Clone Trooper

Of the 8 Career Skills, choose 4 to get a free rank. Of the 4 Specialization Skills, choose 2 to get a free rank.

Clone Soldier Career Skills: Athletics, Brawl, Cool, Discipline, Medicine, Ranged (Heavy), Ranged (Light) and Vigilance

Clone Specialization Skills: Gunnery, Perception, Ranged (Heavy) and Resilience

Standard infantry make up the largest portion of the soldiers in almost every army. Their units handle the direct, personal conflict on the surface of every battlefield, whether that battlefield is on the ground, under the sea, or within the confines of a space station. Because the Clone Troopers—the infantry—represent the front line of the Grand Army of the Republic, their basic level of competency defines the army’s capabilities. In order for the army to be able to overcome its foes quickly and effectively, every Clone Trooper must be more capable than the rank and file of the Separatists’ droid armies.

This specialization provides a versatile set of skills that are valuable to every Clone Soldier. A background as a member of the infantry provides a Clone Officer with a better understanding of the soldiers he commands. Similarly, infantry experience gives a Clone Pilot some familiarity with the risks faced by soldiers on the ground, which is useful for providing air support or extraction.

The Clone Trooper specialization encompasses a range of more specific roles. Some of these are devoted to particular environmental conditions, including the combat roles of cold assault trooper, SCUBA trooper, and Galactic Marine. Other Clone Troopers, including paratroopers, flame troopers, and medics, have more extensive training to work with particular equipment. Soldiers who exhibit particular skills in service might be selected for advanced training within that skill set, including ARC troopers, scout troopers, and special ops clone troopers. While distinctive equipment characterizes each of these different combat and support roles, the training to use that gear and work under extreme situations is also critical to success within these niches.

Even within a unit, soldiers assume particular responsibilities. Often, one trooper is assigned to carry a heavier weapon—such as the Z-6 rotary blaster cannon—while others might wield alternative tools, such as explosives, communications gear, a medpac, or other equipment necessary to complete the mission at hand. Typically, Clone Troopers receive particular training to make use of any non-standard equipment they carry. However, Clone Troopers with less specialized training might redistribute such gear over the course of a mission.

Potential Stories

  • Individuality: Clone Soldiers continually see themselves in their comrades. As they are strong-willed individuals, this challenges them to forge distinct identities. Unique acts of heroism, unusual interests, or novel insights and discoveries all offer ways to set a particular clone apart from his peers. Finding and seizing such opportunities is a vital part of each Clone Soldier’s life.
  • Dedication: Conditioned loyalty to the Republic is integral to Clone Soldier training. At many times throughout their careers, Clone Soldiers may face the temptation to turn away from their duty. They might face overwhelming odds, encounter a generous bribe, or even have to turn their back on a friend in order to fulfill a responsibility.
  • Self-Sacrifice: Even though Clone Soldiers are each a distinct sentient being, they recognize that their sacrifice may be necessary to secure a victory for the Republic. These soldiers are willing to pay any cost in order to complete their assigned tasks—even though the cost may be grievous personal injury or even death.
  • Superiority: Programmed with a sense of pride, all clones strive to be their best, but some try to take it further: to be the first to the objective, destroy the most droids in a skirmish, or always be the one to rescue a fellow soldier from the field. Sometimes reckless, always dangerous, these actions may reveal a soldier’s pride in their work or a darker egoism.
  • Martyrdom: Clone Soldiers are ready to die for the Republic, but after several sorties, a few might begin to think their death is the reason for their existence. These soldiers volunteer for even the most dangerous missions, the ones offering no hope of survival. These soldiers believe their death must be meaningful, so they seek the assignments that allow them to go out in a blaze of glory.
  • Purity: The Republic has enemies everywhere, including within. Traitors and spies threaten it, but sometimes the Republic threatens itself. The Clone Wars may push certain soldiers toward an unbending sense of purity, making them self-appointed arbiters of right and wrong. These soldiers would never question the orders of a superior, but might also feel their peers never push themselves to go that extra kilometer. Perhaps they don’t love the Republic enough.