Date: 090210
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Mos Eisley
Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).
Imperial stormtroopers are the Empire's finest soldiers, impossible to corrupt, putting their lives on the line for the Emperor without question, dieing rather than giving up or betraying their orders. At least as far as the public knowns.
However recently there have been rumors that contradict this image. People talk abut stormtroopers fighting other imperial soldiers or even other stormtroopers. One such incident supposedly happened in Mos Carova weeks ago, another last night in Chalmun's in Mos Eisley. According to an eye witness a stormtrooper was fighting a trandoshan slaver when another stormtrooper shouted "Renegade!" and started shooting at the first stormtrooper.
Is this a sign of dissension within the ranks of the stormtrooper corps? According to military analysts it's more likely a rebel propaganda offensive, using captured stormtrooper armor to sow confusion and doubt - but there have been prominent defections in the past, from high-ranking imperial officers even. Until this can be cleared the nature of such incidents remains in doubt,
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