embarassing question....

[Darth Voorhees[501st]]

i tried to search for the answer for this to avoid my embarassing question, but to no avail....so

 

here it is:

 

What does "TK" actually stand for?

[SuperTrooper]

Actually I don't think we know. It comes from ANH when the officer radios the Luke an says "TK421 why aren't you at your post, TK421 do you copy."

 

From that line, all stormtroopers are TKs.

[Darth Voorhees[501st]]

haha ok, i knew thats where it came from, i just thought we also knew what it meant lol...well i feel better now lol thanks Terrell!

[Smitty]

TK Trooper Kleen

TD Trooper Dirty

TS Trooper Siberia

TB Tuberculosis

TX Texas

[Amish Trooper]

TK Trooper Kleen

TD Trooper Dirty

TS Trooper Siberia

TB Tuberculosis

TX Texas

that made me laugh

[Daetrin[Admin]]

TK Trooper Kleen

TD Trooper Dirty

TS Trooper Siberia

TB Tuberculosis

TX Texas

 

LOL

 

Yeah, since it's all Monday morning quarterbacking your explanation is valid as anyone else's.

[TI-3844]

IIRC, the trooper in the DS scene was called THX-1138 in the 1976 novel adaptation...

[Darth Voorhees[501st]]

TK Trooper Kleen

TD Trooper Dirty

TS Trooper Siberia

TB Tuberculosis

TX Texas

 

hahahahaha i almost choked on my food lol

[ThayNerd[TK]]

TK Trooper Kleen

TD Trooper Dirty

TS Trooper Siberia

TB Tuberculosis

TX Texas

 

Thats hilarious.

[Peregrinus]

To wander into Serioustown for a second...

 

One the one hand it could be randomly generated, as parts of U.S. military serial numbers are. On the other the letters could actually have some sort of meaning. One theory I've hatched, based on EU materials, is that it's to indicate they're from the Legion/Battalion/whatever attached to TarKin's governorship. Various sources give the Stormtroopers who boarded the Tantive IV the "DV" prefix, which makes sense if they're the Stormtrooper Regiment attached to that Star Destroyer -- the DeVastator.

 

But that's all in-universe. Out here in our little club, we glommed onto the TK-421 designation and applied it across the Legion. Then decided we needed something to indicate non-basic-Stormtrooper costumes, so came up with variants where the "T" stands for "Trooper", and the second letter stands for the variant in question:

 

TB = Trooper, Biker (Scout)

TR = Trooper, Royal (Guard)

TS = Trooper, Snow

TA = Trooper, AT-AT

TD = Trooper, Desert

TX = Trooper, "Special"

 

...And like that.

 

--Jonah

[Smitty]

Here's an especially Special looking TX

 

[Ghost]

That is special

 

The level of detail is amazing!!...I just don't have the free time to put that amount of effort in

[Billhag]

If you look REEEEL CAREFULLY it looks like he stripped the walls and made his armour and

helmet out of the wallpaper...

I can't wait to see the floral Laura Ashley version....

[Marvinrobot]

That trooper looks like he should be a beneficiary of one of our charity events...