Asta wrote:The naming of troopers made sense once.
There was the basic Stormtooper for space and general planet operations.
Then Snow Troopers, who were designed for their environment. AT-AT Drivers shared a style similar to TIE Pilots.
Scout Troopers were lightly armoured reconnaissance . AT-ST were lighter armoured drivers.
Then Rogue One introduces Shore Troopers and tank troopers (plus Death Troopers), and Solo brings the Swamp Trooper and the Patrol Trooper (?)
Their titles are becoming so specific that they're little more than names to identify them on figure cards, so customers remember where they saw them in the films.
Well, it certainly made more sense than it does now.
Technically, the Snowtroopers were simply Stormtroopers in winter gear. Likewise, Spacetroopers (with special oxygen equipment) and Sandtroopers (with unfinalized early version of Stormtrooper armor). AT-ST Drivers wore the basic imperial infantry (non-Stormtrooper) uniform, a more basic variation of the general's (from the AT-AT scenes in ESB); presumably AT-ST drivers on Hoth wore the same uniform as AT-AT drivers, though there is something not fully thought-out in the disparity of design there.
Rogue One introduced Shore Troopers, Death Troopers, Hovertank Drivers, and AT-ACT Drivers (which look almost the same as the Tank Drivers) -- none of them really necessary.
Solo also introduced four new trooper types: Patrol Troopers (the coolest design), Range Troopers (which look like heavier and winterized Scout Troopers), Mudtroopers, and Mimban Stormtroopers (slight variant on regular Stormtroopers and very dirtied up) -- again, none of them really necessary -- the first two could have been just Scout Troopers, the Mudtroopers are just infantry, and the Mimban Stormtroopers might have had some specific extra gear without the actual minor modification in armor.
There is a reason some claim that Star Wars is just fiction, not science fiction, and all this silliness seems to be part of it.
