>>11419691those are troopers who have been stranded with Thrawn in another galaxy for a decade. unable to get fresh replacement parts, their armor is all cracked and held together with tape (that's the red stripes) and the gold lines that they did to Kylo Ren's mask
it's implied that they may be like..., zombies? later they get blasted and the witches animate the bodies, so they wind up being zombies anyway (but they might have been all along?)
