Deployed by the Dark Empire, which was led by a resurgent Emperor in a clone body (sound familiar?) six years after Return of the Jedi, these elite stormtroopers were trained in the dark side of the Force and used their powers to unleash terror on an unsuspecting galaxy. Force-sensitive dark troopers were introduced in Dark Empire a month before Dark Forces, even though the comic series takes place about a decade after the events of the video game. They were deadly and easily controlled by the Empire during the Galactic Civil War.īut those dark troopers were only the first step in the Empire’s scheme to create a new kind of soldier.
A series of grisly surgeries turned these veterans into half-man half-machine infantry units, their limbs and organs replaced with cybernetic parts. While the dark troopers are the result of Moff Gideon‘s work to rebuild the Empire on the show, the Dark Trooper Project of Legends was spearheaded by Imperial General Rom Mohc, who developed the program as a way to reintegrate Clone Wars soldiers into the ranks of the Empire.
