Kota's Brigade

During the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Rahm Kota commanded a detachment of the Grand Army of the Republic. While virtually all Republic military forces at this time were made up of cloned personnel (with the exception of the Republic Judicial Forces and Planetary Security Forces), Kota's unit was unique in that it was comprised entirely of mercenaries and hand-picked prisoners of war. Kota's troopers wore a uniform design that was very similar to those of the Temple Security Force that patrolled the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and they also wore helmets based on the design of Naboo starfighter pilots. Higher ranking members wore their own attires and armor sets, such as the Mandalorian mercenary Naastau, who wore a black-colored set of Mandalorian armor with the Republic's sigil painted on his shoulder pad. The DC-15s and DLT-20a were the most commonly occurring weapons among Kota's men. The Brigade initially operated in conjunction with Planetary Security Forces to quell local Separatist insurgencies and terrorist cells, though as the war progressed, the Brigade was being frequently deployed alongside clone units against solid Separatist forces such as at the Battle of Viidaav and their many later deployments in the Outer Rim Sieges. When Order 66 was issued at the height of 19 BBY (Kota indirectly foresaw this event three years earlier, which was why he refused to have direct command over any clones), the Brigade fought off their clone attackers and managed to escape into hiding. Some years later during the Imperial era, the unit re-emerged as a militia still under the command of Kota, who led his militiamen in devastating raids on remote Imperial ships and space stations, and later became part of the Rebel Alliance's special forces.