Star Wars can kiss my ass if it can make a big deal of droid liberation but ignores the kidnapped and enslaved Stormtroopers.
Which idk if it was canon before (it totally was,just not overtly) but it is now bc Finn was stolen from his family, indoctrinated (badly lol, quit first chance he got and joined the good guys), and handed a gun.
It shifted from era to era, as I understand it. The first Stormtroopers were the Republic’s Clonetroopers, who were grown to be soldiers and were effectively slaves themselves. The clones evidently were phased out sometime during the Empire and replaced by conscripts/volunteers, as seen in Agent Terex’s past as a Stormtrooper from the Poe Dameron comics. The First Order started the practice of kidnapping children and training them to be soldiers, a program pioneered by Brendol Hux and continued by his son, and Finn is the most visible face of that.
Honestly you’re right. The Troopers have always been the slaves/tools of Star Wars
Clone Troopers were soldiers cloned from Jango Fett and bred to fight in the Clone Wars for the Republic. There was no choice in the matter at all. Worst of all, when your only choices were obeying an order that was brainwashed into you or dying, is that even a choice?
Stormtroopers of the Empire were people who were either a part of the Army of the Republic before hand or joint after the government was reformed into the empire. The country you serve suddenly becoming a fascist organization really doesn’t leave you many options for a life.
Stormtroopers of the First Order are either children stolen away from other worlds or children recruited at a young age from poor and horrible living worlds/families. That really doesn’t make you any options either and essentially combines the worst of both worlds of the empire and republic.
I’m not saying all the troopers were innocent either, but there were more Captain Rexs and Finns than there were Phasmas and Cardinals.
I need, NEED a Stormtrooper uprising in an inverse of Order 66, something @jewishcomeradebot also talked about. Instead of slave soldiers falling deeper into slavery by being forced to murder their trusted commanders, an uprising would see slave soldiers breaking their bonds by killing their oppressors. It would be one of the ways IX could bring the triad of trilogies full circle.
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