The Saddest and Most Heartfelt Story of a Stormtrooper [Canon] - Star Wars Explained

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[@TheLoreMasterYT]

This video is based on the short story "TK-462" found in Star Wars Insider #166 for those who wish to read it themselves :)

[@loganparker4184]

Thanks, for always bringing such interesting content!

[@katrinajarrett4206]

The Lore Master this is 😔

[@myopinion9739]

That was a deep story

[@katrinajarrett4206]

David Joseph yes it was

[@SkylineXZ]

The story of CT-4981 would be a good video to make even though it is legends now. Here is the link. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/CT-4981

[@DaPeePeePooPooCheck]

“Aren’t you a little short to be a storm trooper?” - Lasser

[@basedtvrk9125]

Kai McKenzie It’s a tragedy your comment does not has more likes lol.

[@DaPeePeePooPooCheck]

Deutschland Über Alles all apart of the game😔

[@kos3272]

Kai McKenzie yes yes i am

[@diamondstrike9086]

They always said that to my friend back at training camp

[@Surasia]

666 likes

[@yobeefjerky42]

I love that image of the kid saluting the stormtrooper, mostly because the stormtrooper salutes back and it's giving me heart diabetes

[@wmc5431]

It's such an honest moment, like something you'd see in real life.

[@gonk4509]

Yeah. It’s super realistic. I want a Star Wars TV Show in the style of a war film about a stormtrooper. Give the troopers souls and not just generic goons. I want it to show the rebels as terrorists. I want trench warfare. I want World War 1 with Star Wars tech.

[@SirDankleberry]

I want an Imperial who deep down believes the Empire is the best thing for the galaxy and only order can lead to prosperity.

[@diamondstrike9086]

That happens to me a lot once I take care of some resistance troops

[@cutewippets7905]

@@gonk4509 But if Disney ever decided to do something like that the stormtrooper would probably end up joining the rebellion.

[@FarizIskandar1]

Imagine how many stormtroopers that went through harsh and torturous training just to miss all of their shots and gets instantly killed by some monks with fancy glow sticks.

[@thesheeper0873]

Imagine being Part of the Emperors Royal Guards and getting killed by a green midget

[@sudhcyigyifyitxigc8txu7txk15]

@@thesheeper0873 That wasnt the real royal Guard but senate Guard in a new costume.

[@Star-do6qe]

@@sudhcyigyifyitxigc8txu7txk15 They're called the Red Guard, mate.

[@GibusLesPaul69420]

@@thesheeper0873 you mean imp ?

[@Joe-my6go]

Or going through vigorous, intense training as a 17 year old boy, and then got sent out to some country out in the pacific which you barely know about, and then being killed by some brainwashed rice farmer with a lucky shot.

[@waywardhero1177]

What did we learn kids? “Always make sure you leave no one to take revenge on you”

[@PanzerFalcon2232]

In short: Kill everything

[@the1ne6ix9ine]

@@PanzerFalcon2232 Lmao yesss

[@xXLoneLoboXx]

Funny thing you mention that, there was a mod for new vegas where you take assassination missions for some bad guy, he said "I want you to go kill this man, his wife, and his two kids. I know, I know, it ain't pretty. But you don't want some young punk running up to you when your old and gray sitting on your front porch and shooting you just because you killed his parents or something... had a similar situation happen to me. I was minding my own business sitting on my porch and next thing I know some young dickhead starts peppering me with a shotgun cause I killed his pa like 10 years ago. If it wasn't for my two dogs who immediately ripped him to pieces I would have been a gonner." So yeah, basically "A man who has no enemies is because he's killed them all."

[@waywardhero1177]

xX Lone Lobo Xx how did you know I was a New Vegas Fan?

[@xXLoneLoboXx]

@@waywardhero1177 Ah I didn't... good to see another man of culture though. (Did you recognize the quote from Someguy2000's New Vegas Killer mod?) I'm thinking of starting a playthrough of New Vegas but I got a lot of irons in the fire at the momment...

[@darthutah6649]

I wouldn't mind a video game about being a stormtrooper. Not just fighting the rebels but basically doing the same stuff that TK-462 did.

[@damiansaucedo9951]

Closest thing we got was playing as the 501st avenging half of the fallen brothers from the Death Star.

[@iremembersleep3083]

A Star Wars version of Tyranny would be pretty neat.

[@jonuel15]

Darth Utah 66 battlefront 2?(2005)

[@turtleguy123r3]

@@jonuel15 BF2 isn't very story driven

[@turtleguy123r3]

@@jonuel15 I would like a republic commando type of game

[@justanelk]

Rebels: Kills little sister The boy: So you have chosen... death.

[@CharlesJoseph_MSc]

What?!You never play tuber simulator?!

[@alberthodges2091]

@@CharlesJoseph_MSc What

[@fishmen7776]

Charles Cunningham what

[@CharlesJoseph_MSc]

You guys don't watched pewdiepie?

[@fishmen7776]

Charles Cunningham i watched

[@insurancescam9489]

Rebels: *Kills sister* The 12-year-old: It's treason then...

[@MsAmber82]

Imperials: *Kills father* The little girl: Not yet.

[@aperson8473]

[Insane force roar followed by a spin]

[@BumAssNigga408]

@@MsAmber82 how did you do that

[@BumAssNigga408]

@Aconnox is a lemon *test*

[@ayuronald1603]

Its supose be Rebel:kill sister The 12 years old kid: soo you have choosen death.

[@hunterkiller1440]

It's a cycle. Empire blow up rebels today, rebels blow up the Empire tomorrow, and so on.

[@simonvanthienen369]

hunterkiller1440 this comment did not age well

[@hunterkiller1440]

@@simonvanthienen369how so?

[@simonvanthienen369]

hunterkiller1440 just sayin

[@hunterkiller1440]

@@simonvanthienen369 Elaborate

[@simonvanthienen369]

hunterkiller1440 nah

[@rithrius5384]

Doesn't compare to the tragedy of Gary the Stormtrooper. Gary never gets to see his daughter because of that rebel scum! So sad!

[@Shadow0Heart1]

**What have you done with those plans! Gary, Here, Never gets to see his daughter because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU** -Neck Snap-

[@ricstormwolf]

I was hoping someone else would know about Gary 😂😂

[@acephotino]

Rev Wolf what gary?

[@exodustimes4266]

Clone Trooper Studios A robot chicken episode

[@joperhop]

@@acephotino He is the real reason Vader forced chocked a rebel on the ship in episode 4, bastards like him was keeping Gary from his daughter and only time he got to spend time with her is bring your daughter to work days :P

[@user-fr6qn9xl9e]

"That's how it begins... The fever... The rage..."

