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"Havoc is the best squad in the Republic becuase it has the best soldiers in the Republic. That is why we'll succeed. We may be charging headfirst into the most advanced weapon of the war the Sith Empire has ever built, but we will succeed. The odds may be impossible. The enemy may outnumber us ten to one. But Havoc Squad will succeed!"

- Meteor

Meteor was the callsign of the heroic commander of the Republic Army Republic Special Forces Division's elite unit, Havoc Squad, who battled the resurgent Sith Empire during the Cold War and subsequent Galactic War. Born before the end of the Great Galactic War, the commander enlisted in the Republic Military to defend its embattled citizens. Receiving top marks while training in the Academy, the natural leader would serve in several Outer Rim engagements dutifully. During these engagements, the commander reached the rank of Sergeant and gained the attention of the legendary Havoc squad under the command of Harron Tavus.

Reassigned to the elite squad, Meteor traveled to the planet Ord Mantell during the late stages of the Mantellian Civil War to be integrated into the top unit. As the squad's point man, the erstwhile sergeant successfully conducteed operations opposing Mantellian separatists and finding a stolen ZR-57 orbital strike bomb. Unbeknownst to the commander, all the other members of the unit planned to defect to the Sith Empire due to tragic circumstances during a past mission. As a paragon of Republic military values, the commander refused to follow in the footsteps of the treacherous unit and was left to defend itself from present Imperial forces while the former Havoc squad escaped.

Promoted swiftly from Sergeant to Lieutenant after the defection of nearly all other Havoc Squad members to the Sith Empire, the young trooper was tasked by General Elin Garza to both hunt down the traitors and rebuild the Republic's most renowned, and decorated special forces squad. The commander welcomed the recently demoted Aric Jorgan into the refurbished squad as the first recruit, due to both of them sharing the disgrace of being betrayed by their once valued allies. Meteor began the hunt on Coruscant by eliminating Havoc's underworld contacts and finding Jek Kardan, the Havoc commander preceding Tavus, who was serving his proteges by establishing a communications relay on the city planet. After Kardan was captured and the relay recovered, the young commander was summoned to a senate inquiry regarding the events on Ord Mantell and therein proved before the inquisitors that the actions the erstwhile Sergeant had taken was in the right. The Lieutenant was given command of a ship, the BT-7 Thunderclap, to continue his hunt for the Havoc traitors throughout the galaxy. After receiving the ship, the commander was automatically recruited into the Coruscant Aegis squadron where he was given the callsign Meteor.

Acting on the intelligence recovered from the relay, the commander was sent from one end of the galaxy to the other in an effort to subdue the actions of the former Havoc members. On the space station Port Raga, the commander rescued the captured senator Zorin Krasul from the clutches of the defector, Wraith, the ex-Havoc infiltration specialist. On the planet Taris, the trooper would put a stop to the immoral experiments of former Havoc medic, Needles, into the rakghoul plague and gain the squad the services of Elara Dorne. On the planet Nar Shaddaa, the squad worked along side the Republic Strategic Information Service to recapture an experimental Republic battle droid, M1-4X from traitorous special forces' control and put it into service with the squad as their fourth member. The commander intercepted stolen stealth technology on a ship loosely identified as belonging to Harron Tavus, while fighting off a trap in the form of the elite Havoc nemesis Shadow Hand squad. On the planet Tatooine, the Lieutenant captured the squad's explosive specialist, Fuse and ended the Imperial terrorist threat. On Alderaan, Havoc squad ended the life of the treasonous ex-Havoc's technical specialist, Gearbox, and his powerful prototype battle tank. The hunt finally ended when the Havoc squad assailed the flagship of the rebellious defectors, The Justice and captured Harron Tavus.

With the treasonous members of the former Havoc squad either killed or captured, the commander was promoted to the rank of Captain and assigned to destroy the Imperial superweapon called the Gauntlet. In order to the accomplish this monumental task, Havoc squad needed to be fully staffed, requiring the commander to travel to the planets Balmorra and Hoth. On Balmorra, Havoc squad aided the roguish soldier, Tanno Vik in order to secure his services as a demolitions expert. On Hoth, Havoc squad would help the Gand sergeant, Yuun, and his squad in retrieving an Imperial encryption device called the Umbra encrypter, in order to enlist his help as a technical specialist. With the squad fully rebuilt, the commander led the assault on the Gauntlet and effectively demolished the prototype warship/weapon. This action earned the ire and grudging respect of the Sith Empire's top general, Arkos Rakton, who called the attack a breach of the Treaty of Coruscant and declared open war.

Following the start of the Second Great Galactic War, the commander would lead the squad in actions all over the galaxy to slow the Imperial advance and collect allies. The commander began his campaign on the neutral space station Outpost 256, where Havoc squad foiled Rakton's plan of kidnapping Republic state leaders and ransoming them for their planets' allegiances. On the classified prison planet Belsavis, Havoc squad reactivated the disavowed and disgraced starfighter pilots of Dagger Wing. This would be followed by the rescue of Republic POWs on the prison space station, A-77 where the commander's sense of duty and loyalty was tested by the trooper's then current nemesis, General Rakton, through a trap. Undeterred by the snare, the commander successfully completed the mission but lost a great ally, Ava Jaxo in the ensuing explosion. The tragic events on A-77 did not discourage Meteor, but strengthened the trooper's resolve in serving the Republic. On the planet Voss, the commander and Havoc squad dismantled Imperial operations to convince a Republic senator that a detachment of Republic soldiers on the planet was needed more on the frontlines of the war.

The culmination of the commander and Havoc's squad mission of seeking allies was during the Battle of Corellia. Tasked with the capture of the Former Republic Stronghold Bastion from the command of General Arkos Rakton, Havoc squad's new allies and the Corellian resistance converged to aid the lone squad's push towards the massive fortress. With other Republic forces, namely the Safecrackers and 53rd Armored Platoon, the squad was able to break through the defenses of the stronghold, and captured the tactical genius, General Rakton. For their meritorious efforts and unequaled valor, the commander was honored privately by Supreme Chancellor Leontyne Saresh with the Republic Cross of Glory while the rest of squad received Gold Crescents. The celebration would be short lived due to the Supreme Chancellor's decision to release the Empire's greatest general in exchange for thousands of Republic prisoners, confident that he can be defeated once again by people like the Commander.

The commander and Havoc squad saw action throughout the entirety of the Galactic War, namely the Battle of Ilum, the Conquest of Makeb, the Seizure of CZ-198, the entire campaign of the Dread War, the Battle of Kuat and many more.

Early Career
"People, this is the new sergeant I mentioned&mdash;ranked first in the Academy in Forward Assault, Search and Destroy, and Advanced Recon. It's good to have you, Sergeant."

- Harron Tavus.

The future Havoc commander was ranked first in the Academy of Forward Assault, Search and Destroy, and Advanced Recon becoming a talented soldier and combat leader, during the Cold War with the Sith Empire. The soon-to-be Commander served early tours in the Outer Rim and, while still as a sergeant, was transferred to Ord Mantell during its civil war to join the Republic's most decorated special forces combat unit, Havoc Squad.

Ord Mantell Civil War
"Another beautiful day on Ord Mantell."

- Lieutenant Bex Kolos, nicknamed "Gearbox."

New Squad member
"I'll fight the enemies of the Republic with everything I've got, sir."

- The Lieutenant to Kolos.

Upon arrival in orbit around the planet Ord Mantell, the starship carrying the Sergeant evaded an ongoing space battle between the Separatist fleet and the Republic Navy. Safely entering the atmosphere of Ord Mantell, the future Commander and a group of Republic troopers set foot on Mantellian ground. The Sergeant was welcomed with a snappy salute by Lieutenant Bex Kolos also known as Gearbox, a member of Havoc Squad just as he disembarked. The trooper was then ordered to enter a Manka-class Armored Transport that was about to depart to a Republic outpost called Fort Garnik where he was supposed to meet up with the rest of his new unit. Inside the APC, Kolos introduced himself and briefed the Sergeant about their objective on the planet. A powerful bomb called, the ZR-57 was stolen by Mantellian separatists after shooting down a Republic ship that was carrying it. Capable of massive destruction, the mission to recover the weapon was given to the elite unit, Havoc squad.

