Pax Empirica—The Wookiee Annihilation

Pax Empirica is a short story written by Steve L. Kent published in Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Prima's Official Strategy Guide.

Story
Clone stormtrooper Wayson Dower is send to Kashyyyk soon after the end of the Clone Wars as part of a small imperial trooper unit to prepare the imperial invasion of the Wookiee's homeworld.

After landing on Kashyyyk the imperial troopers attack and conquer a small Wookiee outpost but then have to fight a counter attack of the mighty Wookiees. Dower is among the few stormtroopers that survive the attack. After making his way back to the landing zone through the dangerous forest and losing several of his comrades to the Wookiees and a mysterious huge, cold spider, Dower meets a huge imperial invasion force and realizes that his mission was only a distraction to keep the Wookiees occupied.

Clones
This short story (published in November 2001) provided information about stormtroopers being clones, several month before the release of Episode II. It states that nearly 40% of all stormtroopers are made from the same template. Part of their genetic programming makes them ignore the fact, that they look exactly the same as most of the others. They don't even realize, that they are clones because of this programming. It also says, that while they are created exactly the same way, they develop their own personalities as soon as they are "born". Some become lazy and fat, while others become murderous machines in battle.

Characters

 * Captain Janzor
 * Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin
 * Milo Strander
 * Sergeant Dalia
 * Sergeant Oswald Strepp
 * Sterns Yennich
 * Tak Bazierre
 * Wayson Dower

Locations

 * Trooper's Canteen

Planets

 * Hijarna
 * Kashyyyk
 * Yavin

Species

 * Neimoidians
 * Wookiees

Vehicles

 * AT-AT
 * XR-85 tank droid
 * TIE crawler
 * TIE Fighter

Creatures

 * Bantha
 * Huge cold Spider (name unknown)