[@Burning-Twilight]

"That turns good men....cruel".

[@jackofspades9742]

“Fear leads to anger...anger leads to hate...hate...leads to the dark side.”

[@PeskySpyCrab]

@@jackofspades9742 the Dark side leads to UNLIMITED POWER!

[@megatariffaizan420]

Get that bvs shit outta here

[@AeneasGemini]

I mean rage is sometimes fully justified and often necessary, but okay, let's forget about reality

[@PrizMatex]

Press "F" to show your respect to the Stormtrooper

[@gcham]

F

[@Jevix-xl1tx]

F

[@nADZIEJA_2137]

F

[@alextait8255]

F

[@danielwoodhouse73]

"F" TK462

[@Rwy801998]

It always bothered me how Stormtroopers wore all this armor, but one blaster bolt is enough to kill one

[@Creek_vet283]

If they got shot and fell down they are really knocked out

[@jackcarroll22]

When a stormtrooper gets shot the energy from the blaster gets spread around the body resulting in the trooper getting knocked out

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Mostly are knocked down rather than death

[@andrewblock8876]

I read somewhere that the survival rate of a trooper being hit with small arms, was somewhere around 70%

[@predadorchannels596]

It,s a lazer of corce it can pass trough plastic

[@triplestripe7071]

The rebels were more of an extremist group when they started, they did stuff like this often in the years before organa and other political figures joined.

[@Commander23c]

MLG_DragonHunter That’s how most of the Rebellion was mate. Why do you have this idealized image of farmers and political dissidents when it included more such as pirates and mercenaries.

[@triplestripe7071]

Helghast7 I didn’t. I never really thought either side was ever good.

[@The_secondbattalion]

Sounds a lot like today

[@dagothur76839]

The rebels deserve to die

[@USMValor-jc5xu]

To be honest, the rebels were just like the Bolsheviks and Communists alike.

[@wdcain1]

Sad but I still feel that the unnamed Stormtrooper Princess Leia shot right before her capture in ep4 is real sad. We see the guy came from poverty and joined the Empire to escape from it but immediately realized how awful the gov't was from the hellish Stormtrooper training. He was planning on defecting to the Rebellion when he boarded a ship when he got shot by the most beautiful woman he'd ever saw. It was a touching story that Garth Ennis really delivered.

[@ImprudentTV]

wdcain1 I thought the Sergeant got shot, unless I’m thinking of something else🤔

[@wdcain1]

@@ImprudentTV I looked it up. It's "Trooper" from _Star Wars Tales_ #10 written by Garth Ennis. Wonderful story and definitely the one I think is the saddest Stormtrooper tale.

[@evrint]

@@ImprudentTV I think that's one of the stories from the canon book From a Certain Point of View. The central character's Sargent got shot by Leia.

[@ImprudentTV]

Evrant Ah damn, then I’ve never read about the one she/he is talking about. Feels bad ;-;

[@brettbush2670]

It was the sargent that was ahot he stunned the princess with his blaster afterwards

[@jebronlames4559]

That's war for you, You kill one of mine I kill one of yours, and the cycle just keeps continuing until one side can't keep up

[@coltonhouse06]

Evan H ok

[@ashdabrowiak9407]

As Gandhi once said "An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind"

[@pratibhau9731]

@@ashdabrowiak9407 Gandhi never said that.

[@bitchass8411]

@@pratibhau9731 he probably said it before at least once during his lifetime

[@yasininn76]

What ghandi failed to mention tho is that justice is also blind

[@HallowedGreaves]

"I, TK-462, have a dream."

[@whatsthatsupposedtomean3104]

_Kono TK-462 niwa yume ga aru_

[@elijahmelrinnrodis6751]

JOJO! GOLDEN WIND! JOJO!

[@mhmmmmmmmms]

Oh you approach me, Little Girl

[@CarsonMHerr]

JOJO REFERENCE. MY PEOPLE, I HAVE ARRIVED

[@konodioda3970]

KONO DA TK-462 DA

[@TheMillionKing]

This just proves how there was no real good guys during this war....

[@apathyisdeath2977]

War... War never changes...

[@creamgravy1]

Always wished Star Wars did a little more of this, the same way Gundam series does it.

[@reaperpatriot]

Rebels were never good guys from my point of view. They were terrorists

[@napoleonicinfanterie6377]

The Rebels were a bunch of terrorists

[@mikemarks6136]

@@apathyisdeath2977 wrong franchise bud

[@59rlmccormack]

Stormtroopers, can’t help but feel sorry for em. Can you make a video on the Jedi survivor of Order 66 who became king of a planet?

[@andrewwhitmore8756]

The tusken dude?

[@59rlmccormack]

No, Empayatos Brand from Dark Empire.

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

technically it there superiors

[@pitdile3063]

Kazdan parades?

[@rodio8291]

Beldorian?

[@BomDiggityBom]

“Recycling air and turning it back into oxygen” Seems legit

[@mercury4283]

BLTZ_ DragonBlood that’s a thing

[@BomDiggityBom]

Mercury really

[@mightytron2279]

BLTZ_ DragonBlood yeah, when your diving

[@BomDiggityBom]

Noice to know

[@BamesNond4882]

Those Spaceballs should have done that

[@19kclutch95]

There would be no “dark side” without the good guys... Almost all of the Siths have a back story behind them going to the dark side

[@raymondmacdonald2464]

Isn't the original Lore that the Sith were a species and that outcast Jedi were banished to the Sith World and bred with them, so the Sith that we know was actually an idea more than anything.

[@mariodoomfist1049]

Raymond MacDonald old republic and them the jedi were like ITS GENOCIDE TIME (the jedi were never good)

[@moistheathen148]

Another reason why I don't think stormtroopers are bad people. Originally, my reasons were they were normal people with crappy jobs. I got this conclusion from a conversation between two stormtroopers in Star Wars Episode IV, the scene where Obi-Wan covers his tracks and leaves the tractor beam room. Trooper #1: "Do you know what's going on?" Trooper #2: (pauses for a second) "Maybe it's another drill..." After a few seconds, they start talking again. Trooper #1: "Did you get those new blaster charges?*" *I don't remember what he said, other than it started with "did you get those new" Then, Obi-Wan uses the force to create a distraction. Trooper #1: "What was that?" Trooper #2: "That's nothing." And in the Solo movie, when the troopers were watching Chewbacca beating up Han. Trooper #1: "Ten credits he doesn't last another minute!" When I played the 2005 Star Wars battlefront II, the trooper who was doing the narrating in the campaign said this after the battle of Yavin, just before the Empire launched an attack against the rebels. "When the death star was destroyed, about half of the 501st was still getting into there fighters. Of those that made it out, another third was caught in the explosion. I'd fought with some of those men for over twenty years." And the newest reason: this video.

