Team Nine

Team Nine
General information
Military unit type	Infantry
Formation type	Response team
Organizational information
Strength	12 stormtroopers
Historical information
Notable battles	Mission to rescue C-3PO
Other information
Affiliation	Galactic Empire Stormtrooper Corps

"This is Team Nine! Taking heavy fire! Can't see anything in all this smoke! But this droid fights like a…"

―A stormtrooper of Team Nine

Team Nine was a stormtrooper response team made of twelve soldiers that was stationed aboard an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. When the Rebel astromech droid R2-D2 traveled aboard the Star Destroyer to rescue C-3PO, the droid caused confusion aboard the ship resulting in Team Nine and Team Twelve firing at each other.

Behind the scenes

"Both teams are down. Perhaps...we should alert Lord Vader."
"Bite your tongue. Send five more squads!"

―Team Nine's Star Destroyer commander and a deck officer

Although the response team numbered 12 Imperial stormtroopers, it was referred to as a squad by their angered Imperial II-class Star Destroyer commander. This contradicts Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, which establishes the quantity of stormtroopers within a squad of the Stormtrooper Corps to be 10.

Appearances

• Star Wars 36 (First appearance)