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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2286705" data-attributes="member: 14159">Crimson Empire and Crimson Empire II, two 6-part comic series from 1998, both later compiled separately into graphic novel form.&nbsp; It's set after the Emperor's final death in Dark Empire, and is the aftermath of the last survivors of the Royal Guard dealing with the Empire crumbling around them.&nbsp; They are depicted as elite super-soldiers who most people only saw at ceremonial functions, and the red robes are ceremonial, they wear red-colored stormtrooper armor with the alternate helmet in combat.&nbsp; The main character, Kir Kanos, eventually squares off with the only other surviving guardsman Carnor Jax (who was trying to become a warlord and rebuild the Empire).The guardsmen weren't clones.&nbsp; Not only did CE/CE II predate AotC, but Palpatine had his blue-robed Senate Guard before the clones were delivered, so there already was a framework for an elite guard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2286705, member: 14159"] Crimson Empire and Crimson Empire II, two 6-part comic series from 1998, both later compiled separately into graphic novel form. It's set after the Emperor's final death in Dark Empire, and is the aftermath of the last survivors of the Royal Guard dealing with the Empire crumbling around them. They are depicted as elite super-soldiers who most people only saw at ceremonial functions, and the red robes are ceremonial, they wear red-colored stormtrooper armor with the alternate helmet in combat. The main character, Kir Kanos, eventually squares off with the only other surviving guardsman Carnor Jax (who was trying to become a warlord and rebuild the Empire). The guardsmen weren't clones. Not only did CE/CE II predate AotC, but Palpatine had his blue-robed Senate Guard before the clones were delivered, so there already was a framework for an elite guard. [/QUOTE]

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