[@idiocyincorporated7635]

A true monster, a true "bad person" isn't one that has no regard for life. It isn't one that would gladly watch the world burn. It is the good people who justify bad things to the point where nothing is wrong.

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

@@idiocyincorporated7635 Which is precisely what the Empire did. I agree with OP that individual stormtroopers weren't all bad, but the people in POWER in the Empire were terrible.

[@Ropetrick6]

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 It's what everybody did, the Republic that the Empire overthrew, the Rebellion, the old Sith Empire, all of them did it. The destruction of Alderaan was to try to stop the Rebellion, the killing of all the non-combat roles on the second Death Star to stop the empire, the old Republics plan to kill 97.3% of the Sith Empires population through Genocide via an unending army of droids, and the Sith Empires attack on Coruscant. All of these were attempts to do the "right" thing by stopping their enemies to make there be no more violence, but all of these were horrible actions were done by people who were trying to do the "right" thing by ending the fighting quickly. The individual grunts might have been great people, but the leaders were the ones who allowed and ordered these atrocities to happen

[@jackcarroll22]

Jack Rutledge Goembel I believe that the empire were good before the galactic civil war because when it started the empire tightened its grip on the galaxy and changed a lot of thing and by the battle of Jakku most imperials had defected and the people who stayed were complete fanatics

[@alphariusfuze8089]

And also, because Rebel exist, Death star exist

[@angiegamez8600]

This should be a full movie or short film at least.

[@DRUMCANJONES22]

Agreed

[@jaredallen1950]

A fan film?😁😂

[@TheLike_Button]

Star Wars Story: Tales of a Stormtrooper

[@redbrixanimations]

TK-462: A STAR WARS Story

[@ParryLinn]

there's too many things in Star Wars that could become great sources of movie. Recently, I'm tired of watching the conflicts between darksider and Jedi or Sith..... Come on, we all normal people, we can't do mircales, we are also naturally sympathetic to normal characters in Star Wars. The value of black and white is also what I don't appreciate.

[@captainvalourous6668]

TK-462: I got shot by a little girl. Sasha Braus: First time? 😅

[@radicallarry7044]

😐

[@Noob-vd4oq]

Anime🤢

[@captainvalourous6668]

@@Noob-vd4oq 😈

[@penton4774]

@@captainvalourous6668 xD I was thinking the same thing

[@PitchIncorrection]

This comment was... A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@demonhearted8419]

oh no he started a cycle of revenge "ah sh*t here we go again”

[@aaronking2020]

Never ending series of revenge killing gang

[@mariobadia4553]

Lol

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

About time, the imperials got a POSITIVE point of view of one that never defected.

[@ribeirodasilvalopesjoaomar5269]

Yep, they often end up being portrait has villains who deserve every evil actions being done to them. Funny how rebel actions, like killing in cold blood in star wars rebels, are portrayed has good and noble, but when imperials do its a cowardly evil act.

[@htoodoh5770]

Ribeiro da Silva Lopes João maria That the nature of war.

[@htoodoh5770]

What make it worse, it the storm trooper all wear the same uniform. Making people they are all the same.

[@snoopy_peanuts_77]

imperials....rebels......civilians......all just pawns mostly playing their parts

[@darthtroller]

@@ribeirodasilvalopesjoaomar5269 Rebels spare as much Stormtroopers as they can

[@LordProteus]

Being a rebel does not automatically make you just and noble. Imperial forces continuing to act stupid and engineering their own donwfall. "I want you to go to this town to kill 3 rebels." *goes to town and torments the people there* *not only fails to kill the 3 rebels, they create 78,000 more and get their whole squad wiped out because of their short-sighted brutality*

[@rahulrajaram6891]

That's what America is doing in the middle east lol

[@maleexile9053]

@G M vietnam was lost in the living room not on the battlefield-richard nixon

[@HTMR-de8gz]

@Aqil Ahmad If the 1st world military industrial complex really wanted to conquer the world by military force, nothing short of God himself could stop it. Nations like vietnam, Iran, Somalia, Even major powers like Indea and Brazil would be ash covered corpse yards in a matter of months. Fortunately there is one blessed thing holding back the full might of the western world: the western empathetic heart. The sheer outrage and turmoil that even one tiny imperialist action would and has caused scares those in power enough to keep them in check. Until the western populace gets mad enough to let go of the leash.

[@sill5876]

I would just order Exterminatus upon that planet.

[@ivenotwatched1episodeofnar71]

@Aqil Ahmad how is that relevant

[@SFxTAGG3]

I'm glad that the expanded lore is humanizing Stormtroopers in ways that the movies simply refuse to do. But I'm still bothered by the fact that nearly every story I've heard results in the Imperial character going turncoat or realizing the Galactic Empire is evil just before they die. The Empire has literal **trillions** of soldiers fighting for it, and they're really trying to tell us that every one of those people are evil or complicit? Come on. I want a story where an Imperial is Imperial through and through, and isn't evil. Someone who has real convictions and motivations for being pro-Imperial. The only story I've heard with an Imperial Stormtrooper as the protagonist that didn't have any moral conflict was told through the eyes of the Stormtrooper that Princess Leia shot in the beginning of A New Hope. Basically, it was just him thinking back on his life and how dissatisfied he was with it all up until the point where he and his squad of Stormtroopers boarded the Tantive IV, where he ultimately ended up getting shot in the face by Leia. It was a sad story. But no moral conflict.

[@wmc5431]

*Cough* Pelleon, *Cough*

[@toradora1439]

Makes me think of -Family Guy- Robot Chicken. "HE SAID STUN!!"

[@KyloRen0127]

@@toradora1439 Not trying to be that guy, but i think you mean Robot Chicken.

[@toradora1439]

@@KyloRen0127 Yes, youre right, I stand corrected.

[@KyloRen0127]

@@toradora1439 It's no problem, i just wanted to clarify any confusion!

[@Orros]

Imagine if his first mission was to capture and detain Starkiller

[@OGrupxe]

Death.

[@xxv0ide5xx88]

Rip him lol

[@BomDiggityBom]

Impossible

[@KingDerpy13]

I feel sorry for anyone who had to be NEAR Starkiller at any point.

