Designation:

CompForce Assault Trooper

Training:
10

Mental strength:
50

Combat Endurance:
15

Primary Weapon Power:
9

Secondary Weapon Power:
6

Equipment:

1 Blaster Rifle

1 Heavy Blaster Pistol

3 Concussion Grenades

1 Combat Knife

 

CompForce Assault Trooper Armor

- Anti Flash Blinding Lenses

- Night Vision Viewplate

- Helmet Comlink

- Wrist Field Navigational Computer

4 Spare Blaster Power Packs

3 Ion Flares

1 Concentrated Ration

1 Spare Comlink

3 Water Packs

1 Medpack

1 ABC Protection Hood

 

CompForce is the military arm of COMPNOR, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, the overarching political entity that controls CompForce with to branches, Observation and Assault.

Observation is primarily a political overwatch branch that keeps an eye on regular military branches. In theory, this observation is to learn from the day-to-day operations of the Imperial Military and pass the lessons on to the Assault branch. In practice, Observation spies on the military to ensure adherence to Imperial Political doctrine. Observation personnel are recruited directly from SAGroup, COMPNOR's youth service program, and serve a five-year stint with an option of a second period of service. After Observation volunteers finish a tour of duty, they rarely join Assault or the conventional military. Most join the ISB or another COMPNOR branch, with the bulk of the remainder joining another branch of the Imperial bureaucracy.

Assault is the Combat branch. these volunteers are also recruited directly from SAGroup, and serve a five year stint with a re-up option and recall-to-service obligation. Assault trains its recruits in fundamental combat skills, but puts more effort into political indoctrination. The quality of skills training is low, and the training conditions dangerous - CompForce dropcamp has been described as "training by attrition". Advanced combat drills involve live-fire exercises with out safety measured. Trainees are driven to the utter limits of exhaustion and put through real-condition survival training without rescue options, all in the name of realism. CompForce has a high failure rate, and some drop camps have a fatality / crippling disability rate as high as 22 percent. The net result is that CompForce Assault Troopers are ready, willing and able to die for the Empire.

This kind of training results in poorly trained troopers entering combat situations with minimal support. Because of Observation's political activities in the military branches, CompForce is roundly despised by both Army and Navy and they often find they have better things to do in combat than back up CompForce Assault Troopers. Compounding the problem is the perception that CompForce Assault is full of programmed flunkies who get the best medical facilities and latest equipment. The main use Army commanders find for CompForce Assault Troopers is support stormtrooper landings - the Assault units are unofficially referred to as "soak" units, an operational term for units used to absorb casualties for more useful troops.

Although CompForce troopers are poorly prepared for their duties, there are an increasing number of veteran units who have survived the worst and trained themselves. These veterans are quite fearsome and are passing on their training to the newer units. Such veteran units are a genuine threat to Rebel attackers, but still relatively rare.

CompForce Assault units, regular or veteran, are uncrackable under combat conditions. Their indoctrination compels them to stand their ground and execute their orders regardless of casualties. Even stormtrooper units sometimes retreat for tactical reasons, but CompForce Assault Troopers never backs down.