Clone shadow trooper

The clone shadow trooper was a variant of the Galactic Republic's clone troopers, and served during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. states that the clone troopers fought during the Clone Wars. Since the clone shadow troopers are a variant of those troopers, as established by , they must have fought during the war as well. At some point at a fiery location, a trooper armed with a DC-15A blaster carbine joined forces with a cloaked individual, who wielded a red lightsaber, out of necessity.
The clone shadow trooper was equipped with an armor that was black in color with white stripes and a helmet with a red visor. The troopers functioned as the predecessors to the shadow troopers, a group of elite stormtroopers equipped with black experimental stealth armor serving the Galactic Empire.
==Behind the scenes==
Clone shadow troopers were first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in Star Wars: Force Collection, a 2013 digital card game developed by Konami Digital Entertainment. Even though the launch of Force Collection predates the Star Wars canon reset of 2014, Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon. — Leland Chee of the Lucasfilm Story Group has confirmed that in-universe information from Star Wars: Force Collection conforms with Star Wars canon. The troopers were first pictured on a card in the 2017 Star Wars: The Card Game set Swayed by the Dark Side.
Clone shadow troopers originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where they were created for a Target-exclusive Hasbro action figure from the 2005 Revenge of the Sith toy line and later appeared in Echoes of the Jedi, the fourth adventure in the Dawn of Defiance campaign for Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition, written by Abel G. Peña and Jean-François Boivin and released in 2008. The image used to depict a clone shadow trooper in canon is mirrored from its original appearance in Legends, where it was used in the 2008 Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game set "Squadrons Over Corellia." While the canon usage depicts an uneasy alliance, "Squadrons Over Corellia" depicted the dark side user controlling the clone through Force Corruption. At Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, a helmet of a clone shadow trooper was featured as one of eight collectible pins from the Mystery Helmets Collection.
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==Notes and references==
shadow trooper, clone