post, only from canon!

:loudspeaker: WARNING:loudspeaker:

You might know about all these types, but this post has been made in an informative way to study these types of attack aircraft!

╭═════╩▓⟬✺⟭▓╩═════╮

Imperial stormtroopers (Later there will be First Order stormtroopers)

Stormtroopers

Strike Force of the Galactic Empire,

wore white armor over a black skin-tight suit, which, in addition to its imposing appearance, had a wide range of equipment for survival and temperature control, the main weapon was the F-11D.

Scout stormtroopers

They wore lighter armor and used jetbikes to patrol the perimeters of the Imperial garrisons they were assigned to. They were equipped with long-range blasters and smoke grenades.

Scout Snipers

There was a special unit of reconnaissance stormtroopers who used deadly long-range E-11s blasters and gray armor.

Imperial Combat Driver

Who piloted many of the Imperial Army's ground vehicles, such as the AT-DP. Among the combat drivers of the Empire there was also a specialization, according to which the AT-ST drivers drove the AT-ST walkers, and another division was responsible for piloting the AT-Tos. The latter considered themselves an elite among the elite.

Stormtrooper sniper

(I understand that this is unlikely, but it helped a lot and corresponds to the description of the armor)

Specialized attack aircraft armed with sniper rifles. These stormtroopers wore blue pauldrons and had visors on their helmets. They also had black bandoliers criss-crossed across their chest plates.

Sandtroopers

they wore an improved version of the armor, which ensured survival on such desert planets as Tatooine. Of the weapons they wore - DLT-19 or T-21.

snow troopers

Specialized attack aircraft equipped with breathing heaters located under face masks. Snowtroopers were self-sufficient mobile combat units. They were able to survive for two weeks in severe frosts on the power of the power supply alone. Snow troopers underwent rigorous selective training, as they had to survive and fight in very difficult combat conditions. Of the weapons were -

1) For a regular snowtrooper, there was an E-11 blaster rifle, an SE-14r blaster pistol, two stun and frag grenades.

2) For the elite, there was a blaster rifle DLT-20a and two stun grenades.

Coastal defense attack aircraft

Stormtroopers have been trained and equipped to operate in tropical and coastal environments such as the planet Scarif.

The shoretroopers based on Scarif were armed with both standard E-11 blaster rifles and upgraded E-22 blaster rifles.

Dark Soldiers Phase II

They wore heavy armor and were armed with assault guns. Such soldiers were used to attack enemy fortifications.

Shadow Stormtroopers

They were armed with T-21 light automatic blasters and wore armor that, in addition to the awesome black coloring, had cloaking devices.

Death Troopers

They were the elite fighters of the Imperial Army, whose specialization included operations in the interests of the Imperial Intelligence and the Imperial Navy. Usually they acted as bodyguards for high-ranking officials of the Empire. They were often armed with SE-14r light automatic blasters.

Lava Troopers

They were equipped for operations in extremely high temperatures and trained to fight on volcanic planets. Of the weapons were - T-21 or DLT-19.

water attack aircraft

They were trained in water combat to uphold the rules in the undersea worlds of the Empire. Weapons are unknown, but it is certain that they had TIE Boats.

space stormtroopers

Specialized attack aircraft trained to operate in open space and lack of gravity. They wore a special version of stormtrooper armor, additionally equipped with a breathing apparatus. From weapons - is unknown.

Attack-Stormtrooper

High class stormtroopers, from the assault corps of the Galactic Empire. They served in the elite front-line units of the Empire, as well as as bodyguards of the Emperor. They were successors to the shock clones that served in the Grand Army of the Republic.

They had a heavy blaster DLT-19 or a powerful rocket launcher in their arsenal.

Imperial heavy soldiers

They were clad in heavy combat armor and armed with electric staves, making them look like Imperial pacifier soldiers.

Heavily armed stormtroopers

They were equipped with bulky spinning blaster cannons. Heavy troopers were armed with the Z-6 spinning blaster cannon or the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.

Stormtrooper Grenadier

Armed with grenade launchers and wearing a red pauldron and a black bandolier slung across their chests, this type of stormtrooper was notable for its particular ferocity towards its enemies.

Firetroopers

They were a type of attack aircraft equipped with flamethrower weapons.

Just because I'm black and driving an expensive car doesn't mean I stole it. That is, I stole this car, but not because I'm black!

