Dark Troopers were experimental combat droids created as part of the Galactic Empire's dark trooper program. The program's failure contributed to the Joint Chiefs becoming disenchanted with combat droids. Accordingly, following dark trooper models were actually body suits worn by a human pilot. Nevertheless, Dark Troopers also resembled the DT-series sentry droids also used by the Empire. Phase II Dark Troopers were deployed for evaluation by the Imperial Military during the Galactic Civil War and were utilized in the Battle for Tatooine. By the time of the third-generation dark trooper used in Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant around the year 9 ABY, it was decided the human pilot was the last weakness in the dark trooper design, meaning the third generation units were a return to the dark trooper program's roots as a battle droid project.
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