Nishr Taskforce

The Nishr Taskforce was a unit of Alliance Special Forces, assembled in 0 ABY for the Nishr Campaign.

Unit composition
A platoon of Pathfinders was already on the planet Nishr, and to these were added three platoons of Wilderness Fighters, plus a Special Ops team and an Alliance Intelligence officer, all commanded by Major Fisk Csino.

Essentially, the taskforce was a company of light tanks and armored cars. One Wilderness platoon had Freerunners, one had Ultra-Light Assault Vehicles, and the third consisted of repulsor-mobile infantry. The Pathfinders all had speeder bikes, and Major Csino’s command vehicle was a Heavy Tracker.

Although seriously outnumbered by the Imperial garrison forces, the taskforce was able to use its maneuverability to wage an effective campaign and gained control of most of the planet's landmass. However, they were unable to attack the main garrison positions directly, and no specialist Infiltrator unit could be deployed to augment them for a strike.

Support infrastructure
The taskforce's field infrastructure consisted of a network of a dozen base sites, most or all of them on the planet's main continent, Feldt. There were three active bases, of which the most important was Base Site Seven, an old Imperial mine in the Lukhur Badlands, several hundred kilometers beyond the frontier of the native Nish civilization.

This base was overseen by the Major's aide Lieutenat Zast, and included a hangar for the armor, with room for ten tanks and the Major's Heavy Tracker, plus two repair bays. Repairs were overseen by a team led by Sergeant Hoff, and there was a small medical team, consisting of Captain Merqs, two medics, and a 2-1B droid. There were also command facilities, and, deeper inside the mine, quarters for the officers, and a large barrack room for the troops.

Base Three was a stopover at an oasis in the Shirshir Desert, with readily-available water, a concealed supply cache, and a buried power station for the troops to recharge their batteries. Base Ten was a cave in the uplands, used by the Pathfinder platoon to scout Imperial garrison positions, and subsequently for night raids on the Imperial emplacements.

There were also additional base sites, which could be used to support additional Alliance forces if these were deployed, or to serve as fall-backs for the taskforce if Imperial reinforcements arrived. Three base sites had been designated specifically as backup positions, and a further half-dozen potential locations had been identified.