Agent Jay, Men in Black 3

The trailer for the new episode of Star Wars unexpectedly generated a wave of indignation against the young black actor John Boyega on the Internet. And the main claims were made not even to his acting, which is still difficult to assess, but to the color of his skin and the fact that his hero is dressed as an imperial stormtrooper. We examine the validity of these claims.

Claim number 1: how tired of this tolerance!

There are black actors in every Hollywood movie!

Racial segregation in the United States was abolished back in the sixties, and it is prosecuted by law. However, there are no laws requiring film producers to maintain a certain percentage of people of color on set. It's just that there are a lot of black people in America, including actors, and they win auditions because they are better suited for the role.

The skin color of the performer shouldn't matter at all, except when it matters to the script. For example, the main character in Tarantino's film Django Unchained could not have been played by a white man.

Why is it possible for Will Smith to be a sci-fi action star (and make funny faces), but not for John Boyega?

But the problem of racism in the United States has not been exhausted to the end. Remember how often there is news about the unjustified brutality with which the police detain black offenders. In the film business, racial prejudice also affects.

According to statistics, films starring a black man, on average, receive the worst ratings from the press and underperform at the box office. But let's not forget that of the 100 highest-grossing science fiction films in history, only eight featured a black protagonist. Moreover, in six cases he was played by Will Smith.

Yes, sometimes the writers change the race of the characters. Nick Fury from the Marvel world became black - but this happened back in the comics, and it’s a sin to complain about the game of Samuel L. Jackson. Less successful was the decision to invite the role of the Human Torch in the restart " Fantastic Four by Michael B. Jordan, especially considering his sister was played by a white actress.

There are also reverse tricks. For example, in the Ridley Scott film Exodus: Kings and Gods"both Egyptians and Jews are played mainly by Anglo-Saxons. IN " Peng: Journey to Neverland The role of Indian Tiger Lily went to white actress Rooney Mara.

Asians are even less lucky. IN " martian» Korean Mindy Park turned white. The Japanese Keiji from the book by Hiroshi Sakurazaki became an American with the face of Tom Cruise in " Edge of the Future". And Major Motoko Kusanagi will soon be played by a completely non-Asian Scarlett Johansson.

So there is no universal conspiracy in Hollywood to promote blacks on the screens.

Claim number 2: why did they add blacks to Star Wars at all?

Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu... Oh yes, there were never blacks in Star Wars!

Zar Leonis, a black cadet in the service of the Empire. During the Rebellion, by the way!

They have always been there, have mercy! How can you forget Lando Calrissian and his contribution to defeating the Empire in Return of the Jedi? And in the new trilogy of dark-skinned heroes there are even more: Padme's bodyguards - Tyfo and Panaka, and Giddeon Danu, the senator from Kuat. There were Jedi too: Adi Gallia, Stass Alli and, of course, the mighty Master Mace Windu, played by the magnificent Samuel L. Jackson. By the way, Darth Vader was voiced by a black James Earl Jones.

There are entire planets in the Expanded Universe with black populations. In Matthew Stover's novel Vulnerable Point, it is revealed that Mace Windu hails from the planet Haruun-Kal, inhabited by the dark-skinned Corunnai race. In Knights of the Old Republic, Revan is mentored by the black Jedi Jolie Bindu. And in the new comics from Marvel, a mysterious black beauty appears who claims that she is married to Han Solo himself!

Do not forget that representatives of millions of different species live in a galaxy far, far away, often completely different from humans. In a world where there are hairy Wookiees, giant Hutts and tail-headed Twi'leks, do you think anyone cares about the difference in skin color among homo sapiens?

Racism in Star Wars

I wonder if the blue, red, and purple Twi Leks hate each other because of their skin color?

According to the Expanded Universe, the Empire was a racist state that oppressed non-human races, for which there was a special designation - exotics. They were rarely accepted into the service of Imperial organizations, and some races were completely exterminated or enslaved by the Empire.

Officially, the reason for such a policy was that it was the Exotics who created the Confederation of Independent Systems, although Count Dooku always remained formally the leader of the CIS. Due to xenophobic policies, many peoples - such as Bothans and Mon Calamari - joined the Rebellion.

Complaint #3: Negroes can't be stormtroopers!

Do Jango Fett clones have to be white? But Temuera Morrison, who played Django, is half Maori.