Suddenly the APC, carrying the Sergeant, Gearbox and others, was shot down by two armor-piercing missiles coming from the nearby Drelliad village. Suffering several casualties including the driver, Gearbox assigned the Sergeant to disable the missile launchers in the village while he would reorganize the Republic troopers who survived the crash, preparing them to move out and try to fix the Walker. The Sergeant complied and reached the village. There he met with Sergeant Blyes and his men, who were under fire during the ongoing battle. Blyes asked the Sergeant to take out the Separatist jammers which were blocking their communications. A task the Sergeant accepted and succeeded in. The Sergeant then proceeded to eliminate several more separatists and successfully destroyed the missile launchers. Afterwards, Gearbox contacted the Sergeant, congratulating the subordinate for the mission's success and telling the Sergeant to reach Fort Garnik on foot while he would keep up with the repairs on the APC.

Upon arrival to the Republic base, the Sergeant was welcomed by Sergeant Jaynes. Afterwards, the Sergeant entered the barracks where he was approached by a private named Farn, who introduced himself telling the sergeant that it was an honor to meet a member of the legendary Havoc Squad. The Sergeant then finally regrouped with Havoc Squad, which received the new blood fairly well. The squad's leader, the famous Commander Harron Tavus then proceeded to introduce the veteran squad members: the second-in-command, Captain Zora; the explosives expert, Lieutenant Vanto Bazren and the combat medic, Lieutenant Ryler Dorant.

Commander Tavus started briefing Havoc Squad on their overarching mission on the planet, to recover the stolen ZR-57 orbital strike bomb in the region of Avilatan. Considering that the weapon was capable of vaporizing an entire island, the Republic had initially sent a recovery team but by the time they arrived, the bomb had already been stolen by the Separatists. Tavus then assigned the Sergeant to obtain information about the possible bomb's location from the Republic spy Bellis, who was waiting to report in the town of Talloran.

Before the Sergeant could go on with the mission, Tavus lastly introduced Lieutenant Aric Jorgan, from the Republic's Ord Mantell Infantry Command, who would oversee the Sergeant's progress in the mission and provide intel when necessary. Jorgan also made it clear that he was in charge and his orders were to be followed without question. When the Sergeant reached the "hot" meeting spot in Talloran, the Sergeant found Bellis dead. Immediately contacting Jorgan and reporting the death, the Cathar tasked the Sergeant to find and acquire Bellis' field box, which would contain the info that the spy was trying to reveal before his death. The Sergeant entered Bellis' house in Talloran to recover his field box. Upon entering, the trooper was approached by Bellis' wife, Lin, who at first tried to disguise her husband's profession, considering she didn't even know that he had been killed. The Sergeant revealed his death and Lin, outraged by the fact that he died while in the service, told the Sergeant to leave the house without hearing the Sergeant's request. The trooper reiterated the value of serving the Republic and the nobility of her husband's death which further outraged Lin but in the end she acquiesced and gave Bellis' field box to the Sergeant.

The Sergeant returned to Fort Garnik and gave Bellis' field box to Jorgan, who then told the Sergeant to talk to Bazren while he decoded the information that was recovered. Bazren assigned the Sergeant with a new task, telling the Sergeant that a mysterious informant called Mirru had come to the Republic base and informed the officers that he knew of a planned separatist bombing happening on that very day. The Republic forces however initially refused to believe him due to the influx of refugees offering questionable intel for any form of remuneration. The soldiers kicked Mirru out of the fort after beating him up to discourage further actions. Bazren decided that any and all information was worth investigation and so sent the Sergeant to talk to Mirru to verify his claims. The Sergeant sought the informant in the Refugee Camp, just outside Fort Garnik. Upon meeting and speaking to him, the informant was skeptical at first but then the Sergeant convinced him to reveal the Separatists' plan to use several bombs in an ambush along the road. Jorgan, who overheard the conversation through the holocomm, immediately assigned the Sergeant to disarm the bombs, as a Republic convoy was preparing to move along that road in the Avilatan Badlands.

After concluding his mission and returning to the Barracks, the Sergeant was intercepted by private Farn once again, who told his superior that most soldiers in the base were corrupt, and he could only trust the promising Sergeant, revealing that his CO, Lieutenant Virk, was scamming everyone under his command. The Sergeant accepted to help him, saying that as a Havoc Squad member, the Sergeant could report the corrupt official to higher authorities, alerting them to Virk's ongoing scam. The Sergeant then met with Tavus, who congratulated the promising trooper for successfully ending the ambush and saving the Republic convoy. Lieutenant Jorgan then approached the Sergeant and said that he had deciphered Bellis' field box which revealed the bomb's location. The Separatists were keeping the bomb in their outpost on the island of Mannett Point. While discussing the security features of the outpost, the sergeant suggested the possibility that the Sith Empire had a hand in the civil war due to presence of advanced weaponry and Mannett Point's unassailable nature. Dismissing the idea for later thought, Tavus tasked the Sergeant to rendezvous with Zora and retrieve the ZR-57. Before leaving, the Sergeant informed Tavus and Jorgan about Virk's corruption and they agreed to investigate it further.

Progress on Ord Mantell
"Saphrro, Vyru, and Bol are priority-one targets, Sergeant."

- Aric Jorgan

Upon arriving at the Separatist outpost on Mannett Point, subduing several separatists along the way, the Sergeant met with Zora. She assigned the trooper to destroy the Outpost's generator while she would take care of the force field that prevented them from acquiring the bomb. After destroying the generator, the Sergeant encountered several wounded Separatists, including Jex and Grannin, who begged for mercy. The Sergeant decided to let them go with the condition that they would not fight anymore. Afterwards, the Sergeant regrouped with Wraith &mdash; Zora's code name &mdash; who had by then, disabled the force field. Both entered the room where the stolen bomb was supposedly being kept where they encountered an unprepared separatist officer, Dalern, who still refused to surrender to the Republic's will. Speaking to the isolated officer, the Sergeant was able to convince him to cooperate shortly after. Both Republic soldiers then discovered that the bomb had been moved to a different place, so Wraith proceeded to execute Dalern assigning the Sergeant to find more useful Separatist officers who could reveal the bomb's location.

While searching the base for more officers, the Sergeant eventually encountered a room where three high-ranking Separatist were meeting. One of those officers, Saphrro, ordered another, Vyru, to attack the Republic trooper. Vyru was however killed, followed by his two partners, Saphrro and a third officer, Bol.

The Sergeant, without any success locating the bomb, retreated to Fort Garnik, informing Needles &mdash; Ryler Dorant's code name &mdash; about the mission's result. Even though the Sergeant was not successful in retrieving the bomb nor its location, Needles told the Sergeant that the mission had been a success because four separatist officers had been killed, crippling the Separatist's presence in the area.

Needles then told the Sergeant about a man named Zak from Oradam village, that had been in the Republic's outpost, requesting for medical supplies due to his radiation illness. The Republic officers then determined that he had been poisoned by the radiation emitted by the bomb. With this discovery, the Sergeant was ordered to retrieve information from the crippled Zak, who could reveal where the bomb was being kept. The Sergeant complied and met with Zak and his wife, Jaller, questioning them about the bomb's location in exchange for the cure for the radiation poisoning. The couple revealed themselves to be separatists but accepted nonetheless to give away the location.

Now finally with the bomb's location, the Sergeant was called to regroup with the rest of Havoc Squad in Fort Garnik's barracks. While entering the barracks the Sergeant was intercepted by the corrupt Virk who threatened the sergeant due to the scrutiny of an official investigation into his corrupt practices that the trooper had requested. Ending the conversation, the Sergeant proceeded to Havoc's rendezvous spot but was met by Jorgan, who revealed that Commander Tavus had taken Havoc Squad to recover the bomb but deciding to keep the Sergeant out of it. Jorgan was then informed by a technician that they had lost all communications with Havoc Squad. Jorgan, shocked by this event, decided to send the Sergeant to follow his squad and aid in locating the ZR-57, disregarding Tavus' command. The Sergeant was able to locate the bomb in another Separatist Base and finally disabled it, finding that Havoc Squad was still nowhere to be found. The Republic trooper had however found another troubling discovery, noticing that some of the opposing forces who were protecting the base, were actually Imperial soldiers, revealing the Sith Empire's affiliation with the Separatists.

