Scout Trooper

"While certainly well equipped and just as effective as reports suggested, the scout trooper platoon has encountered resistance when fitting in with the rest of the Legion. The friction is almost entirely on the side of the scouts, who seem to have made a sport of being as difficult and as offensive as possible to anyone of equal or lower rank."

- An excerpt from an intercepted transmission from the 439th Legion

Scout Troopers are specially trained soldiers of the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps. As light-armored variants of the Imperial Stormtroopers, Scout Troopers are specifically trained for activities too complicated for regular infantry troopers. As such, they are exceptional additions to the Imperial Military as reconnaissance troops, spies, and survivalists. They are especially excellent marksmen, and thus they are regarded as the finest snipers in service to the Galactic Empire. Hence, they are particularly useful as assassins. Scout Troopers have became well known for their self-reliance and ability to operate alone or in small squads. Due to their capabilities in stealth and mobility, Imperial High Command recognized that the scouts were also natural snipers. As such, they are exceptionally skilled in assassination missions and long-ranged combat.

Scout Troopers are usually assigned to planetary garrisons where they patrol perimeters, perform reconnaissance missions, and identify enemy positions. As scouts, their mission profile often positions them far from Imperial resupply. As a result, they receive special training in order to become efficient survivalists who are equipped with an array of equipment and supplies to aid in their military role. Due to their wide-range of skills, many inevitably have feelings of pride and self-importance. As a consequence of their bravado, they've developed a fierce rivalry with their infantry counterparts, as well as everyone else in the military who is of equal or lower rank.

=Equipment= Unlike the infantry units of the Stormtrooper Corps, Scout Troopers wear light armored variants of the Stormtroopers' armor, thus making them far superior as a mobile military force than regular troopers. Though less protected and not as heavily armed as regular Stormtroopers, Scout Trooper armor is designed to give their wearers superior movement and flexibility in any situation, especially combat. To aid their function, the scouts are equipped with a variety of resources to give them maximum effectiveness in their field of expertise. Their most essential equipment includes personal survival kits, portable power units, food supplies, micro-cords, and specialized gear designed for local terrain. Because of their excellent marksmanship skills, Scout Troopers are armed with collapsible, long-range E-11s Sniper Rifle equipped with powerful scopes and small targeting computers for increased accuracy. In addition to their sniper rifles, Scout Troopers utilize a single holdout blaster pistol as a sidearm for close-range combat. Additional weapons and items include: rations, heat packs, a water purifier, flares, grappling hooks, a camouflage tent, a back-up comlink, thermal detonators, frag grenades, and rocket launchers. Over the course of their service to the Empire, the 74-Z Speeder Bike became a signature piece of equipment utilized by the Scout Troopers, thus earning them the nickname "biker scouts." Their reaction time is efficient enough to avoid crashing into dangerous objects and while riding on their speeder bikes, the Scout Troopers are capable of swift and lethal hit-and-run attacks on enemy units.

=Sources=
 * Wookieepedia