[@s.k4713]

THAT IS BORDERLINE SUICIDE STARKILLER CAN PULL A STAR DESTROYER OUT THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cartermiller853]

I’m sorry sir it’s time for you to leave. Because now my eyes are sweating.

[@haroniqbal1944]

And so it is...

[@danaaltini4399]

Commander Appo what’s your order

[@Alex-jf8mw]

Commander Appo R. I. P. Appo😕. Vader likes you

[@Gamerafighter76]

Just admit your feelings.

[@_ziac_6048]

Lord Vader, the troops are suffering mental brea... x_x

[@ryanm9105]

“He hated he had to live with those screams and not those who gave the orders”; that’s awful and really makes you think about ‘just following orders’. The grunts forced to do heinous things are often the secondary victims who were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[@pandakatiefominz]

"A little girl" *Shows a picture of a grown woman*

[@pearlleaf3611]

Kinda looks like a little girl to me

[@gorkemdeniz5606]

@@pearlleaf3611 regardless, i would nut.

[@blankblank5409]

Görkem Justinianus •~•

[@hyperion9793]

@@gorkemdeniz5606 nope.

[@oreothehamster6981]

@@gorkemdeniz5606 pardon, what?

[@BaconBotVbeta]

Man. These poor incompetent misunderstood chumps. In the words of Fives: “They only wanted to do their duty”

[@danaaltini4399]

H4-N5.V I’m gonna paint u

[@BaconBotVbeta]

Buckethead The clone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ fine

[@tk-756brony6]

H4-N5.V Please stop sending Zeds into our cities. °^°

[@wommyu]

They followed Orders and got executed for being a guy working for their country

[@Renkencen]

His death seen kinda ironic and somewhat meaningless given he never really get to face the Rebel or in his possible case, Kana and co cos he was in Lothal. Still I suppose there are worst fate like going into the command center for a routine exercise only to reveal it was skyrocking off to self destruct!

[@_MaZTeR_]

I think the part where he was ordered to burn down a village was that order Vader gave Kallus in order to sought fear onto the Lothal rebels in the season 2 premiere episode. Edit: Tarkintown, it was called.

[@HighAdmiral]

So the man who whipped out a blaster to shoot stormtroopers, who the stormtrooper shot, wasn't a rebel by your account?

[@GarlicPudding]

@@HighAdmiral Who says he can't just be some random guy, who wanted to save a hostage?

[@Gamerafighter76]

Yup.

[@marcbartuschka6372]

@@Gamerafighter76 Plus, ordinary people do not have weapons who could blast through a Stormtroopers armor so easily. Not on such a backwater world. They also did not act foolish and start a fight (having a little daughter nearby) with a full squad of elite soldiers in town and enough backup for them to flatten the area (I mean Lothol at that time had a strong enough garrisson). I think the death of his sister and the death of this man he shot were much different. His sister had just slept - not pointing a weapon towards someone. The guy was an adult, she was a child. He killed the man to safe the life of another person, she died just because the rebels wanted more material for their campaign of terror and not really care about the life the very same people they always claim to "liberate". Plus of course it is wrong to say that Lothol did not have benefits from the Imperials - although "Rebels" claimed it. In "Thrawn" it is adressed that there were part of society who prospered. It was a harsh transformation and there were winners and loosers, but it was not so the life on Lothol was heaven before the Empire and hell after it came to their world. Just the positions of people changed a lot. The help for the murderous local criminals was what brought the fury of the Empire.

[@Hi-Hono]

I can fully relate to him. My sister was murdered in 2017 and not a day goes by that I don't think about her or my ultimate failure. I thought about her throughout the entire video. The only differences were that we were both adults, she wasn't a victim of war, she was older and that I was a soldier. My ultimate failure was that I chose the Army instead of staying with my sister. Could've protected her, but I failed. This video reminds me of her and that failure.

[@mathewjensen6903]

It's even more sad because his dad is probably worried sick and hasn't heard from him a long time.

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

Ironic he swore to kill all rebels yet only sparked the rise of more

[@yaboiethan7207]

Wolfsbane Alphas NOW WE CAN KILL MORE

[@Tywil714]

Wolfsbane Alphas and as a insult to injury he only managed to kill one during his first battle before dying by the hands of a little girl when he had his guard down instead going out in a blaze of glory surrounded by 100s of dead rebles under his feet like he had dreamed

[@jedicache6806]

Ironic... He could spark others to the cause, but not himself. Is it possible to learn this power? Not from the Alliance.

[@Alex-jf8mw]

Wolfsbane Alphas oh yeah. Didin‘t think about this fact 🤔 The Rebel who Shot His sister too

[@thesovietwarbear4551]

Wolfsbane Alphas America in the Middle East? Kill terrorists and make more terrorists.

[@TaunellE]

I honestly always have had a moral problem with the fact that Storm Troopers don't have souls. So, I'm sensitive. But that's messed up. I like the different point of view you have.

[@operatorbutt4265]

Tauney Elysia don’t have souls? Wtf do u mean by that

[@charlieextra9406]

@@operatorbutt4265 maybe she meant the clone Storm Troopers as they were cloned.

[@Vazerin]

@@charlieextra9406 no, she meant they are just nothing but faceless nobodies in the movies and their whole point in these movies, TV shows, comics is to literally die cause they're just "bad guys"

[@DoughyJohn294]

They do in fact have souls in my point of view. Everything eventually transfers in to the force, even clones

[@agentc7020]

Vazerin exactly what I think she meant is that we never see stormtroopers human like, they just have their full helmets and armor but no one sees them as human they just die and that’s it, nobody thinks that the last trooper they killed had a family or they just wanted money to live well because they are faceless, they seem more akin to robots instead of humans

[@rickkcir2]

I love the left pic thumbnail. It shows that not all Stormtroopers are the same. Most of the them have Families waiting for them to return home from Duty, others don’t want to fight, others want to help out, but they’re always portrayed as clumsy, unintelligent, cold and quiet soldiers that follow orders without hesitation, even when walking into a death trap. When I saw Star Wars IV again after a while, I wondered who the good guy was, especially after Luke blew up the Death Star and killed more than a Million men, women, and possibly Families with children visiting their Family members serving in the DS.

[@konnorrockkonnoisseur4970]

The moment you realize he might have been one of the stormtroopers in Star Wars Rebels...

[@nightterrors2976]

No TK died months before rebels

[@gigachadmemes4727]

How

[@konnorrockkonnoisseur4970]

It’s just a joke

[@gigachadmemes4727]

BroncosBailey ‘99 I know but how would the storm trooper be in rebels

[@konnorrockkonnoisseur4970]

AK_Assassinator bitch idk I made this comment like 7 months ago 😂

[@mrmandudeplays]

"War breeds war, violence breeds violence. In order to break this vicious cycle one must be strong enough to forgive rather than seek revenge."