The Sergeant reached a hangar within the facility, finding that the rest of Havoc Squad was very much alive. Wraith attempted to kill the Sergeant but was stopped by Tavus who then revealed to the Sergeant that Havoc was going to desert the Republic for the Sith Empire, as the latter seemed to value soldiers more than the former. The Sergeant attempted to redeem Havoc Squad, but to no avail. Tavus continued to explain that Havoc felt betrayed after the Senate chose to abandon them on during the mission to Ando Prime. Tavus then ordered the Imperial Colonel Vorr and his Imperials to attack the Sergeant, who was able to defeat his opponents regardless. However, the Sergeant's fight to survive the attack had been enough for the treacherous Havoc Squad to escape in a Shuttle, taking the supposedly neutralized bomb with them to present it as a gift to the Empire.

Promotion
"In recognition of your valiant service, I hereby promote you to the rank of lieutenant. Congratulations."

- General Vander

Upon returning to Fort Garnik, the Sergeant learned that Republic Command was well aware of Tavus' betrayal after witnessing the events through the Sergeant's armor camera. Due to the honorable yet unsuccessful efforts of the Sergeant, command promoted the trooper to the rank of lieutenant and given command of the recently deserted squad while Lieutenant Jorgan was demoted to sergeant and placed under the command of the trooper due to his superiors need of a scapegoat.

After a quick stopover to Carrick Station for specialization training, the CO of Havoc squad journeyed to Coruscant to report to the head of the Republic Special Forces, General Elin Garza. Upon arriving, Garza briefed the erstwhile sergeant that Tavus had led hundreds of special forces troopers to defect to the Empire, and that the only advantage the Republic has at the moment was Havoc Squad, as Tavus presumes the CO to have died. Though Jorgan was all for going out to hunt down Tavus and his followers, Garza stressed that they must first take out the traitors' underworld contacts on Coruscant.

Garza first sent the Lieutenant and Jorgan to the Old Galactic Market, putting them in contact with one of her men, Corporal Garrum. The corporal told them that their first target was a cyborg named Krel of the Migrant Merchant Guild, who was supplying the defectors with an army of war droids. The cyborg had been capturing civilians and apparently implanting them with their illegal cybernetics in order to build a secret army for himself. Fighting through Krel's army of battle droids, the Lieutenant and Jorgan found criminal cyborg in his facility. Though the trooper offered Krel a chance to surrender, the cyborg refused, and attacked the Lieutenant. Forced to kill Krel, the Lieutenant was then ordered by Garza to kill all the enhanced civilians within the facility. Jorgan noted that it didn't feel right, and that they didn't know whether the civilians really were enhanced or not. Ultimately, the Lieutenant agreed with Jorgan and let the civilians go. Garza criticized the Lieutenant for this, saying that they needed to follow her orders over their brain, and then their heart, in that order.

Next, Havoc was sent to Black Sun Territory to meet with Sergeant Ava Jaxo. Jaxo and the Lieutenant worked together and managed to track a batch of deadly nerve toxin called Trivoris, that Black Sun was shipping to Tavus and the other traitors. Jaxo also asked the Lieutenant to bring her a mysterious red case that Black Sun had retrieved. The Lieutenant and Jorgan succeeded, neutralizing the canisters that contained the toxins and retrieving the case, which had a strange prototype blaster inside.

After succeeding in Black Sun territory, the Lieutenant was summoned to a Senate hearing regarding Havoc's defection. The CO answered as many of the committee's questions as truthfully as he could but when asked if the events on Ando Prime were the cause of Havoc's defection, a Mirialan Senator named Voralla told the CO to disregard it. General Garza was pleased with how the Lieutenant handled the hearing, and briefed Havoc on their next mission.

Before leaving, the CO asked about the truth about Ando Prime. Garza confessed that when they sent Havoc to cut off an Imperial offensive they discovered that enemy forces were far greater than intel had led them to believe. Just as they were about to extract Havoc, the Senate cut them off, claiming that the operation was unauthorized and threatened to breach the Treaty of Coruscant. Under Kardan's leadership at the time, Havoc managed to find their own way home. Kardan resigned upon learning the truth and Tavus took over the squad, neither men being the same since. As the CO lamented that Tavus was telling the truth, Garza reminded Havoc that regardless of the difficult situation the old Havoc had to face, it doesn't excuse their actions.

Continuing on with the mission, the Lieutenant and Jorgan were sent to Justicar territory to find and capture Jek Kardan alive. Finding the former commander of Havoc Squad in negotiations with an Imperial, the squad was initially assumed by Kardan to be mere grunts. But upon recognizing the symbol of Havoc Squad on the teams' armor, Kardan fled by pitting the present Imperial forces against the new squad while commenting that he did not kill good soldiers. After defeating the Imperial incursion in the facility, Havoc squad eventually tracked Kardan down in The Works, where he was guarding a transmitter responsible for the defectors' communications. Havoc managed to destroy the transmitter and after a lengthy conversation about the situation, the Lieutenant convinced Kardan to help bring in his comrades.

Rescuing a Senator
With the threats on Coruscant quelled, the lieutenant and his companion returned to Garza's office where upon speaking to the general the duo was finally given the task of capturing or killing the traitors of Havoc Squad and the many other Special Forces defectors. Given the galactic nature of their mission, Garza requisitioned a BT-7 Thunderclap to serve as the squad's transportation needs.

She told them that Wraith had captured Senator Zorin Krasul, a member of the committee that questioned the CO, and was holding him hostage. Traveling to the space station Port Raga, Havoc rendezvoused with republic team already there, led by Sergeant Jaxo. Jaxo briefed the Lieutenant on the situation, disclosing that the arrival of Havoc Squad was inconspicuous, the neutral space station was taken over by opposing forces and that the Senator was being held in a hangar filled with explosives at the other end of the station. The squad moved out towards the find the senator and engaged the treacherous ex-republic forces and imperial commandos that sought to stop them. After eliminating the opposing forces, the duo found the captive Senator sitting on a bomb chair set with an inflated deadman's switch. As the trooper approached the senator, the boisterous Cathar rudely ordered the lieutenant to free him.

While examining the situation, the trooper managed to ask the senator about the motivations of Wraith behind his kidnapping. The senator quickly revealed that renegade troop wanted him to publicly acknowledge the events on Ando Prime which would have destabilized the Galactic Senate's inner workings. Asking further about the truth behind the ill-fated mission, the senator further revealed that the mission was conducted illegally, with the previous Havoc Squad invading the planet and engaging Imperial forces without the consent of the Senate.

After concluding the conversation, the trooper discovered that the bomb had three triggers: a weight switch, a remote trigger and an additional gas switch. The lieutenant moved to seal the bulkhead doors then vented the atmosphere in the hangar, modifying the atmospheric pressure in the area and thus disabling the gas trigger. After the procedure, the trooper raced to the senator's chair and defused the last two triggers with ease. With the senator freed, Havoc squad escorted the senator to the hangar where Sergeant Jaxo and her team were waiting.

Before leaving, Jaxo had a short conversation with the commanding officer about how Wraith managed to slip past them even when they had eyes on the whole station, giving credence to the ex-Havoc member's skill in infiltration. Given the recent successes of the trooper, Jaxo invited the trooper to her place on Coruscant to celebrate. Upon reaching Havoc's starship, the trooper immediately reported to General Garza. Content with the trooper's report, Garza told the lieutenant that technicians collected new possible locations from the relay recovered during Havoc's previous mission on Coruscant. From the records, Garza surmised that the renegade troopers were operating on Taris and Nar Shaddaa.

