Academy for Young Imperials

"How's the Academy?" "...It's drills and more drills, and then some drills. Running drills, and agility drills, and weapons drills, and drills about drills. But I swear I'm already stronger and faster." "And tireder."

- Zare and Dhara Leonis

The Imperial Academy on Lothal housed and educated recruits for the Imperial Army. It was overseen by Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko and Taskmaster Myles Grint. Despite its difficult training regiment, stormtroopers who graduated from Lothal's academy were often viewed as inferior to those produced elsewhere by off-world officers.

Lothal's Imperial Academy was a one-year junior academy. At the end of their term, graduates were expected to move on to a senior academy for a longer stint, then the very best were allowed to enter a specialized service academy for training with the Imperial Army, Imperial Navy or the Stormtrooper Corps, while the remainder went straight into the Imperial military.

History
Over the years, the Imperial Academy saw many recruits come through, as each crop of recruits only remained for one year at most. Sometimes the recruits were rumored to disappear, which was probably done under the shadow of the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor would take the recruits that Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko found to be most promising. One of the recruits he nearly took was Ezra Bridger.

At the Lothal Academy, recruits would be subjected to numerous tests; one such test requiring recruits to jump on moving platforms that were sometimes shocked in order to stop recruits from getting to the top. This test was made harder everyday by adding another challenge on top of the last one, such as the ability to move platforms by firing on it with a blaster. The first three recruits to the top received the honor of helping around the Imperial base on Lothal and getting to ride inside an All Terrain Defense Pod.

Appearances

 * The Rebellion Begins
 * Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy
 * Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks