History

Imperial Special Operations Command (ISOC) was formed and founded by Brigadier-General Ehrich "Skynet" Darby, as a joint-effort between most service arms of the Imperial Military, specifically Imperial Intelligence, the Imperial Army and the Imperial Stormtroopers. Subordinate to the Supreme Commander and his General Staff on an organizational level, ISOC and its various subordinate units within the command, were to be deployed operationally under a variety of commanders to conduct a series of missions and campaigns, sometimes utilizing the tenants of conventional warfare, and many times .. not.

The Command drew Special Missions and Reconnaissance soldiers from the Army, Stormtrooper variants from the Imperial Stormtroopers, and collectors, analysts and spurious characters from Intelligence. Though Naval support was not assured, the Command managed to have several pilots 'remustered' into combat arms trades and reassigned, serving unofficially as legitimate freighter captains who shuttled in operators unbeknownst to the enemy. Donning whatever equipment and uniforms were relevant to the mission at hand, operators from ISOC had excellent success in providing hard support for other Imperial units in the field. Operators painted targets for the Navy, worked with de-stab security agents conducting PGOs, (Political Gain Operations) and provided excellent recce, infil/exfil capability and assaulter support for the Army. However, politics played with lives once more.

In time the relationship with Intelligence and its paranoid Ubiqtorate deteriorated, and the Command focused itself on, for the better part, light infantry operations, and all the subsequent units dedicated to assisting 'The Bureau' were reassigned or removed all together. Both Intelligence and the ISB had grown concerned over the lack of ceiling on the Command, and feared the possibility of losing their operations capability to a 'foreign entity' within the Empire. None of this compared of course, to their fear of losing the praise of the Emperor.

ISOC continued on though, albeit some minor setbacks. As the Command grew with age, and experience, the size increased, bloating it with numbers and the need for more logistical support. The now Colonel Darby and his 2IC, Lieutenant-Colonel Barrette, were not only bogged down fanning the fires of political in-fighting, but were now regulated to handle more and more logistical and administrative duties. In order to keep the Command together, the subordinate units, previously known as Special Operations Groups (SOG), were redeployed and given more operational and organizational independence, as well as increased fire support from the Army, to handle hostile forces threatening the Throne. The lessened burden on command improved, and the increase in firepower and maneuvering ability made the subordinate units less reliant on friendly formations.

As the war with the 'Rebel Alliance' escalated, the Imperial Starfighter Corps began providing direct support to the Command. Wherein it always was providing support, specifically to ground operations, the newly attached squadrons would now actively seek and destroy targets in space, as well as continuing the fight above the planet surface when ground operators could no longer do so.

Two years ago the Command increased the operations against the Rebellion and with this Lord Vader himself recognized the importance of the Command by promoting the Commander Ehrich Darby to Brigadier-General as well Lieutenant- Colonel Allabastar Barrette and Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Windew Monobi to the rank of Colonel.

With the beginning of Operation Starsider the Special Ops Command saw some operational changes. Brigadier General Ehrich Darby called several Officers into his Staff assigned to classified Operations based on Coruscant. Major Wulfman was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel and appointed as Chief of Operation, leading ISOC on Corellia in Operation Starsider. The Navy Wing CO Commander Torlina Ran'hory was also appointed as Adjutant and Captain Boorusk Fel was put in charge of the Ground Ops Company.

Many Troopers and Officers paid with their life in the fight for law and order. Captain Fel was eventually promoted to Major and after a while replaced by Major Sharr as the Ground Ops CO. Some time after the great victory at Hoth (where ISOC took part in the invasion) the ISOC forces were called to the Forest moon of Endor. Here the ISOC Navy and Ground Ops would make their last stand.