Stormtrooper Corps

The Stormtrooper Corps, also referred to as the Trooper Corps or Stormtrooper Program, was an autonomous military branch operating under the Imperial Army of the Galactic Empire. The Corps was best known for its extensive supply of elite and disciplined stormtroopers trained at academies across the galaxy, as well as its near fanatical devotion to His Imperial Majesty Sheev Palpatine. Regarded as the Empire's chief enforcers, the Corps served to remind the civilian populace of the Empire's military supremacy.

The Stormtrooper Corps could trace its roots to the clone troopers who fought for the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars. Although the Grand Army of the Republic was absorbed by the Imperial Army, these clones troopers were eventually replaced by the first generation of human recruits and conscripts known as TK stormtroopers. During the Imperial Era, the Corps suppressed Separatist holdouts, occupied worlds, and became embroiled in a galaxy-wide conflict with the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

In the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War, with the signing of the Galactic Concordance, a formal peace treaty between the Empire and the New Republic, the mobilization and training of stormtrooper forces was prohibited with the Stormtrooper Corps ultimately disbanded.

However by the rise of the First Order, the Imperial successor had recreated the Stormtrooper Corps along with a new generation of stormtroopers that recognized neither the concordance nor the New Republic.

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