[@blackshogun272]

Is that a quote from Naruto of someone in real life ?

[@ryland3738]

But what happens when one is consumed by vengeance and there is no forgiveness to give all there is, is hatred what does the person do then?

[@sanlorenzo7896]

TK- 416 It just comes down to survival I guess

[@mrmandudeplays]

@@blackshogun272 its as much as I remember from a guy in a game called Metro 2033. Its pretty awesome

[@bc64100]

NO STILL HATE ALL REBELS !

[@Datch99]

*GARRY YOU'LL BE LATE FOR WORK!!*

[@MelralCT-]

Lol

[@albrectgarcia2719]

Datch oh shi- Robot Chicken!!

[@reysalas9845]

Ohhhhh robot chicken 😨😨😨😨

[@1Loftwing1]

Robot chicken

[@Renorick1]

"Ah. Welcome to 'Robot Chicken', apparently."

[@kinghobothe4th837]

Have you ever rewatched New Hope and wonder “What ever happens to that one stormtrooper who bonked his head on the door”

[@PurpleAce227]

So basically: The Empire can be good and/or bad The Rebellion can be good and/or bad The Jedi cans be good and/or bad But there’s no way in hell anyone can convince me the Sith can be good without self-interest in mind

[@CeLeb144]

Like how Anakin wanted to save Padme then failed miserably?

[@DeathIsLethal]

I don't remember how accurate this information is, and I don't think it was explicitly stated, but rather something you could infer. During the time Darth Revan was a sith, his goal was never self-centered, and one might even say he had good intentions even if he went about it in the wrong way. Revan saw the weakness of the Republic in that it would never be centralized enough to go up against the sith empire that was going to invade in a few decades or so. Or at least, that's how he saw it. So his plan was to conquer and create a new government that would be powerful enough to save the galaxy from emperor Vitiate. Darth Revan was a sith, but one could argue that he had good intentions, and he certainly was not a self-interested character. Anyways, other than that, I agree with you. The problem with the Sith is that their order was so focused on one's own gain that they couldn't function together. Although, there likely were plenty of excpetions, I believe, sith who were not completely evil. For instance, in the KOTOR games, there's a purple twi'lek on Korriban (important character, but forgot her name) who became a Sith with the intention of saving the slaves of her homeworld. That, to me, says that there were, at least, a handful of Sith throughout the ages that were not evil at heart.

[@hewhositsuponfroggychair5722]

darth vectivus was a sith who literally did no evil

[@AnonimatosTM]

@@CeLeb144 even anakin's actions can be considered selfish, he did not fear her death, he feared losing her, and thats vastly different.

[@tonywoods1226]

Nah man, there are a lot of sith who weren't self centered and many of them only joined sith for a good cause like how Anakin wanted to save Padme from certain death.

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

And yet he never got a chance to kill any rebels. Ain't that irony for you?

[@eliedormezil9223]

But he killed 1

[@blixer8384]

@@eliedormezil9223 He murdered a shop keeper who attempted to stop his commanding officer from committing a war crime.

[@eliedormezil9223]

@@blixer8384 oh.....well then this got a bit more depressing

[@stevengreen9536]

Well technically he did but he soon regretted it.

[@stevengreen9536]

@@jasoncawley6260 That is what i was saying too.Ironically enough though.That is how alot of people ended becoming rebels.Even the ones who initially did not care about the empire.Like the rebel pilot Wedge Antilles for example.

[@kitsunemetal]

Who is this little girl.......oh lord vader its bring your daughter to work day.

[@17-MASY]

@@pygmalion0451 touching story,at first I thought that he would be the trooper that guards tarkin and appears in (force arena)

[@GCHumanGuy]

Robot chickem

[@kriegsmarinekonigstiger4038]

hehe...i forgot about that

[@HinokasArabfan1]

Everyone here is making jokes, meanwhile I pay respects for our fallen.

[@diamondstrike9086]

Happens every month in the first order

[@darth4office82]

Long Live The Empire

[@darth4office82]

LLTE

[@barozzi_]

@@diamondstrike9086 We're talking about the Empire or Imperial Remnant, not the First Order pretenders.

[@supremeleadersnoke6885]

@@barozzi_ The First Order was actually as dangerous as the Galactic Empire, but as always, the movies repeatedly portray them as stupid and imbecile.

[@charliem6467]

Im very disappointed in every plot line about an imperial is them being the bad guy of defecting. I hope squadrons doesn’t do the same.

[@lazarpetrovic1671]

Or being dead

[@JustJoshinSince1998]

I feel like Star Wars Battlefront 2's story mode would have been better if we got a backstory like this

[@crimson1551]

Just Josh The book Inferno Squad explains that

[@Ferri-San]

Was gonna say that it does but just now realized you meant 2017 BF2

[@yak141freestyle2]

there was no mention of any weapons training............. i now know why storm trooper aim sucks

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

No they just need a compensator and a angled grip they increase sight accuracy

[@yak141freestyle2]

@@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 nice name

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

@@yak141freestyle2 no u

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

@Xxmanomanox X you know let me tell you Yes we can

[@aaronparsons5827]

Lol

[@SnowyJakub]

Man he never even got to see his dad again, I expected at least a somewhat happy ending

[@whitewolfcrowley6550]

Honestly, it's a real great story with a justifiable end. Both parties wanted justice and got it by blood, an eye for an eye. Even in alternate worlds, human emotions never change, I really like that.

[@Boss-fu7ef]

"You weep because your powerless and thought to yourself that need more power/if your had power. But the moment you equire the power you seek, you become the one that causes others to weep." Remember that you all.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

it is better to live in infamy than to die forgotten.

[@Boss-fu7ef]

It really depends though.

[@ethangray8527]

In that case just make sure the ones you cause to weep deserves it.

[@Boss-fu7ef]

@@ethangray8527 then the cycle repeats again mate

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

@@ethangray8527 entire star systems will go quiet and dark. when they arrive, they will not arrive to war held by handful of resist. they will arrive to worlds of slaughter, corpses littering hive cities, billions burned to crisp. only howl of death carried in the warm breeze. their ships will return home, but their families will not be greeted by smiling faces of their beloved ones. but rather the sky will rain of their skinned corpses. a warning of what is to come once the planet side turns to the dark. the night will be filled by the screams and suffering. they will face their death under the quiet stars. in time I will share it with every last living soul in the galaxy.

