Well, I was too busy being an excited little geekling when watching the trailer to get caught up in this, but I did wonder what was happening there.
There is a possibility he's not actually a stormtrooper but, like luke and han, disguised as one in the scene in question.
However, I personally hope he is a Stormtrooper.
The idea of a soldier, having learned the true darkness behind the imperial propaganda, breaks free and attempts to right the wrongs he was complicit in appeals to me greatly.
The only thing that would have really jarred with the fiction would have been an alien stormtrooper.
The Empire valued useful aliens but only as tools.
They were always a bunch of speciesist shits in everything we've ever seen about them.
Villains to the core.
It's probably already been covered, but the idea that stormtroopers were surviving clone troopers and possibly subsequent batches of the same seems to be likely.
However, the Empire in a position of power would have been able to draw the best from all aspects of the Imperial army, and the idea of some being clones and others being soldiers promoted into the ranks seems likely.
My personal theory (headcanon warning!) was that the original clone sample and facilities were lost when the Emperor took power.
He did forbid cloning in some fiction which makes sense as one of the first things to do in consolidating his power was to deny the weapons he used to seize power to others.
The senate being one.
The jedi being another.
Cloning being on this list makes a lot of sense.
If I remember rightly, there were laws passed against military/assassin grade robots being manufactured by anyone but the empire too.
As such, the necessity to grow his stormtroopers in a jar somewhere would have been lost, as he had the resources and citizens of a newly formed empire to draw on.
Additionally, If the original cloning facilities were lost, then the original master sample may have been too.
Any subsequently cloned stormtroopers would have been copies of copies.
Degradation over time, evidenced by the inaccuracy of later generations of stormtroopers compared to clonetroopers, could have necessitated drawing in recruits from more conventional sources, otherwise he'd end up with an army that couldn't hit a pair of twins dangling off a cable at twenty feet.
There is a possibility he's not actually a stormtrooper but, like luke and han, disguised as one in the scene in question.
However, I personally hope he is a Stormtrooper.
The idea of a soldier, having learned the true darkness behind the imperial propaganda, breaks free and attempts to right the wrongs he was complicit in appeals to me greatly.
The only thing that would have really jarred with the fiction would have been an alien stormtrooper.
The Empire valued useful aliens but only as tools.
They were always a bunch of speciesist shits in everything we've ever seen about them.
Villains to the core.
It's probably already been covered, but the idea that stormtroopers were surviving clone troopers and possibly subsequent batches of the same seems to be likely.
However, the Empire in a position of power would have been able to draw the best from all aspects of the Imperial army, and the idea of some being clones and others being soldiers promoted into the ranks seems likely.
My personal theory (headcanon warning!) was that the original clone sample and facilities were lost when the Emperor took power.
He did forbid cloning in some fiction which makes sense as one of the first things to do in consolidating his power was to deny the weapons he used to seize power to others.
The senate being one.
The jedi being another.
Cloning being on this list makes a lot of sense.
If I remember rightly, there were laws passed against military/assassin grade robots being manufactured by anyone but the empire too.
As such, the necessity to grow his stormtroopers in a jar somewhere would have been lost, as he had the resources and citizens of a newly formed empire to draw on.
Additionally, If the original cloning facilities were lost, then the original master sample may have been too.
Any subsequently cloned stormtroopers would have been copies of copies.
Degradation over time, evidenced by the inaccuracy of later generations of stormtroopers compared to clonetroopers, could have necessitated drawing in recruits from more conventional sources, otherwise he'd end up with an army that couldn't hit a pair of twins dangling off a cable at twenty feet.
