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Stormtrooper Equipment

Stormtrooper Armour

    Black vacuum-sealed bodysuit

  • Gorget Neck Seal
  • Body Glove Upper
  • Body Glove Lower

    Armour Components:

  • Helmet
  • Chest Plate
  • Back Plate
  • Abdominal Back
  • Abdominal Front & Groin Plate
  • Bottom Plate
  • Shoulder Bell, Left & Right
  • Rerebrace (Bicep), Left & Right
  • Vambrace (Forearm), Left & Right
  • Gloves & Hand Plate
  • Cuisse (Thigh), Left & Right
  • Greave (Calf), Left & Right

    Helmet features:

  • Soldex automatic polarizing filter lenses, to protect the trooper against intense glare and flashes.
  • Holographic Vision Processors, and Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System (MFTAS), helped the troopers vision in darkness, smoke, fire and other visibility-obscuring conditions.
  • Comlink, ComTech vocoder, and ComTech Series IV speaker system and auditory sensor.
  • Cooling and atmosphere filtering systems.

    The stormtroopers armor backplace allows a trooper to surve even in the vacuum of space for limited periods. Usually included:

  • Power pack
  • Pressurised gas system

    Stormtroopers were equipped with a utility belt. This would include:

  • Four spare E-11 blaster rifle power packs
  • Energy rations
  • Compact tool kit
  • A high-tension wire
  • Grappling hooks
  • A spare C1 military comlink hardwired against jamming
  • Macrobinoculars
  • Handcuff binders
  • Combat de-ionizer
  • Two blast energy sinks
  • A thermal detonator
  • Three ion flares
  • Three water packs
  • Two medpacs
  • Electronic lock scrambler/descrambler

    For extended exposure to open space or on certain deployments, stormtroopers were equipped with backpacks. These backpacks would contain:

  • An extended air supply that permitted a stormtrooper to survive up to twenty minutes in vacuum
  • Additional communications gear
  • Heating and cooling system
  • Mortar launchers
  • Additional rations
  • Rechargeable cells that fed energy to the armor's electronic components, with a standard charge lasting 240 hours

    Other features of the armor included:

  • The gloves could be powered up during hand-to-hand combat to deliver stun shocks via an optional modification.
  • The stomach armor contained a Manual Suit Seal and environmental controls.
  • The thigh armor had a reinforced alloy plate ridge
  • The lower right leg segment contained the suit's axillary power cells.
  • The left upper side of the shin armor had a knee-protector plate for comfort from a kneeling firing position.
  • IFF circuitry was in the back of the suit for identification and command purposes for identifying each other.
  • A resonator to open secure doors.
  • A personal energy shield for use during combat. This was specifically issued to stormtrooper commanders of particularly high value.

    Stormtrooper Rank Pauldron

  • White - Sergeant
  • Orange - Squad Leader