Imperial royal guard

The Imperial royal guard, otherwise known as the Imperial Commando, was a unit of clone commandos that served in the Galactic Empire during the early years of its reign. The guard was located in Tantiss Base on Mount Tantiss, home of the Imperial cloning program.

The commandos wore white Katarn-class Commando Armor that sported grey markings on their helmets, chest armor, shoulder armor, and leg armor. Their unit emblem, an upside down triangle with a cutout of a circle with two exits was placed on their right shoulder. They were equipped with DC-15A blaster carbines and DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon Systems.

Following the conclusion of the Empire's operation on Kamino sometime in 19 BBY, which resulted in information, supplies, troopers, and scientific personnel being removed from Tipoca City and the city's subsequent destruction along with other Kaminoan cities, Kaminoan Chief Medical Scientist Nala Se was transported on a Rho-class transport shuttle to the Mount Tantiss research facility on the planet Wayland.

On arrival, Nala Se was received by eight Imperial royal guard clone commandos, four on each side of the shuttle, and was escorted outside by two others. Nala Se was then welcomed by a medical officer Scalder of the cloning program who also served as the facility's administrator. The officer was escorted by another two commandos, who after Nala Se was greeted by the officer, escorted the two scientists inside along side the pair of commandos that escorted Nala Se.

Around 18 BBY, over a year after the destruction of Kamino, the Imperial royal guard continued to garrison the Wayland facility on Mount Tantiss along with dozens of other Imperial clone commandos. When Doctor Royce Hemlock arrived on Tantiss to assume control over Imperial cloning operations, he was received and escorted by several royal guards. When transport 904, an Imperial vessel affiliated with the cloning operation went missing along with its asset, a cloned juvenile Zillo Beast, several members of the royal guard were dispatched as part of a task force to recapture the beast. After the beast had been incapacitated with an ion cannon and captured, several members of the royal guard observed as the creature was put into stasis.

Later that year, numerous Imperial royal guard commandos were stationed at an Imperial installation on the planet of Balmorra. Under the command of Captain Pearce, one commando boarded a Gozanti-class cruiser along with a unit of TK stormtroopers in order to transport three dissident former clone troopers to the Wayland facility. As the vessel left Balmorra and prepared to jumped into hyperspace, it was ambushed and disabled by a ship belonging to defected Clone Captain Rex and his resistance network, the Clone Underground, and was boarded by the rogue clones, who utilized a leech vessel. As Captain Pearce realized that his forces would ultimately be overwhelmed, he ordered the royal guard commando to erase the ship's databank to prevent its information from falling into the invaders' possession. Before the commando could complete his task, the rogue clones entered the bridge and stunned the commando unconscious. After extracting what information remained, the rogue clones fled the Gozanti-class cruiser as responding Imperial Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighters strafed and destroyed the ship.

Concurrently, Crosshair, who was being held prisoner at the Wayland facility, escaped his confinement as he was being interrogated. After having stumbled through the facility's corridors and dispatching squads of TK stormtroopers in his way, Crosshair accessed a satellite through Terminal 3 and sent a distress signal to his former squad, warning them that the Empire was searching for them. Nearby, a royal guard commando and a TK stormtrooper noticed that an unauthorized transmission had been sent out, with the commando ordering the connection to be severed and the terminal to be sealed. As terminal three flooded with a toxin that knocked Crosshair unconscious, Doctor Hemlock and a royal guard commando entered the room to retrieve him.

Having been tipped off by the information broker Ciddarin Scaleback that the rogue clones of Clone Force 99 were seeking refuge in her parlor after a disastrous mission, the Imperial Advanced Science Division deployed a contingent of royal guard commandos to Ord Mantell. Doctor Hemlock personally led the commandos in the raid on Scaleback's parlor, with the intention of capturing the rogue clone Omega in order to coerce Nala Se into working for the Advanced Science Division. The commandos breached the parlor and immediately subdued the rogue clone Wrecker, and held him at gunpoint as Hemlock threatened the renegade squad's leader, Hunter, to lower his blaster and surrender, in which he eventually did. As Hemlock and the royal guard commandos escorted Hunter and Wrecker through the streets of Ord Mantell, they were suddenly ambushed by Omega herself.

After being stalled by Hemlock, Omega was stunned and captured by Clone Commander Scorch. While Omega boarded a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle with Hemlock and Scorch, Hunter and Wrecker were escorted to a Low Altitude Assault Transport by a group of royal guard commandos. Before they could be shipped off-world, renegade clone Echo ambushed the Imperials with a captured AT-AC walker, buying time for his squad mates to break free of their bindings and dispatch the Imperial clone commandos.

Later on, Hemlock arrived back on Mount Tantiss with Omega in tow, and finally convinced Nala Se to begin working for the Empire. As Omega was escorted inside the Wayland facility, she entered a laboratory guarded by two royal guard commandos where she would find Crosshair strapped down and unconscious.