The artillery stormtrooper, also known as the Mortar Stormtrooper, mortar troopers, or shell trooper, was a stormtrooper variant within the Galactic Empire's military which were skilled with indirect fire weapons. Equipped with explosive loaded backpacks, some used Model 201 mortars, including one trooper who fought on the planet Tython following the Empire's fall as part of an Imperial remnant.