[@lordhosseinlh]

If the plot twist was that the guy he shot was actually his father and the girl is somehow his sister then hands down it will win over my emotions.

[@DoughyJohn294]

H. A. R. D but his sister wouldn’t be young

[@Exsulator2]

That's a little too heavy handed for my tastes, but then again it's very starwars

[@agentc7020]

MARIO THE MANIAC maybe the father married again and had another daughter

[@michaelramon2411]

Knowing the Empire, that commanding officer got a medal and a promotion for ferreting out the rebellious elements in that village.

[@criastrangler2219]

This is exactly why I believe you never let the children get away.

[@darylsdesigns6679]

Man that was a sad story

[@vladimirlenin9120]

Nevermind I just cried

[@user-ch5vj4hl6u]

Command,There appears to be no intelligent life in the area

[@Alex-jf8mw]

Daryl Franklin, Jr. yeah 😕

[@DZ-1987]

Is this the same Justin Y.? If so, since when did he become a soviet Communist? But really, its not all that sad. I've seen sadder things, like the lore of Dark souls. Through all the rage, sweat and tears, beating down zombie's, demons, old corrupted hero's, Some wank you didn't like *That guy at firelink shrine* And giant grotesque dragons. Is a story of Betrayal, Murder, Love and... Fire. Yes the Lore is quite vague but if you dig, you'll get it. Vague parts of it, so all you need to do to piece all of it together is to listen to everyone you can talk to, read everything, and understand who or what you were fighting was before it went mad. But enough about Dark souls. Star trek is shit. The newer ones anyway.

[@thedarkknight727]

REVENGE IS A FOOLS GAME. -Arthur Morgan

[@bc64100]

REVENGE IS BEST SERVED COLD!

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

LUMBAGO

[@DZ-1987]

Revenge. What is Revenge. A resentment towards a certain person and you personally wish for that person's downfall so he'd know what its like. I say Revenge is only right against Arrogant wankers and Egotistical shites. Largely so i can see the reactions they'll have once its been dealt with.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

@MásalládelaIsla Let the galaxy burn - Horus Lupercal, The War Master.

[@itmejac6945]

Did he shout it?

[@dianajaffe7860]

Rebels: bucket heads have no feeling Me:(grabs a blaster and points it at the rebels) I’m sorry what did you say

[@OGrupxe]

To be honest, they probably think the Stormtroopers are like the Clones, which killed millions upon millions of Jedi that were considered their best friends after a single sentence. "Execute Order 66."

[@diamondstrike9086]

Yeah you get em

[@JayF2912]

@@OGrupxe about 10000, not millions upon millions, but yeah

[@nightterrors2976]

@@JayF2912 shush don't tell him let him believe

[@fangjerry4697]

@@OGrupxe u do realize some clones didnt want to do it and were forced by the chip and most rebel dont even care about the story of clone wars

[@arunmoses2197]

Empire: Military Rebellion: Notorious Gangster Clan

[@c-man162]

tf

[@AaronDarkus]

Godamm. The Canon is starting to bring more and more interesting stories with the pass of the time. It seems that what once a friend of mine said was true, back in 2013-14: ''This new canon is young, give it the opportunity to rise''. Don't misunderstood me please, I'm not a pro-Legends and a hater of Disney's Canon, I'm just waiting to say that, in my opinion, the time has gave enough benefits to Canon to evolve and become more and more impregnated with quality. Moral of the day: this stories shows us how war is not what you could expect at first; the concept of ''good vs evil'' always depends on the point of view of each of the parts involved in the conflict and rarely occurs in it's purely definition. War is more like a ''scale of grayness''.

[@Terenin]

You must be joking. This is bog-standard for Disney. Disney does 2 kinds of sympathetic Imperials: Those who die questioning their government, and those who successfully defect. This was not a positive story, it was another round of moralizing from Disney. Get back to me when they have done a story on a loyal Imperial that sticks to his/her government AND isn't an evil asshole all along.

[@Blackpearlmatt]

Terenin what about Thrawn? Faro or Yularen?

[@Terenin]

@@Blackpearlmatt Were *ANY* of those envisioned by Disney, or did they inherit them all from the EU and the works of others?

[@Blackpearlmatt]

Terenin Thrawn and Yularen were inherited yet Thrawn was always the villain of the stories he was in, only in 2017 was he written as the hero of the story which was under Disney

[@Terenin]

@@Blackpearlmatt He is not a HERO, he is an ANTAGONIST to a bunch of rebellious kids - that he fails to deal with. It's pissing all over his character as it was established. In short, no sympathetic Imperials that don't either die or defect, and I should have added, "those who stay are reduced to an incompetent joke." Problem is, Disney works, ultimately, on black/white stories. If the Rebels are white, the opponents - the Empire - has to be black. Ergo, there can't be such a thing as a white Imperial that don't end up not being an Imperial, or an effective one. Either way, Thrawn was not made by Disney, if he was... how do you think he would be portrayed? Frankly, I think if Disney made Thrawn, he would be a hyped-up Human Imperial and his brains and ability would be rather impotent when it matters, to hype up the good guys. This is standard fare for this kind of story-telling.

[@stormtroopertk-3295]

Yep i was there... 4:00 "Just like the Simulations!"

[@sammyb106]

"Eye for an Eye, a Tear for a Tear."

[@jettsamuelson9669]

They should make it a Star Wars story movie

[@joshgee7]

YES ! I'm tired of rebel being the only ones to get sympathy , it makes for a more dynamic story to have people actually route for the Empire

[@xavierackerman6225]

So sad.

[@friedrichdergrosse7439]

Sup Qrow,qrowski, qrowcicle , qrowtein shake , Qrowtatoe chip , Qrow bar

[@friedrichdergrosse7439]

How is Raven

[@xavierackerman6225]

@@friedrichdergrosse7439. I dont know. I haven't seen her in weeks. Are you a RWBY fan too?

[@MercuryBlackN]

His death was quite ironic.

[@zephsuki]

Not as sad as ozpin betraying you

[@briceboyee8536]

Ok, what kind of F**cking CLONE acts that F**cked up!?!?

[@girf4233]

Clones are killing machines Do you expect them to be polite and peace loving?

[@ohwhy5998]

Brice Klapper two words for ya. Order 66.

[@briceboyee8536]

@@girf4233 No but dude they were never cruel like THAT in the clone wars.

[@Hektols]

@@briceboyee8536 Several years passed since the Clone Wars, enough for the clone to turn bitter for his accelerated aging and his kind being replaced by inferior soldiers, clones are humans too, they are not beyond cruelty. He wrongly identified TK-462 as the weakest recruit, wanted to make an example of him and got his pride insulted when TK-462 refused to give up.

