Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 12:25:16 -0800 From: Bill Knight-The Guardian This information is considered classified and not for general release. All information is taken from Pre-Yavin days. The current reliability of such information is speculative. For security reasons, this document has been digested. Authorization from Sector Commanders is required for uncondensed versions. -Colonel Harris Argin Alliance Team 328 Stormtrooper Training Process (Condensed) I. Recruitment: accomplished by several means. 1. Cloning. Selected troopers are sent to the various hidden Imperial clone labs where specific material is taken from them for the express purpose of cloning future Stormtroopers. Usually high intelligence, survivability, cunning, efficiency, and loyalty are qualities considered. 2. Conscription. Most troopers are taken by this method, but not in the common sense. From uncharted planets, in uncharted sectors, hundreds of thousands of young candidates are raised for the express purpose of becoming stormtroopers. On these planets, large colonies where established long ago in order to raise children under proper ideological and corrective conditions. These children are brought in from all over the universe by circuitous routes and placed in dormitory style housing and raised in a communal style and recieve para-military training. 3. Enlistment. The least used, but the most publicized, for that matter, the only method that is publicized. Candidates are selected through rigorous testing from military prep schools, penal correction centers, and para-military youth groups. II. Shipment: Done by circuitous routes to Stormtrooper training planets. III. Indoctrination: 1. Mental. While all Trooper candidates are checked for loyalty before making it to this stage, it is felt that additional persuasion and enhancement is beneficial. Such being the case, propaganda, lectures, and activities are conducted to further strengthen the trooper candidates loyalty to the Emperor and conviction in the Imperial cause (which is the Emperor's cause). 2. Physical. In addition to mental induction, it has been found that when combined with physical exertion (also know as breaking down) and wear on the spirit, conviction of the Imperial cause is increased. IV. Training: This is conducted in the most brutal and efficient manner possible. Cadre are always elder stormtrooper who are cut from field duty and assigned to "ride the trail" for a period of five years. 1. Assignment to a training battalion. 2. 1st week -Induction and Indoctrination Training: This is just more of stage III. 3. 2nd week -Instruction in Rudimentary Military Skills (RMS). 4. 3rd week -OPFOR: Learning the Imperial enemy and it's threat to the Emperor's plan for peace. 5. 4th week -Instruction in Rudimentary Combat Skills (RCS). 6. 5th week -Practice on the combat course. 7. 6th and 7th week -Repeat of 2nd week and continuation of 5th week. 8. 8th and 9th week -Instruction in Advanced Combat Skills (ACS). 9. 10th week -Practice on the combat course. 10. 11th-14th week -Instruction on All-Environmental Survival (AES). 11. 15th week -Taken to nearest combat zone for On-the-Job combat experience. 12. 16th week -Survivors graduate and are shipped to advanced training. Assignment: This is determined by the following criteria. 1. Skill. Trooper candidates are shipped to training facilities where they are given additional training in fields in which they show a tendency for excellence. 2. Loyalty. Troopers shown to have excessive zeal in serving the Emperor are referred to a special school of the Imperial Stormtrooper Penetration Group. Here, troopers receive reverse training, to remove all obvious presence of having had Imperial military training. Troopers are then infiltrated into know Rebel groups as well as into the regular military forces where they function as moles. 3. Aptitude. Unlike "Skill", troopers with an obvious aptitude for leadership are sent on to Command School to receive further training and a commission as senior enlisted or as a junior officer. ================================================================= Copyright (C) 1994 -William Knight "The Guardian" ANWTK@acad2.alaska.edu Fine Print: The use of certain trademarks and phrases referenced or used in this work are owned by George Lucas, West End Games, and others is not intended as a challenge to their status nor to their ownership. Afore mentioned property owners of the trademarks and phrases are entitled to the full ownership and privileges entitled to them by law for their specific properties (such as the Starwars concept, and the word Yavin), while the rest of the document and it's content are copyrighted by me (everything but the Starwars concept). However, some properties are borrowed from history and as such, were not created by and are not owned by afore mentioned property owners or me, but rather by history as a whole (such as the word Stormtrooper).