Taris
Garza then sent Havoc to Taris, the first of the defectors' location. She had contacted the local regiment commander, Colonel Gaff, to assist them in any way possible, but he was not to know the details of their mission. Upon meeting with the colonel, he blatantly disregarded Garza's orders, partly due to the fact that their mission was top secret, claiming that nothing unusual happened under his watch. Suddenly, a female Human, Sergeant Elara Dorne, spoke up, stating that patrol teams have gone missing. When Gaff attempted to shoot her down for speaking out of turn, she cited regulations that made Garza's orders a priority. Gaff dismissed her claims, insisting that they may have fallen prey to wildlife. As the colonel excused himself, Dorne apologized for Gaff's behavior, stating that it's not the first time he defied direct orders.

With Dorne's aid, the Lieutenant and Jorgan searched for several missing squads of Republic scouts and traced them to an Imperial outpost. There, Havoc's commander made a deal with an Imperial commander, Thorus, who agreed to tell him where Needles was, if he was allowed to go free. Dorne then came in on holo, warning the CO not to broker any deals with him, explaining that she personally serve under Thorus, who has committed war crimes in direct defiance of Imperial High Command. Thorus defends that he was only doing what was necessary to perform his duties and claimed that the CO was no different. Angered that he would compare himself to them, the CO raised a blaster, declaring they are nothing alike. Scared, Thorus confessed Needles' location and explained that he's experimenting with rakghouls and other defectors. Though Sergeant Dorne recommended executing Thorus immediately, Havoc honored their agreement, letting the commander go.

Havoc acted on the information given by Thorus and found themselves deep within the devastated city planet's buried rail system where they would find a mobile Imperial lab. Within the lab they found Needles in a discussion with a rakghoul. Upon closer inspection, Havoc found that the maddened medic was successful in his experiments. The rakghoul was a former mercenary still imbued with his sentience and seemingly forced into serving Needles in acquiring more subjects in exchange for a cure to its disfigurement. Anxious for more subjects, Needles needlessly injected a nearby Imperial soldier with his "weapon" and instantly turned him into a nekghoul. Disgusted by the act, Havoc went into action and engaged the medic and the two present nekghouls. They managed to kill Needles and his nekghouls, though upon a thorough inspection of the lab the Lieutenant would find canisters of Needles' legacy of weaponized rakghoul plague. Jorgan prompted the Lieutenant to bring it to General Garza but instead the trooper destroyed all of it, reasoning that it was to dangerous even in the hands of the Republic. This displeased Garza, though she commended them for killing Needles. She hadn't told Kardan yet but she doubted he'd be upset, as he and Needles never see eye-to-eye. She also ordered Elara Dorne to join Havoc Squad, a transfer Dorne gladly accepted.

Nar Shaddaa
Havoc soon landed on the Hutt moon of Nar Shaddaa. Garza warned that the moon was neutral territory and advised against causing an incident. She then explained that Tavus' followers have reactivated a prototype Republic war droid designed M1-4X, originally meant to serve in Havoc, causing mayhem on the smuggler's moon. She had enlisted the aid of an SIS cell but ordered Havoc to avoid disclosure about their mission.

Disembarking from the ship, Havoc met with their SIS contact, Jonas Balkar, in the cantina, the Lowbrow Lounge. There Balkar briefed the squad on the ongoing SIS operation to find the rogue droid and its operators. The SIS found that the paramilitary scofflaws cased targets before raiding the establishment's vaults, using this information Havoc went into action and tried to intercept the suspected defectors. Reaching the vault of Axxon Storage and Reclamation, Havoc found the traitorous Spec force Colonel Andrik continually deluding the supposedly rogue droid into thinking that it was on a top secret Republic mission. Havoc approached the arguing duo, ordering them to stop their thieving. Colonel Andrik reacted quickly ordering the droid to engage the squad, but the droid relented due to identifying the CO as a republic soldier. Trying to control the situation, Andrik quickly overrode the patriotic droid's programming, ordering it to secure the area and follow him. Havok tried to order Forex to stand down but the overridden programming of the droid was locked only to follow personnel designated by Commander Tavus. As Andrik fled with Forex in tow, he summoned reinforcements to stop Havoc which only slowed down the elite squad. With Andrik gone and the reinforcements he left dead, Balkar, who was watching through the area's tapped cameras, contacted Havoc squad. Through the conversation, Jonas informed the Lieutenant that they had tracked the rogue colonel to an abandoned arms factory in Nar Shaddaa's Red Light Sector. During the same conversation, Balkar noticed that the rogue army was carrying an absurd amount of republic armaments, the CO finally divulged the true details of their mission rather than keep Jonas in the dark to better serve the op.

Reaching Balkar's cover business, Balkar Interior Refurbishments, Havoc squad was told that Forex and Andrik escaped from the SIS' sight with help from an unknown source. In order to capture the rogues, Havoc squad was tasked with finding the defectors' unknown allies by tagging outgoing communication lines near the abandoned Marpeesa Munitions factory and alerting its occupants so as to track whoever they called for help. Successfully intercepting the outgoing message after Havoc's actions, the SIS agents tracked the signal to a penthouse in the Club Vertica Casino and found out that the rogues' mysterious allies were Imperials.

In order to enter the private casino, Havoc needed to slice into the casino's security systems and add themselves to the establishments' exclusive list of patrons. Without a technical specialist on the squad, Balkar tasked Havoc to escort the SIS slicer Niall Piv into the casino's security substation. After fighting through mercenary forces hired by the casino as security, Piv began to slice into the subsystem while Havoc defended him from security reinforcements. Transferring the business' credits to a unknown location to hide the addition to the client list, Niall successfully completed his task while Havoc finished off the last of the security forces. With their mission completed Havoc went back to base, ready to confront the Imperial presence on the planet.

Before the commander left, Balkar reiterated caution to the trooper, similar to General Garza's note, about openly engaging the Imperials in combat which the commander dutifully noted. Upon entering the penthouse, the Imperials raised their weapons and Andrik came on holo. He refused to aid the Imperials, knowing the Lieutenant's reputation for warfare. Rather than start a firefight and cause an incident, the CO managed to convince the Imperials that Andrik doesn't care about the Empire and to give up the location of Andrik's Shadow Town hideout, where he was attempting to fully activate Forex's experimental power core.

Upon reaching the rogues' hideout, the CO was dismissed by Andrik as an obedient grunt. He claimed that the Republic will eventually abandon them to, but the CO would have none of it. At that moment, Forex was fully activated with his exotic power core, though unable to disobey Andrik, the droid expressed hope that Havoc Squad would prevail. In a quick firefight, they managed to kill Andrik and his followers and destroyed Forex. Later returning to an SIS safehouse, Havoc walked in on an argument between Balkar and Garza over Havoc's mission. Garza was displeased that the CO disobeyed orders, reiterated Havoc's duty as soldiers to follow orders and then ordered the commander to contact her later in a more private manner. As the general signed off, Balkar then revealed that they have repaired Forex to serve in Havoc Squad.

Into the trap
Garza next assigned Havoc Squad to intercept prototype cloaking devices recently stolen from a republic research lab in the Cularin system. Tracked to a ship loosely identified with Harron Tavus, Havoc immediately left to catch the rogue ship to recover the experimental devices and possibly capture the rogue commander. Upon boarding the ship, Havoc met with heavy resistance from defector forces, suicide droids, and numerous automated defenses. Unfortunately, they had been tricked&mdash;Tavus was not, in fact, aboard the ship. Tavus contacted the Lieutenant via holocomm, telling them that he had intentionally arranged for the Lieutenant to be there, and lambasted them for killing Needles and Captain Andrik. Tavus revealed an elite Imperial unit called the Shadow Fist, which had been a constant rival of Havoc Squad's during the first war, was aboard the ship. The Lieutenant fought and managed to defeat all members of the famed Shadow Fist with ease and recovered the stolen stealth generator.

