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Which is best?

The unit size will be a company. The story will be like Band of Brothers, which I just finished watching.

I have a feeling a stromtrooper POV would be very dull because there would be little to no chance at character development. We're talking about a corps of soldiers that are fearless, are genetically predisposed to take orders and are used as cannon fodder shock troops. All their thoughts are bent towads the good of the Empire and its Emperor. A far better choice would be either regualr Imperial army units or TIE Fighter pilots corps.

NR mainly becuase you can give them any equipment you want and not have canon purists breathing down your neck.

You can bring a much better 'motley crew' of people with the NR. The Imperials will all have much the same background, growing up and then being sent to Academy at a very young age, but you can bring in people from all over with the NR.

Stravo wrote:I have a feeling a stromtrooper POV would be very dull because there would be little to no chance at character development. We're talking about a corps of soldiers that are fearless, are genetically predisposed to take orders and are used as cannon fodder shock troops. All their thoughts are bent towads the good of the Empire and its Emperor. A far better choice would be either regualr Imperial army units or TIE Fighter pilots corps.

Stormtroopers aren't clones are they?

Stravo thinks they are, and there is evidence both for and against it. Whether they are or aren't isn't really important, since the consensus seems to be that the stormtrooper corps originated as clones.

How about a storm trooper corps coming from Tatooine or some other place like that? I'd like to see some story which follows the format of that SW fan movie "Troops".

Stravo wrote:I have a feeling a stromtrooper POV would be very dull because there would be little to no chance at character development. We're talking about a corps of soldiers that are fearless, are genetically predisposed to take orders and are used as cannon fodder shock troops. All their thoughts are bent towads the good of the Empire and its Emperor. A far better choice would be either regualr Imperial army units or TIE Fighter pilots corps.

While that may be true, there really isn't much if any insight into the lives behind the suits, am I correct?

~ver

Huh? I thought stormies were recruits, not just clones.

I'm certainly NOT getting into that debate. I have my position certain other members have theirs. Admittedly mine is more of a cinema purists view while the others have a more holistic EU view.

i think you should go with the NR idea, as you would get diffrent species and this could lead too interesting charcaters,who could hate each other guts because of the smell of them .Ryn perhaps?)or the way they breath.


you could certinly get something more originil anyway

Well i have decided to do a NR company of soldiers. Are there any airborne troops in Star Wars? and I would like some suggestions for the species of the company.

Wookies. Wookies make everythign fun, and you can do all sorts of cliches involving droids. And not to add fuel to the fire, but the EU says that Stormtoopes get indoctinated from youth, indicating they're all going to have somewhat the same background.

I'd say NR. I can imagine it would allow for more character development, and you don't have to deal with the issue of whether they are clones or recruits.

Which time period will it be set in? New Republic puts it around Thrawn's time, if I recall correctly. Are they going to be a regular army unit, or some kind of special forces commando group?

Species: Wookiees are fun. Sorry, I don't know much about SW aliens other than the ones who're onscreen. How about a Transdoshan mercenary? A battledroid? An Ewok?

by new rebulic i also mean the rebellion. As for what type of unit they will be they will be like the Paratroopers of WW2.

Stravo wrote:are used as cannon fodder shock troops.

Not really.

Pax Emperica is a fascinating story of Stormtroopers. Setting them in a brutal mission to Kashyyyk, the Stormtroopers appear to be normal men, but the story reveals layer after layer of deception and brainwashing. It goes from brutal Vietnam-type war story to 1984.

In the end our Corporal, disillusioned and wanting to leave the Marines, realizes he can't live without the Empire; he loves the Empire. Great homage to 1984 and an excellent story both explaining and offering a glimpse into the Imperial Stormtrooper.

AND FOR THE LAST TIME. ALMOST ALL STORMTROOPERS IN THE OT ARE CLONES. Pax Emperica establishes once and forever that it is a fact that more than 40% of Stormtroopers are clones, and the direct implication is the percentage is vastly greater than that.

Stravo wrote:I'm certainly NOT getting into that debate. I have my position certain other members have theirs. Admittedly mine is more of a cinema purists view while the others have a more holistic EU view.

Sorry Stravo, but yours is wrong and irrelevent as much as Darkstar's. You may hold those opinions as you wish, but they are as rationally unteniable and unwarrented as any other purist view.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:*snip*

So...Stormtroopers are clones? Isn't that what Stravo said? And is Pax Emperica a book or a fanfic?

A Stormtrooper squad would be interesting around the time of Thrawn. Due to Thrawn's tactical abilities the unit would probably be on some cool mission to assasinate the leaders of the NR.

Or even if it is a storm squad during the imperial civil (after Return of the jedi) war and they fight on Coruscant and try to infiltrate the intirm council to kill them all.

I have decided what to do. I am going to do a Rebel unit. They are going to be mostly human and a few other species.

What I need some help on is this:

1) list of possible names. If i cant think up any STAR WARS names, I will just use english names.

2) does Star Wars have anything remotely similar to a Paratrooper force.

3) if so what type of thing subsitutes Parachutes, if nothing I will just make something up.

4) need a list of items that would be found in a Medics Feild Kit.

5) any blaster that would subsitute for a Colt pistol.

I have decided to give the troops E-11's and two T-21 light repeating blasters per platoon.

Agent Fisher wrote:I have decided what to do. I am going to do a Rebel unit. They are going to be mostly human and a few other species.

2) does Star Wars have anything remotely similar to a Paratrooper force.

not that we heard of the closest would be repulsorpacs from YJK: Jedi seige

3) if so what type of thing subsitutes Parachutes, if nothing I will just make something up.

Repulsor packs

4) need a list of items that would be found in a Medics Feild Kit.

Bacta patchs bacta loctions, laser scapel, tranquilisers good o' fashioned bandages. splints. cast making stuff. read the wraith squadron books for a beter idea.

5) any blaster that would subsitute for a Colt pistol.

Just make one up.
Han Solo uses DL-44 theres a less powerful DL mentioned in DFR.
Jango Fett uses WESTAR 25s

Well, IIRC, WEG's Rebel Alliance Sourcebook mentions Rebel Commandos using Paragliders, which look like parachutes in the accompanying illustration.

Wait, wait, wait. Stormtroopers cloens? Where was this debate held? I thought the emporer outlawed cloning?

Chardok wrote:Wait, wait, wait. Stormtroopers cloens? Where was this debate held? I thought the emporer outlawed cloning?

IIRC Lucas has said they are, and that Ep 3 will show this. I might be wrong though.

Alright I have decided to use repulsor packs. Also I am shrinking the unit size to a platoon.