Imperial Army Special Activities Battle Expeditionary Regiment

The Imperial Army Tactical Application Legionary Observation Network ("TALON"), formally known as Joint Task Force Talon and formerly known as the Imperial Army Tactical Applications Division, was an elite special operations force of the and the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command that was instigated during the  as a component of Galactic Emperor Roan Fel's reform of the Imperial military.

It was originally born from the Imperial Army Special Forces—a special missions unit was eventually developed by the Army Special Operations Command to handle operations in sensitive military and political contexts, such as Imperial-sponsored proxy wars and "internal affairs" actions that involved the lethal removal of undesirable Army officers from the ranks of the Imperial Army. Such unsavory missions would be selectively handled by an unofficial hand-picked special forces team chosen by : this covert action element would be known as Joint Task Force Talon.

However, the overthrow of Emperor Roan Fel at the hands of would leave the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command with a highly unsavory and compromising situation on its hands: Roan Fel's Empire-in-Exile contained a handful of elite Imperial Knights and no small number of former Imperial commandoes who were in a position to strike anywhere, anytime on Krayt's military infrastructure, likely causing substantial damage at any given point in a very small window of time. Therefore, the Imperial Special Forces would require an elite and highly-mobile reaction force to counter Fel's daring raids against Imperial military targets: Joint Task Force Talon would be formally confirmed as an independent military command, known as the Imperial Army Tactical Applications Division, with operators chosen from the veterans of the Imperial Army Special Forces, and selectively trained as counterforce operators capable of fending off the renegade Imperial Knights under Fel's command and also their former colleagues-turned-traitors that had left the Imperial Special Forces and joined the Emperor-in-Exile.

Collaborating with Naval Special Warfare and Naval Combat Search and Rescue, the Army Tactical Applications Division would prove to be a mostly-gratifying success: even despite Fel's fury and the vigor of his Imperial Knights, the Tactical Applications Division would be largely successful in mitigating the severe damage that the Emperor-in-Exile intended to incur with his fierce and savage raids.

Eventually, elite Army Tactical Applications teams would be paired with select members of Darth Krayt's s of the to seek out and selectively assassinate or capture some of Fel's more prominent. This collaboration between the Imperial Special Forces and the Sith Order would become prized, with joint Army Special Forces—Sith Assassin units gradually picking off Fel's Imperial Knights one by one throughout the turbulent cold wars of the.