Tatooine
With the successful recovery of the stealth generator, Havoc Squad was sent to the desert world Tatooine. There, they approached the mayor of Anchorhead,Klerren, who was in a conversation with his aide Cohn. who informed the Lieutenant that the Imperials had been placing bombs into protocol droids and sending them into Anchorhead to detonate and killing many innocent beings. Suddenly, one of the mayor's aides, Ixa, barged into the meeting and reported that a bomb had just been set off. Havoc quickly went to the site of the explosion where they found an injured man named Benett being helped by a woman named Cana, who informed them that protocol droids had entered the buildings and without warning exploded. As Havoc was finishing its conversation, the shell-shocked man spotted several protocol droids approaching them. Havoc were forced to destroy this new wave of the sabotaged droids and after which was celebrated for saving the citizens of the desert town.

Returning to the mayor, Havoc informed them of the successful mission. They were then contacted by Fuse, one of the Havoc defectors, who told them that the bombs were being manufactured by recently immigrated Geonosians who were living in the desert. Havoc acted on the intel and went to the Geonosian compound where they found the insect-like race in an argument with an Imperial Colonel named Gorik about the quality of the droids they were producing. Havok walked into the conversation where upon seeing the team, Gorik ordered the Geonosian leader, Kyvax, to kill the intruding republic troopers. Havoc succeeded in eliminating all of the Geonosian forces and thus stopping them from producing more suicide droid bombers. Havoc returned to Mayor Klerren where upon entering his office, interrupted a conversation between Fuse and the old mayor where the young demolition specialist admitted his regret for joining the Imperials and endangering innocent lives with his hidden bomb designs. Klerren reassured Fuse that he was doing the right thing in helping out Havoc squad.

Fuse then told Havoc of an Imperial commando team near Sand People territory, using Fuse's designs of mines and bombs on the Sand People. The Lieutenant and their squad set out to deal with them. Inside the cave the Imperials were hiding in, a technician expressed doubt, saying he thought Havoc had defected to the Empire. The commando sergeant replied that they'd sort it out when the Republic forces were dead, and his squad opened fire. The Lieutenant made quick work of the Imperials and killed them all save for the technician, who surrendered. Havoc allowed the technician to go free on the stipulation that he reveal the location of the Imperial base. That known, they set out to stop Gorik.

At the Imperial base, the squad found Fuse in a cell. Fuse said that Gorik was getting away, and that Havoc should stop him. At that moment, the self-destruct was activated, and Havoc was forced to choose&mdash;free Fuse or go after Gorik. The Lieutenant chose to follow the primary mission of capturing the Havoc traitors, and freed Fuse, turning him over to Lieutenant Tasser and the 43rd Advance Recon Squad, who was recently rerouted from Ryloth by General Garza to reinforce Havoc; however, Gorik escaped during the chaos of the Havoc's retreat. This disappointed Garza, but she was pleased that Havoc was finally able to bring in one of the traitors alive, as Kardan was beginning to doubt her promise.

Alderaan
With their success on Tatooine, Havoc Squad was sent to the planet Alderaan to track down Gearbox. Liaising with House Organa, Havoc interrogated a prisoner captured by the Organas, Markus Thul, with the help of Captain Balic Cormac of Organa's defense force. Thul agreed to help Havoc find Gearbox, provided the Lieutenant rescue his wife and daughter. In order to verify the veracity of Thul's information, Havoc took out highly sophisticated MR-3 missile batteries modified by Gearbox harassing House Organa. During the course of the demolition mission, the Lieutenant intercepted a communique from Gearbox, with specs to further modify the recently destroyed missile batteries and a vague mention of Project B.

Once again speaking with the noble assassin, Havoc was forced to rescue the women and bring them back to House Organa to finally secure the location of Gearbox's secret base. Sneaking into the Thul family's manor, Havoc found the Altana and Valyn, who quickly dismissed the soldier. To gain their trust the Lieutenant spoke a code word, Tyrovan, given by the Thul nobleman. Using disguises given by Captain Cormac, the noblewomen were able to sneak out of the household escorted by Havoc and was picked up by a shuttle. While on Alderaan, Havoc was repeatedly interrupted by a noble of House Organa named Pallos Organa. Havoc deftly avoided Organa's questions and with the family now brought together, Thul gave them the location of Gearbox's outpost.

Gearbox had been designing an experimental armored walker, dubbed Project B, in the time he'd been on Alderaan, and even as Havoc prepared to assault his base, he finalized his plans, completing the new war tank. When Havoc fought through Gearbox's Imperial guards and reached him, Gearbox manned the tank. He taunted the Lieutenant, saying he was impressed that anyone could infiltrate the base but also degrading them by saying they weren't Havoc material, as Havoc would not have fallen for his trap. The Lieutenant damaged the tank and in the process injured Gearbox. The former Republic commando refused to give up and continued fighting on foot. The Lieutenant was forced to kill him, ending another traitor's life but yet again failing their promise to Kardan. Upon returning to House Organa, the Lieutenant found Pallos interrogating Captain Cormac. He demanded to know why the Lieutenant was allowing three Thul nobles to stay in the Organa household, and wanted to know what deal the Lieutenant had made with Markus. The Lieutenant honored their deal, pardoning Markus and his family, to Pallos' anger.

Garza commended them for dealing with Gearbox, though she was saddened that he had been killed, as Havoc had promised Kardan to bring in the traitors alive. She also inquired about how they had caused Pallos trouble. The Lieutenant explained that Pallos had gotten repeatedly in the way of the mission, and Garza said that although she had figured Pallos had been exaggerating, she also wondered if there was truth in his report, and ordered the Lieutenant to be more diplomatic in the future.

The Justice
"…You were a member of Havoc, just like the rest of us. I suppose you belong here, in some twisted way."

- Harron Tavus

With all traitor outposts dealt with, Garza ordered the Lieutenant back to Coruscant. Upon arriving, she said they had a great deal to talk about, and commended the Lieutenant on their valiant efforts on behalf of the Republic. Garza had intercepted a message to the four outposts signaling all survivors to come to a rendezvous point. The Lieutenant was sent to infiltrate the rendezvous point, Tavus' command ship, the Justice.

Upon boarding the ship, the Lieutenant was met by a defector Lieutenant named Romm who asked where they had come from. The Lieutenant lied and gave him the name of one of the previous outposts–Taris, Tatooine, and Alderaan. The Imperial bought the story and then asked if the rumors he was hearing were true regarding a single Republic soldier blasting through their operations. Deciding to further embellish this, the Lieutenant claimed that this soldier was a one-person army. The Imperial let them go on their way. As they went through the ship, the Lieutenant committed various acts of sabotage, eventually ending in the engine room. There, Wraith, one of the last Havoc traitors aside from Tavus, approached the Lieutenant and expressed pleasure at the opportunity to kill the Lieutenant. However, she failed, and was killed. Successfully sabotaging the engines, the Lieutenant and the rest of Havoc headed for the bridge.

Upon reaching the bridge, Havoc confronted Tavus. Tavus said the Lieutenant belonged on the Justice in some twisted way. The Lieutenant responded that Tavus was a traitor, and had nothing to do with Havoc Squad. Tavus shot back that he was Havoc Squad, along with Fuse, Needles, Gearbox, Wraith, and Kardan. He accused the Lieutenant of murdering all his comrades, but the Lieutenant revealed that Kardan and Fuse were still alive. Though initially relieved, Tavus still held the Lieutenant accountable for the other deaths. Tavus, like Wraith, expressed pleasure at the opportunity to kill the Lieutenant. They fought, and the Lieutenant came out victorious. Wounded, Tavus expressed regret for his actions, acknowledging that he's responsible for his comrades' deaths for leading them to defect. Lowering his blaster, Tavus offered his services to the Republic, saying he could offer valuable intel. The Lieutenant accepted. At that moment, Republic Special Forces boarded the ship. Once the coast was clear, Garza came aboard. She cordially greeted Tavus, expressing relief that he finally decided to surrender. Tavus bemoaned that he lost everything he was fighting for. Garza reminded that the citizens of the Republic are worth fighting for. Later, Tavus sent a message to Havoc, expressing his regret at all that had happened and thanking them for sparing him.

