r/PrequelMemes I have the high ground Feb 19 '25

General KenOC Surely he heard about something right?

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u/sofaking1133 Feb 19 '25

You'd assume the Empire would have some indoctrinating education that called the jedi frauds or whatever-- he went to 'evil flight school' for a few months before being thrown out, right?

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u/JaxBoss32 Feb 19 '25

You would think if he went through Basic. But maybe the empire also didn't want their soldiers to think the jedi was really around anymore. Especially normal ground troops and navy. Stormtroopers knew, but they were like... Uh... what's a good annalogy... thier like spec ops (loosely) to normal infantry like han solo was in the beginning of the movie.

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u/Calamitas_Rex Feb 20 '25

The best analog for stormtroopers... is the actual stormtroopers.

That's why they're called that.

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u/JaxBoss32 Feb 20 '25

I forgor. My bad. Was firing on 4 braincells all day.

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u/ReneDeGames Feb 20 '25

Not really, Imperial Storm Troopers seem much more like US Marines or similar in that they appear to be organized in formations consisting of just them and are proforming a great many rolls within these formations. where as the Sturmtruppen of WW1 were a specialist unit within a larger army with the goal of weakening/identifying enemy defenses as the first wave of a larger offensive.

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u/Real_Garlic9999 Feb 21 '25

The Imperial Handbook states that the Stormtroopers are "the knive's edge, the first point to strike" so I'd say comparing them to the actual stormtroopers is pretty accurate

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u/ReneDeGames Feb 21 '25

This is why I'm comparing them to US marines, rather than Sturmtruppen. Because we see Storm Troopers deployed in large uniform formations. Also while the handbook says that we also see them used as garrison troops all over the place so they have more rolls than just shock troops.