[@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226]

Hektols you gave the best response

[@Yemeles1]

The stormtrooper that saluted at the kid "I liked him, I hope we don't have to blow up his planet"

[@WarhammerWings]

1:52. I guess that trooper was smiling underneath his helmet.

[@thedailydoseofrandomnesscr1931]

MAKE. THIS. A. MOVIE In all seriousness doe I can see this being a movie with a Rouge One style

[@the_realone2518]

YESSS

[@Drebolaskan]

Only if it the lead character was gender-swapped so she can be a strong independent female who don't need no man and the shit she got during training was from male colleagues who were only jealous of her because of her beauty and overall perfection as a human being.

[@allisonjuno7654]

@@Drebolaskan and like maybe with the first order instead, hey maybe phasma could be the instructor

[@the_realone2518]

@@Drebolaskan why a female

[@819slayer]

@@the_realone2518 Because Disney.

[@kopakatoaofcool8536]

A father? Two siblings? A mother that has passed away at birth?

[@jontheno3213]

COINCIDENCE?! I THINK NOT!

[@kopakatoaofcool8536]

@@jontheno3213 yeah🤣

[@normachildress7464]

@Lintunen wut🙃

[@Alex-jf8mw]

Alexandra Ungureanu trigger trigger 😂

[@wummer9030]

@@jontheno3213 Brother?

[@cookiesnugglez7318]

I love it when they show the stormtroopers humanity

[@laxanopoiosOG]

This story is great, because it shows that not all imperials were corrupt greedy people, most believed that they were doing their duty and protecting the citizens of the galaxy.

[@thomaschadwick1557]

Never forgive, never forget, murder of TK-462. Long live to the Empire. Long suffering to Rebellion.

[@recarnatedkronor4806]

Thomas Chadwick amen brother

[@dagothur76839]

GLORY TO THE EMPIRE

[@Panicargo]

Long live the galactic empire!!!!!

[@PrinceofRavens64]

Alderaan

[@thomaschadwick1557]

@@PrinceofRavens64 If the rebellion would not store the weapons on the peacefull planet (btw. use of international law protected places is warcrime by Geneva conventions)...nothing would happen then...

[@rawsom6992]

Not for justice not for honor not for power just for revenge SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE *WHHHHHOOOOOO*

[@maxharter5716]

Revenge is a fool's gave.

[@crispwhitesheets2175]

SNAKKKEEEEE!!!!!!

[@DZ-1987]

Is there no Honour in Revenge? Is there no Justice in Revenge? Well it depends on who you're at.

[@adisturbedpistachio223]

All I had to read was "not for honor" and I was instantly singing the MGS3 theme.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

Iron Within! Iron Without!

[@smithonme1888]

To quote one of my favorite antagonists of any series: "Everyone is the Hero of their own story"

[@fleddermaus9047]

Man, the empire deserves some justice on screen.

[@spooky3409]

I remember that mission… He was a good person, R I P TK-462

[@thatdude1710]

This is exactly what I hate about stormtrooper stories, the empire is always represented as the bad guys, and yet still it is funny how in every stormtrooper story the main character is feeling bad for what he is doing, and in rebel stories, rebels do not care at all when they kill inocents even when there were cases of doing so, they almost stole that machine and then when they failed they took a life, and no one gave a damn, but when a stormtrooper steps on a bug It's tragedy! It's drama, insanity everything is so scary! What a monster! They need to make a damn story where the stormtrooper is proud of what he is doing and simply being strong and confident, because that is how the rebels are made to look like.

[@imperialguardsman521]

Don't forget their attempts to make the Empire grimdark ends up as grimderp for most of the time. Also making the rank and file as "fanatical evil murderers" for some reason, seen in this story for example.

[@spartanwarrior1]

Oh you want good nazis? Good luck idiot

[@imperialguardsman521]

@@spartanwarrior1 I don't have a problem when they purge xenos, but when they start destroying Human controlled worlds such as Alderaan for example then I hate them and seeing it as a wasteful destruction of a productive planet.

[@tylergidley1014]

@@imperialguardsman521 I could not have said it better, my emperor.

[@clover4522]

Cap America I'm guessing you're one of those ignorant people that consider the Wehrmacht all Nazis? Because I assume you watched the most historically accurate movie of Captain America. Get out.

[@francescosanvito5844]

8:08 actually the first stormtrooper who hit his target

[@TheEpicload]

imagine fin getting a interesting history like TK-462....

[@jackmocs3615]

Amazing and touching. Keep up the good work

[@corbinskywalker]

This is Outrageous!!!

[@sanlorenzo7896]

It’s unfair!!!

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

cd5ssmffan Are you not entertained? Isn't this why you are here?

[@arjenh7214]

Disco with myself?

[@Ajani_the_Insani]

Its unfair!!!

[@eusoffammar5764]

Wonder where the guy who saluted TK-462 is now..

[@somerandomuser9385]

Eusoff Ammar Probably killed or captured at the end of the battle of endor

[@alextait8255]

Some random User or killed in the battle of Jakku or survived to become a warlord or a first order stormtrooper

[@somerandomuser9385]

Alien With Internet Access Hopefully he survived he seemed very down to earth

[@alextait8255]

Some random User yeah

[@alberthodges2091]

@@somerandomuser9385 down to coruscant*

[@noplacetocry8100]

"Air scrubbing was the practice of recycling air and turning it back into oxygen" yEs tHE FLoOr HeRE iS MadE oF fLOoR

[@mr.techaky7655]

Dafuq was that blaster the little girl fired!? Cause storm-trooper armor is meant to absorb and redistribute the blast then the undergarments take some of the heat energy.... Was it an improved slug thrower?

[@temmorijken5762]

yes

[@mr.techaky7655]

@ From all the lore that I've read and break down videos I've seen... According to my knowledge, the armor absorbs the energy, distributes it, and what ever gets through burns the undergarments and the wearer severely. After being hit, the trooper is rendered unconscious, recovered, and chucked in a bacta-tank to heal the severe burns. As far as I heard, it takes a really really powerful blaster to actually kill the trooper.

[@ethanmartel1631]

@ learn how to spell fucktard

[@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226]

wasp27 your either brain dead or haven’t seen the movies or read the books

[@halocrafter300]

Mr.Techaky My guess? Faulty armour. The armour seems to have absorbed the energy, then exploded, which sent shards of the armour into him.

