Later, several elite divisions were created with the Jabiimi Army to deal with more difficult tasks, such as the threat posed by the Lythian pirates. These eventually became so common that Special Forces became a third military branch.
At the onset of the Clone Wars, the Jabiim Military split into two factions: the Republic-allied Jabiimi Loyalists under the command of Orliss Gillmunn and the Separatist-allied Jabiimi Nationalist Army under the command of Alto Stratus.