After departing from Faos Station, DT-F16 and her squad came under attack by Partisans' leader Saw Gerrera and Spectres Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren. In 0 BBY, a squad under Commander DT-F16 accompanied a Kyber Crystal shipment and several technicians aboard Freighter 2716. On Thrawn's orders, the death troopers concentrated their fire at Bendu, wounding him and sending him crashing to the ground. However, the Rebels were able to escape when a mystical Force being called the Bendu attacked both the Imperial and Rebel forces. In the later part of the battle, the squad accompanied Thrawn to Chopper Base in an attempt to capture senior Alliance Officers such as General Jan Dodonna and Captain Hera Syndulla.

They assisted Thrawn in capturing former ISB agent Kallus, following the latter's discovery as a Rebel spy, and held him during the Battle of Atollon.

One of the troopers killed Erso's wife, Lyra, and the squad attempted to find his daughter, Jyn Erso, with no success.ĭuring the early days of the Rebel Alliance, another squad of death troopers served under the command of the Seventh Fleet's commander, Grand Admiral Thrawn. There, they demolished the Erso Homestead and took Galen Erso to complete his work on the Death Star. In 15 BBY, a squad of death troopers accompanied Director Krennic to Lah'mu. Experts at covering their tracks, Death troopers left little to no evidence of their missions.ĭeath Troopers were named by Emperor Palpatine himself to capitalize on rumors about a legendary Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research project to revive necrotic tissue, which ultimately resulted in the creation of uncontrollable Undead Troopers sometime between 1 and 3 ABY. Death Troopers spent years training in unarmed combat, heavy weapons, demolitions, improvised weaponry, guerrilla warfare, and marksmanship. Every Death Trooper within the wore black suits of body armor and specialized helmets with vocal scramblers, micro-motion sensors, and heads-up displays with data on enemy and friendly positions on the battlefield. Operating under the watchful eye of the Imperial Intelligence Service within the Empire, all of these elite soldiers were tasked in serving as protective detail for many significant Imperial Officers and members of the Tarkin Initiative, as well as special-assignment commandos. These elite stormtroopers were described in specializing themselves in stealth, espionage and lethality. Death Troopers were known to be an elite variant of stormtroopers that were in service to the First Galactic Empire during the Imperial Period.

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