Custom shock trooper figure
inspired by the movie character
The
red-emblazoned shock troopers had become a familiar sight across Coruscant Galactic City, where
they operated as law enforcers, patrolling public plazas and guarding
government buildings and landing platforms, and the big Senate Rotunda
building. These clone troopers were
created by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the War Council Advisory Panel, and
Homeworld Security Command.
Though
they wore the Phase II clone trooper armor common to all clone troopers
serving in the final year of the Clone Wars, they were distinguished by red
markings all over their helmet and body armor. These clones had the authority
to demand anyone to reveal their identification on the spot and perform other
random security checks. There were also rumors of these troopers seizing
private property and violently putting down anti-war protests. As all clone
troopers, they were armed with DC-15A blaster rifles, DC-15S blasters, and
thermal detonators. Shock troopers occasionally used electro staffs, too.
However, I do not take this as an authentic version. We all know how hard was
to train a magna for this kendo fight like movement. They were also trained by
Dooku, and by droid programs. Yet, they were not masters of this warfare. The
clones had more difficult chances for this warfare. First, they were not
droids, so their reflexes and other skills were less precize. Second, they
were trained during the cloning vat phase, and no source mentions that they
were taught this method. It is possible that they got a kind of basic training
for this on Kamino, if they were only planned to
guard
prisoners, who don't have weapons. If a riot takes place, the troopers have to
settle and calm it down, do not need to kill the prisoners, just to
incapacitate them. For this purpose, a stall would do. But doesn't necessary,
if the DC15 has a stun function, isn't it? The weirdest thing was seen in the
fifth season, when two shock troopers ignited their staffs against Anakin,
who did not wanted to let
Ahsoka
in the prison, nor to handle his saber. I do not think a shock trooper, or
even two in this case, could have a single chance against a Jedi. Not against
Anakin himself, but even a Padawan, their skills would be nothing. But anyway,
since this scene was seen in the Clone Wars series, we made it with KotF mod
as an illustration. As with the
501st Legion, the clone shock troopers were tasked with protecting Coruscant,
and answered directly to the Supreme Chancellor. Prior to the rise of the
Galactic Empire, the clone shock troopers were the first armed force to be
dubbed as "stormtroopers". This nickname would immediately become a title
for all clone troopers upon the Republic's transformation into the Empire.
Famous shock troopers were Fox, Jek, Rys, and
Thire. Early in the
war, the young Thire, serving as a lieutenant in the Grand Army of the Republic, was
assigned, alongside troopers Jek and Rys, to escort Jedi Master Yoda to a
diplomatic mission to Rugosa. This mission could be seen in the very first episode of the Clone Wars animated film.
Their transport ship was attacked by a
Separatist Munificent-class star frigate to prevent
Yoda's meeting with the Toydarian king. Yoda and the three clone troopers evacuated the ship and
landed on the moon's surface in an escape pod. Thire, Jek and Rys helped Yoda with all of their skills to get
past a whole battalion of B1 battle droids, super battle droids, and some Armored
Assault Tanks, sent by Asajj Ventress to intercept them as a challenge to
the competency of the Jedi and the Republic's forces, in order to secure a
treaty with Toydarian
King Katuunko.
Thire was wounded by a super battle
droid during the mission when the SBD fired a rocket, but his fellow clone troopers and Yoda pulled him out from the line of sight, rescuing him from the SBDs, and together they continued to fight alongside Yoda until they escorted him to the rendezvous point, and their task was
successfully completed.
After
promotion to
Commander, Thire led Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's shock
troopers during the height of the Clone Wars. As the war intensified,
Thire's shock troopers were tasked with the protection of the capital
planet, Coruscant. Thire was one of those who founded Homeworld
Security Command in an effort to centralize and streamline the defense of
Coruscant should an attack ever come. Thire, however, always doubted the Republic won't be able to
provide a reliable defense of
Coruscant.
Thire's worst
fears were realized when General Grievous launched a surprise attack on the
capital in the early hours of a morning. Thire's men, in conjunction with
Commander Appo's 501st Legion, did their best to keep the Confederacy's
droid forces from taking the Senate District. While they were able to halt
the Separatist advance, but they were powerless to stop the abduction of the
Chancellor by Grievous and his MagnaGuards.
The
execution of the sad Order 66 and the 501st Legion's assault on the Jedi Temple
brought about the end of the Clone Wars. Just a few Jedi survived, the
remaining were slaughtered by their own clones. Obi-wan Kenobi and Yoda
survived, and decided to stop the Emperor and his new apprentice, Darth Vader.
Obi-wan
Kenobi went to Mustafar to face Anakin-now-Darth Vader, while Yoda visited
the Emperor in his office. After an epic battle in the Senate
Rotunda between Emperor Palpatine and the Jedi Master, Yoda was
defeated and unfortunately felt down from a floating senate platform, and escaped the
building with Senator Bail Organa's help. The furious
Sidious
tasked the late arrived Commander Thire and his men to scour the bowels of the Senate,
looking for any sign of the diminutive Jedi, ironically forcing
Thire to
hunt down that Jedi Master who saved his life on the Coral moon. I am
curious what Thire would have done if he found Yoda alive, but I think he
would have told thank you for his savior with a bullet in his head, but Thire's increased efforts to find Yoda
fortunately had failed, and
he
had to report the Emperor that Yoda had disappeared, only his cloak was
found, nothing else. But in the meantime Palpatine felt disturbance in the
Force, and became far more concerned with the status of his newest apprentice
Anakin Skywalker whom he sensed
was in grave danger. And really, the Emperor sensed well that the young Sith
Darth Vader was defeated by Obi-wan, and injured badly, suffering in the
burning lava, fighting for his life. Thus, Thire and his shock troopers accompanied Emperor
Palpatine to Mustafar, to find the gravely
injured Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader. By the time they arrived at the
plot Obi-wan Kenobi was gone, but
soon
the Emperor spotted the struggling Vader in the lava, ordering the red
shock
troopers to bring a medical capsule for his agonizing apprentice at once. So
the shock troopers rushed back to the ship for a medical capsule, and put
Anakin's burned and mutilated torso into that, to protect his life till the
needed surgeries became available.
Their
shuttle quickly flew back to Coruscant, when they quickly transported Vader
in a medical facility, and finished his transformation to a half-men, half
machine Darth Vader.
Please take a look at my custom shock trooper!
There was not any shock troopers in that time, when I made this. Made
from a ROTS clone #6, and painted with red.
custom shock trooper figure front view
custom shock trooper figure from the back
Thanks for your interest, visit back soon to CustomStarWars!
written by: Norbert Rostas
2010.01.04. the figure was made many years before.