Why not? Many people think that all stormtroopers are clones of Jango Fett, but this is a misconception. Between the appearance of the clones and the events " The Force Awakens about half a century has passed. Here, ordinary people will grow old, and even more so the clones, who grew rapidly and became adults at the age of ten. The first stormtroopers even before the start of the Uprising turned into old men, which was clearly shown by the second season of the animated series "Rebels". And these are still those of the fighters who survived - and how many of them died in the Clone Wars?

Of course, retired ones can be replaced with new ones - if a suitable donor of genetic material is found. However, Jango Fett, from whom the clones were copied, died at the beginning of the war.

Lucas did not elaborate on how cloning works in this galaxy. But the order for the creation of the army of clones came ten years before the war, and all this time Fett lived at the laboratory. Hence, regular donation is necessary. With Fett's death, the Kaminoans had to shut down production. In the Clone Wars animated series, Kamino's representatives mention that they need a new donor, and the Republic never provided one.

This is what Jango Fett clones looked like in Rebels. And this is thirty years before The Force Awakens!

Clones and the Expanded Universe

Even in A New Hope, it was clear that the stormtroopers were of different heights.

In the old canon star wars» The history of stormtroopers is described in detail. According to Karen Traviss' novel "Republic Commando: Order 66" and the game Star Wars: Battlefront 2, during the Clone Wars, Palpatine secretly built a factory that, with the help of new technologies, grew clones in just a year. True, the quality of these clones was quite bad.

A few years after the war, the Kaminoans decided to overthrow the emperor and created their own army using the remnants of Jango Fett's DNA. The imperial troops crushed the rebellion, but the emperor, having lost faith in the "army of one man", decided to use more donors. They began to take ordinary people into attack aircraft.

By the beginning of the Clone Rebellion, there were almost no Jango clones in the ranks of the imperial army, and the quality of new recruits left much to be desired. Is it any wonder that they could not hit the enemy even from ten steps!

And one more thing: the Republic received a two-million-strong army without spending a dime. Everything was paid for either by Master Sifo-Dyas or by the Sith. New batches of clones would cost a pretty penny. And the economy of the Republic was already seriously undermined by the pre-war crises and the war itself.

Finally, with all the advantages of cloning, new fighters get into service only after ten years. And the barely formed Empire needed an army right away. Not surprisingly, the emperor soon began to recruit recruits from ordinary people. Remember, at the beginning of A New Hope, Luke Skywalker dreams of entering the Imperial Flight Academy!

Just because a person wears Imperial armor doesn't mean they're a stormtrooper!

Luke's example shows that there were enough young naive guys in the galaxy who dreamed of becoming famous and looking at other worlds. Service in the imperial army was an opportunity for them to escape from their hateful home. It's not hard to imagine that Finn, the hero of John Boyega, is a conscript or volunteer who bought into the romance of military service.

New characters and actors

Finn, of course, is not the only newcomer among the heroes of the new episode. We also talk a little about other debutants.

Finn

A young guy who appears either in the armor of a stormtrooper, or in the clothes of a rebel, or even with a Jedi sword. As the creators confirmed, Finn is a stormtrooper, but not an ideological supporter of the First Order, but simply a conscript. Probably unwilling to carry out cruel orders, he deserts, and later joins the rebels and learns the Force, becoming a Jedi.

Actor: John Boyega. Briton of Nigerian origin, starring in the film "Strangers in the area."

Ray

A girl from the desert planet Jakku flies a rusty jetbike, owns a BB-8 droid, and collects scrap metal for a living. Judging by the trailer, along with a crowbar, she once picked up a deserter stormtrooper and brought him together with the rebels.

Actress: Daisy Ridley. One of the most inexperienced in the film. Behind Miss Ridley are only a couple of supporting roles in little-known British TV shows. " The Force Awakens will be her debut on the big screen.

Kylo Ren

One of the main villains of the film is a big fan of Darth Vader: he dresses almost like Vader, in a mask and a black cape, and carries a red lightsaber with an unusual guard, which, according to the filmmakers, he made himself. Most likely, Ren serves the First Order - an organization that replaced the Empire.

Actor: Adam Driver. Emmy nominee for her role in Girls. Formerly a member of the Marine Corps.

High Chief Snoke

This villain was played by Andy Serkis in "digital makeup" and we still don't know what he looks like. It is known that he leads the First Order and that stormtroopers follow his orders. If Kylo Ren can be called a replacement for Vader, then Snoke is the new emperor.

Actor: Andy Serkis. Gained worldwide fame for his motion-capture roles: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, and an ape in King Kong.

