Emperor's Fury Unit

The Emperor's Fury Units, also called Special Attack Units, were suicide kamikaze units that were formed by the  after the. With the loss of many of the 's most experienced space crews at Endor, through defections, and in the subsequent chaotic squabbling between, the central government on became hard-pressed to find replacements that could match the 's increasingly capable pilots. Although the Imperial flight training program was known for its efficiency and ability to produce highly capable pilots, the setbacks suffered by the after Endor caused severe disruptions that forced them to graduate pilots early to replace the losses, along with a lack of readily-available TIE spacecraft and supplies, made Imperial TIE pilots increasingly inexperienced compared to the.

Thus a solution proposed by the Admiralty and accepted by the was to create kamikaze TIE pilot units that would crash their fighters into enemy s, as it was initially considered to be a more effective use of inexperienced Imperial pilots than conventional attacks. Contrary to wartime New Republic propaganda, the Imperial command found many willing recruits to carry out "Emperor's Fury" operations, particularly from the Empire's patriotic organization, and especially its youth wing, the. Although the original intention of SAGroup was to train future bureaucrats and administrators, the manpower shortages forced the high command to not overlook this large pool of highly dedicated recruits. New recruits for the Emperor's Fury Units underwent a watered down version of the original pilot training program and barely received forty flight hours before being deployed.