Specter Company

Specter Company was a special forces unit that served the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War and later under the New Republic. The company was named after the Spectres, a covert operations unit of at least six operatives that famously piloted the light freighter Ghost in numerous victories against the Imperial Navy.

Command
The company did not belong to a larger formation, and operated largely independently under the command of Captain Virgil Satone, a retired Republic Judicial Forces gunship pilot who reemerged to fight for the Rebel Alliance after his hometown was pillaged by Imperial mercenaries. Captain Satone initially served the Alliance as the commander of a patrol craft as part of a larger scout fleet with the rank of lieutenant. This fleet was eventually intercepted and destroyed by the Imperial Navy; survivors of the attack crash-landed on the planet blow them and rallied around then-lieutenant Satone, who led them valiantly as they successfully occupied a nearby Imperial hangar base and fled in a stolen shuttle after sabotaging the several dozen TIE-series starfigahters across the base. For this victory, Satone was promoted to captain and granted command over a company of select Rebel commandos. Lieutenant Jissam Harper, a turncoat Imperial bomber pilot and son of a deceased Republic Navy admiral, was Satone's second-in-command, and oversaw the company's space operations.

Sergeant Major Jerril Hombasi, a veteran of the Summertime War on Haruun Kal, was another leading member of the company and also oversaw the company's mechanic detachment.

History and description
Specter Company was assembled in 1 ABY from Rebel commandos transferred from other units that sustained heavy casualties in the war. The majority of the company's commandos operated as infiltrators and saboteurs, primarily targeting Imperial battle stations and research facilities across the galaxy. They lived up to their name, as most of their operations were carried out in the Core Worlds right under the Imperials' nose, almost always fleeing after successful operations and covering their trails.

They provided commandos in numerous major operations throughout the war, including strike operations on Tatooine, Hoth, and Endor. Their members, divided into squads of up to ten commandos, had varying equipment; some squads were properly equipped with standard-issue weapons and equipment, while others used whatever equipment was found on the battlefield. The company used a Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser captured from an Imperial shipyard as their headquarters; this cruiser was supplemented with at least one squadron of A-wing starfighters and was involved in at least two naval operations.