Special Operations Task Force 184

Special Operations Task Force 184, commonly shortened to "Task Force 184" (TF 184), was the Imperial Special Operations Command's military designation for the cadre of led by Darth Mercurial, who joined Joint Special Operations Task Force 452 at the bequest of  to hunt down and kill  and.

Commonly known as "Other Government Agencies" (OGA), Task Force 184 was a moniker construed to cover the activity of — when Maladi's servants captured, to the Imperial Special Forces, the actions would be reported as "operations undertaken by Task Force 184" or as "operations undertaken by Other Government Agencies". The moniker of Task Force 184 also was disinformation to frustrate the intelligence-gathering efforts of the — when an  was reported as being murdered by "Task Force 184", it became uncertain to  whether or not the  were responsible for the murder, or if it was "conventional" soldiers of the Imperial Special Forces. The designation of "Special Operations Task Force" often demoralized Fel's soldiers, as they assumed that it had been conventional commandos of the Special Forces who had killed their Forceful comrades — non-Force-sensitives responsible for the murder of fully-trained Imperial Knights.

Later, Task Force 184 would come to specifically mean a team of s led by Darth Mercurial, who were attached to Joint Special Operations Task Force 452. Task Force 184 became an umbrella term for all the who were operating with Task Force 452. Other assassins included Darth Evanesce and Darth Lilith.

Behind the Scenes

 * Special Operations Task Force 184 is named after JZL 184, a real-world chemical compound that is a specific inhibitor of monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL), with near-complete inhibition at approximately 50-250 nM. It was originally reported by Long and colleagues in 2009.
 * "Other Government Agencies" in real life is a euphemism in the U.S. military, used to describe operations undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency or American Special Forces to conventional military forces, where the specific unit undertaking the special activities cannot be disclosed for the sake of security.