[@Rollinghypogrif240]

In war there is no victory or glory For each side fought for what they thought was right

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

glory and victory belong to the one who wins. now there is two ways you gonna fight, either in the storm of battle or in the firing line. charge the enemy! for the empire!

[@robertharris6092]

The emperor pretty blatantly knew and thought what he was doing wasn't right.

[@kyleturner7309]

Robert Harris The Emperors thoughts doesn’t translate the entire Empires thoughts.

[@haotongxue2508]

This is easily one of the best pieces of star wars media ever

[@imperialpropagandacorps5726]

Now we see the true horror of the Extremists that call themselves "Rebels" claiming to have to moral high ground against the Empire, however the whole reason the Empire takes these actions is to stop people like the Extremists, if the Extremists didn't take such terrible actions then the Empire wouldn't retaliate. We only wish to keep the Galaxy from the chaos of the Clone Wars and to bring lasting peace to all. Remember TK-462, Remember what we fight for. Glory to the Empire, Glory to the Emperor!

[@micahquiton7731]

War is all about perspective.

[@aaronking2020]

*imperial propaganda corp*

[@suhyunhwang8350]

If only Lucas Art made this into a movie instead of Solo....

[@jessthomason5257]

I'd rather have the 1996 movie Solo based off this novel about an android named Solo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_(novel)

[@LoN3wOlF5tudi0s]

How about no. This is a good story but Solo was too.

[@arandomjojoreference246]

@@LoN3wOlF5tudi0s The solo movie wasn't very unique in any way, it was about a character everyone knew. Something new to bring to the table from a different point of view would've been nice. The solo movie was meh in my opinion.

[@DorsenFilm]

A random JoJo reference Well, while i disagree with you, i will not be an asshole about it. I am glad you have a different opinion than me.

[@laciecumbest778]

It would have been a better movie if they had shown some of his time in training and him getting kicked out of pilot training, in my opinion.

[@A_annoying_rodent]

Now for the best stormtrooper in the empire.... Gary!

[@laz981]

Hey whats your ID number Trooper ?

[@RebelLRadar]

damn. this shows rebel really weren't the "good guys" in the original trilogy.

[@cardboardethymith3893]

Disney is trying to squeeze their god damn formula in our heads

[@seaneubanks4380]

Endless cycle of loss, death & war. Vengeance breads more vengeance. A shame but an excellent story.

[@okboomer2640]

Stormtroopers are ppl too.

[@vladimirlenin9120]

They made themselves culpable

[@MyDouble]

@@Chin00k0 drop commies Slava Ukrayini !

[@inedible_edibles9022]

With bad aim.......

[@ernestw2474]

Will there be Imperial perspective movie where Empire is protagonist while Rebels are antagonist?

[@clover4522]

Disney will never do that, who are you kidding? Look to short films for imperial perspectives

[@mitchell1091]

That ending... *HEART SQUEEZE*

[@diegoprodriguez]

Why is it we can never get a Star Wars Story where a good person believes the Empire is 100% good, just like how Luke believed the Rebels were 100% good.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Because that can't happen. The empire is the dark side embodied. While there are good people in the empire, the empire itself is not good since they were founded from the evil of Palatine's agenda which destroyed the republic. If you say the empire is good then you completely destroy the universe that Star wars is in and you mind as well make a new franchise. The only way you can have someone who never realizes the empire is bad is if you use a bland unrealistic character or serious continuity errors.

[@agentc7020]

Dave Smith or you simply point out at the good things the empire did that the republic didn’t do

[@shadowfox0087]

cesar febres pretty sure none of those things out weigh the legalization of slavery, destroying Alderaan, and the countless other mass killings and genocides the empire has done. No matter what I have zero care for what happens to a stormtrooper of The empire

[@agentc7020]

Shadefox 00 yeah yeah just go and think every stormtrooper is a heartless machine while every rebel is a freedom loving good guy that has never sinned, the empire did many things that are both good and bad, the destruction of Alderaan was horrible but the integration of planets the republic neglected was something good and arguably better for more people than Alderaan’s population, you have to remember that the empire is a government that oversees tens of thousands of planets and most of them never hear true fighters or see stormtroopers which means the empire is doing something good job that actual intergalactic governments in Star Wars should do more, stormtroopers fight for the stability that the empire brought with it, I’m not about to side with the emperor but the stormtroopers are people too if one dies they shouldn’t be treated as they are in the movies in my humble opinion.

[@TheBayzent]

Because every good person will see faults on fascist totalitarian states by default.

[@CaptainM792]

He should have applied for the officer academy, being an officer would significantly reduce his chances of getting killed.

[@everlast282]

He wanted to confront the rebels directly

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

officers are such cowards. they do not engage the enemy in glory of battle. to die of the empire is the only reward you should be seeking. to die before your duty is done, should be your worst nightmare.

[@iBlu3z]

you know troopers have to deal with rebels, officers have to deal with vader's^^

[@Hektols]

Officer Academy is for the richer families who want to gain more influence.

[@madisonatteberry9720]

As long as you weren't a TIE pilot, certain 'indestructible' space stations, the number one target for snipers or in the Navy and placed under the command of and given a promotion by Vader who seemed to give the next in line the rank of 'Admiral' without proving your worth before hand.

[@jessiegunther1079]

Really tragic, I read about him long ago on Wookiepedia. But this shows that not all Imperials are cold fanatics, many just did their job to protect their family, or just for a just cause they believed in, like keeping the galaxy safe. Ironically, I always thought he was legends. Anyway, my lord, you did great work as always!

[@blackshogun272]

Legends had better stories 😎

[@momgirlcop1]

BlackShogun 27 they did but we’re talking about decades of stories each new writer with something new to work with so they have seniority on their side

[@tomato1087]

I hate stormtroopers getting killed by rebels or jedi's sooooo easily. They giving their times to training so must be they're efficient soldiers. They have a story too. Star wars movie makes me sad sometimes cause they made stormtroopers is the soldiers who cannot hit with their blasters. It's kinda stupid. STORMTROOPERS LIVES MATTERS !!!!!

[@polinavader486]

I can't agree more. We need a stormtrooper story, at least one on the screen #stormtrooperslivesmatter

[@supremeleadersnoke6885]

They're wanting to shove these rebel and jedi movies and series up our asses for eternity. We need something from the Empire!

[@tomato1087]

@@polinavader486 Right!?

[@tomato1087]

@@supremeleadersnoke6885 Hell yeah lol

[@aidan0275]

@@tomato1087 Execute order 65

[@cloudedarctrooper]

Died having been happy to inspire great courage. All in all, a beautiful story.