By Dameron

Rebel pilot, self-proclaimed "best pilot in the galaxy". He is somehow connected with Princess Leia and carries out her order.

Actor: Oscar Isaac. He was noted for supporting roles in the films "Robin Hood", "Forbidden Reception" and "Drive". In 2013, he received critical acclaim for his lead role in Inside Llewyn Davis.

Captain Phasma

Stormtrooper commander, wears stylish chrome armor. Most likely, Finn's immediate boss, who will arrange a hunt for a deserter.

Actress: Gwendolyn Christie. Known for her role as Brienne, a warrior with a strong physique, in the Game of Thrones, and recently she also played in The Hunger Games.

General Hux

Another commander of the First Order, the commander of the Starkiller base, located on a certain ice planet and having weapons capable of destroying the planetary system. Probably an analogue of Grand Moff Tarkin.

Actor: Domhnall Gleason. Son of famous Irish actor Brendan Gleason. He was remembered for the role of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter films, appeared in Dredd and got the main role in the melodrama Boyfriend from the Future.

BB-8

A small orange repair droid that Ray picks up in the desert. As the fans joke, he will most certainly be the son of R2D2... and probably the Death Star.

Actor: no. Unlike R2D2, which has Kenny Baker as a dwarf inside, BB-8 is not even CGI, but a real radio-controlled robot.

* * *

Perhaps the only complaint that can be made against Boyega is that in most of the shots shown, his character has a very stupid expression on his face. But you can’t draw conclusions about the level of the actor’s performance from a couple of frames from the trailer! If you wish, you can make a selection of the same funny faces for any character " star wars».

Maybe we have the right to expect better restraint from a fighter of the elite imperial units. But, firstly, Finn in the trailer is shown at a moment of serious stress: he is under fire running away from his pursuers on an unfamiliar planet. And secondly, do you think how many experienced instructors survived in the imperial army during half a century of star wars?

Blackhole Stormtroopers

Characteristics:

Description:

The Dark Jedi Cronal, also known as Blackhole, was one of Emperor Palpatine's confidants. He was a hand of the emperor, a high-ranking member of the Order of the Prophets (an integral part of the Sith order of his time) and was one of the leaders of imperial intelligence, secretly sharing a post with Isani Isard.

Cronal carried out many important assignments of the emperor, for some of which he needed to attract well-armed units. It was probably during these years that he decided to ask the emperor to provide him with ... personal troops. With a small personal army under his command, Cronal could not rely on army units or stormtroopers, thereby violating the secrecy of the mission. Palpatine did not refuse one of his favorites and provided Cronal with a personal Singularity Star Destroyer, a select TIE Fighter air wing, and a stormtrooper division manned by experienced soldiers. But stormtroopers were not enough for Cronal. He convinced Palpatine to grow a legion of clones for him, modeled after Fett's original DNA used to create the clone army for the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).

In addition to first-class training, Cronal's personal stormtroopers also had the appropriate equipment. Their armor differed from the standard storm armor by a special polymer developed by Imperial scientists on the planet Aetene-2 ​​(Aeten II). The armor well hid the wearer from electronic and visual means of detection, reflecting or absorbing locator impulses. Camouflage was especially important to Cronal's stormtroopers, as they were not primarily called upon to participate in combined arms operations, like Vader's 501st Legion, but to carry out covert operations in small groups. Due to the characteristic color of the polymer, the wearers of the armor were nicknamed "Shadow Troopers". The polymer was very expensive to manufacture, making black armor much more expensive than its "white" counterparts. The total cost of the bundle was 28,000 credits. The cost of the polymer for one set of armor was 10,000 credits, and the process of applying it cost another 2,000 credits. On this, the external differences between Cronal's soldiers and ordinary attack aircraft ended. The armament of the attack aircraft of the division was standard for the assault corps.

Prior to the Battle of Endor, Cronal's stormtroopers were engaged in covert operations against rebels from the Rebel Alliance. For example, shortly after the Battle of Yavin, they were involved in an operation on Vorzyd V, where Leia, Han, and Luke were at that moment. The "immortal trinity" never got into Cronal's network, but his stormtroopers stumbled upon a local resistance cell and entered into battle with it, actually destroying it.

