TK-462

TK-462 was the operating number of a human male Imperial stormtrooper. A native of the planet Eriadu, he enlisted in an Imperial Junior Academy against his father's wishes following the death of his younger sister Xea at the hands of rebels during a botched attempt to steal air scrubbers from the farm his family worked on. After graduating with ease from the Junior Academy, he trained at the Imperial Academy of Eriadu in Eriadu City where he was relentlessly mistreated by his instructor Commander Lassar. The commander had the cadet's squadmates regularly beat him and forced him to complete a five kilometer run with shattered glass in his boots, after which TK-462 had to rest for two weeks and have his feet reconstructed.

Despite this, TK-462 graduated as a stormtrooper, one of the elite shock troops of the Galactic Empire's Imperial Army. He was initially stationed on Eriadu, catching petty criminals with his squad within the fashion district of Eriadu City; however, when the call was given for more troopers to be sent to the planet Lothal to fight rebels there, TK-462 volunteered himself and left his homeworld for the first time. On Lothal, the stormtrooper found his orders becoming more and more morally ambiguous as he was commanded to burn villages in the name of the Empire. After his squad was tasked with capturing a group of kyber crystal thieves, his captain began executing civilians in a resettlement village—where the criminals were thought to be hiding—in the hopes of drawing them out. Fighting broke out after TK-462 shot a man who had emerged from his home with a blaster rifle, and in the chaos the dead man's daughter took up her father's weapon and shot TK-462, causing a fatal wound.

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