Identification/Serial Number: MV-1247

Sex: Male

Age: 24

Homeworld: Mandalore at birth, but quickly moved to Coruscant.

Rank: Private

Role: Rifleman

Callsign

Appearance: Like many, though not all, humans native to Mandalore, he is blonde haired and blue eyed, with rigid, hard features. While to some he looks scruffy, he actually keeps himself carefully under Imperial guidelines for cleanliness. Others say he looks like the spice addict he was in a previous life, and indeed, some of its effects still shine in his appearance despite his years of abstinence. His armor typically shines unless he's been in combat recently.

Equipment:
•Stormtrooper armor - Very clean.
•Thermal Detonators - They go boom.
•DLT-20A Rifle - His trusted go to weapon.

Psychological Analysis:
Tyroch appears to be deeply, almost fanatically loyal to the Empire. In his youth he was a spice addict, specifically to a variant named Indigo Burst. He still shows mannerisms of this when off duty, occasionally twitching, acting jittery, and similar. However, when on duty, he shows remarkable restraint in his mannerisms, able to suppress his movements, not to mention his emotions, to a commendable degree. When off duty, and sometimes even when on, he will behave friendly towards those who he believes support the Empire as wholeheartedly as he does. To those with no proper allegiance and do not commit crimes against the Empire, he will often attempt to persuade them of the benefits of the Empire. Towards criminals and rebels, though, he harbors a ferocious animosity. This is what makes him a remarkable soldier; during combat he is calm, cold, and collected, channeling his anger into his gun. He is simultaneously jaded with the world, often believing that regular citizens and such are only potential rebels and nothing more, and naive, believing his fellow stormtroopers are all paragons of justice and thinking similarly of the Empire as a whole. Perhaps keep an eye on - he follows orders without question and will do anything for his Empire.

Backstory:
Tyroch Trank, born to Alys and Torn Trank on the capital city of Mandalore, Sundari, he was raised as a mildly wealthy only son who could afford a well off education. However, when he was roughly six years old, his family moved to Coruscant, where they continued his education. When he was roughly nine, the Empire came to be, something that surprisingly didn't effect them drastically, at least immediately. Torn Trank joined the Imperial Army while Alys stayed home to care for Tyroch. She couldn't keep an eye in everything, though, and at the age of 14, he had his first experience with spice. The first variant he had was a fine white substance generally used to keep food from spoiling but could be refined to an addictive substance. Over the next three years, he began skimming off of his parents' credit account until he could afford a highly addictive, highly pleasurable, but highly damaging, spice variant called Indigo Burst. 

At age 18, his mother got tired of turning a blind eye to her son's addiction and told him to enroll in the Imperial academy, specifically the one back home on Mandalore. In a moment of clarity, he agreed, though he never said anything about stopping using spice. However, the drug test on Mandalore certainly caught him, and he had to go through a sort of rehab program on Mandalore, lead by a former Imperial soldier who had also been addicted to spice. Together with his education at the Academy, he began to shake off his spice addiction, especially since it was a little harder to obtain on Mandalore while being in an Imperial academy. He moved into the Imperial Army, and shortly afterward - three years after his graduation - into the stormtrooper corps and continued his military education. In the next two years, he eventually moved into the 121st where he currently resides.

This video depicts the World War II US Rifle squad tactic on the attack. This video depicts the standard fire and maneuver tactic used by rifle squads in WWII. What was used in the 1940s is only slightly different than what is used today. The big difference today, is the squad has two administrative teams, Alpha and Bravo who have their own grenade launcher and Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). Therefore, both teams can serve as either the assault element or the support element. USMC squads today have three teams; Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. The Star Wars squad we are replicating is organized more like the rifle squad used by most armies during World War II. It is applicable to this Role Play. Take a look at it and you will be knowledgeable in the tactic, “Rifle Squad on the Attack.” Watch this video if you are truly interested in how a squad conducts an attack:



Steps taken by squad leadership
1. Make contact with the smallest unit possible as far forward as possible. This allows leadership the ability to understand what is in front of them. This will help to know if he should shift left or right in order to engage the enemy on his terms. The squad leader may feel that his squad cannot overwhelm the enemy to his front and request assistance from platoon.
2. Place high casualty weapons on the flanks. This would include any machine guns or grenade projectors.
3. Maintain excellent communications. Those in contact should talk to their next higher leader in the chain of command to inform them of what is going on. The chain of command would be Squad Leader – Platoon Leader – Company Commander – Battalion Commander – Brigade/Regimental Commander – Division Commander – Corps Commander.

The squad leader in contact would tell his platoon leader the location of enemy or known distance and direction to the enemy from his own position if location is not known. He should tell his platoon leader how many enemy soldiers are in front of him. If this means stating the number of weapons firing at his unit, that would count as number of enemy soldiers. It may also include the number and size of crew served weapons like machine guns.

4. If the squad leader decides he can handle the enemy to his front without the assistance from platoon, he would tell his PL of this decision. He then has everyone place overwhelming, accurate and superior fire upon the enemy. This should cause the enemy to reduce its firepower by either eliminating enemy soldiers or causing them to seek cover.
5. Once the enemy fire has diminished, the squad will have previously organized into two teams. One team is referred to as the support element and the other team is referred to as the maneuver element or assault element. The squad leader leads the assault element and the assistant squad leader leads the support element.
6. The purpose of the support element is to suppress the enemy by creating a base of fire placing intense and accurate fire upon the enemy.
7. The purpose of the assault element is to move along a covered and concealed route toward the enemy. This can be achieved by having each individual in the team run for no more than three seconds when moving while observed by the enemy. If four men are in the assault element, the team should have two men moving forward while the other two are placing well aimed fire upon the enemy.
8. If the distance to the enemy is so great that the assault element has moved beyond the range of its support element. The assault element should stop moving and fire in the direction of the enemy.
9. Now that the assault element is firing on the enemy, the support element should advance rapidly and take up a position to the left or right of the assault element.
10. Once the support element has resumed firing, the assault element should resume their advance.
11. The two teams may need to alternate providing support and assaulting if the distance to the enemy is that great. But for fewer than a hundred yards, there would be no need to alternate.