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Originally Posted by Gonzirra
The black stormtrooper rage is absurd for so many reasons.
I thought this was really interesting:
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/12/...xternal,manual
It starts off talking about the absurd rage, but what I found really interesting was the Stormtrooper History 101. From the article:
See, clone troopers were used until the end of the Clone Wars, when they were phased out by the Empire in favor of citizen recruits. The reason for this was because clone troopers had accelerated lifespans, which rendered them pretty useless after a year or two on the battlefield.
So that's pretty cool - like many other people I just thought that the storm troopers were all clones. But what really blew my mind was this:
More canon proof can be found near the beginning of A New Hope, when Luke Skywalker himself complains about not being able to follow his friends into the Imperial Academy, where recruits are trained to be Stormtroopers in hopes of moving up through the ranks of the Empire. See, to a civilian, the Empire was just the government's military at that time. You enrolled in the "army" to see the stars, travel, and defend innocent people - at least, that's what it looked like on the outside.
Like, holy ****, Luke wanted to go train to be a Stormtrooper? I thought I was a fan of Star Wars (a minor fan - I've never read/seen anything outside the movies), but I had no idea this was true.
Anyway, really looking forward to episode VII.