Imperial Recruitment 2 was a series of recruitment posters by Imperial propaganda artist Flyff Antilles. It continued the initial artwork series Imperial Recruitment by another artist and showed attractive female humans in revealing variants of Imperial Military uniforms and armor.
Jisacce Verde featured in Ride the BIG machines!
The first piece came out by the end of 1 ABY under the title Ride the BIG machines! showing actress and model Jisacce Verde wearing a female minimalist version of the Imperial Officer uniform with large breasted battle armor leaning against an AT-AT's foot pylon.
Leona'i Lig featured in Your motto: Mostly Attentive. Sometimes Aggressive. Always ATTRACTIVE.
A second piece named Your motto: Mostly Attentive. Sometimes Aggressive. Always ATTRACTIVE. followed shortly after in 2 ABY. Its motive was a female version of the Emperor's Royal Guard apparel partly made from soluble zoosha fabric worn by the famed dancer and model Leona'i Lig.
Zilaebeth Hydra featured in Do Your Part. COMMAND!
By the end of 4 ABY the third poster Do Your Part. COMMAND! featured Imperial Navy officer and part-time model Zilaebeth Hydra, niece to Grand Inquisitor Hydra, in the revealing female variant of her regular workwear. This piece was to mirror the artwork Do Your Part, SERVE! of the initial recruitment poster series.
Syal Antilles Fel, Xam Samiumi, Osilda Bargio and an uncredited Stormtrooper featured in Support Our Troops. JOIN ISO!
In the following year the fourth poster of the series was published under the title Support Our Troops. JOIN ISO! to promote Imperial citizens to enlist for the Imperial Service Organization. It featured actress Osilda Bargio, professional model Xam Samiumi, an uncredited Stormtrooper and last, but not least Syal Antilles Fel in her time as famous holodrama actress under the stage name Wynssa Starflare.
Jola Pacodonti featured in Be on TOP of Things.
Shortly after, in the middle of 5 ABY, a fifth piece followed which was titled Be on TOP of Things. and showed actress Jola Pacodonti as an AT-AT driver in femininely varied attire lying on top of an AT-AT's cockpit.
Princess Sandrella of Onderon featured in Autopilot's where the FUN begins!
The sixth poster in the second half of the same year, Autopilot's where the FUN begins!, depicted Princess Sandrella of Onderon lolling on a seat of her ship's cockpit, the Angry Eagle, half-undressed of an appealing version of her Imperial pilot uniform.
Chiefess Kayla Vies featured in PROPERLY DRESSED for every NEW MISSION.
By the end of 5 ABY a seventh poster PROPERLY DRESSED for every NEW MISSION. had a Stormtrooper officer in her black dress uniform as its motif. The artwork featured Chiefess Kayla Vies in a female, attracting variant of her normal workwear. The background showed the regular Imperial interior and a MSE-6 mouse droid.
Na-Niad Ci'nrep featured in Take PRIDE in Your RIDE!
The eighth poster Take PRIDE in Your RIDE! came out at the beginning of 6 ABY. It showed professional model Na-Niad Ci'nrep in a female Scout trooper armor variant in front of the typical 74-Z speeder bike in a forest environment on Alba-16.
Paé Sonmertans, Captain Orcinda and Ann'im'a Rih featured in STAY FIT for the Empire!
Later in the same year, a ninth poster STAY FIT for the Empire! had Paé Sonmertans, during this time entitling herself as Sith Inquisitor under the name of Darth Voldora, and Imperial Intelligence agent Captain Orcinda shown in an Imperial training center together with agent Ann'im'a Rih in the background. Orcinda is depicted with a pair of highly fashionable, extremely high-heeled blurrg boots with a see-through front.
Lady Vader featured in READINESS is ALL. with her pet Selina
The tenth poster of the series, READINESS is ALL., came out near the end of 6 ABY. It showed Lady Vader, a clone of Jedi Padawan Minafe Felis, in the cockpit of her personal spacecraft, a recreated J-type 327 Nubian Royal Starship, above the planet Kamino, which the Sith Acolyte called home. She's depicted with her pet Isis cat called Selina.
Keightee Bol featured in Let the EMPIRE show Your GLAMOROUS side. with styling droid ST-1LA
For New Year Fete Week of 7 ABY, shortly before the Liberation of Coruscant, a poster was released as a portrait of famous model Keightee Bol. This eleventh piece in the series, Let the EMPIRE show Your GLAMOROUS side., showed the beautiful woman being made up by a ST-series styling droid with the designation ST-1LA. The droid series came out in this exact week and the poster campaign was done in collaboration with its manufacturer Industrial Automaton. The model is depicted with some of the makeup already sprayed on and some of the very dramatic, single false eyelashes already applied by the droid, while some parts of her face are still bare. The maquillage features orange-toned eyeshadow and glossy lips, the cheekbones being highly accentuated. Keightee wears a revealing bra in orange to match her makeup and a black ganther jacket, both by cutting-edge fashion designer Delva Racine. The poster had a refresher in Yarith Bespin hotel in Cloud City as its scenery.
Behind the scenes[]
Two of the posters, Autopilot's where the FUN begins! and PROPERLY DRESSED for every NEW MISSION., are based on artwork by famous pin-up artist Gil Elvgren. The first uses A Number to Remember, published 1955, as a template, whereas the latter is inspired by Something New of 1957.
The poster READINESS is ALL. was created as a price for the 2013 winner of the Miss Nerd America contest, Anne Marie O. Belland.