[Sean C]

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Originally Posted by Jester

Yep. Putting the actual Imperial Army onscreen (as opposed to, say, turning Corellia into the bastard offspring of Kuat Drive Yards and Nar Shaddaa) was perhaps the only bit of fanservice in the film that didn’t fall flat on its face.

The spaulders might be from the Death Trooper Armour. The rerebraces and greaves look like they’ve been sourced from the Shoretroopers. The helmet and body armour are a pretty clear reference to General Veers and the Snowtroopers (minus the environmental control doodads), which is interesting, since it seems to muddy the idea that the ground combat personnel Veers commands are Stormtroopers (the “Mudtroopers” are explicitly identified as Imperial Army troops, whereas we keep being told over and over again that the Stormtrooper Corps is an independent service separate from it).

At one point Stormtroopers were a branch separate from army and navy, even appears on official merchandise, not just gaming manuals. Then later, stormtroopers were the army, them and whatever drivers and officers there were (how this works is still vague). Now we're are officially shown the regular army. BUT...wookiepedia claims they are mostly local defense forces and eventually phased out and stormtroopers become the sole army infantry...and this is based on??

I'd still like to have been shown who the "mudtroopers" were fighting. Were they alien? I guess. But better we see that stupid centipede thing, right?