I guess you could call this a spinoff of the series of posts I just finished about the new Star Wars movie. While doing the research for that, I obviously had to do extensive Google searches to find all those images of storm troopers… and I was more than a little surprised to find out that storm troopers aren’t the fictitious creation of the creator of the Star Wars universe at all. They were actual, real people.

I managed to track down the very first photo of a storm trooper…. well, technically, it is a photo of one of our prehistoric forebears named Stroop… whose ancestors would eventually become the illustrious Stormtroop family…