Sixty-First Mobile Infantry

"Twilight Company is fighting a battle for the heart of the galaxy. For the spirit of every ordinary man and woman and Imperial stormtrooper. Stealing food won't help us win. Killing enemies won't, either. Against might on the scale of the Empire, conventional victory is impossible&mdash;when our objectives become purely military, we've already lost the larger fight."

- Micha Evon, during the aftermath of the Battle on Vir Aphsire

The Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, also referred to as the Sixty-First or Twilight Company was a military unit that served the Alliance to Restore the Republic under the command of Captain Micha Evon during the Galactic Civil War. The unit's patch read "Twilight survives" along the top and "Mobile Infantry" at the bottom. Their headquarters was the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike with it's escort, the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise, which carried the company's two X-wings. The battle group also had a number of dropships to carry squad of troops down to battles. The soldiers of Twilight Company fought against the forces of the Galactic Empire before and during the Galactic Civil War.

Early Campaigns
Twilight Company was founded by Captain Micha Evon, nicknamed Howl, some time before the Battle of Scarif. One of it's earliest battles was at Ferrok Pax where the company was only two hundred strong and faced the harsh flora and fauna before the clash and lost all but thirty-seven soldiers in the clash. At another point, the company went on a mission to Allst Prime to take out Governor Magé and gain new recruits. There they killed the governor and when Twilight soldier Brand attempted to kill him for a bounty he convinced her to stay with twilight.

The Sixty-First fought on various planets and always had open recruits for any willing civilians. One time on Demiloch, an imperial spy disguised as an enlisting civilian shot Captain Evon and his second Lieutenant Sairgon stopped the recruitment early. Another time on Magnus Horn, the Sixty-first took such heavy losses that the Alliance High Command attempted to reassign it's troops to other battle groups. They destroyed the transmitter tower on Crucival where the imperial forces used the civilians as cannon fodder. There they recruited Hazram Namir.

Galactic Civil War
During the Battle of Scarif and the Destruction of Alderaan, the Sixty-First were fighting in the honey fields of Vir Aphshire where they soon got news of the destruction of the Death Star. Then the Galactic Civil War began and they assisted the alliance in the advancement into the Mid Rim battling on planets such as Phorsa Gedd, Bamayar and Blacktar Cyst where Charmer took a hit from shrapnel during the battle and developed a stutter. Then the advancement stopped and the Mid Rim Retreat began.

Towards the end of the Mid Rim Retreat, Twilight Company attacked the Imperial forces on Haidoral Prime and Hazram Namir, now First Sergeant, and his squad captured Governor Everi Chalis. She offered the Alliance information on the supply lines and weaknesses of the "Imperial War Machine" in exchange for asylum in the rebellion. She supplied valuable intel on the Coyerti bio-weapons during the Coyerti campaign and Namir's squad destroyed the distillery setting back Coyerti's operations by years (according to Chalis).

Following the Coyerti Campaign, the Thunderstrike was attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer. The Thunderstrike escaped with the help of the Apailana's Promise but where then attacked again in the Enrivi system by a Light cruiser with a squadron of Tie Fighters of which they obliterated with ease. When jumping to the Chonsetta system, they were attacked a third time by a squadron of TIE Interceptors which ravaged the starboard side of the troop transport. The company's engineers discovered they were being tracked through a particle leak which gave the Empire their trail. The Thunderstrike desperately needed to be repair so Chalis planned a Raid on an Imperial heavy freighter of which they carried out. They got the materials they needed but lost eight soldiers, including squad leaders Fektrin and Maximian Ajax (a veteren of the Thirty-Second) and Twilight soldier Cappandar.

Loss of Leadership
The Thunderstrike and the Apailana's Promise then traveled to the Elochar Sector where a flotilla of a dozen ships, including the Sixmoon, carrying three battle companies. During their time there, the Thunderstrike was being gradually repaired whilst the soldiers visited the other ships. Whilst they were stationed there, Captain Evon, Chalis, Namir and two other soldiers met with General Philap Bygar and the rest of the Alliance High Command in Echo Base on Hoth where they planned to use her knowledge of Imperial logistics.

Echo Base discovered by the Empire and Darth Vader's forces attacked. Namir, Roja and Beak defended Perimeter Outpost Delta until it's main defenses fell. They then went back to the main base to find Captain Evon unconscious with Chalis. Roja and Beak were slaughtered by Darth Vader as he and his troops entered the base and Captain Evon died in the meantime. General Bygar was killed during or after the fight.

