Stormtrooper/Legends

Stormtroopers were Imperial shock troops, fanatically loyal to the Emperor and his New Order. The Imperial Stormtrooper Corps was separate from both the Army and Navy, although both organizations employed stormtrooper units in supporting roles. For example, Star Destroyers carried stormtroopers for boarding and surface deployment. As with much of the Imperial military, stormtroopers were predominantly male. Members of the Imperial Royal Guard not on active guard duty for the Emperor were circulated through stormtrooper units.

History
The predecessors of stormtroopers were introduced in 22 BBY as soldiers of the Republic. Called clone troopers, they were clones of bounty hunter Jango Fett. By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Fett's progeny were heavily supplemented with clones from new DNA sources and troopers recruited in the traditional way. When the New Republic defeated the Empire in the Galactic Civil War and took over the machinery of galactic government, they terminated the stormtrooper program, though the Imperial Remnant continued to use stormtroopers in battle until a peace treaty was signed some years after. Following the treaty, stormtroopers became little more than guards and police officers on Remnant worlds, though they fought along with their New Republic/GFFA comrades against the Yuuzhan Vong.

Organization
One batallion of stormtroopers numbered 820 troopers.

Officers
In non-combat situations, a Stormtrooper officer wears a black officer uniform, insignia, and a cap. All Stormtrooper officers are also Stormtroopers and wear the characteristic white armor. In some situations, they wear standard rank squares over the armor so their rank is apparent to non-Stormtroopers.

In battle, Stormtrooper officers wore standard stormtrooper armor with shoulder pauldrons to indicate rank. Their dress uniform was all a very dark gray, including a cap, boots, and gloves.

Ideology
In addition to their military role as elite troops, stormtroopers constituted an important part of the emperor's New Order. Stormtrooper training was accompanied by thorough indoctrination to Imperial ideology, above and beyond what the normal military was exposed to, and stormtroopers were closely associated with the Emperor himself. This was particularly significant in light of the tensions between the Emperor and the Navy. For instance, the stormtroopers deployed to the Death Star were, arguably, largely there to ensure the immensely powerful battlestation remained in the Emperor's control. (Darth Vader was sent for a similar purpose.)

Weaponry

 * E-11 can be found almost anywhere. It is the standard issue weapon of the Corps and one of the most common issued rifles in the Empire.

Armor
A distinctive white body armor over a sealed black body glove, and in this respect appeared similar to their Clone Wars predecessors. The complete set completely encases the body and typically has no individually distinguishing marking outside of rank. In fact, the casual first-time observer sometimes mistakes the Stormtroopers as a form of battle droid.

It also protects the troopers from very harsh environments as well as projectiles and impact weapons. The armour might be penetrated by a direct blaster bolt, but it will reduce damage from the bolts absorbed significantly. The body glove allows for operation in warm or cold climates, however it can protect the trooper from almost any environment -- from total vacuum conditions to the very extremes in cold and heat for a very limited period of time.

In certain situations however, Stormtroopers will sometimes wear camouflage armor to help them blend in with different environments. The Stormtrooper corps instituted this reform after the embarrassing defeat at the Battle of Endor.


 * The backplate contained an emergency 20 minutes of oxygen if the trooper should be exposed to vacuum or be trapped underwater. It also contains a power pack.
 * The stomach armour contains Manual Suit Seal and environmental controls. *The thigh armour has a reinforced alloy plate ridge
 * the lower right side, near the knee contains the suits system power cells.
 * The left upper side of the shin armour has a sniper position knee protector plate.
 * IFF circuitry for identification and command purposes for identifying each other.

Helmets
Their helmets assisted in aiming at moving targets. They also featured
 * Advanced Breathing Filters (which acts as protection against chemical and biological attacks, as well as toxins)
 * Automatic polarizing and Anti-flash blinding lenses protect the trooper against intense glare and provide them with enhanced combat vision or "Holographic Vision Processors" (which allows vision through many barriers such as smoke, darkness and fire). Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System (MFTAS) helps with the stormtroopers' perception in darkness as well as smoke and other visibility obscuring conditions.
 * An hour of emergency oxygen
 * Comlink which also has options to change the frequency. The comlink uses linked encoding sequences to rotate frequencies every few seconds while keeping all troopers in the unit synchronized. If a trooper's helmet is removed without the trooper first hitting the comlink's control stud(most likely found on the under-rim of the helmet), the frequency coding routine is automatically deleted from that helmet.
 * The Comtech Series IV helmet speaker uses three-phase sonic filtering for clear sound (For troopers, it is connected to the audio pickup).
 * It also has a vocoder for talking to non-Stormtroopers.

Belts
There were a variety of supplies on their belts, including
 * a high-tension wire
 * two grappling hooks
 * four spare blaster power packs
 * three ion flares
 * a concentrated ration bar
 * a spare comlink
 * three water packs
 * two medpacks.
 * two Blast Energy Sinks to protect the trooper's hips

Extra
For extended operations, Stormtroopers carried field backpacks loaded with
 * a personal tent
 * five concentrated rations
 * fifteen water packs
 * eight blaster power packs
 * a glowrod.

Specialized Stormtroopers
There were several subgroups in the Stormtrooper Corps with training and equipment for particular mission profiles, generally sorted by the type of environment the trooper will encounter.
 * Sandtroopers: Arid-environment stormtroopers.
 * Snowtroopers: Arctic-environment stormtroopers.
 * Scout troopers: Biker scout stormtroopers.
 * Spacetroopers: Zero-g/vacuum stormtroopers.
 * Seatroopers: Marine-environment stormtroopers.
 * Blackhole troopers: Agent Blackhole's personal stormtroopers.
 * Storm Commandos: Commando stormtroopers.
 * Hazard Troopers: Stormtroopers with heavy, corrosion/temperature-safe armor
 * Dark Troopers: Droid shocktroopers
 * Radtroopers: Radioactive-environment stormtoopers.
 * Magmatroopers: Volcano-environment stormtroopers.
 * Airtroopers: Specialized air-assault stormtroopers.
 * Swamptroopers: Swamp-environment stormtroopers.
 * Minetroopers: Mine-environment stormtroopers.
 * Tunneling Underminers: Tunneling stormtroopers.
 * Coruscant Guards: Law-enforcers of Coruscant.