Novatrooper

Novatroopers, also known as Nova-class Stormtroopers, were a specialized variant of stormtroopers who were assigned to significant locations such as Emperor Palpatine's birthworld of Naboo. Novatroopers were somewhat better trained than the average stormtrooper, but they were similarly equipped. Novatroopers were distinguished by their black and gold colored reinforced stormtrooper armor, but different Novatrooper variants existed. Novatrooper medics wore black and red armor, and other Novatroopers wore all black armor, doubling in their duties as shadow stormtroopers. Although Novatroopers at times participated in patrols to crackdown on Rebel Alliance activity, and were involved in a number of invasions, they were rarely encountered outside of official Imperial ceremonies.

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