After Endor, Cronal, using the highest-level identification codes bestowed on him personally by the emperor, gathered around him a small army and fleet from the remaining unowned imperial units. With these troops, he began conducting raids against the planets and supply lines of the Rebel Alliance, which soon declared itself the New Republic. A special role in these sorties was played by his black attack aircraft, which performed special operations and boarding transport ships.

Six months later, the New Republic decided to put an end to the attacks of the hated Cronal. Having learned about the location of his headquarters, located on the planet Mindor, the former rebels sent a squadron of warships carrying 18,000 paratroopers to destroy it. The squadron was commanded by Luke Skywalker. The operation went wrong from the start. First, the squadron fell into a well-organized imperial ambush and suffered heavy losses. The cruiser, on which all the paratroopers were, was hit. The HP Marines who survived the first attack left the sinking ship in escape and drop pods. But on the surface of the planet, Cronal's black stormtroopers were already waiting for them. In the wastelands of Mindor, violent skirmishes broke out between squads of stormtroopers and disorganized groups of paratroopers. Only a few paratroopers of the republic managed to survive in this meat grinder. I want to note that if it were Cronal's will, the black stormtroopers could even eliminate Luke, but the servant of the dark side of the Force had his own plans for him.

After the events on Mindor, the black stormtroopers again went into the shadows, like their mysterious leader. It was only during the Emperor Reborn's campaign against the New Republic in 10 ABY that the galaxy remembered them again. Cronal's role in these events is unknown, but the fact that his personal stormtroopers fought for the Emperor Reborn may indicate that Cronal remained loyal to Palpatine.

After Palpatine's repeated and final death, the fate of the Black Stormtroopers is unknown. Most likely, the survivors dispersed throughout the galaxy singly or in small groups. This alone can explain the presence of these soldiers (along with armor) in the service of ex-Guards Carnor Jax, in 11 ABY. Jax dreamed of becoming the new ruler of the galaxy, and in order to fulfill this plan, he, like no one else, needed experienced soldiers to perform special tasks.

After Jax's death at the hands of fellow former Guardsman Cyrus Kainos, the trail of the legendary Blackhole stormtroopers is lost. They are not mentioned anywhere else.

Sources:

• Official site StarWars.com (encyclopedia of the old site)
• Insider #88 "Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties"
• Crimson Empire (comic series)
• Crimson Empire Handbook
• A Cracken's Crew Web Supplement, Art. 6
• Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (novel)

Just because I'm black and driving an expensive car doesn't mean I stole it. That is, I stole this car. But not because I'm black!
Agent Jay, Men in Black 3

The trailer for the new episode of Star Wars was liked by many, but the reaction of some commentators was unexpected. They attacked the young actor John Boyega with indignation. Moreover, claims were made not even to his acting, which we have not yet had time to evaluate, but to the color of his skin and to the fact that his hero wears the armor of an imperial stormtrooper. Fantasy World examines the validity of these claims.

Important: We use the word "Negro", not wanting to offend anyone. In Russian, this word has no negative connotation. Не путать с английским ругательством «nigger»!

Claim #1: How tired of these supporters of tolerance! They shove blacks in every Hollywood movie!

Racial segregation was abolished in the United States back in the 1960s, and restriction of rights on a racial basis is punishable by law. But there are no laws requiring film producers to respect a certain percentage of people of color on set. It's just that there are a lot of black people in America, some of them work as actors, go to auditions and win them because they are better suited for the role.

Ideally, the skin color of the performer should not matter at all - except in cases where it is important for the script. For example, the main character in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained could not have been played by a white man.

But the problem of racism in the United States has not completely disappeared. Recall the news about the unjustified brutality with which the police detain black violators. In the film business, of course, no one beats the "colored", but racial prejudice plays against blacks here, and not in their favor. Statistically, films starring a black man, on average, receive more negative reviews from the press and lose several million dollars at the box office.

And are there really so many of them? Of the 100 highest-grossing science fiction films in history, only eight featured a "colored" protagonist. And in six cases, he was played by Will Smith.

Why can Will Smith be a sci-fi action star (and make funny faces) but John Boyega can't?

It's true that sometimes the writers change the race of the characters. Nick Fury from the Marvel world became black - but this happened back in the comics, and it’s a sin to complain about the game of Samuel L. Jackson. Less successful was the decision to cast the black Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four reboot, especially given that the role of his sister went to a white actress.

