Aerial Trooper

Imperial Aerial Troopers are a division of Imperial aerial units.

Origins
The Aerial Troopers were founded before the Trans-Galactic War, originally known as Imperial Flight Units, which were flying pod-like robots that led air assaults. They were reorganized into Imperial Aerial Troopers as their expansion increased and the Trans-Galactic War began, now primarily consisting of cyborgs who were often prisoners of war or citizens of captured worlds. The Aerial Troopers remained as an Imperial asset into the Great Titanian Civil War, when the Imperial remnants were reorganized into the New Intergalactic Empire. During the Trans-Galactic War, they inspired the creation of the Military Jump Troopers.

Organization
The Imperial Aerial Troopers are organized quite like a standard military division, although there seem to be little variations in rank between each enlisted unit. Aerial Trooper officers are known as Exosphere Troopers, who mainly lead space assaults. Many of the orders they relay come from Imperial cruisers or forward command posts, although they can operate independently. Aerial Troopers spend most of their battle time in the air, not often landing.

Equipment
Imperial Aerial Troopers are equipped with Imperialite armor, a dull metallic grey in color, mixed in with somewhat prominent black elements. On their backs are two retractable wing-like components attached to a thruster, which can function as flight stabilizers, and which can also be equipped with micro-missiles. On their boots are retractable stabilizers, which would often hinder ground movements when not retracted. Their exosuits are fully sealed, pressurized, and equipped with life-support systems, outlets for energy overloads, anti-nanite tech, self-repairing tech, comminicators, respirators, nutrition tubes, and emergency beacons. Due to the material of their armor, they have some notable resistance to magic and supernatural attacks. They carry IAC-3 automatic energy rifles.

Aerial Troopers are all rather heavily modified cyborgs, and thus have no known dress uniforms or BDUs, and rarely remove pieces of their armor. The remaining organic part of their bodies, plugged into the suit, prevents them from being hacked, even if one gets the coding necessary to access their exosuit computer systems. Despite still holding organic brains, they have emotional limiters that make them near-incapable of showing emotions.