Mountain Terrain Scout Transport

The Mountain Terrain Scout Transport (MT-ST), also known as the "bug walker" for its six-legged, insect-like appearance, was a ground walker in the service of the Imperial Army during the early years of the Galactic Civil War. Measuring 7.2 meters in height and comparable to a large speeder in length, the MT-ST moved at a rapid gait of 100 km/h. The walker was armed with a single twin blaster cannon and afforded room for only a single pilot to operate.

Imperial cadets at the Academy of Carida first trained with simulated and later prototype versions of the MT-ST in the months following the Battle of Yavin. In one such war-games exercise around 1 ABY, Cadet Shira Brie, secretly a pupil of Darth Vader, used a prototype MT-ST that was intended to be equipped with training lasers but was actually fully armed to crush a competing squad, killing six fellow cadets.

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