At the same time, the Imperial spies capture a Light freighter called the Trumpet's Call and kill the rebel crew as it tries to reach the flotilla. The spies then took the Trumpet's Call to the flotilla but the life support failed along the way and Twilight Company had to take them onto the Thunderstrike. The spies then stormed the bridge and killed Lieutenant Sairgon and Commander Paonu but not before Sairgon warned the rest of the flotilla and the ships scattered. Brand and other Twilight soldiers then killed the infiltrators and took back control and quickly evade the Star Destroyer Herald. Twilight Company then went to Ankhural where they camped in the abandoned podracing track and rejoined with Namir and Chalis. They then continued repairing the Thunderstrike and had a funeral for the officers they lost. Namir took over as captain and Commander Tohna of the Apailana's Promise was transferred to take charge of the Thunderstrike.

Operation Ringbreaker
As the Thunderstrike finshed with repairs, Chalis proposed Operation Ringbreaker, which would target Kuat Drive Yards. With the local gangs attacking Twilight soldiers such as Maediyu and Jinsol as a threat, they needed to leave soon. Twilight Company started this operation with the warehouse world of Mardona III where they lost Charmer and two of his men to an Unidentified armored worm vehicle which Namir, Twitch, Carver and a few others went to destroy the thing and caught it off-guard as the crew were disembarking. They then decimated the Imperial garrison on Obumubo. After that they wrecked the Dockyards of Najan-Rovi and then took out the Plastic factory on Nakadia.

After two more attacks on Naator and Xagobah it was just Sullust and Malastare left before Kuat. But when they took the factory Inyusu Tor on Sullust, the Thunderstrike was amushed and shot down by the TIE Fighters of Vixus Squadron and the Apailana's Promise fled the system with it's X-wings. Twilight Company was stranded with only a matter of time before the Herald would arrive.

Stranded on Sullust
With few other options. Namir went down to the nearby capital of Pinyumb to find the Sullustan resistance. He and his soldiers were attacked and they lost Twitch's men. Twitch deserted them and Namir was rescued by Nien Nunb, the leader of the resistance. He took him back to the Sullustan resistance safe house where he met the very small group of freedom fighters. They helped him back to the rest of the Sixty-First back at Inyusu Tor. The Herald arrived and the local imperial forces engaged Twilight Company at the factory. Luckily, the Apailana's Promise returned to keep the Herald from bombarding Twilight Company from above.

Everi Chalis abandoned Twilight Company, stole a shuttle and let herself get captured by the Herald, not knowing she had an Ion bomb inside the shuttle which set off and forced the Herald to flee. After Twilight Company fended off the rest of the ground forces using the lava flow from Inyusu Tor, the Sullustan resistance teamed with the once passive Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front to take Pinyumb and revolutions broke out all over Sullust, liberating it for the Sixty-First. The Apailana's Promise had barely survived and the soldiers began scavenging the Thunderstrike. The Sixty-First planned to leave Sullust within time as the empire would return eventually.

Military structure
The Sixty-First was one of the many battle groups within the rebellion. The alliance had lots of battle groups like the Twenty-First, Thirty-Second and Sixty-Eighth and they wouldn't usually have any high ranking officers like Colonels or Generals, usually being led by Captains like So-Hem who was in charge of one of the other three battle groups in the Flotilla in the Elochar sector. The Sixty-Firsts command structure before the Battle of Hoth went Captain Micha Evon, Lieutenant Sairgon, Commander Paonu and Chief Medic Von Geiz. Commander Tohna and First Officer Sharn from the Apailana's Promise went between Paonu and Von Geiz. After Hoth the chain of command had lost Evon, Sairgon and Paonu but stayed the same with former First Sergeant Hazram Namir replacing Evon at the top as captain and the others moving up the chain slightly. Namir also included notable soldiers and squad leaders in his meetings such as Carver, Mzun and Gadren as they had lots of experience in battles and leadership.

Behind the scenes
Twilight Company is the focus of the Battlefront: Twilight Company novel, released in 2015 and written by Alexander Freed.

Appearances

 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization
 * Battlefront: Twilight Company
 * Battlefront: Twilight Company