But in the same Hollywood, the opposite happens. For example, in Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, both Egyptians and Jews are played mainly by Anglo-Saxons. In Pan: Journey to Neverland, the role of Indian Tiger Lily went to white actress Rooney Mara. Asians are even less lucky. In The Martian, Korean Mindy Park turned white. The Japanese Keiji from the book by Hiroshi Sakurazaki became an American with the face of Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. And Major Motoko Kusanagi will soon be played by a completely non-Asian Scarlett Johansson.

So there is no universal conspiracy in Hollywood to promote "colored" to the screens. However, as well as a conspiracy against them.

Laurence Fishburne
Samuel L. Jackson
Morgan Freeman

Halle Berry
Zoe Saldana
Wesley Snipes

A few more black science fiction stars.

Complaint #2: Why did they even add blacks to Star Wars?

They have always been there, God be with you! How can you forget Lando Calrissian and his contribution to defeating the Empire in Return of the Jedi? And in the new trilogy of dark-skinned heroes, there are even more: here are Padme's bodyguards - Tyfo and Panaka, and the senator from Kuat Giddeon Danu. There were also black Jedi - Adi Gallia, Stass Alli and, of course, the incredibly cool master Mace Windu, performed by the magnificent Samuel L. Jackson.

Mace Windu, Lando Calrissian... Oh yes, there were never blacks in Star Wars!

There were even more Negroes in the Expanded Universe - entire planets. In Matthew Stover's novel Vulnerable Point, it is revealed that Mace Windu hails from the planet Haruun-Kal, inhabited by the dark-skinned Corunnai race. In the game Knights of the Old Republic, the black Jedi Jolie Bindu serves as a mentor to the hero. And in the new comics from Marvel, a mysterious black beauty appears who claims that she is married to Han Solo himself!

Do not forget that representatives of millions of different species live in a distant galaxy, often completely different from humans. In a world filled with hairy Wookiees, giant Hutts, and tail-headed Twi'leks, do you think anyone cares about the slight difference in skin tone among homo sapiens?

By the way, Darth Vader is in some way black, and it's not about the color of the suit. He was voiced by the black James Earl Jones.

Racism in Star Wars

According to the Expanded Universe, the Empire was a racist state that oppressed non-human races, for which there was a special designation - exotics. They were rarely accepted into the service of Imperial organizations, and some races were completely exterminated or enslaved by the Empire. Officially, the fact that it was the Exotics who created the Confederacy of Independent Systems was called the reason for such a policy, although Count Dooku always remained formally the leader of the CIS. Due to xenophobic policies, many peoples, such as Bothans and Mon Calamari, joined the Rebellion.

Complaint #3: Negroes can't be stormtroopers!

Why not? Many people think that all stormtroopers are clones of Jango Fett, but this is a misconception. About fifty years elapsed between the appearance of the clones and the events of The Force Awakens. Here, ordinary people will grow old, and even more so the clones, who grew rapidly and became adults at the age of ten. The first stormtroopers turned into old men even before the start of the Rebellion, which was clearly shown by the second season of the animated series "Rebels". And these are still those of the fighters who survived - and how many of them died in the Clone Wars?

This is what Jango Fett clones looked like in Rebels. Thirty years before The Force Awakens!

Of course, retired fighters can be replaced with new ones - if a suitable donor of genetic material is found. But Jango Fett, from whom the clones were copied, died at the beginning of the war. George Lucas did not elaborate on how cloning works in a distant galaxy. But the order for the creation of the army of clones came ten years before the war, and all this time Fett lived at the laboratory. So, regular donation is necessary to create soldiers.

With the death of Fett, the Kaminoans had to curtail production - they ran out of genetic material. In the Clone Wars animated series, Kamino's representatives mention that they need a new donor, and the Republic never provided one.

Let's note one more important thing: the Republic received a two-million-strong army without spending a dime. Everything was paid for either by Master Sifo-Dyas or by the Sith. New batches of clones would cost the budget a tidy sum. And the economy of the Republic was already seriously undermined by the pre-war crises and the war itself.

Finally, with all the advantages of cloning, new fighters get into service only after ten years. And the barely formed Empire needed an army right away. Not surprisingly, the Emperor soon began to recruit recruits from ordinary people. Remember, even Luke Skywalker, at the beginning of A New Hope, dreams of entering the Imperial Flight Academy!

Luke's example shows that there were enough young naive fools in the galaxy who dreamed of becoming famous and looking at other worlds. Service in the Imperial Army was an opportunity for them to escape from their hateful home. It's not hard to imagine that Finn, the hero of John Boyega, will turn out to be a conscript or volunteer who bought into the romance of military service.

