Special Forces

Rebel Alliance Space Marine Corps

Marine regiments are trained to fight onboard ships, either to repel boarders or to board and take over hostile enemy vessels. Marines receive special training in 0-Gee and space suit/battle armor combat, corridor fighting, hand-to-hand combat, space survival, and some starship repair skills. Marines are typically armed with blaster pistols, rifles, grenades and vibroweapons of many sorts. A platoon might have access to light or medium repeating blasters, but these weapons are generally too indiscriminate, to employ inside a starship. Marines are also sometimes equipped with space suits, when they're available and in need of for certain missions. The Alliance Space Marine Corps is tasked generally with all security matters on Alliance starships, space stations and other naval outposts.



Infiltrators

These are the eyes and ears of the Alliance Special Forces. Trained to slip through enemy lines in order to gain Intelligence, conduct sabotage missions or to cause general unrest on Imperial held worlds. Infiltrators are masters of stealth, able to foil most mechanical and human security measures. Chosen from the best of the best in the Alliance Special forces, they're trained in the arts of survival, many forms of combat and the knowledge to use just about any weapon, they may find in the field. They're often teamed with Alliance Intelligence Agents, to conduct missions on hostile worlds and often tend to be the tip of the spear of the Alliance Strike force.

Alliance Pathfinders

The purpose of these brave soldiers is to make covert drops onto an enemy planet, establish a beachhead and hold it, until relieved by Alliance Reinforcements. This task is an extremely dangerous undertaking, as it is quite difficult to insert a large number of troops, sometimes with heavy weapons, onto an enemy planet, without being detected. Instead the pathfinders travel light, relying upon surprise to overwhelm enemy resistance. If surprise is achieved, a small number of men can wreak havoc upon a larger force for some time. However, as the enemy gets organized and brings his strength to bear, the pathfinders sometimes find themselves to be in real trouble. To accomplish their missions, pathfinders are trained in survival, alien species, and repulsorcraft operation, in addition to standard combat skills. They are usually equipped with blaster rifles, grenades, heavy weapons, survival gear, and if possible, repulsorcraft.

Wilderness Fighters

Wilderness SpecForces troopers serve as the Alliances mainline ground fighting force, trained in outdoor combat and survival. Taught to use the surrounding terrain to its greatest advantage, to foil overwhelming numbers. Because wilderness combat usually requires much greater mobility then certain other areas, wilderness troopers are often trained and equipped with repulsorcraft - speeder bikes, skiffs, or whatever else is available and appropriate to the mission. Wilderness troopers receive general training in all types of terrain. In addition, individual brigades receive special training for particular terrain types: artic, aquatic, forest, mountains, and the like. Though most Wilderness units are tasked with taking the fight to the enemy when possible, many units are assigned to provide security for Alliance bases in the event of a surprise attack by Imperial invaders.