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[Star Wars] why didn't the empire have other species of stormtroopers other than humanoids?
gpt
Because one of the main tenets of the empire is it human-centricity. Throughout the whole franchise, the only nonhuman of any enlisted rank in the imperial armed forces is Grand Admiral Thrawn, and he's an exception. In fact, the Timothy Zahn novels in the new canon deal a good bit with the specism he faced whilst climbing the ranks.