Seatroopers

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Seatroopers

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Basic Information -

Height: 1.83 meters
Weapon: Blaster Speargun; Concussion Grenades
Affiliation: Galactic Empire; Stormtrooper

Expanded Universe -

When the Empire needed to maintain a presence on the various aquatic worlds in its domain, it employed a specialized branch of Aquatic Assault Stormtroopers, known commonly as seatroopers.

Many of the standard technologies employed by the Imperial military were modified for aquatic use, including specialized aquatic garrisons, custom TIE boats, and powerful AT-AT swimmers. The armor of the seatrooper was based on the lightweight scout trooper design. It is worn over a two-piece environmental body glove that provides protection from uncomfortable temperature extremes, or toxic-water environments.

The armor is more flexible than standard stormtrooper designs, preserving and even increasing a trooper's underwater dexterity. Supplementing a soldier's swimming skills are a back-mounted propulsion unit, and a pair of propulsion boots with snap-down flippers. Since blaster ranges are often adversely affected by underwater use, the seatroopers carried a blaster rifle/speargun hybrid as a standard weapon.

The standard seatrooper utility belt includes high-tension wire, grappling hooks, spare blaster power packs, ion flares, concentrated rations, spare comlink, medpacs, rebreather filters, and a compressed air inflatable bubble tent.