CompForce

CompForce
General information
Military unit type	Military
Organizational information
Sub-units	Assault Observation
Other information
Affiliation	Galactic Empire Commission for the Preservation of the New Order

"To help enforce these "improvements" and to ensure general conformity with COMPNOR edicts across the Empire, CompForce was effectively the military wing of the organization."

―Beaumont Kin, in The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

CompForce was the elite military branch of the Galactic Empire's Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, the Imperial bureaucracy's largest agency. CompForce was deployed to ensure that the rules established by its parent organization were generally implemented and followed across the Empire. To this end, it had two subdivisions; Assault and Observation.

Description

"The personnel who operated within CompForce were prized for their devotion to Palpatine above all else and many of the loyalty officers who served throughout the Imperial military were initially recruited and trained within CompForce."

―Beaumont Kin, in The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

The ISB (agents pictured) often drew upon CompForce's resources.

CompForce served as the elite military forces of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR), the Imperial bureaucracy's largest agency. Members of CompForce adhered to Imperial ideals greatly, so much so that the Imperial Military disliked CompForce due to the competition and, in their view, the arrogance displayed by the organization. Personnel of the organization were valued for their devotion to Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine above all else. CompForce was used to ensure that COMPNOR's measures were generally adhered to across the Empire. The elite CompForce had two divisions: Assault and Observation. Assault was an elite unit that was dispatched on special missions, while Observation was an elite unit that spied on, and within, Imperial Military starships and units, essentially serving as loyalty officers.

Many of the loyalty officers across the Imperial Military were initially recruited and trained within CompForce. The branch generally operated outside of the military chains of command, which was a source of tension within the armed forces and CompForce agents who were usually regarded as unsolicited spies within standard Imperial units. CompForce agents, and by extension other COMPNOR agents, viewed their roles as utterly critical to the stability and safety of the Empire, none so much as the Imperial Security Bureau which often drew upon CompForce's military forces available to it.

History

CompForce was active sometime during the Imperial Era, which lasted from 19 BBY to 5 ABY. In 35 ABY, the historian and Resistance paramilitary member Beaumont Kin mentioned the CompForce in several instances in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire.

Behind the scenes

The organizational structure of CompForce in Star Wars Legends.

CompForce was first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in Dawn of Rebellion, a roleplaying supplementary sourcebook for the Star Wars Roleplaying series that was published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2018. CompForce's first mention within the Star Wars Legends continuity was in West End Games' sourcebook Imperial Sourcebook, which was released in 1989 for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and authored by Greg Gorden. The first appearance for CompForce was in "Operation: Shadowstrike," a three-part adventure within West End Games' Instant Adventures roleplaying book, which released in 1996.

Sources

• Dawn of Rebellion (First mentioned)
• Cyphers and Masks
• Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

Notes and references

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