The Gauntlet
Havoc Squad didn't get much downtime after the resolution of the Tavus Situation. Called to General Garza's office, the Lieutenant was promoted to Captain and his crew awarded with Bronze Crescents for their actions during the attack on the Justice. The Commander was then tasked with rendezvousing with an Old SIS contact, Jonas Balkar, and the difficult extraction of an SIS Agent named Prellon Garn on Tatooine. Meeting with Agent Balkar in the Anchorhead Spaceport, the Havoc commander was briefed on the situation. The undercover agent who had uncovered Imperial plans for a devastating new superweapon, known only as, "The Gauntlet", had sabotaged the Imperial troop transport he was on and forced it to make an emergency landing in the Eastern Wound sector of the Jundland wastes. . After the short brefing with Balkar, Havoc headed out towards the emergency landing area where Garn's Imperial unit had resided. Upon arrival Havoc was met with heavy resistance but was helped along by the undercover agent when he finally revealed himself to his Imperial "comrades" with the use of a blaster. With Prellon extracted, the squad and the agent destroyed the remains of the Imperial forces and with it the sabotaged transport.

Upon receiving the intelligence provided by Prellon Garn that Gauntlet was a weapon capable of destroying ships while travelling through hyperspace, General Garza, together with Supreme Commander Janarus and Fleet Commander Numinn of the Fifth Assault Fleet, ordered the Commander and Havoc Squad to neutralize the Gauntlet, in an attempt to mitigate any military advantage such a weapon would give the Empire. However, Havoc Squad was still understaffed for such a dangerous mission, and lacked a demolitions and a technical specialist. The Gauntlet Operation hinged on the Commander finding the last key pieces to the reformed commando squad. With the war still in it's cold, though simmering stages, Republic Command could ill afford to allow such a game changing project to go into effect..

Balmorra
Garza ordered the Commander to find and recruit the best demolitions expert known within the Republic personnel database; a Weequay named Tanno Vik. At that time, Vik was serving as a mercenary for the Balmorran Resistance due to his dishonorable discharge from Republic service over a year ago. Before leaving for the surface of the planet, Garza cautioned the Captain of Vik's unorthodox attitude and suggested to keep the rogue on a short leash to which the Captain boldly agreed. Upon reaching the resistance outpost on Bugtown, Havoc spoke briefly to Vik's rebel supervisor, Ardon. During the conversation, the cynical rebel leader debased Havoc's mission, seeing it as a means to take away good people from their own efforts. The commander stated the importance of his overarching mission which the rebel leader condescendingly put down. Ardon relented his snide remarks for a brief moment although maintaining his tone to relay Vik's current whereabouts, out with a resistance patrol on their way to the resistance signal interception outpost.

Upon reaching the outpost, Havoc came upon a Twi'lek technician named Prand and a human tech named Jalba having trouble with their equipment. Speaking to the Twi'lek, the commander found out that Vik slipped away falsely citing that he was with the 53rd Irregulars, a non-existent unit, on a top secret mission for the Republic, which did not hire mercenaries for classified missions, and that under Regulation 235-R, the doctrine for dictating the positioning of field latrines, he was free to co-opt the outpost's security team. Due to Vik's actions, Imperial commandos were able to disable the outpost's communication relays and blinded the resistance's ability to peer into the Imperials troop activities in the area. The commander seeking to correct Vik's actions and aid allies, volunteered to fight through the Imperial forces and re-enable the downed comm relays. After doing this, Havoc squad returned to the outpost where Prand reassured the squad of their success with an intercepted holo message from Vik. The holo message was a short briefing meant for Vik's co-opted team wherein the rogue soldier mentioned the Imperial occupied Balmorran city of Sobrik as their penultimate objective. Before Havoc left the outpost, Prand told the squad to find a republic Specforce major operating near the city after which both techs thanked the squad for their efforts and wished them success in catching up to the Weequay "scumbag".

The Captain and the squad found Major Triam of the 43rd Recon unit operating in the Troida Military Workshop. Speaking to the superior officer, the Captain tried to ascertain the location of Tanno Vik, only to be told of the crooked Weequay's deplorable behavior. Assigned to destroy Imperial signal jammers that blocked Republic aerial recon attempts from determining troop movements within the city of Sobrik, the wily Weequay instead left with the cache of detonite charges intended for the mission. The disappointed Captain volunteered to take on the Vik's abandoned mission seeing that once the jammers were destroyed the aerial recon of the area would reveal Vik's location. Without the original cache of explosives meant for the mission, Havok scoured the nearby Sobrikarill Valley for Imperial checkpoints and their supply of detonite charges. With the explosives in tow, Havoc infiltrated the occupied city, engaging and killing Imperial forces that perchance detected them. Upon the destruction of several jammers within the city, Havoc was contacted by Triam through holocomm, stating that the survey of the area detected an explosive entry was made on the Imperial headquarters in the city. Havoc thanked the Major for his help and made its way into the heart of the Imperial presence on the city.

Havoc assaulted the stronghold and made their way to the administrative offices where they found a body of a dead Republic officer. Upon further inspection, Havoc noticed that the officer's holocomm had an incoming call. Picking up the call, the commander finally made contact with wicked Weequay as the holographic visage of Tanno Vik appeared before the squad. Vik noted that the commander was not the person he left to guard their rear but was ecstatic that the famous Havoc squad replaced the dead officer with someone as elite as the squad. Asked why Vik did not respond to initial rallying call from General Garza, the Weequay answered that he thought the call was a joke due to his reputation with High Command as an unruly soldier and that his operation was "helping" the resistance. Unsatisfied with Vik's answer, the commander condemned Vik's actions by stating his personal operation endangered the resistance more than helped it. Vik relented, asking for Havoc's help to expedite his mission and thus hasten his recruitment, to which the Havoc commander willingly accepted. Vik detailed part of his personal mission in assaulting the Imperial HQ, to capture the Balmorran turncoat named Brel Orus who had the location to Hazard Vault 451.

With the traitor already in Vik's hands, the rogue Weequay first requested Havoc to clear missile defenses along a path that led to the vaunted hazard vault, which would threaten a missile Vik "borrowed" from the Republic, meaning to use it to bust open the vault's doors. The Havoc commander and his team left the city of Sobrik and headed to the Scorched Fields of the Gorinth Valley where they destroyed anti-missile sensors, anti-missile turrets and an aerial shield generator that lined the area. With the path for the incoming missile cleared, Tanno Vik launched the commandeered Republic missile which proceeded to destroy the seal on the hazard vault yet unbeknownst to Vik, Brel Orus was able to secretly send a message to his Imperial allies containing his and Vik's current location. Unaware of this, Vik was captured by the Imperial forces after the assault leaving most of his team dead. Arriving in the Sundari Battefield outpost to finally rendezvous with Tanno Vik, Havoc squad discovered the Imperial assault too late but succeeded in eliminating the remaining Imperial forces from the outpost. When the skirmish was over, the Captain and his squad found a Twi'lek survivor named Druan who informed the commander of what had happened and where the Imperials took the crooked Weequay, to prison camps behind the Balmorran Arms Factory.

Adamant in recruiting Vik into the squad, the Havoc commander left the outpost and moved towards the prison camp. Mowing down any and all Imperial forces on the way, Havoc squad found Vik being tortured in the hands of Brel Orus and his Imperial lackeys. Immediately devastating Orus' bodyguards, Havoc went after the fleeing former Balmorran rebel, cornering him in one of the cells in the prison. Cornered, Orus tried to bribe the commander with a donation to the Balmorran resistance but was denied and dismissed by the honorable commander. With Vik and the commander finally meeting, the Weequay revealed to the Captain his operation's goal, to acquire the contents of Hazard Vault 451, a repository of prototype and experimental weapon caches developed and hidden by Balmorran weapons comapanies before the Imperial occupation of the planet, and to hand it over to the Balmorran resistance after "perusing" it himself. The commander disagreed with shady Weequay and opted to turn over the entire cache to the scrappy rebels. After unlocking the vault, the squad was greeted by a Zabrak sergeant named Tong who was contacted by Vik to see to the distribution of the weapons. Returning to the rebel outpost in Bugtown, the Captain briefed Ardon on their success in finding and recruiting Vik, only to be met with a hostile statement about the hypocrisy of their recovery of the Balmorran prototypes. Upon leaving the planet and reaching their ship, Havoc immediately reported to General Garza on their success to which they were commended and promptly assigned the elite team on their next op, the rescue of the Republic unit, The Safecrackers on the planet Quesh.

