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Defense - refers to both garrison units used to quell disorder and pure defense units used to repel ground or orbital attacks.
Attack  -  refers to all ground based assault units. Some are able to attack from orbit without landing while others can bypass local shielding. Refer to the Civpedia for more details.

	NEW REPUBLIC		IMPERIAL POWERS		OTHER POWERS
TIME INDEX	DEFENSE	ATTACK	DEFENSE	ATTACK	DEFENSE	ATTACK
REPUBLIC  ERA	Alliance Trooper		Imperial Trooper	Storm Trooper	Attack Droid	Security Droid
				Storm troopers are a based on technology from the Clone Wars era. (only unit to ignore shileding)	Having no means to raise or clone an army, the unalligned rely on a droid army - along the lines of the now defunct Trade Federation.
EARLY  EMPIRE	Laser Turret	Speeder  Preferring Hit & Run tactics, Rebel ground vehicles consisted mainly of  speeders in the early days.	Laser Turret	AT - ST Improving on the earlier All Terrain Tactical Enforcer, the Imperials develop the AT-Scout Transport.	Laser Turret	Defensive laser turrets become commomplace with increasing attacks by strike craft.  (Lasers have double defense against bombers)
INSURRECTION ERA	Turbo Laser	Anti-G Tank   Sticking to the Anti-Grav platform, the Republic upgrades an earlier Trade Federation design.	Turbo Laser	AT - AT The AT-Armoured Transport enters service and proves to be practically invulneable to all forms of ground attack.	New land based assault systems require the implementation of surface to surface defensive emplacements. (Turbo Lasers have double defense against AT-ST and AT-AT)
A NEW HOPE	Ion Cannon	Jedi Knight	Ion Cannon	Dark Jedi    Sith Lord	The increasing use of heavy capital ships leads to the development of Ion Cannons which can disable shield generators as well as cause damage.
	The training of Luke Skywalker marks the Return of the Jedi and the reappearance of Force wielders in general.		Dark Jedi are consumed by the Force and have to rely on mechanical means for life support. Sith Warriors on the other hand are a branch of exiled Jedi from Millenia ago.