Kashan Shock Trooper
Kashan Shock Trooper
Troop: Kashan Shock Trooper
Troop Type: Standard Shock Trooper
Affiliation: Kashan, New Coalition
Armor: Eagle Mk III Body Armor
Primary Weapon: Blaster Rifle (Typically a Blastech E11 or A280 rifle).
Secondary Weapons: 2 Concussion Grenades, 1 Thermal Detonator, 1 Vibroknife.
Equipment:
1 Utility Belt: High-tension wire, grappling hooks, additional blaster ammunition, food and Water Packs, a spare comlink, Ion Flares, a Survival Kit, and a Chiewab GliS Emergency Medpac.
Chiewab GliS Emergency Medpac: This basic medpac is typically worn on the utility belt. It carries small amounts of the following medicines: coagulants(to stop bleeding), healing salves, sterilizers, disinfectant pads, stim-shots, adrenaline boosters, painkillers, nerve anesthetics, basic antibiotics, countertoxins, anti-radiation tonic, and immunity boosters. These medicines are either applied through a patch or a spray hypo. It also comes with spray splints and a bone stabilizer for broken bones and basic bacta patches.
Eagle Mk III Body Armor: The Eagle Mk III Body armor is based on the Old Republic Clone Armor. While the Empire chose to completely redesign the clone armor into the ubiquoutous stormtrooper armor, Kashan instead refined the old clone trooper armor in the Eagle-series, which has culminated in the Eagle Mk III used by the thousands of troops in Kashan’s service. The Mk III incorporates some technology copied from stormtrooper suits bought off the Black Market.
Technical Info:
22 Piece Ultrachrome Anti-Blaster Cocoon Armour Shell worn over a black Climate-Controlled Body Glove. The armour itself is made up of two layers: Ultrachrome and Inner Insulator Body Glove.
Helmet: Reinforced helmet contains Breathing Filters, Atmospheric Cycling Unit, Atmospheric Intake and Processing Unit, and power cells. It features cellular padding inside the helmet and a hermetic auto-seal at its base. Helmet computer is located above comlink microphone (nose of helmet); lateral sensor housing is located on helmet flanks. Helmet is cooled and atmosphere-processed to keep the trooper operating at peak efficiency at all times. The two vents on the back of the helmet are heat dispersion panels. A comlink helmet speaker uses three-phase sonic filtering for clear sound (it is connected to the audio pickup). Talking to others without Eagle Mk III armor is achieved using the helmet's Vocoder.
Communications: Tongue Toggled - Voice-Activated Comlink The helmet is also able to pick up transmissions made by non-Kashan comlinks. [The comlink uses linked encoding sequences to change frequencies every few seconds while keeping all troopers in the unit synchronized. If the helmet is removed without the trooper first hitting the comlink's tongue toggled control stud, the frequency coding routine is automatically deleted from that helmet].
Visual Systems: Polarizing Lenses to protect against intense glare which provide enhanced combat vision. The Eagle Mk III has a HUD system based on the Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System (MFTAS) used by stormtroopers. This system assists perception in darkness, smoke and other low-visibility situations. It also assists in aiming against moving targets.
Backplate: Contains an (automatically activating) emergency 30 minutes of oxygen if the trooper is exposed to (and moves through) vacuum or underwater (part of pressured gas system). It also contains a power pack.
Stomach Armour: Contains Manual Suit Seal and Environmental Controls.
Thigh Armour: Both have reinforced alloy plate ridge and lower right side near the knee contains Suit Systems power cells (looks like a row of boxes).
Boots: Because movement is essential for any trooper, the boots are not as heavily armored as the rest of the suit. Instead of Ultrachrome, the boots are armored with lighter Ceramoid, whose main property is an incredibly high melting point. They are also terrain grip boots, which aid the trooper in surmounting difficult terrain.
Armour (protection): This armor is effective in protection, but it reduces the dexterity of its wearer. It protects troopers from harsh environments, projectile and impact weapons, blast shrapnel and glancing blaster bolts. It even provides some measure of protection against radiation. The key of the armor is the use of Ultrachrome, a room temperature superconductor, which allows the user to take most blaster hits and use it power up his suit or blaster. In addition, because of its superconductor properties, the entire suit can be charged with electricity, making it deadly to touch and capable of heating up the armor to the degree where touching it causes major burns.
Armor (miscellaneous): The armor is also equipped with IFF circuitry for identification and command purposes much like a transponder works for a starship. The Kashan military also realized that troopers in white suits are abnormally easy to spot in many terrains. As such, all troopers are equipped with a camoflage spray paint with which to paint their suits before they enter the combat zone. After the battle is over, the spray can be removed with a special solvent.
Body Glove: The body glove utilized by the Eagle Mk III is also based on that of the stormtroopers, allowing KDF troopers operation in most climates from total vacuum to extremes in cold and heat for limited amounts of time. Unlike stormtrooper armor, carbon fibers are completely interlaced throughout the body glove, affording it better durability and resistance to tears and punctures.
Description: While Kashan Militia units form the bulk of the Kashan ground defences, Kashan maintains an army of professional soldiers as well. The Kashan Shock Troopers are the front-line soldiers assigned by the KDF as marines for Kashan capital ships and guards for key facilities and personnel. While they have never been used in their intended shock assault role, they have been extensively trained in such operations, even running battle simulations against other each other.
The concept of an armored shock trooper is not new, as evident by the thousands of Old Republic troops spanning millenia of years culminating with the Clone Troopers. Kashan Shock Troopers build on this heritage and operate in similar fashion to their predecessors. While the Empire chose to completely redesign the clone armor into the ubiquoutous stormtrooper armor, Kashan instead refined the old clone trooper armor in the Eagle-series, which has culminated in the Eagle Mk III used by the thousands of troops in Kashan’s service.
Although Kashan is not particularly proud to admit it, Kashan Shock Troopers were not only heavily based on the Clone Troopers, but also on observations of the effective Imperial stormtroopers. The training excersises and proctocols are based on those Imperial units, although the KDF is slightly different. For example, there are no special environmental units like Radtroopers or Snowtroopers. Instead, all Kashan Shock Troopers have secondary capital ship training much like Imperial Naval Troopers, making them more useful onboard ships of the Kashan Navy. With the induction of Kashan into the Coalition, militia units are slowly being converted into Kashan Shock Trooper units and normal recruitment has been stepped up.