

The Rebel Alliance Special Forces, including the Pathfinders, were composed of the best soldiers in the Rebellion often pulled from the Rebel trooper ranks, and were utilized and regarded as highly trained and organized commandos. Troopers could be placed under infantry units such as the Twenty-First or Thirty-Second Infantry, the aquatic Sixty-Eighth Infantry or vanguard 61st Mobile Infantry. Grand strategy was dictated by Alliance High Command, which had the final say in all joint military operations. Rebel troopers were organized into various units such as fire teams of two individuals or squads of four when necessary, and were often put under the command of Generals such as Crix Madine or Carlist Rieekan. Sixty-First Mobile Infantry also known as Twilight Company Following the establishment of the New Republic, Rebel troops were transitioned into the role of New Republic soldiers.

They were deployed on worlds as far flung as Sullust, Coyerti, and Haidoral Prime, as well as in major battles such as the Battle of Hoth and the Battle of Endor. With the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, Rebel troopers would see wide use and variations in armor and equipment. General Han Solo commanded his strike team, the Pathfinders, during the Battle of Endor. One group known as Phoenix Cell utilized CR90 corvettes and a Republic-era Pelta-class frigate along with RZ-1 A-wing interceptors that would continue to be used by Rebel forces well into the Galactic Civil War, while soldiers wore uniforms that were visually similar to those worn by later resistance fighters. However, it was unorganized, with many groups not knowing the existence of one another in order to ensure each group's individual survival in case one was compromised. Īt least five years before the Battle of Yavin, a loose rebel network came into existence that opposed the Galactic Empire on a near galactic scale. Cham Syndulla's Free Ryloth Movement epitomized the ferocity of early resistance movements four years into Imperial rule, while smaller actions orchestrated by groups such as Berch Teller's rebel cell and the Corellian Resistance continued to prove a nuisance to Imperial authorities well into the Age of the Empire. With many resenting Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine's expansionist policies into the galaxy's periphery, many came to form loose, unorganized cells against the Emperor's reign. With the proclamation of the New Order 19 years before the Battle of Yavin, discontinued military equipment from the former Grand Army of the Republic often wound up in the hands of rebelling factions in a variety of star systems. Troopers defend the planetary ion cannon of Echo Base during the Battle of Hoth
