Special Forces Trackers Unit

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Special Forces Trackers Unit

General information

Military unit type

Special forces^[1]

Organizational information

Staff officer(s)

Sub-units

Taidu Sefla's SpecForces platoon^[4]

Headquarters

Base One,Yavin 4^[3]
Home One^[5]

Location(s)

Other information

Affiliation

"That's us. First in, last out, and broken furniture in between."

―Tuck Tyrell^[1]

TheSpecial Forces Tracker Unit^[4] also known as theSpecForce Pathfinders, theAlliance Pathfinders, theRebel Pathfinders, and its members simply being referred to as thePathfinders, were aspecial forces unit in the service of theAlliance to Restore the Republic and later aSpecial Forces unit in the service of theNew Republic. The Pathfinders werecommandos who were trained in infiltration. The group used guerrilla tactics to infiltrate areas they were trying to capture or liberate.

History[]

"I hate space battles. I mean, we'resoldiers. Pathfinders. We're useless unless the ship gets boarded. All we can do is wait to see if we blow up."

―Needle^[10]

Pathfinders active during the Battle of Scarif.

Euwood Gor was anAlderaanian who served as a Pathfinder. However, he eventually "went native," abandoning much of his prior life to instead joinanti-Imperial efforts on theplanet Onderon. In the process, he fell in with the extremistSaw Gerrera'sPartisans.^[3] Gor remained with the Partisans all the way up to theJedha insurgency,^[6] during which Gor met his end as a result of theDS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station when it unleashed its power via thedestruction of Jedha City.^[11]

Shortly after that event,^[6] the Pathfinders, underSergeant Ruescott Melshi,^[3] joined other volunteers as part ofRogue One, a unit organized byCaptain Cassian Andor and SergeantJyn Erso. They undertook a mission tosteal theDeath Star's plans from theCitadel Tower'sdata vault onScarif.^[6]

A pair of Pathfinders spotted by Imperial forces during the Battle of Endor.

Following the rebel retreat in the wake of theBattle of Hoth, several Pathfinders, includingNeedle andKes Dameron, were stationed as part of theFourth Division.^[10] Dameron, Needle, and fellow PathfinderFrell undertook aheist at the Imperial Museum a short time later as part ofOperation Starlight, during which the Pathfinders—along with rebel associatesLandonis Balthazar Calrissian andLobot—moved to steal the museum'sAutonomous Translator Module, Mark II to use its knowledge of the out-of-useTrawak language for use in new rebel codes. During the mission, Needle sacrificed himself by allowing himself to be captured, to which themuseum curator responded by ordering the rebel be put to death.^[12]General Han Solo used the Pathfinders as hisstrike team during theBattle of Endor^[1] and on araid at the Wretch of Tayron.^[7]

Recruitment and training[]

"We're notcrazy. We're Pathfinders. There's a difference."

―Needle^[13]

Although members of the Pathfinders hailed from a vast array ofplanets, many of them came fromOuter Rim worlds subjugated by theGalactic Empire. Contrary to their Imperial foes, the Rebel commandos did not benefit fromAcademy training. Nevertheless, they were trained by former Imperials like their leader GeneralCrix Madine.^[14]