Quesh
The Safecrackers was deemed a vital component of the assualt on the gauntlet, and thus Havoc was sent to retrieve them. On the planet Quesh, The Safecrackers were being overwhelmed by Imperial forces reacting from the waylaid unit's unfortunate assualt. Bad intelligence and disastrously triggering the facility's alarms forced the bunker busting unit's commanding officer, Lieutenant Coria, to dig in and call for aid from Major Donovan of the planet's Republic Operational Headquaters (Quesh). Auspiciously, as Lieutenant Coria's holocomm message calling for help ended, Havoc squad entered the HQ's room and spoke to the distressed Donovan. The Major briefed Havoc on the situation and assigned the elite squad to create a diversion by attacking a recently discovered Imperial bunker near the embattled Safecrackers. Reaching the Imperial bunker in the Malignant Meadow, the Captain led Havoc squad into facility and effectively demolished its ability to command the forces in the area by destroying the base's reactors, comm systems and central command consoles. While in the base, Havoc greatly augmented their firepower by recovering Imperial weapons modification, namely [[CL-A1 Alderinium Cylinoid, CL-A1 Combat Clip, and CL-A1 Transfer Coil. The hit and run tactics on the base succeeded in creating a gap in the Imperial forces assualt which gave the Safecrackers a means of escape. The commanders of both units met in the Headquarters after retreating from their perspective skirmishes, Lieutenant Coria displaying the best of his gratitude to the commander of Havoc for their timely intervention insured the Captain the support of his own unit whenever and whereever needed. The captain of Havoc thanked Coria for his offer but humbly stated that it was the least they could have done for thier fellow Republic soldiers. After leaving the debrief with Quesh command and returning to thier ship, Havoc reported their efforts to Republic SpecForce Command. Garza again commended the squad's actions and assured them that she would keep the Safecrackers away from harm till Havoc was fully formed for the assualt on the Gauntlet.

Hoth
After the skirmish on Quesh, Garza informed the Captain about their final assignment before the assualt on the gauntlet, the recruitment of the Shamanistic Sergeant Yuun. The decorated Yuun was tagged as the best technical specialist in the Republic military database and thus was currently assigned to recover the enigmatic, Umbra encrypter, a machine that secured Imperial Military communications unbroken since the Great Galactic War. Meeting the sergeant in the Republic outpost [Aurek Base]] on the planet Hoth, Yuun quickly briefed the Havoc squad on his squad's efforts to recover components of the cryptographic machine from hundreds of wrecks of crashed Imperial starships on the surface of the frigid planet. In order to expedite the search for the Umbra components, Yuun kindly asked Havoc to assault an Imperial research facility in the Crescent Canyon Mesa which contained information about the location of significant Imperial starships wrecks on the planet. In order to retrieve the information, Havoc would be the spearhead of the assault into the facility while Yuun's squad would stay back in cleared wings to assist Havoc in breaking through the area's tightly secured barriers. Before Havoc left for the mission, Yuun added that around the Crescent Canyon Research Facility was a net of motion sensors designed to alert the facility's occupants of any impending assault.

Properly informed of the situation, Havoc exited the Republic base and headed for their target. Upon reaching the perimeter of the white-washed facility, Havoc went into action, disabling the multitudes of motion sensors around the base and their accompanying Imperial guards. With the sensors deactivated, Havoc entered the facility followed by Yuun's squad where they quickly dispatched the armed occupants of the facility and created a temporary opening for the squad in tow. With opposing forces in the area quelled, Havoc walked up to the first barrier that stood in their way, waiting for the technical squad to give them access to the depths of the facility. Suddenly alarms within the facility blared into life as the door in front of Havoc opened, signaling the occupants of the compound to the elite squad presence. Yuun apologized immediately but also asked the Havoc commander to intercept the incoming reinforcements from within the facility to safeguard his fragile squad. Clearing the entirety of the facility's barracks, Havoc squad continued to engage Imperial forces until Yuun commed to tell them that a second barrier was up ahead made up of a ray shield guarded by three turrets with massive firepower. Blocked by the Imperial defenses, Havoc squad engaged the turrets while Yuun tried to remotely disable the crimson barrier. With the turrets destroyed by the squad and Yuun failing to open the barrier from where he was, Havoc was forced to deal with the barriers physically by modifying the wiring from the shield's console nearby. With Yuun's eccentric means of giving instruction, Havoc was able to finally enter the facility's database center and give access to the Gand technician. Slicing through the files, Yuun was able to get a hold of the information needed and thus told Havoc to retreat and regroup at the nearest Republic outpost.

Meeting in the nearby, Yuun congratulated Havoc on the retrieval of the vital information and revealed a recently intercepted Imperial communique. Imperial Major Artano, the Information Control Specialist for General Arkos Rakton's command group, has learned of the Republic effort to acquire a working Umbra encrypter from the wrecks of their starships on Hoth and thus instituted that all said wrecks to be guarded by a full security detail. With the Imperial derelicts no longer easily accessible, Yuun briefed the commander and Havoc squad in the change from his previous tactics, where the elite combat squad was to now raid one of the significant salvage wrecks as a diversion, recover a Umbra component from within the derelict and collapse the cave containing the wreck over Imperial reinforcements rerouted from other starship wrecks. While doing this, Yuun and his squad was to raid the other relic vessels whose sentinels have departed to reinforce Havoc's then current target. With the plan solidified, Havoc left for its target, the wreck of the Enforcer in the Highmount Ridge. Upon reaching its target, the elite fireteam dispatched its Imperial guardians efficiently while setting charges through the cave system that engulfed the crashed starship. Reaching the recovered Umbra component, Havoc was abruptly interrupted by a holocomm call from Major Artano who accused Havoc of stealing Imperial property and asked forcefully to surrender or die to incoming Imperial reinforcements. The arrival of the initial wave of Imperial reinforcements abruptly halted the message, which Havoc engaged and defeated. Before being overwhelmed, Havoc detonated the charges they had set throughout the cave system and effectively demolished the onslaught of Imperial reinforcements. Reporting their success to the Gand sergeant, Havoc was commended and then reassigned to support the other half of Yuun's unit, led by Corporal Sajin, who the Gand had sent to another Imperial starship wreck to further expedite their mission.

Making their way to the Northern Crevasse of the Glacial Fissure where the crashed ship Star Fire was located, Havoc discovered that the area was surrounded not by Imperial forces but by White Maw Pirates. Fighting through thick groups of the scavenging pirates, the elite team reached Sajin's team too late. With the rest of his team dead, the fatally wounded Sajin informed the Captain of the pirate ambush and the heist of the Umbra component. Demanding that they inform Yuun's team of the traitorous turn events immediately, the commander complied promptly and upon ending the conversation with Yuun, consoled the dying corporal, telling him that he had served dutifully with honor.

Leaving the derelict Star Fire, Havoc moved towards Yuun's location in the same sector. Upon reaching the crash site of the Imperial starship Indignation, Havoc faced down the same foes from the last area, White Maw pirates. Fighting their way into cave system that contained the wreck through the mobs of pirates and looters, Havoc reached Yuun's cornered squad. Upon arriving the shamanistic Gand thanked the Captain from rescuing them from the raiding horde and together they pondered the intentions of the pirate gang. During the conversation, Private Gramm a member of Yuun's unit mentioned that he recovered a holo-recording from one of the dead pirates. Within the recording, A Cathar female named Zareen while briefing her men, revealed the gang's simple objective, profit. With both components of the cryptological machine in Republic hands and the last elements in the hands of pirates, Yuun directed Havoc to the crash site of a super dreadnaught, the Star of Coruscant, which was being used by White Maw as a base for its legions of cutthroats while Yuun and his squad retreated to the safety of Aurek base.