Zar Leonis (TV series "Rebels"), a black cadet in the service of the Empire. During the Rebellion, by the way!

Clones and the Expanded Universe

In the old Star Wars canon, the history of stormtroopers was detailed. According to Karen Traviss' novel Republic Commandos: Order 66 and the game Star Wars Battlefront II, during the Clone Wars, Palpatine secretly built a factory that, using new technology, grew clones in just a year. True, the quality of these clones was quite low.

A few years after the war, the Kaminoans decided to overthrow the Emperor and created their own army using the remnants of Jango Fett's DNA. Imperial troops crushed the rebellion, but the Emperor, having lost faith in the "army of one man", decided to use more different donors. In addition, ordinary people began to be taken to attack aircraft.

By the beginning of the Rise of the Jango clones in the ranks of the Imperial army, there were almost no left, and the quality of new recruits left much to be desired. What is there to be surprised that they could not hit the enemy even from ten steps!

∗∗∗

Perhaps the only complaint that can be made against Boyega is that in most of the frames shown, his character has a very stupid expression on his face. But before you say that Boyega is a bad actor, ask yourself: how many films with him have you seen? Willing to bet none. You can’t draw conclusions about the actor’s performance from a couple of frames from the trailer. If desired, with any Star Wars character, you can make a selection of the same funny faces.

Perhaps we had the right to expect greater restraint from a fighter of the elite imperial units. But, firstly, Finn in the trailer is clearly shown at a moment of serious stress - he is under fire running away from his pursuers on an unfamiliar planet. And secondly, do you think how many experienced instructors survived in the Imperial Army during half a century of incessant star wars?

IN The Force awakens(2015) and The Last Jedi(2017), upgraded stormtroopers serve as First Order, under Supreme Leader Snoke and his commanders, most notably Kylo Ren, General Hux and Captain Phasma.

The helmet and armor were redesigned for the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force awakens costume design by Michael Kaplan with director JJ Abrams.

Legion 501

The 501st Legion Elite Stormtrooper Unit, or "Vader's Fist", is a stormtrooper unit from Star Wars films and Star Wars Legends continuity. Commanded by the ruthlessly cunning General Maximilian Wiers and comprised of the most trained soldiers in Star Wars Galaxy, the Legion has gained a brutal reputation, performing missions considered suicidal or impossible to defeat. The 501st serves as Darth Vader's personal death squad, which leads the 501st in the destruction of the Jedi. The 501st lead an attack on the Tantive IV consular ship and capture Princess Leia. During the Battle of Hoth, the 501st played a major role in the destruction of the Rebel Alliance base, and nearly managed to capture millennium falcon. Most of the background history associated with the 501st comes from star wars novels and games Star Wars: Battlefront II And Star Wars The Force Unleashed .

Elite 501st designation resurrected by Grand Admiral Thrawn who in Thrawn trilogy is accused of defending the "Hand of the Empire" Empire forces. The 501st Thrawn is made up of aliens, normal humans, and Jango Fett clones.

501 First Order units wear striking white armor derived from that worn by Republic clones and Empire stormtroopers. Members of this new generation of stormtroopers are trained from birth, growing up with singular designations instead of names, and fed a constant diet of first-order propaganda to ensure absolute loyalty. Where the Empire has chosen a numbing routine, First Order Simulation training and live-fire drills encourage improvisation on the battlefield, making these stormtroopers more dangerous than their Imperial predecessors.

The Legion's name is based on the fan organization of the same name; their inclusion in the official succession was based on the allegiance of the worldwide organization in Star Wars fandom.

Specialists

In the original Star Wars trilogy, several types of "military occupation specialist" attack aircraft units are considered. These include:

