Task Force 55



Task Force 55, also known as the Special Operations Quick Reaction Force, the Special Forces Quick Reaction Force, SO QRF, or SF QRF, was an elite task force serving the Galactic Empire's armed forces and Imperial Special Forces.

Realizing that many formerly separatist planets were bound to have pockets of resistance to the newly formed Galactic Empire, Admiral [Placeholder1] organized a task force to quickly respond to and put down these insurgencies.

Formation
Initially comprised of 10 Imperial Commandos and 44 specially picked clone troopers pulled from the now defunct Galactic Republic's Special Operations Brigade, Task Force 55 was created to hunt down dissidents who posed a threat to the newly formed Galactic Empire and eliminated them. They were formed in 19 BBY immediately following the end of the war and the 54 troops were headed by 1 Apex-Class Advanced Recon Commando, Apex-21.

Kaminoan Uprising
After the unit's formation, the unit would travel to Kamino in order to be equipped with new gear and equipment for their missions. Much to the unit's surprise, shortly after departing the watery world, they were called back, this time for deployment on mission. The Kaminoan cloners had enacted a contingency army and were attempting to take back Kamino from the Empire.

Termination of Lama Su
As the Rebellion on Kamino waged on, Apex-21 and his men pushed through Tipoca City and made their way towards Lama Su, who had deployed his Rail-Class ARC Troopers to impede their progress. Cutting down the Rails, the unit found Su in his personal chambers where the Kaminoan Prime Minister surrendered. The Apex-Class ARC disregarded the Kaminoan's plea for mercy and executed him before reporting his team's success to Admiral [Placeholder 1]. As the fighting died down and an Imperial Victory was had, the QRF remained on-world for a short while, watching as things slowly became quieter on the world.

Destruction of Kamino
A week or so after the uprising, all clone units were recalled to the Venators above Tipoca, where they would watch the destruction of their homeworld, sowing doubt and anger in many of the unit, something that would develop slowly over the next few years in service of the Empire.

Treason Aboard the Ascending Fate
[Placeholder Text describing 291st Rebellion]

Insurgency on Nil
in 17 BBY, some time following the skirmish aboard the Venator-Class Star Destroyer, Ascending Fate, XC-0821 and the SF QRF were deployed to Nil alongside a battalion of the newly trained recuits of the Empire to put down a growing insurgency of rebellious clone troopers. However the QRF troopers would be betrayed by Admiral [Placeholder 1] and the QRF would side with the traitorous clone troopers in order to survive. The unit would eventually fight their way onto their former Headquarters, where they would use the ship to destroy the Venator II-Class, killing Admiral [Placeholder 1] and escaping into neutral space. The remaining Task Force members would be divided with those who would go with the rebels and those who would stay with the Empire.

Equipment
Task Force 55 utilized heavily modified versions of Phase I, Phase II and Katarn-Class Clone Commando armor. The armor is painted black with dark stripes running down the arms and on the top of the helmet which bore a green visor plate. The armor used by the task force was reinforced to be more durable than their respective standard issue variants and was capable of hiding them from the sensors of many forms of scanners, similar to that of clone shadow troopers. Another similarity to clone shadow troopers is that their helmets possessed communications jammers that could further mask their presence. However like clone shadow troopers, the jammers were only used when not around more standard units as they feared they would damage Imperial equipment. The unit used modified DC-15s blaster carbines, DC-15a blaster rifles, DC-15LE blaster rifles, DC-15s blaster pistols, DC-17 blaster pistols and DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon Systems. These blasters used red blaster bolts as opposed to the blasters' usual blue ion charged blaster bolts.