User blog:ScienceGuy44/The Rebel Fleet Trooper; the best thing since unsliced bread & toast!

Ultimately, I've always been a fan, albeit a minor fan, of Star Wars. But not for the same reasons that many others have been. I remember watching a New Hope for the first time as a child around the same time that the Phantom Menace had just been released, being one of the many 2000s kids to grow up with 90s pop culture. I remember being a little bored watching the opening titles, thinking that it was very much going to be more Jedi being overpowered as hell and slicing through Droids and such, right up until the point the Corellian Corvette rushed past the camera, followed by the hulking Star Destroyer in hot pursuit. Now that was entertainment.

Then came the pan in to the Corvette, with its garrison of Fleet troopers. My first favourite characters in Star Wars. Being the first Rebel troopers we see in the Star Wars universe, their colourful uniforms, interesting helmets and determined faces stuck in my mind as the thing that I most remembered about the opening of a New Hope. I loved the first blaster battle in a New Hope and remember deciding right there and then that my favourite weapon in Star Wars was not the Lightsaber, but the blaster type that those troopers were using, which I later learned was the DH-17. For years after, I remember still being fascinated by the Rebel Alliance as a faction, with that first sighting of the Rebel Fleet trooper being the very reason that I had actually become interested with Star Wars in the beginning, being the very reason that I had come to regard it as, debatably, one of the best factions in the Star Wars Universe, both Canon and Non-Canon.

One of the very first action figures that I bought specifically to collect was the Rebel Honour Guard figure, though I was still very much dissapointed by the lack of my favourite blue-shirted, cargo pants wearing Rebel troopers. Then I found the action figure of it, the Wave 7 figure replete with DH-17, and it was aaalll good. I've played various Star Wars games and, if and when they turned up, I always got a good vibe from seeing them. But now I've noticed that, for the most part, that blue-shirted Rebel Fleet trooper has, in essence, dropped from view. The DH-17 hasn't appeared nearly as much as it should, DICE's Battlefront being an exemption, and the new Rebels of the Resistance wearing completely different uniforms and using completely different equipment, despite using the very same ships that the Rebel Alliance did. Even Disney's Star Wars: Rebels show has neglected to show the classic Rebel troopers, using what I consider to be rather crappy armor that doesn't even come close to capturing the same feel of the original Rebel troopers. Kota's Militia, however, did manage to gather that same vibe; I was pretty damn pleased to see them kicking Imperial arse in the Force Unleashed, being very much the reverse of the later Rebel renditions in that they were winning nearly every firefight they got into.

Anyone's thoughts on the Rebel Fleet Troopers as one of the more memorable units in Star Wars?

Do you think that they're not nearly as memorable as other Star Wars units?

Post your thoughts down below.