Imperial variants

• Sandtroopers see on the desert planet Tatooine during star Wars(1977). Sandtroopers can be distinguished by their large, black, white, or orange shoulder pads, slightly different markings on the back of their helmets, diamond-shaped knee plates, and stomach armor different from regular stormtroopers.
• shocktroopers whether the red version of stormtroopers. Sometimes they carry long rifles or electrostaffs.
• snowtroopers seen in the attack on Echo's bases The Empire Strikes Back(1980) on Hoth and in video games Star Wars: Empire at War , Star Wars: Battlefront , Star Wars: Battlefront II , Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy And Shadows of the empire on the Nintendo 64 (as well as Lego Star Wars II And Star Wars(2015) are regular stormtroopers wearing minus armor. Their helmets and armor are different, with goggles and a breathing hood.
• Scout paratroopers first seen in Return of the Jedi(1983). They are trained in advanced reconnaissance and survival skills for all terrains and are also seen in Star Wars: Battlefront , Star Wars: Battlefront II , Star Wars: The Force Unleashed And Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II like shooter and scout snipers.
• Deadly paratroopers elite soldiers of the Imperial Intelligence, encased in specialized armor with a dark, sinister sheen. These soldiers serve as bodyguards and enforcement officers for VIP Imperial individuals, such as Director Krennic and Grand Admiral Thrawn. Their name comes from the legend of the new Death Troopers, and, in canon, these soldiers are so named due to rumors that they are like zombie fighters.
• Shoretroopers, or simply Scarif Stormtroopers, stormtrooper specialists stationed at top-secret Imperial military headquarters on Scarif, where soldiers patrol the planetary facility's beaches and bunkers.
• Combat pilots of an assault tank And commanders, or tank soldiers, operate the Empire's arsenal of armored repulsor vehicles, from a squadron of heavily armored hovertanks. Combat drivers are lightly armored, relying instead on the thick skin of their vehicles to protect them in combat. The commander is in contact with his command and with headquarters to keep up to date with changing combat conditions.
• Shadow Troopers, also known as Black Hole Troopers, is an elite special-ops type cavalryman only seen in Star Wars Legends material. Assigned to the mysterious Shadow Guard of the Empire, one of the more prominent appearances in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, where they have shiny, reflective black armor that allows them to become invisible. Since the Star Wars Expanded Universe was announced without canon and rebranded as Star Wars Legends, Shadowtroopers has not been seen in any form of media since then.

First order options

• flametroopers in advance in combination with the standard infantry of the first order. These specialized units flush out entrenched enemies with roaring sheets of flame from their flamethrowers. They wear backpack-style fuel tanks, special helmets with slit-like lenses that reduce glare, and glove-body thermostatic devices underneath their armor.
• Riot control stormtroopers V Star Wars: The Force Awakening(2015), specializes in riot control and use non-lethal betaplast shields and Z6 batons.
• snowtroopers assigned to cold planets. They wear special armor and equipment that allow them to work effectively in ice conditions. Snowtroopers wear a backpack-style personal environment unit and wear insulated helmets with glare-reducing slit lenses, gloves, a kama, and a heat-resistant body glove underneath in overalls made from wind-resistant fabric. The Snowtrooper commands the planet's reconnaissance, which was once housed by StarKiller Base, ridding local lifeforms, posing a potential threat.
• Stormtrooper Executioners are a branch of specialists specifically established to deliver final justice to stormtroopers who are found guilty of treason.

Performers

While stormtroopers are performers like Michael Leader Episode IV), Laurie Goode ( Episode IV), Peter Diamond ( Episode IV-VI), Stephen Bailey ( Episode IV), and Bill Weston ( Episode IV) , as a rule, were credits in a series of films, there were a few exceptions.

IN Attack of the Clones(2002), Temuera Morrison plays the bounty hunter Jango Fett and his many clones, who are the first clone army.

IN The Force awakens(2015), Boyega stars as Finn, a former Stormtrooper FN-2187 who defects from the First Order and joins the Resistance, and Gwendoline Christie portrays Captain Phasma, the First Order's stormtrooper commander. Daniel Craig has a small uncredited role as a stormtrooper, whom Rey forces using a Jedi mind trick to let her escape captivity, and director JJ Abrams is also casting Alias And Lost composer Michael Giacchino as FN-3181, and Radiohead producer Godrich as FN-9330. A control riot stormtrooper, who calls the Chuhon a traitor during the Battle of Takodana, portrayed by stuntman Liang Yang and voiced by sound editor David Acord, identified as FN-2199 in the almanac book Star Wars: Before Awakening(2015) by Greg Rucka. The soldier, armed with a "Z6 baton" and dubbed the "TR-8R" by fans, quickly inspired several memes and paintings. Actor/director Kevin Smith also voiced Stormtrooper in the Takodana sequence.

IN Star Wars Rebels, various voice actors provided the voices of Stormtroopers, including David Acord, Dee Bradley Baker, Steven Bloom, Clancy Brown, Robin Atkin Downes, Greg Ellis, Dave Fennoy, Dave Filoni, Tom Kane.