The commander and Havoc assaulted the superdreadnaught in full force, eliminating any and all opposing forces occupying the massive derelict in a effort to find their leader, Zareen, and the last significant part of the Umbra encrypter. Making their way to the maintenance bay of the Republic relic, Havoc found that the pirates had reactivated certain parts of the ship, mainly security locks. Destroying key parts within the maintenance bay, Havoc was able to gain entry into the sanctuary of Zareen. There Zareen, the stereotypical scoundrel, tried to negotiate with the Republic unit for the Umbra component. The Cathar pirate agreed to an initial amount offered by Havoc, but the Cathar pirate tried to raise the price which the Captain vehemently disagreed with in the form of raising his blaster pistol aimed at the greedy woman. Zareen complied to the Captain's offer but before they could settle, Major Artano backed by several guards suddenly appeared, weapons raised, to interrupt the exchange. The Major demanded that Imperial property be turned over to him in exchange for the lives of those present. Zareen fearing for her life, offered the Captain of Havoc squad the chance to counter-bid for a better outcome by killing the Imperial officer and his unit. Havoc squad swiftly eliminated the lone Imperial squad and finally completed the exchange with the pirate leader, leaving her to her own business afterwards.

Returning to Aurek Base, Havoc gave the last component to Yuun, which the Gand technician immediately took and combined to complete the Umbra encrypter, testing it with a short Imperial message about grain allocations. With the code machine finally accomplished, Yuun asked the Havoc commander to present the encrypter to his superior officer Colonel Fierros while he prepared for the transfer to Havoc squad. The commander walked up to Fierros, interrupting his tactical conversation with an unknown soldier though the comm system to hand him the small but vital piece of crypto-techonology and initiate a conversion. In the conversation, Fierros disclosed his slight disappointment in losing a soldier like Yuun, stating that he was worth ten regular line troopers, but acquiesced due to the critical nature of Havoc's mission. The Havoc commander thanked the Colonel for his thoughts and parted amicably. Reporting to General Garza once they were back in their ship, Havoc were once again commended for their actions and officially received Yuun into the squad as a technical specialist. With Havoc fully staffed, Garza called the elite squad back to Coruscant to plan and brief them on their overarching mission, the pivotal military action against the superweapon The Guantlet.

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Battle of the Gauntlet
""We cannot overemphasize the importance of this mission, Captain. The future security of the Galactic Republic hinges on the destruction of this single weapon.""

- Supreme Commander Rans

The Assault on the Gauntlet was arguably the most pivotal military action taken by the Republic on the eve of the renewed Galactic War. Imperial General Rakton would later blame the Commander and Havoc Squad for reigniting the war between the Republic and the Empire.

Galactic War
Once Havoc succeeded in destroying the Gauntlet, the Commander was promoted to the rank of Major. Unfortunately, their victory was not without repercussions. The Gauntlet's destruction incensed Imperial General Arkos Rakton, who declared outright hostilities against the Republic. His first move was capturing a group of Republic-aligned heads of state, forcing their respective planets to allow Imperial forces to bypass their borders to assault Republic holdings. Havoc was sent in to liberate the hostages, in an effort to stop Rakton's plans before they were begun.

Turning the Tide
After Havoc successfully rescued the hostages, as well as made an enemy out of Rakton, Havoc was deployed to reinforce the Republic offensive, starting with extracting Dagger Wing, a disavowed unit of Republic fighter pilots imprisoned on Belsavis for a botched mission that had resulted in the deaths of thousands of Imperial citizens on Fest.

Then, Havoc was dispatched to space station A-77 to liberate POWs. The Commander was again partnered with another special forces agent, Sergeant Jaxo, in an effort to liberate the prisoners. It turned out that it was a trap set by General Rakton, to eliminate the threat of Havoc Squad and the Major. The Major survived the encounter, but not without making a terrible decision.

Havoc was then assigned to the planet Voss, where Senator Evran was withholding thousands of Republic soldiers from the war effort for fear that the Empire would attack Voss again. And as he had Supreme Chancellor Dorian Janarus' complete confidence, even Garza couldn't overrule him. Thus, Havoc was forced to eliminate any Imperial invasion vectors, making the overall Republic military presence unnecessary. Havoc proceeded to foil Lord Torius' plan to utilize the stolen ZR-57 orbital strike bomb to hold Voss-Ka hostage.

Though the Republic had more than enough strength to turn the tide of the war, Garza was forced to recall Havoc Squad to Coruscant for a Senate inquiry into the squad's activities. Meeting at the spaceport, Garza reveals to the Major that the inquiry is a sham. It is being held by Senator Grom Zian, who is in fact a paid agent for the Empire. It is Rakton's intention to use Zian to suspend Havoc, thus allowing the war to turn in his favor. Luckily, the SIS had gathered evidence proving Zian's ties. Garza ordered the Major to attend the hearing and present the evidence when it's their turn to speak, but avoid anything that could validate Zian's accusations.

Upon arriving at the hearing, the Major stood silently as Zian spoke his allegations, accusing Havoc of having murdered Harron Tavus and covered it up, provoked the Empire by destroying the Gauntlet without Senate approval and apparent lack of contribution to the war effort. Once Zian said his piece, the Major then presented the evidence, which the turncoat Senator attempted to deny, but Senator Krasul, repaying Havoc for his rescue, spoke up in defense of the Major. The Senate committee then reviewed the evidence before ordering the Senate Guard to arrest Zian.

Battle of Corellia
After being dismissed by the committee, Garza contacted Havoc via holo, revealing that she's transferred to Corellia, where the Empire and Republic are committing a significant amount of forces to fighting. When the Major landed on the planet's surface, Garza introduced the Major to CorSec officer and former special forces member, Locke, and civilian Captain Phaeris, who had both agreed aid the war effort. Garza told Havoc that their objective was to storm the Bastion, the center of Republic military operations, which Rakton captured during the initial Imperial invasion. But to get there, they needed a landing zone for Phaeris' group of smugglers to deploy their troops. Garza sent Havoc to capture the Imperial-held landing zone where the smugglers' ships were docked. But after Havoc secured the landing zone, Locke called the squad to plead them to stop the Imperial attack on the residential districts. However, Garza suggested that Havoc instead divert to capture the lightly-guarded dropships, but she left the overall decision to the Major. Havoc chose to save the civilians.

Havoc then deployed to Labor Valley to rally resistance cells to retake a factory. Afterwards, they met with Garza and Locke at a safehouse in Axial Park. Garza explained they needed a safe landing zone, which she's chosen to be the Corellia Museum of Starships. However, a famous warship, the Lucky Lancer, was parked there. Garza felt it better that it'd be destroyed, though Locke refused to have a symbol of Corellia heritage destroyed. Instead, Havoc chose to escort volunteer pilots to move the ship out of the way.

Meeting in the government district in a Drall library, Havoc was briefed on the initial infiltration of the Bastion. First, they had to jam its communications, then commandeer an Imperial crawler tank to slip in, taking out the main gate so the Safecrackers and 53rd Armored Platoon could begin the main assault. After the initial assault, the Major then commanded the battle group that had been placed under his command, leading them to victory against the central Imperial defenders. General Rakton faced off against the Major, who dealt with the Imperial general and his bodyguards.

Garza reunited with Havoc on Coruscant, where the newly elected Supreme Chancellor, Leontyne Saresh, personally commended the Major and Havoc squad for bringing down the architect of the Imperial war effort.

Personality and Traits
Meteor was in many ways the ideal Republic soldier, being highly patriotic and highly skilled in not only combat, but leadership and tactics. Even Arkos Rakton, the Empire's most feared general who was not only considered one of the top soldiers in the Galaxy but possessed extreme contempt for the Republic, viewed the Major with grudging respect, going so far as to call the young commander "the one worthy adversary in the whole Republic." Though suddenly granted the leadership of the most elite squad in the Republic, Meteor quickly adapted and led Havoc to many victories over the Empire.

Behind the scenes
This article represents the character story of the Republic trooper player class in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by BioWare and released on December 20, 2011. As a result of being player determined, no canonical description of this individual is currently available; therefore, the article presents the subject's gender as neutral.

The male Trooper is voiced by Brian Bloom and the female Trooper is voiced by the prolific voice actress of many Star Wars characters, including Bastila Shan, Satele Shan, and the female Jaden Korr, Jennifer Hale.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter