Imperial Death Troopers

The Imperial Death Troopers were Imperial Stormtroopers that exceeded their training and were selected for experiments that transformed them into a better soldier. The first Imperial Death Troopers were selected from Clone Stormtroopers, which were former Clone Troopers that were reorganised into the Empire's Stormtroopers, but later first-born recruits were accepted into both Stormtrooper and Death Trooper branches yet clones would still serve. Death Troopers would usually be seen in normal Stormtrooper squads as heavy infantry or provide cover fire. The Emperor's emissary and leader of Imperial forces, Lord Vader admired these troops and even considered them the perfect Stormtroopers. Both Grand Admiral Thrawn and Director Orson Callan Krennic used Death Troopers as their bodyguards. In his attempted destruction of the Rebel Alliance on Atollon Thrawn used at least 6 Death Troopers, 2 of which acted as his bodyguards and the others to reinforce their Stormtrooper squadmates. A squad of Imperial Death Troopers under the command of DT-F16 were to bring a massive kyber crystall from a civillian freighter to Captain Slavin's Imperial Star Destroyer, but due to intervention of the rebel groups known as the Spectres and the Partisans were unable to do so. Later a Death Trooper named DT-L21 and his Stormtrooper squadmates under the command of famous TIE Fighter pilot Baron Valen Rudor were ordered to arrest the Spectres, but failed. A day after, Grand Admiral Thrawn and Governor Pryce arrived on Lothal with a Death Trooper escort to inspect Thrawn's new TIE/D Defender advanced prototype piloted by Vult Skerris, but the Death Trooper escort was defeated and the prototype stolen and later crashed by the Spectres.