You could put up a solid argument that the most iconic characters from the original Star Wars trilogy were the Stormtroopers.
Soldiers of the Empire, they are the on-the-ground representation of the Emperor’s power across the galaxy, enforcing his will from the Core Worlds to the edges of the Outer Rim behind their faceless masks.
In the days of the prequel trilogy, the grand army of the Republic was cloned from the DNA of bounty hunter Jango Fett and through the conflagration of the Clone Wars, which engulfed the entire galaxy, they fought against the droid forces of the Separatist movement.
It was this cloning which allowed the Emperor to seed in the command for Order 66, which… Read the full story