Special Tactics troopers were elite soldiers of the Republic's Judicial Department. They wore bulky uniforms and were armed with A280 blaster rifles. Battalions of them were lent to the Outland Regions Security Force during the Stark Hyperspace War by sympathetic members within the department.
During the Stark Hyperspace War, the ORSF fleet was trounced and the survivors evacuated to the surface of Troiken, where they holed up in Mount Avos. There, Special Tactics troopers fought several battles before the siege was lifted with the Stark Collective's defeat in the Fifth Battle of Qotile.
The Special Tactics troopers were the predecessors of the Imperial Army Special Missions troopers.
The Republic-affiliated troopers that appeared in the 2001 comic arc Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War were retconed by The Essential Guide to Warfare as being the Special Tactics troopers from the Rogue Planet novel.
- The Essential Guide to Warfare