Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23782751-20140528024550/@comment-24750690-20141119034250

General B.H. wrote: I also heard about that yet for some reason there the only main we find in the movies, video games, comic books, and tv shows. As far as I am concerned those imperial troopers are basically just imperial police and national guard.

See that's what I think. When the Empire is invading ("Storming" :) or occupying or doing tactical stuff, they use Stormies. But when they need an army to stand around and shoot at local rebels or pissed off moisture farmers or the like, they mobilize Imperial Troops from the planet's garison.

Also, I want to point out that it's not that we don't see them very often. We just don't have many sources of them. I guess the Stormtroopers are the face of the Empire. They conquer your planet and leave, but the Imperial Troops stick around to enforce order.