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Stormtrooper Training Process (Condensed)
Bill Knight
1994-10-24
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.