Silver Guard

The Silver Guard was a secret group of Force-sensitive agents that served the Galactic Empire. Members of the Silver Guard were not recruited from roaming Jedi like the Empire's many Dark Jedi cells, but rather from individuals whose Force sensitivity had not been yet discovered and thus came from a variety of backgrounds ranging from common criminals and soldiers to wealthy politicians. After an intense training program that always resulted in the death of most participants, Silver Guardsmen were equipped with various types of uniforms and armor sets as well as silver-bladed lightsabers and were tasked with hunting down and eliminating Jedi and other Force-sensitives that served the Rebel Alliance with the additional task of acquiring kyber crystals and holocrons from black market smugglers. Because most of them did not even know they were sensitive to the Force until they were contacted by Inquisitors, Silver Guardsmen never developed adept Force abilities, with most only mastering the use of telepathy and amature telekinesis though were still considerably successful in their Jedi hunting abilities. As the Galactic Civil War progressed, Palpatine decided to reform the Silver Guard as a contingent of the Imperial Guard and equipped the Silver Guardsmen with a silver-colored combat variant of Imperial Guard armor and a white-bladed lightsaber pike. The reformed Silver Guardsmen began being sent on missions to assist the Shadow Guard, another Force-sensitive Imperial Guard contingent that wore black Guardsman armor and was considerably more skilled in the Force than their silver-armored counterparts. Following Palpatine's death, most remaining Silver Guardsmen began identifying as Dark Jedi and joined different Imperial splinter factions, either taking up officer positions in their militaries or leading Dark Side churches in their cities. At least one Silver Guardsmen went on to become a Master within the New Jedi Order. The training methods of the Silver Guardsmen later inspired those of the Imperial Knights that served as Force-sensitive agents and royal guards for the Fel Empire, which is evidented by the Imperial Knights' use of silver-bladed lightsabers.