Report: Jumptrooper (Specialisation)

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Specialisation - Jumptrooper

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Spoiler: Equipment:

Standard Blaster Rifle
Blaster Marksman Rifle
Scatterblaster
Standard Blaster Pistol
Heavy Blaster Pistol
Standard Issue Knife
Personal Shield Generator
Jump and Jetpacks
Five Days Rations

Three Grenades From The Following List:
Fragmentation Grenades
Thermal Detonators
Ion Grenades
Flashbang Grenades
Smoke Grenades

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Spoiler: Training:

Weaponry - Blaster Rifles
Weaponry - Blaster Pistols
Weaponry - Scatterblasters
Jump and Jet Backpack training
Grenade Throwing
Imperial Hand to Hand Combat
First Aid
Imperial Light Infantry Armour use
Imperial Heavy Infantry Armour use

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Jumptrooper - Description and History:

The Jumptrooper Soldier has only played a very small part in galactic warfare. Jetpacks are expensive and boots on the ground takes a priority over ensuring that each Soldier is as mobile as what a Jump or Jetpack allows. Throughout history, the most widespread use of Jetpacks by an army is the Mandalorians. Throughout both the Mandalorian Wars and the four hundred years since while they have rebuilt, the Mandalorians used jetpacks far more frequently on their troops than any other. Such a fact is one of several that led to the Mandalorians early victories against the Republic in the Mandalorian Wars, their troops simply more mobile and able to break through enemy lines with speed and tenacity before the Republic could mobilise a proper defense. The Mandalorians were only beaten back with the intervention of the Jedi, who brought their own tactics and lightsabers to the war. Jumptroops have been part of the Sith Empire at least as early as the Battle of Balmorra, where they were used extenisively to see the large open plains crossed with swift speed between the various factories and settlements across the surface of the planet to quickly answer distress calls sent out by loyal Imperial citizens and Imperial Soldiers alike to counter the insurgency.
The Jumptrooper is skilled in various types of weapons due to their versatile role. While still more part of an ordinary squad than a Sniper, a Jumptrooper can often find themselves working alone despite their close proximity to their comrades. Able to jump right into the middle of foes with a Scatterblaster in hand and a Shield Generator activated, the Jumptrooper is expected to take shots that are absorbed by Shields and Armour. A focus is put on tactics that use the Jetpack, while protecting it. While a Jumptrooper could just as easily jump into the middle of foes to decimate them from a handful of metres away, a Jumptrooper is likewise capable of using their Jetpack to reach new heights, either by hovering or using the Jetpack to climb up to new places that would otherwise be unreachable, providing a tactical advantage and new sightlines to disable an enemy force from with a Blaster Marksman Rifle.

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Jumptrooper - Pros:

A Jumptrooper is mobile. Able to traverse longer distances more quickly and able to use their Jetpack to potentially dodge, duck and weave around blaster bolts, a Jumptrooper who has supreme command over their Jetpack can be nigh on untouchable when in the air. Able to close the gap between themselves and a foe quickly leaves a Jumptrooper as potentially the most mobile specialisation.
A Jumptrooper is adaptive. Able to work alone, with other Jumptroopers or with a full squad effectively leaves the Jumptrooper as a versatile role. The many different tactical ways to use a Jumptrooper's equipment leaves them able to adapt to near any situation and have an answer primed and ready for it.

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Jumptrooper - Cons:

A Jumptrooper can easily see themselves surrounded or cut off from their squad if they use their tactics incorrectly. Jumping into the middle of a line of foes that are ready and waiting will see those same foes gun straight through the Shield Generator and Armour of the Jumptrooper. Likewise, if a Jumptrooper goes up to new heights and finds a vantage point, if the enemy attacks from a new direction the Jumptrooper can again see themselves caught alone and surprised by a sudden enemy advancement.

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- Private Harridax Geskar

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