SpecOps

SpecOps (also known as Sith SpecOps) was the unofficial title for the Sith Special Operations executive.

They were responsible for the security of some of the Empire's most crucial installations and vessels. These included the Sith complex on Yavin IV and The Soiyo itself.

They were the most highly trained units in the Sith army (save for those of Force-sensitve capabilities) and were regarded by all as the pinicle in military design. SpecOps trained on an unknown ice world in a hidden facility and had the best training available and underwent a lifetime of rigorous rules and regulations, but ironically, the first, and most famous of the SpecOps, Commander's 001 and 039 only had five years training but still became the most feared SpecOps of their time.

Size
There were only ever fifty official SpecOps at a time. This rule was put in place by Darth Wyyrlok to ensure that no Sith Lord could secure control and overthrow the Dark Lord with them. There were, it was suggested, as many as seven-hundred unofficial SpecOps throughout the empire, ready to be called upon should the need arise. Which it soon did.

Their finest moment
In 62 ABY, during the Sith crusade, a force of Jedi Knight's infiltrated the Sith complex on Yavin IV and eliminated many Sith Knights before they were forced to retreat.

Although suffering heavy losses to the Jedi three of the four Jedi killed that day were SpecOps kills and for their heroics, many of them were promoted.

A terrible loss
During the later stages of the Sith crusade, SpecOps lost one of their bravest, and most experienced soldier's. Commander 039 was killed by enemy forces on &hellip;"a desert planet&hellip;". Killed during the final months of the war, 039 and his closest friend 001 had made the SpecOps the most feared military force in the galaxy (save for the Sith themselves).

By the close of the war Sith SpecOps had become the public bodyguard of the Dark Lord, only being outranked by the Hand.